skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you are used to imperative programming it does take a bit of time before you get to thinking is sets. Looking at the code I have inherited, even some reasonably experienced developers don't get to that stage.

Do you really think that replacing an "ORDER BY" statement with your own sort is going to be simpler?
And American women aren't boring?

Pretty loaded statement there that should probably be accompanied with supporting evidence.
> Gravity possibly could be used as a means of communication but I suppose it’d be rather slow

Doesn't gravity "travel" at the speed of light just like EM radiation?
Not updating software is not the most common cause of a hack. Phishing is and it should be #1.

None of the listed solutions are useful if you open a malicious document and it installs a RAT or banking trojan,even password managers and 2fa are useless if the attacker controls the browsers javascript via dll injection.

Email,social media and drive-by phishing are the most realistic threats for average users. Updates should be automatic and 2fa mandatory,this is because practicing good security hygeine requires one to understand how specific threats might otherwise affect them(which is difficult to communicate to a non-technical audience),without knowing that,it all gets too old/inconvenient fast.

That being said,kudos on educating users :)
Bye Apple, Hello Tux
Arguably, a single message would only affect a single pathway.
I disagree that Tiger Parenting produces a higher percentage of children that are uncreative. I've known many "tiger children" that are creative and perfectly content in unfamiliar intellectual environments.

I think Tiger Parenting simply increases the floor. Therefore, many children have artificially inflated marks relative to their true intelligence. When these children are put in an environment in which they are unable to rely on outworking others, they falter. They are not uncreative, they're just not intelligent.
I'm not sure why you are talking about tesla in a submission about self driving. Tesla doesn't have self driving technology. They only have adaptive cruise control and lane assist.
Very interesting write up! But how likely is it to have control over the DNS-server someone uses? You either need to setup a malicious one and let the victim use your server. Or you've to hack the DNS-server the victim already is using.
> The processes are unique, very difficult to replicate, and should be offered some protection (if we agree that motor designs should be protected).

Just to clarify the discussion. Patents do not exist for protection of innovations or to guarantee income for innovators. Patents exists so that the society would get more innovations. And that is the only measure that patents should be judged against: Do we generally get so much more innovations (within motor designs kn this case) with the patent scheme that the welfare loss caused by monopolizing the IP is covered?

Interestingly enough, it is widely agreed that monopolies are bad, so one could imagine that the proof pf burden here would be on the ones who support monopolization of IP. And I have seen very little proof of benefits of patents that do not reduce to assuming that patents are benficial as per the measure I described above.
For me at least I went with the switch because it's one of the few consoles that manages to be more than a handicapped desktop pc. The seamless switching between docked and undocked is great.
> put my own domain-specific CA Cert in DNS directly.

Remember that this allows any of your government or people controlling the zone to transparently put the cert there too. (For potential problems see [0]).

With the CA system (that I personally also don't like) at least the certs are logged in Certificate Transparency logs so you see any potential attacks.

[0]: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2010/oct/08/bitly-lib...
I'd be very surprised if you don't get in legal trouble for that logo.
Here's my view of the scams. Modern retail has created the expectation that you are entitled to a refund for anything, no questions asked. A retailer can take a statistical view of this situation, and price their goods according to the expectation of how many refunds they have to eat.

Eating refunds is preferable to being strict about them, because the freewheeling refund policy invites more sales overall. This may also be a policy of the credit card companies, since they want to do more business as well.

eBay wants your experience to be just like buying from any online retailer, so they impose the same policy on their sellers. Naturally this invites the scammers. But the calculus is the same: The retailer eats the scams and bakes the cost into the selling price.

The hardship is for the "little guy" who wants to sell a few things. They can't take a statistical view -- a single loss could kill them, or eat all of their spare time dealing with it. But the little guy isn't eBay's focus. It was announced long ago in the business press, that eBay was shifting their focus from being America's Yard Sale, to being more of a regular online retail space akin to Amazon (at the time).

My thought is that eBay works for sellers if you've got a big enough mark-up and enough sales to cover the cost of simply writing off the scams and refunds. For crap bought as surplus, or imported in bulk from China, the mark-up could be greater than 10x.
I would change myself, make myself a vastly more intelligent, good looking, lively and spontaneous person,
and yes I will throw in immortality to the mix, I will so to speak rewrite my genes to become a perfect being so to say(I now wonder if perhaps according to the grandfathers axe paradox the resulting being will still be me), then I will proceed to try to change the world, having lovely fun along the way.
There Is No Action at a Distance in Quantum Mechanics, Spooky or Otherwise
Sounds like one of those "overly friendly" sales pitches to me. Or worse, one of those "pretend you have a gift, forcefully demand payment" scams. Or even worse, Mormons or Jehovah's Witnesses using baked goods as an in to talk to you with the real reason why they are there is to solicit you their religion.

