skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How is killing a being that doesn't want to die humane? And sadly meat production at the current level without factory farming is even more devastating for the environment if even possible.
On the other hand, we have a lot of empty, mostly-useless land, like that managed by BLE for grazing. Wind power also lines up well with rural manufacturing decline; since it must be built in rural areas it can replace some of the lost jobs.
Who isn't a terminally ill patient?
FoundationDB Record Layer
Sage wisdom and advice. Should be titled something more like How to Find Joy at Any Age.
Just in case someone might need it: I reverse engineered their API and wrote (an unofficial) client for accessing the data: https://github.com/kjk/notionapi

It's for Go but one could easily port it to any other language. It's just HTTP requests and some light processing of JSON responses.

I use it so that I can have my blog content in Notion. In a daily cron job I download the data from Notion, convert it to HTML and publish on Netlify as a static website. This script is open source: https://github.com/kjk/blog

Basically I use Notion as CMS.

I described my reverse-engineering process in https://blog.kowalczyk.info/article/88aee8f43620471aa9dbcad2...
What a horrible thing for society. Forcing people to stop doing things they are so good at that employers will pay them not to work with their competitors.
> There is an amazing calculus in old age. As much is taken away, we find more to love and appreciate. We experience bliss on a regular basis. As one friend said: “When I was young I needed sexual ecstasy or a hike to the top of a mountain to experience bliss. Now I can feel it when I look at a caterpillar on my garden path.”

This makes me wonder how much teenage/adulthood is a layer of stress onto our brains. A very high load of impatience and craving for intensity that clouds a lot of things and even hooks many of us (refusing to quit this chase and to ~settle). And then as it fades off, you get back to childlike perception of the world (and when bad times people do regress a bit chaotically in that state partly)
Hi, do you have any openings junior developers/interns using Python and Linux?
There is a high probability that this will be challenged at a higher level.
>showed that the U.S. government, which hoovers up most of the world’s internet traffic, can also break those tougher codes

There's a lot the NSA hasn't broken. Why not just use higher block sizes like RSA-2048 or large DHE parameters instead of a quantum network?
The 'Why Software Should Be Free' case assumes the software exists at all. I think this is the case for a lot of common infrastructure software and I think these will continue to move to open source.

But without a license payment much software might not be available at all.
This is very cool!

FoundationDB excites a lot of people because it's an extremely scalable and extremely reliable distributed database that supports ACID transactions, and which is both open-source and has Apple standing behind it. And yeah, all of that is pretty nice.

But arguably the real power comes from the fact that it exposes a relatively low-level data model that can then be wrapped in one or more stateless "layers". All of these layers write to the same storage substrate, so you can have your document database, your SQL database, your time-series database, your consensus/coordination store, your distributed task queue, etc., etc., but you're only actually operating one stateful system. Your SREs will thank you.

Writing these layers to be scalable and high-performance can be challenging, but it looks like Apple is actively doing it and willing to release the results to the rest of us. This also suggests that their previous open-sourcing of the MongoDB-compatible document layer wasn't a one-off fluke. All of this is very good news for everybody who needs to run databases in the real world.

Full disclosure: I worked on FoundationDB a long, long time ago.
It seems just about everything just arranges 1,4,5,minor 6. I've played music for over 20 years, it seems the Nashville Number System works for almost everyone!
Thanks! I hadn't seen that Arthur C. Clarke story before.

It reminds me of Alfred Bester's 1953 novel The Demolished Man: a murderer pays someone to write a catchy jingle (earworm) for him that can block psychics from reading his murderous thoughts.
My favorite case was where someone was accused of arson because the wood floor was found to contain traces of gasoline, even though none was found on the carpet or padding on top. Turns out that further testing by the defense showed lead also. Which means that the gasoline came from a cheap contractor several decades ago that used (at the time leaded) gasoline as a lacquer thinner for the hardwood floor. And the burn patterns on the floor which indicated an accelerant, were due to wear patterns on the carpet above which allowed more heat to penetrate.
right. but the vpn allows to have the ad, malware filters on mobile
- Dropbox Paper
> California law compels utilities to pay for damages from wildfires if their equipment caused the blazes — even if the utilities weren’t negligent through, say, inadequate maintenance.

