skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You don't have to actually pin things. Merely visiting will cache and rehost the files, and they will only be GCed at some later time. All pinning does is disable the GC for those files, which, as of a few months ago, weren't getting GCed at all anyway, so visiting something was equivalent to pinning it.
Having some long term goal and thing to work towards can definitely help. How to focus enough to figure out those goals can be very difficult, but knowing that you need a goal is a first step.
> So where does this "cultural" change end?

That's a fair question, and the answer is that cultural change is never "done", nor does it move in a single direction. I would imagine in 20 years our culture will be significantly different than it is now. I hope it's more tolerant, kind, and understanding, but there's no guarantee.

> Do you want to have control over not only the used terms, but even the thought constructs that they represent?

I'm not super sure what you mean by this. I'm pretty ok with thought constructs. Where I draw a line is introducing them insensitively or harmfully. Like, feel free to think anything you like at a wedding, but maybe keep your cynicism about love and connection to yourself for the duration.

> Most peoples throughout history have been enslaved at one time or another. Most peoples have waged war on one another, most of them brutal and prolonged. A small percentage do criminal acts even in peace time. Do you want to ban/replace terms like war, battle, kill also?

I get where you're coming from, and I do think in some circumstances that might be appropriate. Consider if you were building an app for refugees from a war that's killed millions, and you, for whatever reason, needed some ranking algorithm and called it ThingWar (whatever "Thing" would really be). Is it the worst thing in the world? Nah, but it is a little oblivious.

All I'm saying is that the legacy of Atlantic slavery still exerts a strong force on the lives of millions and millions of people. We should be sensitive to that.
> As for anyone who thinks those who commit this kind of fraud shouldn't go to jail, I'd say jail is about the one thing the rich are afraid of. If you have $20m then a $3m fine might suck but it's not the end of your world. A year in jail in so much worse.

Except the intention here obviously was not to defraud, but to follow the law, which was so incomprehensible as to make even professionals fall into its traps. And it's not "the rich" going to jail here, but the professionals that are responsible for making that mistake. Maybe that professional happens to be "rich", but most people involved will walk free, as long as there's a scapegoat.

No, people shouldn't go to jail for this. These regulations shouldn't even exist. Even "socialist Europe" isn't as bad as the US in this regard.
Python has the `@property` decorator, which effectively disguises method calls as attribute access. To me, that's as bad, if not worse, than the ruby code posted above.
A lot of people still have a "real" computer they do a lot of browsing on - it's just increasingly that "real computer" is a laptop, rather than a desktop, computer.

(around 65% of Americans between 18 and 50 have PC/Mac laptops- see https://www.statista.com/statistics/228589/notebook-or-lapto...)
The US most definitely called out Putin for the assassinations in the UK, and had a stronger response than most of Europe.

Italy, Estonia, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, Lithuania, Romania and Finland also expelled between one and three diplomats each.

President Donald Trump on Monday ordered the expulsion of 60 Russian diplomats the US identified as intelligence agents and the closure of the Russian consulate in Seattle

https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/26/politics/us-expel-russian-dip...
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I'm not sure why you're being downvoted here.

The reported pay difference is 4% more to men than women for identical roles at identical companies. The pay difference grows to 7% for women in their mid 30s.

Wealth compounds, and the increase in the gap over time is a double whammy. Women wind up significantly less wealthy than their male peers by the time they hit 35, for the same jobs.

I don't know what's up with all the conspiratorial rejection of these basic stats. We all know very smart women, and we all know they're paid worse than their male colleagues. Surely, if it's right in front of your goddamned eyes, there's a problem!
Ignoring that most goes to the label, and the artists get a ridiculously small share of the pie?
Following their World Cup protest, I discovered that some of Pussy Riot's music is on Spotify, in case anybody is interested.

Edit: I guess people aren't interested. My bad.
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Doesn't seem that different from the C# concept of properties, except with a bit less language support. To me it doesn't seem that worth worrying about the overhead of trivial function calls in the general case.
Idea: whichever bookmarklet you use to pin sites should also request an internet archive backup of the site at that moment.
Three new physics experiments could revamp the standard model
None of your systems store patient data encrypted at rest.

Inadvertent data breaches are inevitable.

The very best you could possibly do is access logs and auditing. Which of your customers do any kind of auditing?
Say a factory is fully automated. What low skill jobs have been created? This isn't the same as the invention of the spinning jenny. Unreasoned panic is just as foolish as assuming that things will just sort themselves out for the best.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18023557
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To clairify, I was talking about the force exerted by a asphalt plane slamming into you at X m/s, not the force exerted by your muscles.

Although I was basing that on force exerted by gravity (which is proportional to mass), whereas deceleration might be spread out proportional to length, so it might work out to L² anyway. It's too late to edit though.
What you say makes sense.

