skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In its argument against solar the article makes on fundamental mistake: It does not take into account that prices for solar-panels are falling exponentially (1/2 every ~6 years).
Genius. At which point it becomes public knowledge.

Land as an attack surface.
Python Best Practices for More Pythonic Code
This is cool, but Google goes all the way to build this rather useless gimmick instead of solving actual support problems that come up here once a week.
So cut from the top down, period? Cut the people with the vision and strategy of the company, until nothing but the assemblers and forklift drivers are left?

I believe in worker rights, and the ability of a person to live in relative economic security. But should a company not EVER be able to restructure when it realizes it has too many workers, or too broad a mission?

Is 2 months pay and medical not a decent send-off for workers who provide little value to a company?

I wish healthcare were publicly provided, but besides that, if the alternative were for SpaceX to file bankruptcy or to go broke for lack of competent management, I'll take some laid off workers.
I'm not saying that N% layoff is a necessarily a good practice. My main objection was to the notion that companies are created to take care of the employees. To me it's the role of the state to take care of the people, the companies are here to be efficient for eveyone's benefit.
First thing that comes to mind is maybe more complicated than anything you can do, but something like running at a certain time 5 days a week to heat up a meal for your kids to eat after school while you're at work. You'd prep said meal and let it sit in there, heated right before it would've been eaten. Although there are a couple issues I can already think of. The microwave is not a fridge. This limits food that could sit there all day. Also, the kids could hit 'start' when they get in the door, so main appeal would be something cooking plus cooling enough to eat by the time they get home, or something with a long cooktime, which would maybe be mashed potatoes or something, and we're still just talking around 5 minutes most likely.
Appreciate if you can provide an anecdata: those you’ve worked with should have no problems landing another job? Just trying to get a feel of whether this will be a minor or major stress event for those fired.
Ask HN: How do you manage your stress?
I think you're missing the point, with or without intention.

"Comfortable" doesn't mean that they have a nice house and are happy with their life at work. Comfortable in this context means they no longer have any concern about their own job performance, knowing they have a "sure thing" and underperform in their duties.
I think the question is intended to be, "How does the owner presently receive farm subsidies if the land isn't registered and we don't know who owns it?"
And if you can't find a slacker, that means you must be the slacker, I suppose!
SpaceX does not make that public. Best number I saw was 50% of new employees made it to 18 months suggesting rather high annual turnover. Long hours + low pay really add up.
Why havent anyone attempted to take over? Is it only possible for google?
Interesting thing about the scripts being considered data. Sounds like it would be a very grey area, are there legal precedents here?
That problem seems common in Smalltalk too. It's best described by this Adele Goldberg's quote: "In Smalltalk, everything happens somewhere else."
You are not on the list - https://www.lumi.com/team
> ~2^93 is enough to individually address every subatomic particle on Earth.

IPv6 address exhaustion is very unlikely, but it's more likely than some may have thought about.

Only 64-bit of the 128-bit address space was fully utilized, it means the utilization rate is less than 0.0000000000000000055%. And no, it's not a bug, it's a feature. The huge address space was intended to make address assignment, configuration, and routing easier. That is, in the real world, the first 64-bit part becomes the network identifier, and the last 64-bit becomes the device identifier. Ideally, everyone's home, business, institution, datacenter, etc, will get a unique, globally routable 64-bit network prefix.

So no, every subatomic particle on Earth will not get its own IPv6 address. But, everyone of the 7 billion people on Earth can have prefixes for their 263,524,915 personal computer networks.
I guess it's "remote sensing" vs. "remote sensors".
There are about 1500 entities in the X.509 game, not 10s.
It's a game theory problem - even if Starlink wasn't happening, OneWeb would be going ahead anyway. So if the GEO satellite operators are going to be running scared anyway, SpaceX might as well get its own entrant into the market.
How difficult is it to write a VM for Smalltalk? Assume no little to no optimisations for simplicity's sake.
Twitter share link needs a fix.
To me the main question is, can they maintain a high level of quality while laying off people?

I've seen this first hand in my own company since they started laying off people on a regular basis. People try hard to keep things working, but quality inevitably degrades over time. In most areas, it's not necessarily obvious. In rocket engineering, on the other hand...
Mixed methods: ASMR listening, talking out loud my problems with someone I trust, going out for a walk.

I also go to the psychologist once every two weeks, I tried to avoid this but I realized that I can't do it without any help sometimes.
A centralised register of all property is not an unalloyed public good. Maybe hold onto your paper records somewhere safe, just in case of fire (or worse). https://web.archive.org/web/20070819153935/http://www.channe...
In the UK, if your job is genuinely no longer needed, you can be made redundant, with mimimal pay off and notice (Typically 1 month notice and a minimum of 1 week per year redundancy)
Great visualization! Nice work.
Sorry if I wasn't clear. I don't make 400k per year and I've tried to work at high paying tech companies in the bay area in the past and was rejected many times.

