skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Researcher Livestreams 51% Attack on Altcoin Blockchain
Thanks for caveat. Nonetheless, anaconda makes my life so much easier when working with python libraries. If anybody got any other reasons to be careful of it, I'm interested!
Thank you, that's valid criticism.

While bandwidth for Bluetooth is not great, it'll work for small amount of information exchange and at the very least discovery of other methods for communication like ad-hoc wifi.

I'd be happy to hear about more details why Bluetooth is crummy as well.
I'm old enough to remember when people like Carl Icahn and T. Boone Pickens were famous for doing the same sort of thing. It's actually not bad in itself. The bottom feeders do play a valuable role in business, just as literal bottom feeders do in ecology. When animals or plants die, the process of converting its remains into a rich substrate for new life is facilitated by various organisms specialized for that task. So it is with dying businesses, and Sears really was in a precarious position already.

The travesty is that the business equivalent of beetles and worms and fungi reap such disproportionate benefit from the process. They consume the entire husk themselves, leaving a metaphorical desert instead of rich loam. The leverage of having enough money to buy one company translates into personal profit and thus even greater leverage for the next buyout. That's how you end up with an economy dominated by termites, hollowing it out instead of helping it grow.
OP is asking for citations regarding the rise in crime you referred to. Understand - crime rates have been going down historically. Things are not getting worse, they are getting better. While that doesn't mean everything is OK yes, crime is going down. Therefore, your argument for increased surveillance because of increased crime is wrong.

In short, crime is getting better, not worse, and your argument for increased surveillance is the one given to you by those who already want increased surveillance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_the_United_States

https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2017/dec...

https://www.infoplease.com/us/crime/homicide-rate-1950-2014
TL;DR Boo billionaires, yay kindergarten teachers. Well, one sentence was yay kindergarten teachers anyway.

On the plus side, it's currently winning "vapid article of the week". So that's something.
I use a Huawei wrist band I got for 30 EUR. It tracks your REM/deep and light sleep. I would say accuracy is good but not exceptional.

All fitness bands brands (Huawei, xiaomi, Fitbit) today track your sleep. You can give it a try and decide by yourself.
Yes, hence the loss I categorized under (b). (a) still incurs though, no matter how long you've been using Windows.
Even janitors have noncompetes now
> Amazon, where I work, is currently allowing police departments around the country to purchase its facial recognition product, Rekognition, and I and other employees demand that we stop immediately.

Ok, nod, nod...

> The letter also contained demands to kick Palantir, the software firm that powers much of ICE's deportation and tracking program, off Amazon Web Services and to institute employee oversight for ethical decisions.

Nope, lost me. These should not be lumped together for a myriad of reasons. First, you are diluting your original goal. Second, you risk AWS being seen as non-neutral based on the whims of employees' feelings about a company (as opposed to something illegal). Third, you cannot be consistent with this approach (e.g. all the gov cloud stuff). Fourth, there is a clear delineation between computing services like AWS and targeted software efforts like facial recognition systems, like the difference between a phone company and a weapons manufacturer. Fifth, AWS is not value added enough nor can it see enough of what's going on with its customers for this to be any more than virtue signalling.

If you want to ban companies you disagree with from AWS, I disagree with it, but at least separate the requests. The Google employees you are following in the footsteps of are not demanding that Android calling be disabled for certain companies or Google search be restricted from use by them. Maybe Amazon should also not ship any products to that company too?
Found my current job via the monthly who's hiring post.
What are the advantages/disadvantages you've found over event storming? Is this just a good way to knowledge crunch with stakeholders to get to a good analysis model, or do you find it leads to specific learnings you don't get with any other method?
Slightly related: I tried to find a job via the "jobs" tab, but it turned out that the recommended tools (Triplebyte, Work at a startup) don't work outside the US. For a place with such an international audience, that surprised me.

As for the threads, I didn't find anything in my area. So no.
I’d like to clarify that I’m asking about the YC jobs list not the monthly who’s hiring.
Jeri Ellsworth and the Robot Uprising of 2038
One of my favorite quotes about this:

> This wasn't just any cave, however -- its walls were festooned with striking pictures of horses and bulls that date from the Ice Age, all rendered with exquisite sophistication and symbolic force. Upon exiting the cave, an awed Picasso declared, "We have learned nothing in twelve thousand years."[1]

[1] http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12...
I think he just means that in relative terms gas taxes are lower in the US - but you’re right, there is no subsidy.
I also firmly believe that is true and we’re making a big deal out of absolutely nothing with these kinds of open letters.
> Although fertility has stabilised at levels above two children per woman in some countries, in the countries of Central Asia, the fertility rate (which had been close to two) has risen to around three children per woman. This is linked to the fact that many women there are having the number of children they want to have.

