skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Offshore drilling in an earthquake zone is not "easy oil". It's a disaster waiting to happen. I do agree that, if we are desperate, we will use it anyway. But I don't think that's good or healthy or responsible.
The post is literally responding line by line to a post from 5 years ago. Very poorly thought out article.
Well... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSp6d3qSb3I
Or in my case: spend a bunch of time messing with and tweaking my shell config. Sometimes the tyranny of default options is helpful to getting things done.
The second avenue line was a "major investment". It was also probably [many] decades after any private company might have done it.

When one have lived for decades with the same nationalized system, one can't imagine what the alternative might be like. But we know from other industries. E.g., telecoms. The UK nationalized its telephone industry in 1912(!). The rest of the world basically followed suit (the U.S. didn't, but we gave AT&T a monopoly that tended to limit innovation in the same sort of way), then in the 90s the whole world privatized and/or deregulated telecoms and... wow, what a boom resulted! And yet very few people who are aware of that case will even think of applying the same approach to other typically-nationalized industries.

It's always interesting to see what gets nationalized. It seems to be the biggest, most notable, locally culturally valued industry that the relevant politicians have the power to nationalize. National governments tend nationalize big things, like telecoms, utilities, steel manufacturing, etc.

In the U.S. the Federal government has not had the ability / constitutional power to do this (see the Steel Cases from 1947), the States have and have had the constitutional power, but by dint of having so many of them in competition with each other, they've mostly been unable to use it, which leaves: the cities. In the U.S. every city has a "nationalized" public transit system.

But in many parts of the world things like city buses are entirely private sector industries (e.g., in Buenos Aires, which has an incredibly vast private bus network). That might be surprising, since in Argentina just about everything of note has been nationalized at times. It makes sense though: Argentina has a strong central government, and weak local governments, so the central government nationalizes things of national importance, and the local governments not so much.
Would it help if you had a webcam pointed at the door so you could remotely verify it's closed and locked? Or do you need some the actual feeling of the door being closed to end the fixation?
Maybe the solution is to allow fewer people into Phd programs?? Not everyone needs a phd.
Ya really think phone numbers are hard to get?
I agree. I didn't do that.
> but otherwise it's working fine

It doesn't work at all for me, because it requires a mobile phone number, which I don't have (a phone + any monthly subscription fee doesn't fit in a tiny fixed income budget).
That makes sense. Maybe I was used to R (CRAN) where uploaded packages are actually tested against the version they declare to support.
"Hypothetically, if I were to give my DNA to many of these services, I'm giving it to them with full understanding that they are allowed to share that information with anyone they see fit. "

I know legally this is ok but "sharing as they see fit" practices just need to stop. We have to go back to a model where the customer pays for a service and that's it. No sharing in the background to subsidize the cost of the service. That would make some services more expensive but then the customer can share his data for a price. If he chooses to do so .
I'm not outraged, but I think it's a self-defeating move for Facebook. Which is fine, since Facebook - as a walled garden which is opposed to the Open Web - needs to go away anyway.

Edit:

I'm thinking more and more that I will probably be deleting my Facebook account sometime in the not too distant future. I'd really rather be doing all of my information sharing / browsing / interaction using a pure Open Web[1] oriented platform and that's exactly what Facebook is not.

Not sure exactly what form this will take, but I want to move to a platform which is not a walled garden, and is based on open and decentralized standards like RSS/Atom, ActivityStrea.ms, ActivityPub, RDF, FOAF, SIOC, XMPP, NNTP, SMTP, and the like.

A proper Web platform should allow anyone to participate on their own terms without some corporation being able to arbitrarily decide the terms of what you can do, while simultaneously profiting from the resale of our personal data.

Maybe this will mean Mastodon, maybe I'll go back to a self-hosted Roller based blog, etc. I already self-host an ejabberd server for XMPP messaging, so that will probably be part of what I do going forward.

[1]: http://tantek.com/2010/281/b1/what-is-the-open-web
Few questions:

- did you learn or research writing before blogging?
- how did you overcome bad writing patterns identified by your editor?
- Actually, did you overcome them or do you constantly battle them?
Maybe you could use complex numbers to index matrices
Most things are a lot more fun when you're free to do them as you please and pick the good stuff. You get the fun stuff, they get all the stuff. :)

Running across an interesting book might feel like gold, makes you imagine research must be gold. You forget about the countless days, months, or years (sometimes even more depressing, decades) spent digging in between the gold veins.

I suffered from much the same disappointment when I started my PhD, after a masters that left me imagining research is a world of fun. Shortly after, I dropped it when I found a job/career that really brought me satisfaction. A move I have done more than once over the years after that.

