skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yup, we've gone from paying $120/month for an all-in-one cable package, to paying $39/month for a handful of channels, $10/month for this one online streaming service, $15 for the other one, $30 for another set of channels, and eventually we get to the point where we're paying around the same (if not more) than the all-in-one package, but we now have to manage multiple platforms, and we most likely have less content than we had before. Fuck all that noise.
It takes more than a week if you're not already a JavaScript software engineer.
gcc actually lets you do this: https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-8.2.0/gcc/Pointer-Arith.h...
I haven't seen anything suggesting women are less interested, but there is some support for the idea that before college girls who are interested in math., etc., are more likely than boys to have other subjects that interest them more.

There was a study published a while back that looked at PISA data and found that girls and boys were pretty evenly represented among the kids who were at the top in STEM [1].

But it also found that for the boys in that group quite often STEM was the only thing they were outstanding at. In other areas they were average to good.

For the girls, on the other hand, they were often excellent at something else in addition to STEM, with them often even being better at that something else than they were in STEM.

People have a tendency to pursue a career in one of the areas they are very good at.

This suggests that boys who are very good in math, etc., are more likely than similarly good girls to pursue it as a career because that is their only choice if they want to go into something they are very good at. The girls are more likely to have math, etc., as one of two or more possible careers in areas they are very good at.

In pop culture terms, STEM boys are more like Martin Prince, and STEM girls are more like Lisa Simpson.

[1] I didn't save the link and have failed to find it with Google. Anyone have it?
> I get your point, though I actually like the intent of a lot of these devices. I mean, if the smart refrigerator weren't so overpriced, I can see the value in a calendar and shopping list on the refrigerator. Its exactly why people hang paper ones there, but with the added benefit of being synced.

Unfortunately, I don't trust the vendors of these devices to make them not easily exploitable, I wouldn't trust them with my wifi connection or any of my data.
Is not the purpose of weapon of mass descruction to destruct as much as possible? This includes not only cities, factories and civilians, but for example, polluting soil with radioactive materials so that it becomes unusable for living. Don't forget that civilians are potential soldiers, guerilla warriors or military factory workers so it doesn't make sense to leave them alive.

If you need to destroy a military base or a factory, you can just use non-nuclear weapon.

I think the main targets for ICBMs are densely populated cities or areas. So large countries have much higher chances to survive while overpopulated European countries, or East Asian countries can be severely destroyed.
But you're not comparing the same thing generation to generation. The job of developer has changed massively, the number of developers, the expectations, the salary. Sociaety has also changed, and not just in culture but in income distribution, etc etc.

If tomorrow we say that you have to do 30 chinups to be a waitress, and the job will involve regular fistfights then we count the number of waitresses by gender and say "it must be cultural", we're kind of missing the point. Or if we say "OK now waitresses make 200k and are respected" and watch the numbers shift.
When iridium started, cell coverage was just about nonexistent. In the time it took to go from idea to launched satellite networks, cellular expanded so much that the opportunity vanished.

If they had gotten things running just a few years earlier, it may have had a chance. Probably not a great one, given the slowness of iteration cycles of satellites vs terrestrial.
I'm sorry, I don't follow how your argument (which is valid) is a response to mine. I said people tend to object to being imposed an identity by people who do not share it ("all women hate programming", "all Yankees eat too much"). (And to a lesser extent they also object to the same thing by ingroup members, but are less comfortable expressing it. If my parent was in fact a woman, her viewpoint would most likely still be pretty unpopular.)

Arguments being inflammatory does not make them invalid. It is fine to have conversations that include inflammatory arguments, if they are made politely, which parent did.
But ignoring that the argument is inflammatory, and/or that the group the argument refers to are in fact intelligent people involved in the discussion that may have themselves an opinion, is lacking in empathy. Rhetoric is founded in empathy; that is why it is an art, and not merely a technique.
We (USA) don't even do the little things that would add up: virtually every super market has wide open refrigerated sections. Every house built has No insulation on hot water piping (less so in commercial buildings but only because the architects get a percentage of the total job cost so they spec insulated Hot and Cold domestic water lines).

