skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But if all you see is the extreme then well.. I can't help you.

If you are indeed a part of a more moderate and nuanced politics, then I think you could help by calling out the extremists and speaking up for principles. Where people "on your side" are showing tacit approval to extremists, you should call them out.

If you can point out where the nuanced and more moderate politics are put forward from your side, then also point that out. From where I am sitting, it seems like the extreme part of "idpol" is the loudest and seemingly the most representative part.
I admin a number of different websites. The majority of them are static. I have forced https redirect on some of them. On others I do not.

The only benefit of https I perceive in the case of static public content is that ISPs cannot easily monitor which specific pages on my domains are being visited. With plain http they could.

I don't particularly care if people get MITM'ed when visiting my static sites. If they did so it generally is because they chose to use unsafe public access points ( wifi ). This extends to some degree to all forms of wifi since so many security forms in use on them can be easily broken.

My current understanding is that enterprise encryption using certs with wifi is still secure and cannot currently be broken.

The only other party would could do MITM against normal customers on their own home internet, while using wired connections, is, I believe, the ISP themselves. Random third parties cannot generally do so. If there is some plausible way they can do so I would like to hear it.

If your ISP is MITMing you, I think you have bigger problems then whether they change the content of my static site when you visit it. If they were, they could potentially target your initial download of your browser and downgrade to http to infect your browser so that you never realize after that that https is faked out...

I think there are caching benefits to using plain http. The primary one is so that your ISP can cache your static content and save internet bandwidth globally.
The OP's description also reminded me of "A place of my own" by michael pollan. It is a really inspirational tale of another amateur coming from a similar excited and childlike fascination.
You need a government that is responsible to its citizens. We don't have that - we have a government that is responsible to its biggest donors. The more some company or some industry can abuse the market to extract insane profits, the more they can lobby the legislatures to cover their ass and secure their business model.

And it's not just health insurance. Case in point: we have companies writing tax accounting software lobbying against simplification of tax code. And it works!

https://www.vox.com/2016/3/29/11320386/turbotax-boycott-lobb...
I think a good faith reading of the circumstance would lead one to conclude that the passage of time, and other, higher-priority and lower-cost-of-implementation issues being addressed, have put these issues on the menu.
If the US put fewer people in prison, would crime go up? Not at all
Very amusing that this is the same as the common practice in carnivorous mammals of maiming prey so that their offspring can practice hunting.
This reminds me of latvian potato jokes.
Perhaps we need dutch wind jokes. Probably the dutch already have this.

Also wind.
> I got the impression that I could continue riding to Amsterdam in the same fashion if wanted to.

You definitely could. A couple of years ago I've actually done a trip like that, Rotterdam to The Hague to Amsterdam (then onwards to Amersfoort) — it was about 150 km long, and all of that was on designated bike paths and lanes.
An idea for which absolutely no proof is offered. "Im seeing what I consider to be an insufficient number of white people" does not prove or provide evidence that the results were either hand curated or created with some sort of nefarious purpose.
> the only problem with exceptions is that developers don't use them, or don't use them properly, or aren't forced to use them

Well, that's enough of a rationale for trying some other mechanism, isn't it?

> Exceptions in Ruby, Python, Java, C#, etc. are a tried-and-true paradigm for handling unexpected code paths

the problem is, most errors aren't "unexpected code paths". Trying to open a file whose name is provided by the user, for instance, can fail for several reasons: file does not exist, permission is denied, file is busy, file content is invalid, etc. None of these situations is "unexpected", they are all part of the task being solved.

Now, accessing the first element of an empty list, dereferencing a nil pointer, dealing with a value that has an illegal state, facing a bus error or a stack overflow? Now that sucks, that is unexpected and it should be dealt with some special mechanism. That's where exceptions really shine (and go has panic/recover for those, ahem, exceptional circumstances).
To guarantee new physics, you'd need a 10^16 TeV collider, so literally one-thousand-trillion times more powerful than the LHC which is at 14 TeV!

Context: at 10^16 TeV you start probing the planck energy scale, where gravity becomes strong enough to influence particle interactions. In nature, these energies are reached only inside black holes and just after the big bang. The standard model does not describe gravity, so it has no predictive power at this scale, which is why the above phenomena are a complete mystery to us.

The standard model gets away with this at LHC energy scale because gravity is so weak it can literally be neglected in the calculations.

It's of course possible we'd see some new physics before then, but it's not guaranteed, building a collider 10 times would be a bit of a stab in the dark.
> there is a stigma people have that heating is essential for life, but A/C is optional.

