skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As soon as I read that he graduated with a degree in "English Literature" I knew what the problem was - what did he expect? Where does he think the demand for that is? How did he justify 100k$ for such a degree ( or any degree for that part )?

There are so many jobs like welding, plumbing, etc that need to be done, pay very good money and require no ( or very small ) loans, and he studied something like English Literature ( for 100k$ !! ) complaining...

Hell, even studying something "elite" as he calls it like CS in his own time, on his own, doing projects to get some starting job in any CS-related industry would be preferrable.

People who study these bullshit degrees are in a mess of their own doing.
Hah, this makes a lot more sense. Viewing this last night half of each image was missing.
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I, too, was excited about this. The author put in a lot of effort. It's a real shame, but very hard to get the network effect.

I suggest Reddit. There's a lot of this kind of discussion happening there. There are big subreddits like /r/science.

FWIW, we (Crossref) found only 13 links to DOI-registered content in its lifetime: http://api.eventdata.crossref.org/v1/events?subj-id.domain=u...
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Russian hackers targeted U.S. conservative think-tanks, says Microsoft
Frozen water confirmed at the moon’s poles
You could develop a CRM that doesn't create false expectations by sending emails to the wrong users.
On the other hand, according to Julius Caesar in his Commentarii de Bello Gallico [1]:

[The Germani] do not pay much attention to agriculture, and a large portion of their food consists in milk, cheese, and flesh.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanic_peoples#Collision_wit...
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> should one be allowed to request a death penalty?

If prison conditions are bad enough for someone to even consider that, that's a damning indictment of the prison system.

> Wouldn't 150 years in jail be considered cruel and unusual punishment?

Certainly not unusual, and jail doesn't seem inherently cruel, if we believe some people are enough of a danger to society that they need to be kept out of it. (Of course some particular jails might be cruel).

(I'm using the British English meaning of "jail"; I'm aware that in US English the term has a technical meaning)
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The opt-out, is to navigate away and not use their service. Which matches the GDPR - if you need the data to create a contract - like 'we use your data in exchange for your use of our site' then you can keep it.

> there’s not a lawful basis unless advertising-cookies are suddenly the enabling technology behind downloadable containers.

Yes they are. Advertising cookies are how those downloadable containers are provided. That's an enabling technology. It wouldn't exist otherwise in the technology ghetto of the EU.
I read the title as impedance, then I read the article and kept reading impedance, and was about to write a comment mentioning that that's not at all impedance he's talking about, it's idempotency, but then I read the title again and now I can't understand why I read it as the former all that time.
I might sound jaded, but: isn't this happening constantly anyway? Usually with just a small bit of "fig-leaf" credibility (like the aforementioned "shot on iPhone" pieces, but especially supertiny illegible disclaimers) - but the effect is the same.

I mean, watch this ad:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDjGnWO_fG4

Can you spot the "screen image simulated" lines? Would you even have noticed it, had you not been looking for it?
Seriously. Who would even assume that an ad is not shot with professional equipment in the first place?
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Fictional or no, this company sells them:

https://knowm.org/memristors/
RDS with reserved instances / VPC and some security rules. A LOT of maintenance goes away.

Who is managing these two dedicated boxes at OS and app level. Who is managing the networking of these boxes, including a non-internet accessible network subnet and a an internet gateway to let a white listed developer host box connect to a dev instance of database with some sample data?

Using secrets manager, which handles key rotation seems to work great on AWS, how does this work on the rented boxes.

Who sets up the slave, confirms replication is current to slave etc.

Who does the backups of all of this (in case of a DROP table).

I used to do things the harder way with rented boxes. BUT every-time someone tells me oh - just rent some boxes and you could do X much cheaper I roll my eyes. X is always a massive subset on security, durability with a massive uncounted overhead in other areas (waste of time).
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You can sue for the loss of value of your website, even if it doesn't make an income it remains an asset with monetary value.
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Yeah; it's illegal to list prices for consumer products ex. VAT. If you're b2b you're allowed list ex-VAT but you are required to be very clear about what you're doing.
Have "fun" - http://nightmare.mit.edu/
Ice found on moon surface, raising prospect of lunar colony
I've made the same observation traveling in poor and rich countries. Corruption is Α & Ω. It is everyone's responsibility to not parttake in it. It seems to me that lying (using The Word, logos, in untruthful ways) and corruption (using your power in untruthful ways) are the most unholy sins.
> It does not excuse the outcomes of their actions for the world at large.

Absolutely not. But the grandparent was arguing that the push for clean coal is a result of corruption and people acting insincerely.

