skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree, the few things I think are really valuable in that book are the following

* learn pronunciation/spelling first

* learn the top words using images and space repetition

* study every single day

I think this method is by far superior to anything taught in high schools in the US, which is very sad given a large portion of our population speaks Spanish and I think they could change the curriculum a bit an a lot more students would leave school bi-lingual
" various education ranging from various courses, conferences up to paid tuition at an university (and then actually giving people the time to do it)"

If you can afford that, you can afford more money for salaries.
Ever try to take an electric scooter through snow?
> A majority of the trading volume and, thus, the apparent market liquidity is in Tether.

Well, the majority of trading volume on some exchanges, at least.

While coinbase-pro (formerly gdax) is relatively insulated, I can see that a lot of Southeast-Asian exchanges collapsing when the Tether bubble finally bursts... taking the BTC price down severely with it.

But with that being said: do you have any hard numbers for the amount of trading volume that's tied to Tether? I've been looking for those numbers to satisfy my curiousity. I suspect you're right that a large portion of the BTC market is USDT trades instead of USD trades... but I never found exact numbers on this subject.
> retail sales of electricity to California end-use customers and 100% of electricity procured to serve all state agencies

From this I take they don't plan to necessarily eliminate all carbon emitting energy sources but rather just the ones used to produce electricity. This would make the goal a little more achievable but also makes it a moving target. As different industries move from burning carbon based fuel to electricity the demand also increases which will still affect the balance between clean and dirty energy.

There are plans to ban ICE engines and other fuel burning applications so the demand for electricity will see a sharp rise. It's more that achievable to be 100% green in 2045 assuming the energy consumption trend of the past. But the future will probably see that trend go from relatively linear to something exponential for at least a few decades until the switch is done. Covering that difference will be the real challenge.
I exclusively work for whoever is willing to pay me the most, at the least inconvenience to my current living situation. I would feel pretty comfortable wagering that I'm in the large majority there.

I may be off base here so apologies if so, but reading between the lines a bit I'm assuming that you are an early hire or possibly a founder of some startup. Very few people, probably nobody, will be as invested in your business as you are (unless you give them a non negligible amount of equity, and they believe there's a good chance that will actually be worth something). It's understandable that that's a difficult/frustrating fact to accept, but it shouldn't be hard to understand. Acknowledging it will lead you to a more effective hiring process.
Chicago also has a open data initieve with tons of large datasets that is publicly available.
This sounded unlikely to me (I'm from the UK), but https://www.gov.uk/recover-statutory-payments confirms that UK employers can recover 92% of statutory maternity/paternity pay that they pay to employees, or 103% if they are a sufficiently small employer.

Note that this is only for the statutory minimum -- many employers offer better-than-statutory as part of their benefits package.

But I disagree with you that the major reason why every company offers at least the statutory minimum is because they're getting a rebate. I think it is simply because it is a legal requirement. The rebate is just the government as a policy choice shifting the cost of it around a bit.
> People aren't meant to live in a world where everything is public.

You're saying this like it's a well-known fact. Is there any research or just your opinion?
Miami has created more than 4,000 tech jobs. But there’s a catch
Complete fantasy. Lockmart would love to build new F-22 for Japan (at $250M a pop), but that's not going to be for the USAF if it pans out at all. Upgrading the F-22 with newer electronics is going to be very problematic due to its avionics architecture.
No, the whole premise of this discussion is that somebody wants to use a piece of open-source software. Very few people do deep background research on the authors of a package before using it. So for the purposes of this discussion, to most people the author is not distinguished from any other open source author.

I'm arguing the analogy is bad because it is not congruent to the circumstance. Zed Shaw does not have a personal, reciprocal relationship with everybody who sees that package and thinks about using it. One does have a personal, reciprocal relationship with the neighbor using one's pool. (Reputation is possibly a consideration, but strongly secondary.)

> This makes it sound like getting "sued for just being a user", in other words, unreasonably, is likely.

No. It makes it sound like a possibility. Which it is, or the clause wouldn't be there. A possibility of an unknown frequency but with significant risk, so worth considering during license examination.
The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt

EDIT: Thanks for the list. I think I'm going to check out The Silk Roads - seems like my type of book/topic.
Poll: Do you currently have a BS job?
Posts about BS jobs seem to generate a lot of discussion here at HN. This subject is obviously close to our hearts. Often people question the validity of the corresponding surveys. Well, let's hold our own.
The entire world knows XS is 'extra small'. These cryptic abbreviations should stop. I've always wondered why Samsung's flagship is called 'Galaxy S#'.
I can speak to the companies I've worked for: US companies (and, this includes the UK because apparently we love to be like america) use CentOS predominantly, but mainland europe (Sweden, Germany, Finland) seem to prefer Debian.

