skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've wondered why it wasn't underground as well. I live in Colorado and have underground at my house. The EIA says underground is 5-10x more expensive.

https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=7250
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Options:

1. I will decide for myself what is reliable and what is not

2. FB will decide for me

Why would anybody want option 2?
Does this really apply equally to programmers and starbucks baristas? I don't know of a single programmer who didn't make more at his/her new gig.
But the forests are in America, for which is he is ~correct. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Settlement_of_the_Americas#Chr...
That's actually not necessarily the case. By creating more fires evolutionary pressure favored plants that were designed to burn, grow fast, and leave competitive seeds.

BTW much of what burns in CA is not large trees but chapparal.

The linked articles I included have more detail.
As I said, a header file will hopefully be logically structured by a human. Something generated by the IDE will not.

That makes a huge difference.
> As it always plays out: regular people will only sue via class action lawsuit, meaning there will be a settlement that is a fraction of the damage.

Businesses and individuals (and public agencies like cities, counties, and special districts) with losses, especially of structures, will in many cases be insured; direct action lawsuits, or the threat thereof, to force a substantially full settlement, to recover from liable parties are a big part of what insurance companies do, and the nature of insurance companies is that each will have much larger losses than any individual, and much more motivation to aggressively pursue them; there may still be settlements that are less than would be recovered in a final judgement (to the extent that time value of money and risk and reduced litigation costs make that a winning proposition), but nowhere near as small a fraction as is typical in a class action.

> The lawsuit with the state as plaintiff will drag on until either a settlement or the statute of limitation is reached.

That's not how statutes of limitations work. They run from the event giving rise to the cause of action to the moment the action is filed; once the case is filed within the statute of limitations, how long it runs is immaterial.
No, that is just not how "secure" works, you need to take into account all the details of the system in question and the threat model. Usually biometrics is not being used alone, there is an actual master password and the biometric authentication is being combined with a physical token as a shortcut/proxy. Someone "getting ahold of your [fingerprints|eyeballs|face|internal chip|whatever]" and the physical "token" (smartphone being the most common) amounts to a targeted physical attack, which is a very difficult class to deal with but also not scalable. Don't count on any naive or technical only method to defeat this: passwords may well be worse because in any non-physically secure setting it's far more trivial to shoulder surf a passcode entry then to grab biometrics and seize the token. Furthermore most people are simply unwilling (with good reason) to deal with an appropriately complex passcode in constant usage on the go, so it's a case of biometrics+complex password taking the place of say a 6 digit PIN.

It seems like every single HN thread on biometrics somebody comes in to proclaim for the nth time that "finger prints aren't passwords!!" or something of that nature, as if "something you know/something you have/something you are" haven't long been known and considered as basic building blocks of authentication with various tradeoffs vs different threat scenarios. Your kind of oversimplification is not helpful given that it can actively harm real world security, which requires amongst other things actually working with how actual humans really are and making the right economic tradeoffs.
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We've clearly circularized the argument back to there is shortage, because clearly programmers in India as a group are not paid nearly as much as programmers in SV; there seems to be no labor shortage given that ageism is popular across the industry, women are more or less not allowed, etc.

If it would be considered shockingly newsworthy that a company hires old female programmers in India for the same pay as young white guys in SV, that in itself seems evidence there is no shortage at all.

The inability to hire given a "fish in the barrel" hiring target, might indicate a shortage of quality management, especially HR management, but clearly not a shortage of software development professionals. Suggesting companies need to pay more to get better management, given income disparities that already exist... The real story is no matter how much more management is paid, for various workplace or cultural or demographic or educational issues the management product produced even at ridiculous pay rates is shockingly deficient.
Yes. We should think about our fingerprints as a userid, not as a password.
Spamassassin is and has been perfectly adequate as long as you train your filter regularly with new spam.

And the more users you filter for, the more spam you should be feeding your filter, and regularly.

When the person says their gmail account is full of spam I take that with a grain of salt because I've been using gmail since it started, when it was like 5 invites only, and I use it as my throwaway account everywhere. I know for a fact that gmail does an excellent job at filtering spam.
Flipbook Line Challenge – What can I do with just a line? [video]
I would like to go on a similar path one day, with following differences:

* not quitting a job, change job, negotiate higher pay, long weekends (done ;)

* figure out what side project I actually want to pour myself into

Based on what I hear, B2B is easier than B2C, and info-products (book/course/e.t.c.) are easier than SaaS. Bonus points if the problem solved by the course could be turned into a SaaS later on.

