skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not gonna happen, most people still don't grasp the stakes at play nor how they are contributing in the worst ways possible.

On one side you have sometimes a bit too righteous vegans getting their third child, going "I'm saving the planet by teaching my children the right way to live!"

On the other side, you have nationalist sentiments going "I need to get as many children as possible or else our ancestry is dying out/our people are being replaced by foreigners!".

Throw in a good bit of religious anti-contraception and abortion sentiments, heavily propagandized among the poorer parts of the world, and the end result is still the same: Unchecked population growth due to large parts of humanity still seeing procreation as some kind of quantity contest where everybody wants to become the next Genghis Khan [0].

At this point, the only thing I'm unsure about is how far we gonna take it before nature is gonna cull the herd globally, but I seriously doubt we'll ever make it past the 10 billion before that's gonna happen.

[0] https://www.nature.com/news/genghis-khan-s-genetic-legacy-ha...
>> There are plenty of scarce assets defined by no utility except for their scarcity; we call those assets money.

Money doesn't hold value because of its scarcity. Money holds value because of the faith and credit of the entity that backs it.

If a person issued a single unit of currency tomorrow and promptly died, it wouldn't suddenly hold any value simply because it is scarce and guaranteed to remain so.

To put it another way, money's value lies in the fact that it is "legal tender". That status is backed by a powerful organization and people have to trust that organization. When the trust is gone, the value is gone, regardless of how scarce or plentiful the units of money.
> certain configurations of numbers being illegal

All matter and objects can be broken down into a configuration of numbers (of electrons, protons, etc.). Either possession of things can be illegal or not. To exempt "digital" things will be less and less a clear line as technology advances (3d printers and, presumably, eventually "replicators"). I don't know the answer, but "they're just numbers" doesn't help us solve these difficult questions.

A gun is just iron and various other metals arranged in particular configuration and yet we don't have a problem regulating metals in that manner. Bits are just bits until they're in a configuration that is illegal under current law.

Maybe the law should be different, but saying "it's just numbers" isn't very illuminating, imo.
One common trait that makes introverts introverts is that we all are driven by the relentless desire to be thought of as a good guy, to live up to the image that others have built about us, to live up to the image that you have built about yourself.

Hard to tell why only some ppl 'suffer' from this. Maybe years of praise by parents/school teachers that you are some sort of 'good guy' and you yourself start believing that be to true at some point.

You could do a million things to overcome it but all of those would work shortterm and you would revert straight back to your introvert self as long as you have desire to be thought of as a good guy. Only sustainable "solution" to this problem is solve this issue.
Tether is very much not a cryptocurrency. It's centrally controlled. They can freeze transactions and mint new coins at will.
Sweet, I was complaining about how I'd like to have a bundle like that some days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18423984
I don’t mind a simple test to verify skills. But from there tech companies should be able to evaluate prior experience, which they seem to struggle with.
If I encounter truly objectionable content I remove a network of users and all of their content with a single click. It sometimes removes users that are innocent, but better to be safe than sorry. I also have a form on the site where you can report content, so I get help from visitors to identify the bad stuff. (Twicsy at its height had over 9 million visitors per month)
Does it also do emails to blog posts? I have a number of carefully considered emails I'd like to publish.
> Are you equally excited about Gatsby and Jekyll(/Hugo/Pelican)?

Gatsby, Jekyll and Hugo are all in roughly the same category of static site generators.

However.

The exciting thing about Hugo is how incredibly fast it builds.

The exciting thing about Gatsby is how ridiculously pleasant it is to work with for a modern frontend developer. It has hot module replacement, built in (so you don't need to reload the page to see your changes). It has various plugins (e.g. for various CSS preprocessors, for the dev version of Netlify CMS, for image resizing, etc.), which just work. Its graphql-based data layer, which allows you to query files from the file system just as easily as data from a third-party api during page build, is beautiful. It is also insanely configurable, is written in a frontend-friendly language (JavaScript) and exposes hooks to its internals, which is a great help if you are a JavaScript developer (as opposed to Hugo, which is rather rigid and Go-based).

