skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Restrepo is a 2010 American documentary film about the Afghanistan war.

The 2nd Platoon is depicted defending the outpost (OP) named after a platoon medic who was killed earlier in the campaign.

The huge success of this film and what separates it from the hundreds of other war pictures is that Junger puts us right in the middle of the action without any political agenda. He simply decides to film these groups of soldiers who have been deployed to one of the most dangerous locations in Afghanistan and lets us experience their day to day lives without making any pro or anti war comments. We are allowed to see a small glimpse of what the American soldiers have to go through and how they live amongst the villagers. In a way Junger allows the soldiers being filmed to tell their own story. We experience what they are going through in this dangerous war zone and how they interact with the local people. The cinematography is actually quite astonishing and I really felt like I was there with the soldiers.

The movie isn`t pro or anti war; it simply places the camera in the middle of the action and lets us experience what is going on. No one`s opinion about War is going to change: those who favor Americans involvement in Afghanistan will still do so after watching this documentary and those who don`t will still feel the same because the directors don't try to manipulate us into thinking the way they do. There aren`t any personal opinions about politics or war; it's all about experiencing what these soldiers have to go through every day whether or not they actually understand what they are fighting for.

It is only 90 minutes long so it is really worth your time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restrepo_(film)
As an unproven, but extremely passionate and motivated person (who is literally 2 hours away from going into his first Software Developer interview), I found this calming. If I don't get this position I really hope I find a company with the same ideals portrayed in this article.
Thelio – Open Source Laptop from System 76
This is a silly game and has nothing whatsoever to do with the actual process of approving ingredients for food safety. That process is far from perfect but — in the case of glyphosate — it worked very well.

> It's not scare tactics to be careful with food specifically and the ecosystem in general

Correct. But it’s a scare tactic to ignore the existing evidence to claim unfounded effects, or to mention “chemicals” to stir up panic.
Correlation is information. People are slowly beginning to learn that basic information theoretic fact.
Multiple devices and linking them to a single person is an active area of development. Say your phone you’ve never signed into Facebook on safari, so Facebook won’t know what account it is. But you sign into some other service that you give it your phone. Since phone is pretty uniquely identifying, the two companies share info and thus Facebook knows that safari browser is you and can track everything you do to your account.
We are really lucky to be alive. Then again, if an event did trigger WW3, most of us wouldn't be around to wonder what happened. It's sort of a variation on the Anthropic Principle.
One that had a huge impact on me as a kid was "QED - A Guide to Armageddon" - which is a very factual analysis of the effects of a nuclear weapon on a modern city.

It's available on YouTube.

The director went on to make Threads.

Also - "Behind the Lines" about the training done by the Arctic and Mountain Warfare Cadre of the Royal Marines:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00j9v8j
> ...Oracle branded JVMs will no longer be free for production use.

I was confused by the indignation in this thread. A JetBrains blog post [1] seems to say that if you have been coasting on OpenJDK in production, as long as you don't plan to use any OracleJDK-specific features now or in the future, and as long as you use Java 11 in all your implementations, then the license change is not a material difference to you. Not supporting older Java specs for free sounds reasonable to me, is there something wrong with that posture that someone can care to enlighten me upon?

[1] https://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2018/09/using-java-11-in-pro...
Right, because Move fast and break stuff is their mantra. I'm surprised that articles doesn't even mention it.

Perhaps Move fast and hurt people would be more honest. I think it's rather catchy.
Learning what's important to our users
>You don't want to kill your workers. If you do, soon there will be no workers to mine your coal, or man your rigs or whatever you need them for.

Well that's clearly not the case. Coal mining has been happening for centuries and it's been dangerous the whole time, black lung isn't a new thing. And yet we haven't run out of coal workers... and I don't imagine we're about to.

It is a slow death that can take years to develop. If you have a productive worker for five, ten, twenty years before black lung gets them... Well coal workers aren't dying faster than people are being born

And everyone knows it's dangerous work that can kill you a dozen different ways and companies have proven over and over again to be largely indifferent about protecting workers unless there's a gun to their head. So why does anyone agree to do this work? Well if you've got no options and it's the best paying work around and you've got kids to feed, well maybe you bite the bullet and hope you're one of the lucky ones...
The Corporation http://thecorporation.com/
I'm a bit sad when I read the url of this post.
What on earth are we comparing when discussing Nim vs. other languages, if not the language itself, in practice? Are we just discussing how good you feel about it?

My point is, this is an actual deficiency that you need to consider when evaluating Nim, that isn't just a function of the language being new. For example, Zig is another option which puts any C libraries at your fingertips, without requiring bindings. If Nim had better interop (not just relatively good, but zero effort) this would no longer be a concern and you wouldn't need all of your libraries to be in Nim.
I always read Linus as a Finn speaking English as Finnish is spoken in the company of good friends, profanity will be used, often quite liberally, and if anything, the Swedish speaking minority he harkens from swear even more. Only outdone by the good people of Åland, to which swearing seems to be a form of art, or how they breathe.

