skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is very good, thanks. Two thoughts:

(1) the 'outer world' of one who reflects upon it deeply is going to be richer than the average 'outer world', especially outside the social parts

(2) whether and under what conditions the reflective thoughts are either free or 'intrusive'
Indeed. I’m not sure why adoption is so poor on that.
There exists a cottage industry of individuals acting as money changers for bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. It can be quite lucrative. This is (was?) a gray market, but judgements like this show the government considers it a black market.

What’s interesting to me is that they didn’t simply nail her for buying and selling bitcoin without a money transmitters license. They also used the undercover agent to explicitly say it was drug money, ensuring worse penalties.
This has been going on longer than three days. We have been dealing with this exact issue since at least Monday (11/5) morning in us-central1.
I just tried turning up my 1-node test cluster via terraform, and it worked fine. I would have thought the gcloud CLI would be using the same API.

I did this in the australia-southeast1-a zone.
Is there a link to downloading copies of the images?
True, but a quick look at the Space Shuttle launch configuration shows that aerodynamics, while not totally irrelevant, were _not_ the dominant concern.
Yes, it's true. Only takes a few days. I understand why people are disturbed when they first see a Lisp; but really, truly, honestly: It's a total non issue. I never think about it and I use Clojure every day. It's the same as getting used to any other language syntax.
so basically for holding views that weren't those of Sheryl Sandberg
The spike doesn’t define HOW the later work is done, only the information it was supposed to research.

How to do something would be sorted out during grooming or perhaps when adding the story to the sprint.
No. That was not what I wrote.

In my opinion differing political opinions should be tolerated as much as possible.
I find it hard to believe anyone would have batted an eye if it was for Clinton.

People at facebook are very anti-Trump.
LEDs are not inherently damaging to the eyes. You may be referencing "blue light hazard", for which evidence is neither rigorous or unequivocal.

Assuming blue light is damaging, white LEDs need not have more blue in their spectrum than other white light sources such as incandescent, fluorescent, and gas discharge. Higher color temperate LEDs with more blue in their spectrum are commonly seen though, as their efficiency numbers are a bit better than lower color temperatures.
I think technically all states are "at will", some just have a few more protections than others do.
> but that doesn't explain why Thiel has been largely immune.

He has more clout. Also I think he’s sold all his fb stock.
I'm not a core developer, so I might be mistaken or missing big things, but from my perspective, the big things are (in addition to the stuff I mentioned above how flow control compatibility):

Amber Brown took over as release manager, python 3 compatibility landed, lots of new test utilities, Glyph and some of the original authors took steps back but are still involved, IHandshakeListener (makes TLS easier), support for TLS 1.3 cypher suites (though full support is still pending PyOpenSSL I guess?), WSGIResource supports IPv6...

I maintain a Twisted-based web server called hendrix; we have integrated many of the new coolness and are fully Python 3 compatible. Check it out: https://github.com/hendrix/hendrix
Is your ideal that people don't have extreme positions or that extreme positions are tolerated?
The UI/UX on this is pretty awful.

It seems like when you change the settings, it can take 15 or more seconds to take effect.
> Never has our future been more unpredictable, never have we depended so much on political forces that cannot be trusted to follow the rules of common sense and self-interest—forces that look like sheer insanity, if judged by the standards of other centuries.

-- Hannah Arendt, "The Origins of Totalitarianism"

A war of aggression going hand in hand with "Total Information Awareness" (anyone remember that?), going along with that is crazy and suicidal.

I guess people at Jonestown also talked a lot about the crazy things going on in the world, just not about the crazy they were part of.

So, that's how that works. Just like the instant downvoting without reply works. It's like asking "what is cancer?" and when the reply is "it can come in various forms, for example that lump you have there, that's also cancer", then suddenly we don't really want to know what cancer is anymore, and are no longer accountable for basically shutting people up. As long as the status quo agrees, no justifications are required.
why does Facebook have an obligation to define "disinformation"? This is thought policing and nothing more. If he had supported liberal platforms he would be celebrated
“at will” employment [...] it’s my company so I can fire you for whatever I want

I am not a lawyer, but my understanding is that "at will" employment allows an employer to fire a worker for no reason (just like an employee can decide to quit without providing a reason) but not for any reason. In particular, you can't fire someone for being black, for being pregnant, for refusing to do something illegal, etc.

