skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
this sort of reminds me of RPG games. i never know what class to choose, they all seem cool in most games. so what i usually do is look at the end level content for what a class will be capable of and choose based on that, even though i never have time to actually get to that stage anyway. but the concept of working towards something is super valuable to me. i know its not exactly directly applicable to real life, but perhaps finding youtube videos or something on what is possible if you're an expert at said subject would probably help you choose something
Yes their backroom dealings were/are unethical, and its exposure surely help them to lose the election, but was any of it actually illegal? To put it another way, evidence brought forward in a court of law supposedly has limits placed on how the evidence can be obtained. If someone obtains (in this case effectively commits a B&E to get it) damming information about a party, which while good that it is exposed, it doesn't instantly absolve the thief from prosecution.
Because I say so - it is anecdotal, of course! Take it what you want from it. Over the years, almost every product they've made and that got into my hands (not by choice) broke in one way or the other or was unusable in production over any longer period of time due to build quality, qc issues or abysmal software. It's why they can get lower price than their competition (Aja or BlueFish for example) which don't suffer from same issues. It's a 'known' issue with them around the TV and Film industry, hence why no one serious is using their stuff, unless they are on a strict budgetary diet. Quality is extremely random and support is next to non-existent apart from what they give you in form of Q&A and software downloads on their site. It's so bad that even their higher-priced hardware gets you almost none support. It's a crap company that is interested in volume.
People who weren't online in an earlier time should probably refrain from making statements about how it was different, just as people who weren't actually at a company, in a battle, etc. should refrain from making statements about how it was for the participants. It just makes them look ignorant and quick to judgment. From my own experience, trolling back in the Usenet was generally less serious back then. There was more of a tacit understanding that you were there voluntarily, that you could leave or even come back under another name. Trolling was usually transient, didn't spill over into people's real lives, and only worked because somebody chose to be invested in the subject matter. That doesn't make any of it OK, but it was different.

As for the point about feeding or not feeding trolls, I think another commenter already made the important point that it's different for users vs. administrators. Users should ignore trolls, for all the reasons historically given. It does work. I've seen it hundreds of times, even when I was a moderator on a millions-of-posts political site. On the other hand, administrators need to take a more active approach. Back on Usenet, or even to a large extent on early web forums, there were no administrators. The approach for users was the only approach. Nowadays, when trolling has much more serious affects on people's lives and it's harder to get away, a more active approach is called for. The OP's basic thesis is right, if you make the distinction between what users should do vs. what administrators should do, but some of their and your facile generalizations about the past are still rather amusing.

P.S. It should also be noted that there are legal issues affecting whether a site owner should be involved in moderating content, and those legal reasons change all the time, but that's a whole separate thread.
Liberals in the US now seems to be synonymous with some (sometimes mild, sometimes not) form of socialism or to be a tad gentler, collectivism.

None of the folks whose prose I read or speech I've listened to that claim to be "liberals" in the US have any of the political attributes described by Russel.

Their agenda is squarely focused on improving the well-being of the group over that of the individual.

They're something all right, but "liberal" isn't it at all if you understand the word as per item 6 of https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/liberal namely:

"associated with ideals of individual especially economic freedom, greater individual participation in government, and constitutional, political, and administrative reforms designed to secure these objectives"

Or from https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/liberalism :

"a theory in economics emphasizing individual freedom from restraint and usually based on free competition, the self-regulating market, and the gold standard"

None of the US "liberals" fit this definition.

OTOH, they certainly have co-opted the word and, along with it, the unsuspecting crowd that still understands "liberalism" as being focused on individual freedoms.
That advance investment in infrastructure must be a very important part of this effect. Those sunk costs probably are most important thing here. ASIC lead time is months and not the only advance investment.

But betting on future price, speculation, also is important.

Also there maybe could be influence from changes in energy pricing.
Sorry about the really late reply, just wanted to ack and say thanks for the reply. I did have a look at INN and wondered if that might be the way to go, but seemed potentially quite hacky.

I'll have to poke around with feedbase and see what you're up to. My (probably badly though-out) idea was a somewhat generic server / API adapter that could be hooked up to make less terrible interfaces for something like HN or reddit, similar to how bitlbee does IM <-> IRC.
Im not too familiar with politics, so this might be wrong, but I think both systems cause the same problem. With the EC, the vote ends up hinging on a few swing states. AND, since most states use a winner-takes-all arrangement [1], this means the swing states (smaller population) end up the policy makers.

About two thirds of the population lives on the coast, and this grows every year. It doesn't make sense that each coastal person has only 2/3 (and decreasing) of a vote. Or, rather, it doesn't make sense that they don't have any vote because the votes are all in the swing states.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swing_state#Criticism

EDIT: Looks like someone replied with a similar argument while I was typing this up
>It isn't clear to me that the GDPR requires disclosure of data that is related to a person but was not created by or provided by that person.

