skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s likely not a coincidence as people into the occult tend to mix and match their mythology from a variety of sources. It’s almost assured that it was taken from Islamic sources.

https://paradoxosalpha.livejournal.com/79983.html

> As to my study of Islam, I got a sheikh to teach me Arabic and the practices of ablution, prayer and so on, so that at some future time I might pass for a Moslem among themselves. I learnt a number of chapters of the Koran by heart.....
My sheikh was profoundly versed in the mysticism and magic of Islam, and discovering that I was an initiate, had no hesitation in providing me with books and manuscripts on the Arabic Cabbala. These formed the basis of my comparative studies.

— Alastair Crowley.
> Maybe this thing doesn’t work

It doesn’t

> Maybe they have to start over

They spent $20M. They shouldn’t be allowed near money ever again

> Maybe someone else comes up with something better

Everyone who did nothing came up with something better. My $0 solution gets more plastic than this and leaves $20M available for other things
How China’s Elite Hackers Stole the World’s Most Valuable Secrets
If their photo development product had decent library management, I'd have bought it recently. They have Linux version.
Update from Wikileaks: "Our twitter account @WikiLeaks is now unlocked. Thanks to those who made a fuss and for @Jack and others responding to the problem. It appears that a denial of service attack had been run against several WikiLeaks and Assange legal accounts to trigger looping security lockouts."

https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/1075946430844583938

Still don't understand why upvoting behaves so differently here on HN. This post received 25 points within an hour, but never reached the first page. There are other posts on the first page with far fewer points. Can anyone shed any light on that? Genuinely curious.
Not to mention that this input can only be used in private spaces: Home or separate office cabins.
Products advertised to contain CBD are schedule 1 unless the FDA grants them marketing approval, in which case they're schedule 5. Products that incidentally contain CBD but aren't advertised as containing it may be more of a grey area, but IANAL.

But yeah this is terribly written, they should really hire the SEC to write their press releases for them.
Sure, there is a mixture of two languages there but they are both using latin characters so even if you don't know how to pronounce Año correctly you can get close enough knowing only English. If it was called राज्य पार्क State Park then we would be closer to the 日本ノワール Nihon Noir issue we are talking about. राज्य पार्क means State Park in Nepali. Someone who isn't Japanese or hasn't studied Japanese has no chance to read 日本ノワール, to them is is just a visual flourish. If someone decides to use non-latin characters from another language for a visual purpose on their own website for an audience that primarily doesn't understand that language then I believe that they can be freed from the burden of having to ensure that they are using that language in a perfect manner. Should this photographer have contacted a native Japanese speaker to ensure that his title graphic was 100% correct before publishing? I mean maybe, but I think that is asking a bit much for its intended purpose.
I suspect people flag it for not being very good content, and perhaps tilted in terms of its reporting on a political issue.
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Lots of negativity here for this, but it sounds like a design /implementation issue and not necessarily something fundamental.

Like anything it's not a silver bullet, but one small tool to help deal with the larger problem.

Things like Baltimore's Trash Wheel in the Inner Harbor have prevented literally tons of waste from outflowing. They needed a few design iterations before it worked as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkQbcrzyAeE
There was similar responses to the ‘solar roads’ projects. There were so many practical problems, and at the end of the day, it was just throwing away 30-50% efficiency putting them flat in the road, compared to just putting panels on structures next to the road, or on building roofs, or in solar farms.

So it was always going to be way more expensive per-kWh generated and per unit area of solar panels, meaning that it was both a waste of money and resources. But so many people were willing to ignore it, because “at least they’re doing something”.

Instead, better to do the calculations to see if these kind of things are feasible, and if not, to look for an idea that is more feasible rather than wasting time, money and resources on things we know won’t really help!
That’s the sort of speed that has game developers, who can tolerate occasional pauses without getting anybody killed (although I’m sure some gamers act like they’re dying when it happens), avoiding memory allocations and tuning garbage collectors. That’s similar to how often the render callback for audio code will run, code where you carefully avoid taking locks or calling most system APIs and write the whole thing in C or simple C++ so implicit behaviors don’t result in audible glitches.

