skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The name of the people that had leaved the planet is not exactly a secret.

Yes, but all that proves is that some subset of humanity is capable of doing it. Not humanity as a whole.

> Yep, the myth of the good savage.

Actually a lot of the verbal culture of many tribes show that they understand how they are dependent on the animals for their food source, and you can find active efforts not to overhunt in many cultures. It seems to me the main thing that has increased isn't necessarily intelligence, but greed.
SpaceX has no human-rated launch vehicle either as of now. But this article is about the spacecraft, SpaceX's Dragon 2 and Boeing's Starliner, not the launch vehicles. The Starliner is to be compatible with multiple launchers, including human-rated variants of Atlas V, Delta IV and Falcon 9.
Might have something to do with being in a very dense area with some very old infrastructure.
So much this it's painful.

You will never be thanked for telling them uncomfortable truths, even if they -don't- know. Even the private conversation is dangerous; as you say, keep it as low key and minimal as possible ("i have some concerns about the timeline" is literally all you should say unless they ask, and your answers to any followup question should be equally circumspect).

Instead, as others have mentioned, just make sure you document what does get done. Ideally have a decent backlog of things that need to get done, but that presumes a PO who does their job (and it sounds like he/she probably isn't). That's your CYA, and your innocent response if they ask why you didn't raise the alarm.
A brief history of Tesla and the number 500,000
Ancient Humans Lived in China 2.1M Years Ago
Taleb's Technical Incerto. Imminently readable and accessible probability theory. His postulates concerning fat tail vs normal distributions can readily be translated into quick and dirty computer simulations. Thereby demonstrating such hidden insights as "black swans are not more frequent in fat tails, but merely more consequential"!

Other than recent technical papers, I am pretty much trying to eschew anything published in the last century until it passes the test of time. I get more out of a casual perusal of Aeschylus' Persians via Wikisource on my phone while sitting under a tree. Than I do from all the Ray Dalio Principles and Yuval Harari Homo Deus style tomes that are currently in vogue right now ;)
You Are Not So Smart: Misattribution of Arousal
Using Flow and AHV for a Better PVLAN
Not only you can, but in many (if not most) cases you should - because of performance and security benefits. The drawback is your site will no longer use the built-in WP search functions, but there are ways around that.
The does-not-leak-information property doesn't depend on the discrete log assumption, but the binding property does. I.e., if you have an oracle that solves the discrete log problem you can now open commitments in different ways, but if someone else generates a commitment you still can't tell what their secret input was.

One thing I found useful is section 2.2 of https://crypto.stanford.edu/~dabo/papers/RSA-survey.pdf, on blinding in RSA.
No that's not the thing about it. The thing is you put the cardboard over the book then show it to the other person.

The other person won't know where Waldo is, because the cardboard is much bigger than the book, so Waldo could be anywhere on the page.
Graceland is a fun visit. For all Elvis' fame and wealth, the house really isn't all that fancy. He had the best available at the time, but there are better things today.

About the recording, I expect I know how it's going to be. When the list of contributors includes Alec Baldwin and James Carville it seems likely that it's not really about entertainment.
I do store some plain files to Google Drive and Dropbox, but mostly I created backup ZIPs, GPG them, and store for backups. My working files are on my laptop.

One thing I store as plain files on Google Drive is years of Communications of ACM PDFs, and other purchased material - it is all searchable.

Mostly though, I agree with you.
You would probably really enjoy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_Myth

It is on Netflix. Absolutely wonderfully insightful journey through the different myths of our ancestors.
That's fascinating, actually! Thanks for sharing. I'm not particularly partial to either side of the discussion - I like engineering considerations, and I also like really abstract computer science. I think people tend to specialize and polarize in a way that's more reflective of social structure than technical possibilities, which is a shame.
Realizing You Are ‘WRONG’ in Agile: Relooking Agile Tenets
Thanks for your remarks! Good catch for Taxi Driver!

To add comments, indeed you need a D* account. The network is federated, go register at one of the pods listed here [0] or start hosting a pod yourself (which I do).

As for the article about bicycling vs car, it's a comparison of global contributions. It's not only about fossil fuel burned in motors, it also about methane from cow's farts for example [1]. The conclusion is that being a vegan bicyclist is the best option with regards to greenhouse gas emissions.

In the end, if the script to generate the static page is of any interest to you, tell me and I'll put it somewhere on Github.

[0] https://the-federation.info/diaspora
[1] https://thinkprogress.org/methane-emissions-are-spiking-but-...
Or Sony's PS Vita.
- Surveillance

- Documentation of mistakes
Don't leave cats like this outside. It's not okay for them to kill wildlife.
Uncovering foreign trolls trying to influence French elections on Twitter
It's gonna be interesting. I work in CA on mainframes.. CA is not at all service/consulting, but more like enterprise management software vendor.