At one point I was close to giving up on being a developer entirely after months of failing to find work, though thankfully I had a friend from a former job who helped give me a legup to a startup he was working for.

It was that painful experience which made me grateful for what I have, even if its looked down on so much by my peers. I realized how lucky I was to be working at all.

The rosy picture I was referring too wasn't so much the salary as the ability of software engineers to get these jobs. In my experience it was a lot more like a professional sport (spend decades working and practicing in this field and you still don't have what it takes) than finding a store with a help-wanted sign and filling out an application.

I guess there's something of a paradox there... its a weird industry.
I agree... but I also want to point out that it's totally possible that writing software to make self-driving cars work acceptably well might be easier if the software has better sensors than a human does, so it might actually be the best way to try to solve the problem.
Thanks. The cloud could work. I was hoping to use any idle time with building models of the data.

Any thoughts what physical hardware would be beefy yet cost effective on my wallet?
Sounds about right, you probably spent more time than average in PVP. Though I suspect that’s just combat, your ship losses are lower than that and presumably stayed very affordable.
Tesla did roughly the same thing in June 2018. Then went on to have a blockbuster quarter in Q4.

https://electrek.co/2018/06/12/tesla-layoffs-workforce-restr...
But IPv6 routers will continue to block incoming traffic.

Which NAT/PAT/port-forwarding issues are you thinking of?
It really is. After every such round, I think to myself "finally!". And things start getting done slightly faster afterwards.

Edit: In any big corp, there are usually many employees who act as "barriers" to others. Either because they feel secure enough in their job and don't really care about performing, or because they lost sight of why things are being done, and are focusing on bureaucracy and "processes" for the sake of those two things.
That’s not pure DANE being discussed by a hybrid in which CAs are still playing a role.

In pure DANE you need only trust the DNS root.
The only sensible way to cast to your amplifier is canned. That's alarming enough and I have no idea how I will replace that functionality.

Not that the chromecasts are a wonder of ingenuity or anything, it's just that they are stupid enough and big enough to get software support. Nothing else is comparable.
Sad to hear that Michael Atiyah has died. I studied many of his papers, and I enjoyed his classical "Introduction to commutative algebra" (which is by no means an introduction to the field). Also I had the honor to meet him several years ago in person. He had a kind and humble character, and by no means I felt I was discussing mathematics with one of the best mathematicians of the previous century. He was always lowering his level to match mine. He explained everything clear and he gave good advice that helped my career in many ways. Thank you, and requiescat in pace.
>we thought there might be more people who under or or are in the process of vision loss.

>Late stage detection of retinal diseases presents serious risks because eyesight become irreversible and incurable.

This is why people should get their eyes checked every year. especially if the are diabetic -- even if they think their vision is fine.

I thought my vision was fine. For fine print, I might need a pair of reading glasses; but, otherwise, I thought my vision was fine. One day, I saw what looked like a piece of lint on my left eye's eyelash. It turned out to be blood, more than a "floater."

My right eye just compensated, I had vision loss in my left eye. Thousands of laser zaps later and a vitrectomy, my left eye is stable; but, the vision loss is permanent. (Not to mention the "butt drug.") I was lucky. I can't really read with my left eye or do things requiring detailed vision; but, I can function.

This sounds like a great idea; but, the earlier you catch a problem, the better.
This is a false reading of GDPR - it applies only when either the person or the business involved is physically in the EU, not on the citizenship of the person involved.

See Article 3: Territorial Scope (https://gdpr-info.eu/art-3-gdpr/). Useful terms: "data subject" is a natural person to whom the data relates, "processor" refers to an entity that works with the data, "controller" to an entity that "owns" the data. e.g. you would be a data subject, the LA Times would be the controller, and Google Analytics would be a data processor.

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1. This Regulation applies to the processing of personal data in the context of the activities of an establishment of a controller or a processor in the Union, regardless of whether the processing takes place in the Union or not.

2. This Regulation applies to the processing of personal data of data subjects who are in the Union by a controller or processor not established in the Union, where the processing activities are related to:
a) the offering of goods or services, irrespective of whether a payment of the data subject is required, to such data subjects in the Union; or
b) the monitoring of their behaviour as far as their behaviour takes place within the Union.