This is why there is common advice of "don't tell people why you're firing them" -- as soon as you give an explanation, there's a risk that your words could be twisted into implying that you fired them for a bad (i.e., illegal) reason rather than simply for no reason.
Mods- Can we get 2010 in the title please?
Audio DAC and ADC do not measure or output DC, which makes them useless for many applications.
Been trying to spin up vm instances all day, had to try every single zone just to get one up. Not only is this incredibly harmful to a technology business dependent on this infra, it wasnt obvious to me what the issue was until I tried creating instances. Nothing says, hey resources are constrained here, try this one. Just about ready to bite the bullet and move to aws.
This was a systematic attempt by all three parties to defraud the Inland Revenue, Upwork is generally pretty sleazy but they blinked first this time.
officially it is at-will, but there are so many exceptions that it almost isn't.
Pretty sure most of them take anabolic steroids, whose effects can lead to -guess what- delusion, aggressiveness and violence (not unlike cocaine). I wounldn't be surprised at all if random drug tests on cops confirmed this.
If he was fired for expressing this preference on the platform he works for, is that the same as firing someone for having a political preference?
American but I believe California is an at-will employment state.

https://www.rocketlawyer.com/article/what-states-are-at-will...
FWIW, he is still on the board. I don't think he has sold his stock.
It’s the best art museum outside of Paris I’ve been to.
As the rock-star programmer I am, I like to dance while I code. Jokes asides, it does get more blood to your brain and work becomes more fun. If coworkers find it annoying, just ask for your own office. But be careful if you have a funny manager or you might get an elevated glass cubicle.
Trying one thing, not achieving that one, but achieving another bad thing in the process. How is that not failing ?

Upwork has been in the news more than enough to make it VERY clear that if there's any kind of organisation that needs to be prevented from exploiting others, it's Upwork.
For anyone interested in understanding QUIC, here's a post I wrote a few years ago explaining the tech, the challenges involved and the intended fixes: https://ma.ttias.be/googles-quic-protocol-moving-web-tcp-udp...
No, it’s any reason as long as it’s discriminatory:

“At-will employment is a term used in U.S. labor law for contractual relationships in which an employee can be dismissed by an employer for any reason (that is, without having to establish "just cause" for termination), and without warning”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/At-will_employment

I can fire you for being a fan of the Raiders because I am a fan of the Chargers.
A full archive would be nice if there's some kind of index.
The thing is that I don't want a tenkey keyboard.
It's also common for new installations to have higher output than what they replace, and higher color temperatures that are perceived as harsher. While I have no problem with LEDs as a light source, I do oppose an overall increase in always-on outdoor illumination, and would generally prefer lower color temperatures used for that purpose.
It looks like the same thing Mozilla did to Brendan Eich, fired after being caught donating to a conservative movement, so this is hardly a first.
Absolutely chilling.

Think about Harvey Weinstein-- Hollywood super-mogul, pre-eminent power player, prominent supporter of ONE political party.

Weinstein was a vicious sexual predator for decades. He was able to operate because he used fear and intimidation, especially fear of employment prospects. Do you ever wonder why Hollywood is almost exclusively left-leaning? Why the awards ceremonies have only left-leaning outbursts?

It is easy to imagine the same thing happening in tech. This is not good, not good at all.
The west has been decoupled from Malthusian equilibrium for two to three centuries.

At earlier times, say 800 years ago, I think it can be argued that population densities in Europe were lower than in China because farming was optimized more for labor than for land -- plowing with horses is less work, but less food, per area, than planting rice by hand. But it's super-hard to figure out cause & effect obviously.
Beware the Metagame
I worked on a similar effect in a mobile VR game. Blade Runner: Revelations on Daydream.

This vfx is actually pretty simple but quite satisfying. Having the drops refract based on look angle is what really pushes it over the edge.
> Mr. Luckey’s fallout with Facebook began in September 2016, when the Daily Beast revealed his $10,000 donation to NimbleAmerica, a pro-Trump group that paid for advertising mocking Hillary Clinton ahead of the 2016 election. At least one billboard paid for by the group featured a picture of Mrs. Clinton and the phrase “Too Big to Jail.”

> In one post on a Reddit chain dedicated to supporting Mr. Trump, the author, called “NimbleRichMan,” said he was donating to the group so it could spread unflattering memes about Mrs. Clinton.

> Mr. Luckey’s donation and the perception he might be leading a pro-Trump online campaign ignited a firestorm.

So, contrary to the title of this HN submission, the firing was not because he supported Trump, but because he was donating to, and possibly running, a political organization dedicated to trolling people online — according to this WSJ article.

> Then Mr. Luckey and his lawyer negotiated a payout of at least $100 million

Poor feller.
You can actually kind of fit three windows on an iPad: two in Split View and another one on top in Slide Over. Even if you can’t interact with the background windows when Slide Over is active, they continue to refresh their contents.
Objective-C++: Deliver Us from Swift
Employers should be able to fire employees for their political beliefs no matter what they are. It's not remotely on the same level as race or gender or anything of the like; political beliefs are chosen and based on ideology. Laws against these firings are a government overstep.
"If you have a dev team with no incentive for completion, you have a dev team problem."

Devs naturally lack incentive - it's an existential nature of software, i.e. it can go on forever. It's not like building a house.

