skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is why things like ticketing systems and other workflow tools almost universally suck. Manager needs x field to run some report so x field becomes mandatory and the software is a pain to use because know one apart from that one manager knows what the field even means.

Currently our JIRA kanban board is crippled because someone just had to take a simple system and impose a workflow that can't be deviated from.
I don’t see the story here. You could always make guns. So now you can make them a certain way and it’s a Pandora’s box?
The developer of pacaur now works on auracle.
It's a bit naive to assume that privacy is a binary "conservative" vs "liberal" issue. Specifically applied to ICE I'm sure a "liberal" court would have been opposed to it, but both parties are very anti-privacy and the courts are so politicized now we may as well start putting Ds and Rs next to judge's names.
Google had a (rightful) chip on their shoulder after they discovered Gmail had been targeted and hacked by the Chinese government.

Still I think it would have been better for Chinese citizens if Google had found a way to continue operating in China, even if partially censored. It's not good for humanity when the largest country in the world becomes increasingly inwards-directed.
So hole up in a cave because someone might be tracking you every time you leave the house?

It's perfectly reasonable to require companies to tell us what data they're collecting and how it will be used.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17487552
No mention here about snow plow?
The "monopoly money" perspective isn't wrong, and in general an ICO for a coin that's, say, "bitcoin but a little different" doesn't make much sense. Bitcoin is supposed to be a currency, so an ICO for something bitcoin-ish is like taking investments for a new kind of dollar. You have to get them into circulation somehow, and trading currencies like commodities is a real thing, but it doesn't really explain the current ICO hype.

It makes more sense if you look at most of the ICO tokens from the ethereum point of view, rather than bitcoin. Ethereum and its derivatives let you use tokens as components of distributed applications. Unlike a "pure" currency, which is useful only as a medium of exchange and has no intrinsic value, these tokens let you use the distributed application so they're worth whatever the application is. They aren't really currency, although you can usually buy and sell them and they're used to give the application some kind of market behavior.

Something like filecoin is a better example. The filecoin project intends to build a distributed storage system. If their project succeeds, the filecoin network will let you exchange coins for the network's storage, and storage is valuable so the coins are valuable too. Ideally, they'll use the funding from selling coins in an ICO to make the project so useful that a coin's worth of access will be worth more than what you paid for it during the ICO and the people who participated come out ahead.

Personally I'm still not very impressed with most ICO projects, but at least all of them aren't completely insane when you look at them this way.
I had a conversation with a friend about this, and the outcome was the idea that BGP could be extended with functionality for this case. There needs to be a way to brand "negative" traffic or routes advertised with some sort of reputation system. In the event of a DDoS attack coming from an AS, you could have intra-AS weight for any given AS such that if an AS reports malicious traffic from a route, it's given a lower weight and traffic is less likely to route to that AS in favor of a less specific prefix. This would encourage any given AS to act in desirable ways, as their actions (or actions coming from within them, e.g. a customer of theirs being the source of a DoS attack) would have consequences.
And all the much-heralded advances in AI still produce email notifications that are kind of like those old Ad-lib games where the blanks get filled in by gobbledygook.

And after listening to one sleep-inducing waterfall video for a single long night of sleeping the next day about 2/3 of my Youtube homepage's suggestions are about soothing, meditative, nature videos... what a laugh.
What are the unintended consequences? Surely, these mosquitoes are someone's breakfast, lunch and/or dinner. What happens when that species can't eat?
Thank you for that. Wow. That's inexcusable.
PHP might be not the best designed or nice looking language out there, but you cannot even compare it to JS. It has real classes, doesn't require you to put underscore before private methods and type checking. And it issues a warning if you divide by zero or try to access array index that doesn't exist
> What’s the problem here? License plate data is public information, it’s the same as if a person standing on the street saw your plate and told someone else.

Cool, so you won't mind if i install a GPS tracker in your car that tells me your vehicle's location 24/7, since the exact same information can be gleaned from "a person on the street seeing your plate"?

The problem with ALPR is that it allows a few, otherwise occupied people -- such as parking lot attendants or repo agents or policemen -- to drive around like they normally do and automatically collect massive amounts of data on vehicles and their location without incurring any cost on their behalf (beyond "slightly decreased fuel efficiency because the ALPR equipment needs power from the alternator").

The same act of "looking at a license plate and noting down the location" becomes an entirely different thing when conducted at massive scale and at negligible cost.
Eradicating an invasive species that we (inadvertently) introduced in the first place seems more similar to me to wolf rewilding/reintroduction programs than the opposite. We're trying to unwind an earlier intervention.
I guess "Mutual admiration society" is too 20th century.
Companies have way too much power these days. What kind of person comes up with this? How can you treat low wage employees like this? Have these people no couth?
I think a similar system to what the article mentioned in Indiana where you can opt out, or more ideally set a time limit will become the norm sometime in the 20s
My fave too.

