skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yup, and most savvy parents slowly acclimatise their children to alcohol by allowing them wine or beer on occasion with a meal when they are in their teens. Done right, by the time the child hits 18 they don't go crazy with booze, and treat it with respect.
> all major media outlets talking about it.

The issue is that, when it's (easily) demonstrated it's an exaggeration, the credibility of all major media outlets gets questioned, and rightly so.
"privilege"
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What is that strawman exactly? You are saying that anyone can do PhD level research with just a laptop and the internet. I am saying that that is extremely difficult and impossible for the vast majority of people.
My son still gets together with his friends. They will bring over their PS4 and connect to his computer monitor in his room and they will play with each other “online” sitting right by each other.

At one point, he’s had four friends over all with PS4s playing against each other on separate displays in the house - thank goodness for wired gigabit Ethernet through the house and a bidirectional gig-e Internet connection that didn’t even blink at the traffic. My wife and I were still able to watch DirecTVNow....

Back in the day, they would have to drag desktop computers, CRT monitors and known how to network them for LAN parties.
Everything helps at this point. Because something helps less shouldn’t mean we bash it. Collectively we should do more.

While I don't disagree with your sentiment, the article makes an important point:

Plastic straws are 0.03% of the Great Garbage Patch problem.

Plastic fishing nets are 46% of the GGP problem.

The people pushing the plastic straw bans aren't raising awareness of the big problem (lost and abandoned fishing nets), they're just spreading the notion that plastic is evil.

It's a lazy, self-indulgent kind of activism that is about making the person feel better, not solving a problem.

You want to "raise awareness" of the real problem? Start putting up posters in the seafood departments of supermarkets showing a fishing net stuffed with 20 tons of rotting sea life that's still killing fish 15 years after it floated away from its boat.
I just expanded a bit on my blog: http://markwatson.com/blog/2018/08/25/centralized-vs-distrib...
Can you quantify “very conducive to getting stuck inside various cavities of wild animals” with some data (not just one internet video).
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Yet right. And sets me to wondering again why pointing up weak exposition has proven itself a sure path to down-votes here on HN.
Not to derail but I've been running ownCloud at home since 2013 and have considered switching since the fork but wanted to see Nextcloud mature a bit more. Any long-time ownCloud users have experience with switching and can offer advice or info on some of the pitfalls, if any? What are upgrades going forward really like with incremental updates and major version releases etc?

I often end up holding ownCloud updates back in apt as there's always this sense of dread that I'll have trouble getting the app out of maintenance mode. Versions 9+ have been better but upgrades sucked in the beginning even as a home user not using disk encryption.
Hi! I'm graduating college soon. My favorite hobby is engine development, and I'd love to try out the field -- may I ask how you broke into the industry?
Jupyter code is draft code. Draft code rarely makes into clean code, because it requires extra tedious effort. Most of us are too overworked to have the time or energy to perform it.

Alternatively one can write exploratory code as unit tests and run them inside an IDE. When the exploration is done, three quarters of the tedious cleanup effort is already done. There are already unit tests. There are already APIs exercised by the unit tests. The code is in much better shape.

The missing two bits:

* No charting support. To the best of my knowledge, neither PyCharm nor VSCode have an output console with HTML support.

* Caching. Some operations take a lot of time. At the extreme, fast.ai style development, where some cells train a model for hours/days. Re-running such code from scratch on every test run is impractical. An opportunity for a library with explicit save/load/cache/checkpoint support.
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> The SEC embodies the modern drift of the administrative state at its worst; its many regulations are not laws passed by Congress, which is the only branch empowered to write legislation.

The SEC is empowered by Congress to enact regulation, see the Administrative Procedure Act.

Anyways, as a director of a publicly traded company, Elon Musk is well aware of information disclosure rules.

Your argument is couched in libertarian fantasy, not reality.
But while it might not be the most impactful way to change, it is easy.

Not many people will have their lives made worse when banning plastic straws, and those who do can get reusable straws.

It's an easy win, and shouting that there are things that can be done that are more impactful doesn't matter, this can help, and it's easy to do on a wide scale.
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> The reason you need to be careful is that under many jurisdictions, your company is liable for considerable penalties for failing to adequately protect client information and you don't want to become a casualty in the fallout that may come about.

In the US, at least, proper disclosure of risk to senior leadership is sufficient to protect one's self from personal liability. Make sure you are not committing illegal acts, especially as an officer of the company. If you are not an officer, and you disclaim risk to senior leadership, you should be ok.

But, that's not always the case. If you are sufficiently worried, call a lawyer. I have been in a very similar position. Respectable lawyers have no problem spending an hour consulting with potential clients (for free) and will often times give valuable advice, even if they're yet-unretained.