I think we have a lot of mainframe utilities which would benefit from tighter integration with hardware. So I wonder if this is going to be a possible direction.
I don't think that's true at all; people were and are often shunned and ostracized by their local community for ideological reasons. Sure, they often can't literally kick you out, but they can and do make your life miserable if you don't fall in line, or at least keep your mouth shut.
While I mostly agree with the author's diagnosis, the cure proposed is a bit strange. First, it's not WordPress anymore. You could use any other solution then, including popular leaner alternatives. Moreover, the front-end is just a part of the equation. And if you're really focused on creating a realistic proposal, there are many other factors to consider, not just slimming down your blog and making it incompatible with the extensions and themes you're using.
The state is bankrupt thanks to unfunded pensions.

Taxes went up on residents before the trump tax plan and again with it.

The money in the city is controlled by a few powerful families that stick to investing in proven businesses. Don’t expect anything bigger than SocialKaty to launch in Chicago.

The city is extremely corrupt. Powerful local aldermen aren’t going anywhere and benefit from the lack of diversity in the city (it was the most segregated city in the country for years and still tops the charts). The aldermen and the corruption around them is a big part of why the south side is so terrible.

Look around during construction season (aka as Summer in Chicago) and you will see around six construction companies responsible for all projects big and small. It’s really corrupt.

Chicago is a bro culture and once you are a bro you’re in for life. If you don’t get into the drinking lifestyle it won’t be easy to integrate.

1871 is a real estate company. Not a tech incubator. Mark Lawrence / Jeremy Smith getting SpotHero going is probably the only success story that isn’t nonsense out of there.

OCA / Pritzker / Lightbank

None of those understand how to treat founders. Those are some of the biggest funds.

That all said. The cost of living is low. The talent pools are deep. The culture is changing. There is money if you have established revenue or a proven model.

No single industry is the dominant economic force making it a great test for a variety of startups seeking traction.

MHub is amazeballs. If you are doing hardware go here. Bill deserves a medal for what he’s done.

Charles Adler’s lost arts is nifty. TBD if it makes startups better IMHO but it has real promise.

Urbs in Horto

Fly the W
But for much of the western world it's these American household names which have direct influence on people's livelihoods more than any other on a social/cultural level. When companies like Apple, Facebook and Google reach the 'giant' status that they have, the average person will have a choice made for them, becuase of what the status quo is, despite there being alternatives out there. The larger they get, the less choice the world has, meaning less indpendence.
How GitHub Democratized Coding, Built a $2B Business, and Ended Up at Microsoft
> as people create communities based around shared ideology, it means that people can be effectively 'exiled' from that community if they say something that may be interpreted as going against that ideology. If your community is defined by shared location, then nothing you can say or do changes that.

Small towns are historically far worse for ideological conformance, because once you're ostracized you're stuck.
Looks as if we have hugged it to death
Interesting article on the psychology of emotion and how little the brain really cares about what causes a sensation.

One of the best-written pieces I have read in a long time.

Excerpts:

“The scientists knew the fear in the men’s bellies would be impossible to ignore, and they wanted to know how a brain soaking in anxiety juices would make sense of what just happened. [...] When they compared the stories the subjects made up about the illustration, they found the men on the scary bridge were almost twice as likely to come up with sexually suggestive narratives.”

“This isn’t the action-roll-out-of bed-feeling you get when a fire alarm snaps you out of a deep sleep. No, arousal is prolonged and total, it builds and saturates. Arousal comes from deep inside the brain, in those primal regions of the autonomic nervous system where ingoing and outgoing signals are monitored and the glass over the big fight-or-flight button waits to be smashed. You feel it as a soldier waiting to see if the next mortar has your name on it, as a musician walking on stage inside a sold-out stadium, as a crowd member elevated by a powerful speech, in a group circling a fire and singing and drumming, as a member of a congregation swimming in the Gospel and swaying with hands raised, in a couple at the center of a packed dance floor. Your eyes water with ease. You want to weep and laugh simultaneously. You could just explode.”

“It is easy to pinpoint the source of your contorted face and toothy grin if you took peyote at Burning Man and are twirling glow sticks to the beat of a pulsating lizard-faced bassoon quartet. The source of your coursing blood is more ambiguous if you just drank a Red Bull before heading into a darkened theater to watch an action movie. You can’t know for sure it if it is the explosions or the caffeinated taurine water, but damn if this movie doesn’t rock.”
Not at all. Here's the error in firefox, check your intermediate certificates:

html.brow.sh uses an invalid security certificate. The certificate is not trusted because the issuer certificate is unknown. The server might not be sending the appropriate intermediate certificates. An additional root certificate may need to be imported. Error code: SEC_ERROR_UNKNOWN_ISSUER
Split in two, personal and work laptop, personal and work phone, if you can’t disable notifications , try to leave the laptop at work so you can’t work till the day after .
This article is about a NASA-funded project that is supposed to end with Boeing (and SpaceX) having both a man-rated rocket and a man-rated capsule, so that american access to space is assured.
Honestly if this is true in your organization you should probably be looking for another job anyways. Even if this is common that doesn't mean it isn't dysfunctional.
I think ljw100's advice is pretty spot on.

