skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i think we agree more than it might seem, but i can't tell. sure those types of requirements are often absurd and result of ignorance. but back to the point, i don't understand what your argument is about user IDs. remember the context of the comment you criticized is that there are vulnerabilities in biometric security. those vulnerabilities apply when the biometric data is used as a password; it does not apply when the biometric is a username.

so if you're merely saying (as i think you are) that biometrics make poor usernames, much as they make poor passwords, your argument is quite trivial/tangential to this thread and really doesn't address the point op is making and doesn't contribute to the thread in any meaningful way (unless you wanted to expound specifically on why its so important for usernames to be, mutable?)

and if, instead, you're saying, as you implied to me, that biometrics make better passwords than usernames, i'll reiterate: that's wrong.
Microsoft is now Gold supporter of OpenBSD
Why we rolled our own consensus algorithm
It is a demonstration of the culture we are in to have to acknowledge that we sound "bitter" or "old fashioned" merely to state a self-evident truth that people with more experience know more...
> A house can be thirty feet from an entire forest on fire and never burn down.

In zero wind. The fires in Santa Rosa were driven by 60 mph (100 kph) winds. Even 30 mph winds will pick up the top 15 meters of a burning Ponderosa Pine and carry it 400 meters away and start a new fire.

After the Santa Rosa fires I saw newspaper photos of melted barbeque grills. A fire hot enough to melt cast iron is going to light or melt any roofing material I can think of.
Indeed. The way they describe what they want, it looks like all the money will be spent on endless meetings or conferences and producing policy and strategy documents.

Maybe 1% will flow into a real research project which will generate some value.
He’s smart. If he doesn’t use computers, nobody can hack him.
Thank you! I will :)
While making interesting constructs in cellular automata is a fun exercise, there is the possibility that the constructs might be useful in the real world. In the near term, it is much easier to make a molecular scale cellular automata than it is to make a conventional processor. The latter requires a complicated means of stitching together molecules, the former is a crystal which is much simpler to make. So a molecular cellular automata could potentially enable us to make a computer with a mole quantity of logic gates, but we need some way to program said computer. All this work in cellular automata constructs provides a way to do this. Although the more likely application of such molecular cellular automata might be the formation of patterns below the wavelength of light.
>* If we had syntax highlighting in the file browser, that would be a win over GitHub, which insists that there be "hundreds of GitHub repositories" before accepting a syntax highlighting pull request for a new language. I could imagine it would be reasonable to support "repository-local" highlighting configuration.

We use pygments, so patches to pygments would make it to sr.ht's syntax highlighting.

>* Transferring existing content as mentioned above. It would be unwise for us to give up all the issues and discussion.

Planned. Also planned to let you sync between both.

>* The fact that the build service supports FreeBSD is already a win. However, to switch from Azure DevOps we would lose Windows builds. Is that ruled out due to the open source nature of sr.ht, or is that planned? Related, it would be attractive if sir.ht offered more architectures, e.g. i386, ARM, RISC-V (I believe this was mentioned but I could not find it in the docs)

Eventually users will be able to add custom base images, which will permit the use of Windows (if you can get an sshd running there, at least). As for multi-arch, experimental support for aarch64 is there, and by the end of the year I expect to have RISC-V builds backed by HiFive hardware.
You shouldn't manage an auto manufacturer unless you've worked on the assembly line?
You shouldn't manage an auto manufacturer unless you have engineered an automobile?
You shouldn't manage an auto manufacturer unless you have been in marketing?
You shouldn't manage an auto manufacturer unless you have been a personal injury attorney?
You shouldn't manage an auto manufacturer unless you have been an accountant?
If anything, we need to update the definition of the existing term to include the new manifestations of monopolies that tech companies can form.

While Google and Facebook don't control a finite resource in the traditional sense, they do in the sense of mindshare, which is absolutely a finite resource.
There are no silver bullets or precise instructions to life.

Most things must be dealt with generic advice (and it's still surprising how many get generic advice wrong, and do the opposite).

And most of what we do as people are not that unique anyway, to require any non-generic advice.

The hard part is sticking to the generic advice and making it work.

But there are no, or very few, shortcuts and precise step-by-steps procedures to success.
I'm somewhat north of 40. I stayed longest at the company I started, riding it up, and unfortunately, down. I was the proverbial last one out, and yes, I did turn off the lights.

>On a side note, there have been many times a recruiter has called me, and offered an insulting wage for a position that requires 5+ years of experience. The companies offering these low wages are the ones saying we cant find anyone to hire and complaining about the youth of today's work ethic.

This. I have recruiters call me up frequently after doing a basic scan on linkedin, looking for HPC people, or other specific things I've done. They send me emails telling me how wonderful things are on the other side, and how they are seeking people with lots-o-experience (&trade;). Then they talk compensation rates that don't match the other aspects.

