skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's less a question of price and more that of convenience. In India most services don't have the full catalog due to old licensing issues. There is fragmentation. Which does not matter when you pirate stuff.
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For a balanced view, this is a must read from Professor of Meteorology Richard S. Lindzen at MIT:
https://www.thegwpf.org/content/uploads/2018/10/Lindzen-2018...
Just listening to Death in June on Google Play Music, thanks for the music tip, it's always nice to listen to non-mainstream stuff, radio in Germany can otherwise become a little bit repetetive.

Not that a game like Manhunt is actually my taste, Borderlands is more my cup of cake, but since I checked I have question: Is it true that, despite being available in the US, it is really hard to actually get? With Wal-Mart not wanting to sell it for a time and Sony as well as Nintendo having had an issue with the un-cut version of it?

Please excuse me that I don't try to voice state-threatening opinions which aren't mine just for fun. But maybe you have experience with that?
I lost my wife a few years back. Last year I told myself that I did pretty well with the whole grieving process. I recently realised I have not even started properly yet, and that every day I am just putting it off for another day.

This article is incredible, and I am deeply grateful for the author to have shared this.
I didn't know about that rumor regarding Putin. Can you give me a link to read?
That's a fair observation. In fact, applying modern scientific and engineering knowledge to tech built from ground-up is something I'm interested in[0]. The post-collapse life would be better thanks to all this knowledge (as long as people keep copying books instead of burning them), but I still maintain we'd end up in a pretty dire situation.

Consider that food production is very much dependent and looped with all the existing supply chains. As some say, modern agriculture is essentially pouring petroleum into the ground and harvesting crops that grow from it. Could we use our scientific knowledge to get better results than preindustrial people did with the same tech level? Sure. Will it be enough to feed even 20% of current population, especially given the battered climate? I doubt it. And the way I see it, a lot of our "social technologies" - as well as more "physical" ones - seem to depend on population size and density.

Speaking of science fiction tropes, I read an interesting book once - "The Windup Girl". It featured a post-climate-change world with depleted fossil fuels and collapsed technology, that still sort-of worked thanks to machines being powered by mechanical work (with spring systems for storage and special breeds of animals providing muscle power). I wish more books and movies would go into this territory.

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[0] - not just because it's what we'll need come climatepocalypse, but also because I believe there are many unexplored "low-tech/hi-science" solutions that could let us achieve similar results in many areas of life, while using much less energy, or with much less dependence on existing infrastructure. For instance, I feel that mechanical energy storage (springs) and gliders are underexplored and underapplied, since energy today is too cheap to bother.

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EDIT and a tangent: I am really interested in the possibility of combining gliders with computers and sensors to enable extremely energy-efficient (if not time-efficient) flight. If anyone knows of work being done in this space, I'd love to get some directions or resources about it.
My 1880's local history book I found in the used-book store is an example of the women-blindness that plagues history. It catalogues the accomplishment of men of the previous 50 years. When women are mentioned, their first names are rarely given and their accomplishments are restricted to home crafts.

I noticed three remarkable men in the biographies section during my perusal. One became the town's mercantile giant; another dominated publishing and later the coal market for the entire state; the third became Governor and later a federal Secretary.

What did these men have in common? They all started out as simple men - a clerk, a printer, a country lawyer. Then they all married a Clark sister - daughters in a founding farming and stock trading family in the area, educated and cultured. From then on, their husbands' progress was stratospheric, success after success.

I imagine these three sisters, having tea on Sunday, comparing notes and planning their husband's lives. Changing the history of the state and nation.

What do we know about them? Not even their first names. They are all listed as Mrs somebody.
What if somebody hacks into your bank and steals your escrow account?

Presumably, in both cases the solution is the same -- law enforcement and a lawsuit.

The goal isn't some perfectly perfect decentralized system, the goal is something that doesn't have the monstrous overhead of something like, e.g., real estate deals today.
The page is not that great for browsing on mobile, but does anyone know if archive.org has a similar emulator and program library for Atari 400/800? This is pretty amazing.
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That’s not new. gets() has been considered an anti pattern since I started programming in C in the early 90s.
>Do you think the military, any military, would require employees to remove their social media profiles?

Oh come on, someone recently compiled detailed information on US military bases from the publicly available fitbit data of all the soldiers running round them. you can even figure out deployment patterns from it. Most militaries, even the big ones, are desperately naive about this stuff.
Yea, PyCall makes it trivial to write a quick Julia wrapper around a python library. It's also really handy for porting python code to Julia. Start by wrapping all your existing functions with PyCall and then replace them one by one with Julia functions.
On Sunday CBC's The National aired an episode exposing Apple attempting to charge a customer $1k for a 2 minute repair:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2_SZ4tfLns
This isn't necessarily the first time they've done this, it's the first time they've been caught.