Look at cars; anyone here make any solar powered products to keep cars warmer in winter and cooler in summer to reduce idling time to heat and cool the interiors for the occupants... NOPE no one does (a good business idea btw).

Speaking of solar; why is my laptop plugged in right now (beside the fact that its a Dell and meh battery life)?... Oh yeah; IDK of any solar boosters that would either run it or at least help eliminate the drain... build that, market that. All these things would help.

Are cows put into enclosures at night that capture and scrub the CO2 they emanate... NOPE they're not.

These are just a few things based on my experience in the construction industry and casual observation. Let's buy some time until the issue can be solved in a financially viable way.
Well said, this article is the furthest thing from unbiased. OP obviously spent alot of years being paid to maintain infrastructure running crappy software and is still feeling the scars. I'm no fan of MS myself but I do acknowledge that they've improved alot from the duct-tape and glued NT days of old.
Well, they spun IN Land's End before they spun it out. It was not created at Sears.
a rather curious question... what prompted it?
Men are probably more likely to get their 10,000 hours (or multiple thereof) of deliberate practice playing games, than women due stigmas / social pressure that doesn't encourage or support them gaming (at least traditionally - I'm sure the tides are changing and gaming is becoming more inclusive everyday).
Microsoft promises to defend–not attack–Linux with its 60,000 patents
Here were some of my favorite talks:

Matt Turner - An Introduction to i965 Assembly and Bit Twiddling Hacks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raRBi-33Vz4

Mark Janes & Clayton Craft - Mesa Continuous Integration at Intel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nm3U7jaNJQQ

And of course, my own short demo ;)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuRXHJu5Kmg
> It's odd to see that such an extravagantly lucrative city can't seem to put together the money to maintain a core part of its infrastructure, that much much much poorer cities are able to achieve in other parts of the world.

It's really not odd at all once you understand just how pervasive the corruption inside New York government is.

Unfortunately, New York exists as a democracy in name only. The party leadership wields full control over elections (and therefore the state government), which means that voters have literally no electoral option for pushing for change. That's why the MTA and TWU are able to get away with corruption and outright fraud that would be astonishingly illegal anywhere else in the country.
- Data collection

- Forced installs

- Android shakedown
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Blockchain Is a Semantic Wasteland
> If your "trick" does not actually work, you're wasting time and resources.

Many of the popularly-cited experiments both in behavioral economics and in psychology involve misleading or deceiving the experimental subjects, and many more simply conceal their objectives. The assumption that the suckers never caught on and the results should be interpreted accordingly is seldom questioned. In some cases, the assumption is verified by asking the subjects about their motivations post-mortem, ignoring the long-standing axiom of applied behavioral economics (business) that there are two reasons anyone does anything, the one they will tell you and the real one.

The null hypotheses in these experiments ought to be (1) the subjects know or can figure out what the experimenters are looking for, and (2) the subjects are there because they want to help the experimenters.

Consider the subject who is paid a small sum to participate and interacts with a either a researcher who must publish or perish or one who will put another batch of subjects through a similar rigmarole next year if they cannot get their dissertation accepted this year. What does motivational psychology say about the behavior of such a subject? Is such a search for truth better than a congressional committee?
The wife being hollered at isn't a problem with homelessness; I would consider it a problem with the way women are viewed in society. I don't see the correlation between homelessness and the harassment of women in public spaces. I also have lived by public transport and far from public transport and haven't really noticed a difference in terms of the population of crime or homelessness. The vast majority of the homeless people I met were polite, sitting away from pedestrian traffic with a cup or a cardboard sign, or just verbally begging for money going from train to train. The harassment of women can and does occur anywhere and from any class of people.

