skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a broad assertion about a whole country. Plenty of us don't want any large institutions with unchecked surveillance power.

Up to a point you can choose not to patronize such places, but where do we draw the line? I'm curious as to any legal arguments other than "You don't have a right to privacy in public." You can't opt out of society.
Plastic releases little CO2 into the air and its environment negatives are minimal if deposed of in a landfill. If CO2 and other external pollution sources were highly taxed, plastic prices could even go down as burning oil for energy is phased out and non-taxed oil used for plastics drops in price.
It's also slower, which is quite a pity because I really like the syntax compared to Python. It has proper end statements for example.

We still use Perl5 heavily for web and backend services development (Mojolicious). If you keep your code tidy it's maintainable, so it all boils down to how you write your code. Needless to say, my tiny scripts are written in Perl. I simetimes even use it from command line to calculate dates in the future or do something that is too complicated with sed and awk.
Apple hides tons of stuff - often so well that they go missing for years. I hate to admit this (I'm an 8-time tech CTO), but I thought that Apple had made the bonehead decision to completely remove the iOS search feature after swiping to the left from the home screen stopped working (iOS 6?). It was literally years (at least iOS 10!) before I accidentally invoked the absolutely opaque "swipe down from the middle of a home screen" gesture to discover search was still possible.

Actually, I wish any modern smartphone OS had half the thought put into it that Palm had 20 years ago. After all this time, nothing even comes close for contact and calendar management, as well as actual phone use!
> ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations has used facial recognition in the past to assist during the course of criminal investigations related to fraudulent activities

Post 9/11 USA is nothing short of Orwellian and this is the kind of stuff I saw some HN peeps indirectly rooting for after the Amazon employee letter was released last week. If you want to be link China so bad why keep all the nukes?

Your privacy protection now? The right to wear a bandana while driving your car until pulled over for not wearing your seatbelt. Click it or ticket buddy.
Part of it is I want to support promising geoengineering solutions because I don't think reducing emissions will be enough in the future. In particular spreading olivine on beaches also reduces ocean acidity and gives nutrients to the base of the ocean food chain.

Donating money so that polluting industries can pollute less seems like a bailout to those industries. They should be fined/regulated by their governments in those countries. If they get a bailout which gives them a competitive advantage (free money) what's stopping them from opening another low-tech, inefficient plant with the extra money, then expecting another bailout? It seems like rewarding bad behavior.
Well, it was. They prohibited Guangdong provincial funds from being used in Zhongshan–Shenzhen bridge, that's why the city has to use its own money.

Lingdingyang being declared a national nature reserve was also all about sinking the previous Lingdingyang tunnel project.

Best to say, central planners and "upstart localities" are in "passive aggressive" relationships
> why not implement cameras all over every roadway to automatically ticket you every time you break the speed limit

The recent front-page story about the new bridge connecting to Hong Kong said that, based on camera footage, software identifies people who have yawned three times (or something similar to that) and alerts authorities.
Firefox 63 Adds an Improved Tracking Protection and More Tweaks
Not interested in starting a big extended dialogue, but I lived in downtown SF for over 6 years. I am very aware of the costs. It's absurd and out of touch with reality.
I recently just started replacing some jQuery functionality with React in a large Django project, using Django-Rest, it's actually been less complicated than I expected.
This is true, and I wish more people spent time thinking about it. I was lucky, in that I knew what time it was young. I remember saying to a friend at my first job out of college (at one of the more well-respected Boston tech companies, with a NASDAQ symbol and a lot of lifers): "this company is just a client and I am exclusively selling to them, that won't last forever."

Being always ready to jump, in many ways, sucks. But it's what we've got.
At the end of the day, that is the best insurance, if one can do it. Even better is mind training - for the real slings and arrows of outrageous fortune.
No. It's not. The comment I directly replied to was asking for a crime where you can take your children with you when you're arrested.

We've already established the fact the system is massively stacked against minorities. Then we continue to use 'but it's a crime!' as justification for vile and malicious behavior to people that have committed something without an actual victim like smoking marijuana or crossing the border.

And again, we do not permanently separate families in every single case where someone commits misdemeanor. So then why is it OK to permanently separate all immigrants who cross the border despite it being the same level of crime? Give me one reason outside of 'racism and xenophobia.'
TLDR; The name is not changing
>I suppose the only drawback here is that they're issued from a centralized authority.

you know what they say: "those who do not remember the past are doomed to repeat it".

>A cryptocurrency that stays the same value is not very interesting to traders and therefore most of the cryptocurrency community.

the reason most of the cryptocurrency community is traders, is because of the price volatility.

now that that is fixed, people can actually use crypto-currency as a currency and hopefully we can have an actual useful tool for an economy rather than a FOMO-fueled get-rich-quick hype-machine.
What Is Harvard Trying to Hide?
One thing to remember is to never install anything into system Python. It's for running system stuff, managed by OS's package manager.