Think of the money saved by not training 6370 staff in data protection and not having any kind of enforcement of policies.

The minimum wage in the UK is now £7.83 per hour. Assuming it was £7.50 at the time, and that data protection training takes a couple of hours with no other costs, then that's about £95,000. Add in admin, national insurance, mandatory pensions and such and it's got to be about break even in a year. That's before we factor in staff turnover.

Under the Data Protection Act 1998, there were cases where it clearly paid to deliberately not comply.

Will a data breach make people choose to shop elsewhere? People already go out of their way to avoid Heathrow if they can, so any reputation loss is negligible.
California is majority-run by Democrats with a Democrat Governor who isn't seeking re-election (so he can do whatever he wants)...

When asked if he would stop offshore drilling, Jerry Brown responded that he refused to put that many people out of work.

This is in a state where Democrats have effectively no opposition

The idea the Democrats are even one iota different on climate is ridiculous and dangerous. If Democrats won't act when they have majorities, a sympathetic electorate and no opposition, when will they act?

Please show me ONE piece of real evidence or instance where a Democrat willingly sacrificed REAL economic gain to achieve a climate goal...and before you mention solar, wind or carbon credits, keep in mind the US only engaged these policies when it was economically feasible to do so. Show me where a Democratic put a voter out of work to save a polar bear.

By the way if you look at where US wind assets are, it's primarily "red" states

Shall we mention All Gore? Asks me to live in a tent while living in a 12k sq ft mansion and traveling on a private jet..

Lastly, all of the evidence on climate we have now was available to Obama...what did he do? People act like it has been decades since a Democrat lived in the White House. Where was the indignation three years ago?

I expect this comment to just be downvoted without reply...
It tends to be Texture, rather than Taste that makes most peope hate some foods.

I disagree however with seeking to divorce the food with the culture. The amount of understanding between cultures by sharing food is huge. Food implies 100s of things about the person and the community that produced it. I agree that we shouln't over-emphasize the strageness of it, but many have borderline fetish for the new, unusual, exotic. That human nature will always bring styles and tastes together, while preserving a positive group identity. We are, for better or worse, wired for tribalism. I think embracing that nature and optimising for it seems better than pretending its not there.
PoW isn't wasting anything. PoS is not cheaper that PoW. this myth just won't die..
End exclusionary zoning in the US, so that people can live closer to the things they need, and denser, if they so choose
If you can see that I'm communicating with cloudflare IP, it doesn't tell you very much. There are thousands of websites behind that IP. If you can see that I resolved some specific domain to that IP just before I started to send packets to that IP, you know probably I'm communicating with that specific domain.
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I never bothered with overclocking, wiping out firmware or bootloaders, I like my warranties, thank you very much.
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Currently, I can also just look at the packets you are sending to that Cloudflare IP and read the domain you're asking for.
Americas first robot farm replaces humans with 'incredibly intelligent' machines
It won't happen. If we reevaluate arson cases, people will push for a wide reevaluation of other convictions based on types of evidence that have been shown to be flawed. This includes hair analysis, fingerprint analysis, bite mark analysis, bullet analysis, and eyewitness accounts. Too much added work and a truth too painful to acknowledge.
Personally, I think that refactoring Python is straightforward (and many refactorings you need to do are much simpler and easier to do without breaking existing APIs -- doing refactorings in Java usually needs changing much more code even for simple things).

Refactoring in a non statically typed language cant be as straightforward - many refactors in statically typed language can be automated and guaranteed safe.
I'm by far no expert on this, just listened to a lot of podcasts and read articles. So, grain of salt etc...

AFAIK the only way to be sure is to either go to a sleep lab, or get an accurate tracker like the Oura ring, which reportedly has a 80-90% accuracy compared to sleep lab data. With that data you can see the distribution of your various sleep phases, and the people in the lab or the app will tell you how much of each phase you'd ideally have.

But, why not just experiment a bit? Sleep 7/8/8.5h for a couple of days in a row, and keep track of how you feel and how much you procrastinate. E.g. for Mac, the Timing app is great at tracking how much time you spend in each app - one could use the amount of "productive" apps (text editor, IDE, graphical editor...) as a measure of productivity.
Take a look at Fedora Silverblue with rpm-ostree, it does basically what you describe
> You cannot yell "fire" in a crowded movie theater without punishment.