It's not a stigma, but a reality. Humans survive in a certain temperature range. On large parts of the earth for large parts of the year, the outside temperature is below the safe range. On only a few small parts of the earth - often where there are no other resources - is the temperature above the safe range. Humanity survived 200,000 years without A/C; I'm guessing heat was a necessity pretty early on, at least to inhabit most of the planet.

And anyway the question is irrelevant. We need to reduce energy consumption; is this some sort of competition between the heating and a/c industries?
Agreed. While its probably one of the more expensive ones, I really like how you don't have to buy anything from the manufacturer besides the device itself. The consumables are not proprietary, and are just off-the-shelf litter and garbage bags.
I only wish the gears were a little less noisy, and that it took up a little less space.
I've been using DDG for a few years now. I have the same reflex with !g, but when I'm on a browser that's google by default I quickly find that I also need a way to go the other way and do the equivalent of !ddg...

In other words the queries that google has good results for isn't a superset of the queries that ddg has good results for. It's just a different set.
Another factor is the population density. I live in a region that is geographically just a bit larger than the Netherlands and has a population of about 300,000 (The Upper Peninsula of Michigan).

Of course that doesn't apply in US areas that do have higher population density, but there's a lot of country over here.
Basically like others said, there's some kind of physical separation. That way if the machine were to explode or you loose too many drives in the array you still have a copy of them. RAID protects you from a hardware failure (to some extent), a backup protects you from hardware failure, software failure, and human failure (or it should anyway). The idea is that if the cannonical version of things gets destroyed somehow the backup is available to rebuild, so it can't be alive in the same machine as the cannonical one (except maybe when doing the backup itself).

The other "rule" that many people follow is 2 is 1 and 1 is none. The idea is that anything that isn't backed up isn't protected and can't be relied upon to exist.

A cloud service like backblaze, google drive, amazon cloud drive, etc. is a good secondary backup for a lot of people even if it'll take you a month or two to get your data there to begin with.
I can't say what Verizon's plans on for sure, they are pretty hands off from what I can tell.

Oath's goal is to be the premier "AdTech" company. According to leadership we're only behind Google and FB. But the division I work in doesn't touch ads so I'm not the best person to talk to.
How it can be that inefficient? It looks like a monopoly or corruption. In Europe medical costs are way lower (not what the user pays, but the actual cost).
Hm, good question! Don't know, but I think they take almost everyone. I also got an invite but can't attend this year. I went last year and it wasn't that interesting because there were so many random people.
Pretty cool, but very annoying when the back button doesn't work on samsung/android devices.
Then it's just a kind of manager (in the better case, in worse it's a union functionary with a political agenda which may have little to do with worker's interests in a particular workplace).
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I'm pretty sure I can find a tutorial somewhere else.
I really like "A House of Ill Compute" as a nickname.

Congrats for managing to create buildable plans!

I hope you used metal/plastic conduits to pass wires between the floors/walls (so they could be theoretically upgraded with fiber or something better).
I would like to emphasize that php is notorious for these sorts of issues because every single function to execute an external program is based on

["/bin/sh", "-c", $cmd]

If we would just stop telling developers that the interface to start a process is "a string that is then processed by bash" we wouldn't have these issues anymore.

Every other programming language starts processes using a path and a list of arguments, even bash itself, in its own awkward way.

It feels like the php security community is too centered around sanitizing inputs instead of adding secure interfaces that only require logical validation instead of checking-for-evil-bytes-and-defusing-them.
Hybrid Optical-Electronic Convolutional Neural Networks
It's called the "creator edition". I'd dare to say this release is targeted at devs/creators.
can't you just use different names, algF32, algF64, really? is this the end of the world? No wander we have npm packages isEven and isOdd, sometimes you need to get yours hands dirty.
Something I frequently see in the Netherlands and surprises me is how some driver parks his car, takes the child from the special seat with two belts, put him into a wood box in the front of his bike, and gets into traffic while checking his phone.

I have a friend who takes her three children in a bike because she does not have a big enough car for three children seats.
Over a 2+ year old product that is about to release a next version. At this stage, price is not a big deal. It's not close to consumer targeting. At least Microsoft gives some out to developers.
Embedded systems engineer of the sharpie resist era.

If you're in Shenzhen, don't bother making your own... you can even get prototype flex PCBs in a couple of hours.

The chemicals, heater, tank, maintenance and disposal are a PITA.

It's fine once or twice, but generally it's not scalable.
And !a for amazon and !yt for youtube and !dpkg for packages and !imdb...