But this comes at a cost of about 60-kB runtime. So if your static site is not insanely interactive to justify this payload, your performance-obsessed friends will point their finger at you, and Alex Russell will tweet another facepalm emoji. Although Gatsby is trying its best to reap as many performance benefits as it possibly can by automatically splitting javascript on per-page basis, and adding link rel=preload tags to prefetch the assets before the user tries to navigate to particular pages.

As for Jekyll, I can't think of anything exciting about it.
You mean the alarm clock system that Don uses at the hotel that has settings ranging from "Gentle Reminder" to "Earthquake"? That'd be fun. :)

Interesting you bring up Between Planets, because that shows a prediction Heinlein made that isn't covered in this article. Read the description of the "crazy wagon," and, specifically, the conical metal cover it has that reflects away all incoming radar beams. Heinlein was basically describing stealth technology in 1951, six years before Pyotr Ufimtsev's paper on the subject...and it wasn't until 1976 that development started on the F-117, a real implementation of his idea.
Qt for Python
This org was formed 2 weeks ago. Many of the things are still up in the air, along with what exactly to do and how to go about it.

However, actions are being considered as: marches, protests, strikes, walk-outs, and non-violent protest based actions.

I know a similar group Extinction Rebellion blocked all major 5 bridges in London, over the same goals of Environmentalism.
They're moving Cloud Auto Unseal to the open source Vault soon, thankfully.

That said, for most organizations, I've never been all that convinced that the multi-key-holder model provides much benefit.
Garbage point, because Nazi ideology is not based on anything other than supremacy. There's no other 'ideas' to it, if you will. No other substance. Take for example socialism and while far from perfect, there are ideas that could and should be adopted from it.
at work, lots of scripts are in bash script. I tried using fish shell, but it doesn't support bash script well.
Same post from 2 months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17966210
Not sure I understand your concern: It’s standard boilerplate for the case where private data is required to run an analysis, but is not otherwise used.

Not saying that it should necessarily be trusted but the wording isn’t problematic. What is problematic is the complete lack of legal security.
https://vault12.com/ - take a look at this
Probably the two most important works on the topic in 30 years:

https://www.amazon.ca/Power-Some-People-Have-Others/dp/00617...

https://www.amazon.ca/Getting-Yes-Negotiating-Agreement-With...
> TIL you can't paste emojis into HN comment threads. Probably all for the best.

I'm gonna make a HN where you can only speak in Emoji!

Sorta unrelated, does anyone remember the social network where you could only write in Emoji? http://emoj.li/
I'm not sure why you think i defend Bethesda... i wrote in my original message above that "The issue is that Bethesda doesn't fix their engine", which is also why i wrote that "in your own words > they won't invest properly in updating it for modern times" in my second message. My argument was really the part i originally quoted, specifically this:

> their insistence on sticking with their old creation engine

...because it is a common thing to say about Bethesda. But the reality is that they can stick with their engine just fine - they just need to fix their bugs. The problem isn't that they keep using their engine, everyone does (as you already wrote in the first paragraph here), the problem is that they do not give their programmers the necessary time to fix the issues with their engine.
Also, 'The Final Cut', by Omar Naim, w/ Robin Williams, highlights some interesting issues with implants recording everything:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0364343/
LabVIEW is a... toy for children.
Hey! Hasura founder here :)

Exactly this, we're working on adding remote schema merging into Hasura itself (kind of like AppSync) so this won't be a problem. This should be out very soon!
> Nobody is going to use software for anything critical that doesn't have someone "waiting around" to fix any bugs that appear

This is exactly why you're often able to make money and sustain yourself out of free software.
In all fairness, developers have always mostly been allergic to paying for things. Even way back, when a lot of developer tools were proprietary and often had pretty significant price tags associated with them, the developer tools business was always a pretty tough one. Like open source software, the model generally worked best when the developer tools were effectively in support of some other part of the business. (Microsoft is a great example.)
I stumble upon this page:
http://www.differencebetween.net/miscellaneous/fashion-beaut...