3. This Regulation applies to the processing of personal data by a controller not established in the Union, but in a place where Member State law applies by virtue of public international law.
Mastadon meets Dropbox, with a content navigation interface thrown on top?
The point of a properly functioning capitalistic system is not that every employe will stay at the same company for the longest time possible. It is to have liquid labor force markets, which will make sure that both the companies can obtain (and replace when needed) the employees that match the company perfectly - and at the same time that every employee will easily find (and change when needed!) a matching workplace, one that best suits their (possibly continuously evolving) trade skills, ambitions, life circumstances, risk appetites etc.

Also,

> laid off anytime for arbitrary reasons

They are not arbitrary by any stretch of the meaning of that word. There are business reasons, changed or evolved business goals or market conditions. Those are all real objective phenomena which play very important role in the life of a company, ignoring which would be very fundamentally detrimental for companies and for markets in general.
But watch out, neighbour disutes about land ownership are well known for being awful and they can run for years, draining the savings of both parties and lowering the value of both properties and causing significant hard feeling.
If you can’t trust them then the whole thing crumbles anyway.

All you need to obtain valid TLS certs for any domain is to make a CA think you control the domain. So the CA’s trust in the DNS root is already functioning as the basis of X.509.
It seems like the repository type in GitHub already handles several of these cases.

A user's list of repositories can already be filtered by "type", and this handles several of his cases:

> aicioara-forks — Projects I contributed to. Anything that I pressed “fork” on goes here.

These gets automatically classified as type "Forks".

> aicioara-old — Repositories that contain code I may want to refer to later, but I do not really want to be associated with. Maybe it’s a high school or university project with no stars and which no longer reflect the way I code. I don’t have time to update them, I still need to refer to them sometime, but I don’t want them to say “hey, this is how Andrei is coding today”.

These can be marked as "Archived" (https://help.github.com/articles/archiving-a-github-reposito...)

This leaves the "boilerplate" and "gh-pages" categories, which could be indicated by adding prefixes to the corresponding repo names. If the boilerplate code is not intended to be generally useful it could be put in a private repository (especially as all users now have an unlimited number of free private repos
Seeing HackerNews complain about GDPR is a strange experience. Every day I utilize GDPR to ensure that I am not tracked by the websites that I visit. The expectations of GDPR are lower for smaller companies.

GDPR is a massive win for the individual.
Teachers using the Internet in 1999 were nerds.
Why is buying Hacker News upvotes so expensive compared to Reddit?
hi thanks for this. Is there a guide to how you are storing the data on github pages?
Biased Nonce Sense: Lattice Attacks Against Weak ECDSA Signatures in BTC,ETH,
Yeah but because they own the TLD they can get X.509 certs issued for any domain under it, because controlling the domain is the only check CAs really perform before issuing a cert for a domain.

The DNS is already acting as the root of trust for X.509. X.509 does not make the scenario of a rogue TLD operator any different.
Second hand T450, I'm really in love with this machine!
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Apple discontinues products and replaces them with something else. Google's more in the habit of announcing a new service, saying it's great and revolutionary, then dumping it a few years down the line with a brief notice beforehand.

The iPod line just ended up superseded by phones. Google Wave, Google Plus, Google Code, Inbox (this one I'd get alerts for after every Gmail login saying it's the next step for gmail and I should switch... it just never happened), Google Video, Google Reader, and more just vanished.
Not sure if this is still the case but didn't SpaceX make a point to stick to trade secrets instead of patents[1] for fear of Chinese rocket agencies copying them anyways?

If they lay off 10% of their workforce, how do they ensure that their trade secrets are kept safe? Lay off only low-risk employees? NDAs? It was my understanding that the degree to which those can be enforced in California is limited.

[1] https://www.nasdaq.com/article/is-elon-musks-spacex-protecte...
Visit the Netherlands, a society where bikes dominate, and you'll see how that is handled.

For example, in many cities once every week every bike parked in a public area is labelled with a little color ribbon. The colors rotate according to a fixed schedule, so that it can be verified if a bike has been parked for more than two, three, four weeks. If a bike has been left unattended for more than N weeks (where N can vary) it gets towed away. They all get stored someplace out of town, and once a month the bikes that haven't been reclaimed for M months get sold for cheap.

In other words, there are systems for how long you can leave your property unattended in public before it ceases to be your property.
I have to love this quote from one of the articles on this site.

Asked for his advice on how young entrepreneurs should succeed, the late Gerald Grosvenor once replied: “Make sure they have an ancestor who was a very close friend of William the Conqueror.” [1]

1. https://whoownsengland.org/2016/08/17/to-the-manor-born-mapp...
British man jailed for hacking Liberia, taking the entire nation offline
> A flying car can be purchased by any US resident if they have enough money. - No Earlier Than 2036

I'm pretty sure you can already buy a helicopter or even a private jet.
The point is that Bird are leaving their own stuff on the street without asking for permission first. In Sydney that would be considered littering, which is a punishable offence. Similarly if you leave your car for too long in the same car spot, the council will send you an impounding notice and, ultimately, tow the car and send you the invoice.
The CAs, for the most part, only require you prove you control a domain to issue a cert for it.