Definitely my favorite feature of ddg.
Magic Leap only needs to sell (roughly) 17% as many Ones as Oculus Rifts, to have equivalent sales ($2.3k vs $400 device).

And while their current hardware is expensive, I would bet that their longterm plan isn't to sell devices that cost more than $2000.
The intention, I imagine, was that the wet shirt keeps you cool by evaporative cooling.
I don't necessarily mean interface{}. This:

type Thing interface {
...
}

is better, but Thing is still a dynamic type.
Most of the content on the web is intentionally open to the world.
If the only consideration is "knowing what's going on" then yes. But shareholders are owners, so they may demand participation even if they don't know anything, just for the fact they actually own the company (at last partially).
Atom 1.30
Bike shares (docked and dockless) are growing in the bay area. I know many non-cyclists use them daily for their last mile commute from the train. You could probably use these in SF to go from a hotel to a conference venue. Also, numerous large SV companies have their own campus bikes as well.
https://github.com/rvirding/lfe
There's also WordTeX, a "WYSIPCTWOTCG" editor. There's a paper [1], but this is a rare case where the Youtube video [2] is both more entertaining and the medium lets the content shine.

[1] http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/twildenh/wordtex/

[2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlX_pThh7z8
I just wanted to say thank you for explaining this. I've read about this before, but I feel like something finally clicked when reading your comment.
>Salmon is written entirely in Python and runs on Python 2.7 with experimental support for Python 3. It should hopefully run on any platform that supports Python and has Unix semantics.

Why!?
Denver Police Department Shelves Drone Program Amid Public Concerns
Radio is much less susceptible to fog than light because of the lower frequency.

Usually, at any large distances, you'd try to use fibre optic cables if at all possible.
I haven't cringed so much at a set of HN comments as I have today.

"Check your privilege" isn't a phrase that anyone seriously uses. Do you deny that privilege exists? Do you think that the only people who talk about privilege are non-white? Do you think that the concept of privilege makes all white people evil, or is a message that is un-hearable to all white people?

You just showed more about your own biases than you did anything to advance any conversation here. Then you double down further in the thread about "Social justice warriors" being a real thing (it's literally only ever used as a boogeyman by people with really broken, wrong thoughts about "privilege" as an abstract concept, so thanks for confirming that I guess.)

It's not even a "primary" message. What politician advanced that message recently? Which politically-affiliated political action group has "check your privilege" as a mantra? And here I am, again, pushing someone for evidence when it's painfully obvious that there's nothing there other than unsupported biases.
Really not sure what is going to happen to the cinephile demographic if they do away with their physical library. I'm not going to deal with 8 different streaming sites, all with poor quality.
I always appreciate posts like these as a direct comparison for getting things done in linux vs a mac. For day to day I still personally feel there is enough on offer from my mac that I'd be driving around the n-x version of what I really want. However, that being said it's getting so much closer!
Doesn't work on desktop either
They are sort of a superset of generics.
Prof. Sussman's Reading List
Any chance you can get MxNet (and Keras MxNet) in there?

Installing this stuff is a huge nuisance for us and we have some pretty insane Dockerfiles to handle all the different combinations. I might look into using this for our ML images.
Ignore the political landscape for a second because that's a rabbit hole that will make you go mad.

Does a person have a reasonable expectation that Google is providing them unbiased results? Do people use Google for curated content or as a tool?

Would you be upset if Gmail search was paid to push Pizza Hut's email marketing at the top of any search that that it could be a result for?

Would you be upset if Gmail's spam filter had a lower bar for flagging their competitors products as spam?

Would you be upset if every time you tpyed Writer into Windows Search and Word was always the first result?

Would you be upset if you typed Firefox into Bing and a full page ad for Edge was the first result?

Would you be upset if you searched for Chromecast on Amazon and the first page of results were Fire sticks?

If you searched Messenger in Google play and Allo and Hangouts were the first results?

If you searched for channels in Twitch and all the Twitch partners were forced to the top?

If you search for a video in YouTube and YT Red results and monetized videos were forced to the top?

If you searched for reviews of the new Pixel phone and Google manually gave positive reviews a higher rank?

Regardless of what you think about the relity of this specific situation I think its hard to argue that having search be biased twoard/against anything other than what the user is looking for is a dark pattern that deserves to be regulated out of existence since companies clearly can't help themselves. And if any company is providing unbiased results then there's nothing to worry about.
One problem for me: the text always fills the full width of the window even though that quickly becomes ineligible. I haven't found a way yet to fix that
I’ve been using Julia for a couple of months now and it’s unparalleled for scientific computation. More expressive than say python, super fast, easy ffi with python, cpp, MATLAB, Mathematica and others.

