skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I read the book 'World War Z', and at the risk of ruining the book for someone, there was a statement near the end that really stuck with me. Some guy was reflecting on how they'd won, and he said 'Tell that to the whales', paraphrasing.

I cannot deal with the guilt of the loss of megafauna. I just can't. If justice only includes humanity, then it isn't justice. I feel as if I've reached this place using sound ethical logic, and I'm culpable for what we are doing to this planet. We are bacteria in a petri dish.
Similar situation here – I've found that using Typescript and declaring (most) variables const already goes a long way, although the peace of mind still isn't quite the same.
To be precise, Christine Peterson coined it. The OSI was formed very shortly after.
Thank you for your time.

I really appreciate you taking a read and providing feedback. Admittedly I am more of a tech nerd than a formal writer.

Recommendations have been noted, and I look to improve in future posts.
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Yes, what you call ennui is really really bad. I'd love to find a reliable way to get out of it. But maybe it's just part of a natural human recreational cycle and needs to be an element of our lives.
I ditto your ditto. (Is this now a tritto?)
This is great, but I couldn't make on for myself because there is no "patchy beard" option D:
(App Engine PM here) At this time, app.yaml is the only way to set env vars. If you want to separate environments, you could use different .yaml files, I personally use app.staging.yaml and app.prod.yaml
Isn't your attitude basically. "whataboutism" [1].

The journey to change starts with a single action... don't disagree with the hypocrisy, but change can't happen if it's prevented from operating in some circumstances in a silo.

[1] : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
Even with repeatable builds there are some ways to exploit the system, for example sending a targetted binary to audience that does not check the binaries, or sending a malicious update that exports all your history when you won't notice it (at night?) and then sending a good update to cover up.

Mozilla has done some research to close these issues [0] but until this is enforced on a system level reproducible builds won't solve the underlying problem.

[0]: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Binary_Transparency
Budget Deficit Jumps Nearly 17% in 2018
It is quite lightweight, yes!

Though...I wouldn't necessarily call Python slow! Python keeps getting faster, and we now support Python 3.7 on our second gen runtimes: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp/introducing-app-e...
Here’s one example: Because eventually they expect you to multiply that money and then they can use that multiplied money to commit more crimes.
Yes, and/or make the power of existing CI systems more accessible.

And also to create a shared library of actions. Perhaps they will eventually go for creating a common standard for workflow actions across platforms.
> AGPL style licenses impose restrictions on usage

No, not in the commonly understood sense of "usage" as "field of endeavor". I understand what you're getting at but anybody can use AGPL'd software for anything. They just need to publish any modifications they make to said AGPL'd software. It's a restriction, but not on "usage". Such a restriction would be something like "you can't use this in the nuclear industry" or "you can't sell this".
Saying it's a "free choice" when you can't have a successful phone in the US and Europe without it is dubious at best.
> anyone is welcome to fork

This is wrong. One of the three major pieces of this case is the allegation that Google has hindered those who wish to fork by preventing them from making phones with any of the major phone OEMs:

"In particular, Google ... has prevented manufacturers wishing to pre-install Google apps from selling even a single smart mobile device running on alternative versions of Android that were not approved by Google (so-called 'Android forks')."

http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-18-4581_en.htm
GP took the time to write down a thousand words, and you just call bullshit, bullshit, and crackpot. Why don’t you convert your knee jerk reaction into an argument that we all can follow?
There seems to have been a general uptick in mainstream media warnings of a recession recently. For example the Economist cover last week: “how bad will the next recession be”. I’m not an expert I hasten to add, but before 2008 I also noticed this slow ratcheting up of the focus ahead of the final blow-up. I realise this could be a very biased viewpoint, it’s only a datapoint, but it makes me wonder, if you could track google search terms related to recession over time or appearances in the press, would this be a predictor of actual sentiment and impending recession?

I also wonder if there is a generalized impending sense of doom and investors feeling like they need to exit ahead of a crash.
7 Totally Valid Arguments to Convince Your Boss Your Office Needs Alcohol
Offering food and drink in the office can make for a friendlier workplace atmosphere. When consumed responsibly and in moderation, alcohol can even offer your team a number of benefits to their health and productivity.

