skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> catastrophic GCC-driven wildfires

Is that an undocumented option?
I’m sure electric bikes would be great for commuting, but so much of the joy of owning a bike comes from the mechanical aspects of maintaining it and bonding with it over time—I’m not sure an electric bike would ever be more than a laptop in that sense. I’ll keep my aging Triumph going for as long as I can.
What does it mean to "manage" identities? It's not terribly difficult, technically, to enact a real name policy with online identities rooted in the real-world chain of trust --- the problem is that when you enact a real name policy, activists scream at you until you rescind it.

Without rooting identities in the real world trust chain, what do you have? Proof of work? How does that help against adversaries who are willing to do a lot of work?

Reputation systems? Sybil attacks.

We know what the right answer is here. We just need to be bold enough to enact it and keep it enacted despite the expected outcry
What Mastodon badly needs is a client that can crosspost to both Twitter and a Mastodon instance to lower the barrier to slowly switching.
It seems more fundamental than reputation. Usenet had tons of problems since I could remember it. Now there were a few shining beacons that were awesome, sci.crypto, comp.compression, some others. There was also tons and tons of noise. There is some number, X, you can’t have a conversation with X+1 people, everything struggles with it.
It's not meaningless, it's just not informational. It does not convey new information, it carries social bonding instead. If you want to know more about it, read Eric Berne's books, e.g. Games People Play.
Just looking at the title and having known about the initial years of Apple is enough to know what this article may be about. Taking a quote that would be relevant here — Steve Jobs said in his famous Stanford commencement address of 2005 [1]:

“You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.”

Looks like the trust wasn't there at that time. Without a time machine, such regrets are unproductive.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8uR6Z6KLc
As the employer, I wasn't cool with someone I didn't know delivering code to my clients or accessing their servers.

It's in most standard employee contracts that employees won't disclose confidential information for reasons like this.
Not attempting to discount your experience, just wondering why you refer to being mugged as a "gender-fueled hate crime"?
I was hoping someone else would mention checklists. It’s the closest I’ve come to “automating” a lot of chores. These are kept in org-mode with habits associated with them, so they’re both reoccurring and have a nice chart to show how frequently they’re being done.

As an example, “kitchen - daily”. My partner and I have determined that I’m totally blind to things, so I have a checklist that looks like:

- clean dishes from dishwasher to cupboard

- inspect counters, clockwise starting at dishwasher

- dirty dishes from sink to dishwasher

- if dirty, wash and oil cast iron pans

There’s a bunch of these, one for each living area, and a daily/weekly one for each. They pop up in my schedule with the rest of my consulting tasks, and since I work from home I can just grab one from the day’s master todo list when I need a break.
Oh I'm absolutely sure I could have found a bus or tram, but I literally got off new into the city and didn't know the routes or how to buy fare.

Contrast, when I got to Paris and London, I opened the same Uber app that I have in the USA, with the same credit card and it "just worked".
I'll just point out that there's nothing particular to Uber that makes being a hired driver a honeypot job for foreign agents. The headline seems like clickbait for the #DeleteUber crowd, especially with lines like this:

> Thanks to Uber and Lyft's gig economy it's much easier. No union, no problem (for them at least).

How does being in a union make you less likely to be a spy for a foreign government?
This is why I despise most power point presentations so much and would most of the times prefer a writeup on two pages...
The world is certainly mad, and this is a good post. What was the article that prompted this post? The link is broken.
Donald Trump is twisting himself
To quote an oft-mentioned study:

Americans in the top 10% (approximately people over a networth of 350K per person) own about 85% of the stock (includes pension plans, 401K, etc).

Ref:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/08/business/economy/stocks-e...

http://wealthometer.org/
That's certainly true for me. When I'm trying to give an answer quickly, I'm generally able to throw together a rough mental framework and apply it to the question at hand. It may feel insightful to the extent that it has an applied framework, but it is unlikely to hold up to scrutiny. However, if you give me actual time, then I can research and think more thoroughly, and you'll get a much more thought out answer.

I think one key difference is just the confidence with which someone is able to give their initial reactions. If you internally feel less confidence, then you will feel as if you don't have an answer, when you really do have some formulation of the answer in your mind, just not one you feel great about yet.

Another key factor is to what extent you've practiced giving a quick answer. For example, it's typically considered a key skill for tech industry product managers, and there's a recipe for quickly converging on some answer in the span of a few minutes. It may not be the best answer, but it's an answer. I guess what I'm saying is that if it matters to you to appear quick, it can be practiced.