By ddging "legal artistic pornography", note the comment section has this:

"""
Nope. There is no difference between art & pornography in art: The distinction is an imaginary one .

I shall now debunk our authors premises, with historical context.

“1.Nudity in art has been an accepted subject since ancient times while pornography is an unacceptable expression which has been developed in later years.”

Nope. This is a common misconception, but images & texts pertaining to the act of sex & sexuality, what our author would argue is porn, has existed in art since mankind first found a way to scrawl rudimentary images having sex.

Later societies constantly pretend that earlier societies didn’t do it, from the erotic frescoes of Rome, to the carvings of India’s Khajuraho Temples, to the 35,000 years old carving from ancient Germany (about 10,000 older that the “Venus of Willendorf”).

“2.Nudity in art is natural and is meant to let the audience appreciate the human body while pornography is intentionally done to arouse sexual feelings in the audience.”

Then you’ve just declared any amount of ancient classical art pieces to be pornography, since many of them were designed to arouse.

” 3.Models of nude artworks pose naturally and do not convey any eroticism while pornographic models have expressions and poses that are erotic and sexually arousing.”

What does one mean pose naturally, any pose one can do with the human body is by definition natural. Such a distinction as you are trying to construct is a distinction without a distinction, because the poses one would use to arouse are as possible by humans as the pose of eating.

” 4.Nudity in art is accepted in society while nudity in pornography is seen as inappropriate and is banned in most societies.”

Which just goes to show the double standard. The subject matter is the subject matter, which is why this tactic has been used for centuries to try to get artwork banned. You can’t show kids this image because it’s porn…. Oh you mean Michelangelo’s David is porn? How is it porn? It has nudity in it.

“5.In some cases, what one person may view as art might be viewed as pornography by another depending upon how the presentation affects the audience.”

Which again shows that the difference between what makes up pornography & what makes up art is an artificial distinction, that only exists in the minds of people who imagine it exists.

Read more: Difference Between Nudity in Art and Pornography | Difference Between http://www.differencebetween.net/miscellaneous/fashion-beaut...
"""

My reading is that there is no such thing as artistic pornography.
Is the OS responsible? The browser? The client application?
Who Invented the Internet
Duct tape the smartphone camera lens and keep observing the camera feed, hoping the cosmic ray hit the camera.

Doesn't need ECC memory for that.
And me this reminds how I filmed anti corruption protest in Russia in 2017 and was detained by a police for nothing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQmuNI4CEGk&t=8435 (since 2:20:35).

Video ends when police officer asks me to stop filming because of a rule about not filming in meat wagons that he just invented, and I agree. Later outside of the meat wagon he told me to delete a video. I asked him if I understood correctly that my recording was illegal action and he wanted me to destroy an evidence of that illegal action. Immediately four other policemen lifted me up and carried in their hands to the police station, put me in separate room, confiscated my phone and documents, and then he punched me in the kidneys.

That room apparently was the only one in a police station without surveillance cameras.

I spend the rest of the day in a special unventilated cage covered with lists of acrylic glass together with a guy who later was carried away by an ambulance because there was not enough air for two people in the cage.

Police hard reset my phone but probably because they were idiots and I use Windows Phone a microSD card with all my video was left intact.