Or the ones wanting me to contract to hire. Sure, but if you can't afford the salaried rate, you really can't afford the contract rate, which prices in my risk in accepting this.
I post Uber news because I'm fascinated by the death spiral. It is literally a dumpster fire of investor money investors continue to pour money into with no hope of ever seeing a return. It's illogical! I mention Uber being terrible when I do because their actions have been legitimately illegal and immoral. I have a strong moral compass, and abhor the abuse of both workers and customers perpetuated by Uber.

Do I feel bad for Uber employees who have worthless options or exercised stock? Unfortunately not. Do I think they'll ever reach any semblance of vehicle autonomy before they exhaust their runway? I think it's overwhelmingly clear that isn't the case.
And yet Netflix seems to be doing fine delivering video and competing with Youtube for users?
I spent some time project managing a company that did exterior cladding, and I'll avoid wood like the plague for the rest of my life.

Concrete has the huge advantage of not growing mould if you screw up building envelope.

At least, that's my justification for simply liking the aesthetics of masonry over wood construction.
The original Pis are a little too underpowered to be an everyday desktop. Firing up Chromium brings it to its knees. You really need a Model 3 to get a reasonable desktop experience.
The one that jumps out at me is his association with James O'Keefe (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Thiel#Support_for_politi...). That seems most salient to this story.

I won't deny that he seems to be a very skilled investor though.
It's not just Asia, I've seen this clasue everywhere I applied in Europe, no employer would hire you if you don't agree to reimburse the training expenses if you left before 2 years. The only way "out" was to get fired.
This part was also key:

"Solution: Try taking a 30,000-foot view of when it’s worth tolerating some boredom to collect easy wins when it comes to your overall success. Instead of attempting dramatic change, decide when tolerating short periods (a few minutes or hours) of boredom could have a very beneficial impact on your success. For instance, devoting 5 hours a week to an activity that’s monotonous but lucrative. Additionally, make sure you have enough outlets for your love of learning across the various domains of your life, including your work, hobbies, physical fitness, understanding yourself etc."

Doing work that's lucrative yet monotonous is one of the biggest struggles. I have in front of me a great strategy that I know will work, but I'm avoiding putting in the elbow grease.

Anyone know of a book that goes into this in detail? I know I'm procrastinating more by looking for a book to solve this, but at the same time, when I understand something thoroughly, I do it more often!
No, for the time being I'm only adding free (as in freedom) operating systems. In the future you'll be able to upload custom build images.
this comment is ridiculous - what could you possibly have to back that up ? just because you do not agree with his political view doesn't mean everything he does is with bad intentions and "scummy".
Wow.
I've only glimpsed at some parts, but I'm really liking what I'm seeing! I also love the look and feel.

I look forward to doing deep dive the next few days and looking to contribute anyway I can.
Fortnite Players Immediately Find Worst Possible Uses for New NFL Skins
So social media is like the tobacco industry? And what weas users knowingly, purposely share online should be regulated? And by which government? Companies like Facebook are global.
This article references a more recent London study but mentioned is a more extensive California study of children.
TL;DR; One really, really should not live/work any closer to a road with (18 wheelers) traffic than one has to, for children it is paramount - I think all schools in Southern California close to a freeway have filtration systems for this reason.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/nov/14/diesel-p...
I don't know how this works in Germany, but in China, it usually goes this way:
doesn't matter if you are good at or even know it (officials won't care), just scour the internet and produce a PPT, pull some strings to arrange a fancy dinner with relevant local officials, deal done, once you got the money hire someone to do a demo, profit.

One woman bragging about this was vacationing on the Palm Jumeirah island in UAE last year, she was there pitching her block chain projects to Arabs.
If "everyone" and "everything" mean "the whole word population" and "all costs in the world", then yeah, nothing changes. But if it happens on a smaller region then oh, yeah. Lots of things change.
Thanks for the feedback! https://todo.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/sr.ht/113
Another thing that is new is that the rainy season in CA is starting later, such that the winds come before the rain.

Paradise is a wet place that gets quite a bit of rain - what matters is that it is coming too late.

For this reason, I don't think it is very relevant that the last century has been the wettest in awhile.

That said, there are likely many factors involved, and it is probably not super useful to point at one thing and ignore all the rest.
Awesome work. I'm a vue novice,and I wanted something similar to this a while back and found something that worked for my needs in the bootstrap+vue project[1] since I was already using that, but this might have fit my needs just as well. I'm sure I would have opted for something like this if I wasn't already using the larger bootstrap component tie-in project.

1: https://bootstrap-vue.js.org/docs/components/image#lazy-load...
not much difference, it’s a feature now!
Perfect Day Partners with ADM to Scale Animal-Free Dairy
Did I ever claim others would not move in?
Thanks for the link. I saw that guy at the TV and the fact he never used a computer but didn't understood why it was a big deal.
These does are affecting urban areas of California, not just wilderness.