But in the vast majority of cases, you don't have to be fast, just aware that you need time. (Exceptions include PM interviews but not actual PM work...)
It's already here. I'm not sure why Danielle Robinson merited a photo and a quote but there was no mention of Beaker Browser. Beaker uses Dat as its storage layer, which is similar to IPFS or Bittorrent, and then layers on data storage and sharing systems to enable services like Fritter, their Twitter clone. It's very easy to use -- just download Beaker, and you can be publishing web pages or using totally decentralized web applications.
How do we know the geography of so long ago?
I’m one of those “sharp” people and I often feel like I’m keeping up and thinking quickly enough but constantly stumble over my words. It’s difficult for me to take what’s in my head and turn it into an immediate verbal response sometimes, which leaves me feeling incredibly stupid or like I’m not making sense. I very often find that if I sit down and write something out I can communicate it much more clearly, with the added benefit that I can also take a bit more time to recheck my work before giving a response.
You sound like a good dude, that's why they laid you off because they knew you'd call them on all other shady stuff they'd do in the future as well...

I hope karma does happen in the end but I fear it doesn't.
Multi-physical layer communication protocol also could be the best way to describe it in one word.
Kind of funny that the first thing I see on this page is Oath begging me to let them spy on me.
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I use DataGrip, part of the IntelliJ / Idea Suite. It’s a bit fiddly in terms of UI, but that’s a one time learning curve - everything else from there is a breeze. Also has excellent integration with the other Idea tools, if you use them.
>In one set of experiments, they were able to recover intelligible speech from the vibrations of a potato-chip bag photographed from 15 feet away through soundproof glass.

Its hard enough to discern intelligible speech from many people who are standing right in front of you.
The title needs a "(2010)" in it for better context.
Yeah there are plenty of companies that don't do code reviews still to this day. I worked for an ad agency for a bit and we were still using SVN (afaik they are still using SVN for many projects today). Everyone would just push code straight to trunk with no review process.

I created a cool little easer egg where if you clicked in the bottom left corner of the browser window and dragged in a circle, the site would flip upside down. A coworker and I also photoshopped some of the client's imagery that was used on the site and hosted it on another domain. If you typed a variation of the Konami code while on the site, the images would be replaced with our meme-ified versions of their imagery. Even if we had a code review process, none of my coworkers would have even noticed that little bit of extra code in the mess of jQuery spaghetti that was their codebase.
I don’t find racing sims very good. Most of the data you have to use is physical - how to balance the car, how the rear end is moving, how the front tires have lost grip and you need to unwind a bit to make the turn...
This used to frustrate me too, but gradually my position on the matter has shifted. There's a difference between really trying to solve some problem versus engaging in conversation with someone. I understand the temptation to insist on answering the question for real—which can almost certainly not be done in the moment—but generally, when you get into this situation of being asked a deep question in conversation, your interlocutor is not expecting you to actually solve the problem at hand; (best case scenario) they may just want to try working with you on it, or see how you would approach it, or (probably most common scenario) they just want to be recognized for having suggested the problem—or any number of other motivations. Point is, the motivation of actually seeking an answer is fairly uncommon. Honestly though, my tendency is still to try and answer it for real, but I at least think about this greater context for the question now (and at least sometimes treat the situation differently as a consequence).
Here's the archive.org snapshot of the blog the broken link references:

https://web.archive.org/web/20100307015535/http://www.infini...
> it severely lacks in good tools.

I'm happy with pgadmin4 3.1.

Liked and used pgModeler for a while now.

The pgwiki on tooling[0] contains thousands of tools. Effort is needed in cleaning it up. Also found a cleaner version on postgresql.org[1]

> even paid ones?

Heard good things about navicat.

[0]: https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Community_Guide_to_PostgreS...
[1]: https://www.postgresql.org/download/products/1-administratio...

edit: what kind of db tools are you looking for?
So if I eat my sour cream chedar ruffles in a one-party consent state could I get in trouble?
Away Mode – protect your home with this awkward Alexa skill
Yes, it's right up there with miles per gallon.
Argentine tango : check out the "my double life" TED talk at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhdI3FNItHk .
Overall, try to constantly ask yourself a question: does this test verify some business requirement? If the answer is no, remove it. The most valuable tests are always the tests that have at least some connection to the business requirements your code base is ought to address. Not surprisingly, such tests also fall into the formal definition I brought in the beginning of this article: they are likely to give a protection against regression errors and they are unlikely to turn red without a good reason.

Easier said than done. Let's say I'm writing a game AI and I wrote a test that confirms that ogres can eat humans but cannot eat other ogres. Is this testing a business requirement?
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What the cases so far tell us: Once an AI beats humans who have spent 10,000 hours practicing a skill, it is a matter of time before it beats the best professionals in the field.