Python is good for many things (my whole web site runs on it) but it’s completely unsuitable for this job.
I wonder if explaining in advance would help. Push as much of the screening into take home tests. Use a github profile to show your work. And the for any real-time screening have the option to split it into two where you can revisit stuff you think you didn’t do so well in because of nerves.

Not sure if this would work but maybe it is worth a try. Some employers might be understanding and help you out. And they’ll be better people to work for anyway.

End of the day if the job doesn’t require pressured presentation of your knowledge then why screen for that.
I used Google voice a handful of times every day when I was on Android. Now that I'm on iOS I have Siri disabled. It's infuriating that Apple supply sub part services, and don't let you choose something else as a default replacement.
Stock market woes raise a nagging fear: Is a recession near?
15 Moonshots in AI and Bio to work on in 2019
Don't they just decompose into microplastics? Then you'd have another problem on your hands.
Nah, I personally know that some secure sites were banning them at least as early as 2006.
additionally I came to think that keeping anyone not associated with academia from, err, academia would be on purpose, and the strikes are just increasing the pressure.
It depends on where you are. If you were underneath the ice sheet (which is Long Island and further north), then you are rebounding since the ice was pushing down on you. If you were further south, then you are slowly sinking due to the rebalancing of weight.
Yeah that trash wheel doesn't run nearly as much as you'd think. It exists.
Anyone who believes a random startup that advertises they provide anonymity in security on their homepage is smoking something strong. No legitimate company that cares about security makes such absolute statements.
Secret Experiment in Alabama Senate Race Imitated Russian Tactics
Yeah, they must have—this afternoon it told me the population of Buffalo, New York was 69. I’ve got a window, I was pretty sure that’s not correct.
Tons of opportunities. The biggest challenge I face hiring sales folks is the tech aspect. I can teach you discovery and qualification in a few short weeks. It would take me years to teach you about WordPress or I series or PHP. Turning your tech knowledge into a solid sales foundation is easy. Go for it!
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First off, forgive me if I don't take your word for it, but I just saw an article recently saying that remote workers are more productive on average. Whether that study was just an anomaly or there's some other explanation like "only productive programmers can manage working remotely", it would hint that your hot take represents the world as you imagine it, not necessarily the world as it is.

Secondly there's something like a "no true Scotsman" vibe about the implication that you can't trust people who prefer remote work to comment on their productivity like you can people who are onsite. That may not be the right fallacy, but there's a fallacy in there somewhere.

Thirdly, nobody should be working with kids crying. God invented doors for just this reason. If you can't make a quieter space at home than you can at work, you're either pulling in some serious perks on the job with your private, sound insulated office or you don't have the fundamental amenities to work at home, it's not the nature of working remote, it's showing up to work unprepared that's holding you back.
The "fucking planet is dying" because big corporations in their big-city HQs are strangling it to death in the name of short-term profits. Rural areas don't (typically) have the sheer abundance of smokestacks and cars and refrigerators and spray cans Swiss-cheesing the ozone layer. They're certainly not helping by any means (agriculture-driven deforestation is certainly a problem, but not really one in the US, at least not anymore), but that pales in comparison to urban pollution.

But sure, go ahead and blame the dirty country folk for not being able to reliably access your shittily-designed-and-implemented website. God forbid there are people who don't feel like breathing smog all day and existing in perpetual abject misery.
I was just making a dumb joke: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Supposedly_Fun_Thing_I'll_...
Genetic engineering from 50-70 years ago was often hitting seeds with gamma rays.

