skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for the civil dialog in what could be a very contention discussion.

If Mims was being truly scientific about the Bible then that would include looking for finding falsifiability in the literal truths of the Bible. (Clearly I'm not religious and my take on that book is that it is, at best, a collection of inspirational stories -- not documented fact).

I respect each individual's right to have their own relationship with "God", including believing in things that I think are, dare I say it, stupid.

Scientific American did the wrong thing to fire him, but instead should have had a very clear firewall to ensure that they respected his personal beliefs and would not be associated with them.
I'm glad to hear your story had a happy ending (with the notable exception of those injured by the old owner's negligence). I do wonder how much better the US economy would look if these kinds of investments against corruption were more commonplace.
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That's not what a Kafkatrap is. Though I suppose if one stretches the metaphor far enough...
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And maps is pretty terrible for using it like.. well.. maps. I haven't seen a worse rendered, anywhere, ever. It's one big grey blob of nothing.

It's good for navigation, and great for the "satellite" view.
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I'm guessing that's it's more like a PR move to show that they're "playing fair" that doesn't cost them much. Or alternatively, a way to avoid bad PR from squatting a domain that would be beneficial to a competitor.
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> you're rejecting both the idea of the local municipality and corporates. What's your preferred solution?

Municipality builds and owns the infrastructure; competitively leases it to private operators for fixed periods of time.
You can specify a date range in Google btw. You click “tools” and then it will present a date option.
In U.S. Navy and NATO jargon, "DDG" is the designator for guided-missile destroyers (warships) [0]. So you could say "destroy it" ....

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guided_missile_destroyer
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> When you find yourself doing something simple in a complicated way because the law gives you additional advantages, that's a great sign that the law is bad.

Not really. It's usually a sign that you're trying to evade the plain meaning of the law with technicalities.
- A Random Walk Down Wall Street: I got much more interested in personal finance this year, and definitely recommend this book as a stepping stone for learning about investing.

- Frankenstein: Highly recommend! It is nothing like it is portrayed to be in pop culture and I thoroughly enjoyed it.

- Unbelievable: My Front-Row Seat to the Craziest Campaign in America: It is literally unbelievable. It follows Katy Tur, a reporter tasked with following Trump leading up to the election. If you aren't already fed up with Trump, then give this a whirl.

- Dune: 5/5 sci-fi

- The Society of the Spectacle: I had trouble with this one. I think some things get lost in translation, and the philosophical arguments are so abstract it was a bit hard to follow along. I had a few key take-aways but to be honest it was kind of a chore to read.

- How Not to Die: Argues for prioritizing a plant-based diet, and definitely changed my relationship with food.

- East of Eden: My wife's favorite book and is now one of my favorites.

- Sapiens: Very enjoyable, but some of it can feel pseudo-sciency and gets a bit nihilistic in the end.

- Man's Search for Meaning: Also very enjoyable, a good reminder to appreciate the people and things around you.

- A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy: Very accessible intro to Stoicism

- Red Notice: A True Story of Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice: Very interesting and reads like a fiction thriller. TLDR Russia doesn't fuck around
Observations take time. The y axis shows the duration of possible observations. Durations shorter than the plank time or longer than the current age of the universe are inaccessible; as are durations into the future, since we can only make observations in the past.
I read alot on Kindle Unlimited, but mostly it's garbage. Fills the time while waiting in lines. My better quality reading is on Audible as I have one of those long Silicon Valley commutes each day.

I'm sure 10s of books, or more, passed my eyes this using Kindle Unlimited. Most are mind candy that pass odd moments of time. Two books caused me to rethink how I work and actually take notes with time to stop, reflect on how it applies to my world. They are:

_High Output Management_ by Andy Grove (from 1983!)
_The Phoenix Project_

These have led to spirited discussions with the two co-founders of the startup where I work, and eventually to changes in process. There are some clashes, but logical ones, between the Scrum and Kanban approaches that are hot now and some ideas here. Mostly it's another way to think about the same core issues -- another tool in the toolbox.

Also, as time allows I am slowing going through _Blockchain Revolution_ by Don & Alex Tapscott. I'm a few years late on this one, but loving the updated 2018 version.

I've also enjoyed numerous offerings from Audible, especially:

_The Addictive Brain_, a Great Courses series of lectures. An overview of current thinking; dopamine does not play the role I thought it did in addiction.

_How Emotions are Made_, by Lisa Feldman Barret. The end of the book seems to be her preaching her political views with the theories she develops in the first 75% of the book. Her thinking and information is so excellent that it's worth putting up with her moralizing towards the end. Completely fascinating research by a top rate mind.