Health Benefits: Drinking about two glasses of wine or beer a day was linked to an 18% drop in a person’s risk of early death. (2) Vodka can improve blood circulation, but the study mentions that it helps the heart differently from vino. Vodka helps more collateral vessels to develop, which helps connect the heart to the lungs. (5)
Creative Problem Solving: Tipsy subjects solved 13% to 20% more problems than sober subjects did. (1)
Decrease Employee Stress Levels: Alcohol increases the uptake of the GABA neurotransmitter which relieves stress. (3)
Increase in Happiness: Alcohol triggers the release of dopamine in the brain, a neurotransmitter that’s associated with pleasure and satisfaction. (4)
Fight the Office Cold: Two past studies found that the antioxidants in red wine can help you reduce your risk of a cold by 60%. (5)
Boost Memory: A 2015 study done by Texas A&M University found resveratrol, a compound found in the skin of red grapes can improve memory and cognitive function in rats. (5)
Protect the Brain: In 2015, the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry reported that a compound found in a beer called xanthohumol could protect brain cells from damage, thus slowing down the progression of Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Disease. (5)

Source Material (We’re not making this stuff up!): (1) The University of Mississippi https://hbr.org/2018/05/drunk-people-are-better-at-creative-problem-solving (2) 90+ Study http://www.mind.uci.edu/research-studies/90plus-study/ (3) PNAS http://www.pnas.org/content/103/22/8307.full (4) McConnell Brain Imaging Centre http://www.gripinfo.ca/grip/public/www/doc/articles/Boileau_%202003_id_1792.pdf
(5) https://www.eatthis.com/benefits-of-alcohol/
Not really, whataboutism is excusing one by pointing out the other. This is saying don’t forget about X as well if we clean house of morally questionable sources of money.
It was literally defined at a party. Or a strategy session to be precise.
Winamp, the 21-year old media player, is making a comeback in 2019
Great seeing more apps being built in Reason! How was your experience with it?
And Australia: https://edition.cnn.com/2018/08/20/australia/nauru-children-...

Children have died in the detention center with government refusing them even medical care. A 16 year old died few months back waiting for his parents. No media or press is allowed on the island.

To top it off one of their senator wanted "final solution" for their immigrants and this week the government voted for "it's ok to be White" because of racism and discrimination against white race.
It could free space for possible Google "rivals". Russian Yandex for example has its own store for Android, plus alternatives for other Google products. But Google put a spoke into its wheels so Yandex sued them. Don't know the results though.
This makes me very happy I moved out of a city with an air quality rating of F to a city with an A.

Hopefully the 10 years I spent in Chicago don't come back to haunt me later in life.
> not a libertarian, but what do the alleged actions of of a theocratic monarchy have to do with the potential excesses of free market capitalism?

Probably because there's profit to be had in making deals with that theocratic monarchy. It's the same thing with China. If you're optimizing for market success as you are in free market capitalism, you're incentivized to overlook things that stand in the way of that success, like the immorality of making deals with foreign authoritarians.
You can (and I suspect people DO) tell women "don't be alone with people you don't trust". That's not in contention.

Victim blaming is when you say "Well, if you hadn't been alone with somebody you didn't trust, you wouldn't have been raped"; it's technically a true statement, but it puts the onus on the woman (why was she alone with somebody she didn't trust, something she's been told not to do?) as opposed to on the rapist (why did they rape somebody?).

While it's valuable to give people tools to avoid situations that might go bad, it's still important to recognize that the person at fault for the situation going bad is the person who commits the crime, and not the person who ended up in a bad situation.
I've worked with some "strategic" consultants.
Believe me, these guys did some pretty diagrams and wrote a couple of nice word docs, but they didn't do any real, useful work. It was almost laughable.
I see, I misunderstood you and thought you were suggesting that the Iliad was in fact a "sacred text." I see know you were not saying that.

I like several of your other comments:

> Homer is often thought to be describing events during the bronze dark age, the period between the collapse of middle eastern bronze age empires and the rise of iron age empires (like the greek one).

> This is what the bible is too, to a large extent. The exodus, judges, King David, prophets, heros... Stories about the legendary dark age written by decendants during the early iron age.

> As civilization (and population) re-grew these stories formed a cultural core. Judeans got swept into the aramean, babylonian, persian and later hellenic empires. The library of knowledge grew enourmously. But, the old stories still remained at the heart of the cultural.

I think there are many parallels between the two.
$165/hr is not particularly high (in addition to the fact: don't bill hourly). A $3200 day is not unusually high.

Product development is in some ways more gratifying than consulting. But consulting has its own rewards, too.
How to create reusable and composable components in React
> The result, however, is that at this moment, MongoDB is under a non-approved license and therefore IS NOT OPEN SOURCE.

Perhaps you meant to say "is not OSI Certified", because the OSI don't appear to have a right to restrict use of the phrase "open source". See what's on your own website: https://opensource.org/pressreleases/certified-open-source.p...