This would have happened whether or not PG&E was private. People want a scapegoat and PG&E is California's.
I had trouble understanding how paging worked it until it was explained in Rust
Cell phones have batteries, so it would be even less practical for phones to be "phoning home" a stream of what's going on around it at all times than a "smart speaker".
I'm saying that map.contains(x) == bool(map.count(x))
SSD Storage: 2018 in review
This strikes me as very narrow-minded. Being old is not the same as being terminally ill or imprisoned, and only a young person would speak like this.

It's more like the difference between learning to play Greensleeves on a trombone for the first time, and giving jazz solos. When you're young in life your sense of expertise comes from not being aware of your ignorance, and when you're old in life your sense of expertise comes from knowing just how far you've come. There's a joy in this that's separate from the joy of being young and having your whole life ahead of you, and it's not at all a form of resignation.
My understanding is that the police use polygraphs simply as a 'primed' question-asking session for people who agree to take them. It is no different from sitting down and asking someone questions, except maybe they will believe you can tell that they are lying, and so might be more honest. The polygraph doesn't have to be evidence because your answers to questions are evidence by themselves. Whether you are hooked up to a polygraph is irrelevant.
yes, the point is people (assuming similar work quality) living on cheaper place can afford to undercut other people living in more expensive place. That's why remote position usually pay less, because you are now competing globally.
Without condemning nor condoning the cost of IPOs in general: it's because it's very expensive to "make a market" for public consumption of a previously (ostensibly) unknown security. The modern model of IPOs may not be as applicable these days due to the rise of private equity, but the essence of the problem is that you're herding a lot of very expensive cats to do due diligence on a thing involving a lot of money.

When you're deploying a small army of lawyers, investment bankers and accountants, the costs tend to add up really quickly. To respond to your specific question about the cost of the IPO in proportion to its size: there is a floor on how expensive a traditional IPO will be when all IPOs have a certain minimum amount of due diligence required. Even if the IPO itself is not remarkably large, there is something of an "activation level" that you'll pay just to initiate the process and get everything moving.
Those files have so many "std::" references. Would this not be a good case to utilize "using namespace std"?
I use pfBlockerNG (which is basically just a pi-hole equivalent that integrates with pfSense) and I only use the Steven Black list:

https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts

It seems to be well curated. Breakages are rare, and if there is one, you can file a bug.

Works well.
Starts with the media narrative, and the media narrative starts with those preferred by or employed in the media. One can watch marketing content containing humans to see trends they attempt to drive or trends they don't. I'll reserve comment on whether it's good or bad that this influence works (if you believe the results of these studies and how they apply at a macro level vs a micro one).
Every year, they cause a fire or other natural disaster, then threaten bankruptcy, then get bailed out.
In many places homosexuals gets ostracized by family and community, gets beaten up and killed, get sent to hell (or at least told they will be). The other groups you mention does not face that kind of persecution. Although in some contexts like employment I'm sure It is more difficult to be handicapped than gay.
Lol, as I am getting old I care less and less whether I look happy and welcoming :). I am increasingly less and less concerned about projecting socially expected emotions when I don't have them.

Through, I do care also less about how I look, through I am trying to force myself to care bit more.
I have one that takes an optional numeric arg for the number of times to repeat. Surprisingly useful, but I still keep meaning to get round to making a nicer interactive one with fzf or something.

$ alias ..
..=up
$ type -f up
up () {
local tmp_path=''
for i in $(seq 1 ${1:-1})
do
tmp_path+='../'
done
cd "$tmp_path"
}
Facebook's page views, likes from 'fake' profile
Literally a logstash clone. Was written in an emergency over like 6 hours on a weekend to prevent a P1 issue.

I've done some bugfixes and modifications over the years but it just keeps on trucking and doing exactly what I need it to do.
It sets the following:

{
"Domain": ".fullstory.com",
"Name": "fs_optout",
"Value": 1,
"Path": "/",
"Expires": null,
"Store ID": "firefox-default",
"First Party Domain": null,
"Secure": false,
"Session": true,
"Http Only": false,
"Host Only": false
}
Where do you see it asking for contacts? It didn't ask me when I signed up and when I check my Google Security settings it only says it has access to:

* View your basic profile info (per Google: name, email address, and profile picture)

* View your email address
I had the same problem with overzealous blocking. I had to disable temporarily about once per day, and my wife found it bothersome also (especially because she didn't know how to manually disable it). We turned it off last month and I've just been using Brave instead. Works great on my MBP (fan doesn't run nearly as much as with FF & Chrome), though of course our mobile devices aren't protected anymore.