After I would have my bright idea, I would start reaching some potential customers, (blog? mailing-list? cold-emails? conference talks? this is the biggest problem for me probably?) to get some confirmation somebody would actually buy the product. I know there is a cottage industry just for creating landing pages and getting emails of potential customers.

After I would see the idea has traction, I would have time (due to my 4-day/week job) to write/record the damn thing, and sell it, to the people that presumably wanted it enough to be on my damn mailing list :D

My big inspirations in this regard are Amy Hoy [0] with her methaphorical brick-stacking course and Nate Berkopec [1] with his book on ruby.

My biggest set-backs are that I am mostly too tired to actually execute on the plan, so I mostly use my extended weekends for more recovery/family time :)

Second, I am not sure I have enough expertise on a anything that would warrant writing such book/make course?

I.e. I was thinking about writing about Jenkins, but I am not sure my expertise is enough, and I work with it much less than a year ago when I was thinking about that most :-)

I wish you luck!

[0] https://stackingthebricks.com/
[1] https://www.nateberkopec.com/blog/2017/03/10/how-i-made-self...
So I think the interesting question is: when you run into a large, bloated, unwieldy POS codebase, how do you fix it? You obviously need some buy-in from management, but you also need a plan that doesn't start with "stop what we are doing and get everyone to spend all of their time rewriting what we have" or "hire a ton of new devs."

I have seen smaller versions of what the OP describes. My plan was that every new piece of code that was checked in had to meet certain guidelines for clarity--like can the dev sitting next to you understand it with little to no introduction--and particularly knotty pieces of existing code deserved a bug report just to rewrite and untangle the knots.

In the end, whatever your plan, I think what you need is a cultural change, and cultures are notoriously difficult to change. Any cultural change is going to have to start high up in the organization with the realization that the codebase is an unsustainable POS.
See also

http://www.as3959.com.au

And the australian BAL standard for bushfire rating houses
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How did you get that from the article? Seems like the point was Facebook wasn't trying to get rid of Russian agents on it's site as much as it was trying to bolster it's image.

I think most of us have experienced the Russian "trolls" in one way or another, and there is very strong evidence that they have been, and continue to be, sponsored by the Russian state.
They are completely different to the person making the buying decision, and they are only completely different from a technical perspective if you’re an architecture astronaut in low earth orbit that all you see of an API is boxes on a diagram.
That’s like saying death is natural and would occur any way, so there shouldn’t be liability if one human causes another human’s death.

Sure forest fires may have occurred anyway but if someone started it either intentionally or negligently, well they should be liable for at least some of the damages.
Honestly- just use UWP and sell on windows store. Hacker news is believe it or not, a very niche space with very few employees of big enterprises except the popular ones. You wont get to hear from the regular it worker here
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Nice. Coincidentally, I saw a talk about Jupyter @ FOSDEM earlier this year, this time with Perl 6 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSZV8IXIsM4). I had no knowledge of it prior to that point, and I really should come up with a good reason to use it.
Well, my reasoning at the time (2007) was that since my areas of expertise were machine learning and parallel processing, then if they wanted to hire people who knew low-level sorting and searching algorithms by heart, it wasn't the place for me.

I was surprised how one dimensional their process was. And I believe it may have changed since then. My former colleague did apologise when I related my experience and admitted that Google knew they had a problem with the process.
Remember when BP spilled all that oil.. wish I'd bought that dip
...unless the customers were required to acknowledge forced arbitration in their customer agreement. In that case they would not be able to sue.
Single digits feet is normal. When I wrote “one inch” I wasn’t exaggerating.
Heck, at 2-3 miles a day they'd be above nearly everyone older than about 12.
>raise the minimum wage to $35/hr ala Elizabeth Warren

https://www.google.com/search?q=Elizabeth+warren+35+minimum+...

???
It's OK to distinguish between healthy and diseased specimens of any organic phenomenon, thinking included. e.g. Trump is a toxic narcissist, etc.

I can't really take this article seriously as a comment on literature because it uses ugly language like "attitudinal" and "outright funny". Articles in The Guardian usually reflect a particular part of English society that is highly privileged, politically centrist and conformist, and not as smart as it thinks it is. Those attributes probably also characterize the UK audience for literary fiction. It's annoying and smug, and I guess maybe saying that is ugly itself.