It's very tempting to think that on a practical level, people 'need to know' what's going wrong. Unfortunately it is often very difficult to accurately or objectively assess what the underlying problems are and in many cases, what you perceive as a problem can actually turn out to be a symptom of some other issue.

Project slippage happens all the time - and in and of itself it may not indicate any serious issues. It could just be a case of poor estimation, or scope creep, or some other 'process' related issue which is unlikely to be something any single individual can do anything about.

In my experience, the best way to deal with these kinds of situations is to make sure you're keeping your relevant colleagues up to date. If you feel like some deadline isn't going to be hit - it's probably best to voice your concern about that risk (and only that risk) to your immediate superior. In many cases it's likely that people are well aware of how behind things are - but everyone has a different assessment as to why.

In such situations it's often the case that the most you can do is to tend your own garden. It's important to keep the chain of command - even in small organisations (and especially when dealing with multiple teams / stakeholders), and avoid trying to assign blame (or even identify 'the cause') unless specifically tasked with figuring it out.

Basically: if it's not your job to raise hell about things, then don't. Keep your superiors up to date with progress and let them figure out the implications.

Although it can be intensely boring, project management tools can help to de-politicise these kinds of situations: graphs aren't personal, and the more regularly the relevant people can get a snapshot of progress, the less likely it is that it'll fall to you to point out when things aren't going as expected.
> imo it's good performance (not best) with the plus side of being easier to write good code.

I would even argue it's the other way around: React's primary selling point is making it easier to write good (as in: easy to follow) code. That its performance is very much acceptable is a nice plus or even a requirement, but would never be the reason for me to choose it.
Minimizing requests, using system fonts and using vector images are what makes this great because it makes the page loads so fast. Does 7kb really make much of a difference?
I just opened and closed it a few times to try it out. Then I pressed the back button several times to get back here, cycling the menu open and closed again.

I'm gonna go with "it's a bad idea".
Cycling around Australia (2013)
Animation Workers Set To Receive $170 Million Payout From Wage-Theft Lawsuit
Only if developers are too lazy to use explicit.

I was referring to C implicit conversions that aren't valid in C++ code, like void* to other pointer types.
Physician Marketing – Online Reputation Is Crucial for Conversions [Study]
The rule is ridiculous, but criticizing the rule is also forbidden.
Thanks!

Can you elaborate a little bit on the use-cases where this would apply? I can get into the idea that tracking would ideally not rely on JavaScript, but the dashboard? Surely the administrator can enable JavaScript for their Fathom dashboard, right?
If you have a look at any Zachtronics games you can see one way of doing it. It is just a leaderboard represented as a histogram. A separate one for instructions, cycles, etc. No need to know the best, just keep track of what other people have achieved.
ESLint compromised, may have stolen your credentials
Norwegian Air Shuttle Conquers America
Quick googling yields https://families.google.com/familylink -- would that do?
I've put together a Chrome extension that does the same thing, but it requires no permissions and works on all other similar sites as well: Kill-Sticky adds a keyboard shortcut (Alt+K or Cmd+K) that removes all sticky content, and re-enables scrolling.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/kill-sticky/lekjlg...
I completely agree with your first paragraph, but I have some things about the second one:

> "Are you aware how many countless people have and do work to improve your quality of life"

Aren't most people do it for selfish reasons? (Money, feel good about yourself, ...)

Police protects us, for the money they get.
Agriculture delivers us food, for the money they get.
Water stations deliver us water, for the money they get.
Touristic attractions give us joy, for the money.
PETA, "saves animals", for the money.
Youtube provides fun and education, for the money.

If these organisations didn't receive our money, will they still provide us with those things?

The only noble profession these days is a fireman, which don't get as much money as they are worth to the society!

Of course there are people that are genuine "good", that will help others just because they want it to, but most of the people do something, wanting something in return.

I don't agree with the parent poster that we should hate ourselves, but we aren't angels too ;)

What if money didn't exist, where would we be right now as a civilization?
Hah, I thought of that too when I saw the stats. Surely HN readers all have DNT enabled?!

That said, I am now wondering what the numbers would have been like if we did not honor DNT...
Kylie Jenner spurt her curves in purple bathing suit to plug summer cosmetics
my favorite example of this is Outlook showing the attachments to an incoming email in a tiny little window that is kind of invisible, with a scroll bar that is also kind of invisible, so its hard to tell if you have one attachment, or two, or three, or whatever. just by glancing, you would not know.

if you work in a job where you go through 500 emails a day, this can be a problem.
The judge was another one of Kennedy's clerks.