100 feet of urban California real estate costs substantially more than the house - houses are often built right up to the property line, and lots are measured in sqft, not acres.
Are you sure you are not just looking at things from the perspective of being on holidays? The violent crime rate on a lot of Caribbean islands is horrendous.
Judging by the surge of new users on alternative platforms (gitlab), that's at least a couple of thousand.

https://thenextweb.com/dd/2018/06/04/devs-are-flooding-to-gi...

Edit: Your silly comparison deserved a silly response. Customer bases and services between the two are not similar.
My best friend in high school lost his house to a fire in the mountains of CO. The house was made out of clays and other highly fire resistant materials, to the point it was designated the safe house for the fire crew of the area... when the four mile canyon fire swept through it was so hot it even melted all the metals like copper and steel. There was nothing left.

I'm sure there are lots of ways to build houses to resist fire more, and we should be doing that, but "basically impervious" is an overstatement.
I always try to recommend https://teamtreehouse.com. They helped me start my career, and they've helped a few friends do the same.
If you work for Facebook, what do you do in this situation?

Can you all please just leave? Is there some acceptable amount of collateral damage for you to maintain your lifestyle?

I’ll personally help you reconnect to your purpose and go out and live a life you’ve dreamed of.

Go start a company better than Facebook and hire all the people.
Is that really true? I guess I'd assume the NFL have exclusive contracts with most cities for their stadiums and for teams as in they probably have a contract that disallows the city from having another team?
All I can say to that is in the southeast we do prescribed burns even in residential areas, and even in rough terrain.
Seems really the wrong application for this paradigm.

Animations are fluid on my laptop, but IMHO too long. Especially if there's little on the screen at once, transitions have to be fast and not get in the way.
Angular Material: Creating High Quality UI Apps in Angular
I have two that run all the time, and have been for over a year. I access them strictly via SSH, and they're always plugged into the wall. So, you may be on to something.

That said, I do agree with OP's dislike of SD cards. I've had more than my share go bad in other devices.
Even on Fedora yum is still available
Tablet platform showdown
AFrame is a good intro to VR.
This article is just more commie trash that somehow gets a bunch of upvotes on Hacker News.
I guess "real utility" is subjective but based on the comments here, a fair number of projects held an ICO and then delivered what they promised.
They weren't insults to me, I want those privileges too, he's very inspirational.

It is surprising to me that people want a particular image of him, when I see the opposite of what he projects and I like it. I like the influence. I forgot other people hadn't seen it, but I am surprised how important his image is to people.

I think these privileges are a part of his type-A trader life, and is par for course for successful traders living that life.
> What if 2 "below" experts have 2 different opinions? Is the Minister supposed to choose randomly?

Consult (or more likely, have one's staff consult) a third (and fourth, and fifth...) and figure out what the consensus is?
Squoosh: Google’s New Web App to Squeeze Images Down to Smaller File Sizes
It's a little funny how we have this picture of the Wehrmacht as blitzkrieg and super-nazis in Panther tanks, crushing everything in lighting advances. Most of the german army slogged along on foot, with the same Mauser 98k bolt-action rifles that their fathers carried, with horse-drawn artillery and supplies. Motorized equipment was concentrated in the elite Panzer and Panzergrenadiere formations, of which there were never many.
"Insurance policies for extreme weather-related
losses -- especially for floods and for coastal wind damage associated with hurricanes -- are not priced to reflect the real risk ... as a result of government intervention in property insurance markets, through either rate regulation or direct government provision of subsidized insurance, private markets no longer generate price signals regarding the cost of living in severe-weather regions."

https://repository.law.umich.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article...
Replace YouTube with network TV vs cable in the early days. There is a way past YouTube but people must be willing to adapt and/or take the hit building the next thing. Most of the best TV shows have been from network and especially the premium ones like HBO, Showtime, and now Netflix.

However, it took many years to get here and most people probably can't afford to compete without net neutrality.
Automatic Semantic Versioning for any project
I guess we won't know for a few years still, but it seems like we're seeing the decline of the Facebook monopoly now. At least in terms of Facebook.com, maybe not all the things they own, but just Facebook as a social site. There seems to be soooo much going wrong for them on so many levels right now, it would surprise me if we're still talking about them in the same terms in 3-5 years.
This has always been a really stupid argument. You realize that the army would split up because people from the army would join the resistance and lend a hand, right? And you realize that guerrilla warfare is highly effective even against superior weapons, right? Basic history shows us this.
I'm in Chicago, so $22 is almost the cost of a medium deep dish pizza, and I can stretch that to almost a week of dinners if it's just me.

A couple of footnotes:
1. Pizza is absurdly cheap, even for takeout food. I don't really understand how that works.
2. I prefer takeout over paying for delivery, which saves a lot. My favorite pizza places are in walking distance.
No it is not because you are a bitter old techie. You're right. The world has gone mad.

