skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well...besides the obvious accidents there is nuclear waste.

But luckily you have places where you can make it disappear: https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/06/03/yucca...
This is cool from an implementation standpoint.

However, doesn't this defeat the purpose of using IPFS? Using Cloudflare to front-end content stored within IPFS makes Cloudflare the choke point for all traffic, effectively re-centralizing the distributed content.
I think anyone whose explained something technical to a layman has appreciates this. Often times, I will give a technically incorrect explanation of something because it delivers the point while avoiding as much complexity as possible. Recently I was explaining the Year 2038 problem to someone and said it was an issue with 32-bit computers because that side-stepped several related topics that are less relevant to the audience.

I'd have gotten a hundred down votes if I explained the issue that way here. But the person I was talking to was satisfied with a shallow explanation and at least understood the problem at a high level.
Well, the western world by and enlarge took the US lead. Some of the European countries have their own programs of course.

But in terms of regulatory and commercial, and integration of government and markets they didn't do much better.

The reality is that in the west power was a matter of state control much of the time, and with nuclear being such a politically decisive policy it was really difficult ever get into a better situation.

China and India are working on new designs. India is kind of slow but they are jugging along. China is doing much better and they are gone be the major builder of nuclear power in the future.

Many companies move to China, for example Bill Gates company.

However in terms of the west, Canada has had the balls to go its own way with the CANDU reactors and now because that program has been privatized and not much further development is gone happen, they have turned to SMR and to improve the regulatory environment.

This means that there are now above 10 nuclear companies trying to build GenIV reactors in Canada. The one leading, because they have cleared the first regulatory hurdle, is Terrestrial Energy a molten salt reactor.
I understand that they need a way to transfer data to and from the machine that builds the ballots but the method outlined above doesn't fill me with a lot of confidence. Barnes freely admitted that their desktop computer handles their email and that they use a thumb drive to transfer data from that desktop computer to the "air gapped" ballot build server.

If his desktop becomes infected with a virus of some kind, isn't it straightforward for that virus to infect the thumb drive and then to infect this server that builds the ballots? My understanding is that most "air gapped" machines lack USB ports or have those ports plugged so as to discourage their use.

In terms of what they should be using to transfer data, that is outside of my wheelhouse. But the current system seems ripe for exploitation by a third party dedicated to gaining access to this machine that builds the ballots.
I think Gov Cuomo is right. That whilr progressives had an explosion of light and a fervent base, they don’t represent the majority of the Dem party and will not own the party if they stray into Chavista territory too far.

Many of their candidates lost to moderate dems because most dems are not so different from moderate repubs on most issues, save a few. In any case, they are not willing to go too far from orthodoxy.

Now, in general i agree these cos. should pay their contract and temps better, but I’d rather he use other tactics.
> Maintain a metaphorical "strategic popcorn reserve".

Did you just come up with that? It's absolute gold.
NaN == NaN

is falsy, no? (Shows as truthy in the game, unless I am misunderstanding.)
To be fair, flow is in a sense the opposite of what Cal Newport often advocates. Flow occurs when you have expertise and have bouts of huge productivity. Cal focuses a lot more in acquiring that expertise, which involves quite the opposite. Long bouts of painfully low productivity as you struggle to advance your skills yet one notch higher.
Lucid Motors Signs $1bn+ Investment with Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund
That's plausible if the new news source is *general interest and is good in your arbitrary (form their perspective) area of expertise. But it's bad advice if the editor of your favorite automotive maintenance journal pens an article about biology or international relations.
Decentralized end-to-end encrypted file sharing based on IPFS and IOTA
http://delivery.acm.org/10.1145/2980000/2978407/p1591-green.... and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G62JD9fdxNM
Just because you don't like it it does not mean this is not true.
Really cool concept!
>Projects that chase skin-deep appearance of macOS are a dime a dozen.

Cue the best fundraising pitch ever. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aEdrey6U5dU
Funding secured. ;)
I also looked at your resume. I'm from the USA and I don't know anything about how to write a European resume. That said, your skills, the work accomplishments in your 3-year most recent job, and your education are going to be the most relevant to employers but the majority of the words in your resume are used on other things. Seek some help from a resume writing expert.
I would prefer if people saw cultivating your interests as a thing. This "passion" thing is not helpful. It makes it seem like you're going to meet the idea that's going to sweep you off your feet, while you are passively walking along the street.

Instead I think you have to go out and find your interests. And grow them, like you are tending to a garden. You may have started off interested in everything as a kid, but interests wilt and fade without care. You have to put the time in.

And that means even making yourself do things when you don't feel like it, like making yourself paint something or draw something, or go for a run, or write something, or cook something or learn something.