For any project, create a virtualenv. Write and maintain a requirements.txt file. It will save your day many times.

It does not completely solve system-dependent problems, like TLS support (unless you run something like nix or guix).
I think Sales, not coding. But the rest of your post highlights the dystopian nature of the situation.
Actually if you think about it, computers already have a security response. Anti-virus to protect them from malware and find my computer/tablet/phone to protect against theft. These protect against the most common security attacks, that the average user experiences.
Tangentially...

My organization maintains a couple of Perl web apps for internal purposes (one that dates back starting in 1997). We do some occasional work/improvements/modernizations on these. Mentally switching into "perl" mode to work on these projects requires tons more effort then switching between our other Bash/PHP/Puppet/Python codebases. And there are several sections of the code I've shied away from modernizing because they use esoteric perl operators that I don't use and don't really understand.

Not to mention that only a few members of our organization are really "fluent" in perl, and teaching it to the newbies feels almost like a waste of resources when they can be more productive faster using python which has ample modern documentation and simpler syntax/conventions and well defined coding standards.
What's an example of something you've been having these problems with?
People with electronic pass and CRH card can use the train as easy as riding a metro
Unfortunately we thought that urgent care clinic was in-network, but it wasn't. Insurance covered a little bit, but we were left with the majority of the bill. We complained about the high cost and asked for a discount to no avail.
It's worth noting that in the future, Circle may also invest these fiat funds in highly-liquid, AAA-rated fixed income securities. [0]

[0] https://support.usdc.circle.com/hc/en-us/articles/3600152783...
I've never managed to get those to drip at the right flow.
I am not a native English speaker, can someone update me on why nips is offensive?
Caution - very addictive, and glorious obsolete tech. Also full of mystery.

First time I've read one was 1995 on some BBS.
Excellent quote, thanks
I'm likely giving a talk on this exact subject in January (depending on scheduling). If you're curious about the various approaches I've tried, you can reach me at this username in all sorts of places.
How about Guile? I've only seen it used as an embedded language (in C) or using the repl.
Or we could just plant trees. Lots of them. Give people a small tax deduction per acre of forest on their property.
polarizing to whom? not understanding your take.
Naming, one of the hardest problems in computer science.
why...... just let old languages die. We've taken lessons from them, and grown.

I know there is of are a good amount of financial systems written in COBOL, but that's because no one has had the guts to rewrite them, not because COBOL is some amazing perfect language.

And there are a plethora of other important, reliable systems that are still in perl because no one has had the guts to rewrite them. But I would guess that there are just as many that have been rewritten to python and ruby. And many more that have been written for the first time in those languages. And in the next few years we're going to be in the same place with those sacred cow scripts written in python and ruby.

I'm not trying to say that code is wrong. But it isn't productive to claim that we can slap a new version number on a library and claim it's going to satisfy everyone's hopes and dreams. At some point, we need to let our cows die, even if they're sacred.
Does anyone here actually care about the substance of this story (academic conference considers name change due to racist homograph, opts against)? Nothing happened. Reasonable people might have changed the name. These reasonable people didn't.
Wood gassification does that already.
"Nips" is slang for nipples and was a racial slur for the Japanese once upon a time. I don't think the former is really gender specific, and I don't think most people have heard it used in the latter way.
I usually consider these stories focusing on a single situation or person bad journalism. If this represents a larger trend, then at best, they could include it as part of a larger story with data or evidence to back up showing a rising trend.

This just comes across as sensationalist shock-value story time to me. I would really like to see these go away in "news". This constitutes an anecdote, not news.
Much of the run up to the Holocaust was in establishing and propagandizing an authoritarian worldview while silencing the opposition with whatever tools were available.
Even for tongue-in-cheek suggestion to change the name to "27fb380bc013f01262acf6b2518d08bd" to avoid all possible offence, people might start referencing to the conference as "the hash code", which sounds like a cannabis convention.
You've said it yourself, for now Hong Kong is integrated into the motherland. Put a price on it. China thinks very long term

Insurance and registration reqs can be changed virtually with a signature.
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> used iPhone 8 with original glass

Except you would have no way to verify if the glass is original until you take it to Apple and they refuse to service it.
Has anyone thought about adopting the permission management on phones to solve such kind of issues?

Use NLP to modularize the T&Cs and create some sort of authorization system to manage consents to various setups so we don't need to do it over and over. Plus, it could be an unique identification system!