It absolutely, positively does require that disclosure. Article 15 states:

"The data subject shall have the right to obtain from the controller confirmation as to whether or not personal data concerning him or her are being processed, and, where that is the case, access to the personal data"

"Personal data" is defined in Article 4 as:

"any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person;".

If I have any information* that can be related to you by any identifier, directly or indirectly, it is personal data within the scope of GDPR. Server logs, invoices, customer service records, CCTV footage, emails between employees that mention your name or username, the whole kit and caboodle.

The definition of "processing" given in Article 4 includes storage.

The regulations would be a farce if I could hoover up data about you from third parties or through surveillance technology, but you had no rights over that data simply because you didn't provide it to me.

https://gdpr-info.eu/
Well first off, I'm sorry you had that experience, that sucks, and I'm glad you're better off now.

I think what I'm suggesting is that if you have an idea that your passion might be gardening, you don't have to become a landscaper. You could work for a company that develops non-patented disease-resistant seeds, or a company that grows plants for sale in big box stores, or maybe even a small start-up that tries to connect small farmers that grow unique crops to restaurants that want to provide a unique menu.

Maybe it should be re-worded as "try to combine your skills with your interests".
It's kind of amazing to me that we are still learning stuff from Ötzi's remains since they were discovered back in 1991.
Who determines who is a scammer? Why wouldn't they add someone who left a scathing yelp review to such a list?
Your assumption is correct. One of our goals was to transform and restructure the data we have on our on-site premise MySQL. This is where the Lambdas come in. The Kinesis streams trigger the lambda, and the Lambdas filter and process the record and save them to a database on AWS.
Hi Chip. How does facebook deploy XARs? Is an advantage over docker containers not having to run the docker daemon on every machine?
> I’m glad it has worked for you personally

Thanks.

> Other people would unfortunately have to ignore your advice because the circumstances of finding viable remote positions would be so different for them that if they followed your approach

You are basically criticizing me for answering the question made by the OP. Look at the question:

Ask HN: Are you a remote worker that escaped to the countryside?

I answered yes, the benefits I see in doing it and that I feel confident that I (me, not anyone else) can find another similar job.

What are we discussing here?
4 months ago, Starbucks announced they were developing a compostable cup.

> Starting today, Starbucks is committing $10M in partnership with Closed Loop Partners and its Center for the Circular Economy to establish a groundbreaking consortium to launch the NextGen Cup Challenge. This is the first step in the development of a global end-to-end solution that would allow cups around the world to be diverted from landfills and composted or given a second life as another cup, napkin or even a chair – anything that can use recycled material.[0]

Other Seattle coffee shops use compostable coffee cups. Microsoft[1] and UW have for over a decade. I'm not sure what further innovation is needed. Here is a wholesale distributor of compostable coffee cups and soup bowls.[2]

[0] https://news.starbucks.com/news/starbucks-and-closed-loop-to...

[1] https://www.seattletimes.com/business/microsoft-switches-to-...

[3] http://greenstaurant.com/pages/utensils/hotworld.html
Thanks, I think the one commonly labelled Cassava Flour (at least in Australia) is the Povilho variety.

Maybe the Tapioca vs Povilho difference refers to the bitter vs sweet varieties of the Cassava plant?
I have a large amaro collection and a large whiskey collection because I really like them, and it's fun to sometimes be in the mood for a specific flavor. Plus, when people come over I can introduce them to things they haven't tried, so it makes for easy conversation. Plus, when mixing to make cocktails, nuances in flavor can matter a lot.
are you using any specific Go web framework or just the standard library?
In particular Assange and Wikileaks.

He publicly supported the claim it was the DNC and every day it looks like Wikileaks was just being used as an information laundering service for the Russians.
Eviction has to do with tenants, not hotel guests. Hotels don't need any judicial review to ask someone to leave. However, the police may decide not to use force in which case the hotel would have to go the judicial route, but usually not the case.

In order to avoid having to deal with eviction regulations, hotels or motels in many states actually require hotel guests to leave the hotel every 29 nights or however long the regulations come into effect that bring in eviction procedures.
>Isn't the larger issue that the DNC, Podesta, and Clinton did and said things that weren't aligned with their public statements?

No, the larger issue would still be a foreign power attempting to influence an American election by illegal means. That doesn't actually stop becoming illegal or an issue of national security because one doesn't like the party being targeted.
Thank you for the Kanban idea; I love it.
Thanks for providing that summary. Does this mean the two could be used together?
> At some point they will be regulated like utilities.