But above all it’s the community that takes the cake. So many hard algorithms that I would have a hard time doing from scratch are implemented in Julia.
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If you can’t hire without offering equity, then you create a new one, which means that either someone gives up a chunk of equity or you dilute everyone’s. Also, often eventually some of the options revert as people leave either before all their options vest or without purchasing their options.
Do note that there is a maximum amount of aggressiveness, beyond which you basically guarantee that you go broke while making trades with positive expected value. If you flip a coin that wins you twice as much as you lose, and you bet your entire bankroll, you'll eventually lose the coin flip and with it your entire savings.

For broad-market equity indexes, this point is at roughly 140% stocks / -40% cash. So it's not close to being an issue with current market expectations for a 100% equity portfolio, but generally speaking there is a level beyond which you cannot further optimize for upside at the expense of downside.
Those were the days when people didn't mind ads because they reflected the content of the page. When google changed this it was the beginning of the end.
"triggered". Really though? The only people that ever use "triggered" and "social justice warriors" non-ironically are trolls and people with despicable enough views that we don't bother talking about or engaging with them.

The fact that you're trying to act like there are a group of Democrats that actively, universally hate white people and proudly call themselves "sjw" is destroying any remaining credibility you have. It's also just painfully embarrassing to watch happen.
But our personal data is not. So much data is potentially made available from an unencrypted HTTP request.
A few responses:

1. “Your return on investment on a Masters CS degree will come over time.” It might produce a positive ROI over time. It really depends on what you do, what you intend to do, and what you value.

2. Re: negotiation. Check out ‘patio11’s seminal text on this subject (other good articles on there as well): https://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/01/23/salary-negotiation/

3. Re: risk mitigation. A robust professional network is almost always more valuable and more resilient than a MS CS. I actually think that this is OP’s biggest opportunity/challenge.

4. Re: Summary of experience. I looked at your profile, and it seems like you’re relatively new here. ‘patio11 is one of HN’s most prolific posters. His posts have declined dramatically in frequency (due to work?) over the past year or so, but he is one of the grand hommes of HN. Check out this link: https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders. ‘patio11 is third, and that’s with a year plus of minimal commenting. Note that I have a very large scrapbook of smart things he has said in HN comments.

5. Remember that leader list, check out #1. ‘tptacek and ‘patio11 actually started a business together focused on the hiring of software engineers. It shut down for reasons unknown, but HN was (largely) rooting for them. It is still not entirely clear why they shut it down other than “hiring is broken” (i.e., employers claiming they want $TRAIT, but demure when a candidate with $TRAIT is presented to them, usually for something nebulous like an undeclared standard for culture fit). Anyway, both of these folks have a great deal of direct and indirect industry experience, and they have a habit of saying very smart things on a regular basis.

6. Re: soft skill limits. Short answer, cognitive biases. Slightly longer answer, first the problem needs to be acknowledged, and then — maybe — it can be solved. There are myriad psychological reasons (e.g, cognitive biases, mental disorders, etc.) for breakdown to happen at any step of this process. Is it possible to attain almost any soft skil, sure. Is it probable? Not for some people.
You would also fail your driver's test in SF if you don't check for bikers when making a right turn. However, this isn't the case if you do your test elsewhere. SF has pretty good bike infrastructure and awareness.

I just did my driving test in the city, and this was drilled into my head by my instructor.
Interesting... I reported a variation of this issue to Google back in 2015 and they said they weren't "concerned about the premise of the attack in the bug description. You can always make the back button go to a page under your control by doing a second navigation, e.g., with pushState".
i gave ddg a few tries back then but two months ago i've switched to it for good. on all my browsers it is the default search engine. on android, chrome does not let you set it as default engine so i also switched to firefox on mobile. not being tracked is a good feeling. i also never had a problem with search results, especially for development.
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Calling them a 'joke' is pretty extreme. Did you watch the benchmark? They were pretty much steamrolling the caster team.

With all due respect, the professionals who have played against the bot have been pretty impressed with previous iteration. The major roadblocks at TI were probably that the bot did not efficiently learn courier mechanics and that the draft was not done by the bot.
why didn't you use a cap touch sensor? pretty easy to do.

the problem with the mechanical button is that it will torque the usb port. this is more of a problem with your design, where the usb contacts are just contact area on the pcb, as opposed to a fully enclosed usb-a "connector".

admittedly, a small problem, but since cap touch would have been easy, it seems a problem that would have been worth tackling maybe?