skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>just so I can see what kinds of silly things people believe about me.

Ok, I'll give it a shot.

Anarchist/Socialist/Anarcho-Capitalist: A lot of my friends support this fringe political position, and they seem cool and well-esteemed within my social circles. Everyone can list a thousand reasons why Republicans or Democrats are corrupt and stupid, and to think of it I don't really know a single person at my university that wholeheartedly supports the platform of either one. I trust the negative things I hear about parties a lot more than the positive things I hear about them, and because the news has never even mentioned the group I consider myself a part of, we're miles ahead of everyone else. To be honest, I don't really see how Democrats or Republicans manage to choose their beliefs, except by imitating each other for social reasons. Any real argument I hear in favor of anything comes across as a rapturous epiphany, because for the first 18 years of my life until now I have only seen other people choosing their beliefs by copying each other for social reasons. I'm so glad that I managed to break free from that system; I'm having a great time visiting the local anarchist bookstore for their special events, and I'm going steady with a girl/guy I met there. My newfound relationships really motivate me to keep up with the literature.
~Immigration is a big thing affected by the shutdown. Visa processing delays is a big issue for many businesses and individuals relying on it. For example, there are OPT applications now sent by many. Such a mess.~

edit: incorrect info, see comments below
I must be missing something but making fake checks, with fake banking information is a felony. What am I missing? The links don't explain how this criminal.
Great article.

I’ve never thought of using slo-mo video to capture overly fast error messages.
> we are effectively rewinding the climate clock by approximately 50 My, reversing a multimillion year cooling trend in less than two centuries.

It’s the unprecedented suddenness of this climate change that makes it doubtful organisms will be able to adapt. Maybe we shouldn’t be concerned with whether or not some form of life will still exist, but whether or not we will.
Was this meant to be in alignment with this person’s view point? http://amp.civilbeat.org/2017/05/hawaii-prof-to-white-guys-g...
None. Obviously this is suggesting mass human die-off or total extinction.
Longtime residents of the city also suffer. The ones who weren't wealthy enough to but a house before the boom. Should homeowners be the only ones with a say?
It's worth noting that UAs can treat localhost, 127.0.0.1, etc. as secure even when they're visited over plain HTTP:

https://w3c.github.io/webappsec-secure-contexts/#potentially...

Chrome (in the post's screenshots) follows this; I'm not sure about other UAs.
I Was Asked for a Tip From a Flight Attendant
To be fair, that’s most blogs; they just have a difference in discoverability.
I've moved to: https://dev.to

Solid platform, discoverability baked in, great writing tools. They do need to polish their UX though as I wrote a lengthy article for about an hour and then clicked on "Write a Post" instead of Save to publish. This wiped my editor clean with no way to recover what was lost. Horrible experience there.

They should at least autosave for you on every keystroke. No reason not to.
My take on this is that sometimes problems are really hard to solve on your own or at all at the time. It seems like if there was money then the behavior was so persistent that it actually warranted outside help from some type of specialist. So instead of just continually putting pressure the husband should have acknowledged that it was not a normal parenting issue and looked for a psychiatrist or something.

The other part of this is that it seemed like the real solution only came when the child was able to communicate better. So this reminds me of many technical problems I have had in a way. Most technical problems cannot talk of course. But they were similar in that the solution only came when the true cause of the problem came to light. Anyway maybe there is some commonality between a pre-speech child with a behavior problem and a thorny technical issue.

I guess I am lucky in a way that I only need to deal with technical issues because systems usually operate on a totally logical basis and it seems much less stressful than dealing with children.
I manually scanned the speakers list[1] looking for US federal officials, including both political appointees and civil servants (and employees of the national laboratories, who aren't technically federal employees). I don't know if the list has been changed to omit the speakers who can't attend, but there are a few listed speakers who don't have any sessions listed in their bio pages.

Here's a list of them: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Wmuy9K_xvVQLum0Orq1x...

If I missed anyone or made any mistakes, please comment and I'll update my sheet. The furlough status of any individual position within the federal government is a very complicated beast, so take my assertions of furlough status with a grain of salt.

Also remember that aside from the speaker and their support staff, there are probably dozens of government personnel attending simply as attendees. If furloughed, those people can't attend and the federal government might not even be able to get refunds for registration fees.

In general, conferences represent an opportunity for US government personnel, including practitioners, regulators, and senior leaders, to interact with the communities and industries they oversee. Nobody is helped by barriers to these interactions, such as the furlough. They don't help the government modernize and they don't help the government craft effective regulation.