"If you have a hold up to deliver perfection instead of what the business needs, you have a scope creep problem"

A 'Quality' issue problem, not so much scope, but again - there's a natural dissonance between Engineering instinct, and outcomes. Engineers naturally want to build something robust, clean, and performant. It always makes sense to them, pushing against that is always hard.

Ergo - the need for clear milestones - with timings.
Free Flow of Information and International Trade [2010] [pdf]
Curiosity and persuit of knowledge are what drives many people. I would like to believe that HN is a place where these traits are encouraged and not looked down upon as you seem to do with your comment. If I could down vote your comment I would.
We don't think of farm spending in terms of tax write offs. That is how large farms work, not small farms. We buy small tools. Small machines. If we need a big machine to do something on our property, we barter for it or simply pay someone to handle it who does own the equipment. The assumption that all types and sizes of farms work under the same business model is simply untrue.
Not the same thing.

Lucey was funding memes that brought out the worst in people, memes with blatant racist/sexist undertones.

And a lot of executives jobs now have some clause about personal character outside of work, as they very well should. Being a racist/sexist outside of work should be costly and it is.
It is what US client states have to do to succeed. The US, sensibly, put its own interests first and dictates US content limits and export controls but the closest allies give up the most in the relationship. Rocket Lab has found a really sensible compromise that satisfies US hegemony and still allows high tech industry development in NZ. I am sure countries like the UK, Australia and Canada are watching.

Is a Kiwi rocket company that is forced to be half based in the US to satisfy US legislation any more American than an American rocket company that uses Russian built engines and other components sourced from Europe? The flag waving denies the reality that space is a global industry.
Farming is already incredibly efficient. Anyone who wants it to be even more efficient is just a huge company wanting to rid their supply chain of humans entirely.
Let's assume the average reader knows nothing about cryptocurrency besides it being 'digital money' nor do they care about the technical details. Telling people there have been no fraudulent transactions in the history of the currency is disingenuous. There have been numerous instances in which A's money moved to B without A's consent. Technically writing that off as non-fraudulent might be correct, in that it abides by the rules of the system, but it is likely not what the average reader is using to interpret it. The nature of the system is that it is more vulnerable to fraud than in traditional banking systems, and worse, when you are defrauded in most conventional banking systems, there are remedies you can seek. You get nothing with crypto. There are of course things you can do to avoid most of the gaping security holes many people have fallen into but that misses the point for the mass market and does nothing to address certain edge cases, e.g. robber hitting you with a wrench and demanding a private key.

To hit the whole article more generally, the author claims that men with guns can't guarantee fiat currency remains valid. True. But if men with guns say your crypto is now illegal, the utility of crypto for the common individual is now (value - expected cost of committing a felony on a public ledger). You might still find a use for it, but the majority of layperson use cases to mitigate hyperinflation just went down the toilet.
Are we talking about a small shity startup with a CEO that knows everything or a big serious company like google where scientists debate of what is right or wrong?
But in this case you would also have to be imagining the world where you were donating to progressive causes that were also committed to disinformation campaigns and dishonest behaviour.

Unethical behaviour is unethical, even if it at its core a politically motivated act.
A buried lede:

Mr. Luckey has told people he did vote for Mr. Johnson, but only to avoid having his credibility questioned if he was asked about the issue under oath in unrelated litigation.

Surely you can't compel someone to testify under oath about their constitutionally-protected secret ballot?
How many do you have time to answer?
Cajoling people to follow particular money handling standards and banking practices is an inappropriate use of the power to imprison people.

Anything short of outright fraud should be permitted in a free society. People shouldn't be expected to question their customers to find out where their funds came from, or be prosecuted because unbeknownst to them, a criminal used their services.

The modern regulatory system is draconian and unjust.
Text without paywall:

https://www.morningstar.com/news/dow-jones/TDJNDN_2018111159...
I'm having a bit of trouble understanding your point. Perhaps you could give a specific example of what you mean by "ever-more-aggressive flows?"
You're right, it was about the donation to the Nimble America organization, not about his political beliefs. And this is according to the very WSJ article we're discussing. But the submitter changed the HN title to make it seem that it was over his political views.
Politically and regulatorily it is not a good sign when both sides of the political spectrum are peddling the story that your company is a bad actor.

The irony is significant that while being hated and vilinized by the left, America’s adtech duopoly was assembled and appears to continue to be run by people who would largely identify as the liberal left.
Here's the link, it's basically their collection page filtered by the ones they released, each artwork page has links to download the image.
https://www.artic.edu/collection?is_public_domain=1
Sure. Perhaps I should have said "for no reason, or for any non-illegal reason".
I use preemptible machines in autodialing and for first time did not have any machines available for multiple hours yesterday. I am wondering whether this falls under the normal preemptible behaviour or this service degradation.
Go do some Farm-stay holidays and ask lots of questions. While there, ask around for other farms that will show you around. Talk to them, look for pain points, then go home and work on solutions. If you come up with something they agree would be helpful, let them be your beta testers (for free). You'll be helping real people in real ways, and might stumble on something that can change the industry.

