skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I ever have a break-in I imagine it will immediately change my habits. Knock-on-wood, has never happened to me yet.

I do have auto-closers on the garage doors, however, because my kids do have a habit of leaving them open otherwise. Of course, they also keep leaving the man-doors unlocked all day as well.
Almost everything on indiegogo is a scam. Kickstarter is slightly better.
University of Southampton?
The first line of defence is the trade union. The second one is the labour courts system (Arbeitsgerichte).
Pornography has been a significant part of tumblr for a long time, and the community that has evolved around it is protesting being removed from their platform of choice. The fact that there are millions of other forums where this isn't a significant component is an argument TO allow pornography, not to remove it.
OK I somewhat understand Markov Chains and I somewhat understand Monte Carlo simulations (at least in the context of financial modeling), but this is quite over my head!
100M Quora Users Attacked
This blog post was tough to read! Seems to have capped out at a 6th grade level.

Re: the topic, the author shows clear bias toward Firefox. It might be better to just acknowledge this: the best browser wins on each platform. Period.

Safari is up there because it runs the best/fastest/with least trouble on iPhones and iPads.

20/20 means PERFECT vision. Above that is ‘abnormally good’.

In other words, the author has a clearly biased view, tries to figure out the obvious, and doesn’t ‘agree’ with definitions for words. Right!
There is an APIS@ (Asian & Pacific Islanders) internal group
Because neither Zuck nor any other brass at Facebook can tame the beast they’ve created. Internal gender politics are just a microcosm of their larger problems.
I don't know. I'm British and classical liberal/mildly conservative so I can't relate to it myself. The overt racism I was contrasting with was more the far right, most of my friends are politically similar to me and they don't care about race either.
> There must be something important there because Facebook is making money off it

I think there is a logical fallacy in arguments like this, which is extending conclusions made on large samples to special individual cases.

While there is no doubt that Facebook is making money (I would think, primarily from ads or from paid promotions of particular posts), and while it is true that, in order to better serve ads, Facebook is using their users' data, it in no way follows that Facebook is making money off me specifically, or that my data specifically is of any value to Facebook and not just garbage.

I don't think I am a valuable Facebook asset. I don't follow ads. And I am not a particularly social animal.
Yes, this really sucks.

While I evaluate people I interact with on a individual level, I often have stereotypes in my head about people I don't directly interact with.

When I see people of color or women in the industry, my first thought is always "ah yes, diversity".

When I see white dudes I think aboit what he does and knows.
A lot of Nix users seem to use Mac, based on the stuff that comes up on the mailing list (discourse).

There's no "native" Windows support (yet), but I think it might work with some of the UNIX emulations (cygwin, mingw, wsl, etc.)

Not sure what the oldest working Linux version would be. However, NixOS has been around since 2003, so maybe quite old.
Seriously, what's Uber/Lyft's long term goal? If I had to guess, destroy all local taxi services, then fix prices with their competitors and worry about anti-competitive lawsuits later. Waiting for self driving cars feels like a fool's errand.
> 400Wh/kg [..] this is nearly double Tesla's energy density

Slight quibble: that's specific energy (ie, per mass). Density is per volume. (For airplanes, specific energy is the hugely important metric)
I've never worked with another black engineer and have only worked closely with another black person on a team (PM) over 10 yrs. That being said I wouldn't say the industry sucks, especially compared to other industries. The majority of people I work with are intelligent so that's step 1 in regards to people being able to reason beyond basic stereotypes and attitudes. I appreciate being a representative of sorts even if it's unfair. I have worked with some conservative types who have moved to tech centers from less diverse areas and take the opportunity to explain certain things to them logically and for the most part they understand. Professionally I usually get glowing feedback and reviews and at times I have suspected it's because expectations were lower (imposter syndrome). All I can do is try to represent myself the best that I can
It's more than a little surprising, considering the amount of content that is of this variety. It's a bit like Verizon buying Hustler, then objecting to all the sex.
I heard that Indiegogo allows you to include funds raised on other platforms (at least Kickstarter) in your fundraising total.
The French protesters are not risking a stay in the Palmyra prison. (Warning: even text descriptions of what went on there are NSFL)
I don't want to be "that guy", but a small sample in the README would be nice. Tough to tell if I'll like a language if I can't even see it without traversing through the docs.
That's how I interpret it too. Though does that mean they can contact an employee directly, rather than going through the company to have the backdoor installed? That's how it sounds to me, since otherwise why would you bother with this provision.