Cases it already happened: board games such as Chess and Go, Poker, diagnostics of certain diseases using medical images

Cases where AI is still clearly inferior: video understanding, natural language understanding, motor control esp of hands and legs, general medicine, driving

Hard-to-classified cases (AI is better for some instances, worse for others): image tagging and classification, speech recognition (speech-to-text), diagnostics of certain other diseases using medical images (which might need to take into account other information outside of images)

More examples esp counter examples are welcome.
I was thinking of a system where you drive your car into/onto a single-vehicle pod/cart which you then drive off at the station near your destination. I thought that was the boring company's design; perhaps it was another company I was thinking of...
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It requires multiple clicks and seems to depend on JavaScript for showing the price. A simple price list, with platform wise variations, would've been "customer friendly".
There already is one on mobile: https://github.com/TwidereProject/
> they just want to be recognized for having suggested the problem

In a business setting, I find that this case is often more of the variety of "they are suggesting the problem, and are implying/expecting someone else to solve it" (where someone _may_ be you)
Somewhere outside the Schwarzschild radius of every black hole is a region in which the path of incoming photons is 'bent' 180 degrees and they are sent back roughly in the direction from which they came.

In my mind this means that some infinitesimally small portion of the photons that fall on the earth every day were reflected from the earth ~50K years ago and sent in the direction of the black hole at the center of the Milky Way.

I sometimes wonder if we could build a telescope large enough to resolve these photons into an image of the earth from that time. This would likely require 5,000 years of technological development and construction, but it does seem like it's physically possible. (Maybe there's too much dust or distortion or background noise to actually pick out the signal, dunno)

We couldn't go back XXX million years, but maybe XX thousand?
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> Centralization is what makes better usability possible.

I disagree with this premise.

There's less opportunity for monetary gain, so less effort has been invested in decentralized systems.

I don't think it's an actual inherent technical limitation of decentralized systems. In fact decentralized systems promise many technical benefits. Of course there are also challenges, but in my opinion, not insurmountable ones.
Plate tectonics and Continental drift ??
Exposed private chat messages...

It was a small 30 person company with an overbearing founder.

We ran a chat program called Pandion to allow non-IT staff to quickly ask each other work questions.

The boss had already asked us in IT to set up journaling in Outlook so he was getting a copy of every email sent and received by his staff.

Next he turned his attention to Pandion and I was tasked with setting up a regular report containing all chat messages that were logged on the server.

I knew everyone in the company personally and didn't care to read their private messages...but the boss wanted to get a copy right away before it was announced to staff.

So I send a copy to him, containing the last few days of messages that had been sent.

Of course a couple of staff were dating. Apparently Glen* and Amy* used Pandion for personal messages to each other.

I'm sitting with the boss explaining how the staff don't know their messages are being reported on and we can start publishing the report after the next team meeting, but the boss wanted none of that...

So we start going through it together. One of the first messages is from Glen telling Amy that she's as tight as the seal on his lunchbox. The boss had a good sense of humor and we both pissed ourselves laughing, but it still goes against my values.
Yeah was at least hoping for an equation solver e.g. find radius given area
It seems unlikely that "Gloria" was a spy, because if she was, she's not very good at it. A real spy wouldn't have mentioned having visited North Korea. Mentioning that just calls her out as someone who isn't your typical Uber driver, and a real spy's whole M.O. is to blend into the background.

What seems more possible is that she was what intelligence types call an "asset" -- some non-spy person who's in a position to get their hands on information a real spy is interested in. The job of the spy is to convince the asset to put their hands on that information, and then to hand it over to them. If the spy does this right, the asset doesn't even realize they're handing the information over to a spy -- at least, not until long after the spy has reported the info back to HQ and vanished.

It's not hard to imagine a real spy, knowing that lots of highly trusted security types were going to all be together in Aspen at a conference, sidling up to all the Uber drivers in the area and making them an offer: "keep a list of the names of all your passengers and where you drove them from and to over these four days, bring me that list when the four days are over, and I'll pay you $1,000. And if you can get any of those people to tell you anything about North Korea, bring me those tips and I'll pay you an extra $500 each." If they ask why you want that info, you tell them you work for a defense contractor who's looking for an inside track in the acquisitions sweepstakes. They're not going to check, so you just need a cover story plausible enough to quiet their conscience.