Just be sure to decentralize it.
if you moved towns, nobody would know who you are
The concrete underlying story seems a bit strange... Maybe they just copied the file in a development sandbox you're unaware of?
This goes both ways. If the person given the task is not sure what they are supposed to do they should ask. How can you spend weeks on doing something if don't know what you should achieve?
> Mentally switching into "perl" mode to work on these projects requires tons more effort then switching between our other Bash/PHP/Puppet/Python

That's surprising to me. Bash, PHP and perl seem to be closer to each other than any of them are to python. For example, the use of sigils ($var) for variable names in Bash/PHP/perl.
Just want to note that I'm on the other side of this -- I think this is a great moderation policy for this specific forum.

Including names seems like a good way to:

- let people exercise their people-related biases

- encourage gaming of the system by appealing to authority

- encourage gossip-y headlines "X's techchruch interview whatever whatever"

> Removing her name from the headline just obliterates the value of the headline as a way to determine what you're going to see when you land on the other side of the link.

I'm not sure I agree with this at all... What she did is what's valuable right? When I clicked that headline, I expect to see something or some process that is actually bringing transparency to ER prices.

Also at the end of the day HN isn't a democracy :), but I think I happen to fall in the majority here (or at least in line with what was decided).
Will the late applicants be notified as well?
It’s the Audi SUV drivers that give me those most problems on a bike
Groundbreaking deal allows remixes to make money on Soundcloud
With C++ metaprogramming as powerful as it is, why are macros (or what I presume to be macros) in the class body still necessary? It reminds me a bit of 1990s MFC, and not in a good way.
"All eight volunteers in a small pilot study were found to have passed..."

Valid question though
97ish here... re: BBS' - still have my US Robotics 28.8 external modem...
> But you can't yell fire in a crowded theater.

This cliche comes from a WWI era Supreme Court ruling and was part of the argument for how imprisoning anti-war protestors for “sedition” wasn’t technically a violation of the First Amendment.
Sidney Darlington, inventor of the Darlington transistor
This was something that came up shortly after the Snowden documents were released. I don't remember who made the point (maybe Moxie Marlinspike), but they pointed out how important it is to be able to break the law. That breaking the law is an vital means of effecting change in the US: kids smoke pot illegally and grow up to be adults that push to legalize it. Gay people are more and more open and successfully push for gay marriage. Etc.

So if you take away people's means of breaking the law (such as auto speed-limited cars), it's actually striking at something really fundamental in the ability of the citizens to push for change or to protest. Almost like we want to have just the right amount of law breaking, although I can't imagine anyone associated with public policy ever adopting this stance.
How does this case sit with:

> You see them again a bit later, and they insist they're
> "working on it". Time passes. Again, you hear from them:
> "top of my list".
It has been working, just not quickly. Weed is legal across the whole west coast.
This whole comment thread reminds me of my recent experience at an Amazon internship. I was trying to make my way out of the deep end, but my mentor was looking for whose fault it was; when the party with the upper hand decides to play this game, it's very difficult to escape.
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If xattrs is the only reason, then they should support any FS that has xattrs.
if you're on a highway, then a car driving 30mph is much more dangerous than one which is 10mph over speed limit.
I feel like this would make a really interesting sim video game. Start with a certain amount of capital, research and build, and try to save the world from carbon :)
I'm glad the pun that is the TITS conference still has heft.
It would be really nice if EVERYONE not in the 1% got a raise of some sort. An extra 1-2 an hour or whatever...

However then the prices of everything would go up for everyone, just like they are everywhere.

When the 'living wage' 15 USD/whatever minimums are passed don't the prices of everyday living just rise to meet that extra cash in the market?

Meanwhile everyone who was previously making a little above minimum wage, mostly the (lower/mid) middle class, get shafted, because they do not get raises.
yes you do, I think they will come after invites but I am not too sure.
> Part of it is I want to support promising geoengineering solutions because I don't think reducing emissions will be enough in the future. In particular spreading olivine on beaches also reduces ocean acidity and gives nutrients to the base of the ocean food chain.

We can do both! No need to make a choice. The carbon offsetting schemes in the developing world are currently very cheap because we have all the low hanging fruits available at the moment. When all the very inefficient and easy to replace processes will be replaced, the offsetting schemes will be much more expensive than geoengineering solutions.

> Donating money so that polluting industries can pollute less seems like a bailout to those industries

It's not really how it works (at least not the companies I've looked at). The way it works is you have a more expensive and equivalent way to do things which at the end does release less carbon. It still works in a free market way. For example they engineered cooking stove which are much more efficient but slightly more expensive, they are subsidised by the Co2 offset donations.
Another geo-engineering idea is to speed up this mixing by pumping air deep down into the oceans. Personally (as a PhD geoscientist), I think that taking CO2 out of the air, compressing it to a liquid, and re-injecting it back into the geologic formations that the oil came from in the first place, is the procedure for getting rid of CO2 that is least likely to screw things up even more. It would just go back where it came from (many caveats, but basically can work).