And if that's the case, software really is dead in Australia. You can't trust an Australian company, even if their leadership says they've never received a request, because one of their employees may have.
Why Most Developers Make Lousy Developer Managers
Yes but not at him. Probably at the ones who hire black women to fill numbers.
How is a tax on a bad behavior akin to calling someone a criminal? Their choice to have a diesel car and live where they did means they are poisoning the atmosphere for the rest of us. That's a negative externality to their behavior that is not being accounted for. Should they get to pollute the air for free? If we're so worried about the poor, why not levy new taxes on the rich with super yachts and palatial estates? Why not use a revenue-neutral carbon tax with a progressive rebate of some kind. Let's not destroy our atmosphere to support poor polluting individuals. Let's protect our atmosphere and reward poor individuals whose choices are better for our planet, biosphere, and the future wars and devastation bad behaviors like this will surely lead to.
Uber Air
Not sure what is inside of one of those keyboard adapters, but this is something called a serial adapter (or, more precisely, UART adapter). It is usually used to program microcontrollers (read Arduinos), so everyone dabbling with those (typical audience of hackaday.com) probably has at least one at home, they cost like $2-3.
Yeah, I most certainly oppose 3rd party voter databases like the ones you linked to, I only see them as tools to win elections by using "sales marketing"-like strategies.

I think that winning elections in such a manner is very bad for the future of democracy as you cannot fool the electorate indefinitely, because at some point the electorate will resort to other political "products", meaning the general populace will start looking at democracy and the electoral process as a "fake product" (as it usually happens to products that are pushed down consumers' throats based on marketing alone) and will choose other, "truer" products (like the rule of a sole individual that will not rely on the electoral process etc).

I don't generally support intelligence agencies but I most certainly do not support them meddling in any country's elections. I was just saying that the Obama campaign had used tactics similar to the ones used by the Trump campaign in 2016, that is all.
He's actually much worse than a media member, he's a professor of journalism.
November's Internet Disruptions: DDoS Attacks and Cable Damage
"I feel like this article isn’t making good faith arguments."

The EFF is an advocacy organization. It definitely "advocates", and does not generally make "rational" arguments. If you always like everything they do, you may have a hard time seeing this, but if you've ever seen them speak about something you are either ambivalent about (probably a lot of people on this matter today) or even outright disagree with them on (as I have), it becomes clear.

I'm not particularly trying to be critical of them here. They advocate; it's what they say they do, it's what they are set up to do, and they're generally in a space that nobody else is even close to advocating for. But I do think it's important to understand them for what they are.
This brings back happy memories for me. In the late 80s, I wrote thousands of lines of Occam for a Meiko Computing Surface made from Inmos T800 Transputers. Among the parallel algorithms I implemented was Lamport's algorithm for finding shortest paths in a graph.
Haskell committee guidelines for respectful communication
Yes and no. It is, but the the OS and the hardware probably help (and inspire?) 3rd parties to develop this software.
ASML Developing Next-Gen EUV Lithography
Opportunity, Rationalization and Motivation, but never explicitly Profit.
Cheers, it was a legit question as I'm curious as to OPs experience and would think that the industry eschews racism, but at the same time here is a comment from someone who says they have experienced racism so wanted to know more.
I agree with you 100% and if you analyze the comments on HN everytime Google decides to mess around with their IM, I have seen similar sentiment around Gtalk.
I was a regular user of Gtalk during college days 10 years ago and was pissed when they merge/transition them into hangouts.
It is a poor product management decision driven by Google's philosophy of capitalizing the next big trend in the internet industry ignoring the preferences of their users.
it'd be helpful to explain what far right and far left mean in the context of France, as I doubt it's the same thing as in e.g. USA.
dumpster fire.
This - everyone judges everyone. It's not an American thing. It's not a black/white thing. It's a "Humans are judgmental pricks without fail" thing.

I think it's disingenuous to say "only my people REALLY suffer. You suffer... but not like we suffer".

Skin color is one part - and the listed parts (language, color, race, nationality, religion) are only the beginning. Sex, sexuality, eye color, hair color, height, weight, etc, etc, etc.
Another reminder of the real costs of anything nuclear. No one ever includes the costs or health risks of decommissioning when they hype their nuclear projects. But, as this article points out, we are creating wastes that we haven't even invented a way to cleanup. Nothing green about it.
And there's nothing wrong with a company pruning content it doesnt want to host or be associated with. Tumblr is ambiguously painted as a porn site by many internet communities because of how much crap is on there. Yet this decision has been met with moral outrage as if tumblr is doing something "evil".
>why is it in a company's best interest to not evangelize the publicly-available tools it uses?

Because they want people that are good with the tool, not people that crash-coursed/bootcamped their way into what they are told is a marketable skill.
I don't agree. There is a place for something like end user programming. It was a big deal in the 90s and has largely fallen out of favor as developers go deeper into their own universes. Certainly something like Hypercard wasn't "only for developers" and there are many lessons one can draw from that.

There is no good reason that personal computing systems shouldn't or can't be in the large end user programmable systems.
Except your examples (several of them, at least) are essentially unsolvable. We can't find a time that everyone will agree on, so we collectively chose an arbitrary time that most people seem to deal with okay, and ran with it.