Like the internet is? Oh...
The fear is that foreign IC will charge US IC operators for their crimes in retaliation. Typically IC operators have claimed sovereign immunity, however since PLA officers were charged in 2014 all bets are off.
I was listening to infinite monkey cage the other day (the 100th episode - actually watched it)

The format wasn't great (too much in too short a time), but one assertion was made that the damage caused by 1 'bag for life' was equal to 100+ disposable bags.

This seems to stem from a UK Government comparative study [0] of supermarket bags, which showed that a cotton reusable bag must be reused 131 times to match the lower environmental impact of a conventional plastic shopping bag used just once.

However non-cotton bags had far lower reuse levels, and it isn't clear at a quick glance how they determine environmental impact. They also neglect to account for double-bagging that used to be prevalant, or the larger bag sizes of "bag-for-life" meaning you need fewer bags for your shopping. It looks from that report that typical bags need to be reused 4 or 5 times to be effective. [1] suggests an average of 6 times.

One thing that has changed though with the 5p charge, coupled with things like Blue Planet -- people think about their use. In the past people would have a bag when buying 2 or 3 things, now they often don't, using pockets or existing bags. The change in attitude is probably more of an impact than bag reuse.

[0] https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-36917174
Preliminary Performance Analysis: 2018 MacBook Pro 15 Inch
Yep, major ASIC sellers require up front payments in some cryptocurrency, last time I checked.
Generally yes. I would expect most bitcoin mining operations would continue for a while after they stopped making a return on investment, until they were no longer making a profit on the cost of electricity. However, electricity is a fairly large part of the cost of mining, and there is a treadmill on the hardware side as well as better ASICs are developed (the ASIC developers skim the cream of this as well, units sold to customers have likely already been used, sometimes heavily).
Do a cc chargeback if you think you have a real case
>The Internet allows foreign adversaries to attack America in new and unexpected ways,”

>“Together with our law enforcement partners, the Department of Justice is resolute in its commitment to locate, identify and seek to bring to justice anyone who interferes with American elections.

Sounds like Don Quixote is fighting the internet now. Unless you just shut it down how is it possible to not have world wide "interference" on the world wide web? Perhaps we need to think about how the instantaneous global communications network is obsolescing the concept of the nation state which was formed as a result of the printing press.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gutenberg_Galaxy

>Free and fair elections are hard-fought and contentious, and there will always be adversaries who work to exacerbate domestic differences and try to confuse, divide, and conquer us.

That sounds like a fitting description of mass media/news corporations everywhere.
If you like High West, track down a High West Midwinter Night, which is their sherried rye; it'll go for like $70 in season and holds up with good Speyside.

Dollar for dollar, there's probably no better value in Scotland than a GlenDronach 15, and you really can't go wrong with any GlenDronach, from 12 to 23, with an age statement.

Aberlour A'bunadh is Aberlour's no-age-statement high-cask-flavor expression and it's pretty cheap (like $50?). If you buy it and really like it, there's a whole world of wine-casked Speysides you can go explore.

I am a fiend for cask-y Speysides but I haven't really liked any of the Balvenie stuff (even though Balvenie is one of the cooler distilleries).

I'm working my way through a Tamdhu NAS Special Edition which I'm liking a lot, so our tastes may be similar.

If you're less into sweetness and wineyness and fruitiness and more into grain character, I like Springbank a lot.

The good news about American whiskey is that spending money on it is the wrong approach. The right thing to do with American whiskey is to buy bottom-shelf bourbon and rye, preferably from brands that have a bottled-in-bond expression of whatever it is you're buying (or just buy the bonded expression itself if you can get it). So: Very Old Barton, Heaven Hill, Old Granddad, and Old Forester. These are, like, $30 bottles. Also buy a Four Roses and a Wild Turkey.

Don't buy premium-priced American whiskey until you've tried enough "cheap" whiskey to know what you liked and (importantly) don't like. You can live on the bottom shelf of bourbon and be a happy drinker for a long time, and you get snob points for appreciating a cheap Heaven Hill while "hipsters" pay $60 for an "artisanal" "craft whiskey" that is really just a bottling of MGPI.

Later

A lay-up pick in your price range is Redbreast Lustau, a sherry-casked Irish whiskey. Over-the-top wine notes on top of an already super drinkable whiskey.
It’s not stock in a public company or money in your IRA, it’s alcohol, drink up & enjoy!
NoSQL is used by two camps. One wants a denormalized doc store for their technical needs, and the other because it has an easier quickstart on day 1 when you don’t know SQL. Here we are usually talking of the latter.

The beauty of something like Postgres is that you don’t need to get your schema right on day 1. How could you anyways unless tou already know all future data access pattern?
So, you take a `\r` from the network. So, do you wait for a `\n` before returning the line?
I gotta second "Understanding Comics", it's incredible! McCloud is a under-recognized genius and comics are a profound medium! I found a copy on the sidewalk. I'm halfway through it now and he's blown my mind four or five times already. Don't be too proud to read a comic about comics: it will change the way you think, not just about comics but about thinking itself!