I once read 3 pages of a self help book I received as a present.

It said, essentially, emotions happen for a reason. When you have a difficult emotion, go back to the root thought or observation that caused the emotion, and you’ll learn something important about yourself or your world.

Stopped reading because I wanted internalize that first. Never finished the book...
Ok, and what if those are harmful antibodies instead?

Your hypothetical is just as likely to be harmful instead of helpful, unless there is actual evidence proven otherwise.

The null hypothesis should assume that it is no more likely to be helpful than harmful.
Given the simplicity of the mechanism described, I wonder if you could make something similar yourself and skip the hefty price tag.
> (Hey Zuck, how was Congress?)

Well if you use the stock price of $FB as a proxy, Congress was no problem. In fact Facebook stock is at all time record highs. At the height of the media hysteria it traded down to $152, in the last 4 months it has rocketed up 33%.

This snark comes off amateur. Fathom is very very basic and minimal. No geo/location metrics. No browser metrics. No goals. No custom events.
This is despicable. It's one thing for firms to do this for high paying white collar jobs (like the SV no poaching scandal), but to do this to people making poverty wages is just awful.
> How can a boss dodge the proof?

This is a business decision, reality has no influence here.

That's why they invented the term "Business reality".
It's at least a far cry from an _advertised_ national gun show surveillance program. The only time I've been able to confidently identify license plate recognition is on the tollway. I don't think all of the setups are as obvious.
This was already done in China 3 years ago..

https://qz.com/640394/a-chinese-mosquito-factory-releases-20...
They are an introduced species, so are already an unintended consequence
"From an architectural perspective, there is absolutely no difference between a micro service and a library. The only real difference is in the dispatch mechanism."

I always tell people if you can't write and maintain a library then don't do microservices.
Arm kills off its anti-RISC-V site after own staff revolt
The Taliban prohibited poppy farms in 2001
All I want is speed control on a cassette player. It'd be great for sampling for lo-fi music.
How would that work in practice? If I compromise a pile of IoT devices running on Comcast users' networks, and use them to launch and attack, all Comcast users on their subnet get marked as uncool? And if we're marking them as "bad", doesn't that mean all of their BGP peers mark them as uncool and then the weights for their prefix are lower but still even, so routing still ends up the same?

The only way they'd be impacted would be if some networks didn't implement your bad-actor-prefix-weight-mod, and then we'd just be penalizing the people who don't use your system along with the attackers, since we'd be routing the bad traffic via their networks.
I’ve worked on projects where Hugo was the chosen tool and I may be missing the forest for the trees but when I encountered the templating syntax I considered it a red flag. Like “this is horrendous, but these people seem to just accept it - I wonder what other painful surprises await me down the line?”.

And while it’s build-speed is impressive, I’m of the mindset that if your site is large enough that build-speed is a genuine concern, rebuilding your site every time you make a change is a bad idea, and perhaps a dynamic tool is a better fit for the job.
Google Was Not Normal: Brin, Page, Mayer on the Company That Changed Everything
Oh I totally agree that most people shouldn't be writing their own static site compilers. That being said, I think that it's so much less work than an expert may think it is that I think it is worth mentioning. The web doesn't need to be that complicated. Sometimes stitching together some HTML isn't the end of the world and it's kinda enlightening to have something that is 100% you.
Same here. I fell asleep on a boat and woke up vomiting. Can’t read in any vehicle or watch a video. Forget about playing FPS games too, or a VR headset. Though airplane turbulence is fine if I sit back with my eyes closed.

There is some wristband that administers light electrical shocks, but maybe it is hogwash.

https://www.reliefband.com
I find it incredulous that iPhones with a Chinese locale can't display the Taiwanese flag. AFAIK, there's no such restriction on Chinese phone brands like Xiaomi/Huawei/Honor/Meizu.
Of course you can do both but why let that stop you assuming things that aren't true?
Can anyone think up a realistic scenario where you might actually have this problem? The example seems awfully contrived.
Vinyl's alive and growing every day. Lots of artists release on vinyl at the demand of their fans and there are plenty of thriving record stores with recent releases.
That's not science or proof. Thats a course on design. By science and proof I mean like definitive logic. a^2 + b^2 = c^2
Yep, same in Fresno. Honestly in most places, they're only able to survive because of humans and people who over water their lawn specifically. The climate in these places are generically not made for that specie. It's also worth noting that there are many other types of musquito around so they're not wiping out all musquito, just that one specie which consist of a small fraction of all musquitos
I could probably generalize: the value of every model is in its ability to make predictions.