It's work. People harp on the passion thing, like you'll love every minute and time will just fly by because you're so in love with your passion project. Well no, it's still work. But it's good work.
What's deceitful? It's named after something Chrichton observed in Gell-Mann.
While you're quite right, if you wanted to see what the old argument was, please look at your sibling comments.
Commercial products like BlueCoat proxies do this. You won't see a warning because the CA of the proxy will be trusted on your system by your administrator.

Certificate pinning with HSTS/HPKP isn't effective as the proxy can strip those headers in the response.

https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/33976/man-in-th...
> There's only one language that I know of that's still in popular use and that likes weak typing.

As much as I wish it wasn't so, I believe PHP sees more activity currently than Perl, and it's also weakly typed.

Javascript itself is weakly typed as well, which is why we're all having this discussion.

I would say that two of the most popular languages (probably the two most popular new languages) of the last two decades have been weakly typed.
Reports: Apple AirPower still overheating, may be “doomed to failure”
>> ...just one ton of fuel per year, about the size of a beach ball.

Well, one hell of a hot beach ball. While the numbers are correct, that is how big one ton of uranium would be, for all practical purposes the fuel would be much bigger. The rods aren't 100% uranium. And they certainly aren't all transported in one spherical mass (boom). It would be moved a few kilos at a time, under escort. So there would still be lots of shipment/trucks transporting fuel to the reactor.

It won't be pallet delivered by fedex ground every other year.
How do you tell if something goes wrong? I think what's often missing in these discussions is a need for automatic audits, too, even if not full audits initially but only for a small sample.

If there is anything wrong found in that first series of audits, then a full audit should be requiered by law and there should be severe prison punishments for those state officials failing to start and finish those audits in the specified time after the election.

Corrupt state officials should not be able to create any sort of delays or use them as an excuse.
> it takes a while for your body to decide it is a good idea to start creating toxins (ketones, which are quite harmless in smaller quantities) which are the result of fat conversion in a starvation diet.

Ketones are created when your body doesn't have sugar to convert into energy. This process can take as little as 12 hours, and in no way whatsoever requires a "starvation diet"
So this is basically OSX but take away 30 years of human-computer interaction learnings and UI improvements.
The coercing between types only happens if the types are different.
I don't understand why DDG is not open source. I don't think it would hurt them business wise and it would be much easier to trust them.
You don't have to believe Apple. All you need to do is look at the secondary market and see how prices for used devices hold up and see that it's true.
Even better, only fall back to StartPage (google proxy) with the !s bang command when it fails. Same google results, less the tracking
I worked at a phone company years ago. It was around the time when GTE became Verizon (it has been a while).

The entire system was segmented. I was in the "disconnect department" - folks late on their bill and about to be disconnected or newly disconnected (this was for landlines).

We literally could not do much more than that. We did not have any access to billing tools and could not fix those. We could not put in a repair ticket at all. We could not see cellular service. Basically, if it wasn't a disconnection reconnection or payment plan we couldn't help you.

Some of this was a knowlege thing: National call centers needing to learn the ins and out of different state laws (some states public utility commissions were stricter and more powerful than others). Some of this was built in: We literally didn't have access to these things. I'm sure some of it was because training on all of the things wasn't cost effective. There were also things we simply weren't allowed to do without being a supervisor (Which was often an experienced rep working a hotline for a few hours).

It does provide horrible customer service in many cases, especially if there is a wait time to another department. It would make it slightly easier if you could jump to the start of the other department's queue, but that wasn't the case. ON the other hand, many states had laws about how quickly you were supposed to answer the phones and queue jumping probably affected that.
You'll need a "centralized" version of a web site for those that don't use IPFS today. That's what a gateway provides. Clients using the IPFS protocol will ignore them and fetch the distributed version.
"..because people don’t hop around jobs as much as they should..."

I suspect you are over-generalizing from the relatively rare situation of a group of high-earners. Job hoping isn't really a good strategy for convenience store clerks.
The problem with France is that they had a strongly state driven program based on pretty old technology.

They pushed foreword on that technology but never truly innovated on an industrial scale by having new types of reactors deployed in large numbers.

Its basically a large state industry that is very, very heavy footed.
I'm thinking about switching from fglrx to AMDGPU with an old Radeon HD 7870 atm. Mind sharing more details? Anything I should watch out for?

Btw there are two open-source drivers for older AMD graphics cards; one is their current, officially-supported open-source driver which had support for a couple of older generations added, and the other is an independent open-source driver which is much older (and supports the _really_ old cards).
Bush vs Gore led directly to the idiotic touchscreen machines. Florida's paper ballot mechanism sucked, sure. But touchscreens are far, far worse. People fell for it.
Left to its own devices and somewhat bizarrely, capitalism evolves strategies that include "social stability". Long-term prosperity becomes a part of the equation, with despotic wealth gaps an obstacle to that.