It was published in '93. I just looked and I couldn't find the exact quote, but at one point he says something like, "even if you don't read comics, they will be influencing popular art and entertainment" and I thought, "Didn't a comicbook-based movie just gross two billion dollars?"
We generally deploy XARs like a normal executable (delivered via RPMs or other native packaging). We also have an internal packaging format we use to deploy them as well. The big thing for us is we treat them like normal executables, so any standard deployment model for an executable works for XARs.
Nonsense. It's wonderful advice for agents of the business entities that provide it. These companies can get millions of students per year to sign up for academic programs financed entirely by federally-guaranteed jumbo loans with no money down and no credit check. The institutions can then deposit the checks from those loans into their accounts and use them to build cool buildings and to pay big paychecks.

As for the people receiving the advice, who cares about those idiots? By the time they suffer any negative consequences from it, the checks will have already cleared.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2017/05/09/the_fbi_i...

>FBI Director James Comey told the Senate Intelligence Committee back in January that the FBI did, in fact, issue “multiple requests at different levels” to the DNC to gain direct access to their computer systems and conduct their own forensic analysis.

>Instead, whether because they were denied access or simply never asked for it, the FBI instead used the analysis of the DNC breach conducted by security firm CrowdStrike as the basis for its investigation. Regardless of who is telling the truth about what really happened, perhaps the most astonishing thing about this probe is that a private firm’s investigation and attribution was deemed sufficient by both the DNC and the FBI.

Crowdstrike is not the FBI or any government agency. Do you have a source that proves a government agency examined the server or an image of the server? Because you seem awfully confident that the FBI has examined it.
Even with the chunky laptops, I only ever really upgraded the wifi card, ram, and storage...
I just started a rust project and so had to learn TOML since that's what the package manager (and a lot of the ecosystem) uses.

For some reason, though, I just struggle with the syntax. It says it's "obvious" but it wasn't to me. I think it says something that the README is full of "this TOML would be represented like this JSON", to help you understand what's going on. Every time I saw that, I was like "oh, now I get it." I don't know if that means JSON is just inherently more understandable, or I'm just more used to it, though.

Are there obvious downsides to JSON for config that I'm missing? What are the advantages of TOML over JSON? Maybe eventually it'll "click", though.

I think the following mean the same thing:

[[foo]]
bar = {baz = 5}

[[foo.bar]]
baz = 5

But I don't think the following works:

[[foo]]
[[bar]]
baz = 5

That is, I think the double bracket syntax always starts at the top level? While the `=` are relative to the double brackets above it? Something about all that is non-obvious to me, and I don't love that there's multiple ways to do the same thing.
Actually, I’ve had this book for years. I think Jordan Peterson is an exploitational personality who simply tells people what they want to hear.

Then again, George Lucas is among those who like it, so it’s not necessarily an intellectually valuable cohort.
If you need to find your latent/pre-determined passion, that ultimately means you don't really have a choice of what you do with your life. You just need to find what was already chosen for you.

Conversely, the growth-mindset restores choice to your life. You can choose what to be interested in, instead of limiting yourself to what you're already interested in. That's very powerful and self-affirming, and actually has a lot in common with the philosophy of existentialism, which is about making your own meaning. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existentialism
ASASSN-15lh – The brightest supernova-like object ever observed (2015)
Designing and building a distributed data store in Go [pdf]
What I Learned Being Beaten Up in Mexico City
I explored the same thing but got different results from you. Bush v. Gore almost a dead tie and 2016 a slight Hillary win.

http://mrgris.com/blog/2016-12-06-538-problems-but-a-swing-s...
PayPal Apologizes for Letter Demanding Payment from Woman Who Died of Cancer
"Lambda is being used as a distributed message/job processor, much like any worker process processing a queue would be scaled up."

Is this just clarification of the architecture, ie how Lambda fits into pre-existing patterns, or are you suggesting that since Lambda is being used as a distributed job processor, there would be a better tool for that specific task?
I rarely read fiction. I'd love to read something great, but I have harder time finding it and getting into it.

Harry Potter and The Methods of Rationality is the best fiction I've ever read, and am actually rereading now, so that's one.

I absolutely love everything written by Alexander Wales, The Martian by Andy Weir, and a lot of stuff from /r/rational. Also I think that Atlas Shrugged and everything written by Ayn Rand is brilliant.

I've read Ready Player One by Ernest Cline, and Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson not so long ago, they were pretty fun, but I wasn't blown away or anything.

Aside from that, I don't know many great ones, so I mostly read non-fiction.