So I have one advice for people who feel the disappointment of being "stuck" and not knowing what to chase: Consider just the work that passes the threshold for a decent standard of living and then pick the one that fulfills you more, rather that the one that makes others say "wow". Living on "kudos" means you're at the mercy of others to get your satisfaction.
They 100% don't want to discuss it with me.

I suffer from a terrible temper that goes from 0 to 10 before I know it. I've balanced it by taking constructive feedback and being mindful of my triggers. That was a hard road to travel and I still slip up. For the longest time, I thought I knew best and nobody understood. Least of all, my significant other.

So, I completely empathize with their difficulty discussing it with me. The problem is, they won't discuss it with anybody else either. I'm not sure if it was a slip-up, moment of clarity or a mistake. But, my spouse once said that "I don't want to live like this". Which was a window for an actually constructive conversation. I casually mentioned talking to a professional, which was met with stubbornness. But, there's be no progress since then.

We've been together for nearly 20 years, so I've seen this progress to where it is today. The next step is for this person to open up to somebody else. I just have to tip-toe on how I might suggest that notion. "In sickness and in health" right?

Ironically enough, when I was confronted with my anger issues, I was basically given an ultimatum that I needed to find help. To which I was very receptive.

This entire conversation is fraught with society's terrible attitude towards mental health, mental wellness and mindfulness.
Wait. Incentive structures in academia are screwed up? No. It can't be.
And those factions have economic ties. I would expect that the sanctions lists would be exploiting those relationships. In China you have an entire village producing something like patio umbrellas or golf carts. This creates systemic risks because the US could wipe out industry of an entire village — takenit offline for six months and you can do a lot of political damage. China may be authoritarian but they are not immune to the will of the people. The Mandate of Heaven is almost an early version of democratic ideals. Lose the people you lose the mandate.
Thanks for the tip :-)
What about the news? You know, that thing they do apart from opinion pieces and the crossword puzzles.
offshore drilling in an earthquake zone is an engineering job. it's done all the time, costs a bit more, but doesn't dramatically increase risk.
The Clojure Programming book, it's excellent both for beginners and advanced users (I've been using Clojure since 2013).

https://www.amazon.com/Clojure-Programming-Practical-Lisp-Wo...

A lot of tips and insight of how to do and not to do things in Clojure without too much hype. "Practical Lisp for the Java World" - the title does not lie :).
>A second positive change would be ending requiring selling a part of any foreign venture to a local Chinese company, which I don't think was planned to change.

It was not a requirement for many many years already, and before that on case by case basis.

The list of industries in which it is still a requirement is well known.

On Qualcomm and NXP, that's kinda bizarre - nor Qualcomm, nor NXP is a listed company in China, nevertheless, China orders a block on merger of their units in USA.

But were they not be compliant, they could've fared worse: remember Sigmatel, they tried to bully a Chinese competitor with patent trolling, but instead got shipments of their chips tracelessly vanishing at Chinese customs. That was a death sentence for them as a company: it doesn't matter that they were selling chips to foreign companies for as the final product was assembled in China
I'm pretty sure if people are willing to adopt a new language, they will be open minded enough to accept 1 indexed arrays.
Anyone get the konami code to work in Contra?
I literally got my DNA run now because I have real concern that in the future if you ever get it sequenced you will be legally required to share it with insurance companies, law enforcement, and many others. I'm hoping that I'll be able to get grandfathered in and not share mine.
Nope, this breaks their automation as well. Facebook has basically removed posting ability to personal feeds from their API entirely.
Have you tried balancing this urge to return, against self-anger and humiliation at all the time and gas you're wasting by driving back to check?

When I get irrational urges, I make the urges battle my insecurities and get out of the way. Insecurities usually win.
I agree that academia selects for conformists, which is bad for curiousity driven research.

Jeff Schmidt's book "Disciplined Minds" makes a similar argument. I have not read it all, though, so perhaps I should pick it up again.

The book has a good description of the problem, but in my view the author views the process as more political than it necessarily is. I also think the book's solutions are unlikely to help. But I still recommend the book as one of the few on the subject.
My question is, why did a senior staff member have access to a new employee's girlfriend anyway? I'm guessing the new employee friended the senior staff member on Facebook. This just seems like so many cross boundaries.
What 193 is describing isn't a conversion of discomfort to fear, it's an a-rational pattern of behaviour that's independent of discomfort or fear.

Orwell talked about reinforcing effects: "A man may drink because he is failing, then become all the more a failure because he drinks." OCD as a form of anxiety is about a sufferer having taught themselves to behaviourally self-medicate. And just like most forms of addictive self-medication, it becomes a reinforcing effect that's somewhat independent of any real objective cause.

