skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought this was a possibility, however there’s not much to fight for, except chaos, discontent and something new, so it’s more likely America/western civ would collapse within 0-30 years (collapse tends to precipitate quickly), if nothing major socio-politically is done to stabilize the ship.

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/dec/29/cal-thomas-...

“America is Done”
Chris Hedges on C-Span
https://youtu.be/8AfPaAnzyHI

“Decline of Western Civilization”
Peter Thiel
https://youtu.be/0JTnztV5oJQ

“Decline of Empires”
Chalmers Johnson
https://youtu.be/Q2CCs-x9q9U

^- These aren’t exactly conspiracy theorist-centric nutters, but people known for being more right than most people

v- Btw, just in-case anyone isn’t convinced yet corporate media will “save us”

Phil Donahue on being booted from MSNBC
https://youtu.be/ozxzNjRqCiE

Jesse Ventura on govt abuse of secrecy and Wikileaks
https://youtu.be/KFuqRTHXbpM

Cenk Uygur on “mutual-separation” from MSNBC
https://youtu.be/HrKKkGl3TnY
https://youtu.be/FEYkBA5ze6c
https://youtu.be/pGtrnXI0ai4

Thom Hartmann on an impeding collapse (wrong year, obviously) due to massive corruption and inequality
https://youtu.be/rvxhh3hjfSs

Amy Goodman arrested for doing her job
https://youtu.be/DtIYmOLkgic

Assassinations of journalists continues to climb worldwide,
and when it and censorship happens in your country, that’s when the real decline accelerates
https://cpj.org

^- It’s hard to say when/how much will happen or how constructive the grassroot can be because most people tend to automatically dismiss these “dots” as “conspiracy theorist rhetoric” that “doesn’t affect them.” Occasionally possible: ”It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” - Upton Sinclair
Given the routine use of 'grey beards' on most tech threads here to dismiss others while pushing their favoured technologies so much so the term may as well have been invented here it is rank hypocrisy to protest.
You have that backwards China has 2.1% electric cars USA is 1.13% electric.

China also has vastly more Solar panel adoption than the US because they are building a lot of infrastructure and are using the cheapest options. China even uses solar hot water heaters. https://www.asiabiomass.jp/english/topics/1209_06.html

The poorest countries are a rounding error right now, but don't expect them to use more expensive fossil fuel options.
Is it not fair to say that this is the same thing? My impression was that in designing a compiler you're explicitly determining the rules for language, which is the same as designing the language itself? Or do you mean that technically the compiler, not the language, is JIT?

This is a new area for me so apologies if I'm just misunderstanding the mechanics here!
Or just charge manufacturers a "packaging tax" based on weight and composition of any materials included with a product but not part of said product. You could use the money to pay for better sorting of the waste stream.
Cat litter, needles, food, yard waste, diapers, etc.

Lower your expectations a bit, the people doing the worst aren't wondering what to do with a clean plastic fork.
Regardless of the reasons for people not closing their laptop lids, these issues exist and they shouldn't.
I remember when ATMs ran basically plain text terminal software and you had to drive to a bank to get one. It was a real blessing when ATMs started to show up in shopping malls.
Not arguing, but Medium is more than the votes & articles. It's the totality of the experience (from reading/metrics to emails & recommendations to paywalls & payments). I'd hardly call this medium - its a distributed blogging platform.
It's not about preference, it's about necessity...some of us need native iOS/MacOS development, it's part of our job.

And for better or mostly for worse in the present moment, a MacBook Pro is really the only way to have xCode and Android Studio on one device in a decent manner.
I'm surprised it even works at all at this point. My mom was using Photoshop 6.0 (18 years old!!!) until very recently when my parents upgraded their computer to Windows 10, with which it is not compatible.
Deepak, how are mock interviews performed?
> He says that one of the company's irksome traits is deluging its members with advertising. "You know how when you log off, you get this message, 'Please wait while we update your software?'" says Cassel. "Well, they don't tell you, but what they're really doing is downloading ads to your hard drive, so that the very next time you sign on, you get hit with -- boom! -- an ad. You get ads in your mailbox and in your chat room and an ad in the status bar."