I believe it's well known that people tend to curse more in a second language, applying that theory to some Finns is going to lead to a very colorful and explicit language.

Personally I barely swear, I find it somewhat pointless.

However I have never really been bothered in the least of what he writes. I'm wondering if it is because English is a second language to me? Maybe because I have at least a cursory knowledge of Finn culture, or even because it felt so blindingly obvious to me that regardless of the superficial content of the profanities, they were rarely ( if ever ) a statement of value regarding people, only their contribution.

I really don't know, but it is interesting because I think I would have reacted quite strongly to most people saying what you quoted above!

Language and communication, it's perplexingly complicated.
It is quite a stretch to compare making yourself be kind to a colleague or underling despite your own frustrations with defrauding investors.
Grizzly Man: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0427312/ -- the folly of humans when it comes to interacting with wild animals well illustrated

The Fog of War: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0317910/ -- whoa. Just: whoa.

The Thin Blue Line: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thin_Blue_Line_(1988_film) -- when a conviction goes wrong.

I guess I really like Errol Morris and Herzog? Probably.
Yeah, but it looks like it still doesn't work if you switch to the app after having given them your phone number for 2FA. The sentence that follows your quote says:

>>(Albeit, the company only added the ability to do non-mobile phone based 2FA back in May, so anyone before then was all outta luck.)
"The Isle of Flowers". It's heart wrenching and it's only 13 minutes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQcdXh9v0pA

I could give you a summary but watching it with no context makes it as powerful as it was intended to be.

The 'videoclip' editing has been somewhat overdone, but this was done in 1989 so please give it a break and stick to it.

The doc itself was very famous in its time, but has since somewhat faded from public memory. Kinda like Marjoe and others, come to think about it
It's not exactly known to be incomplete although everyone hopes it is, there are a few theoretical extensions to it like SUSY but currently all of them have failed to produce any tangible experimental results.

We thought that the LHC would quickly find physics beyond the standard model but alas it has found nothing which is a problem for many theories that want to replace or even substantially expand on it as many of their prediction were proven to be false.

At this point i would find it very unlikely that we will replace the standard model completely most likely scenario is that we will find an extension to it which will be proven correct and at this point it seems the model we have will not be extended as much as it was thought so previously.

It would require an extremely drastic discovery to essentially push the standard model out of it's current generalised state.

And the cosmological constant is not a gaping hole in any theory it's a problem for some its not a huge or (even a small) problem in the standard model if you want to find the biggest true problem with it currently you should look into neutrinos which are supposed to be massless according to the standard model but have a small non-zero mass in reality.

There are a few solutions to this problem both within the current model as well as extensions which range from a massless sterile neutrino to super symmetry and to a secondary mechanism through which particles may gain mass other than the Higgs field.
This seems like a ridiculous assertion considering that humanity predates capitalism by about a hundred thousand years and civilization predates capitalism by about five thousand years.
The bias for promoting people who build massive card houses is frustrating. I've found myself cleaning up the mess my manager left behind pushing through whatever feature he used to get promoted countless times. And then getting pressure by that same manager when there is too much tech debt in the code base they left behind.
Autonomous Trucks and the Future of the American Trucker
We also assume that we only get a virus when we notice it.

The reality is probably more like: You're exposed to millions of different viral antigens over the course of your lifetime; Many of them don't have a mechanism to really hurt you, and nearly all of them are dealt with efficiently by your immune system.

Not only do they not cause symptoms, we don't even have a mechanism to identify them unless we already know what we're looking for.
I had a feeling that facebook does it and remove my phone number from facebook a few years ago.

I'm fine living with the cost that if someone hacks into my facebook I'll just have to finally delete it. Maybe using app like Google authenticaticator would solve the problem, but then I'd have to think of all of the nefarious ways facebook will leverage that against me.

Right now I'm trying to get into a habit of checking out facebook only from (the same) my home desktop computer once a week.
Cizenfour is hands-down my favorite movie of all time. It’s cinematically beautiful and the inside perspective on the Snowden leaks is tantalizing. I can’t receomend it enough.
Yeah the general algorithm is "Reingold-Tilford" with some tweaks from Buchehim.

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reingold-Tilford_algorithm

Really good algorithm to have in an arbitrary visualization toolkit.
I find this is incompatible with the list of 4 questions:

> Cut luck out of your system.

You can't decide to do that. If you're a small company, you are only sampling a little bit and luck will either help you or hurt you. If you are large, the law of large numbers will give you something like the average. You can't decide if you're small or large.