I was fined by 1000₽ by Russian court which watched the video I recorded and found not enough evidence of me being innocent on the base of the reports written by completely different police officers instead of these I filmed detaining me. The court refused to call witnesses. The same happened during appellation.
My thoughts exactly. You can even just go to tumblr's website, surely.
Yes. It's unnecessarily complex. The target audience is someone who:

- knows modern JS
- knows ReactJS
- knows webpack well
- knows how to deal with node_module dependency hell
- knows graphql
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Introduction to headless CMS: pros, cons and the future
I am trying to think of possible use cases. If you came across an image like at https://moonsun.gitlab.io would you stop to scan it using your phone?
Calling it a "certain configuration of numbers" is just willfully ignoring the context of it. To me it would be like calling anthrax a "certain configuration of atoms", it manages to both be literally true while also misrepresenting it.
Definitely not boilerplate. The privacy policy is quite light, doesn't define terms like "external parties", doesn't even have the company's name or origin.
Universities Are Leveraging H-1B Visas to Fuel Startup Hubs
Printed colors fade at different rates and shift color in different ways.
At least provide a summary. I mean,
"After completing his medical studies, Friston moved to Oxford and spent two years as a resident trainee at a Victorian-era hospital called Littlemore. Founded under the 1845 Lunacy Act, Littlemore had originally been instituted to help transfer all “pauper lunatics” from workhouses to hospitals. By the mid-1980s, when Friston arrived, it was one of the last of the old asylums on the outskirts of England’s cities."

is a story.

But as a neuroscientist with an interest in machine learning, I want to know the idea, not the history of Littlemore, attended by this scientist whose tools and methods I have used(Friston motion parameters, I am looking at you).
4 Major Challenges Behind an E-Commerce Review Aggregation Tool
https://gene.meports.com/report/2347380d-ac31-4f4a-b973-6e18...

sample report lists GBA under Gene column. I click link, get sent to wikipedia entry for Game Boy Advanced...
> "Out-STANDING, Johnson. I see a promotion in your future!"

Love how Johnson is in this scenario XD . That guy seems to always find himself in the right place, at the right time I guess
IMO, the books are great but they don't go very deeply into the math of chords or relationships between chords, no. Certainly there is math coverage of intonation (JI, 12TET, etc.), which leads to "why" chords might sound the way they do as stacked intervals with more or less pure dissonance or consonance. But the "why" of progressions are a level above that yet again. So I'm sure there are better works on chords. From a guitar (but also keyboard) perspective a fascinating book is Werner Pohlert's "Basic Harmony" -- it's thick and analytical of chords and progressions. It's comprehensive though I suppose not particularly mathematical. And you probably know there is some great writing on Just Intonation which is rooted in the ratio math of "correct" intervals and chords. "The JI Primer" by David Doty is a nice short starting point on JI with references, with emphasis on the math of intervals, obviously, but it does have some coverage of stacking these into triads and beyond. If you find a pleasing rabbit hole for chord and progression math, let us know!
LastPass Outage
We should force every US politician to try and delete an Adobe ID in exchange for keeping their jobs and see how long before new laws come out.
I personally think node based programming is suitable for DSL, high level plumbing, data visualization (imagine Jupyter cells but having branches). The best visual programming language is UE4 Blueprint: prototype quickly, great debugging experience (great tooling in general), communicate with C++ easily, intellisense... It's really productive to glue stuff together but not that helpful for "drawing" all the core logic. VSP is good but not for every use-cases.
Bear in mind that the project wasn't originally connected with Heinlein at all, but was originally titled Bug Hunt. Only later did Verhoeven and company come across Starship Troopers, realize that they could actually get the film rights, and rework their existing script to (kind of) match the novel.
I was in the same boat a few years ago, did this class in improv at Second City specially chartered to socially anxious people and it was one of the best decisions I've ever made:

https://trainingcentre.secondcity.com/s/sc-class-category/a2...

