skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My personal opinion is that Twitter is perfect for breaking news that should be distributed fairly to the largest audience possible without giving anyone an advance look at the news.

At the same time, people need to understand that there’s a limit to how much (and how precisely) you can communicate in 140 characters, and that means Twitter can alert you to the headline. It’s beholden upon users to take the time to ask questions and fill in the details.

As far as certain user accounts being blocked - the SEC requires announcements are distributed publically, not universally. Anyone can watch Elon’s twitter feed in incognito mode.

The SEC doesn’t require that breaking news show up in every single Twitter feed universally. They simply require that anyone can make the effort to be able to receive the news. If that means following Elon on a separate account where you don’t harass him to the point of blocking you, that’s not exactly a major impediment.
It's pretty standard practice for competition regulators around the world to think about whether new competitors could enter a market. As it ought to be, since that is a real check on the behaviour of the incumbent.

Now this might apply poorly to ISPs where there are all kinds of frictions and potential barriers to entry, so maybe the regulator is getting this one wrong. But the court decided not to wade into an argument that is more about economics than law.

We could have laws where there was less regulatory discretion. But they would need to be written differently, and as a society we would have to just accept that they will sometimes throw up absurd results in corner-cases.
For every one of of the things there is a simpler approach that not only works, but is more robust and will better serve smaller projects. It's not that they don't solve problems, but that there are different perspectives of the problem space entirely - often exceeding simply technical justifications and taking a larger look at it.

If you've got a kubernetes problem, go for it. But there is a lot of value in simplicity too.
tbh it can't be that difficult, no more so than teaching a video game without a tutorial. You have three primary inputs on an older iphone: tap, tap and hold, and home button. Additionally, zooming can be done with a "pinch" motion.

Tell them that much and toss them the phone; they'll probably figure out 80% of its usage within 10 minutes. The hard part was done with the advent of the GUI: mapping physical input to digital movement on a 2D screen. The major change is that mouse has been replaced with your finger, but UX-wise its mostly the same. The main difficulty with the game is getting used to the controller, but even then conceptually its not that big of a leap from a mouse.

Given that there is a _lot_ of room for mistakes, the fastest teaching is to just let them fuck around with it. The same as with a video game: hand them a controller and they'll figure out (most of) the rest. There's not that many things you can do with it. They'll mostly miss out on the non-essentials, as they reach a point where exploration is no longer explicitly necessary.

I can't comment on the newer iphone, as I never used it, but the general rules are the same. If I can trust someone to figure out most of a game with a controller of 16 inputs, I can probably trust someone to figure out most an iphone with some 8. Maybe not your grandmother, but otherwise.

In other words

Once you understand the mouse, you understand everything (up to today)
I put in bisexual. It returned those colors, but also returned the colors for the pansexual pride flag. https://picular.co/bisexual

I wonder what kind of magic is going on under the hood.
I know someone who sometimes temporarily has synesthesia. They remarked once that they taste colors at such times.

I don't pretend to understand it.
Most of the staff got a pay increase. A minority were given a pay cut[1]. The Hacker News discussion was based on an incorrect reading of the data posted.

[1] http://disq.us/p/13b30h1
Same here - I keep failing the "algorithm" phone screeners.

I've been in software dev for a decade but don't have a comp sci degree and it shows a bit. Every few years when looking for a new job I stress and try to re-learn these algorithms that I only ever need to know for these interviews.
I dunno, we used Hangouts at Google and it was fine for meetings, though it did have some enhancements on top. It was possible to call in or out, though I never saw that feature used except "I wonder what happens if..."

Ultimately the problems with these meetings involve the social problems. Someone is absorbed in thought so they don't notice that a more quiet person in another room wants to talk. They point at the screen, not realizing that the other office can't see that. They point using their mouse cursor not realizing that it's too small to see on the screen. Or the more mundane; not having an agenda, inviting too many people, not inviting enough people, etc.

And, of course, "we're getting kicked out".
The idea that caloric restriction diets cause metabolic damage is basically a myth. If it happens at all the effect is very small.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/22327054/

Chances are you are underestimating your intake, or overestimating how much you burn through exercise. I don't mean that as a personal critique: most people are terrible at that kind of estimation.
Facebook’s Conservatives Find Their Courage
> If you have a lot of pure helium gas and a really good compressor you can increase the pressure until the boiling point is high enough to exceed the temperature of the gas, so now you have a liquid helium at an insane pressure.

The critical temperature of Helium is 9.35 °R -- above that it will not be a liquid at any pressure. So we have to go through successive phases of compression (which heats it up), cooling via another cryogen (liquid nitrogen initially, then liquid hydrogen in subsequent passes), and expansion (at the right conditions, because of the oddities of the Joule-Thompson effect[0] for elements like Helium), in order to cool it enough to produce a liquid.