The hospital staff absolutely knows that sleep is important, but they have competing goals that are deemed important enough to interrupt sleep for. That seems very much different from societal-level / cultural priorities.
Disappointed to see the Guardian refer to Facebook as “a tech corporation that largely excludes African Americans.” “Excludes” implies a deliberate and willful act which they cite no evidence for, and the editorializing is more appropriate for the Daily Mail.
I've got that domain willfully blocked due to unrelated reasons (privacy, etc.)

So just on the off-chance, does anyone know if the post has been reposted anywhere else?
As far as stupid laws go, Australia defines "child pornography" to include drawings and stories of fictional characters, to the point where a man was convicted of possessing "child pornography" in the form of nude characters from The Simpsons, and a man in prison was convicted of producing "child pornography" for writing a story involving the rape of a young girl. England and Wales, Canada, NZ and France have similar laws on such imaginative artwork.
Even if it is scrapped after four years, if it keeps generating this kind of savings for that period, it’s still a 600% return on capital. Turning $40MM today to $240MM 4 years from now is a deal any business would take in a heartbeat.
Show HN: Mission Emission – Calculate the emissions a vehicle produces
I work in Python day to day and have done for several years, so I think I'm entitled to describe Python's type system as "surprising." I generally think duck typing is great, and I always appreciate the flexibility it gives me. But the flip side of that is -- surprise! -- you can't use me as an index! -- surprise! -- I'm not hashable! -- surprise! -- you can't pickle me!.

I've been looking at how other languages handle this, and I think typeclass / trait systems seem to strike a good balance, allowing flexibility without surprises.
Hence why I was asking the question...
Evidently you have your own thoughts on this, so it's pointless me bantering away - but why can't and why shouldn't I make my choice my default?

If I set up the stylesheet to have an order of preference, with a fallback to default system fonts that mangle my considered layout, then you're perfectly free to do what you will - but again (and we're going around in circles here) - it's my content, I'd rather like to display it as I wish.

Look, I'll be honest - there are times and situations where I wish there were still properly text based browsers that could read web content (assuming it's been marked up well enough in the first place) and display it in green-glowing monospaced terminal text - but there aren't. The world's moved on - I'm sorry you don't like it.
3 reasons why you should continue working on your bad idea
The United States of America has a population over 300 million, we did not agree to take part in the international agreement. Obama knew that the American people would not support the agreement which is why he did it with the stroke of a pen rather than through congress.
The french are not one uniform group. Same in Belgium: in Brussels last week, there were violent protests by a few thousand "yellow vests". The next day, there was a much larger (65K people) climate change manifestation without incident. I personally saw multiple moms feeding babies during that march.

We're at a point now where we have to give up priviliges to slow down climate change. Even if the majority agrees to do it, some will refuse and turn violent. And unfortunately, the violence will cause more headlines.
Race, and racism, is everywhere (note: this does not mean "everyone is racist"). It's kind of absurd to say that it wouldn't be an issue if liberals stopped talking about it - I suspect if you did a survey of minorities they would very, very strongly disagree with that sentiment.

You may not see it, others may not see it, but that's why people talk about unconscious bias a lot. You're just not attuned to it. The posts in this thread alone should indicate to you that there are common experiences you aren't aware of.
The legislation has already passed both houses, and is headed for Royal Assent. They'd need to repeal it, and given that Labor unanimously voted for it, I have no doubt it's never going to be repealed.
I believe you that it sucks. Do you yourself believe that the main reason blacks are unrepresented in the tech industry is racism?
At least a decade. This is why most grid services/frequency response revenue is going to be cannibalized from legacy thermal by utility scale battery storage.

Energy arbitrage is still a thing, but a smaller percentage of revenue compared to grid services (at least in Australia).

Disclaimer: TSLA investor
I think one model, among other efforts, would be thr BET model. Form SW orgs servjng enterprises (much opportunity) and grow organically. As they earn a reputation other SW dev orgs will begin poaching devs to strengthen their orgs and also help to bring more black Americans into tech in general. Of course that’s not the only path to seek, but it’s one that’s worked for other underrepresrnted populations.
Hi there,

We at BetaPeak (https://betapeak.com) are a small team of dedicated developers with passion for side projects and positive social change. We're located in Bulgaria, which currently has the worst air quality in all of Europe, so this led us to think - we sure as hell are not the only ones with that problem, there must be thousands of cities around the globe that breathe dirty air, we definitely need to raise some awareness.

So in partnership with the awesome guys at Oblik Studio (http://oblik.works/), this led us to build Mission Emission, a tool to help you calculate your car emissions and get tips on how to travel more eco-friendly. Our bet is on simplicity, nice and clean UX and informative and beautiful results page, to help punch in the main idea - we need to ditch petrol/diesel cars!