So yes, it's like not produced by a modern CNC, but with a traditional sledgehammer.
Maybe you're right. Wish it was more transparent though, if that is what's going on.
You have 4 years experience so obviously you are hireable. Keep at it, you'll find something eventually.
"A while ago I saw a British TV show about Hitler and there they had a scene where Hitler shot his dog out of anger. From whatever I know he loved dogs but somehow the show creators thought Hitler has to be portrayed as a totally bad guy."

One of the greatest self-inflicted wounds in the modern world is the propensity to portray Nazi Germany and its major figures in a completely cartoonish fashion. Godwin's law be what it may but the long term ramifications of pointing to Nazis as inhumanely evil to a point that breaks all logic has blinded people from being able to accurately understand exactly what led to their rise to power, what drove their decision making process, and how they managed to direct an entire country toward supporting the very goals currently portrayed as the actions of a handful of mad hatters divorced from all laws of human behavior.

Everyone knows the colloquialsim that those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it, well here's a perfecf example of that in action. Disingenuous representations and false accounts of history eliminate the possibility of developing a true understanding of how things actually progressed in reality. If you can't understand how things progressed, you have no hope of countering that progression until things have developed too far to be reversed through peaceful means.
This has to do with section DSHEA and section 343, particularly as it has to do with New Dietary Ingredients. In a nut shell, DSHEA said that anything produced after 1993 but has been used as, or in, a dietary supplement prior to 1993 for it to be legal. If it's not, then it is considered a New Dietary Ingredient (NDI) and thus must submit an NDI notification to the FDA. This is to notify that the ingredient was not present as, or in, a dietary supplement prior to 1993.

It's super tedious because it's been 25 years since DSHEA and the FDA has yet to produce a final guidance or rule on dietary NDI submissions.
Title could be "15 Moonshots to work on in ML/AI-Bio space"
That might be credited more to his role in creating Swift than his expertise in ML.

To be clear, I'm not claiming he's not capable of the role at some point. I don't know one way or the other. But his transition from compilers to AI seems fairly recent.
VA Linux is often forgotten too. Due to Linux in the name, and even a sexy ticker symbol, rose a crazy 700% for those in on the initial offer price. And there were a lot of those people because they added everyone who had their names on any software included in their Linux distribution. Myself thankfully included.
Stopping the pollution from happening or cleaning up water in the rivers before it reaches the ocean will have a bigger impact over the long run. But neither of those can remove the plastic that is already in the ocean, which is what this project is for.
> Anyways, grapefruit is number 1 there on the list of smelly smells, but how smelly is grapefruit?

I wouldn't say there is no evolutionary advantage there. Grapefruits are extremely high in compounds that lower the body's metabolism and alter drug absorption. In the wild an otherwise benign ingestion of toxins, concentrated alcohol, or even toxoplasmosis from food poisoning could prove fatal when mixed with these compounds. As a result those chemicals have a distinctly bitter taste and strong aroma.

People developed that detection mechanism because it can prevent death.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grapefruit%E2%80%93drug_intera...
Microsoft alumnus here...it's so obvious you work there.

"End-to-end", "workflow", "across X, Y, Z, A", "scenarios". I'd just started to forget that language, but there it is. (The "local dialect" at Microsoft strikes again)
Plastic doesn't naturally gravitate towards oceans. If it's not dumped directly in an ocean or one of the rivers that flows into an ocean, it will be fine.
I haven’t finished the piece yet, but it’s really well-written and fun to read. Thanks!
The most common use is actually a lot more vulgar: "se fudeu de verde e amarelo".

But this is an expression that would never appear in the NY Times.
That was just delightful.
Rooftop solar remains marginal in America
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"The worst place to be hungry is probably at one of the Russian bases, either Vostok Station on the polar plateau (with its slowly dwindling pyramid of frozen potatoes), or Bellinghausen Station on King George Island. The Shokalsiky's crew remembers docking at Bellinghausen during a period of severe budget cuts in the 2000's. Forgotten by Moscow, the group of wild-eyed scientists who emerged blinking into the light had been living for months on a diet of canned peas and cabbage. The crew took pity, trading their stores with the beleaguered marine biologists, and then had to subsist on cabbage and peas themselves all the way back up to Vladivostok."