[0] https://chemistry.stackexchange.com/questions/61517/reason-f...
Impostor Syndrome.

I spent a bunch of my childhood in borderline abusive situations being told I was useless or stupid. I also spent much of my childhood on the outside looking in, as the fat weird kid. Like you, further complimenting this is being completely self taught, so I'm certain that I'm less valued than peers with a formal degree, and on some level I feel looked down upon by those with a degree.

The more accolades I get, the more certain that its all gonna disappear one day, and I'm going to wake up poor again working a dead end job, like I was at 18.
I'm sorry but it is completely legitimate for Cuba to blame the west (mostly the US) for problems the west created for them in trying to force Cuba to change its governments political ideology.

The idea that all Cuban citizens are brainwashed applies also to US citizens. US citizens are also indoctrinated to believe that capitalism is the only way from when they are toddlers.

The Cuban immigrant's bias should at least be taken into account, you are selecting a group of people to interview who left Cuba because they hated the government. Of course they are going to say bad things about that same government.

"And if you ever visit the non-tourist parts of Cuba it's incredibly depressing what socialism has done to them". Socialism has done great things for the people of Cuba considering the constraints they have had put on them by the west. The government has massively increased the average Cubans literacy, improved working conditions conditions and instituted high quality free medical care making it so that wealth isn't the deciding factor on how long you live.

Cuba would be far worse in an alternative reality where Batista stayed in power.
Especially someone who has no existing contractual, customer, or ToS relationship with Slack.
He is looking at the wrong metric.

It's not how much disk space or ram it takes up.

It's certainly not the amount of dollars/megabyte it burns.

It's how much mind space of both the user and the developer it takes up.

Alas, mindspace is the one thing utterly untouched by Moore's Law for millenia.
I haven't seen anything concrete about paycuts in that thread. Any what kind of numbers we're talking about? Also surely not everyone got a paycut, right? (Even excluding execs)
My goodness... that's more than a mortgage in many places. Even if you have parents/in-laws that could help, unless they live on their own, then there's the added cost of paying more to have more people living together. And without paid maternity/paternity leave, then you can't stay home either. That's a tough financial situation.
That’s helpful, maybe I’m naive but isn’t that like an Excel workload? I haven’t seen scenarios where the entire database needs that kind of functionality. Can you elaborate on what kind of data and business problem one would be working on where they need that level of robust versioning?
> A flight across the world and back can be had for $500, in some EU countries like where I'm from, you can make that kind of money with three nightshifts in a bar as a young student. That's pretty ridiculous if you think about it, spending a few days serving drinks lets you go to the other side of the world and come back.

I don't think the price itself is ridiculous. That would be the whole vacation budget for the year when I was growing up and surely is for many people even today. What is ridiculous to the point probably even sounding cliché is that inequality is out of control. The reason you can make a plane ticket in salary over a few days is because that is what it costs to sustain yourself in a major city if you don't own things like housing. And all the people who did own housing got rich so they can pay you. You are basically a migrant worker in your own country.

> How you can sustain that if you have a few extra billion people in the middle-class is beyond me.

It is certainly not a small problem. But that is always why every growing economy spawns these industrial giants that do a bit of everything like GE, Samsung or Hisense. The latter being a state owned Chinese company.

> In that regard I have some major concerns about the future of certain cities, a lot of our consumption can scale with our wealth, but tourism to prime locations like the Vatican Museums or even certain cities just isn't one of them.

The greatest difference (other the obvious access to information) is that it used to be sort of self-regulating, if not plain regulated. Because it only makes sense to have so many hotels in one place when you have to consider things like off-season. So if some city got popular at a certain time it got expensive to tourist there and you did care much because you just went somewhere else. When 'everyone is a hotel' you instead essentially compete with locals.
No, that's terrible, too. The stars of Star Wars, Episode VIII were harassed off social media by a bunch of trolls. No one should be forced off social media by trolls.
All helium that goes into a balloon is wasted, never to be recovered. In scientific applications it is typically recycled. I don’t know about SCUBA, but I’d venture to say that it’s a necessity for deep dives whereas in a balloon it’s a novelty.
I could totally see this as a museum exhibit. Where I work, we regularly have people dial in from a downtown office and almost every call features sirens in the background. Needs more sirens.
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Can you elaborate further?

My thought process is deploying this on digital ocean would make it insecure by default.
Well, I can chalk this down, as one of the more interesting and disgusting things I've learnt this week.