That is to say, I don't actually understand what is trying to be correlated here, and I feel the dismissive attitudes of people who are pro-transport as to simply not have experienced transport, as if transport itself is so terrible that the only people who would support it are the people who never lived with it, to be disingenuous and not conducive to a productive conversation on the subject. Is it really so unbelievable that I can live in a place with mass transit and actually enjoy the experience?
On the topic of hair synthesis... a particularly mind-blowing legal complaint alleges a startup CEO that has published and shown at Siggraph repeatedly of fabricating large elements of their tech. It was brought by a core research scientist working on hair (who brought the complaint) who also alleges that he was fired without warning when he revealed this fabrication (after consistent warnings that he would do so if changes were not made at the company), and that the CEO and others assaulted him while attempting to keep him from removing personal data from his laptop. Other gems: the research scientist alleges that they withheld months of pay, that the CEO doesn't even have a work visa valid for his work as CEO, and that the CEO used his position as a professor to copy results from papers under review and integrate them into their product. If they don't settle this will be a very interesting lawsuit.

https://regmedia.co.uk/2018/07/19/sadeghi_pinscreen_complain...

And take a look at that, the founder in question is the last author on this paper. And another member of Pinscreen is the first. I'm going to have fun replicating this one.
I swear by the the 3m X5A headphones[1] (which have 4.8, 8.1, and 12.4dB better attenuation at 125Hz, 250Hz, and 500Hz than the Leight Sync headphones in the article, according to their datasheet[2]), plus the Koss KSC75 headphones[3], with the clip removed and shoved inside, per [4].(I've since added a little wedge of foam behind each of the headphones to better keep them in place.)

The better attenuation at low frequencies makes these really good at blocking human voices, which is the thing that I find most distracting in an open office. With even a little bit of music, I can barely tell that people are having a conversation 10 feet from me.

The headphone cables can sometimes break the seal, but I find shifting them usually fixes it. Besides, the noise that sneaks in is high-frequency stuff like key clicks, not distracting voices.

The downsides are: these are extremely large cans (2.5-3" deep), the KSC75s have a pretty short cable, and if you drop your cans or yank the cable, the headphones will tend to pop out.

1. https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B00CPCHBCQ
2. https://multimedia.3m.com/mws/media/845196O/3m-peltor-x-seri...
3. https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B0006B486K
4. https://www.reddit.com/r/headphones/comments/5bwu48/homemade...
Kudos to Kofi for a nice project and a good write-up :+1: :)

Since you're not planning on continue the project, and are interested on 'Elm on the server', you might look at Purescript, which has a similar syntax, and compiles to Javascript, and also the BEAM: https://github.com/purerl

There are also C++ and C backends at
https://github.com/andyarvanitis/purescript-native and
https://github.com/pure-c/pure-c

If having a JS compile option is not a requirement, there are 2
more Ocaml/ReasonML-like BEAM laguages, https://github.com/alpaca-lang and https://github.com/lpil/gleam

(I'm kinda partial to Gleam, it seems really clean)
You work for them, and dismiss all the valid arguments as people needing something to be angry about, in spite of their multidecade fuckery. What a slimy shitheel you are.
> cap karma at 1000 points

Why?

> get rid of the leaderboard

Why?
Nixon was suffering from mental illness and taking daily mediation without a prescription. He was under heavy stress from the Watergate scandal.

Schlesinger (Secretary of Defence) ordered military not to react to orders from the White House unless he cleared them first. Nixon ordered bombing raids that were silently canceled by Kissinger.
Women¹ are also much better at seeing slight color variances. E.g. differentiate between two similar red berries.

¹humans whose eyes are using cells that are filled female hormones, to be precise
As a Marta daily commuter, it's all about where you choose to live and where your work is. Training from Midtown to Buckhead is easy, it's 5 miles (half the length of manhatten), getting to the airport is easy, exact times of 27 and 37 minutes, getting to Decatur for dinner is easy. Getting to Dunwoody and Sandy springs are easy, except when you get there everything except for State Farm is a long outdoor walk away though 4 lane car traffic and inadequate sidewalks.