People used to do something very similar to my grandma a lot, say they are there for something neighbourly and then put pressure on her to buy something when she interacted with them for a bit. It worked on her too, even though she never actually wanted to buy something.

I would have said no thanks and closed the door too and I don't have a problem associating with my neighbors at all! In fact, throughout the years I've shared with neighbors baked goods and beers, let them borrow tools, helped shovel snow, invited the young single one to "Friendsgiving dinner"[1] to make sure he had somewhere to go, offered help with various tasks, etc.

Most people want to have a bit of a rapport with someone before they are cool with unsolicited baked goods at 8 at night. Especially when you're knocking on people's doors, it can be very unsettling to be interrupted from what you are doing like that. At 8pm people with younger children are in the middle of putting them to bed, it's not like they have the energy to deal with potential scammers at the front door at that point.

What would have been appreciated is if you put the bags in a basket in the hallway with a sign "Merry Christmas from Joe Bob and Sally Doe in unit xxxx!"

[1] This is Thanksgiving dinner except with friends instead of family.
Infrastructure as code. A Terraform and CloudFormation comparison
And they didn’t even mention how underrepresented they are in politics.
Nice! Where do you host your Huginn server? I've had trouble getting Huginn running on my RPi, I've to try again soon to get it running. Any chance you'd be willing to share some of your recipies? I know someone who scrapes a certain deals website in my country, and gets Telegram texts for items matching certain parameters, which is cool.
Theo de Raadt definitely swims naked. It's impressive that he's a security boss and a mountain-man.
Airburst vs Ground Device.

Airburst detonation, even 30 m above ground as in New Mexico, will distribute the explosion energy much more evenly and the epicenter will have much less impact.

Ground devices deliver a shitload of energy into the ground below.
That's impressive, really impressive.

My system looks like it was put together by a drunk person. That is somewhat true.
It's one thing to say "no", it's another thing to say "later" forever.
> Milky Way is colonizable in a couple of million years.

I have two takes on it:

1) We don't know the possible implication of new discoveries. Well, actually we get some glimpse of it, for example with nuclear or biological weapons around, it is fairly easy to wipe out a large part of the population. The more advanced the technology becomes it seems there is a higher chance of it blowing up in our faces and us destroying ourselves. So the galaxy could be colonizable in a few million years, but any civilization headed closer to that ability, gets closer (and faster) to its own destruction as well.

> The only logical conclusion is that there are no other technologically advanced species in the Milky Way or that we're the first(very unlikely).

Given my other pessimistic take on it (1), I would say it likely there were (are) quite a few technologically advanced species, but they've wiped themselves out or will do so before the reach the ability to colonize planets in other galaxies.

2) Another take on it is these civilization have to share the same physics and chemistry that we do. And maybe there is just a limit that gets achieved and long term colonization or fast travel is just no possible. That is there are no shortcuts like wormholes, Alcubierre drives, antigravity and other such things. We've been used to seeing huge leaps in technology and science in the last 1000 years, so it's tempting to extrapolate and but maybe we are close to reaching a wall. So there are quite a few civilizations out there but they've flown probes in their own start system, now developed internet and are sharing pictures of alien cats, hanging out on their version of Facebook and watching their alien Netflix, and of course discussing their equivalent of Fermi's Paradox on online forums. All without a chance of ever leaving their neighborhood.
Since he embedd youtube videos like a "youtube service" i'm not sure the logo is the biggest issue here? Or are you allowed to do that? Make a new youtube front?
Electromagnetic radiation from sattellite debris: bofhdaily
Spirituality, to the self, is largely a mechanism to sweep dukkha and its pointlessess, and lack of nuance in messy, real-world, imprecise interpretations under a rug of happy-clappy self-/mutually-reinforced delusions, blissful pseudosimplicity and sentimentality.

The big, unanswerable questions include:

1. Reincarnation: yes/no?

1.5. If yes, are we all one or are there multiple perception entities?

2. Why are you you and me me? (1. asks “am I and you the same?” implicitly)

3. Does cognitive dissonance allow “good”-self-image people to live with their committing unspeakable horrors?

4. If cancers’ semi-“life” existence can be explained by increasing a host’s entropy, why don’t most “pathogens” improve a host’s fitness, enable the host to find, store or expend more energy, reproduce and extend the host’s lifespan? Since when thr host dies, the cancer dies.

5. Is there an absolute limit of entropy?

6. How much neural complexity is needed for self-awareness?

7. Does global intelligence have a maximum useful upper limit?

8. If each piece of a person were systematically-replaced with inorganic parts of close overall function, does the individual retain rights of an organic person?