Eww.
Those terms bind Slack users. This problem goes away if the maintainer doesn't use Slack and has never used Slack. It wouldn't be efficient, but it'd be possible.
In reality, those people would just leave Twitter.
As far as I am concerned, see p1necone's comment above: It's not about the relation between Abbyy and Amazon, it's about the relation between them and their customers who stored their documents with some company where they had not insight into how they were handling their data.
It's not risky to go through an intersection when the light is yellow. If your light is yellow, the cross light is red. Proceeding through a yellow is no riskier than a green.

Traffic lights originally only had red and green. Municipalities added yellow specifically to prevent brake-slamming stops that led to crashes. Slamming the brakes on yellow is contrary to its purpose.
Good for you young jedi. I started coding around that age as well. I made the mistake of not going through comp-sci but have still been able to work for Google, publish books, lead teams and companies and products. You'll do just fine.

You have the ability to write some code! If you want to get a jumpstart, you should take the princeton algorithms course (for free!): https://www.coursera.org/learn/algorithms-part1

Or read the textbook by sedgewick that accompanies the course. https://algs4.cs.princeton.edu/home/

There is very little math in there - it may take some elbow grease and mentorship to help to convey some of the ideas - but I believe that you could implement and solve most everything in there. That was my path - I had a teacher at the age of 14 who would explain to me how different algorithms worked and I would go and implement them. Drawing a circle (in memory - it was in C!) or sorting a list (we did bubblesort first IIRC!)

I think you could do it! I believe in you! The course material is approachable - much more so than basically every other algorithms/data-structures material I've found. it may take you some time but you'll be soooo far ahead with your thinking about code.

If you ever start working with Object oriented languages like Java, another book that may help you when you've gone down the road a bit is the Head First Design Patterns book. http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596007126.do
It's very easy to read, mostly pictures. It is made to be very easy to read (all of the books in that series are so look around at them.)

It's helpful to do both - code and also take in some material, but at 12 I imagine some of the material may be a bit daunting. You're doing really well - keep it up.
And by writing that way they likely underweight the PR risk to their business. It's their choice, but it sure as hell just turned me off.
What about a saas to support the companies providing groups for slack.
We should stop vilifying companies that provide unsustainable wages.
Providing above market wages erodes your competitive advantage. Systematically eroding your competitive advantage will kill your company.

It's the government's job to implement regulations that protect society from free capitalism. In so doing, it will level the playing field so companies no longer have to choose between 'doing the right thing' and 'increasing existential risk'.

'Public shaming' should be used an agent for change -- not to satiate some inner desire for justice. In this case, we can't expect these companies to change on their own accord regardless of the shaming. So, shame the government who is not implementing proper regulation -- not the company.
This. Who the hell goes to legal and creates PR risk instead of just hiring the dude?
http://jrnl.sh is great for minimalism, if you're comfortable with the command line.
I can totally sympathize - but there's a lot out there, and more than one way to do things - especially on the web. That's what makes it such a great platform!

Would you want to code in your retirement, or do you plan on hanging up your keyboard?
> getting a softskills excel/MS word gov job for equal pay

This is a great idea ( I sincerely mean it), and I too have been toying with this.

Gov programming jobs are also very cushy. The knock on them ( / "cons" ) until recently was that they pay very less, almost 40% less, and that it's full of old people. But that has changed -- atleast in San Francisco and Bay Area where I live.

Esp the City of San Francisco tech jobs[1] are quite interesting and many use modern tech. On top of that almost all Govt jobs accrue pension at the rate of 3% of your gross / year, so if you work 17 years or so you can get 50% of your highest salary at retirement.

The con I see is that the process to get hired is very tedious and involves lots of applications and moves very slowly. I was plesantly surprised to see Sr. Software Engineer jobs that were paying anywhere from 110K to 130K [2] -- all govt jobs have to disclose salary or rate range in JD --, which is not to far off from the average in this area for non-FAANG / non-Startup type job.

[1] SF City Tech Jobs => https://www.jobapscloud.com/SF/?Keyword=&Loc=&DeptNumber=&Oc...

[2] Source / Example:
IS Programmer Analyst Principal: Notice salary Range of $105,794 - $133,094/yr in desc. https://jobapscloud.com/SF/sup/bulpreview.asp?R1=PEX&R2=1064...
OpenBSD's carrying some local patches, Perl rand appears to be using the libc drand48(3) on OpenBSD, which uses arc4random_buf(3) internally, unless Perl srand is called, then it uses srand48_deterministic(3)? Not sure precisely as it's also using arc4random(3) directly to seed something.

This is slightly different from how it's handled outside the Perl software ecosystem, as all the srand* functions effectively became nops on OpenBSD in favour of strong random numbers, and userland ports had to be patched to use the deterministic variants if needed. I guess that would be hard with things like CPAN.

https://github.com/openbsd/src/commit/2e109fb9e8c0dc273648dd...

https://github.com/openbsd/src/commit/2e109fb9e8c0dc273648dd...

https://github.com/openbsd/src/commit/2e109fb9e8c0dc273648dd...