I was a tourist in about 2002, at a Ukrainian station had been basically abandoned. We did indeed end up trading all manner of things for their station-made vodka which was...impressive stuff.
Edited, thank you!
I've never had Google Assistant fail on something that trivial.

And as the type of person who has always struggled with calendars and notes apps, it's really valuable to me.
Don't think there's any proof of Wikileaks being a front for anyone. If anything, they've come under intense attack, including what increasingly appears to be a made-up story published by the Guardian. https://observer.com/2018/12/glenn-greenwald-on-sucker-journ...
Slack closed my accounts and deleted my data I am Iranian but I am currently lawfully residing in us on student visa so I don't believe there's any excuse for this Behavior
Credulous does, at least to me. I've always considered it a pejorative term.
Not necessarily, a DDoS for hire is of great way to test things before deployment
I saw this documentary also, but personally I thought the defense was seriously flawed. A sit in costs the business money by preventing them from making money, but ddos'ing not only cost money because people can't use the site but also costs the company money to deal with the excess traffic. So to me the adequate metaphor is throwing bricks through the window of an establishment you don't like. Would love to here others thoughts?
> One of the greatest self-inflicted wounds in the modern world is the propensity to portray Nazi Germany and its major figures in a completely cartoonish fashion. Godwin's law be what it may but the long term ramifications of pointing to Nazis as inhumanely evil to a point that breaks all logic has blinded people from being able to accurately understand exactly what led to their rise to power, what drove their decision making process, and how they managed to direct an entire country toward supporting the very goals currently portrayed as the actions of a handful of mad hatters divorced from all laws of human behavior.

> Everyone knows the colloquialsim that those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it...

Whatever self-inflicted or by design, a nation that understands Nazi Germany will not put up with the direction that most nations are going in regards to totalitarianism recently, so it may be working as intended.
On Disbelieving Atrocities [1944]
You could also learn more about the book here: https://www.novelbits.io/introduction-to-bluetooth-low-energ...
Are CBD gummies a food or a medicine? They might be treated differently depending on how they're classified.

Something else to consider is that there are plenty of products that don't have to prove their safety -- products which the FDA blesses as "GRAS" ("Generally Recognized As Safe"), though it's unlikely that CBD will fall under this classification either.

Both alcohol and some medicines (like quinine[1], which is added to tonic water) the FDA apparently has no problems with, despite some of these ingredients (like alcohol) being very far from safe, much less proven to be safe in "substantial clinical investigations".

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quinine
I'd never checked out Blind before. I just went there and checked out a few of the front page posts & comments. It has some of the most toxic and destructive "advice" I've seen for people asking for help or insight. I'm a bit astounded. Is this typical?
I liked Ting as well as Google Fi. The larger carriers seem to have bad support, but those two companies have been pleasant to work with.
It looks like Percona has partial support for PostgreSQL. It's not as detailed as MySQL.

https://www.percona.com/software/database-tools/percona-moni...
You're conflating speed and latency. The main event loop running at 50hz may or may not be fine, but a 50-100ms pause is certainly unacceptable, especially in the drive-by-wire / car interface components which are inexplicably combined with the entire platform and run on the same hardware.
So, in order to use this tunnel, you have to own a Tesla?

This is what gets me about the self-driving silos... Will all self driving cars have standards-based Tunnel-Nav capabilities? Or will all tunnels have sleds? (the video I saw of Musk's tunnel was it looked like a simple concrete service tunnel, and required the tesla to self-drive through it)
It was definitely IRC. As boys who had a prerogative to tease girls, we installed NetNanny to block launching mIRC (and then the trial period expired and the school computers got infested with registration reminders...). AIM had zero mindshare in Europe at the time, it was all ICQ and later MSN.