I can say that I've personally administered roughly a 1:1 ratio of CentOS:Debian despite coming from a country that's servers tend to be CentOS.

Of course, this is anecdotal, but don't undersell debian.
> As time goes on, not only do conditions in the world / org change but the people who were part of the org when the abuse happened leave. This creates a situation where people can't remember why a rule exists, but follow it blindly just because it exists, even if in current circumstances it hampers the organization.

Not only that, organizations measure different things differently even from the start. If someone is socializing at work and this wastes 15% of their time, but a procedure to prevent them from socializing at work wastes 40% of their time, everyone is actually better off to just allow employees to socialize (or what have you). But "employees slacking off" is an unsanctioned thing to be reduced whereas "employees following procedure" is an officially sanctioned thing to be increased, so the fact that the procedure is more costly than the "abuse" never enters the decision process.
While I applaud this, Firefox is consistently the slowest browser or both Android and MacOS.
whether cats or bats … beware of the Useless use of cat (UUOC) (or bat) ;)
If you don't mind me asking, in roughly what cases do you reach for grep instead of ag || ack? Is it a familiarity thing, or specific features or something else?
Yes. The GNU manuals tend to be excellent sources. GNU Make's is particularly great. https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.html
Unfortunately, only residents get to vote, not people who are just working there during the day. And these areas are so expensive, most of their workers commute from outside.
Houston’s survival depends not just on withstanding a flood, but giving in to it
Highlights the larger problem that reviews have become untrustworthy and overwhelming for all but the most gullible and most discerning. The middle is stuck in roughly the same place they’d be without any reviews at all.
IIRC, loc (in rust) might be even faster than tokei at times? I always forget, and I’m sure I saw an old benchmark...

We have a whole working group this year focused on making the experience of writing CLIs awesome, so hopefully we’ll see even more great tools in the future!
Lou Reed’s Archive, Coming to the New York Public Library (2017)
Probably not the only one, it's very common for people to be extremely prejudiced against the young. As with other prejudices, of course, it's wrong and only scores accurate evaluations by chance. The only thing which prevents any person, of any flavor or age or background or whatever, from producing such work and comporting themselves in such a manner is not having learned it or not practicing it themselves. Anything blamed on 'age' is normally just an indictment of the society that hasn't provided appropriate education or incentives.

I was a precoscious kid myself, and took to online communities with vigor specifically because it permitted me to interact with adults as equals without them constantly dismissing me without basis apart from my age. I've not forgotten that, and if anything society now is even more egregiously bigoted towards the young than ever. Next time you read an article about "kids" or "teenagers" or "adolescents", try mentally substituting in "women" or "African Americans" for the group identity they're talking about. You might be surprised how identical the claims made, and the weak support given for them, are.
The lack of value types makes the code quite unwieldy to control memory layout vs C++, or C#, or Go, or Rust or anything
The figure you have in mind there is the percentage of the employee's salary that they are legally guaranteed as maternity pay. The percentage the grandparent/parent comment is talking about is the percentage of the employer's total outlay on maternity pay that they can then claim back from the government (which turns out to be either 92% or 103% of the statutory minimum payment).
The one example this author gives for an appropriate use of JWTs isn't really any different than his previous ("bad") examples. In it, he suggests the case of an ensemble of services coupled to an authentication service, with an SPA front-end. The front-end obtains a JWT from the auth service and uses it to make API requests of the rest of the ensemble. Because the requests are "small" and "frequent", there's a savings to be had in using stateless authentication for them.

But SPA applications (and, for that matter, classic AJAX applications) have been making small, frequent API requests for 15 years. There is a standard solution to the problem of repeated session database lookups: caching. And in the unlikely instance of an application with significant enough usage that session lookups are problematic but no preexisting caching strategy, the standard answer here is simply to move sessions to a fast lossy database like Redis.

All the previous problems with JWTs remain in play in the author's "good" example.

There are better reasons to avoid JWT than are provided in this article, but it does a fine job of communicating the fundamental nut of the problem. You can easily do better, both for performance and for security, than JWT does. Chances are, your framework's existing session store already is better than JWT. Rails, for instance, has had stateless signed cookies for something like a decade.

We recommend you avoid JWT. If you want to be cool and use a non-default session token format, look into Macaroons.
This already happens in at least two ways.

First way is called demand response, and entails the operator asking some users “how much is the next MW worth to you?” If no one can supply that MW at that price or less, the customer can agree to not consume that MW. It is significant for some operators, but by design of the market, is only an option for industrial customers, really.

Some utilities also offer a limited form of this, where you can allow them to shut off your AC, receiving a discount on your bill, generally.