Nobody likes their head inside a guillotine! Or a world where their children couldn't live.

In other words, no central committees are needed when the actors align voluntarily. "Bread and games", it was called in Rome. It would take some fairly corrupt governments and very stupid businessmen to forget these lessons.
I've been using DDG for many years now. I rarely resort to !g anymore, and when I do it doesn't help. (That is, if I don't find anything good in the DDG results, I don't find anything any better in the !g results.)

(That said, my Google account is purposefully pretty clean of "personalization", so if you've let Google track you for many years then maybe it will still return better results for you.)
Wow. This is so well written and succinct. I love HN for these comments.
Indiana did such a thing, though. These things actually make folks hate goverment a bit less, I think.

https://www.sagamoreinstitute.org/case-study-in-culture-chan...
> As a society we've decided that we do, because we are. The shoddy treatment of Amazon's employees has been publicized repeatedly for years.

The operations of the market, with its vast information asymmetries, does not amount to a "decision" to endorse the particular behaviors of its participants. And even if Amazon's labor practices have been reported somewhere, they haven't been reported everywhere, and it's not like Amazon is up front with its customers about its shoddy treatment of its workers.

I have a lot of confidence that many of Amazon's labor practices would be banned if they were put up for a straight-up national referendum.
"Nope, I suspect that's the one. Sorry about the time-frame lapse. Should have Googled it myself."

I just got hit on the head with the irony on that. Thanks
chasingthewind I got a good laugh.
Chernobyl won’t be habitable for 20,000 years.

While accidents are rare, with their incredibly high cost (in this case: a city of 50,000 people that cannot be inhabited for a time longer than all of human history), they need to be even rarer.
> does it not make sense to just remove it from the language completely?

The way syntax is "removed from the language" in JS is by introducing commonly-used lint rules that disallow them, and that has already happened with `==`: https://eslint.org/docs/rules/eqeqeq . As long as the community makes it so a standard project setup has a linter with good defaults, `==` can effectively be removed from JavaScript without having to break nearly every website in existence (which is what would happen if browsers decided to start crashing on `==`).
That is a matter of opinion.

I could never get over typing @ and [] everywhere and typing retain/release by hand.

In fact my biggest contact with Objective-C was to port a particle simulation framework from NeXTSTEP into Windows and C++.

Thankfully there is Swift now.
What's the advantage of !g over searching directly from google?
It doesn't change IPFS fundamentally, it just provides a simple way to get to IPFS content and a place where it gets cached. We hope it help legitimize IPFS.
Yes. Very sadly so.

One of the create successes of anti-nuclear moment. Its band in a very destructive way where the minster is not even allowed to start a concept plan or anything like it.
This post is spot on, I work in big data. I get ask to change job on a weekly basis. When you tell them the salary, they usually say it's not possible withn a olot of dumb excuses, even though the job description will list every big data technologies in existence plus all the cloud vendor.
They want a senior with experience but with an associate Eng. salary bracket. They'll tell you they can't find anyone though. Also what I've seen, if you don't check one box in your past experience. They don't want to take a chance. I think any employes should consider the ccandidata learn some of his skills, most tech workers are usually looking for another challenge because they want to learn something new.
The US job market is filled with employer with impossible criteria to meet. Sad state of affairs.
> so much so that switching to them is both painful at first and frustrating on a daily basis

Speaking as someone who made a switch about 2 years ago, I could not agree more.
For desktop purposes it's OK because I don't mind refining my search query, but for mobile it's a serious pain.
As an example, sometimes you just want to look up something quickly, like restaurant reviews, or an article you were talking about to a friend. Trying to "re-find" things you've searched or seen before, or trying to find specific places in your neighbourhood, that is where the need for privacy takes its largest toll on convenience.

Why isn't there a way to combine privacy with keeping your data?
Yes, and since he's outed himself a point of failure, he's sure to be subject to spear phishing campaigns.
This has been possible since at least the mid 90's. We used to update the firmware over the air. We could change any settings on the phone, but would only do so when required to keep the phone operational. Anything beyond that risked customer support calls and bricked phones. And yes, we sometimes bricked phones. We even had the ability to brick phones intentionally, if stolen, but that feature was never used by customer support for fear of bricking the wrong phones. Some years later I was at a company that could rewrite any part of your phones OS over the air. They did some fairly clever things that were barely documented by the vendors. I can only imagine what is possible today.
This is fantastic advice. I'm a binational and ran into similar issues earlier in my career.
My memory is hazy but the first time I saw this, they were all followers of the same guru as the founders. Not actually Scientology but a similar sort of thing. They lost it all in the dotcom crash anyway!
The real answer may very well be different to the marketing answer that a founder or CEO might put out. In fact it usually is.