_The Girl with All the Gifts_, by M. R. Carey. Why did no one ever tell me this was a zombie story? Excellent!

_Unfu*k Yourself_, by Gary John Bishop. Offensive title; great book. Advice is dead on, if not new. People need to review a book like this once every year, and the narrator has the right voice for it.

_Judges for You_, by Timothy Keller. I used to really study the Bible; now I rarely get in deep. Keller always has something to say that's worth hearing.

_Elon Musk_, by Aslee Vance. Hate or love him, he's a major factor in moving human civilization forward in what I think are good ways. The wife and I got a few lively conversations while listening to this book.
Sensible. Not paying income tax >>>> a few free shitty tshirts and invites to propaganda all hands meetings, IMHO.
Hijacking spatial memory like that is really useful.

I used to use 6 desktops (in Enlightenment 0.16) in a 3x2 grid, which I could slide between by throwing the mouse to the window edge.

The Compiz cube made the transition a bit fancier, but only made sense when the desktops were arranged in a line, and anything other than 4 didn't work as nicely.
I doubt it's a bug. I think we just eat a lot of duck in the UK. Additionally I've never heard of duckduckgo referred to by just duck
You can vote with your wallet, too.
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The only critique I can really find is that his father may not have been as violent as portrayed.
Just wanted to say that I really appreciated point II: I've been struggling with this ever since I left college (in which my final semester included a class on Later Wittgenstein).

Do you have any other tips and suggestions on how to "stop Wittgensteining"?
Support for RBAC for GitLab Managed Apps was added in 11.4 [1]. You can also connect any Kubernetes cluster hosted anywhere - see the docs on that [2].

What problems are you hitting when installing GitLab on Kubernetes? You can always open an issue about it so it can be prioritized for fixing.

[1] - https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/29398

[2] - https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/clusters/#adding-an-...
I am kinda confused... On the one hand, most people here seem to be fans of the DO services and praise their simplicity, on the other hand, I see their page an wonder what they are offering...

The names of their services seem to be equally confusing as the AWS names. Yes, overall their portfolio is closer to the actual use-cases (as in 'I want to have a blog' -> they have an offer for that), but I am still wondering what a droplet is (looks somehow similar to a Virtual Private Server).

When Hetzner released their cloud service earlier this year, I tried it, loved it and still do. Sure they don't offer the same products (e.g. no S3/Spaces), but at least they use established technical terms instead of some made up marketing names you have to learn for again for every new cloud hoster you want to try.
I always find cases like this really interesting, how predicting outcomes can lead to tons of success in markets. Political events like this are big money winners if you can predict the answer. Same with elections themselves for the affects of the person's plans.

Besides polling data, prediction markets always seem like the could be a legitimate way to guess results. I used to work at a place that ran those, but biggest problem is to make sure the members are committed to answering the questions and learning more about the situation. There's been proof that these cases can be successful.

Another event that comes up is company's quarterly reports that lead to giant price changes in their stock instantly. There are "specialist" predictions out there, but having better guesses leads to straight money. Knowledge of those numbers would be huge for traders, and us non-traders alike. Finding some legal and respectable way to predict these big outcomes would be incredibly valuable. Then again, if there was a correct way to make predictions, we wouldn't be having these discussions.
I find myself in a remote job and it was part of why I thought "hell, let's go for it" when looking at 3.5 acres of loamy land in the country. Discussions here about practices like desiccation didn't hurt.
On income tax, but these rules around what gifts are allowed to go to TVCs are there because that is happening already and going untaxed.

Other additional points for anger around these sorts of faux employee setups is that they make it easier for companies to get around employee protections when it comes to firing/laying off because they've turned it into a contract with another company, and that traditional growth from low skill jobs inside a company has disappeared by this artificial barrier. You no longer hear stories about a janitor or secretary who worked their way up into executive ranks by seeing unfulfilled needs in the company and learning to solve them. You are either over the arbitrary skill value from the beginning, or you are kept in the lower ranks of second class citizen
I just started Leonardo, really excited about it!
5th for me with this as information:

DuckDuckGo — Privacy, simplified.
https://duckduckgo.com/
The Internet privacy company that empowers you to
seamlessly take control of your personal information
online, without any tradeoffs.

‎ Other Settings · ‎DuckDuckGo Search Box · ‎About DuckDuckGo · ‎Press Kit

Although the word search is mentioned in the info I would not make this out as a alternative search engine at first glance.
Where does DuckDuckGo get the money to keep this service alive?
Isn't the article's main concern the conflict of interest when polling companies release both public and private polls?