Both work, in their way. Would have a much larger effect if they were more universal, and of the price signal were felt more strongly by consumers. Which I think was your point.
It would be interesting to see what's the distribution of BS jobs in the HN community: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17880159
But lacked fine grained control, at least the last time I used it. With uMatrix I can tell the browser to disable something (cookies/script/frames/media etc.) here but keep it enabled else/everywhere and the other way around. It gives the finest possible control but of course requires some time to whitelist the good stuff on new pages. A minor annoyance compared to the control it offers.
This is a decade old so I imagine the numbers are much higher now, but in 2007:

"With an aggregate income of $80 billion, teenage consumers represent an important consumer segment in their own right. Moreover, parents spend another $110 billion on teens in key consumer categories such as apparel, food, personal care items, and entertainment."

$190+ billion is a good sized market.

https://www.packagedfacts.com/Teens-1493744/
That is what orbits are, really. Just falling around a bend.
Advertisers have smartened up to this. Followers don't mean shit, it's all about engagement. In fact, a lot of companies are focusing on many "micro influencers" over one large influencer. They can spread their advertising dollars over a larger range of people, with higher engagement rates, than one single giant influencer with an audience they may not even care about your product(and much lower engagement rates). The bigger the following on IG, the lower % engagement. With Facebook in control now, the crackdown on fake has already begun.
The "hate" is because the Musk proposal would accommodate 2800 people per day, or less than 3% of the crowd of a typical game, most of which arrives within the space of the same 2-3 hours. (In comparison: the lowest-capacity trains in the LA Metro system can handle 2800 people in half an hour--about 4 trains--running on a regular schedule, or 6000+ running on special-event schedules.)

In other words, its a solution to absolutely nothing. In fact, it's worse than nothing: it's just Elon bloviating another half-assed idea that he takes no responsibility for.
My point was that your search criteria (including the keyword “meme”) is only applicable for what we might call “internet culture memes”, which is clearly not what was meant by the post you’re replying to. Your results were irrelevant.
I'm sure he cares a lot about Debian and a lot of my early learning was on Debian derivatives but I feel that the production server side world has largely standardised on RedHat. Non RedHat/CentOS, non-Ubuntu debian distros are probably a distant fifth in terms of business critical production server so no wonder they were not included in the disclosure early on...
While 51% can be defined as "most", "most" doesn't necessarily mean "at least 51%". I was being rather vagueish, because requiring 100% acceptance is likely to be impossible. For instance, I really doubt that the white supremacist movement is going to find any situation where members of other ethnicities get as much or more than any of their members to be "equitable" according to their values. But just because they won't accept a solution that everyone else does doesn't mean we should throw it away. They're being unreasonable.

Not to mention, you're just describing a bullying situation. If you present that scenario to most people, they'll say that it isn't fair. Because they don't know if they'll be on the 51 or 49. I mean, even some of the 51% could say that it's not fair to the 49% to just lose their stuff by popular vote. Which would mean doubly that most people wouldn't find that definition fair.

And of course, the problem is that there's enough variance in "fair" that you probably can't get more that 5 or 10 people to agree on what's fair in all aspects. Which is why I kind of tune out when people just harp on "fair" without being specific. "Fair" is a weasel word. "Not getting shot by the cops during a routine traffic stop" is a clear complaint. That I can work with.
"In a preemptive strike, Red launched a massive salvo of cruise missiles that overwhelmed the Blue forces' electronic sensors and destroyed sixteen warships. This included one aircraft carrier, ten cruisers and five of six amphibious ships. An equivalent success in a real conflict would have resulted in the deaths of over 20,000 service personnel. Soon after the cruise missile offensive, another significant portion of Blue's navy was "sunk" by an armada of small Red boats, which carried out both conventional and suicide attacks that capitalized on Blue's inability to detect them as well as expected.

At this point, the exercise was suspended, Blue's ships were "re-floated", and the rules of engagement were changed; this was later justified by General Peter Pace as follows: "You kill me in the first day and I sit there for the next 13 days doing nothing, or you put me back to life and you get 13 more days' worth of experiment out of me. Which is a better way to do it?" After the reset, both sides were ordered to follow predetermined plans of action.

After the war game was restarted, its participants were forced to follow a script drafted to ensure a Blue Force victory. Among other rules imposed by this script, Red Force was ordered to turn on their anti-aircraft radar in order for them to be destroyed, and was not allowed to shoot down any of the aircraft bringing Blue Force troops ashore. Van Riper also claimed that exercise officials denied him the opportunity to use his own tactics and ideas against Blue Force, and that they also ordered Red Force not to use certain weapons systems against Blue Force and even ordered the location of Red Force units to be revealed.

This led to accusations that the war game had turned from an honest, open, free playtest of U.S. war-fighting capabilities into a rigidly controlled and scripted exercise intended to end in an overwhelming U.S. victory, alleging that "$250 million was wasted".