I used to even ride from Alpharetta to Buckhead when the buses had priority in the shoulder; it was much preferable to morning Rush hour(s) if you got on the highway after 7am
Is that joined or infiltrated?
I wouldn't go that far. When we lived in downtown Baltimore, we definitely told our nanny that there were neighborhoods where the crime was high enough she probably didn't want to go there: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandtown-Winchester,_Baltimore. And when we lived in Wilmington, DE, if you went a few blocks south from our apartment (across an underpass beneath the highway), you got to a neighborhood where the crime rate was so high that the EMTs once refused to pick up a dead body after a shooting. Also in Wilmington, someone was shot at the Nike on Market street waiting for a new shoe to be released at like 6 am. Someone was mugged outside my wife's office (in the nice part of the central business district) at 5 pm.

In the city, crime is low enough where you will probably not be a victim of crime (especially if you're wealthy). But it's happening around you, you're aware of it, and property crimes are a real risk if you're not careful.

Meanwhile, now we live in the Annapolis suburbs, and I don't even lock my car when I park it.
Interesting. I'd like to know why I can't remember people's names but can/have identified faces reverse aligned with path of travel with a glimpse (anecdotally; the brother of a roommate).
So these 1% sites make Mozilla's certificate revocation plan
'Too big to fail list'?
Sounds like a bad security plan.
You are only as strong as your weakest link.

Why is TLS 1.0 and 1.1 still enabled by default in Mozilla?
More of the same. Big players don't want to tighten up.
a man of many subjective complaints
As much as people make fun of the widespread use of checks in the US, it actually seems much better for this use case, for at least two reasons:

1) the check will be handed over in person to someone you've met before, or at least mailed to a known postal address which is harder to spoof than email.

2) If you present a check for $12m to a bank, it will get the scrutiny it deserves, and won't clear immediately.
IoT, nsurlsessiond, and Trust (2015)
You can trade pretty much any security 24/7 these days, and people do.
> Countries could start replacing all cars with electric ones for free right now, CO2 would just go higher and higher.

How?

I wish people would stop fixating on this magical 12 years figure. It's not a countdown. If we keep our current carbon emissions the same for 12 years we'll see 2 degrees of warming. If we do nothing. If we continue to do nothing after that point it doesn't stay at 2 degrees. It gets hotter and hotter, and the effects get worse and worse. If countries start replacing cars with electric ones for free now, and we still don't reach zero emissions in 12 years, we might see 2 degrees. But we might avoid 3 degrees, or 4 degrees.

We don't have 12 years left and then game over. We have 12 years until things start to get really bad. And then the UN will come out and say we have 12 years left to act to avoid 3 degrees, and we'll all have these same fucking stupid arguments on the internet again in between news bulletins about famine and the various migrant crises.
Outlook.com, Mail.com, Yahoo, AOL and numerous others have significant marketshare among personal accounts. Your comment claims these private email accounts don't exists.
> It's about motivation. NYC already has a subway and while it desperately needs upgrades, fixes, and expansion, doing anything is unbelievably complex. You've got to be really, really motivated to cut through all that.

It's not that it's "complex"; it's that you would literally have to take on the entire political machine of both political parties in New York, along with the TWU itself[0], in order to push for the meaningful investments that the transit system needs.

[0] The MTA and TWU literally spent the last several months actively campaigning for politicians who would block the plans for upgrading the transit infrastructure. Welcome to New York!
> I could name some arguable candidates: XFree86/x.org, mplayer/mplayer2/mpv, and xchat/HexChat.