As for finding people who are proven, it's up to you what level you are after. If you want anyone who'd played division 3 football, you have a reasonably large number of candidates. If you have a left back who's played Champions League and is under 25, you have a small number of candidates.

Try to go with larger sets, because then the LLN will help you. Don't ask for anyone who's played any sport for your football team, just anyone who has played football to the level you need.

Another important thing to think about is how to work with the great mass of ordinary people. At some stage if things go well, you may have to engage with people who are not wanting to spend 80 hours at your office, or who don't spend their weekends contributing to exactly the projects your firm is interested in, and who maybe aren't even all that interested in what you do. Motivating such teams has been a major value-add for a large number of household names.
Mozilla Pushes WebXR as New Open Web API for Augmented Reality
Another great Adam Curtis : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperNormalisation
Linus himself is saying he can and should do better.
I agree! My point isn't that we should listen to people because they won an award, because people who've won the same award have come to different conclusions.
What really bothers me, it when people start to speak about someone who "sends message", "sets wrong example" and so on.

It bothers me, when people think about others, like they are less intelligent. If you can see, that Linus's behaviour is wrong and shouldn't be followed, why do you think, that other could not see it? It is because all others are stupid children and they need to be led to the right direction, isn't it? You know, I'm russian, and I see a lot of this thinking around me, all the deeply patriotic and deeply religious people around me thinks like that. "We should restrict access to internet, for others do not get information they are too stupid to understand properly". I hate it, and probably extra-sensitive for such a thinking, and it really bothers me when I see it.

I can suggest different way of thinking: if Linus's behaviour is wrong, then it gives you endless opportunity to illustrate your point with real world examples. You can compare Carmack with Torvalds because Torvalds exists and being himself.
The Cartel Next Door
Forks over Knives. Details the findings of an extensive string of studies on the consumption of animal protien. What is not covered in this particular documentary was how the US government was about to change thier food recommendations in 1977 but was stopped by agricultural power brokers invested in meat production. Uphill battle ever since but we can see exploding diabetes, heart disease, and cancer--all demonstrated as controllable I the studies talked about in this documentary. Changed my life.
OMG. This line:

> "Design right on top of the live site."

This is exactly what someone like me (a person who hacks around in dev tools) needs.

How will the Chrome extension work?
China had/has different problems in different eras.

At the beginning of modern communist China, the country suffered from incredible poverty. Most people could barely feed themselves. They had suffered pretty much nonstop war for over half a century - the Boxer Rebellion (against European colonial powers), the Japanese occupation, WWII, and civil war.

I ran numbers on this a while back. Per capita GDP in China has increased 130 times since 1960, from ~$60/year to over $8000/year. With success like that, is focusing on inequality over that period the right approach? Would they be better off with hatchet axe and saw, as Rush put it?

But today, the problems are different. Incredible growth leads to massive concentrations of power. It's not just the inequality, it's the ability to alter the system to favor those already in power, at the expense of everyone else.

That's sort of America's problem today... the top is growing, but mostly by hoarding 100% (or more) of all economic growth, so none of the benefits reach the bottom 90%. China doesn't have that problem - yet.
One of the bloatware apps that I can't remove from my phone is Facebook :)

Thanks, Sprint!
A country could democratically ban the use of cars

It depends on how this is done. If this is done in a way which tightens centralized control of the populace, then it could be quite anti-democratic.
And Mono now supports .Net Standard 2.0...
I think saying “this sucks” can actually make certain personality types want to really dive in and analyze their own thought process.

I’ve wotked with people who genuinely respond well to that kind of feedback. It seems you think one-size fits all, and fits every situation?
I don't really consider it a double standard, every company with branding and has to choose their associations. Saying "we don't wish to have our branding associated with firearms because we don't like them" seems perfectly reasonable. When it's such a politically charged topic that even agreeing to host gun enthusiast communities is a political statement having officially licensed firearm decals is practically an endorsement.

The fact that Reddit allows their branding to be associated with other things I don't think plays into it very much.
You just 100% nailed it.

Saying that you shouldn't hire people because they're only in it for a paycheck and not passion is just shorthand for I want you to make this your life, but not pay you to make it your life.

Subsequently, what I've seen is that most problems in the field of k-12 education in the states can be tied to this sentiment.
Public forums are already language/tone minefields. Non-native speakers already have to understand the dominant slang and tone cues to interpret what the "natives" are saying, putting the burden on them. Using neutral language isn't that hard, and helps relieve that burden. I never suggested replacing one set of codes with another.