The parent was pointing out that not everyone with an interest in clean coal is corrupt.
I don’t mind seeing a quality dank meme resurface every once in a while. Scumbag Steve pops up in my life frequently!
The slight concern I would have with rkt, alongside some other of CoreOS' projects is that their future Post RedHat acquisition isn't super clear.

In the case of rkt, AFAIK Redhat's container runtime (Cri-o) uses containerd and runc under the covers, and I've not seen any indication that they'll change that, so not too sure where rkt fits in that landscape.
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Your system doesn't earn anyone government contracts.
Technology artefacts have commodity prices as baseline and those are global now. There are no countries where a TV or a fridge are at 1/100th of what it costs in the USA.
“To open a checking or savings account, the bank or credit union will need to verify your name, date of birth, address, and ID number. An ID number can be a social security number or an Individual Taxpayer Identification Number (ITIN).“

Having spent more than a few years in FinTech, I know these things can vary from company to company as companies generally are required to design their own “risk-based” policies for AML and KYC.
I don't know. The fair way to handles this would have been to first honour the original deal. They have already put people through the application process and the were going to reject them if this hadn't happened. Instead of "accepting everyone" they should have rejected the ones original being rejected and then asked them forgiveness and confidence in this additional track. Now they have left a lot of people in the awkward position of doubt if they want to do it but without an easy way to say no.
As someone that is now in the Team 2nd Chance, this has been a fun emotional rollercoaster.

Two great lessons can be taken from this experience, first for those that got accepted, then rejected then accepted; dealing with rejection is an essential part of a startup or any business, shit happens and is how to deal with it that makes or breaks companies.

Second, YC just thought a masterclass on how to handle mistakes and how to fail forward. A mistake turned into an opportunity for them and the 11,000 people that got rejected.

Looking forward to be learning side by side with y'all!
I have to second that having a fallback tremendously decrease anxiety.

While techniques like CBT, meditation, diet have helped me a lot to fight my fears, there have been situations which I had to rely on meds to power thru - I call it going nuclear.
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Whilst I have no inside knowledge that's not the way I think this has developed.

Docker got in as a container runtime, without any orchestration capabilities, then K8s came along to do orchestration but didn't provide it's own container runtime, so they used Docker.

After that there was some tension as Docker wanted to move "up the stack" to provide features like orchestration (with Docker Swarm) but the k8s community saw that as unecessary, they wanted a simple container runtime to sit under their orchestration layer.

Now we have options like cri-o or cri-containerd which are likely in the medium term to take over from Docker as the container runtime underneath Kubernetes installs. I'd expect that Docker will see more use in dev/test environments where full scale clusters are not required.
I believe he meant to not crawl using an EU-based IP address. Which would make sense if not for the fact that many sites are serving the GDPR notice to all users - EU or not.
It can be bypassed and they don't make it very difficult to bypass it.
How would you expect to impose any injunctions or damages on the LA Times for disregarding an EU law?

In other words, to what court will you take your case? A US court won't hold a US company to account for breaking a non-US law. A European court has no jurisdiction to impose any penalties on a non-European company.

Does the LA Times have EU offices? How are you tying the two together otherwise?
This isn't mere pedantry, there is a difference between current and the time derivative of charge, I don't mind that they prefer to use one or the other, but if you insist on making a periodic table then you've got to take both into account.

It's also an especially bad idea to claim the time derivative of current is the the double derivative of charge, given that these are two very different notions of derivative.

To clarify, claiming current is the derivative of charge is like claiming the current of a river is the derivative of it's water level.
https://wordpress.com/pricing/

wordpress.com (not .org) is a platform for blogs.
The language is called Go.
it was all "devops" and "self service" until you couldn't figure out how to click "discard old builds", eh?
any content that you've created yourself is -automatically- copyrighted. This sentence is wrong. A lawyer can determine if the content can be copyrighted or not.
Since you said Berne Convention, even in Switzerland, music that you created, if you can't prove that you create it is not "automatically, magically" copyrighted.

Without information about what is scrap, is really hard to say they stole something.
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I don't think that all the k8s distros are looking at cri-o, I think that many are considering cri-containerd instead, which kind of makes sense as they're all using containerd, so whether you need a whole separate program to manage that interface is debatable.
Sorry but in the US, health insurance is provided by the employer because it is a tax-exempt expenditure. Tax it and see wages diminish considerably once employers pass the cost to the employees.

Employers already pass the cost to employees through lower wages.