If anyone has a good solution for the overprotectiveness of the Pi-Hole, I'd love to hear it!
I think you're misreading a few things, and inverting some causes and effects here.

There are people who, for political purposes, demonize people for their sexual orientation or gender identity, and actively seek to enact laws designed to punish and/or humiliate those people. However, I'm not aware at this time of any particular attempt to pass laws to make it more difficult and dangerous for, say, ugly people to use the restroom, or forbidding handicapped people from getting married (that's not to say these things are not possible! there's certainly plenty of systemic bias against these groups, and there have been political movements against disabled individuals in the past--including some which categorized "gender non-conformity" as a mental illness--but that's not the focus of current political movements that I'm aware of).

So, naturally the immediate focus is on pushing back against the currently demonized group. In the future, when the focus of demagogues who invent enemies to foment rage and gain votes shifts to handicapped individuals or overweight people, then it will be critical to focus on fighting those forms of hate.
Ah, thanks. Now that you mention it, high impedance data lines ("open bus") do play a role in other platforms as well. Even more so, on the C64 for example some undocumented instructions cause conflicting drivers to drive the same lines and produce randomish/unstable outcomes.

And nice to know that there are indeed metastability issues that crop up very visibly in the PlayStation!
Baader Meinhof, possibly?
It’s well known that tall people earn more, are promoted preferentially, as another example.
"Tangentially related, it's astounding to me that polygraphs are still considered valid evidence given how widely they've been discredited."

They generally are not considered valid evidence.
> What do you do to keep yourself motivated? Especially when you hit something you hate to work on but is necessary.

Refresh the end goal you're working towards in your mind. Re-establish your connection to it.

It's the end goal that you're working towards, and this (crap) next step is just a small part in the way of you getting there. :)

Saying this from the perspective of "Loss of motivation generally means you've forgotten or lost the emotional connection to your end goal".

Much of the time, if the end goal is really something you personally value, it shouldn't be too hard to re-establish the connection to it.

For me, it's mostly a case of needing to find a quiet place, then think of the goal, what it means to me, etc. Motivation seems to then spring forth fairly readily.

Only works (longer term) for goals I feel are really important (to me). For trivial stuff, trying to regain motivation like this just doesn't work. :)
This is my biggest confusion reading the summary. Since all kinds of inputs can lead to the same measured output (such as being more scared about the entire theme and self-censoring), how would they single out 'implicit bias' and decide to label it as the cause?

Also http://kirwaninstitute.osu.edu/research/understanding-implic...

"Implicit biases are malleable. Our brains are incredibly complex, and the implicit associations that we have formed can be gradually unlearned through a variety of debiasing techniques."

I don't know... isn't it almost by definition not 'implicit bias' then?
American society has come a long way in treating mentally challenged people with dignity and respect. But for some reason it's apparently still culturally acceptable to mock and discriminate against people in the roughly 70 – 90 IQ range; they're on the low side of normal but not low enough to be diagnosed as intellectually disabled. I see that attitude all the time among technologists and the cultural elite.
Homeshick is indeed great, been using it for years. Every time I've compared it to other solutions, it always comes out on top feature-wise. The other solutions are always missing something, like tracking either files and/or entire directories. Tracking whole directories is very important for e.g. storing an entire ~/.emacs.d in git, and tracking individual files is nice so I can just `homeshick track main ~/.config/some-config-file` without tracking all of ~/.config.

> - use the same source file with different results for different machines (eg. .gitconfig for home and office machines)

I do that by storing each machine's copy with its hostname as a suffix and symlinking it into place on each machine. e.g. ~/.config/anacrontab.systemA gets symlinked to ~/.config/anacrontab on systemA, and the repo contains both ~/.config/anacrontab.systemA and ~/.config/anacrontab.systemB. I can even modify one machine's file from the other machine, and it will be updated on the next push/pull.

But having integrated support for this would be nice.
Yes it is definitely par, for a multitude of reasons.
How do you know what the NSA has broken?
Having no password doesn't mean it can't be hacked. Maybe Notion won't end up in a haveibeenpwned email, but that only addresses half of a single one out of three of my objections to web applications.
Maybe it's a bell curve - when we do reach 70 we'll not care about either, much as we did as toddlers!
Leaked: United Airlines Confidential Corporate Sales Stats
Capitalism for the poor. Socialism for the rich.