When I read this article, there were these ads:

* A giant top ad for Intel

* Left Column: Hertz banner, fixed with scroll

* Right Column: Various ads that scroll as you scroll down the page

* Far right column: Animated McCafe ad, fix with scroll

* Multiple ads between sections including video

* Ads at the end of the article, including SalonTV

* Center Sidebar: Reese's ad

* Right sidebar: Ad for pharma product, video;

Firefox, no adblock brand new MacBook Pro was unable to smoothly scroll this page.

The more things change, the more they stay the same indeed...
Wargames come to mind, both in board game and miniatures/tabletop form. There are loads, but here's an example: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/62222/commands-colors-na...
they are happy to sell you the non smart version for a few hundred dollars more. I would not mind "smart" appliances if they would bother to update the software for more than one year.
I saw something similar before (from gifs.com's sticker editor of all things lol) where you annotate the segmentation of the first frame of the video and it will propagate that segmentation to the rest of the frames:

https://medium.com/gifs-ai/interactive-segmentation-with-con...
Right, but adaptive refinement is bread and butter of today's physics simulations. I imagine that in order to simulate our Universe, you'd go down to elementary particle level only when some of the simulated folks run their accelerators, etc. But for an in-simulation billiard game you'd use a plain impulse-based rigid body dynamics.
It is transparent. If you make a transaction using paypal, you were told the money is transferred. But how do you know it is true? You have no way to verify it.
Similar problem, facebook and google claim that they are only using the customers data for certain actions, but how do we verify?

Blockchain only gives the possibility that the IT system could be transparent and verified by external parties. But Bitcoin blockchain is not the final solution.

That is it.
It's a collective action problem like any other. Collusion on a wide scale in competitive markets is pretty damn difficult, since one company can change their manufacturing processes to produce less waste and suddenly undercut everyone else's prices. "Passing the whole price increase onto the consumer" rarely withstands scrutiny, excluding cases with very low demand elasticity or very oligarchic suppliers. Neither of these are the case for the vast majority of packaged goods that are sold.
I personally enjoy my MacBook Pro (15-inch, Late 2016) but it has a problem with going to sleep after being plugged into an external monitor all day. I find at least 1/3rd of the time it has frozen after being disconnected from the monitor and I am forced to do a hard restart. Perhaps this is user error, but I do not remember having as much issue with the older generation. I use two Dell IPS monitors which are relatively new and connect via HDMI => USB-C adapter. It's an inconvenience which you shouldn't have to deal with on several thousand dollar laptops.
Israel Criticized Over Civilian Casualties, Would US Forces Perform Any Better?
Buy N Large wins. For most everyone. I've learned that most people want the Fisher Price internet, not the Testors 500 piece glue it model, no matter how much cooler the model is once its built.
Low priority: On the blog, the newsletter popup is added to the browser's back queue. A bit annoying.
> I treat any windows machine as if it has a keylogger

I found the problem
Let's make private data into a public good
I see this too and am trying hard to formulate a non-cynical version of "uh, no, that doesn't work for me and my contract does not require that."
Completely agree. In school, we studied the concept of producer responsibility. It's treated as radical even though it neatly fits into seemingly all ideologies. It allows the market to be efficient and it solves the problem of pollution. You need a beat cop though as the incentive to cheat is there.
One persons bloatware is another persons answer to "So .. what can I do?"