This includes, and not limited to:

* mental models: if your mental model doesn't predict reality, then it probably needs to change

* financial models: if it doesn't forecast well, it is wrong

* even AI models :-)

I would add though:
"All generalizations are dangerous, even this one."
― Alexandre Dumas
Falconindy is not the developer of pacaur.
My Grandmother would mention what things were like in the 1920s and 1930's and none of this surprises me at all.
Technology companies as digital Switzerlands
The practices of Doctors are based off of science and theory. Design patterns and microservices while technical are not based off of science. They are ideas without quantitiative basis or science.
That factory is mainly for the american market. The trucks paramilitary groups love is the Toyota Hilux, not sold nor produced in the US.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Hilux#Use_by_militant_g...
This is the link you are looking for: https://github.com/google/gvisor
It's because the specific specie they target isn't even native to that place (it was introduced by humans), and also represent a small fraction of all musquitos in the area.
I’m sad at myself for feeling “well yeah not unexpected” after having worked at DENSO HQ (Toyota group supplier) where a Chinese natiuonal engineer stole 30,000 design documents in the early 2000s (it made national headlines when it happened). Because it’s only 1/1000000 people that do this that will cause prejudice and disdain for all the good actors.
Does the second apply to the POTUS though?!
"SQL database usage is still an ongoing bummer, though." ... have you looked at Typeorm (http://typeorm.io/)?
Sort of dumb that he told Apple about his intentions to switch jobs. He would have easily gotten away if he hadn't. Guilty conscience?
Yes that definitely looks like a fun little weekend project.
Yes it was more a joke about the terrible quality of code produced by physics. Obviously they write stuff that works for some bizarre value of 'works'. Of course this being HN everyone took it super seriously ;)
IIRC this is an Australian initiative: the basic work on the application of Walbachia to dengue, the formation of the world mosquito program, it's an initiative grounded in Australian science.

yes, you will find "we did it" in China and Brazil and Vietnam and other places: The roots of this work go back to 2011 and before, at Monash University:

https://www.monash.edu/industry/success-stories/dengue

http://www.eliminatedengue.com/about-us
Nice, will check it out! FF is already my default browser. One question though, is there a good way to import from other exported sources such as LastPass or KeepassXC?
It's the closest thing I know to the burbclave running megacorporations from Snow Crash.
> I’m sad at myself for feeling “well yeah not unexpected”
> Because it’s only 1/1000000 people that do this that will cause prejudice and disdain for all the good actors.

Damn I came in here to say the same thing and feel sad at myself now too.

So not to be racial but from an American standpoint I liken it to hiring an American who happens to be Chinese versus an engineer from China.

For the first, they are American, their family is here, their life is here - where would they flee to?

For the latter, they're here temporarily most likely. So why not take the risk and get a big reward?
Can't stand those "starers". Always looking.
Good point. I could still imagine puddles of fresh water from rain or from washing the decks languishing on in some corner of a ship.
If you're going to weigh the social factors in wiping out the 20-something species of mosquitoes which feed on humans (out of > 3000), I think you need to factor in the possibility that malaria (and thus mosquitos) may be responsible for HALF of human deaths in our history.

Half. That's an outrageous number, but Nature suggests it might be true: https://www.nature.com/news/2002/021003/full/news021001-6.ht...

At what point do you think we are ethically clear to take drastic action against another species? How many more human lives need to be lost before you think it's OK?
Because they're i) mechanical and often need to be repaired and ii) shit. Seriously, tape is fucking awful for all use cases except "no other formats exist at this point in time", and that was true in 1982, but not today.
Probably glue some transparent tubing (i.e. fish tank tubing) to some safety glasses.
I’m sort of surprised they don’t have automated flagging for activity like downloading a years worth of documents in an evening.
>So hole up in a cave because someone might be tracking you every time you leave the house?

Welcome to the late 20th century. Cat's out of the bag.
It's really odd too - what's the advantage?

Not to be offensive but these people do low skilled work. You can onboard another employee relatively quickly.

A part of me would think it's there to avoid turnover costs because I imagine these businesses have decent turnover given the low quality job and pay, why not bounce to a new job if this one sucks or is too stressful?
Legally, two different Arby's locations are independent competing companies, but in practice they act as extensions of the parent company. (Similar to the "independent contractor" nonsense going on in the "sharing economy".) So we're really talking about poaching within a company and there's pretty good precedent that companies are allowed to have these kinds of internal rules.
1.) I’d recommend starting with the book The Body Keeps Score, if you are interested in the role of trauma & depression.

2. I’m really just paraphrasing Joe Campbell here. If you want to see his take on mythology, what it represents, and how Lucas used the Hero’s journey to craft Star Wars, I’d recommend the current Netflix special on Joe Campbell.

3. People tend to dissociate and disconnect from their felt body experience. There is a fairly established body of work on “embodiment” and somatic based therapies.