Sorry, I left out the bullet about development being done in a private, invite-only group. That's what I'm curious about, and I don't think there are any examples of that.
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Not being snarky, but why? I'm curious why you shop there.
The hostility can be dealt with, if you are sufficiently bestial. Reinhard Heydrich did suppress the resistance in Czechoslovakia, and the reprisals after his assassination convinced Allied leadership never to mount another assassination attempt of Nazi top brass.
Great post. Thanks!
As is, this fine probably doesn’t cover the salary of a junior security researcher for one year to discover vulnerabilities and enforce best practices that could have prevented things like this. The message seems to be don’t bother actually securing your systems if you are a European outfit.
Men are promoted quicker, and more often, than women.
The Azure bashing had very little substance to it, just alot of previous MS experience-based dogma.
Linux Kernel Patches Posted for Streebog – Crypto from Russia's FSB
I think that's as good an explanation of Lampert's plans for Sears as anything I've read.

One thing I'll add--with how much malls are struggling, Lampert's play for real estate isn't going to work out anywhere near as well as he might have hoped. Sears's, as an anchor for many malls, used to have extremely valuable real estate. Now, with the so-called "retail apocalypse" happening, the market for that space isn't what it used to be.
All the more reason to move to Rust/Golang/Python.
I live in Boston. The Orange Line mostly runs through neighborhoods you wouldn't want to go to at night (or even in broad daylight), but recently they put in a new stop with a lot of development aimed at the upper middle class. Assembly is within walking distance from Sullivan, but somehow the crime doesn't bleed over.

I did live for a few years in an... exurban, if not quite rural, Southern county that had been successfully resisting commuter rail for a long time, but I think that was about keeping the yuppies out as much as anything else. And it's hard to object to that. I was there for college, and a lot of both the professors and the students came in from the Northeast and hated the townies.

(I went the opposite direction - grew up around there and then figured I'm in the same country as the Yanks and may as well go see what they're about.)
I'm surprised there is no mention of security or privacy. I'd have thought that's one of the reasons for controlling your own edge network.
> Think of it: The government prints more money or perhaps — god forbid — it taxes some corporate profits, then it showers the cash down on the people so they can continue to spend. As a result, more and more capital accumulates at the top.

This sounds like a non sequitur. How does UBI lead to capital accumulating at the top? Couldn't it reasonably accumulate to whichever company creates the most value efficiently? Isn't that one of the features of capitalism?

If the issue is monopolistic behaviors of companies, this is what the author should be attacking.
Great read, was looking forward to reading parts 2 and 3; by the time I finished, I didn’t want to wait a few weeks to read the next installments, so I just bought them ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
boring but true
> I don't think any amount of education can reliably prevent this sort of fraud.

The (possibly remedial) education isn't to prevent the fraud, it's to make your population more resistant to it.

At some point in the far future if it's part of basic education courses, then we may create herd inoculation effect where phishing fraud may become unprofitable enough to further depress likelihood (like highway banditry of days yore).

Email will never go away - it will always be some part of the payment process even if it's just remittance. It's too ubiquitous.
I wonder if GPG could have ensured this didn't happen.
From the paper:

> Richard S. Lindzen was Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology until his retirement in 2013. He is the author of over 200 papers on meteorology and climatology and is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences and
of the Academic Advisory Council of GWPF.

Does meteorology count as "atmospheric science"?

Does climatology count as "climate change" or "climate modeling"?

Does 200 papers count as "published papers"?

Does being a professor at MIT count?

By your own criteria, he is an expert.

Therefore, by what reasoning do you dismiss him?

Religion.
American cities are astonishingly dangerous compared to their European and even Canadian counterparts.

This isn't just a big city problem. Many small towns are absolutely rife with violent crime. Suburban areas are, per-capita, not exactly safe either. It's vastly more dangerous to be in suburban Alabama than in pretty much any European city.

It's like Americans prefer to solve their problems with guns and guns alone.

You can get shot at for simply passing someone in some states, road rage all too often ends with shots fired.