Seems like a faked war exercise to me, seems more like a propaganda exercise.
As mentioned in the article, Canonical were brought in much earlier by Intel. They appear to have been among the "chosen few": RedHat, SuSE and Canonical.
You can't bring up the externalities of Nuclear and then ignore the externalities of literally every other clean energy source. How many people in China were killed building Hydro plants, how many poisoned by heavy metals manufacturing solar equipment?

Nuclear has its issues, but everything else does too.
> Stop whining that large-screen phones don't have small screens and just buy a phone that has the small screen you want.

But the small screen phones pretty much never have the same features as the large screen phones. The person you're responding to wants a 2018 phone with a small screen, not a 2016 phone with a small screen.
Translation: s/The majority of the world runs/My fellow Debian kernel developers run/
I wonder if there's a name for this phenomenon.

New and not-popularly adopted languages tend to have more senior people learning and developing software using them; this leads to people (read: recruiters) looking for the people with experience.. People equate the quality of software with something innate with the language, or that the developers are exceptional. Then after being popularly adopted it slumps in perceived elegance and goes on a downward spiral until it ends up like PHP, Ruby or JAVA. (not to undersell the folks who predominantly use those languages, I'm just picking languages that I've seen follow this pattern)
What does that future look like? According to Northrop engineers, it is tailless, stealthy, and packs a laser cannon.
http://fortune.com/2015/12/15/northrops-fighter-jet-laser/

also has AI capabilities for interfacing with the pilot...

[Re:] sharing of parts, there could be a series of "shells" and an AI drone core that can eject, so as to let the shell burn in to the ground when it is "kacked" said AI core should be autonomous and plug and play with other shell types such as boats tanks and android mechbots.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Drevil_million_dollars.jp...
The 20 hour flight is coming.  And it may have a gym and bunks
You can set kernel boot parameters to disable the mitigations on a patched kernel.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SecurityTeam/KnowledgeBase/SpectreAn...
I'm surprised ripgrep isn't on here.
As someone who knows nothing about the military, how hard would it be to have the carriers themselves operated by the navy, and have the aircraft operated by the airforce? The airforce pilots would obviously report to the ship's captain, but the training, maintenance, and everything else about the aircraft could be done by the airforce itself.
The legal restrictions are not actually on Liam, or any user. They are on the site itself. The law in the US prevents the collection of any personal information from anyone under 13 years of age. Once you are 13 years old, you are a trackable, surveillable, profilable, saleable commodity. Prior to that, though, your personal info is protected from collection.

But... HN doesn't actually collect any personal info. So, that's likely either a reflex inclusion of such a clause or just an abundance of caution.
What is it that your headphones don't support?
Keep in mind that mozilla is financed by google.

Which means they might always find loopholes like these to track you:

https://github.com/mozilla/addons-frontend/issues/2785

Search 'telemetry' and 'tracking' under about:config .

Set all true to false where appropriate.

search for google and mozilla, remove all url entries.

or just wildcard-block them via dnsmask.
The Problem with Free and Open Source Software
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A few extra MB of traffic is fine in a datacenter. Not so much for a mobile client somewhere with a weak signal.
Too bad baby boomers are now too old to care about our problems. We won't see any solutions soon.
All I can really say is I want one because from the moment I saw one on the road, I just knew I had to drive it. I really love the appearance. I've never been interested in cars, but I can't help myself looking at pickups on the road driving by -- especially RAMs. Maybe I'm just a big kid, I've always liked big stuff.

Still... I know they aren't good for the environment, which means I wouldn't be able to live with myself if I just drove one without greatly reducing or eliminating it's impact.
Note that I have not tried this, but apparently USD withdrawals from Bitfinex are working again. I would be interested in seeing information to the contrary; I can't find people saying that they can do it, but I also can't find (recent) accounts of difficulties, so I'm not sure how to interpret the data.

If Bitfinex is allowing wire withdrawals in USD, then there is a mechanism for redemption of USDT into USD besides going through Kraken.
Also: the mortgage industry as arms dealers in a bidding war -- and the proceeds of the bidding war don't even go to the counterparties of the contract being sold!

People marvel at how successful the greedy optimization algorithm of our economy is at finding local optima, but when you take a step back the emperor has no clothes. Sigh.
While I'm not a big fan of marketing/ad model it is neat to see kids 13-15 be able to do something to make some money. At 13 I was buying candy like WarHeads in bulk and selling them to other kids on the bus to make a 5x return. I wasn't able to get a real job until I was 15 and even then, I had to really hustle and find a retail company that was willing to take a chance on me.
I though I have removed all the dependency on 'tensorcv'. It turns out I forgot the dataflow part. Now it should be run without 'tensorcv'. Thanks for pointing out.
Because the door is below water level, it needs to be sealed. There is a rubber gasket submerged in water that molds. Top-loaders don't need a rubber gasket.