Humans were once the only means of labor; even animals needed a human attendant – and the cost of construction was the number of capable adults to help build economies.

Industrialization, and especially the use of oil and electricity to do work, decoupled man-power. Computers and the internet have decoupled man-hours, and now we see economies of scale, and an information economy. With AI, we may see even less dependence on human labor.

What will this do to the human population? With low skill labor made irrelevant, how will those people contribute and receive money from an increasingly gated economy?

Interestingly, food also benefits from economies of scale and automation. Cheaper food leads to a larger population. Larger population means more people contributing to the economy, but as we've already seen in farming this last hundred years, fewer and fewer people of whom the economy pays wages to.

It's a strange balance. I do not know what it all means.
While it's true column stores perform better on single-column aggregates, they perform worse on multi-column operations, thresholding queries, and other types of complex analytics that one often sees on time-series workloads. We have published benchmarks on some common column stores that show these tradeoffs.
This is not the case.

TimescaleDB has full support for storing JSON data (inherited from postgres), including with indexes, so you do not need to fully pre-define your schema for these types of applications.

In fact, we added support for TimescaleDB to be a read/write backend for long-term Prometheus metrics. You pull from Prometheus via its remote storage backend, and the data appears automatically in TimescaleDB. But then unlike Influx and native Prometheus, you get to JOIN it against additional metadata for richer questions. For more information:

https://blog.timescale.com/sql-nosql-data-storage-for-promet...

https://github.com/timescale/pg_prometheus
"As it stands, the illegal ivory trade results in the deaths of 40,000 elephants each year. There are only about 400,000 left in Africa in total, according to the scientists’ best estimate, which means we’re losing one-tenth of our elephants each year. At this rate, there soon won’t be any elephants left to poach."

This is so sad.
I don't know how I've done it, but somehow I've reached a zen-like state where I just don't worry about this shit. I haven't ruthlessly optimised my day, I just deal with shit when I deal with it and everything works out fine.

I usually have time to watch some TV with my flatmate, or head to the pub for a couple of pints with a mate.

How does it take 2 hours to cook dinner? It takes me at most 15 minutes of engaged time to cook dinner. Apparently it takes 2 hours for the author to go to the gym too.

I think the author just needs to chill out and stop worrying about shit.
You should toast her tonight. I haven’t met her, but I will!
That is interesting, thank you.
There are certainly not an infinite number of original songs. There have already been lawsuits where songs that might have legitimately been independent creations were litigated for being too similar.
It's a very interesting conundrum and highlights the invalid stereotype of conservative = right-wing and liberal = left-wing.

Avoiding using the left/right terms because it simplifies a hugely complex set of behaviours, I think part of the problem is that the current global state of confected fear is pushing the average-joe to blaming all the ills of the world on 'the unfamiliar' (those who are superficially different by skin colour, language, culture, religion etc.).

The Bannons and Trumps of this world both encourage that fear and play up to the blaming of "the unfamiliar" because it is popular (populism?), and if nothing else, politics is a popularity contest.

Moderate folks aren't bombastic. People that believe in a cooperative society aren't bombastic. People that are scared of "an invasion of the unfamiliar" feel they need to be bombastic as "identity self-defence" - this is correctly categorised as 'conservative' because it's seen as a conservation of the status quo.

The biggest, loudest people seem to be those with the most to gain from a fearful, compartmentalised, under-educated society, and because of the loudness and bombast and overall 'theatre' that goes along with it, these people get more air-play than is representative of their numbers, but also more influence than is representative of their numbers - popularity plays (sells) in media, which flows into political influence.

The author is requesting better forms of discourse that don't play into the hands of bombast, which is essentially not possible, so the author then moves to a restriction of the air-play these loud minorities receive, which is what radiantswirl is saying, not incorrectly, is a conservative position. It's also just as impossible as improving the style of discourse.

What I see as the solution is that the moderates need to adopt the same strategy of theatre. It feels 'spinge-tingly icky' to suggest it, like marketing cigarettes and sugar to children, but if your message isn't getting through, then your methods of communication must change.

Climate Change, as a nicely divisive example. Would you believe Exxon (cue images of oil slick covered penguins), or BP (cue images of oil volcano in the Gulf of New Mexico), or would you believe what 90% of scientists are saying (cue images of clean, white laboratories with test tubes of bright colours and people with glasses in lab coats with clip boards).

Bigger, louder, you're-fucking-moronic-if-you-think-otherwise.

Moderate makes no headlines. Moderate is background noise; elevator-music. I hate the fact, but that doesn't mean it's not true.
I've never understood this attitude. Cooking takes as much time as you want it to.