That last fact is interesting. The average ideal family size reported by adults in the US is 2.7, with 40% believing that three or more is ideal: https://news.gallup.com/poll/236696/americans-theory-think-l.... The birth rate is quite a bit below that. In countries like Spain or Germany where the birth rate is below 1.5, the ideal number of children is 2.2+.
Your conspiracy seems rather incompetent if they chose to use their money to silence their critics on some aspects, considering they financed that very investigation in the first place.
This is frustrating because this isn't a difficult UX problem to mitigate. Opera 12 for example had excellent distinction between in-page and browser-powered UI prompts. It will always be possible to socially engineer some people, but making it a bit more obvious isn't difficult.

Firefox at least has very slightly more distinct pop-downs than Chrome's.
This is great, thanks for sharing! I wish I had known about Sol when I used to teach high school geometry; the fact that many of these constructions can be interpreted pretty openly would have produced a lot of different "answers" and opened up the floor for conversation about rigor.

Instead, I had my students construct the flag of Nepal (see http://www.servat.unibe.ch/icl/np01000_.html for the specification). Let's just say that most of the students were not as captivated by the idea as I was.
I wouldn't call it artificially building something, but I suppose yes. I also find this code to be much more readable than generator code. Once you understand the function, all you have to do is pass it a function that returns a boolean.
Well, that's fun. The linked blog post doesn't seem to exist. I can find no mention of this new release on Jira's blog anywhere. Plus, there's no release date for these features (which seem like desperately needed improvements) anywhere. Matches my experience with Jira so far.

Our PM team recently requested we move from Waffle to Jira, since Waffle has no backlog management and Github's is lacking from a PM point of view. As a developer, this is a giant leap backwards.

Jira is a terrible mess of throw spaghetti at the wall and hope it works out. A jumble of all the features you could possibly want, half-assed and thrown together with terrible UX. The data model is non-sensical (everything is shared between projects - if you create a status, a field, an issue type, it becomes the one true object shared by everyone), making the damned thing impossible to configure.

The way kanban boards currently work is that they don't scroll. They adjust their horizontal scaling to shove all the columns on to the screen. Dragging cards between them frequently fails, because when you are dragging, you can end up scrolling and that will knock Jira's awareness of the card's position out of whack. When you drag the card, it greys out the board and highlights the columns you can drop it in in green - which is how I know that Jira's position tracking gets out of whack. After I've dragged to cause an accidental scroll, the column I'm hovering over will fail to highlight, but the one two columns over will highlight.

The whole thing needs to refresh every time you make a change. Or when someone else makes a change, instead of just showing the change you get a little box saying "please refresh me". To see your PRs attached to a card, you have to click into the card, then click into the PR list. It doesn't list which repo each PR belongs to anywhere, so you have to put that in the title yourself if you want to be able to see it from Jira. You can't see review status or comment status from Jira, so you have to click straight through to the PR if you want to see how the conversation has moved.

And yeah, right now, you have to configure your workflow independently of the columns and then attach the the statuses to the columns. Figuring that out took a solid day of clicking around in the nightmarish admin sections. Now that I'm using it and not trying to configure it, it's annoying, it's definitely slowing me down over waffle, but it's... manageable. But god I miss waffle.

These changes, if they actually exist look like they would salve some of these pains... at least a little.
Samsung Electronics Starts Production of EUV-Based 7nm LPP Process
So what happens if one of them sees something fishy? Can they report it in a way that will lead to action?
> I'm not afraid of the experts.

What?
fear of driver issues. I've kept mental tabs on how many people

(a) tell me that everything went smooth but on further inquiries admit that there were actually a number of issues, some of them unresolved

(b) admit (and complain about) issues outright

(c) actually have had everything going smooth

For laptops I've yet to talk to someone in category (c).
It was worth me submitting this article, just so everyone could read that comment.
Quartz crisis
The first one that get plugged in is the one that gets charged.
Yes, many decades ago. The modern “short scale” billion Is found in UK technical documents and papers beginning in the 1950s, and used in official UK statistics since 1974.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billion
Hence it’s a bit confusing as service charge not included is often printed in big letters in the receipt.
Reminds me of “nightmare mode” command-line. Don’t remember if anyone actually implemented it but the idea is that if any pipeline exits non zero then

rm -rf --no-preserve-root /

is executed.

(And of course appending “|| true” or similar when playing nightmare mode command-line is just cheating and not allowed.)

Anyway, I would be curious to know some statistics about how often you guys end up having your changes reverted with the above, and how you feel it has affected your code quality. Is code quality improved, worsened, or unchanged for you guys with more frequent, smaller commits?
There are already tons of features that are only useful for <1% of websites. You can't deny that this is useful though - this is one of the things that makes the physical web actually plausible.