They have an incentive to release inaccurate results to the public in order to benefit their private clients even further.
English is not my native language, but I think this is universal. I also think that's why the GP likes the phrase.
Grafana, are you sure you want to name a piece of software after a guy famous for lying, betrayal, and other forms of unreliability? Besides, I already know two cats, a dog, two children, and a Saturn hatchback named Loki. The Saturn is named appropriately, by the way; let's hope your software isn't.
DDG just uses Bing, the existence of DDG is irrelevant to this, Bing is what counts.
Exactly. We're getting municipal 10 gigabit in my town currently. I can't see myself being unsatisfied with 10 gigabit fiber for a long long time.
Of course not, but that's just it, when engaged in as a practise to deprive long term workers of benefits, it is unethical, at least to me.
While I can appreciate your concerns over data firewalls as it relates to local government (privacy advocate, annual EFF donation, yada yada), I would like to see a real world example of it occurring in the US before I'd consider changing my stance on locally owned internet infra vs Comcast, Time Warner, et el (I will even put my money where my mouth is, and come after such a municipality personally with an attorney, that's the sort of thing I find fun).

If Billy Bob the municipal broadband administrator is “sharing his list of fags” with his hillbilly friends, you can FOIA logs, emails, records, and come after the city for their transgression. You can vote local government representatives out of office. If Comcast does this, you have no recourse (and they would even be within their right to sell this data to the highest bidder).
The TVCs definitely don't count as independent contractors. They're employees of a contract firm.
> I wonder what you think of emergency sirens/lights? Too distracting?

If unnecessary, yes.

> Distracting drivers from what, exactly?
> Distracting them from not seeing cyclists?

We only have a finite attention span; hence such is going to be distracting the driver from other important things on the road. Not every cyclist is so important to be noticed.

You should also take into account that a blinking light means the driver is changing lane or course. Two blinking light means danger. If every bicyclist would all the time be signalling "danger, danger", people become desensitised to such signal.
What?? I view it as a wonderful thing.

Overtime is rarely paid, but the reality is the jobs I see in NL pay a lot less than my current one. Enough less that I haven't moved. I might look in to it in a few years when I'm not at a relatively high-cost stage of life (new family, buying first home, etc.)
If that's true, it explains why Sony removed the feature allowing you to install a custom OS on the PS3. There was at least one group that was building a supercomputer out of PS3s. Removing the feature was probably to limit losses from sales to people that were not buying their PS3s to play games on them.

It was still shitty of them (and I wish illegal) to remove a feature, but now it makes sense. I wish they had limited the removal to only units not yet sold though. It's not like people that were using their PS3s for supercomputing would run the update anyway. It would only be those that were playing games and were restricted without running the latests updates.
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They count in the number of TVCs though. They all get badges and are visible as TVCs in the org chart.
> Google needs DDG to exist

DDG is just a frontend to Bing. They need Bing to exist, not DDG.
+1 for Bad Blood and Shoe Dog
Please do elaborate.

1. Attribution is not about proofing something, or finding "the one proof", but about verbalizing that there are indications that someone might be responsible. And quantifying this likelihood.

2. Having a reasonable level of attribution of cyber attacks cant ever be realistic if your opponent isnt a moron, as the indications you work with can be artificially created to fool you. There is no way to differentiate between a high likelihood attribution and a clever enough framing. While this is also true for real life attribution, for lets say chemical weapons, it is much easier to create indications in cyber attacks. And the incentives to do so are clear.

You are taking one reasonable critique, that you cant expect a "one proof" in attribution and turn it around to make attribution to something that could actually proof something. The limit of attributions is that you can vocalize, to what degree something looks like it was done by someone. Nothing less but also nothing more.
I'm currently 203,027 words into planning out my next technical video course. I like to write things out before I say them because it helps organize my thoughts.

It's similar to writing a book suppose.

But if you're interested in writing any type of book, just remember your goals will be different depending on what you're writing. Writing a fiction novel is a lot different than a book on some technical topic. You're on a strict time deadline with technical books because the content can get outdated.

On days where I don't have freelance work or other activities planned, getting down 3,000 "production ready" words is very possible in about 6-8 hours. That includes writing, rewriting, iterating, proof reading it multiple times, maybe doing research if needed, etc..
You realize the people who will be taxed over this agreed to it?

> throw in that any project past a few years will see the costs explode and this will mean that many will never see their new internet any time soon.

Speculation.

> it will be interesting what protections are built into the system that prevent the government from tracking the habits of the residents using the service.