Every major OS distribution I know of come with at least 1-2 games
Not incineration. Pyrolysis, in an anoxic environment. It's the same process by which syngas is produced, except that the results are longer chain carbons and thus just have to be cracked and distilled rather than Fischer-Tropsch'd into usable feedstocks. You use about 30% of the input mass of organics to power the process (usually the lightest fraction that is equivalent to syngas), and the result is about 10% waste material and 60% usable mass fractions in the fuel-to-wax range, just like a normal oil refinery.
I'm just imagining how to secure that in a voice only system:

Phone-bot: To confirm store identity please sign phrase with store private key.

Store-bot: One second

Store-bot: Data 5 7 4 9 a c e 7 f 6 d 0 0 2.....

Phone-bot: Identity confirmed to match Store public key

... sensitive convo ...

Of course it's ridiculous, but I got a chuckle
It can still be the cheapest option even after pricing in the externality. A lot of people forget this, because they advocate such Pigovian taxes with the intent of stamping out the good, irrespective of the (edit: net) value it provides.

I very rarely see anyone come in with the attitude of: "Hey, burn all the gas you want once we have the appropriate carbon taxes!"
In our process of booking a call, we ask you to specify your objectives, just write "mock interview" there and any other relevant info (behavioral, technical, etc.). Does that make sense?
You could build a peer-tube compatible YouTube-like website. With control over the server, you could collect user data and probably stream ads over peer-tube. So there is possibly a profit incentive to hosting content.
I expect compostable waste is just so messy its less work overall to keep it separate. But if it is as economical to separate after mixing as you expect, then its a business opportunity.
> The Surface Book 2 is everything the MacBook Pro should be

... does this mean it runs OS X? Because for me that's all that matters. Otherwise it's nothing the MacBook Pro should be.
How many "better designed" dynamic languages are there even out there? Julia is one such language and is substantially faster than V8, at least for idiomatic code.

The problem is that most dynamic languages (like JS) are never designed with speed and efficiency in mind. JS just happens to be the fastest of that bunch (other than Lua) because browser makers have invested substantial effort into making it fast - far more than anyone has put into other dynamic languages.
Looking into this - thank you very much!
Yep. This looks like a bug in STARTTLS Everywhere, and we're working on it!
I'm running Ubuntu 18.04 on Ryzen 2400g with 4.17rc kernel with no issues. In stock 4.15 I'm having some issues with vega(g) part of CPU. X shouldn't have this problem.
Search for the title in a search engine and it usually works.
Discovery of Complex Organic Molecules on Saturn’s Moon Enceladus Is a Huge Deal
That's like saying we should decriminalize robberies so that it forces companies to take stricter security measures. You'll end up incentivizing robberies much more.
I turned off my adblocker just because of this comment, and you weren't kidding. This is the most ads I've seen on one page in a long time.
The problem is...you can even define what it means for the universe to be a simulation. You might as well argue like George Berkely that all sensations are signs and symbols directly from God - it is not even wrong. It is fundamentally unknowable - unless God or The Simulator choose to reveal themselves directly to us.

The luminiferous ether was a falsifiable theory - indeed it was a breakthrough for physics because it was falsified (experiments failed to detect it) so new theories had to be developed. So this is completely different from unfalsifiable metaphysics.
How about a language that loses the ability to redefine structures and methods after a certain point?

I've been thinking of making a scripting language where you can freely redefine things until you return the main function to the script's caller. At that point main gets compiled / JITed / otherwise locked and any redefinitions done by calling it are errors.
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> the executive branch followed certain norms around this, until this administration

Which norms? Which administration didn't act differently than all others? Reagan firing the FAA unionizers was a new one.

Obama said he couldn't “waive away the law Congress put in place.” DHS went and legalized a few million anyway, years later. Sounds very familiar, but somehow different?

I'm not sure what you're talking about, but it sounds awfully revisionist.
I'm curious what your claim is. The evidence here is primarily that engineering effort can provide massive benefits to runtime speed. This is not that controversial, I believe. It can feel disappointing, but there is no reason for it to. The people working on those engines are putting a ton of solid effort into it. They deserve the recognition they have gotten.