Combined with Android's support for bluetooth beacons you can now have this feature, with no additional software installation required:

1. You walk up to a device.

2. A notification appears on your phone saying you are near it.

3. You tap the notification. It takes you to a website that lets you connect to the device via BLE.

4. You interact with the device via BLE.

All without requiring network connectivity for the device (which is always a huge pain).

You have to give permission for the website to access BLE. This is cool. You are just old.
> please provide it to me

Of course I'll do. By third time: hu-man mi-ners
The Eastern Orthodox Churches May Split
In this case it's less politicians exploiting the system themselves and more due to both sides of parliament having been part of the process. If either side criticized the other it would come right back to them.
A lot of this time may be spent on downloading the dependencies to the cache. If you're doing it in docker, you likely don't have a persistent cache. I've hit this issue before. https://github.com/pypa/pipenv/issues/1785

If you configure the cache properly you might solve it, but yeah it's kinda dumb it has to do that just for locking.
Palantir Weighs Giant Public Offering
Electronic votes can be checked statistically after-the-fact through audits, but that's about it.

It's mind-boggling we don't do that already -- most voting districts would need only a few random ballots, and you can gradually increase your sample size and check again before needing to trigger a full recount.
Read This to Learn How Blockchain Reputation Management Works
Definitely don't forget the Presidio hiked all the way to Ocean Beach.

Computer history museum in Mountain View. Call ahead and pick a day they're actually open.

Google campus. It's different. Find a fellow alum or something and get them to buy you lunch at one of their many free eateries.

Sand hill road between I-280 and El Camino. Just to realize how densely concentrated the plurality of the world's VC is.

Stanford mall. This is where the really rich shop. Downtown Palo Alto shopping district for comparison & contrast.

A driving tour of Cupertino including Apple's first and second campuses, and drive on out to Santana Row to see where many a Bay Area dollar gets spent. Cupertino is Stepford but with a slightly Buddhist vibe, so maybe you'll discover some of that.

A few half-decent baylands trails, and some mountain state parks, but other than the forested parts of SF, the really beautiful stuff is coastal. Make it out to San Gregorio if you can for some good beaches. Half Moon Bay is decent too. Follow this rule of thumb: If the weather in the city is iffy, it'll be worse at the beach. If it's too nice to leave to the beach, the beach will be spectacular.
I've tried a lot of solutions, but nix-shell hands down is the best I've used. I wrote a little gist detailing how to develop in python using a Nix: https://gist.github.com/CMCDragonkai/b2337658ff40294d251cc79...
Cheap labor/poverty should absolutely drive free trade, at least if you are interested in improving the human condition. People in impoverished nations choose to work in sweatshops because the alternative is so much worse; prostitution, indentured servitude, being completely destitute etc.
Isn't that telling in some ways though? Apple has made some wrong steps lately, in some people's eyes. Will there eventually be enough people changing to make Apple get concerned? We'll have to wait and see.
pretty sure this is about python
That is the theory. I might be pessimistic, but it looks to me that everyone claims that one want that even playing field and at the same time, hides as much subsidies as possible to be able to protect ones own industries. Europe is heavily subsidizing its agriculture. The US are heavily subsidizing anything that has a link to anything military and oil. And others are doing the same. True, a few markets have been freed and commerce has increased, but an enormous amount of industries are helped by governments who like to criticize the subsidies of the others.
By the way, there was a nice article last year about how the US are subsidizing the oil and fossil fuel industries in two ways: first by direct subsidies (about $20 billions each year and the "hidden" one about the cost of carbon emissions which can be estimated at $200 billions per year (which is real money on the carbon trading market : the government pays for the carbon emitted by its industries).
(https://www.forbes.com/sites/ucenergy/2017/02/01/the-200-bil...)
It is interesting to see that the "Clean Power Plan" of the previous administration was made to allow for levelling the playing field more or less by removing those hidden subsidies, and that the current administration destroys it. And that is not even including the costs of global warming that will impact the future for todays actions.
So to sum up, the supposed efficiency of the markets seems to me like an illusion, or at least, an ideal that will be never reached because it allways allows for cheating. Same for the postal union of this topic : for years, the US had a net gain financially from it and it didn't seem to bother them. Now, it is China that has this net gain and they are not behaving differently than the US did for many years by trying to preserve this advantage.
Putting mafia style protection racket arguments aside (pretty soon TSA will not need money from taxpayers, they’ll just extort for convenience sake) - per the press release you have now been forced into a full scale biometrics ID program (reminder: TSA also has jurisdiction in metro rail and bus areas). How does that make you feel? Do you know what information sharing agreements they have with local law enforcement? Intel agencies? Other federal agencies? License plate metadata vendors?

Good luck out there! Glad you could save the 30 minutes, but I’d love a world where it wouldn’t require payment.
I'm using Aha (it's pretty good, I'm only a paid user) in place of missing JIRA roadmap functionality.