Cooking up a bowl of pasta is like 10 minutes of actual engaged cooking time. Boil some water, add pasta, meanwhile fry a some sausage and onion (maybe add some broccoli or other vegetable), once pasta and sausage are cooked, drain the pasta water, add pasta sauce from a bottle and the sausage, then put it in a bowl. Boom, there's a good dinner.
I used to send mails like this at work to people somewhat often, selecting mailing group according to subject. I'd typically have spent a while trying to figure something out, met with some success, and figured I might as well send a summary to anybody that could be remotely concerned. Maybe save somebody else the bother in future.

Most of the time, nobody cared. (Which is fine, I never did this stuff for no reason, the write-up was typically beneficial for me personally, and if nobody else cared, that's OK by me.) But the odd one would prove useful and end up getting re-forwarded multiple times, and that happened often enough that I kept doing it.

(I use the past tense because I do contract work these days, and that works differently.)

Leaving aside the justification for this sort of thing in general, and moving on to why you might be interested in this particular note: suppose you'd always just built your code at one of either -O0 (shit code, but works well with any debugger), -Os (slightly less shit code, debugging probably tolerable) or -O2/-O3 (decent code, but debugging is a pain - and I always knew the assembly language for every target! The people that only knew C++ had a devil of a time).

So this works, and you're used to it, and what better argument for anything could there possibly be. But you probably wondered whether you could do better, and with this in mind you've probably looked at the gcc manual and noted that there's this huge pile of other sub-options. What if you tweaked those, you wonder? Would that make things better? Would it make them worse? If you only had the time to investigate which would impede debugging, and which you could just pop into your debug build with impunity, safe in the knowledge that it wouldn't cause you any difficulty! If only you had the sort of more in-depth knowledge of compiler internals required to make this sort of judgement by yourself, rather than just go through the 500,000 combinations of options to try each one in turn! And/or if you only you had somebody on staff who could just try this stuff out and write you a summary! But you don't, and you don't, and you don't, and you have a product to finish anyway...

So this document might at least be mildly interesting.
Amazing how everything turns out to revolve around women.
FYI, #2 on that list should say "than" rather than "then".

Also, the link to the compensation calculator is 404 for me.
Now imagine it with kids. Honestly, I have no idea how I was ever stresser about time before I was a parent.
Still a pretty good upgrade from the large scale horrors that were happening in that country 70 years ago. But lots of work to do still. Silver linings.
To be fair, they may also be trying to change a 3 into a 2 (or providing that option), but "trying" is the key word. There are enough high-value and/or physically large items that aren't cars (e.g. HDTVs, furniture) where undoing the transaction can be a huge imposition, even not considering that the merchandise is now no longer brand new and the customer must duplicate effort in the purchase process.
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Thanks! Updated from “Goodbye phpMyAdmin”.
Much of what is on our list isn't really important. And I have personally identified Time as my #1 enemy in my quality of life.

There are a few resources that provide a different perspective. One I would suggest is The Power of Now, by Eckhart Tolle. As thinking, analytical people, we should (grudingly?) realize that there truly is nothing other than this moment. And this moment usually doesn't care about your time on a foam roller... unless it does, in which case you get on the foam roller.

I think there's a problem for highly creative or mentally busy folks. We see so many possibilities, and perhaps we excel as many things we try. That brings a feeling of unrealized possibility that nags on us. We could be a good this, or that, or whatever. In some cases it might matter to the world if we accomplished it (assuming that ultimately even matters). But quite often, perhaps, the unrealized potential may not be worth much. So the worry about the time we should be spending to realize that potential can be dropped.

Not to belittle the "average guy", but we all probably know the guy that has had the same job for 10 years and who is SO happy to go home most night of the week - and especially to be there Sunday - to watch whatever game on his big TV. He's got the deadly but oh-so-tasty snack that he's blissfully unaware shorten his life with each mini-sausage. He's got a wife who appears to actually like sports and who provides the snacks for him and his buddies (not being sexist; just painting a typical American Dream picture). His big Ford F250 4x4 parked outside is only 1.5 years old. Life is good. If he's really rich and bad-ass, he's got a new Harley in the garage for his every-other-weekend-warrior needs.

Meanwhile, the HN crowd is browsing high achiever Github projects, considering their own many ideas, and feeling like underachievers. And eventually we die, or we set off on the ocean like Jim Gray (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Gray_(computer_scientist)#...) and never return.
What if I want a better home than other people? What if I don't want to eat the food that's provided to me? What if I disagree with the education system? You're trading one system of benefits and downsides for another, in your case you're trading freedom and risk for autocracy and stability. Mind you I'm well aware of the problems with Capitalism, I don't think having a good boss in the same system who can make you a better person, help you learn, etc is antagonistic to your goals of Chinese communism.
GoDaddy Domain Broker service was able to locate the client, probably because they had better research skills and more information than I had?
New Mexico observatory closure stemmed from FBI child porn probe
In addition to JSON support we also support EAV type schemas which look like:

- time | metric_name | value

- or time | metric_id | value

- or time | tags_id | value where the tags table contain normalized tags and metric names
Agree with these ideas of limits, but I'd also add limits to transfer. It seems where we get into trouble is artists transferring the rights to corporations--which seems okay--but then the corporation can use substantial political power to fight for them forever, long after the artist has expired. You might want something like "until artist dies, or if sold to another party, 10 years for that party."