The uncivilized world also has universal coverage. That should be a red flag, shouldn't it?
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Yes, that in this regard the US is worst than a third world country...
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This is an outrage! Next you're going to tell me that the pictures of happy creatives and handsome businesspersons in every service or product website are not actual users who are just so damn happy that they can't stop smiling, but actors/models or even (gasp) stock photos!
Back then the first three letters of the license plate identified the city council where the car was registered.

There wouldn't have been a lot of cars in London with that particular three-leter code which increases the chance of recognition a lot.
What does being open source and being altruistic have to do with each other? Personally, I think they enabled the login, so that new users would be able to use docker cloud, after installing docker, without needing to create an account. But still, being open source, allows you to verify security, be transparent about the product design/intentions, possibly extend or customize for your needs, etc. There is a lot of value there, that shouldn’t warrant so much hate.
No, uPython IS a toy.

In embedded s/w, the cost of the h/w outweighs everything else, ok so your 'easily developed' Python app will cost (say) 10K less to develop... but the resource requirements mean you need to go up $0.5 on the processor....

Oops, on your 500'000 devices you've suddenly wasted $250,000. All because you couldn't be bothered to save a few KB of RAM.

Python is a toy for embedded s/w.... dont get me going on catching bugs at runtime in an embedded system because you're using a dynamically typed language! Now you have to upgrade 500,000 device over-the air (cellular data costs) which will take a week, meanwhile your customers a fuming because their data is being lost!

seriously!
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I've build a ReCaptcha breaker in an evening (which beats Google 100% of the time). The only reason why most spammers don't evade ReCaptcha is because they make enough money through other means (and most spammers can't program).

There are also a lot of services where you can simply send your challenge token and some guy will solve it for a fraction of a penny.

As soon as other money-making opportunities will dry up, spammers will evade ReCaptcha and spam will increase regardless of your security mechanisms.
Reading Checklist manifesto, a great read, made me care more about checklist and their importance. Especially if you are a Venture capitalist that invests in startups.
Many forms of creative endeavour, from landscape gardening to Jackson Pollock drip paintings, have allowed for a large amount of the gap between the creator's broad intent and the final appearance to be filled by processes that aren't 100% predictable. There's also a lot of intent going on in which works to display and which to discard

Whether largely unintended consequences or not, the abstract forms of the man in the tie are interesting enough to not look out of place in a gallery, and the renderings of sheep and clocks are clearly the products of a mind (even though it's a human one)trying to get a response from the viewer attuned to the idea of androids dreaming of electric sheep, melting clocks being an iconic surrealist thing and failure to interpret "one (1) single clock" being funny. The grassy hillside, sans sheep, not so much. A quick play with the algorithm suggests a lot of its outputs are unrecognisable forms with no correspondence to anything, so he'd already thrown away a lot of uninteresting results to get to that point.
Kotlin 1.2.60 comes with native compiler binaries
semi-OT: big thumbs up for your Poly1305 "tutorial", clearest explanation of it I've seen yet.
> You can't blame distribution maintainers for not wanting to expose their users to a constant stream of the newest exciting quirky features the authors have decided to cram into the current release just to be able to keep on top of all of the bugfixes. New releases all also tend to implicitly have new or different sets of dependencies, and distributors have a duty to make sure these various dependencies that exist in their distribution can coexist and interoperate

Yes, and that is a great argument for why the unix model of applications spreading themselves over the file hierarchy and sharing everything is completely broken. Something as simple as updating to the latest and greatest version of an application should not require you to rebuild the entire goddamned OS! That Linux Desktop people don't get this is one of the big reasons there will never be a Year of the Linux Desktop.
My favorite is when someone in an ad says "I'm not an actor"
The email mentions organizing groups by yourself. My initial thought is that a group of startups in the same industry would be the most beneficial but maybe the cross-pollination from a wide-range on industries in a group would yield different viewpoints and better results in the long run.

Any tips on organizing groups?
Should be recognised that not all data is eligible for copyright. "Facts" is a broad category of exemption with strange case law. It may be relevant here if the data being scraped is available elsewhere.
How authentic are the fresh spring rolls? I really like those.
I find it peculiar that this announcement comes out following the establishment of a link between Soros funded orgs and the facebook/twitter/et. al censorship. Seems fairly coincidental.

I an not fond of the idea of tech companies electing themselves guardians of democracy. In fact I think there should be a total ban on corporations involvement in politics.
> I'm not seeing

> I don't want

> I don't mind

> I'll also make sure [..] within my social circle

> what benefits I'd get

A business usually consists of a group of employees, some may benefit more than others, clearly you may be in the others category. But maybe some of your colleagues aren't as vocal or brave as you, or maybe they can't afford to risk losing their job etc. That's solidarity, not tweeting about something after-the-fact for the benefit of your own social circle.