[1]: https://www.ces.tech/Conference/Speaker-Directory.aspx
Reference; research; testing and debugging web sites in the 5 major desktop browsers; communication and data entry apps required for work that have a horrible desktop client, or no desktop client at all; etc. There's a lot of useful, work related things browsers provide access to.
"Alexa, please set an alarm for 12 hours from now to remind me that you are always listening"
Okay, but she did write it up and it wound up on Hacker News, so I do feel it reasonable to comment on. Don't assume I didn't think about the piece. And I cringed hard specifically because of my empathy for the child in that situation, having his relationship with his mom harmed for reasons he didn't understand.

I did apologize for the tone in a direct reply to the author -- that's fair.

Also: Maybe don't assume what positions I have or have not been in as a parent.
I have a few Echos that we bought a year ago over Christmas. We use it to play music and control home automation. It works relatively well. My husband has a thick russian accent, and with him it struggles sometimes.

I don't use the app and so have no use for that. What are other things the Google home does better? Like help me understand the use case. You say Google Home is more "conversational", but how?
Worried enough about security to deploy WPA3, but still uses a Galaxy S2? Even with LineageOS, aren't you still using ancient device drivers?
How to install Linux with Rufus
I am not sure if it's a goto platform for programming blocks if it does not even give your syntax highlighting capability or embedding code snippets such as gist.
Exactly. Everything after the first trigger word you said when you unwrapped and plugged it in is streamed.
The highlight/comment/DM system is the only part I like (and actually love it—all text sites should use it IMO).
Well, from my perspective I've had my own blog since 2005 and still do (wordpress on a cheap vps), but the articles I publish on Medium get way more interaction, views, reads and comments.
You can do it with SDL or even just Canvas and JS. Later on you'll converge onto "3d as 2d" as you try to optimize and leverage shaders for high performance effects like color grading, blur, glow, etc.
I always forget that we elected all the leaders of Yahoo.
I think a better article would be one that showcases how each point affected your career and what you learned in the process.
Skimming the paper, it looks like they predict pliocene/eocene climates primarily for equatorial zones, with polar and high-latitude regions less effected. Eocene climates were also more even, with less of a difference between polar and equatorial temperatures. So alligators in the arctic is not strictly being predicted (at least not on that timescale, and that's not to say the predictions aren't scary in plenty of other ways.)
OK so Linus, like most, has 10 fingers and 10 toes: totaling 20.. Yet 4.21 was already assigned. What was the last thing he counted on? Guesses below.
Syzkaller finds bugs in linux kernel all day every day. The fact that some ioctls don't work right should surprise nobody.
They changed it so that Medium now defaults you into creating paywall posts and you have to fight the UI to create a free post. And when you create a free post, they warn you that it won't be promoted anywhere except to your followers.

Basically, they ruined the site.
I am on blogger. But what I don't like about it is

1. It only uses a narrow column for content.
2. No code highlighting or snippets embedding support
Keep in mind that, while there is one truth, there are many reactions to that truth. Understanding that your reaction might not be the only reasonable one is a function of empathy.

Couple that with the fact that the truth may not be apparent and the possibility that things about which you are certain may not be true, and humility and empathy begin to take a more central role.
Perhaps it’s related to the tangibility factor. We do pay a lot (grumble, too much) for a new iPhone. But I have a reasonable confidence, that I can get 2+ good years out of that device. It may even have some resale value. The bi-daily coffee is something I pay a little for, but I can bet I’ll still like coffee at the end of the year. And if I decide to kick the habit, I can just quit paying at any time since each coffee transaction stands on its own.

Sites like Medium though are a place where people go to experience networking effects. Thinking about it in the long term might be like buying into a year’s subscription of speed dating at the local bowling alley. It may be all the rage with all the types of people you want to be with this week, but what does next week bring? The hot speed dating activity might move somewhere else. Or the group of people you want to hang out with there might be replaced by a different group of people.

Years ago, Brad Cox (of Objective C fame) wrote a great essay on micropayments and the Internet. I can’t find it right now, but IIRC it talked about why micropayments might be the way to go to fund intenert related activities. Unfortunately, my observation of MBA business models is that they have never wrapped their heads around how to implement micropayment models that reach that happy point where consumers benefit as well as producers.
Absolutely this. I did it the other way because I didn't know better, and it was remarkably boring for the first several days of trying to decipher tutorials. It would've been much more fun if I had just thrown a triangle on the screen and started playing around.
I wish the NYT gave Equifax half the scrutiny they give FB.
Absolutely, it used to be a place for pretty in-depth and well thought out writing. It began attracting a lot of people that wanted to be seen as that kind of writer while not being that kind of writer. I bailed once it just became lists and lists and clickbait with more clickbait. I think it's gone through what TEDx has gone through. Their latest strategy to try and get my money has been the nail in the coffin for my use of the platform.
Perhaps if you're doing this type of work frequently, but if you're just a regular person who wants a blog it's not trivial nor advisable. Configuring your DO instance can be a pain and you have to manually keep Ghost up to date by SSHing in. Definitely not set and forget.
I've found SFML an easy way to get some stuff on the screen in 2D.