Looks like upstream Perl also uses drand48 from FreeBSD, with its own internal RNG. But I guess this can be overridden with build options.

I'd imagine something like pwgen would be better, but I doubt it matters here.
I know I know. It was a joke and a slight jab at docker :p
Yeah, as an EU resident and a client of one of their clients, I REALLY want to know if my data was affected. And I have the right under the GDPR.
Yep, dead to me too. I decide what code runs on my hardware.
New solar panels that you print out and stick them on your roof
This submission was probably sparked by the recent prediction market results from the Social Science Replication Project. In this study, a prediction market with 206 traders and $20,600 of incentives was able to predict whether 21 psychology studies would replicate with pretty astounding accuracy (5/5 bets with <50% predicted did not actually replicate, and 13/16 with >50% did - and the 3 misses were predicted at like 51%, 52%, 53%).

Coverage by the Atlantic here: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/08/scientis...

Coverage by 538 on previous work by the same authors: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-to-tell-good-studie...

Commentary on LessWrong here: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/7w2tCRocphK9yW8rG/unknown-kn...

And my own thoughts here: https://www.facebook.com/tedsanders/posts/10106092033737384

For reference, I was one of the top prize winners on SciCast.org, an academic science prediction market that Robin Hanson (author of linked article) was involved in.
I personally am excited by scientific prediction markets because they are a systematic way of making hidden knowledge public.
We canceled Slack in July, let the year run out and didn't renew.

Simply wasn't worth it and frankly more of a distraction than just using Trello (and the client on Linux was just a fucking ballache).
This seems quite reasonable for Germany to do. At some point, when you can't trust others to do such important work you need, you have to do it yourself.
For "event-driven" scheduler, you may want to have a streaming system like Flink or Spark Streaming instead. You can schedule the startup of these pipelines with Airflow (e.g., using BashOperator), and handle the actual streaming with the streaming systems directly.

We use Airflow with this pattern extensively.
[I agree.]

From the article:

> The initial product looked nothing like today’s version.

So, the 24 hours part is totally irrelevant. I can build a prototype in 1 hour (just register the a domain and upload an index.html page) and then use the rest of the time to get a better version.
Twitter is a private company. The President's Twitter Account is not a private entity, though.

"If one's account is suspended they cannot - by definition - access Trump's tweets. This is similar reasoning as that given in court: "comments on the president’s account [are] public forums and that blocking Twitter Inc users for their views violated their right to free speech under the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution"."

If I go into one of the President's rallies and start waving my dick around, or otherwise act indecent, I can and will be asked to leave.
Cool, go complain to them in that context. In this thread you’re just changing the subject and putting words in my mouth.
Epic Games Criticizes Google Over a Fortnite Android Vulnerability
I like how the first result for black is #040404.
Nice. For a few years I had a desk in the middle of St Mary Graces Abbey cemetery. I believe the black death and great plague filled it. There were tunnels under my desk leading to The Tower, but they'd been blocked up years before I could take advantage.

Edit: I've just found that I currently work in another, smaller cemetery.
That's definitely how I spin that trait on my CV.
Disagree entirely.

If a company is paying so little that the government has to step in and give them extra money just so they can pay the rent and eat, then that effectively means my tax dollars are subsidizing their wage.

This attitude allows Amazon to pay less than a living wage. The winner of SNAP isn't the person receiving SNAP, it's the person's employer which is allowed to pay their employees less. My tax dollars aren't subsidizing the employee, they're subsidizing Amazon.
I find an interesting contrast between Niklaus Wirth and Bjarne Stroustrup.

Wirth made a bunch of languages that were based on the "right" way to do things: Pascal, Modula, Modula-2, Oberon. The languages either were used and became massively fragmented (see Pascal) or were not used much. Other than Borland (Turbo Pascal and Delphi) no other large company really embraced any of the Wirth languages.

Stroustrup, on the other hand, was more pragmatic, and released a language aimed at professional programmers. In addition, instead of creating new languages, he has spent decades evolving C++. As a result, C++ has been in the top 5 of most used programming languages for years (decades?) and forms the critical infrastructure of many of the largest tech companies. In addition, I bet the evolution between C with Classes, and C++17 is pretty comparable in scope to that between Pascal and Oberon.
Yes, that's how you could do it by modifying liquefaction plants that can produce Neon. In theory, you could take the leftovers after separating out Neon and you'd have a small amount of Helium. As I mentioned, at 5 ppm that doesn't give you much Helium, and you still need to purify it.
Passing over the politics of this decision, is there any plausible outcome that doesn't involve every organization with any sense at all forking or abandoning Lerna?