We'd love to know what you love, what you hate, what you "meh" about the tool, and obviously we're ready to implement any cool ideas you may have on how to make this tool even cooler and more engaging.

Thanks!

Yasen
I still have a facebook account, I just use it less and less. And while I don't think many of my friends have dropped it either, it seems they are also using it less and less. Most of my feed now comes from a fairly small group of people.
Are You a Horrible Boss?
It has 3 engines, one is at the tail. While I agree in principle, I think having just one engine at the tip of the wing left running is going to be a rare event.
Ride hailing is a commodity.
Ground up approaches can also have a large impact. There are quite a few citizen science projects that indirectly influence ecology. Bug hunts, bird migration data. It's a terrific way to gain a foot hold, and see direct impacts of the anthropocene era ;)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_citizen_science_projec...
You have a point that it might/could probably be an indicator that something's being repressed- but you can't just jump to conclusions about what that is.

It's not like, once in every blue moon, someone says 'tech has a race problem'- people say things like that all the time. So, even if it was a non-issue, the fact lots of people are saying it's an issue makes it an issue for people in tech, for obvious reasons (nobody likes being called evil.)
Maybe people are defensive because they do see racism and ignore it- but maybe people are defensive because lots of people say there's racism they're ignoring, and what those people say can affect their jobs. Whether there's a race problem or not, there's a race problem.
Troll comments tend to show up first, because quality comments take time to write.

It's best to reserve judgement for an hour or so after a thread hits the front page.
Seems like an interesting take on peak energy supply -- charging it up for "free" from renewable sources and discharging instantly when needed.

Edited for clarity: For people that are in the know regarding grid-level energy: is this the path of least-resistance for renewable adoption? I.e. Renewable+energy storage for peak demands, something else for baseline production?
I'm not the one you replied to, but you're commenting under my reply chain, so...

> you have just been brainwashed into hating your country.

That's a very large assumption from a few lines of text, I'll classify this as a cheap baseless attack/dismissal.

> The last president and Secretary of State are directly responsible for open slave markets in libya.

So I guess Bush and Cheney are "directly responsible" for a lot of thousand dead Iraqis and Afghanis. Or were those military interventions justified in your eyes? At least Obama has admitted "the aftermath" is his biggest regret.
Ouch, that's an excellent question, and a perfect example of why the state of web browsers is pretty bleak. Likewise, we could wonder what we will see when it comes to AMP.
Why do so many status pages seem to crash/incorrect report when the service goes down?

Once you get on the page:

We're really sorry but this system is currently
experiencing some technical problems.
Our engineers have been notified, so please check back
later.
People have an "unnatural obsession with race" because they want to fix race issues they believe exist in our society. It is not really difficult to understand.
If you want to filter these signals, and are a ham, I use these on my Raspberry Pi https://www.qrp-labs.com/lpfkit.html and have been heard all around the US daily, and also across both oceans a few times without an amp.
It's not law until it gets Royal Assent, but yes it's passed both houses and will be law very shortly.
Locust: Load Test Your REST APIs
Very nice interface. Did a right calculation on my route here in Holland.
Email is already insecure. Even if you use GPG, that's client side, and should be as safe/unsafe as it was before this law (unsafe b/c metadata or unknown vuln). So in terms of threat model, it hasn't changed much.

I'm not defending the Oz gov or companies here, but knee-jerk reactions just open you up to more mistakes. For me, the situation is still preferable to Google having my data/metadata.
I just wanted to add that the grass is always greener on the other side. I've spent a decade in Maine where advertising is mostly non-existent, and I loved traveling to Boston or NYC where I got to see the result of giant advertising budgets.
Hey, don't lump us older liberals in with them. Liberalism in the US used to be about workers' rights and making sure everybody got their fair share. The swing to identity politics is mystifying to us too.
"Create internal systems for employees to anonymously report microaggressions. "

This is the 'happy path' to ideological totalitarianism, and it's a scary statement.

In the UC system, it is now considered a 'micro aggression' to make the statement 'America is a Meritocracy'. Why? Because it doesn't necessarily reflect the fact that for some people it's harder than others. Surely - there's a lot to be debated about the statement. But that it cannot be said, or is even considered problematic is utterly Orwellian.

The author makes the case of 'undue or overly harsh' criticism of Black employees? Unfortunately, this is a difficult thing to measure, and if FB turns into a 'government office' - it simply won't be possible to give even a fair assessment without the fear or being labelled a racist.

I'm actually quite sensitive to aphxtron's comment above about the insecurities of being black in tech, and there is work to do ... but I think the intersectional / authoritarian approach, especially those whereby we 'assume racism' is wrong.

I don't think the Colin Kaepernick approach is going to work on this, I think it's just going to take a while.