On the other comments in this thread, even though MongoDB have "submitted" to having the OSI review their license, OSI still aren't capable of restricting anyone's rights on the use of the phrase "open source" including MongoDB's.

I can see your organization tries to make sure that there is an approved set of principles that identify libre/free software which is good. The phrase "open source" has been used in myriad ways since its early days, and not just for software.

I'm a programmer who has written open source since 2000. I would defend you when it comes to the benefits of libre software, but you can't restrict others over using something that you don't legally own.
The Kindle Fire phone failed miserably.
This isn't really true. The FSF and OSI have subtly different goals but the definition of open source and free software are nearly identical. The OSI exists to be a non-political entity so that people who want to work on open source have resources to do so without necessarily participating in the politics of the FSF.
Saudi prince invested huge amounts, not sure if personal or state money.
While you're reviewing the license, I'd be interested in the OSI's opinion as to whether or not the SSPL retains compatibility with GPL software in light of the striking of the relevant paragraph in section 13—and what the implications would be of adding it back in.
Masayoshi Son

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/16/business/softba...
> physically destroy the hard drives (special equipment)

Is that as fun a day as I'm picturing?
> ~4 people over the past 200+ years

No, that's just over the last 20 (no plus) years; each of the identified people has been elected to Congress or a Governor's office in 1998 or later.

It's true that the preceding 200+ years of US history had a substantially lower (but nonzero, even in comparable offices) average frequency of publicly non-religious office holders, but that's about how the US was not how it is.
If I understand IPOs correctly, I don't think that's true. Underwriting firms are left holding the bag if they overprice a stock, so it is not in their interest to overvalue it during an IPO. Further, if the price is too high, they'll cool down enthusiasm for the stock, and depress the price.
"Google obligated handset makers via the MADA linked above."

Handset makers obligated _themselves_ by (voluntarily) signing up to the MADA.
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They also have Azure logic apps. I would be really curious to see how many of these, if any, share code or resources.
Looking at the documentation, I got the impression that you give them Dockerfiles that they will run on GitHub servers for up to an hour at a time.

Seems like this would be pretty easy to abuse, and I was able to sign up with my free account. We'll have to see how long this lasts...
Pre-GNU/BSD/Linux Unix included source code, too, but I don't think anyone would claim it was "open source" in any sense of the word.
It sucks that criminals get away with this crap all the time and I am sorry that happened to you but do you really think releasing videos of alleged criminals to the public is a good idea?

https://www.businessinsider.com/reddit-falsely-accuses-sunil...
> The good innocent boys interpretation

That's not at all what I'm saying. I don't think we disagree very much.
It's happened with production platforms. I assume in the case of the exploration rigs, there's a positive ROI to towing them to a ship breaker and selling them for scrap.
I believe you're correct. China has almost no Google presence.
(App Engine PM here)
Nice to hear! Yes indeed, we announced Go 1.11 on App Engine last week at Cloud Next London.
> Manufacturers should be able to get only the Google Play store.

Why? Google is a for-profit company that puts time and effort into developing the store. The play store may not actually be self-sustaining in terms of revenue. Perhaps it is paid for by things like Maps and YouTube.

Shouldn't Google be able to specify the terms of use for its closed-source products? It seems sane that those terms might specify a package deal with other products.

By mandating that companies should be able to only get the Play Store, you're asking that Google work for free for others, and that doesn't seem fair.
Thank you, those helped.
In order to comment on individual cells, we appear to first have to have an argument about how audits work. You say WhatsApp can only "claim" certain features as a consequence of it being closed source, but that's because of a misunderstanding about how audits work.

In a backchannel, as a consequence of this HN article, someone (names withheld to protect the guilty, they can identify themselves if they'd like) started looking at Dust and figured out the key store password is a hardcoded, short, ASCII string and the messages are encrypted with unauthenticated AES-CBC. They did not need the source code to do that.

JP Aumasson phrased it more eloquently than I could: https://research.kudelskisecurity.com/2018/10/02/open-source...
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> We started building our next generation rich-text editor with the assumption that real-time collaborative editing must be the core feature that lies at its very foundation

Am I the only one who doesn't like other people typing through my work? Why not simply let the user choose when to merge their work with others?

Honestly, sometimes I feel collaborative text editors have been created "just because we can" or "just because we want to see if we can".
Too much value in the steel and other materials, I'd guess. Sounds like hard and dangerous work for people cutting them up, but it is work, probably in areas without a lot of other prospects.
Surely they're absolutely filthy and you don't want all the paints, oils, lubricants going into the water?
>So what does the PC-Catalog suggest, when one minority wants to end tolerance and other minoritys, once it is the majority?