This in no way argues against some other languages being better designed for performance. Indeed, many other languages are better designed for performance. The designers should get recognition for the contributions they have made, as well.

Again, though, it can sound like disappointment that we can't get both teams working together. I contend that is short sighted. Yes, we can imagine a world where they worked together to make even better things. However, don't let that imagined world stop any communication on the front lines that we have today. (That make sense?)
Not sure about BT (there's still a NAT involved, but maybe the more conventional NAT64 allows the usual hole punching techniques to work?) or Emby (no idea what that is). I have no idea why SSH port forwarding wouldn't work with DS- Lite or 464XLAT, since from the network infrastructure's perspective it's a pretty conventional server-client connection.
Ask HN: How to negotiate large salaries?
Hey, looking for a bit of advice on moving jobs. My current job pays me really well, about $150k including benefits. I've been approached to go to another company for a job I'd be really interested in doing but I know for a fact theyre low balling me with an offer of $125k, I have several friends who work there and I know this is the starting salary for a role about 1-2 levels below wha they're asking me to do. I think they should be offering more in the range of $190-200k including benefits (which I know they can easily afford). What's the best way to go about trying to push for this kind of number? It's obviously a lot but the role I think justifies it and in gross terms it's a big difference in expectations between offer and my expectations. I'm a bit put out by the low balling as they must know that I know that's it's low for the role.
Mastodon (and I suppose ActivityPub in general) conflates hosting location with username. If I have a username like @bob@mastodon.social, then my stuff has to be accessible at mastodon.social's IP address (the A record).

Compare to email, where the MX record provides a layer of indirection. ActivityPub technically has a feature like this using a .well-known file, but it leaks into the user interface n unpleasant ways.
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Yes oral cultures are different, but you don't have to go far back in European history to run across cultures that were oral (Anglo Saxon if we want to stay with English history). While a great epic poem of oral tradition, nobody today would consider Beowulf anything other than a complete work of fiction.

If your cultures can't preserve basic words, what possible mechanism could preserve useless facts in complex stories who's purpose is purely to entertain around the campfire?
Usual suspects that many people who hate JS seem to champion are are python, lua, ruby.

I love Lua personally, but it has its own traps too. Never could get into Python too much, the indentation syntax is killing me :P
Being in the Navy and being appointed by Obama to be White House Physician are not qualifications for running the Veterans Administration
Yup, you have “higher tolerance” to things that have been continually forced on you—doesn’t mean your tolerance is actually higher, just that you’re more experienced at sucking it up.

I distinctly remember the day when I, as a young teenage boy, observed “Huh, the girls in my class are a lot better than the boys at doing work they don’t want to do. The boys complain and try to get out of it, the girls generally just do it whether they like it or not.”

Then I realised—oh, the girls feel like they’re expected to just do it. They don’t feel as entitled to a say in the matter as the boys do, because that’s how they’ve each been socialised.

And then I began seeing parallels everywhere…so that was the moment that set me on the path of social activism, really.
Do you feel the same way about putting your trash in bins (or even bags), as opposed to leaving individual items strewn about your lawn for them to pick up? Do you feel the same way about getting your car to the mechanic instead of having him pick it up from wherever you left it?

The line you're drawing to define "labor done on behalf of a paid service provider" is laughably ridiculous. The service they provide is "picking up sorted bins of trash". You're not "doing their work for them" to meet the terms of the paid service agreement.
One example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pacific_garbage_patch