As far as true 3D graphics, I made a Minecraft clone using OpenGL... it was a nice project as, surprisingly, you end up using all the basic techniques as you tweak it, particularly when you try to get lighting and shadows working.
But they're not laid off. 400,000 people are expected to work without getting paid on time. https://www.upi.com/amp/Top_News/US/2019/01/01/Federal-worke...
Love it! A few things wrong though: I was introduced to socialism in my 30’s after thinking socialist type thoughts for years and believing I was all alone. I’m married and my wife is not so far to the left as me; but we’ve both moved farther left after we got hitched. I do have lots of friends who think more or less this way. I understand that capitalism also has things it does well, and worry about how socialism can replicate those successes (and if it should even try).
Drugs are much more expensive and more difficult to procure than they would be if they were legal, so reducing consumption. On that basis the drug war clearly works.

If violence is unnecessary and there’s always an alternative why are all states fundamentally enforced and maintained by violence?
I don't live in the bay area and never will. I only travel there for work sometimes.

I think it hurts non-homeowning residents because it eliminates a powerful incentive for densification. Where I live, homes are taxed as if they were developed to their maximum zoned potential. This motivates people to move out of single-family homes so they can be redeveloped into higher density and add much-needed supply to the market.

It's true that the homeowner is worse off, but society does not function unless we prioritize the needs of the many over the few. IMHO. Also, the homeowners usually make an incredible amount of money selling homes that they bought for nearly nothing, so they get some compensation for the trauma of having to move.
I think the author makes a giant mistake when he says the following:

“For the foreseeable future, it looks like independent blogs are back. Still, there’s a good business opportunity waiting for someone, as Medium seem intent on squandering the potential they had.”

I would argue the problem is that making a free blogging network like medium is NOT a good business idea. The reason things like Wordpress, Ghost, etc. work as a business is they have figured out a customer (bloggers) and something to charge them for (their paid blog hosting features).

The reason those sites don’t work as great discovery networks is it turns out their customers are possessive of their audiences and don’t really want the platform to be directing them elsewhere.

Medium is now trying to figure out a way for the readers to be the customers, which is just a really hard problem in the era of the internet and almost infinite free reading material.

Not a good business opportunity at all.
I have one slight concern, and one snark.

The slight concern is, I'm concerned that most of the pre-built binaries (the "pre-built binaries link" goes to https://github.com/FiloSottile/mkcert/releases) are not signed. There are only a few releases that are marked Verified. Since this messes with the local trust store, it would be good to have things signed.

The snark is directed at this sentence:

> If you are doing TLS certificates right in production, you are using Let's Encrypt via the ACME protocol.

I agree that Let's Encrypt is great, but I dislike the implication that, if you're not using Let's Encrypt, you're not doing TLS right. Or maybe the text was supposed to be read as…

> If you are doing Let's Encrypt TLS certificates right in production, you are using the ACME protocol.
State communism is diametrically opposed to anarchist personal freedom, because what are you going to do about the defectors that use their personal freedom to start trading? You have to be able to turn off the "personal freedom" switch once someone starts doing something that, if left unchecked, would switch society to a different form of government. The joke is that if you're not going to do it with police (which would be authoritarian), then you'd have to make it so that the idea "why don't we exchange goods and services," and the idea "why don't we band together to get one up on every other race," and the idea "why don't we start bashing unpopular people's heads in to steal their corn," never even enters into the minds of people who want to climb up higher than everyone else.
I don't think this is true. USCIS is mostly unaffected by this, because applications are fee-based: https://www.fragomen.com/insights/alerts/immigration-impact-...
The Road to React Mastery – Components and Props
The stock holders elect the board, at least they did before they got bought.
I have had periods where money has played a significant role in my laziness.

And when you burn through it all, you have no choice but to get back on the horse. This taught me not to live that way ever again, as starting up again can sometimes be extremely challenging and time consuming.
Interesting. It still sounds like you'd need some kind of big state around to constantly hammer down these power dofferentials. And it's not clear how something like that would work in a globalist world. But thank you for a sincere answer.