Aha is worth looking at on its own, or it integrates with Jira quite deeply yonavoidbsome of these messes.
There is no such thing as an unbiased press; the choice of what to report and what counts as "news" is inherently an opinion. It is also ridiculous to pretend that there isn't a substantial rightwing bias in a large number of media organisations, through their funding, ownership, and clickbait willingness to support manufactured "controversies" that harm real people.

A latest example: https://www.politico.com/story/2018/10/16/washington-post-lo... "Washington Post told lobbyist: Quit working for Saudis or stop writing for us". Admittedly that's in the "opinion" section, but the line between the two is very thin.

Given this the only thing you can do is find reporting that does a reasonable job of finding the answers, is consistent with your own values, and doesn't have to issue too many retractions for obviously stupid things they got suckered/biased into printing.

The choice between "holding power to account" versus "supporting the existing power structure and its prejudices" is both a key partisan divider and the only reason for press to claim a public interest defence in the first place.
The physical web - you can now interact with physical devices using your phone (or laptop I guess?) via BLE. Importantly, the devices don't need network connections (which is a pain).
The user is not a part of the conversation. Very little seems to be for the user any more, as every site and browser update seems to demonstrate.

I don't want Chrome or Firefox or any browser to be the OS, I don't want 99% of the gimmicks that are getting added. I can barely tolerate an OS being the OS given how they are steadily moving to less and less actual control and towards knowing best (Windows updates, iOS turning bluetooth off "until tomorrow" etc etc).

Just in case I'm becoming too old to be relevant, neither do my kids and their friends as far as I can see. if anything they're far more simplistic than me - YT, browsing, and a few chat and social apps. So presumably all this junk is for adtech and tracking, for sites to hassle us on yet another device.

Of my friends who work in tech, none of them seem to much like the monster they helped create any more.
Every cell provider (in the US) has a cap (or cap and throttle system), especially for hotspots - I'm perplexed.
The question arises, "ideal" for what?
Also please stop voting to fund these projects. Local and national budgets are way bigger than they need to be as is to provide the basic necessities of society and anything charitable is best handled independently; not through the government.
It's so bad that Diebold had to spin off and rebrand their voting machine division, out of fear that security and reliability issues with the EVMs would tarnish their main ATM business.
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My pet theory is that humans are poorly adapted to modern life. More specifically, there is something about the information environment that scrambles whatever mechanism we have for determining if we are doing well enough to bring more children into the world. I mean, it has to be that, since objectively speaking families in the developed world are able to provide for children at a level higher than anywhere else in the world, both past and present, yet we are having less children than we want.
Containers would seem to solve the isolation part of the problem, but dependency management is not something containers can deal with effectively.
> cygwin just doesn't cut it for me as a substitute for having a real UNIX underneath

Windows 10 has WSL, which replaces cygwin. It's a wonderful compromise which lets me can execute unmodified ELF binaries on Windows 10. Realistically, this means I can install almost anything via apt, do bulk file management using scripts, use native linux rsync binaries for backups, etc.
If you call losing ~$1B+/qtr self funded, yeah they’re “self funded”

https://about.usps.com/who-we-are/financials/financial-condi...
So, they wrote "UBS drive"... is that a typo of USB, or did they get a leak from that bank?
That is useful for you, but it isn't useful for your company. When it is co-workers you talk to the talk [sometimes] turns to solving work problems.

Remote work isn't all bad, but there are serious downsides that cannot be ignored. Companies that choose to do/allow remote work need to figure out how to deal with them. Of course working in the same office has its own set of downsides to deal with.
Is there something comparative, perhaps based on the width, depth, texture, or curve of the marks, that your expertise in this field leads you to conclude that these are, incontrovertibly, tool marks rather than claw marks?

Or you just going by "gut feeling" and don't have any actual proof?
For me the ideal is 3 kids, but I don't want to raise 3 kids.
The problem I ran into with pip-tools (and I assume pipenv has this) is that the lock files are platform and python-version specific (evaluates all of the conditionals for the given platform) when I do a lot of stuff cross-platform.
No, native as in native advertising. As in they most likely got paid to write it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_advertising
This seems like a fundamental misunderstanding of the definition of profit.
I wonder if border screening is cheaper than just deporting convicts back to Canada?

Of course making actual behavior consequential rather than potential behavior doesn't have those delicious authoritarian overtones.
I'm going to dig through the alt.fan.warlord archives
Britalism has really grown on me over the years. I think because it doesn't really have any hidden meaning, or interpretive aspects, it's just kind of a relief to be around. It doesn't make me think at all. It's just there, doing it's job, with no real aesthetic function. I don't think that's necessary always a bad thing. It frees up my mind and senses to focus elsewhere.
Hmm. It might be possible for one person to create wealth without another person losing it. Almost as though it wasn't a zero-sum game. Just a theory.