That said, the highly skilled, strictly individual-minded person clearly have benefits to reap too. Comparing with most West-European countries, like:

* 5-6 weeks of paid vacation annually.

* Paid sick leave.

* Months of paid parental leave.
When do web devs start looking at query planning as an optimization area? Maybe because I work in more startup roles with fewer people, but it always feels like a premature optimization to worry about this. Especially with ORMs generating the sql, most of the time it is just an n+1 query that needs to be fixed.

I guess I can see in latency critical apps where this would be useful. My experience to date has left me wanting to try these techniques out, but never having a justifiable case to do so
In my opinion docker is not a good fit for the problems its trying to solve.

On the developer side I'm trying to build a artifact of my application which can run on servers. I'm probably using windows or osx as my development environment, and I'm probably targeting linux. So docker is a tool I can use to create a container to achieve my goal.

But it doesn't do a good job of that. The dockerfile format can be very frustrating to work with. And all the terminology sets a very high barrier of entry for usage. Yes its all googleable, but sometimes I think the solution is harder to use than the problem it set out to solve.

Go, Java, .Net, even javascript with Node, all do a much better job of making it easy for developers to build cross-platform applications. Without the need to learn an arcane file format and clumsy cli tool.

As an example of that frustration, building a cross-platform Go app is as easy as setting an environment variable. No additional configuration is required and there are no additional tools you need to install. The binary that is produced has everything it needs to run and can be deployed without having to use specialized tools.

Whereas building a Go app in a container with Docker means you end up retrieving all the dependencies every time and you get no package caching for builds so they take 10 minutes. For any large project you will inevitably break out your docker files into separate steps with some sort of make file. You will then bang your head against a wall for days trying to get docker in docker to work for your CI build system.

Is that really the best we can do?

But docker is also about isolation, file formats, conventions for deployments, protocols, etc. And yes it's a step forward in many ways. Containers are great for allowing the ops side to focus on running an application instead of making sure its configured properly.

But on so many of these dimensions docker has had major problems. It's not really safe to run arbitrary containers, so the isolation is an illusion. Because of the way the tooling works the containers are way too big and contain way too many unnecessary dependencies - which end up being security liabilities because they aren't upgraded often enough.

But ultimately docker turned out to be way too low level. It's why something like Kubernetes exists. It's a much higher level way of describing how an application should work.

So docker is getting pressure from both sides and that's why I think its days are numbered. The formats and conventions will stick around, but once they start requiring people to pay for the local development tool, everyone will move on and we'll stop talking about docker at all anymore.
I concur and would expect the number of people studying stuff like this to be higher in countries where student debts do not exist, since they hopefully work as a deterrent. In continental Europe there‘s a shortage of qualified workers and there are plenty of useless academics.
I can understand why people hate this, but this comment did make me laugh:

> Do you want to be Oracle? Because this is how you become Oracle. -1

Revenue: "US$39.83 billion (2018)" - I can see a few reasons why they might hah
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Dark pattern? The author is advertising a mailing list, not stealing your social security number. The author is providing all of this content free of charge and giving you an opportunity to get more free content if you subscribe. There is nothing dark about this it’s extremely benign, and quite frankly how things used to work for most of the web 20 years ago. So very much Web 1.0. You can’t treat every individual blogger like they are Facebook. If my neighbor knocks on my door asking for sugar that’s not a problem, even if it would be a problem if sugar corporations hired 2 million people to knock up everyone in my neighborhood every day for a year asking for a cup of sugar to increase demand.
Current is unequivocally the time derivative of charge. There're no two ways about it.

i(t) = dQ(t) / dt

"To clarify, claiming current is the derivative of charge is like claiming the current of a river is the derivative of it's water level." This statement is wrong, while water in some cases provides a decent analogy for electricity, this is not one of them.
Seems like you're victim-blaming. Do you really think a 17-year-old has the capacity to sort through the wrong career guidance?

This problem is emphatically not of the students' own making. It's on the teachers and guidance counselors who insist on a college degree at any cost and brook no disagreement.
As an introvert myself I can feel the pain. It only gets worse once you get into one of the big soulless companies out there. You get trampled and backstabbed every step along the way by the extroverts that -regardless of their technical skills- are better in politics, self-promotion and managing your clueless managers.
Hell - I'm currently regretting not going for a sailors' career when I could.