So you’re already trusting the DNS, whether protected with DNSSEC or not, in the existing system.
> Crucially, self-driving cars also rely on conventional cameras. So if those lidars are not camera-safe, it won't just create a headache for people snapping pictures with handheld cameras. Lidar sensors could also damage the cameras on other self-driving cars.
Listen, I'm very happy for you, because your world view indicates that you never had any real struggle or real loss.

I was like that too, and it's a very nice world to live in. But once you had some real loss or once your whole world collapses, you will view the world differently.

> If you told people they were going to wake up the next morning with Down syndrome most of them would put a gun in their mouth.

Maybe at first yes, but once you get through that initial stage, you will realize that in the end, everyone will lose everything anyway. So maybe it's better to focus on what you do have, than on what you don't.
> Go ask any normal person if Google has a reputation for discontinuing products, and they won't know what you're talking about.

These are on the other hand the same people who ask (or are being told by) the nerds which browser to use, which email provider to choose etc, so the collective HN/techie opinion still has far-reaching implications.
The Worst Design Crimes of 2018
Yes, that's the thing. We know how it should be used because people are already using such systems. We need that no part of the system is owned by a single organization.
What happens to running threads when a Lambda finishes executing?
This article is a good introduction to Xenophon.

The major thing that's missing here is that his writings were actually very
influential among ancient philosophers, especially ones of the Stoic school.

For example, Zeno of Citium, who had found the Stoic school, decided to become
a philosopher after reading Xenophon's Memorabilia. Epictetus, a prominent
philosopher of Roman era, references Xenophon's writing as much as Plato.

I wonder since when philosophy became all about Plato.
> So MSFT still has a good chokehold on modern computing.

Many of us breathe quite freely (at work we're free to us any OS as long we don't bother IT.) It has like this for a little more than half of of my 10 last years (notable exceptions: 3.5 years as sysadmin on old system running Windows, 4 months consulting and 3 months with a boss who demanded everything ran Linux.)

Oh: and almost everyone demands we host on Linux or on cloud.
Wind turbines are surprisingly land-intensive:

> Meeting present-day US electricity consumption ... would require 12% of the Continental US land area for wind at 0.5 W_e/m^2, or 1% for solar at 5.4 W_e/m^2.

Source: http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aae102/m...
Yeah but if .com is untrustworthy then the game is up.

The operator of .com can use their control over it to get a valid TLS cert issued by any number of CAs.

So the situation is no different currently, trust in the DNS is essential.
As someone who also develops in Python and Nim, I respectfully disagree. There are a lot of use cases where I would pick them over Go, but the important term here is “production grade”.

Sure, you can bootstrap something really quickly in Python and Nim, but when it comes to creating beefy APIs, I find that Go offers a much shorter development cycle. Sure it is slightly more verbose, but when your code compiles it usually works (which is partly due to the way Go deals with errors). If you need to handle a large number of requests, scaling with Go is a breeze and a nightmare in Python.
You can find your location here[0] and look up at the right time.

Not saying you should use this as an argument against those people, I've just wanted to share something cool and easy to do.

[0] https://spotthestation.nasa.gov/sightings/
Good point. But I wasn't responding to the GGP's central argument, only to the implication that it's bad when employees get too comfortable.

In particular, I'm ranting against the use of the word "comfortable" for describing unmotivated/shitty employees. It's perfectly achievable to have a company that consists of people who are motivated, comfortable, and extremely productive.

It's a ridiculous Americanism that the only way to motivate employees is by making them "uncomfortable" (eg through fear of losing their jobs, like your example, or through other means).
This is very true - a huge amount of 'business strategy innovation' centers not around how to find better product-market fit or how to efficiently produce excellent products but on how best to game predictable trends to funnel benefits of resource collection/human effort at scale into a smaller number of hands (owners, management and the biggest/earliest investors).

The idea that upside potential of an organization's efforts can/should never make it into the workforce and the effort to ensure that it remain this way is extremely sad and corrupting and makes for a world where misaligned incentives and exploitation are much more likely than they 'should' be.
That sounds like Content Blocking kicking in - that's only active in Private Browsing by default: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/content-blocking

I note that page says "By default, content blocking uses the Disconnect.me basic protection list" - and reddit.com is on that list: https://github.com/disconnectme/disconnect-tracking-protecti...

(I'm guessing reddit's "social button" is considered a tracker.)

[edit] confirmed, it's definitely Content Blocking: I just loaded that jsbin in an FF private window, and there's a message in the console to that effect.