4. We have our conscious logical brain and we have our emotional brain. Our emotions are mapped to physical sensations in our body. That is what I mean here.

5. I don’t disagree with this.

6. I would say fully healed would be releasing the traumas. One way might say that you demylinate that pathways that trigger the fight or flight response in similar contexts and form new pathways that create a more accurate model of the world as well as increased capacity for self regulation.
Not quietly and without disagreement, no. And not a ban on an image of a flag or name of a disputed country, no. These equivalences are getting ridiculous and I'm beginning to believe the only justification for constantly bringing them up is to distract from the issue at hand.
So what's the 'respectable end' of the veneration curve? Does it have an inverse sentence?

This is a classic case of generally understanding
Turing completeness and eventually, inadvertently
implementing a half of Common Lisp in C anyway.

Something like that?
According to executive privilege, it doesn’t.
It prevents wage competition.
Benign instances of that happen all the time. Picking out actionable anomalies from event data like this is one of the big problems in information security.
Use to work, but no longer does. :(
They do, according to the article:

“Apple grew more suspicious after seeing his increased network activity and visits to the office before he resigned, according to the complaint.”
There's nothing "genetic" about how MCMC works. AFAIK, usually with GP, you keep multiple candidates that you evolve together, which is not the case here (it's much closer to metaheuristics such as Simulated Annealing), e.g.:

let candidate be some random program
while candidate not correct (per your SMT solver):
new_candidate = mutate candidate
let cost be cost of new_candidate
(varies by different techniques;
some just measure the number of bits differ
from expected output of testcases)
if cost is improved:
candidate = new_candidate
else, with some probability (the lower the cost, the higher the prob.):
candidate = new_candidate

Of course, there's nothing preventing you from using GP instead of MCMC to find programs. The focus of research is on how to mutate (e.g. how do you avoid generating bad candidates based on past experience) and evlaute the cost of a candidate, rather than the methaheuristics itself.
> The restrictions, often referred to as no-poach clauses, do not stop workers from switching from, say, an Arby’s store to a Wendy’s, but can keep an employee of one Arby’s location from taking a job at another.

That’s an interesting twist.
Our industry is too immature to have veneration for things that are old, I think.
You do know Hong Kong is very different from China right? It's a separate jurisdiction, economy, language, culture etc...
Or maybe the mosquitos evolve to be able to detect the sterile ones and avoid them?

80% isn't a high enough number to avoid adaptation.
I’d always assumed the delay in live sports broadcasts was for production purposes: It’s much easier to choose the best camera angle when you’re a few seconds in the future.
At least this will work better than the copper bracelets tons of people wear on cruises. I couldn't convince my daughters they were b.s. But maybe I shouldn't interfere with the placebo effect.

Speaking of placebos, I wonder how these glasses compare to placebos.
Yes, poor judgement. I also think it's sort of dumb to steal self driving "tech" from Apple. Might as well steal Uber's self driving "tech" as well.
There is also HyperD: https://github.com/hyperhq/hyperd
Can China not innovate at all? Why are they so keen on stealing IP? Their other homegrown products such as WeChat and Xiaomi seem pretty competitive and very catered to the local market. This is just giving such a bad name to the country and supporting Trump's broad claims that China thrives on IP theft.
The convention in software marketing is for a “Community Edition” to be the batteries-not-included DIY-install version of an open source project. That’s what the “community” in the name refers to.

Is that what this is? Where’s the source? How do you limit the ingestion capacity of an open source project?

If the core isn’t open source, that’s fine! But that makes “Community Edition” a misleading name.
> where’s the hypocrisy?

Republicans claim to favor local control over state and federal control. But in fact they are perfectly happy to exercise state control over local government (or federal control over state government) if local control threatens business interests or empowers minorities or women.

Republicans also claim to revere the Constitution and the intent of the founders. The Founders clearly intended for the means of communication to be a public good. The government's duty to provide a postal service is written into the Constitution. But the postal service was simply the state of the art in communications technology in 1791. There is no reason to think that the founders did not intend for that government responsibility to keep up with technological advancements.
I'd be worried if I thought video games were substantively more addictive than TV is, for example, I dont think it is.
Decisions above my pay grade have us replacing queries via DNS [1] where we have to finish our work in max 1 second, with a nice, HTTPS REST API that returns JSON that is guaranteed to return within 1.7 seconds.

No one above my pay grade seems to see a problem with this. But hey! REST! JSON! HTTPS! Pass the Kool-Aid!

[1] NAPTR records---given a phone number, return name information; RFC-3401 to RFC-3404
> They said they’d do the exact same kind of things here if required by US law.

Well that's not true. You specifically said "lobbied against" in your post. "Exact same things" would mean exactly the same reticence. That's where the hypocrisy lies.
non-AMP link https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/07/10/arm_riscv_website/