DDG is my default search engine, and I only revert to Google very rarely. I'm happy DDG exists and want them to succeed. Yet I would take quite some issue with point 4 "We listen". They may very well listen more than the others, particularly Google who are renowned for being deaf. I've reported faults with bangs, instant answers or results to DDG with little effect weeks and weeks later. They also shut down their community for creating and fixing bangs and instant answers.
Alf, is that you? I loved cops!
I’m all all for cynical reductionism, but come on. There are hundreds of millions of Americans and only a fraction watch Fox or MSNBC. There are newspapers, blogs, forums, social media of varying quality, PBS, NPR, CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, Twitter, news magazines, and much more. There truly is no excuse for being totally ignorant of politics after two years of this except deliberate action to blinker yourself.

This, in a country of cord cutters, and massive internet consumption, with access to the world’s press in addition to their own.
2 miles isn’t a “short walk” in many parts of the year in Scotland.
DuckDuckGo Instant Answer API
I beg to differ. I live in Minneapolis, where we do RCV on paper. It has not caused any of the problems you're talking about.
Since when do people with power get held accountable?
I could hide from the clients for weeks! Weeks I say! "Oh, sorry, our schedules really only overlap for a day and I'm booked solid. How about next month?"
That's a fair point, but I think this article shows that weak typing in JS is actively avoided by most people. That's why the article is interesting in the first place. I don't know if PHP heavily relies on weak typing though, I haven't used it in 9-10 years. But JS doesn't rely on it. It's just there, and easily avoided.
Efficient tuning of online systems using Bayesian optimization
On freenet other people are sending you files to store, on ipfs you only store your own files, files pinned (basically seeding) and files from your cache. Freenet is built for anonymity, while ipfs is built for performance.
Maybe OP was thinking of people that chose the DE and are not using the default because they don't know there is an alternative.

Unfortunately in Linux community telemetry is controversial so we do not have accurate data on what people chose when they have a choice, surveys on reddit or other web pages are not reliable
How much energy does a hurricane release?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGscoaUWW2M

"In this timeless clip, Prime Minister, Jim Hacker explains to Sir Humphrey and Bernard the importance of the papers and who reads which one."

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0751828/quotes

Sir Humphrey: The only way to understand the Press is to remember that they pander to their readers' prejudices.

Jim Hacker: Don't tell me about the Press. I know exactly who reads the papers.

* The Daily Mirror is read by the people who think they run the country.

* The Guardian is read by people who think they ought to run the country.

* The Times is read by the people who actually do run the country.

* The Daily Mail is read by the wives of the people who run the country.

* The Financial Times is read by people who own the country.

* The Morning Star is read by people who think the country ought to be run by another country.

* The Daily Telegraph is read by the people who think it is.

Sir Humphrey: Prime Minister, what about the people who read The Sun?

Bernard Woolley: Sun readers don't care who runs the country as long as she's got big
> Even less well known is they also enable advertisers like airlines to charge you different prices based upon your personal information.

I hate this with a passion and it highlights why privacy is valuable to every individual whether or not they think they have "nothing to hide"
I'm only going by the stuff I've read in the informational section of in-flight magazines [0]. I'm sure it depends on the regulatory environment of different countries, airlines and flights.

It used to be that running any uncertified electronic equipment at all was disallowed on takeoff/landing, no matter what the radio status. In the top hits on Google for "Portable IFE" I'm seeing WiFi devices on pages with 2012 copyright dates that claim no certification is required. Sounds like BS to me.

[0] https://i.imgur.com/P1REKZR.jpg
How we use smart contracts at Argent to hire engineers
That particular system sucked (the 'hanging chads' come to mind), could have been easily remedied without going electronic though.
Maybe you are right, but it's quite pointless in this context to judge someone's intentions.

Staged or not, if Gabriel's answer is factually accurate -- as it seems to be from a cursory look -- I don't see a problem here.
It's a web interface linked to a service in the cloud. You can't secure a web interface, since the changes going on the backend are invisible to the user and even if you have a system that makes use of end to end cryptography (which doesn't apply here), you can always be targeted with a special version of the client that tracks you.

This is why online password managers that allow you to insert your password in a web form are inherently insecure.

So it would be cool if DDG open sourced their code, but it wouldn't help for doing reviews of how well they respect their privacy policy.

In such cases you just have to trust them. Well, for companies such as DDG, if they broke their privacy policy and word got out, the company would go out of business fast. Since a good reputation is all they have.
Alacritty gets scrollback, publishes benchmarks
No, they don't have an official list of RSS feeds for all categories, like Reuters[1] and others do. There's no way to follow bloomberg.com/markets via RSS, for instance.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/tools/rss
In other words, the bottom line was already written.

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/34XxbRFe54FycoCDw/the-bottom...