CBT and other behavioural approaches to therapy try (with measurable success) to interrupt that self-reinforcing behavioural effect. Many here are talking about somewhat obsessively checking things, and they're describing it perfectly: "did I check? I'll check again just to make sure", which grants a moment of relief from the anxiety; give it a few minutes, and the anxiety returns, forcing another hit of reassurance to be sought. OCD is an extreme form of addiction to this cycle.
I purchased an annual digital subscription and I'm never even logged into NYT. I get my news from various sources, including NYT, but I don't go to NYT for news, it comes to me through Reddit and Apple news.

I consider the subscription more of a donation, because we are living in a time where the news media has to be supported -- we can't have it die.

I wonder if my use case resonates with other people my age.
Why?

Let's compare it to F-Droid: He isn't saying that Signal should be distributed via F-Droid by default, just that there should be the option. So the article doesn't seem to say that the defaults are what matter.
Seems like companies with "toxic cultures" can actually be extremely successful.
WordGrinder
I wouldn't worry about the profit itself. It's important to NYT and their investors but not necessarily indicative of industry viability.

More important (IMO) is the number of subscribers, at total revenue, the total amount of money paid to NYT by subscribers. This is how much money is available to run NYT sustainably.

They had 3.8m subscribers, with 2.9m digital only. Revenue is/was $415m for the quarter (1.65bn annualized). $100m (25%) of that was from digital subscriptions. They make more from ads.

So... for the industry... I don't think this means much. It's an existence proof for paid subscriptions, as an important revenue source. It is not an existence proof for a paper funded primarily via subscriptions.

A remarkable (maybe even exciting to some journalists) is that this represents a digital version of the print business model. It's a good thing in the sense that this promotes good content, and less hyperbole and clickbait.

IDK how I feel about the desire to revive the print subcription model. The ability to share, read articles wherever they happen to be published, search the web for articles... paywalls break these. Maybe we need to go back to go forward, but this step feels like a regression... to me.
Nitrogen oxides and sulfur oxides. How is that irresponsible? The conversation has turned to CO2 because of global warming, but these are still damaging. And CO2 isn't strictly a pollutant at all. I stand by those statistics.
Inflation Before the Oil Shock
The internet of intelligent things: How AI makes IoT smarter
Chinese leadership facing rare backlash for handling of U.S. trade dispute
realpath

https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/Real...
From the same publication, teen suicide rates are rising across the US:

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/suicide-rates-teen-girl...
Would you mind sharing your lists? I only have about 140k in mine but would like to increase my protection.
@tofof: Do you have a workflow which uses both of them the tools in series, or do you pick one or the other depending upon what you're doing? PurifyCSS and PurgeCSS, at least from a cursory review, appear to have similar functionality.
Interesting topic, I guess.

However this is too much editorializing - I don't bother reading any more with this style of writing.

>Okay, new analogy: oil pipelines! Wait, those are unfashionable now too. Uh... beer taps... no, apparently beer is bad for diversity or something... chocolate fountains!
Old way: you repeat the measurement nothing is in your body. and you konw di you feel e.g. hypo. New way: the sensor needle is simply a little off (in stays sticked). You don’t know, the software doesn’t know. The sensor is not magic that works 100% of the time, it ends in a needle sticked in your body, many ways to go wrong, even if it worked a while.

And the danger of “fully automatic” is there.
You could write it in one line of Python or so, using os.path.relpath
> Security wise, Apple iOS is superior in any possible aspect to Android.

One aspect where Android is superior is that more of it is open-source.
Apple: Improving Siri’s ability to recognize names of local POIs
I am not willing to support Signal if they are unwilling to federate the system.

Sure, it doesn't allow them the flexibility they'd like to have to move forward but in a way it won't be their fault if federated servers aren't keeping themselves up to date when there's a major protocol change and they get temporarily splitted from the pool.
> A backlash is being felt at the highest levels of the government, possibly hitting a close aide to Xi, his ideology chief and strategist Wang Huning, according to two sources familiar with discussions in leadership circles.

> A prominent and influential academic whose views have found favor in some party quarters has also come under attack for his strident views on Chinese power.

> Wang, who was the architect of the “China Dream”, Xi’s vision for China to become a strong and prosperous nation, has been taken to task by the Chinese leader for crafting an excessively nationalistic image for the country, which has only provoked the United States, the sources said.

> “He’s in trouble for mishandling the propaganda and hyping up China too much,” said one of the sources, who has ties to China’s leadership and propaganda system.

Wang Huning is a noted neo-authoritarian ideologue and a member of China's most powerful leadership body, the Politburo Standing Committee. Understanding his views gives a lot of insight into the Chinese government's current outlook:

http://www.judeblanchette.com/blog/2017/10/20/wang-hunings-n...