I have family on farms, and friends who work in larger scale farming, and have spent plenty of time at both. They're always happy to hear about things that could make their lives easier, but most of the big startups are coming at this completely wrong and offering expensive over-complicated "solutions" that don't solve anything the real farmers really care that much about.
When Mike Wallace interviewed Martin Luther King, race riots were going on as a minority of African Americans, angry that decades of "reluctance of white power to make the kind of changes necessary to make justice a reality for the Negro" (quoting MLK), advocated violence instead.

King strongly advocated for non-violence, and commented that "riot is the language of the unheard".

I think I can draw a parallel here, with people who "[f]or years ... [have] done all the things law-abiding climate change activists do: filed petitions, lobbied legislators, hosted speakers, wrote letters, blockaded refineries, and tried to block Shell from moving their drilling rigs into the Arctic." Without effect.

The data is clear. We are past the point where there can be any doubt that human generated CO2 emissions are causing ecosystem problems, and it only will get worse unless we drastically reduce our pollutant levels.

I expect this 'vandalism of the unheard' will only increase, while the police, and government in general, act as the socialized protection force for large oil companies.
Say I ship an app and control its backend servers. I control QUIC on both ends. What's stopping my using a non-standard QUIC that starts faster and that backs off less aggressively in response to congestion signals like delay and loss? If I do that and you don't, then on a congested link, my app will end up using more than its fair share of bandwidth.
You don’t see them in the same sense you don’t see multiple closing braces in java or c.

The style in lisp is to keep all the closing paren on the same line: ))))

But in java or C you’ll sometimes see a function that ends like:
}
}
}
}

(Hmm my newlines didn’t cone thru on those braces)

Not exactly apples to apples comparison, but it illustrates how you can start to unsee those parens.
I really wish a lot of consumer electronics had better documented protocols and a place to attach an interface. Programmable smart hardware and consumer hardware like this rarely has a lot of differences between them except for price and the lack of documentation.

There's some awesome LED strip kits that are absolutely the right price, but I have no easy way to hook them into my home automation system. And ones that can cost an order of magnitude more.
The issue is what happens to benchmarks, because removing the power limit makes the limit thermal, which makes performance proportional to the efficacy of the cooling solution and other variables like the ambient temperature in the room.

There surely is an upper limit? Would cooling the CPU with liquid nitrogen, for example, make it perform appreciably faster even at the same stock clock?
Alarm over talks to implant UK employees with microchips
Facebook has an obligation to define disinformation in the same way an unregulated food processing plant would have an obligation to define sanitary. These should be just basic moral standards that any participant in society should be held to.
This is a fun article, I enjoyed reading about the reverse engineering aspect.

These days you can easily buy 5 metres of dirt cheap addressable LED strip and control them with an Arduino and FastLED. You don't get same learning experience though!
If Hollywood is so leftist, why are they such capitalists?

Why aren't Hollywood studios worker-owned cooperatives?

Why aren't Hollywood elites advocating for getting rid of private property and giving power to the workers, rather than buying up mansions, yachts, and private jets for themselves?

Private property and capitalism is alive and well in Hollywood, and both are about as anit-left as you can get.
Show HN: 100x Faster Slicing of SCAD Files for 3D Printing
Apps have been free to abuse UDP all this time, but it's not been a real issue. Even data-hungry applications like video-streaming have gone with TCP almost every time.

Also, couldn't the OS still throttle back greedy applications? No reason it couldn't detect the heavy stream of UDP traffic.
This is where the Client Subnet edns extensions come in handy. This allows the DNS provider to pass along the /24 the users IP address is in.

With an extra caching key, this can even be cached.

See https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/docs/ecs
> It's not remotely on the same level as race or gender or anything of the like

> political beliefs are chosen and based on ideology

Aren't religious beliefs pretty darn similar to political ones, based on that?
You don't have to imagine it, because it's exactly what Hillary Clinton did. She ran an extremely dishonest campaign against Sanders. There was also a progressive group that sounds very analogous (but actually more nefarious) than the group Luckey donated to. It's called Correct The Record and it was all about spreading memes and false information.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correct_the_Record
Omi: Next Generation JavaScript Framework from Tencent
Same here. We have spent 2 days trying to create instances and migrate images just to figure out later they can't start.

Right when I convinced our project to get migrated from AWS...
This was my experience too. I also found The Little Schemer, ANSI Common Lisp and Practical Common Lisp useful books. Also using Emacs for a while helps since you have to work with Lisp eventually, especially if something goes wrong (and there's a lot of packages that'll take contributions if you end up using and fixing those too).