Hopefully they have it in your city, or a similar resource, what was nice was that everyone was there for the same reason. The first class was very difficult, but it became easier and a lot of fun by the end. Hope that helps!
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I don't think you can compare forking a blockchain with forking a free software project. Blockchain is just data and there are various wallets already available, so it didn't matter that the FLOSS code of the original wallet has been forked as much as the blockchain fork did.
I was talking specifically in the context of OP’s comment. I otherwise agree with you. But the wording that OP seems to complain about simply means that, in order to perform the requested analysis, the company needs to temporarily store your data.
I think the broader, opposing point you bring out is that visual programming is perfectly suitable for specific scopes of computational modeling, and that's just because they're DSLs, and we already know DSLs are the right choice for a number of problems. I'd like to know who the author things they're engaging with on the points they're making.
What does visual mean? A text file is a 2D set of characters, so if you consider it that way everything is visual. What are brackets, if not visual markers of blocks that start and end? What is code coloring if not visual aid to help with typing?

Programming is visual, full-stop. The main reason why “visual programming didn’t catch on” is because there can’t be a semantic equivalent to placing programming elements on a 2D grid. A program executed things On sequence, so it’s convenient to program top to bottom. That’s why text is better suited to represent it.

Dataflow programming is not generally executing in sequence. And that’s where visual programming shines.
Thank you!

I actually already read "A Guide to the Good Life" and was planning on re-reading it this winter.
Agreed. If Charter said "too few of our customers will pay for this channel, it's not worth it to us", then they're within their rights. They shot themselves in the foot by having a VP of programming make racist comments to protestors. If those racist comments are found to be evidence that they also refused to carry the channel for race-related reasons, then they've got a problem. If the two facts are unrelated, then they don't.

I wonder what happens if some emails are found during discovery that say "only X% of our customers are African-American, and X is less than our threshold for whether a channel will be profitable for us"?

I suspect that would be an illegal reason, as, of course, customers of any race might be interested in this channel.
Show HN: Zaml – My hand-written YAML alternative with minimal syntax
Just don't use GNOME. /s
It seems like you have a few problems:
1. Doing more than your role calls for and not getting recognition
2. Reporting to somebody who you don't trust
3. You want to keep coding/architecting. The next promotion requires pointy hair

I see 2 solutions:
1. Try to work with the company to come up with a solution. Make sure the people higher in the management chain know you're unhappy. Many companies really don't know what to do with senior/lead devs. Often the only way to advance is to stop coding, which of course is the whole reason you were valuable to the company in the first place. If that's the case where you are, consider talking to some decision makers about it. Frame it as "I like it here and want to stay, but my goals are incompatible. I'm producing more and more value for the business but there's currently no way for me to advance my career without setting aside the skills I've spent so long honing. Help me to find a way to meet my goals here." Try to talk them into creating a position for you that formalizes your role as a technical leader and gets you out of this person's reporting chain. Either they've been paying better attention than you think and they'll work with you to get you to stay, or they're clueless and have no idea what you're doing for the org. Either way, at least you tried to do something and you know where you stand.
2. Quit.
3. Deal with it (not recommended)
"Let us do evil that good may result"? No thanks.

And if you understood what total collapse will mean - the incredible human cost of it - you would not propose it even as a constructive step.
Was wondering why I was seeing:
"An error occurred while logging into LastPass. Please check your Internet connection" That would explain it.
No doubt, I'm also a cranky opinionated life long Science Fiction reader, and we are definitely in agreement. I read as much Heinlein as I could get ahold of as a young man. There's no better fuel for a young nerd than stories of sex, heroic individualism and engineering with a healthy dose of libertarianism. And I know how well regarded Heinlein is in his field.

But what bothers me is the snow-clone nature of that statement that Heinlein was not recognized. It's like a knee -jerk default hyperbolic internet article closing, and I don't think it was true. Especially compared to people like Asimov and Clarke. They all had their little heyday as modern day prophets and fell by the wayside in the wider popular consciousness, no more "consistency" in recognition than any other. PKD, on the other hand seems to be bonafide cultural darling.
We need young people to start their careers with knowledge that only 50+yo physicists have currently. Is such a curriculum possible?