8.1. Could they be sued for healing or modifying themselves because of intellectual property?

8.2. Could they be legally owned, bought, sold, etc.?
This is really fascinating :)

I'd love to use the same system. Is it open source?
You've just been lucky so far. All those photos, serial numbers and the likes will mean almost zero to ebay if a buyer ever raises a dispute.
> Nothing about their site has changed in 20 years, and they're waiting to die, like Yahoo.

I'm from NZ and I suspect our local equivalent (TradeMe) has the same systemic problems:

* Horrific UI flaws.

* Adverts. Everywhere. It's like they don't want me to use the site.

* A new version of the UI for mobile browsers (a replacement for the broken mobile browser version), that breaks all their links within emails

* Automated emails sent at 4 o'clock in the morning (I complained and was told it was so they could use their servers efficiently).

* Please please let me filter for NZ only - so I can choose not to have drop shipped items if I want it this week...

I also use eBay.com.au and it is sweet to use in comparison to our local TradeMe, but TradeMe is the incumbent that everyone uses...
I've been wanting to do this for ages and link it with the USDA's nutritinal database but I just haven't had the time.

Is there any way to get hold of what you've done?
Yes, this is not "the first reliable evidence that insects can use Earth’s magnetic field for navigation".
In a very recent paper also ants have been shown to use the magnetic field: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2018.03.043
I am surprised neither the NYT article nor the new article refer to this.
> Having them come over unannounced would literally ruin my day.

You aren’t prepared for normal life and need help.
This is... such a clear YT ToS violation... get legal advice and good luck. The site looks great though.
How close are Harvard Business Review and Harvard, the university? Because timing of this article is odd with Harvard, the University is being sued for discriminating against Asian candidates.

And the article's conclusion calling out for more work towards inclusion of Asian Americans in management workforce seems a bit apologetic. But maybe I am wrong and reading this incorrectly.
> On top of that, it's the best NoSQL database currently available.

Surely that depends on the load? From what I understand Postgress isn't easy to set up when the data spans more than one server, which many NoSQL database do actually handle fairly well.
Feudalism was government. It's even listed on the Wikipedia page as a form of government: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_forms_of_government

The definition is perfectly government: "In its classic definition.. feudalism describes a set of reciprocal legal and military obligations among the warrior nobility revolving around the three key concepts of lords, vassals and fiefs." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feudalism)

The feudal system filled exactly the role government fills today. It did it differently, but the local lord was just as much a part of government as a state or local government is in the US today (indeed more-so, since they had legal power over life and death).
Luckily there's an easy fix for that: adding more layers abstraction :D
That's a good counterpoint; I too remember growing up in a (relatively) small town where a lot of people knew each other, and there was a LOT of gossiping and talking about other people - like e.g. when they didn't show up for church (again), they'd get Talked About.

I'd rather not get Talked About so staying anonymous is better.

Of course, I'm sure my current neighbours Talk About me sometimes, about how I don't really do much besides leave and get home every day.
> Also, the article seems to use "our galaxy" and "the universe" as interchangeable terms, which of course they are not.

I didn't find that. For example, there is the following paragraph; it clearly distinguishes between our galaxy and the universe:

> In the end, the team’s conclusions do not mean that humanity is alone in the Universe, or that the odds of finding evidence of extra-terrestrial civilizations (both past and present) is unlikely. Instead, it simply means that we can say with greater confidence – based on what we know – that humanity is most likely the only intelligent species in the Milky Way Galaxy at present.
Where did this ‘Wrong’ idea of quantum theory implying consciousness come from?
> If you're not careful, you might confuse experience with being narrow-minded.

That's why we say the old generation has to die for new ideas to gain power. You are more open to new idea when you feel unsure and still have to build your internal model. Once it's somewhat settled the brain is reluctant to significant further change unless presented with overwhelming evidence - but it has also built up strong filters so that recognizing the evidence also is harder. See progress in science in general or medicine in particular.
Because the universe is pretty old and planets similar to Earth but much older are probably abundant.
You cant guarantee such a failure mode. That thing has to be full of little gears, actuators and electronics to make it work. Any of those break; and it freeses, stays as is or falls apart.
NYC is riddled with subway tunnels, utility tunnels, massive water-carrying tunnels, and tunnels of all kinds.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/politics/2013/10/new-york-ci...
> If

If, yes. All this is conditioned on your racism that tells you that all foreigners are uneducated (and uneducatable)/lazy/freeloaders.

In addition, all of the tax money paid out would immediately be spent by these alleged freeloaders on meeting their needs for food etc., so it would flow back to producers of useful stuff and a lot of it come back as taxes.
Art and literature and patents are a fundamentally different law construct with different background and purpose.

Generalizing patents and copyright as IP is a fallacy and leads to wrong conclusions.

I recommend reading this article by Richard Stallmann on this topic https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.html
Dish washing. I bought a dish washer and that machine gives back at least half hour of my life every day. I don't know how I lived without it. (disclaimer: I cook at home)
Yes, these are not causally connected, so we can call the different universes.