A life cycle analysis might hypothetically conclude that landfills are a perfectly sustainable solution to plastic. Unfortunately a lot of this stuff makes it into the ocean instead where it will not biodegrade and will interfere with fisheries and ecosystems. Properly structured economic incentives and laws could solve this problem, as they have solved many problems in the past.
I must've misunderstood your comment. I thought you were saying these pattern matching rules were basically souped up if's. Elixir has pattern matching on function level but it's also heavily ingrained in the whole philosophy. It's quite the antithesis to Java.
Apparently you can still get @aol.com email addresses. I want to use one the next time I'm applying for tech jobs just to freak everyone out.
Agreed - and that is why I would like Canadian forces to aggressively block/restrict unwanted folks in USA to enter Canada - let US deal with the economic costs of handling them.
I guess they might be thinking of the syndication. Medium allows anyone to post, and suggests articles from different authors. This is similar. It enables blogs (if they use activity pub) to be syndicated throughout the blogosphere.
Do you have the product name? The link seems to be broken.
I would love that one with mechanical switches though.
I preferred the 3 separate ones.. cans, plastic, paper. Made it easy to keep the food/water/residue crap off the paper.
The problem isn't particles, its particle interactions and the orders of magnitude in time these events occur at. There is a reason why planck length is shortest theoretical measurable time interval. I'm sure you are aware of the equation E=mc^2, at the planck length the value of c=1. Therefore a planck length, cubed, of the universe can be considered to be 1 bit, for the purposes of storage for a universe, or at least this one.
A decent linter checks those Boolean comments for accuracy.

Writing documentation that that merely copies existing code is terrible: it's either going to be wrong (because it's not automatically checked and will go sour in a refactoring, or it's right because it's so obvious that no one will guess wrong when looking at it.)
​Google doubles down on Linux and open source
Amtrak exploring ending Southwest Chief through service
We don't need recruiters nor resumes nor tests. Any programmer is able to evaluate another programmer just by talking. All methods of recruitement are biaised. They are harmful, unefficient and they alienate people (both the recruiter and the candidate).
Would be nice if they added mechanical switches though. MX Browns or the like would be ideal.
RFC 7807: Problem Details (in JSON) for HTTP APIs
We'll have to agree to disagree. It's essentially a short film documentary that happens to be presented via a webpage.
DC actually has legendarily high crime rates, in the 90s being called the "murder capital of the United States". Crime has decreased since then but is still about three times the national average.

Government sites and government persons enjoy tight security. The rest of the city... Not so much.
There was tons of work on decentralized P2P technology from 2000-2008 that didn't involve blockchain (because it wasn't invented yet).
It was satire of the original parent that claimed "socialism" necessarily leads to economic ruin, even though socialism is a broad category containing many different ideas. I was attempting to show the absurdity of blaming specific problems on a broad category of ideas. But now that the parent is flagged, there's only me, shaking my fist at empty space.
Small Fry Blues
Wouldn't it be more useful to interact with every day users than engineers? It seems like you could easily get seduced into developing features that only 2% of the population wants/is willing to figure out.
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Email was there before outlook and Gmail and will still be long after Gmail sunsets it and Microsoft rebrands outlook to something like "Microsoft xbox delayed chat system".
Yes, and that's a dataset of n=1. Things like littering have a million different factors go into them, including culture. It's not unreasonable to think that in other cultures, increasing the incentive to litter would in fact increase litter.
I used to use it when I was out of college in the 90s.

There were some good reasons. I travelled for work to construction sites, and they had local dial in numbers in many places. I could check email from the construction trailer. They even had a 1-800 modem line (You were very time limited, 3 hours a month or something.)

I thought it worked pretty well.

Ubiquitous Broadband killed it.
An iphone will capture GPS on a plane just fine, although don't wedge it in the window shade - it will soon overhear.
Efail: HTML Mails have no Security Concept and are to blame
Could it be concerns about planes crashing into populated areas?
> Never had any problem connecting 3 different MacBook Pro's (across the years) to 3-4 different external monitors (Dell, LG, Samsung, etc) and to several projectors (including through a VGA adaptor and HDMI ones).

Consider yourself lucky.

> So for all of 2 seconds it takes?

Most times. But occasionally I've seen the OS seemingly get confused/stuck in the process. Flickering, moving windows into various locations on the screen, taking 10-15 seconds to get back to functional/usable.