The same protections you'd get from any other provider.
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I'm just a really bit Marvel fan though - he did redeem himself in the last film, no?
Exactly. This is actually excellent news for Marriott since it firmly shifts the blame and attention away from them.
> Inside YouGov, concerns about the law limited the company's potential offerings, according to an email that YouGov founder Stephan Shakespeare shared with Bloomberg. YouGov’s chief financial officer spoke to lawyers and decided that a single hedge fund could not be considered “a section of the public” but that multiple hedge funds getting the same exit poll might cross the line. Other polling companies appear to have interpreted the law differently.

It's a grey zone whether releasing the private poll data broke the law.

What seems clear is the law hasn't caught up with the technological realities.

Also the other main point of the article was that it is questionable whether it is appropriate to use polling data to influence the markets, like Farage has potentially done.

They claim he knew which way it way going, contrary to public data. It's also clear that he was one of the figureheads of the Leave campaign, and thus his concession would carry weight.

One could see how this might be interpreted as a form of manipulation. It's not claimed in the article, but he could well have talked up Sterling in order to short it at a better level.
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What? that was weirdly nice of Google to do this. I'm very shocked at this.
I’ve seen both of those and more. Actually I’d say that from my point of view, there is no such thing as fully grasping the problem while over-engineering it. I’d categorize that as slightly not grasping the whole problem. The complexity of the solution and the budget for solving the problem are part of the problem, not something separate and distinct.

I think I’ve more often seen tangential and imagined problems than people doing the right thing the wrong way. To be fair, it can actually be very hard to know whether a problem is really truly a problem that needs to be solved. Some tangential and imagined problems seem important and real, and you don’t discover until later you needed to solve something else and not the thing you did.

Some examples:

At a games company, the two mathiest programmers decided we needed to be using geometric algebra instead of matrices. They spent years working on it, and the code infected the rigging and animation and rendering systems, all kinds of things. Most of the programmers had to interface with it, but didn’t know geometric algebra, so it slowed development. It only solved minor issues. One of the claims was we’d have no gimbal lock, but people already solve that with matrices in one or two functions, it’s a non issue. To top it off, the math all got a bit slower, and we had to maintain the matrix math anyway to interface with the hardware and external libraries.

At a film company all the programmers decided they were tired of the renderer and they needed to start from scratch because making updates was getting slow and difficult. They scrapped the renderer, started over, and it took many multiples longer than they estimated. When they were done, they had roughly the same complexity and ugliness as before, and making updates didn’t get significantly easier. Some mistakes were made in the rush to rewrite everything.

Personally, I built a multi-user whiteboard website, and I over-engineered the rendering and the multi-user undo system, convinced they both needed to be perfect. In the mean time, discovered that very few people care about those things or ever hit corner cases, and I missed the opportunity to write proper integrations with other tools and import/export tools — the things the customers needed in order to adopt my software for their workflows.
Unions appear to give the capabilities for workers to protest poor wages. I've heard positive things from my grandpa about unions when he needed to find work. Everything has negatives but I'm unsure why workers wouldn't want those positives.
There's a lot of sour-grapes among Starwood employees in the lead-up to and after the merger. A lot of dedicated middle management folks got forced out and a lot of managers in well-performing hotels were forced to move. None of the grunt employees seemed happy with it on either side.
The laws also forbid sharing inside information, yet if you have a company conducts its own “research” to discover inside information from others before its published that doesn’t make it legal.

The point of many trading laws is to prevent trading based on non public information.
Privately conducted polls on political votes is definately non-public information, and in order for them to trade based on them they should publish first, which would likely also deminish the returns since suddenly they aren’t the only ones aware of the public/poll disconnect.
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Many people can't with regards to ISPs. I only have one provider that goes to my address.
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Comcast is the sole cable internet provider in my area, and in many areas. I realize that it would be the same scenario for this community (in terms of options), but voting with your wallet is impossible in some communities.
Agreed on all points except I guess my thresholds are higher :)

I can’t believe they still find the time to do the Gabfest, John especially.
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That's a very bad heuristic to use for whether something's a good business decision...
Most of these TVCs are kitchen staff, janitors, security guards, receptionists, call center employees, etc. So to the extent that there is a pay gap, it's usually because of the difference in average pay for those jobs themselves. Actual contracted engineers are quite the rarity; I've never worked with one.
Write the book to yourself. You will always have a reader that cares. Someone might sit down on the bench next to you anyway to read it with you.

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But I have read that some researcher pushed consumer fiber optic to over 1tbps. So even when every wall of your house will be streaming 8k video 24/7, you might not reach the limit of the pipe.
More like I need to explain what the scenario actually is opposed to the microscopic slice the developer wishes it were. I don't makes a problem complex. A problem is a summation of the requirements before you whether or not you believe it complex.
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