Start raising a tax on CO2 emissions and at the same time start paying people to put it in the ground. Raise the price on both each year and you could reach equilibrium pretty fast. Should have started 20 years ago, but now is better than never. Maybe start at increasing it at $10 dollars a ton/year. $10/ton is about $4 per barrel of oil. If people saw that sequestering CO2 would pay $100 a ton in a decade the research and excitement around the ideas would be huge and likely encourage many breakthroughs. Isolated solar and wind farms extracting CO2 from the air and pumping it underground could be a huge business.

Edit: $10/ton CO2 is more like $4 a barrel than the $2 I originally wrote. Source: https://pyrolysium.org/how-much-co2-produced-by-burning-one-...
Not forgetting that of the two permits they send you, one expires after a year, the other after 3.

"It's so convenient!"
https://www.statista.com/statistics/225474/booking-holdings-...

Booking Holdings, for example, spent $4.1 billion dollars in 2017 on performance advertising. This would generally mean they had an ROI target (e.g., each dollar of spend should return $1.2 in revenue). The method of measuring this would generally come from an agreement between the marketing team and the finance team — it might require some assumptions on things like LTV or the value of certain actions, but the finance team would be major participants in determining this value.

There's no way Booking or similar massive advertisers are spending billions of dollars without a very very clear POV on the return they're receiving.

I think a lot of the "state of the art" that you're asking for won't be shared with the public by these companies.
OK, but Bloomberg said some Chinese spy chips were the size of tiny signal couplers. That "ethernet port" is actually a dual-stacked Ethernet/USB port measuring over 1 cubic inch in volume - it is hardly "small". 2008 NSA's "TRINITY" microcontroller, which forms the basis for most of their designs, is a bit smaller than a US penny, which isn't exactly "signal coupler" tiny.

I can't guess at what 2018 NSA might have, nor can I guess at what 2018 PLA might have, but I think it's hard to jump immediately to believing this.
I'm only commenting on your affluenza comparison specifically.

Here's an example of why I think the comparison is meaningless. Grand theft can be charged as a misdemeanor with up to a two year jail sentence. But Brock Turner was sentenced to only six months of jail time for rape. Do you think grand theft is worse than rape? Of course not, but the problem here is the Brock Turner sentence, not the sentencing for grand theft. This question could only be posed because, by design, I selected a more serious crime (rape) for which there exists at least one case where an inappropriately lenient sentence was given out.

You did the same. By design, you selected a more serious crime (murder) for which there exists at least one case where an inappropriately lenient sentence was given out. You then used this highly dysfunctional example to draw a comparison to the less serious crime. But the simplest response to your question comparing crossing the border and murder is simply that the affluenza sentencing was wrong.
That solution ("per, pers") is as artificial and contrived as "zhe, ze" or other invented words. Will never get traction.
What's special about it is that you have terabytes of data to keep available, and at scale git does not play well with technologies like NFS or cloud object storage like S3, so each major provider either pays a lot of money to specialized vendors or has homegrown solutions to deal with the problem.

So on top of your usual problems with keeping a cloud service up and running, you also have that git IO problem to contend with, and to rub salt in the wound, that wrinkle also makes it difficult to fully adopt many "standard" cloud architectures or vendors (such as AWS) which work for non-IO-heavy applications: you always have this major part of your infrastructure that has this special requirement holding you back at least partially (and that can hurt your availability for related services which are not even IO-heavy).

(That said, it's hard to guess whether that was the problem, a contributing factor, or unrelated entirely based on the details provided here.)

source: I work at Atlassian (though not on the Bitbucket team) and occasionally chat to current and former Bitbucket devs on this topic.
What a weird society we live in, where the name of a body part that feeds babies is considered offensive. What can be better than feeding babies?
I like perl for short throw-away programs, personally. It works really well for that. You can just hack away until it works and not think much about it. If you thought about it a little strangely, perl will probably support you to the end of your weird solution.
I guess I don't think the advertisers are getting stiffed — yes, they pay a CPM for 1000 impressions where some meaningful percentage are fake, but that should be baked into their models. The effective CPM for whatever the real number of impressions is is still ROI positive.
Enjoy it while you can. At some point a beancounter will look at you and decide your salary is too high or your healthcare costs are upsetting the average, and you'll find yourself on a layoff list. I have a friend who has the same qualities you describe: experienced, works well with others, and works hard; he hasn't had a job in 2 years after his layoff at age 59.

As for startups, I'd suggest buying a lottery ticket - it has similar odds but involves much less work.
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