I interpreted the original post to be saying that if life is very improbable then it is unlikely we would be here. And If there were only one universe then yes, it would be unlikely we are here. But if there are many universes, this could support a vanishingly small probability of life with most universes being empty, but a small fraction having life.

So these different universes are meaningful only to the extent you are asking philosophical questions like this, but not to most practical considerations.
Great thinkers can be great programmers
> bitcoin claims to be this decentralized democratic technical project where anybody can contribute

Where is this claimed? The technical project is just another open source project, not very decentralized. The idea of bitcoin is that you (the user) can decide what software you want to run, if you don't agree with rules imposed by a certain software project you not run it or run an older version. This (as well as how the network works) is decentralized. Ofcourse Reddit and other social media channels are not decentralized, and neither is development of the different node implementations.

I don't think there exists a way to collaborate on any technical open source project in a truly decentralized way. I love to be proven wrong, do you know any project that is? So no BDFL (Linus, Guido), no foundation and actual decentralized contribution?
I found this genuinely surprising and saddening. Genuinely, some of the most simultaneous competent, friendly and amusing colleagues I have had were Asian. One possible suggestion: do characteristics which signal confidence and competence vary across US and Asian management cultures? Do Asian managers downplay their strengths because of Asian cultural norms?
> Don't run a (traditional) database server in Kubernetes.

With node affinities and persistent volumes this might not be A Bad Thing, per se... For something mission critical I'd keep the DB on a VM, though.

One interesting development in the Kubernetes space are plugins which expose VMs outside of the cluster to Kubernetes as though it were just another container. That may provide the best of both worlds: a traditional VM and automated scheduling.
From the article of that HN discussion:

> “Now, okay,” Zimbardo corrected himself on the phone with me. He then acknowledged that the informed consent forms which subjects signed had included an explicit safe phrase: “I quit the experiment.” Only that precise phrase would trigger their release.

> “None of them said that,” Zimbardo said. “They said, ‘I want out. I want a doctor. I want my mother,’ etc., etc. Essentially I was saying, ‘You have to say, “I quit the experiment.”’”

> But the informed consent forms that Zimbardo’s subjects signed, which are available online from Zimbardo’s own website, contain no mention of the phrase “I quit the experiment.”

If the transcript of that phone discussion is thruthful and accurate, then Zimbardo lied with regards to that issue.

I believe this is a huge issue. The original article makes the accusation that this was probably criminal action ("false imprisonment"). Yet it is not listed in the "Contentious Issues" section of the rebuttal. I didn't read the entire piece, but searching for certain keywords didn't turn up anything new, either.

(Edit: just to be clear, claiming to be contractually entitled to hold people against their will unless they use an "explicit safe phrase" is nonsense to begin with, which is why I was hoping the rebuttal would address that argument.)
Dynatrace vs. CloudQA TruMonitor Synthetic Monitoring Tools Comparison
Convince everyone to try and truly understand their enemies (or people that hate them,or people that they hate).

Whether you want to resolve your differences or destroy each other,don't do it without understanding your opponents and their motives. It's too easy and tragic to wrongly presume a person's motives and beliefs.

This is the smallest change I can think of,every thing else looks like a much bigger problem.
The solar system formed, apparently, 4.6 billion years ago. The universe itself is closer to 14 billion years old. Might a solar system like ours have formed, somewhere, 4.7 billion years ago instead? And once it's formed, how long does it take for life to evolve? If the earth had 10% more surface area, would evolution have occurred 10% faster? There were various huge extinction events during the life of the earth, at least one of which appears to be due to a collision with a giant asteroid; if that happened 70 million years ago instead of 65 million, would humans have evolved a few million years earlier?

The point is that, if you rolled the dice on a new universe that had a decent chance of producing something like our Earth, there are lots of sources of variance, such that the "95% confidence interval" during which something like us might have evolved is probably hundreds of millions of years wide. Given that, the chance that two independent civilizations would reach a particular level of technological development during the same million-year period is less than 1%.
I suspect your second and third points contradictveach other.

We literally have no idea what a >10^6 more advanced civ would look like.

There’s a kind of parochialism about these arguments. They seem to assume that aliens will be flying around the galaxy communicating by radio in big metal boxes or giant rocket powered rocks looking for planets to xenoform.

But in the same way that ants can’t see a human city around them, it’s possible humans will see no evidence of an advanced civ that isn’t doing any of the things we expect technology to do.
+1 Would also like to know the inner workings, a general hint to the approach taken would already be awesome
The change in headline from the original article is misleading. The article gives data that Asian American are under-represented in management across a few professional fields, but do not (nor does it promise to) go into explaining why that's happening. :\
"non-living self-replicating organisms" Sounds like a contradiction to me ;)