Is that an honest question? Because it sounds like trolling.

In what way does protecting a minority promote them to a majority? In what way does it condone their belief systems? Why do people have such a ridiculously hard time not conflating the adherents of t religion with the religion itself?
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> That must have been a brutal time to be involved in AI research.

They don’t call it the AI Winter because it was fun!
The care Signal puts in that actually makes it a better, more secure messenger is primarily about metadata management. Consider how long it took for them to implement profiles, how much time they took to explain how their contact discovery works, et cetera. These are not trivial matters: they got subpoenaed and had nothing to respond with, because they're tried extraordinarily hard not to.
> They cost more, but are more ethical.

They aren't.

If you go public, you have zero control of who owns your company. It's not more ethical - it just launders your ethical responsibility.

There are plenty of people or organizations - who also happen to have a horrific ethical record - who can buy shares in a private company. And there's nothing you can do to stop that.
What's the synth?
The trick question here is - "Open Source the service" - under what license? Does it also have to be SSPL, or it can be any OpenSource license?
Emails show Berkeley police has policy of tweeting info of arrested protesters
It's amusing that this is hosted by a spyware vendor.
> The source is provided, yes, but that doesn't make it open source.

For me it's actually the definition of open source, having the sources in the open. After you can have more or less restrictive licenses.
From a certain size onwards not competing against yourself seems to be almost irresponsible. Just imagine the fate Intel without any internal competition to the Itanium, or without the Haifa team that insisted on pitting a refined P6 against netburst for mobile.
I don't understand why Google are doing this. I thought the EU imposed that huge fine because Google had a clause in their contract with handset manufacturers that said, "If you want Play Services, you cannot sell a forked version of Android". Why can't Google simply remove this clause?
You will find that RMS detests "Open Source"[1]. He's more of a Free software guy, the distinction on user's freedom is important.

1.https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point....
What good messenger is better than Signal but just has a smaller _marketing budget_?
Yes, they do? What I misreading about this pricing page?
Eventually this is going to catch up with you. It only takes 6 minutes every few days to train your core. Neglecting it WILL lead to injury, no matter how good your habits are under the barbell.
Github are fine with closed source, you can put code on there under any license you wish AFAIK, and you can even hide it if you use a paid plan.
And to quantify pollution: the study looks at reducing 10 micron particulate pollution in China down to the EPA-approved limits, which almost all US cities are already below, and which Chinese cities are often 2-3 times above.

I tried to take a serious stab at "what does this mean for air in the US?", and my best conclusion is "probably almost nothing". The full notes are here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18231784
Keylogger protection bypass
This research article introduced a groundbreaking discovery: a new keylogger applying a window?!?!
Link: http://eudl.eu/doi/10.4108/eai.15-10-2018.155740
Assuming you're not intentionally being disingenuous, can I suggest that you put the bit where you say you don't really know much about central banking and money supply nearer the top?

As a piece where you're writing down what you've found out so far, it's fine.

As a piece that's intended to be genuinely informative about modern money supply, it's substantially less so.
Looking at 8TB drives on Amazon right now, external USB 3.0 8TB drives are $150 (e.g. STEB8000100). Bare 8TB drives (e.g. ST8000DM004) are $200 and up.

This isn't the same class of drive. Supposedly what's inside the STEB8000100 is a ST8000AS0002 5900 RPM archive drive. But that drive, which you can barely even find anymore, is over $200.

What's up with this pricing?
Gartner is one of those companies that executives hire to provide backing for their big decisions, so that if they don't work out there is someone to blame. Gartner makes a lot of money to be the scapegoat-in-waiting.
This is exactly the reason why the Saudi-Arabian government will most likely get away with killing and probably torturing an innocent man. This is absolutely unheard of in any developed country.

Saudi-Arabia is filthy rich, and apparently, that makes murdering an American citizen on Turkish ground legal. I feel disgusted, and everyone who does any business whatsoever with the Saudi-Arabian government is a hypocrite.
HN has always been a mix of building/entrepreneur/tech projects/etc. The only real content change (since 2016) is more tech-political content, which indirectly impacts the above.
Why not just design a system where you do not have access to the data? Using symmetric encryption it's possible for you to create a system where only the end customer can decrypt any of the data. Because of the mathematics involved it's effectively impossible for you to respond to a subpoena and law enforcement must make requests of each customer individually.
I just checked google trends, and a very superficial look suggests an upwards trend line over the last 5 years.

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&ge...