BTW, sarcasm is really helpful when dealing with non-native speakers. Your sincere concern for their well being just shines through.
If you want an open source DDR3 controller to go with your open source SoC I recommend LiteDRAM. Its getting pretty polished.

https://github.com/enjoy-digital/litedram
The real value for me is just being able to sit down and start. The odious first impressions of tailwind are true. But try it out. I like it because I don't waste time flipping back and forth between my document and a style sheet. I don't waste time thinking of clever class names. I don't wait a second to compile css and refresh for every small change I make (even though developer tools have been helpful in this regard, you can only make so many changes at a time). I still break it down into components later but the actual design process is more fluid.
Firefox's native support going away doesn't really make a big difference, as far as I know you couldn't access it from a plugin anyways.

There are many parsers that are adequate, especially if you don't try to get too fancy. If you're curious, the source is available on github.
https://github.com/adamsanderson/brook
I don’t care what glyphosate does or doesn’t do. Monsanto has a pile of research showing it as mostly harmless. Maybe that’s like Big Tobacco. Time will tell.

What I do care about is what Roundup does. There are many many curious compounds in Roundup, and some of them appear to be much nastier than glyphosate. If for instance all of these stomach problems people have been having lately are caused by application of Roundup to aid in grain harvesting, we need to know sooner rather than later. And it doesn’t really matter as much to me which chemical is the culprit. It’s the same bad actors regardless.
Advertisers can upload lists of phone numbers that represent people they want to see their ads. Facebook matches those up with your 2FA phone number to show you those ads.
Good recent selection is Steve Aoki's I'll Sleep When I'm Dead. There is something inspiring about an inside look in real time at someone playing at the absolute peak of their game and the backstory of how hard they had to struggle to get there ;)

Active Measures is also pretty much required watched for the current conversation.
I have not but much appreciate you taking the time to recommend it! Looks like a good read, I just purchased it.
Also, it's one thing to willingly give up your own data in exchange for using Facebook etc for free, but often the data they collect could reasonably considered other people's - for instance uploading your contact book to "find friends" tells Facebook what names to associate with phone numbers and helps them build "shadow profiles" (or whatever the term they use is) for users who haven't given them anything.
I wrote a custom RSS reader which supports regular expressions for deciding if I want to see a post. So for hacker news I have the following:

mike@snake:~$ rss --list|grep ycombinator

155. https://news.ycombinator.com/rss

mike@snake:~$ rss --list-grep 155

74. title = (?i)\b((e-?|web)?mail|irc|internet relay chat|grpc|hashicorp|rust|debian|c\+\+|perl|(bit|name)coin|tor|pgp|gpg|gnupg|openpgp|digitalocean|ovh|linode|grepular|email\sprivacy\stester|parsemail|ssl|https|backdoor|apache|exim|distribut|peer (to|2) peer|vpn|secur|anonym|webrtc|torrent|webtorrent|nextcloud|owncloud|graphql)(ity|ous|e?s|ing?|ed?)?\b

I run it from a cron job, and it just emails me new RSS items. Manages state in an sqlite db. I have a sieve filter to filter those emails into a "News" folder in my mailbox. So I can just read them from whatever email client I'm using on whatever device I'm on.

I don't get why people need to use a third party service for feeds, or a special client for it either.
I want to add: I don't think "caring" means that somebody coded from early youth on or works another 40 hours per week on side projects. All I mean is that somebody is curious about the systems he/she is working with, explores things, stays at least a little informed about latest trends, maybe reads some blogs, thinks about ways to do things better, is able to criticize himself/herself (it's a good sign to be embarrassed about something you did years ago), learns more about the tools he/she is using than strictly necessary, tries to understand the bigger picture.

All this can be done in a 40 hours week. No need for overtime or starting at age of 3.

During a one year project I see a lot of people who barely grow during that time. Others grow a lot because they put in a little extra mental effort. That's the people I like to work with.
The Overnighters fundamentally shifted how I think about selflessness, greed, apathy, and NIMBYism. I think about it on a near-daily basis.
Recently, I really like "The Untold History of the United States".
Maybe it's time to reboot Babylon 5.
Except software is one of the only high-paying careers where you can get by purely on merit with no formal education. I'll take our, sometimes ridiculous, interview processes over requiring X, Y, and Z degree, certificate, etc...
I think platforms like Facebook depend on being "cool" over some demographic. Then other demographics adopt it, time passes, other demographics grow tired of the same old Facebook look their parents also used, and Facebook starts to die. We've seen this as well with other social networks like hi5, myspace, that once dominated entire continents as the preferred social website. Of course they are smart and competent people so they will try to prevent it, and it seems to have lasted longer and left a bigger mark already, but still; I'm sure a lot of people around the world already share the sentiment of "not doing anything on FB", and just keeping it open for messenger chat.
Exactly. 9, 10, 11 in six months (total, not six months each), representing a dramatic shift from the Java 8 history - and spring boot didn't support 9 until it was already reaching end of life.

Grails (built on spring boot) won't support anything higher than Java 8 until end of 2018.