I nearly sued a previous employer for firing me (arguably for whistleblowing) after I refused to be silent about illegal skirting of, and leadership's brazen refusal to implement, federally required safeguards for HIPAA, GLBA, SOX, FFEC, etc. In the nine months I spent trying to right their ship, I spent all my social capital accrued at the company - and it started it impact my reputation as a security professional. I wish I had given up (and quit) a lot earlier. Sometimes, the fight is just not worth it. Especially when non-expert execs are micromanaging know-it-alls who can't bear to be corrected by domain experts they've hired.
I agree, but tools like version control do help a ton to manage and mitigate these kinds of risks. Actually, it could be super super cool if someone figured out how to version control notebooks, including tracking of code execution flow.
Like the main guy in Good Will Hunting then ;)
I can't because I'm really passionate about this and I'll end up going on a rant. :) But let me give you a glimpse of the scope involved.

For a system to be completely free from censorship, it needs to have a moat around it:

- Own Domain registrar

- Independent Colo provider / Own infrastructure

- Own Payment processor

- Advertising networks / Own Ad Network for individuals

- Content creators, that are free from brigading.

- Company put into a trust, with a board of influential influencers abiding by an internet bill of rights.

Currently no independent platform exists with the above and allows anyone irrespective of their voice or opinion to be heard and be supported by donation, merchandising sales or advertising revenue.

You could say, they are green shoots in the form of d-tube, bitchute, steemit, but they are still very early in the process and do have a high surface area of attack.

There's a lot wrong with the current system and I aim to fix that. >)

Oh and I'm not at the beginning of the journey either. 3/4 of the 6 times I know how to implement. It's really all about making sure that it definitely is do-able and generates enough revenue year 1 to ensure it survives to year 3-5.
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Plastic particles are now becoming as common and widespread as bacteria. If they really want to push the message on this then they would outlaw use of plastics in consumer packaging and thereby emphasize use of cardboard and paperboard products. The wood fibers used to make paper and cardboard are not harmful to animals, biodegrade quickly, and are far more environmentally renewable.
What's the difference between "normal" plastic straws and reusable ones?
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> The thing Goldeneye really brought was massive popularity.

Exactly. I always thought Goldeneye was inferior to contemporary PC shooters, but for many who didn't have a powerful PC at the time, Goldeneye was their first FPS and they probably feel the same way about it as I do about the original Doom.
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> estimated that lost and abandoned crab pots take in 1.25 million blue crabs each year

I can't even catch a single crab doing that on purpose. I think I'm doing it wrong.
Because it's something he had aptitude for. That's why I continue to me a programmer. People pay me for it and I'm reasonably good at it so why would I change careers? I started as an amateur but now that I'm a professional I'm not doing it for love anymore.
That's actually not at all how the eye works. We saccade a tiny spot around the scene based on our semantic intent (it's how, for example, you can see a hole to the sunny outside from inside a cave, while no camera will be able to manage the white balance). Then we have specific hardware doing feature extraction in the early visual system and feeding into the vision process.

Finally the semantic interpretation feeds deeply into the vision system. For example, though we have binocular vision you can only get stereopsis via parallax basically as far as you can reach -- after that you use semantic clues in the scene to understand that a barn is bigger than a person so that the person must be closer.
People will begin to intentionally destroy the environment to send you a message in return. This has been part of Trump's schtick over the last year.

This was going on long before Trump. Even back into the 1960's and 70's when people made fun of the crying Indian TV commercials.

Focus on the actual problem. When you make it political, you immediately lose half of your audience. This is the trap most activism falls into.
mania?
Paper here [1].

Two-photon lithography from Nanoscribe [2] is used to make the color-producing nanostructures. This method can make arbitrary 3D structures but currently has a ~100nm resolution limit and is slow---it's quite possible creating the paper's ~1 square mm teapot image took days. It's possible methods like nanoimprint lithography [3] could replicate a fabricated color patch over large areas.

[1] https://repository.ist.ac.at/1028/1/NanoStructColor-Auzinger...
[2] https://www.nanoscribe.de/en/
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanoimprint_lithography
It will be very interesting to see, what will using Go 2 generic code from Go 1 code look like.
A good thread on this subject regarding the article you’ve linked to. I don’t think “it’s just eight countries”

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17067350
What would a better net be made out of? Hemp maybe?
It doesn't shock me, but I think a lot of people don't realize what they're giving up until it's too late, and I think a lot of people are deceiving themselves about exactly what they're getting into.
This reminds me of a "naming contest" in the early social media days held by German manufacturers of the brand "Pril", a dish soap, where consumers where invited to submit and vote on custom designs for the plastic bottles.