Surely we should sometimes try to diagnose in good faith where thinking goes wrong. Most people have encountered toxic personalities who they have needed to exclude from their life, for example. You might claim that toxicity is always relational, that it takes two. But there is such a thing as pathology when it comes to personality and mental health. To call something toxic is to call out a pathology for having a seriously negative impact on other people, whether those other people are themselves healthy or not.
> Password and SMS

I see no mention of SS7 attacks, is that a solved problem?
equally shameless: https://github.com/duneroadrunner/SaferCPlusPlus-AutoTransla...
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Option 3: I just want to see my friends and family on my feed. It's sometimes hard to tell what else is reliable or not, but I don't want Facebook curating my life.
Option 3:

Strangers you never interact with will decide, based on extremely competent propaganda, and their decisions will determine:

-- The outcome of elections

-- Whether to commit genocide

-- ???
The greenhouses paid less because unemployed have many benefits that don't apply to working people, so getting a minimum wage job would be 40 hours + travel of your life gone for effectively a few % of more expendable income.

The people that actually do the work are people from Eastern Europe that don't get that kind of money from welfare in their own country if it exists at all.

If welfare would be less or preferably the actual minimum wage would be taxed less the gap between having a job and not having a job would be really worth the effort.

It's utterly strange that within some of the people that are rescued from war there's up to 80% of unemployment while The Netherlands needs to import people to do unskilled labor.
The Problem with Scientific Credit
> The problem domain you dismiss is hideously complicated.

https://medium.freecodecamp.org/the-biggest-codebases-in-his...

Size of software reflects the number of people working on it (and for how long), not essential complexity.
Gmail is terrible.

False positives are a nightmare and if you have to check the spam folder then the spam filter does more harm than good.

That is also my experience with SA.
> There is no such thing as "shortage" of anything. Just pay more, and you'll get it.

There is. We didn't create the word to have no meaning. However, it is not defined the way many people seem to think it is or the way you are suggesting. The formal definition of shortage is a situation where an external mechanism prevents price from rising. External mechanisms can include government intervention, which is not completely unheard of. Medical doctors, for example, have a government-mandated price ceiling in the jurisdiction in which I reside. You legally cannot pay more to take the services of a doctor away from someone else. However, such circumstances are indeed rare, especially when it comes to the price of labour-based activities.

To put it another way: A shortage is a situation where you cannot pay more, even if you had all the money in the world to spend on what you seek.
The reason you're getting downvoted is that your argument is basically "well what if they're wrong?"

Pew has established a reputation as an organization who conducts polls regularly and properly. You are a throwaway account on HN. To be Bayesian about it, the priors are way better for Pew than for you.

If you have specific, substantive criticisms of how Pew conducted that particular poll, by all means, share them and folks can discuss that.
Costs of insurance where rising steadily and faster before the ACA. Since the ACA has started to take effect, the speed with which the cost of insurance rises has slowed.

While this plan you had ten years ago may have worked for you, many more people were paying out for low-cost plans that covered little, if anything. Mandated coverage isn't the perfect fit for everyone but, in my opinion, it is an improvement.
> Is there an actual crisis, outside the media narrative?

There isn't much short-term stock prices are good for. Determining if investors will bet there is a problem is one of them.

Facebook's stock is down 20% YoY [1]. Unless you believe investors were blindsided by stalling rich-country MAU growth due to demographic saturation, the market is pricing something in. Facebook, too, appears to believe there something is awry--Q3 2018 operating income was down 8 points relative to the same period in 2017, due mostly to costs and expenses ballooning 53% over the same period [2].

If the New York Times' sources about Zuckerberg hiring PR firms to write hit pieces against those criticizing Facebook are accurate, it seems he, too, sees a crisis.

It requires multiple suspensions of disbelief to think this is a manufactured problem. Facebook has been a principal actor in major scandals and atrocities around the world, appears to have reacted petulantly, and relies almost existentially on not having Instagram and WhatsApp torn out of it by antitrust regulators. The final point makes political vulnerability salient to its future.

[1] 144.55 on 12 November 2018 / 177.95 on 15 November 2017

[2] https://investor.fb.com/investor-news/press-release-details/...
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If I understand this system correctly, this means that utilities will need insurance of some sort, and that therefore every home and business in California will pay higher utility rates to cover that extra cost. Indeed it seems a bit of a roundabout way to manage things - I guess the major political advantage is that it is a "hidden" tax?

(as opposed to just mandating a certain level of safety and then having the government cover costs of accidents if these levels were respected)
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Isn't it incredible how many "hot button" political issues go right back to this basic economic law? Healthcare, tuition, minimum wage, housing, etc. Econ 101. Supply and demand. But so many people hate the idea of supply and demand. They try and tweak around it and legislate like it doesn't exist, and things get more and more distorted.
I don't think anyone "decides" as such. It's just the incentives within the system promote whatever content people engage with most. As it turns out, negativity bias wins out.
1alt. If you see a lie repeated often enough, you will believe it. Especially if it agrees with your biases.
As I saw on the page, the pricing model will switch to premium but is currently still free. Hopefully not too high... Do you guys have any ideas on the final price for this?
There are a myriad of problems with this naive set of options.