Fortunately, you can still yell "Theatre!" in a crowded fire though.
I work for a megacorp (250k+ employees). We have a lot of subscriptions, and a lot of resources :)

Just about everywhere I'd want to filter stuff in the Azure portal, there's a search box or/and filters. Honestly, I find it to be really snappy for me.
> This could have been written by a person with a grudge for all I am concerned.

Or by a person who does not wish to be on a no-hire list. The job market for Linux developers working on this sort of stuff is not exactly enormous.
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Great distinction that doesn’t get brought up enough. At the same time, we also want politicians and CEOs making optimal decisions rather than just surface level ones.
Urbanization is a big thing too, it makes far more climate sense. Instead of driving to ten places to serve a hundred people on each stop a truck can drive to one and serve a thousand people. Also, heat in high rises is used more efficiently than in single family homes because all that excess heat from bottom homes rise to the ones on the upper floors.

This is thankfully a trend right now, with people moving to bigger cities to find better jobs, but in some Western countries we have a lot of hurdles to make new houses and an overconsumption of existing housing. If you own a home already, that might mean you have to sacrifice something (higher property taxes to incentivize people to choose smaller properties, for example).
Also, making the cities more accessible without a car does wonders for this too.

I'm convinced there's some way tech can help with this too. Airbnb makes sure excess or unused living area can be allocated more efficiently, for example.
I'm on the same page. The easiest thing to do once the collapse comes will be to give up and die instead of change - and maybe 80% is too conservative an estimate of the number of folks that will take this route.

Farming is more of a 'trickle petroleum into the ground and harvest crops'. Its one of the most efficient of technologies now. With good timing and no-till and ammonia fertilizer, even eroded clay hillsides produce bumper crops. It is a fragile technology tree but much simpler trees could be forged, having a good whack of the same benefits.
As the author admits, this isn't how logic works. Next time, use the Law of Contrapositives, which at least works when the Law of Excluded Middle is assumed.

Suppose, for example, I object to cats; I might say, "If cats are in the house, then they will bring me mice as tribute." The contrapositive is, "If I am not being brought mice as tribute, then there are not cats in the house." Plural logic aside, this is pretty close! And now we can turn it into a goal: "If I want mice to exist in my house in non-dead states, then I should avoid cats." Now we've managed to refactor this into a goal: "I should get cats if I want fewer mice."

I'm not sure if anything was gained from this exercise.
I'm doing very badly on ketogenic diets, it's definitely not for anyone. Hypoglycemic etc.
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I'm with you, I prefer traditional packaging over flatpak. I usually build from source if I need a newer version than what a distro provides (or if the distro doesn't provide it at all).
> Stop caffeine as soon and often as you can.

Why?
> If a user really consents to being tracked for advertising purposes, the GDPR allows tracking.

That's not exactly true either. For the consent to be valid, it must be freely given - that is:

1. The user must have a choice to give consent or not give
it

2. The service provided should be the same regardless of #1, unless the consent is necessary for the service (e.g. consent to store address for delivery of goods - although in such case this shouldn't really be based on consent)

Unfortunately many sites either do not give opt out at all, or make it hard to find it - in such cases consent can't really be considered to be freely given.
Cool page, really like the UX of it.

I have launch one for all React/React Native/React VR resources for developers -> https://reactresources.co/
It's coming https://blog.us.playstation.com/2018/10/10/psn-online-id-cha...

Edit : it might also be a great way to "hide" an account once it's been acquired. Just pay $5 to rename it once you've removed all the friends.
yeah, this is amazing. bunch of scriptkiddies put javascript in cryptocurrencies and people literally dump truckloads of money on them. wth..
There's no climate catastrophe. Nothing have to be done about preventing imaginable things.
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I think if you arent willing to fully lock yourself out if you lose your backup code, it should be a fallback that you can get a text, otherwise rely on a 2-factor app. Key would be that nobody in support should have any access to change your 2 factor number or disable 2 factor. Now if you lock down your account to just your backup code, no SMS, no take backsies.
The projected value is pretty optimistic, it says if you invest $15,500 over three years you could get an expected return of $4,619,173.07 with the conservative portfolio...
Huh, I was bullish on “log-driven programming” (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18165472) but this one strikes me as fairly obvious common sense. Is it any more than “try to respond to objections in a positive way”?

If someone objects “I can’t use this TCR process because it will mess up version control history” it seems pretty clear that either TCR or version history will have to change.
Smart contracts aren't for enforcing law, they're for making notary and escrow work cheaper and more automatic. The current costs for this are ridiculous.

That said, nobody actually cares for doing anything useful with blockchain in 2018. The verbiage is just a smokescreen for good old pump-and-dump speculation.
> does not operate 90% of email accounts

I said private email accounts.
but bitcoin isn't turing complete!
I don't think citing a random saying is a great way to rebut an argument, let alone support a claim of naivety.