The contest ended up seeing only meme-faces in the top results, and #1 being a flat brown etiquette with the mouse-written slogan "tastes yummy like chicken" [1]

I had always seen it as an example of marketing gone wrong, but reading that article gives me a kind of idiocracy-ish deja-vu ...

[1]: https://www.handelskraft.de/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/pril-...
It’s pointless, inconvienent, and will raise a larger backlash and actually causing net harm.
There's always a risk. We kept the person who deleted our company's entire source repo ... but they didn't learn and it happened a second time.

Good thing IT kept excellent backups! And despite this I didn't "learn" to fire on first fuckup.
You are overreacting. I agree with the OP. I am a dev. I've designed a few websites before and can find my way around Photoshop or Illustrator. But I would rather just use this tool and generate a logo in 10mins for my side project. Definitely useful.
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While my 401(k) is thankful, I'm wondering how much longer this can go on. Obviously the stock market got a big boost due to the tax cuts which lead to companies repatriating a bunch of overseas profits, but what happens next year when there's a lot less money to bring back?
Feels reminiscent of the (seemingly defunct) Gossamer Spider Web of Trust: https://sites.google.com/a/gswot.org/gswot/resources/policy

Would be happy to see this succeed.
I think this is a symptom of a drive towards "messaging", "narratives", and "stories" over logical analysis of verifiable facts in (allegedly) persuasive writing.

I wouldn't doubt that some behavioral modification experiments "found" that such "tactics" work to change peoples' beliefs and actions, but I think many have taken up the effort to try to optimize such experiments, despite unethical implementations (c.f. Facebook attempting to create negative emotions by manipulating timelines) and harmful ends (c.f. White House "science office" targeting specific individuals with behavioral modification emails soliciting them into taking on interest liability on a loan.

Unfortunately "narratives" and "messaging" and "stories" took on memetic qualities for quite awhile in a portion of the culture, so we may still have to deal with the consequences for a while yet.
And insurance companies had enough sense to charge an arm and a leg to a single 24 year old with a Mustang. My insurance cost more than my car note back then.
Excellent project hope it will keep developing in future. We need projects like these to detach from the grip of certain vendors.
This is interesting project also based on expired patents on SuperH CPU, j-core.org also they have nice and informative video presentation on youtube
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Vscode has decent Jupyter support with its python plugin. What I really missed my jupyter notebooks was a world class editor with keyboard shortcuts and code completion. So I went the other route, running jupyter notebooks in vscode.

I made a really simple python cli module that would convert from jupyter notebook to python files with runnable cells in vscode, and vice versa.

https://github.com/nojvek/vscode-ipynb-py-converter/blob/mas...

Really upped my game while doing the udacity courses.

Vscode does indeed have a html output console.
That's very good insight: like so many things you can start out successfully with something simple and expand/rebuild it later.

Frankly I'd worry about a company that invested a lot on its logo early. NeXT did and while they had other successes (cough OS X) the company itself didn't make it.
Those are also the types of people who don't need this article to prod them into applying for grad school.
I don't know much about fishing nets, but cotton seems plentiful, is biodegradable, and there are plenty of poor cotton farmers in need of increased demand for their product.

If someone knows what fishing nets were made of before they were made of plastic, please chime in.
Because Medu hasany counters and for her own counters a few heroes (terror blade for example)
call me a mathematical hipster (new frameworks etc.) but i could never get into axiomatic set theory. algebra is already boring by virtue of being abstract but then make it even more abstract by dropping all models! at least in algebra you have applications like galois groups, lie algebras, crypto, etc. yes i know that complexity theory is basically in the domain of set theory (complexity hierarchy) but even that was so abstract. so does anyone know any really cool applications of this stuff (just to be clear i don't mean technology i mean concrete theorems).
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The real ethical dillemma is this: people working for corporations and governments are asked to develop nasty stuff that will directly be used, and then they try to justify it by saying that what they're doing will be done eventually. However this doesn't hold water because by doing it themselves, today, they are making it happen sooner than it would have. Obviously everyone will die eventually, but we don't want to be killed because "sooner" is a significant thing.

By comparison, academics working on their own making very little money with no pressure to be evil do not have a problem.
Serious Q: if you expect the stock market to crash (but aren't sure enough to start shorting it) and think housing is also overvalued, what should you invest in?
Using surface samples and aerial surveys, the group determined that at least 46 percent of the plastic in the garbage patch by weight comes from a single product: fishing nets.

One more reason to stop eating seafood. It’s not like there’s going to be any left soon at current rates of overfishing anyway.
write some unit tests (or even just asserts) in the same cell it's defined

As many people will do this as presently write tests for their Excel macros or formulas.
a lot of software uses 32 bit integers to store dates so it doesn’t matter on what cpu it runs
IT depends what you want to do
Bonds because of inverse correlation with the stock market. Or cash.
A reusable straw would be like the ones you see in a sippy cup or one of those reusable strabucks cups you see. Made of a more durable plastic than the flimsy one use straws. Like reusable plastic cups vs solo cups
I didn’t see an easy way to move my quitter.no posts to my new Mastodon host.
> So you basically admit that pentesting is useless, because they have to follow the rules which the blackhats won't even think twice about.