We see the same sort of thing with patent trolls - if all you do is buy up IP and then sue someone, that's not a model that furthers humanity or IP creators.
WWII was also distinguished by the use of aerial firebombing, where tons and tons of explosives were hurled into cities more or less at random in the hopes that it would have some psychological or material impact. The whole idea of “precision strikes” and not harming civilians is a fairly recent development in the history of war. (Let’s hope it sticks around!)
> work that's useful to humanity

You could argue that having currency transactions based on distributed trust is useful to humanity.
The first time I've seen it reported that Linus was compensated 1.6M. (not related to the subject of abusive behavior)

I'd also like to say as a manager of a bunch of top notch woman engineers, we don't have an abusive environment, we don't have a frat boy environment, and it's friggin awesome. (and we are hiring, PM me :) )
Poison in the System[1] is the first part of Buzzfeed's investigative journalism series on many unexpected deaths related to Russia since 2003. The entire series is worth a book.

[1] https://www.buzzfeed.com/heidiblake/poison-in-the-system
"So unless for some reason I specifically think to help share some webpage or other, it'll just get auto-deleted from my machine when it cycles out of the cache" - my original post above.

I was thinking about that content effectively "linkrotting" away if nobody visits it for a while, say it's old posts on a blog or something. I suppose how big of an issue this really is comes down to how long stuff would tend to stay in that cache in a real, practical usage scenario. I guess I'd been assuming that it'd only be day or so, but it could be longer in practice, depending on how much space is actually allocated to the local cache and how much each individual bit of unique content takes up and how many such unique chunks of content will be downloaded per day, along with maybe some more complex factors besides first-in-first-out for deciding what to collect.

(I elaborated a little more about this below, when I thought about it kinda working like an automated torrent manager that made sure you maintained a decent seed ratio, didn't exceed an upload data cap, etc. and shuffled stuff out when it was taking up too much space or had hit a target ratio and wasn't going to be seeded anymore, with some prioritization for "is there anyone else seeding this", "is this a highly-demanded bit of content", etc.)
That's one of the most interesting questions I've read on HN; thanks; I've really had to think about it.

To refine the question, I think it is, 'to what degree' does each factor - perception or system - cause the other?

First, I'd love to read someone who has studied the issue and has expertise in the domain, if anyone has any suggestions.

Obviously, I don't know the answer. I'd wildly guess that the economic system creates inequality which creates social division which creates the perceptual fallacy which reinforces it all. I'd also guess that for some the economic system creates a conscious desire to control the underprivileged; Thiel might be a leading example: "I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible."[0]

Also, any system gains the self-reinforcing phenomena of normalizing itself (perhaps defined by the perceptual fallacy that the system is inevitable or the best of all possible worlds) and of vested interests who act, consciously and unconsciously, to protect the system that benefits them.

[0] https://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter-thiel/educatio...
The idea that fascism is growing out of control is a popular one these days, but I have yet to see anyone present hard evidence that this is really what's happening. Does anyone here think this? What's your reasoning?

The people who say these things come of like they are acting in a way, like they want to play the hero in this super simplistic narrative where the bad guys are taking over the world. To me it's really off-putting because I can spot 100 of these self-righteous people for every bigot (and like 10000 of them for every actual nazi).
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This is precisely why Kyle Simpson says there's no such thing as purity in JS
I can’t help but feel like it’s because we feel like we need to carve out some time to actually do something that is fulfilling, satisfying, or worth living for. The idea of the grind through middle age isn’t uncommon - and as people see their parents who went through it have regrets and/or fail to have anything happening for them after retirement it starts to really grow on you just how much of a waste it can feel.
Gladly!

One thing to keep in mind, is that when you plug in the Kinect, you can get the ir and webcam data trivially. However, when you load up the appropriate also commands to see the audio device, it will be markedly not present. You need to load the appropriate firmware with this tool ( https://manpages.debian.org/stretch/kinect-audio-setup/kinec... ).

Once you load the firmware, you'll see the inputs and outputs as you should. I forget the exact procedure, but I know you have to download the driver and strip the firmware.
You're amazed that 1/2 of humans are important factors in a lot of large and small events?