1) Are you even capable of realizing what is reliable and what isn't?

2) Do you realize that Facebook and users of Facebook are manipulating what you see to encourage you to think a certain way?

Most people believe they follow option 1, when in reality we are all way more susceptible than we want to admit to misleading reports and falsities posting as real news.

It takes a lot of energy to dive into a report to tell if it's reliable and true, and in many ways it's impossible for most people to even know how to start. And if you don't even realize that misleading news exists, you are that much more susceptible to it. This is especially true today with how good we've gotten at image and video manipulation.

Facebook is trying to accomplish the literally impossible and has made the world a much worse place because of it.
But where can I post pictures of my baby so granny can see them? Sure I’ll have to wade through the Russian misinformation to do it and have my entire data file stolen by a shady right wing political entity but I refuse to send baby pics via email.
For everyone talking about how great the product is, here is my challenge to you:

Zapier achieved $35M ARR because they sell $35M worth of customers every year and have a product that can back that sales channel up.

1. Their SEO is on-point (search <Insert SaaS 1> integration with <Insert SaaS 2> and you'll undoubtedly get a 1st page SERP from them

2. Their customer service is great (from what I've read) and appears to be very international friendly.

3. They have good freemium hooks that get you to upgrade and clearly have A/B tested this for conversion purposes.

TL;DR - Product alone doesn't get you $35M ARR.
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Even if they go into bankruptcy (Chapter 11, say) they are legally allowed to recoup the costs of this as part of being a regulated utility, so I would expect higher utility rates to customers as a start for the next few years in order to either pay for the liability insurance or (less likely) to bring their infrastructure to a court-arguable higher standard so as to avoid accusations of liability in the future.

That said, as a private citizen I don't see how a person starting a fire accidentally (not sure how you prove malice if a transformer fails?) could be held liable for all the property damage further downstream. That's what private insurance is for.
Are your program .NET ? Because all the people satisfied with Azure I encoutered are .NET users. And Azure seems a good fit for them. But for other people it is awefull.
I don't necessarily agree with your 'simple logic' - there's plenty of stuff that can be done (but not perhaps outright regulated) that can reduce the incidence of fires around electrical equipment. (i.e. maintaining clearances around transmission stations, etc.) That involves probably more cost that the /free market/ would enjoy bearing. This measure can be framed as an attempt to force the externality (i.e. the damages caused by fires) onto the cause - Why shouldn't individual power consumers of California bear additional cost to prevent/reduce the incidence of fires? Your position is one of deliberate helplessness, and entirely assumes that companies should only toe the regulatory line and go no further.
Illegal immigrants are a commodity, for businesses that use them, for politicians that claim to protect you from them, for the industry that processes them
FWIW, gcc has had pragma once for ages. On the other hand recently we had issues with MSVC not recognizing that an header and its simlink were the same. GCC and clang had no problems.

There is a reason pragma once is not standardized. Defining when to include lines refer to the same file is extremely hard.
Many smart cards use an extremely minimal version of java, so I imagine that java applets were able to interact with them more easily.
DNS provided by your hosting service is really just there for convenience IMO. Using services like DNS Made Easy or the like is worth the small annual fee to not have to worry about it anymore.
Well, the Spanish at least certainly weren't fans. One of the most famous anti-war paintings is Goya's "The Third of May 1808", depicting Napoleon's soldiers executing resistance fighters. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Third_of_May_1808
There should be an asterisk on "strangers" with a description that they aren't necessarily even real people since trending topics and news feeds are heavily manipulated by whoever is willing to pay the most for manufactured interactions.
Is it though? I had to dig for a while reading "what is/about pleroma" documents to find the link to the install doc, I think this is it:

https://i2p.rocks/blog/the-magical-world-of-pleroma-setting-...

Is this easier? It looks at least a bit more complicated at a glance to me. I haven't honestly tried either of them, but neither of these are simple to install. Add a config file to nginx, install erlang and use mix to grab the dependencies... these things are not totally foreign to me as a Ruby programmer, but I could see how a newbie would trip over them.

I still don't know which part people are tripping over, I'd like to hear from GP... The Pleroma doc might actually be simpler because it skips over all of the "Hardening your instance" stuff, but I'm only guessing about what people see as the hard part, since none of this looks particularly hard to me.

To be equally fair, it's really never as simple as "docker run someone/image:latest" – that's only the first step, so you can see it running. In Kubernetes terms, that's the equivalent of firing off a "run-once" pod. In other words, if that's all you did then it's not deployed yet.