He didn't say that at all. Your thesis here is that preventative discovery has no utility if it does not perfectly simulate real world conditions. That's a pretty extreme position; I don't think you'll sell many people on it.

> It should be assumed that any data on the pwned server is now accessible to attacker, just like in any real world scenario.

I think you'll have a hard time finding companies who are okay with security professionals taking sensitive data for themselves just because they're reporting a vulnerability.
When I was on my first business trip at 18, I couldn't check into a hotel in Michigan by myself. I had to call me contact at (then) DaimlerChrysler to meet me for check in. I had a credit card that could buy a brand new car, but I couldn't get the key to a $75 hotel room due to age.

I later found out that, at the time, there was no law preventing me from acquiring the room, but the hotel policy was to not allow unaccompanied individuals under 21.
Very interesting ideas in there. Especially the thought of an upcoming Go 2 perhaps being done in such a compatible way that "Go 2" is actually "Go 1.1X"

He also hints that it would likely only be done to address major issues/concerns/changes such as:

* generics

* modules (perhaps done? time will tell)

* errors (if err != nil {}, extra type information, chaining, etc)

* context

Still to early to tell if anything I listed or he listed would be part of "Go 2" or whatever it happens to be called.
I don't think the poster was claiming Trump invented this phenomenon, but it is undeniably more visible because of recent political events. Being pro-environment has been a political stance for decades, so there's no longer away of not making it political.
I always shutdown my phone and laptop at the border crossing and I always have firmware password on and hope that they can’t gather anything from my laptop. And just hope they can’t crack my 6 digit iphone passcode easily.
Given rates of alcoholism and alcohol related disease and injury in the UK, I’d say that’s not working.
That sounds good! Hopefully I will see the HN announcement when it is released.
You're preaching to the choir. There's a reason the company was bought and completely gutted.

For what it's worth, a billion dollars for this company, while still a lot, isn't world ending. It was probably insured, too.
It doesn’t make the article wrong, but the Kevin Spacey movie is a terrible example to use here:

“I’d argue that this paltry opening has nothing to do with the objective quality of the film, but rather with no one wanting to be seen as the person they believe people would perceive them as if it were known that they paid to watch a movie starring an accused serial sexual abuser. Further, I’d argue that this film will do moderately well once it moves out of theaters, as those who are curious — but not curious enough to risk being perceived as Spacey sympathizers — will watch it in their homes, out of sight of the approval economy.”

Quite obviously the film made no money because there was no promotion and almost no distribution. There was no attempt to make money.

And equally obvious, of course more people will see it once it’s available outside of that tiny handful of theaters. That will be the first time any of those people will be able to see it at all.
i guess save up cash so you can buy housing when it bottoms out?
I find myself sort of in that camp. I think rolling coal is stupid, but when I saw people wanting to ban straws, I just had to roll my eyes. I think the larger goals of environmental protection lose some credibility when obviously inconsequential stuff like that becomes the message of the day.
Incidentally, if there is a crash, how is the Fed going to respond, since interest rates are practically as low as they can go? Will we see negative interest rates and asset purchases of equities and perhaps even real estate?
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Surprised no mention of fire safety after Grenfell Tower disaster, in such a small living space it seems inevitable that a few residents would make an error or mistake that would cause a fire.
This is a linguistic ploy, not an argument.

> 1942: “The Germans are our enemies.” That was a fact.

And it will not cease being a fact that, in 1942, Germany and whoever were enemies. Nor that they became friends later. It's possible that they will be enemies again in the future. That wouldn't render the statement about 1992 non-factual.

I'm not even going to bother with the mayonnaise, since that's just founded on a willful misinterpretation of the original comment.
This is nice to see because I've always found it surprisingly difficult to get any information whatsoever on the German efforts in WWII.

Generally rotar machines were used a lot before WWII by banks and such. The Enigma and Typex were much more difficult to crack than commercial products because of the plugboard, while commercial machines only had spinning rotors. I think the Typex didn't have the weakness that letter x encrypts to x either. The Germans basically concluded that it was even tougher than the unbreakable Enigma so gave up.

Germany also had little success because, unlike in Bletchley Park, they didn't exactly tolerate eccentric academic types. The codebreaking efforts of the Germans were also so incredibly fragmented across different departments that once two different departments had a bust up on the street.

Wikipedia has some good references:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_code_breaking_in_World_...