No surprise there.
Rewriting "a chunk" of code kind of is refactoring, though.
Getting the wrong password in your password manager happens occasionally. Usually from password resets that somehow don't make it into your password manager. The fact that HN allows accounts without email addresses is the real problem. Also, maybe he just doesn't value his HN account all that much.
Interesting work. I wrote a bit about optimizing WP here: https://hackernoon.com/dont-brake-for-fonts-3-web-performanc...

The most interesting thing I learned is that the number of HTTP requests (not just the total file size) really affected page load times. So for example, WordPress has profile pictures called 'Gravatars' that can be shown alongside comments. By default, your browser will make HTTP requests to fetch all the Gravatars before showing the headline of your post! So we lazy-loaded them instead.

And we used the same plugin shown in this article (Autoptimize) to combine multiple CSS files. You can take this to an extreme by just putting the CSS inline too (but too much markup might make the page slower on mobile).

(And the most powerful tool we used was Cloudflare 'Rocket Loader', which defers all JavaScript execution until after the page first renders. But lately we're finding that it conflicts with the events or listeners in some plugin scripts, causing their JS to not execute at all.)
In short: Someone has published a version 3.7.2 of eslint-scope that contains unwanted code. The code tries to read your credentials and send them to some tracking pages.

Webpack and more uses ^3.7.1 of the dependency, making you automatically upgrade to the hacked one.

Update: According to the linked issue the nefarious package has now been unpublished. If you have npm credentials and did npm install the last few hours you should probably revoke your tokens.
> I didn't link the code to say "hey look this code is bad", my intent was just to illustrate that functions inside functions indeed do happen, and unzip is also used, etc.

I appreciate that. Perhaps I was a little harsh on the code. It's using a lot of abstractions and it appears to be part of an interesting project. I'm not sure how necessary those abstractions are to making the project work.

That said, I haven't a clue what unzip is. I'm quite sure it's not standard library. Nor is unzip3. I could define a function foo in my code or find a library that implements it, and have it buried somewhere beneath layers of module imports. It would be unfair to criticise the language for that given it's a problem in pretty much every language.

> But this is also one thing I don't like about systems functional programming: it forces you to use abstractions that don't always make sense.

You're free to decide the abstractions you want. You could do all IO through a monad if you really wanted to. It would be strange but maybe not to a Haskeller. Some things make more sense with mutable state. OCaml gives you mutable state if you need it.
Seems like any dynamic system that studies itself and copies or imitates past success, roughly has this problem.

just to pick two, I think sports and politics both have this problem.

where someone finds a new method and has success, everyone tries to copy it,

only everyone trying to copy it bids up all the inputs, with higher inputs, the method has a different ROI.

In dynamic systems, there's a curve you have to stay ahead of
anything regarding this? Would also be interested if you plan releasing the console, i.e. allow a fully self-hosted usage.
That is true, but there currently is no precedent for that. Until someone becomes the "sacrificial lamb" by 1. taking the risk and 2. being sued for it, anyone intending to build a business is understandably wary and unlikely to touch public-domain-dedicated assets.
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I've been in organizations where people know projects slip and are mature about it but I've also been in places where projects absolutely do not miss their go-live dates without a major impact for the relevant managers and teams.

Always wise to know what the corporate culture is around these kinds of things.
if we didn't develop a system of exchange (which reduces to a single unit, 'money' in any sophisticated civilisation), we wouldn't be a civilisation
You need a door, which sadly, most offices don't have.
i find that fascinating... this is the kind of thing certain builder philosophy would say "no user would ever notice", but users do notice and it bugs them.

meanwhile, we can also get an insight into the internal social dynamics of a corporation by looking at it's products. the people who cared about this type of 'little detail' have lost influence inside the organization - they are not being hired, not being promoted, not being retained, and not being listened to. but those kind of people did used to be there. so what happened to them?

its kind of fascinating, like some kind of corporate sociology based solely on research of artefacts left behind by the corporate culture.
While I don't believe the earth is flat, i haven't done any real research, and i assume that's true for most of the people laughing at flat earthers.

Of course i believe in global warming, though ive never read a single paper / study on it.

Of course i believe in evolution, i went to a school where they told me to believe it.

Am I any more intelligent than a flat earther, or am i just a product of where i was born?
Leaving no room for a lower-level language: A C++ Subset
Detecting types of clothing worn by people using Tensorflow ML
Most animals live in constant fear, dirt, with parasites and depressing social relationships. I bet that if you got to know few impalas, you would state that most of them are jerks who don’t live long anyway. Lions also may leave their prey’s parts to smaller carnivores. The only difference is that they don’t throw it out since they eat right from the floor and then walk away.