I do have some overlapping views. Basically I think most cities/communities should be run with center-left-democratic policies, the federal government should be run as libertarian, and states would vary between what we now call Democrats and Republicans. In other words, the nature of government should change depending on the scale. What would I call that viewpoint?
> The way Code Editors have been doing in the last years.

Or like Emacs's M-x, which is much older than the editors you probably have in mind.
It was my understanding that the original Maxwell equations used separate letters for each component rather than indices or any modern method of writing down the components as a unified thing (so the four expand to at least 12 separate equations (20, once you factor in constitutive and continuity equations)). Later on, he did use quaternions to organize like quantities, as we would use vectors, but still generally worked component-by-component. But yes, the most common modern versions are effectively due to Heaviside.
Interesting abstract. Am I missing something or is this just an Elsevier paywall? Is there a way to read the paper?
Yeah the city certainly benefits from their presence even if they don't pay property tax. NIMBYs are happy to profit off this as their property values soar, but they don't want to pay any of the cost.
It's so easy for parents (and teachers) to misdiagnose strange child behaviors. TFA is a wonderful example. Parents need to watch for things like blood sugar problems, autism (e.g., failure to make eye contact), skin problems, mild food allergies (why does the kid not like _fill in the blank_, maybe it's because it tastes "spicy" to them), and much else.

Young children will not figure these things out by themselves. Parents need to "debug" these problems. Doctors may not be able to help until you have some idea.

It might be interesting to collate a compendium of strange child behaviors with simple explanations, and other problems to watch out for.
Some annoying amdgpu bugs were fixed for Vega users (like one affecting DisplayPort 1.2 monitors with REG_WAIT timeout / dce110_stream_encoder_dp_blank error).

* https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...
Seems like a decent Skype substitute, at least.
This shutdown of govt has at least some benefit. The way of life that has manifested in the USA, at least for the last few decades, is that the masses/middle class is just too busy to be active citizens. They barely get to getting out and voting every two or four years let alone have the time to understand what’s going on within their govt. Meanwhile corporations and people in position of power (who have the masses working for them and hence have the time to do what they want) are able to devote resources (time or money or both) to influence the govt. the result is, for the large part, a govt of the (rich/ powerful) people for the the (rich/powerful) people. Finally, the final state of the system like this is always one of polarization because the only people who come out to vote (given it’s so hard to vote) are the ones that care radically about a point or a position. Ironically the politicians they will get will also be the ones that cater to these people who have deeply held strong beliefs. Net net you get something that is on either end of the spectrum and not something that is “centrist”. The only time this changes is that the troubles are soo bad that more people become active citizens and vote for a (usually when objectively looked a opposite but somewhat extreme) position. But this is temporary as the system will regress to the mean (polarization in this case) unless the fundamental shift of active citizenry takes place. And for that you need a radically different environment where people have time for it and the govt actually makes it easy to be a active citizen. Net net, this shutdown will hurt people enough to take a position - where this guy doesnt get a second term. (Again an extreme response to a extreme situation when you look at it objectively).
Handing control of distribution to one company is always a dicey proposition.
Xi urges military to be ready for war amid 'risks and challenges' in 2019
Awesome-HDL: A curated list of awesome hardware description language projects
The most persuasive argument against nuclear power today is the economic one, and I find it odd that this article doesn't even mention it.

While the global energy industry is moving towards distributed, flexible generation, nuclear power represents centralized generation that requires the accurate projection of energy use 40 years in the future.

Furthermore, the total levelized cost of nuclear is already higher than that of utility-scale wind and solar. Recent nuclear plant construction has been plagued by 100%+ cost overruns, and those costs always seem to be rate-based meaning the consumers, rather than the utility companies, pay for the overruns.

You can argue both sides of the safety issue, but its pretty hard to make an economic case for building new nuclear power plants.
When homeowners decide they can receive more today than next year for their house. A chain reaction of selling will take place as homeowners all rush to the exits at once.

Prices will dip based on more supply which will start a price supressing feedback loop for a bunch of people hitting retirement age.

Simple as that.
We are about 5 years older. We went the opposite direction. House is a fantasy and we have a kid in a single bedroom apartment. My wife’s salary pays for daycare and I pay rent. That’s how we afford to live in the Bay Area. When she starts walking we will have to take a look at our options, but the bay is looking less attractive for our late 30s.
I’ve only used an Echo and I’m definitely interested in hearing how the user experience of the Google Home is better. How is it more conversational?
If you need to keep a database of certs, checkout XCA.