Look at the most competitive industries: Software, automotive manufacture, film, news, energy, finance, accounting, law.

What do they have in common? The principles of the major corporations all have deep, deep backgrounds in multiple areas related to their business. They often don't even come with a mere CS degree, they've layered it with a masters or PhD or have a degree in a useful field like law.
You shouldn't manage an auto manufacturer unless you have relevant experience in auto manufactoring, yes, correct, absolutely.
Ditto for me. I’m a full year into using it for my startup and it’s been a real benefit for our business. I was really skeptical of whether or not I needed an SPA for our product, but now I’m really glad that’s the route I went.

One thing I’ve done that might be the reason I’m so happy with Vue is that I haven’t tried to manage state on the client. There’s more overhead on page transitions certain actions, but it does seem to limit my exposure to WTF style bugs.
About 5 years ago, I was running a startup that had Raspberry Pis (we really need a better plural) deployed to numerous customers, and SD card corruption was a big problem. If I remember correctly the problem generally happened when there was a power loss during writes to the SD card.

I ended up creating a RAM disk and only writing to that. Once every 5 minutes or so I would flush anything that needed to be permanent to a partition on the SD card. And once every hour I'd save anything really important to an s3 bucket. SQLite also performed much better running in memory than it did directly from on the SD card.

That mostly solved the problem, but I still shipped every unit with an extra SD card and instructions on swapping it out just in case.
Sort of, but things like webhooks aren’t straightforward, and if you want to (for example) receive or send events with a test area of your third party sites, there’s not a clean way to toggle those.
How much do you think is being spent on Eats, Freight, Elevate and ATG? If that figure is more than $1 billion a quarter, the answer is yes.

How much does Cruise or Waymo burn per quarter? That might give us an idea of the ATG part. How much does Convoy burn? That might give us the Freight parts. No clue how we might estimate Elevate and Eats.

That said, it's worth looking at how Amazon is doing overseas these days:

https://www.fool.com/investing/2018/03/19/why-amazon-is-stil...

This is why growth abroad matters:

https://www.gapminder.org/fw/income-mountains/

Everyone bloviating with their personal ridesharing anecdotes is missing the bigger picture.
the entire saga with gawker media, for one thing.
They should at least have been inside a car!
You can type either ‘yum’ or ‘dnf’, but they decided to keep ‘yum’ to avoid a lot of scripts/documentation from breaking. ‘yum’ is a compatibility layer over dnf that keeps the old command line syntax but uses the fast depsolver, weak dependencies and other new features from dnf.
It's an open source project from Google Code Labs. Here is the Github repo: https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/squoosh/

It looks like it uses Web Assembly to compress the images on the client side.
But how many paying customers? It's slightly different also because Github may not want to lose non-paying customers either, because of name recognition and not wanting competitors being seen much, but I don't think the IBM acquisition will sway most people that are using CentOS, since it's already somewhat divorced from RHEL proper.
> how on earth does it benefit Russia to pay people to perform the actions that 4chan people do? I can't imagine posting edgy memes and attempting to "trigger the libs" is a national marketing/propaganda/outreach strategy.

Modern day Russia propaganda isn't about trying to convince Americans to take a Russia's POV or have a favorable view of it. It's about sowing generalized discord, mistrust, and internal conflict to weaken the US as a whole. Anything that inflames divisions is useful to that goal, even "trigger the libs" memeing.
Why not place the blame on who made the ultimatr choice to live in a place: the homeowner?
It is totally possible for a non-technical person manage a technical team well. There are even certain downfalls (trying to make technical decisions that they are not knowledgeable enough to make) that a manager with a technical background is MORE likely to make.

That doesn't mean this particular one is good at it, of course. But the role of management is often to manage external relations, with the non-technical world. They can either do that by having a few trusted technical direct reports who advise them, and they have the bureaucratic and political skills to manage relations with the outside world, or they can do it the other way. But virtually no one is good at both. The most important thing is if you are self-aware of which one you are not good at.
exactly the same applies to workers - if my work generates less money than it is neccessary for living, then it’s not worth doing it, why lose money?
I would be surprised if they didn't get millions in equity though. Not a bad gig.

I would guess their options had a strike around a $10-$20 million valuation. So they would have got x50-x100 at the exit.
not all software is solving a "business problem". sometimes it's academic, or hobby, or government. but always the code is shit.
Most sites now have algorithms deciding what you see and in which order, including news sites, email services, and other social media sites.
Later versions of Python will be supplied as modules. So will Python 2. They are parallel installable with "system-python" which remains at 3.6 for the lifetime of RHEL 8. (Note that in general modules are not parallel installable, but in this one case it is).
We developed and built a distributed processing system that we use to automatically transcribe the audio.