Driving for Uber isn't exactly the royal road to riches, so that would be a pretty attractive offer for the driver. Most wouldn't go for it, but maybe a few do. And most of the information those few would bring you will be useless, but who knows, maybe there'll be a diamond hidden in there somewhere -- someone actually blabs something meaningful about North Korea, or the driver logs a trip taking some natsec big shot to meet their mistress, thus furnishing you with possible blackmail material. Even if all the drivers in Aspen take you up on it the total cost will be miniscule in terms of the amounts intelligence agencies throw around, so it's OK that it's a long shot.
It's a public forum; people of all points of view are free to comment, but everyone else is free to downvote and flag comments that degrade the thread, which has happened with the comments you've complained about here.
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I believe the key word is 'something measurable'. People remember their obtrusive ads more so they think mission accomplished even though they now try to avoid them as 'the guys with the obnoxious advertisements'. It might be ultimately detrimental to the company but their bosses think it is a good thing and they get rewarded for it.

Metricitisis is a major management disease of our times and neither corporate, nor government nor nonprofits are safe from missing the point completely in the quest for meeting irrelevant metrics so they can say they are a good manager.
Altitude is a tricky thing with these kinds of devices. They’re usually based on pressure readings from a sensor inside the device but that reading can be affected greatly by a number of factors.

See https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/wahoo-elemnt-users...
Sometimes it is not the substance of the reply that matters but the way in which you respond. It's called performativity. Women are more sensitive to this, and introspective guys typically fail at it.
This is based on experience, i used to teach math. (~4000)

And i found it easier to teach math to people whoes father, grandfather, great grandfather all had masters in math.

So, i wonder if mathematical abilities are in genes and gene function changes when you bring a person with such genes into a math intense environment.
Thai Duong did BEAST during the brief window he worked with me at Matasano, so I'm pretty sure I have the chronology right.
I love reading pieces that put words to something I've felt, but never expressed before. This is definitely one of those pieces.

Everyone is different, and I am sure people will agree or disagree with the point the author makes to varying degrees depending on their own lived experiences and abilities, but after reading this I think it'd be difficult for anyone to not admit that there is most certainly value in taking an asynchronous approach to conversations and discussions.

And man, does this quote provides some hearty food for thought or what: "Your first reaction is usually outdated."
It's like the WW2 poster said: loose lips sink ships! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loose_lips_sink_ships
I think a key aspect to the situation though is that you won't get faster by trying to get faster. Of all places, I learned this while working in a grocery store, but have since verified the phenomenon in other domains (for example, reading; and it also just makes psychological sense).

I had been stocking groceries for about a month when I had an interesting conversation with two senior employees (20 or 30 years a piece at the job). One of them was telling me that I was doing well but that I needed to start going more quickly. The other saw the mistake in this advice and said something along the lines of, "Well, hold on, though: you know speed comes naturally with practice. He'll get faster once he knows the work better." The other senior employee thought about it for a second, and then agreed in full and admitted their mistake. As a consequence, I focused on learning my work well instead of trying to be fast—and I became one of the fastest stockers in the store within a year.

I don't think you can will speed to happen, or train it specially: it's a consequence of already having solved the problems at hand before, already knowing the solutions and not needing to figure things out in the moment.

So you aren't going to 'get sharper'; you'll just learn particular domains better or not, and the ones you know better you'll be perceived as sharper in.
So basically you not only did not do your basic homework before arriving in a new city (which would also have told you that credit cards are less than ideal in Germany), you didn't even bother reading the informational material that's plastered all around the train station? Or just asked someone? Or at least, after failing to accomplish what millions of citizens and tourists do every day, try to hail another taxi while walking "several miles" (which is an insane distance to walk in a city for European standards)?

As someone who is now living in the US after the mentioned 30 years in Munich, I almost understand how looking up the basics of transportation for a brand new city escaped you, but still, you get absolute no sympathies for me.

Your argument boils down to you expecting something to be the same as what you know, not it being better. You expect a good system to get worse because of your ineptitude to navigate a non-US city.
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Could it just possibly be the fact they've been raised in environment that encourages the thought processes necessary to understand more "abstract" math?

Phrased differently, they've been given somewhat "institutional" tools necessary to accomplish these types of goals?
So, for example, a hypothetical post,

Show HN: The C Language, YC Guide [pdf, 2013]

should be an instant hit, right?
I'm using the latest version of both.

Actually magit is quite fine for small personal projects. It's just that it absolutely chokes on a large monorepo I'm working on.
I have followed the same idea regarding radio waves. Would it be possible to travel far enough out to receive radio or TV broadcasts from WWII? Presumably all that information in the form of waves is still out there (assuming it hasn't been too distorted by inference, or far too small of an amplitude).
I had no idea flowers evolved so late. The first flowers were 100 million years after the first dinosaurs!