Here's another saying for you: you can fool some people all the time, and all the people some of the time, but you can't fool all the people all the time. In other words, eventually the truth wins out.

I guess our sayings cancel out.
Pirates of all media types tend to also buy legal media far, far more than people who never pirate.
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At a Fortune500 company, I work for the Global IT departament, developing tools, providing top tier IT support, reporting, access management, change control and management, network management, contacting with vendors, doing market research etc. - we have a simple setup:

For daily work - Everything Google - Hangouts/Meet for instant chat and calling, Callendar for coordinating meeting times, Google Drive for sharing files and working together on documents. It's really not optimal, I know, I know, but we still use Spreadsheets for tracking issues (yes, we are not idiots, but we are not integrated with our vendors and we keep spreadsheets to keep track of open tickets, and projects for our little team of <10people), and GMail.

For internal tickets and problem management - ServiceNow.

For intranet - Jive.

There are two problems with these tools: e-mail is the most counterproductive tool ever. I get 100 emails daily, and they are not relevant. I would love to work on "action items" rather than mail + chat for instant messaging, and I would really like to opt out from conversation threads that I don't need to be on. With spreadsheets - of course you'd rather want to keep track of issues and messages without having to manually copy information (!), but yes, we still do it, and it's not going to change any time soon.

* I went to the office 3 times last year, and I live far away from my office desk (hundreds of miles away). From what I see most people I work with work remotely (also partners form other firms), and I cannot, I simply cannot imaginge going back. It is simply a wonderful, cost-optimal and eco-friendly solution for the 21st century. Not to mention we are much more productive as we spend virtually no time on idle chatter.

* I would be afraid of employing remotely freshmen with no previous experience, but maybe I'm wrong. I believe that 2 years in the office teaches you self discipline - getting up every morning, finishing before sunset etc. The tasks we have are measurable and simply put - if I don't do my work, it will be noticed right away by my manager. It's a perfect self-balancing mechanism.
You can limit that with different legislation though - the data-sharing and processing parts would do this, without the additional level of explicit consent which is the stumbling block (requiring scale).

I'm not advocating in favour of tracking, but the effects of enforcing collecting explicit opt-in consent appears to be centralising power, rather than getting rid of the industry. I'd rather have implicit consent across multiple providers (with processing safeguards and data sharing agreements stating they're only pooling the data amongst their advertisers), than explicit consent with only one behemoth.
Absolutely, and additionally to this, it's not forming a well-behaved community, it's forming a community that behaves in the way this particular person likes. It's just as likely to be full of snark and bitching.
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LEDs do not flicker, it is the pulse width modulation within the control circuit which causes flicker, which ultimately is due to poor design not the LED itself. CRI is based upon the patents held by the semiconductor fab which affect the type of semiconductor which can be used and how the phosphor is applied which varies. Binning (or statistical sampling) of LED chromacity improves over time across the industry. LEDs work great as spotlights actually because the most widely available lens material creates a sharp, direct light as opposed to a diffuse light. ;-)
You probably encountered an accommodating tech, which is cool, but we shouldn't have to rely on that.
Very interesting. One thing I noticed is that #fff and #ffffff are listed as different colors. Is this on purpose?
> It's therefore quite hard to write anything online that's critical without at least half of the comments coming from a biased source

Some stuff is perceptual, other stuff is factual. The issue I personally took with your post is that you stated things that are blatantly untrue, such as:

some things on Azure need to be done in a clunky web UI, other things need Powershell and other random stuff uses the CLI

And now I also don't like how you are basically saying that anyone who disagrees or downvotes you is some kind of shill for Microsoft!
I relate to this and am same. I still feel guilt sometime because I release something and work on it for a couple weeks but then I'm usually done. Its likely full of issues but did what I wanted. Sometimes a community forms around it and there is a expectation of continued support from me but that is not my goal. Few people will actually take up this code from what i can tell or its forked and not released. Im generally ok with it but feels like there should be a better path for this stuff.
The things I do in Python - mostly straightforward simple automation scripts around AWS - I would hate to do in my go to language C#. The overhead and ceremony of C# is not worth it. There are also no issues with a mismatch between what you think should be running based on what is in source control and what is running.
> For users, I hope Remacs will be faster

The main reason my emacs is painfully slow is that most elisp code blocks. Stuff like hitting tab for auto-completion might perform a blocking query from a language server hanging emacs for multiple seconds. Opening a file tries to start a language server and blocks the editor in the process. Etc.

Making emacs itself faster won't make the experience of working with emacs any better.