Our school had nothing blocked, and the computers weren't locked down at all.
Kong has an OpenID Connect plugin that comes with Enterprise, but there are at least three OpenID Connect plugins made by the community, one of them is from Nokia.

I work for Kong and I am an author of that enterprise OpenID Connect plugin. Maybe that is a biggest exception to me, as otherwise I'd say that almost all of my code and related goes directly to OSS.
>short, succinct (no jokes, unnecessary examples)

I second this so much. Give me the juicy bits, not all the cruft and plesantries.
> The regulators are, in the USA, frequently installed lobbyists with profit-at-all-costs ideologies in place

Then what is the alternative you suggest if you do not even trust the concept of having regulators?
"Why do the Russians never smile?"

This is just a Russian thing. Sometimes if you're lucky you'll get a bit of eye crinkle.
Experiment: Recoil vs. Muzzle Velocity
Show HN: New test automation tool that Enforces test automation Best practices
RedixDB v1.4 released – a fast on-disk redis clone but with custom advanced
I wrote a long-form article about an experiment that I conducted this summer to explore the question of whether or not recoil-management techniques have an effect on muzzle velocity. It involved a bit of data science (Python, pandas, plotly), some hardware (arduino, 3d printing), and math (LaTeX). I hope that this content is high quality enough to justify the time you spend reading it, and how much time it took me to create it!

I’d love to hear your feedback and answer any questions!
This is also the idea behind the electorial college as well.
China is the second most powerful nation in the world. If they want to hack you there is not much you can do about it. They could just send spies into your organization. Pretty much all the computers are built there. They could bug the equipment, or they could just economically flex their muscle.

Look to what happen to ZTE when US threw sanctions at them.
>You are ignoring the hundreds/thousands of hours you've spent learning which software is appropriate for which contexts.

Please elaborate. What do you mean by "thousands of hours of learning". Aren't you overplaying it to fit your narrative?
I like my idea better
I think it's become indisputable that python seriously beats ruby in the job market.

It is sad to me.
Ask HN: How little work can you get away with and still have the basics?
My goal in life is to have maximum freedom: minimal obligations, minimal stress, minimal responsibilities, while maintaining a private room to live in with basic utilities and food. Then I want to spend my life working on my own projects in my own time, on my own terms, at my own pace, in solitude.

This is practically how I've lived for years under my parents' roof until recently when we were displaced. Now I want to regain what I lost.

Maybe I'm greedy, spoiled, and undisciplined, but the idea of having to spend a large amount of my time and energy working in order to have these fundamental needs met is unacceptable to me. The pressure to regularly exhaust myself with financial obligations that I'm fundamentally not interested in makes it too difficult for me to live comfortably enough to comfortably pursue the things I actually care about, thus defeating the purpose of meeting those needs to begin with.

I'm not convinced it is possible for me to combine "work" and "pleasure" in a way that pays the bills without making serious compromises.

Realistically, what are the best options for coming as close to this ideal as possible?
A big reason for this is include that public IT projects tends to have more relaxed deadlines than private sector projects. Private sector projects are often managed by people who has chainsaws fitted to their elbows and that has zero tolerance for delays. There is a degree of flexibility in public IT projects that I rarely come across on private projects.

On the other hands, I have seen more huge project failures on the public sector jobs than on private sector projects. Those elbow chainsaw people often catch fundamental flaws earlier than their public sector counterparts.

Given the choice I would pick to work on public sector projects than private sector simply because the much lower stress level and that you have more time to produce quality;Like the NHS guys has been able to on this project.

Disclosure: I have spent the last 18 years working as systems architect / technical leads on countless large government and private sector projects (web/intranet)
This MASH episode[0] tells the story of a World War 1 tontine of which Colonel Potter is the last survivior.

[0] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0638372/
You eat breakfast before brushing your teeth?!