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/13/world/asia/china-xi-jinpi...
RadioPublic's CEO: “Can podcasting succeed w/o sacrificing open distribution?”
Thanks for reading!

>did you learn or research writing before blogging?

Just in school/college. I also took the free Stanford course "Writing in the Sciences," which I found very helpful for technical writing:

https://online.stanford.edu/courses/som-y0010-writing-scienc...

After working with my editor, I read The Elements of Style (aka "Strunk & White") and found it to be helpful at making my writing more concise and clear.

>how did you overcome bad writing patterns identified by your editor?

I started a checklist for repeated patterns. At the last stage of editing, I'd run through the checklist to check if I was repeating any anti-patterns.

Some of them became automatic after 2-3 more posts. With other mistakes, I don't notice I'm making them until I specifically do an editing pass for them. For example, I tend to overuse weak words like "very" or "really," and I often don't notice until I scan for them.
"My hope for podcasting is that it can remain loosely coupled, that you end up having a whole series of centralized systems, that there's a healthy tension between where different pieces of the value chain around content creation, distribution, sales, listener, and engagement taking place; not all in one place, but you can still have some very successful large-scale companies that are providing some of those services without it being a winner-take-all."

"Part of our design of RadioPublic was consciously to not try to integrate all of those things, and instead to leave hosting and ad sales and other systems outside of what we do and make sure that we could interoperate with multiple other parties and platforms who are doing that, so we don't just work with PRX's network, but we also make sure that we can tie into Libsyn and Simplecast, and other hosting companies. Or work with Panoply in their Megaphone system, or ART19 and its data system. If we can prove successfully that there's a new way of making sure that podcast listeners support the business models of podcasters on a consumer facing app where the listening happens, we might have the chance at then propelling forward some new standards that we would be thrilled if they got picked up by Apple and others. A simple example is: we have the concept of a gateway episode in a feed where we encourage a podcaster to flag an episode as the one that a new listener should start listening to first."
If 1-indexing seems strange, you're probably not doing mathematical or statistical computing, so it's probably not the language for you.
I am having trouble understanding this passage. I'm wondering is someone could help me understand this as it seems like an important design detail:

>"Another benefit to using UDP is that the source port can be filled in with a per-connection hash so that they are flow within the datacenter over different paths (where ECMP is used within the datacenter), and received on different RX queues on the proxy server’s NIC (which similarly use a hash of TCP/IP header fields)."

A source port in the UDP header still needs to be be just that a port number no? Or are they actually stuffing a hash value in to that UDP header field? How would the receiving IP stack no how to understand a value other than a port number in that field?
The right way to do this is:

scaled = raw * mult >> shift;

Calculate mult and shift based on the timer frequency. The multiplication likely needs to be done with a 96 or 128 bit output. If shift is forced to be >= 64 (on a 64-bit machine), then the resulting assembly code is short and fast.
So basically this removes my ability to set up crossposting through a nicely maintainable API, without making it much more difficult for any bot organization with an IT staff on call to switch to something like Selenium for their propaganda posting?
That's some crazy conspiracy-theory level shit happening... it was #1 a couple hours ago with 80ish votes... now ~215 and you're right, it's dropped off to the 6th or 7th page! Is it getting flagged a lot? Why would that happen in a few hours?
> ...South Korea and Taiwan as they made their transitions from poor dictatorships to wealthy democracies (and peaceful US allies).

If I'm not mistaken, both these countries became wealthy during the dictatorship period. It was only after the stability and wealth that they become democracies.

Taiwan's first democratic vote was in 1996 and South Korea's first public election was in 1987.
How is HAM secure? (I don't know anything about HAM)
Package management is a really-really-really difficult problem that is far from solved. Not to say that your critiques are invalid (quite the opposite), but Julia is just now hitting 1.0 - by contrast Node/NPM have been around quite a bit longer and still have terrible package issues they're working to solve.

If you can, try and find a few hours to help pitch in and solve the package problems, even if it's just updating docs or updating deprecated-but-useful packages.
> But, and it's a big but, lets not forget that trade between countries has a good chance of reducing the potential of wars between them.

Was this ever true? The old saying, "If goods don't cross borders, then troops soon will."

Europe was very commercially integrated before WW1.

I think nukes are what will prevent a war.
> Moxie forbids you from distributing branded builds of the Signal app ...

Having multiple branded builds to choose from would be a terrible thing and would easily allow fake apps to gain traction.

> ... and if you rebrand he forbids you from using the official Open Whisper servers.

This seems pretty fair to me. Not only could you abuse their resources, it would greatly hinder their ability to make changes and respond to protocol-level security threats. They aren't in the API business, controlling their ecosystem allows them to make forward progress without concern for 3rd parties that they have no control over. And still there is the issue of 3rd parties abusing their server resources.