If they continue to get bailed out I would prefer that we just have state run power or something more heavily regulated and monitored.
Could happen if the price were right. I see no reason why Apple couldn’t offer network service as an mnvo. The original bell telephone company survived because it leased its phones.
What does it mean for a polygraph to be "correct?" They're not lie detectors, they are stress detectors. You can't "fail" a polygraph in any reliable sense.
The short answer is, yes. Many people are hiring many employees. But this is a rather empty cry for help. What do you do for the federal government? What would you like to do in your career? Do you have a resume or even better a portfolio? Give us more information! If you need help, you can reach me at my username at gmail and I would be glad to help you out a bit.
Gazing at caterpillars on a garden path does not generally lead to passing along your genes. Impatience and a craving for intensity does often lead to passing along your genes, I think the calculus is pretty straight forward.
I agree your sentiment in general and especially with the last sentences ... It is one of the reasons I'm interested in trying to find some way(s) that we ensure they (the individuals and small groups) have some appropriate reward and that they are not exploited. I'm really not familiar with mongoDB and I don't use it, but I suspect that it started out as a person or small group that grew and grew and helped many people until ...

But perhaps exploit is too strong a word? It certainly seems that at least Amazon is acting as a bad citizen in this case by taking more than they are giving back. And it is within the realm of possibility that they will damage this project - the EEE syndrome is one possibility.

But yes to the respect, gratitude and sadly the insignificant donations as well.
Gearbox legal battle with former employee becomes messy publicly
This of course depends on how central the app you are building is to your business and how long lifespan you expect. If it's your core product and you expect a lifespan of > 5 years, not getting tied in with a single cloud vendor is smart. Usually that implies some kind of stack where the highest level of abstraction is a set of containers or VMs.

Congratulations, now you have the worse of all worlds. You’re paying more for hosting VMs than you would for baremetal at a colo, you’re not saving money by letting the cloud provider do the “undifferentiated heavy lifting” and your developers aren’t moving faster by depending on the cloud providers services.
>When Adobe stops shipping security updates for Flash at the end of 2020, Firefox will refuse to load the plugin.

So much for giving the user freedom!
That has nothing to do with a measure: whether or not IQ accurately measures intelligence is independent of whether it’s predictive of success.

We all know NBA success requires more than height, however, height is still a measurement — not of total value in a person (even in regards to just basketball), but still of a real and objective difference between people.

Similarly, IQ doesn’t predict success, but is measuring a real and objective difference between people. Mr Taleb seems to confuse “cant predict a multi-factor outcome alone” with “isn’t measuring anything objective”. Again, IQ isn’t a measure of a persons value (or success) — just of a genuine variance in people’s mental abilities.

Mr Taleb unfortunately tries to extend the point that there’s more to success than raw intelligence to some kind of misplaced attack on the notion of measuring intelligence. That argument is as nonsense as insisting I can’t measure height, because not every tall person plays in the NBA.
What is the product about? People are very secretive about explaining their niche, so i understand if you dont want to share.
Porting 30K lines of code from Flow to TypeScript
The TSA is a federal agency so there are plenty of proper channels to complain through. My argument covers anybody that doesn't actively revel in these terrible things that the TSA does. There are TSA employees who never have to do or deal with these types of things. I can't give you a number, I don't even want to guess because that would be silly. You can complain to the woman/man at the desk who takes your ID all day long, but if they have never kept up with the latest TSA news then they are just showing up for a paycheck. I am saying it is extremely unfair to lump everybody into one category just because they work at a particular company/agency that you actively dislike. You don't know their thought process.
Terrible article. I only skimmed it, but the gist seems to be that friendly, ambitious developers are likely to be “fake”. Worse, the article begins with the notion that a non-developer can distinguish good devs from bad devs without ever looking at their code.

No. If you’re not a programmer, your ability to evaluate the skill level of programmers is and will always be nonexistent. Your best bet is to ask senior devs who have proven themselves to evaluate their teammates. Technical people do not need more nontechnical people ruining things by pretending to have competencies that they very much do not have.
SNAP $8.2B
Wow, from the post:

"Together, the Record Layer and FoundationDB form the backbone of Apple's CloudKit. We wrote a paper describing how we built the Record Layer to run at massive scale and how CloudKit uses it."

I think this is the first time that little detail has been publicly disclosed.
Why would they? People will use Slack regardless. It's not a business imperative for them to make their desktop performance competitive with native applications. They'll probably get a much better return for their effort if they continue doing feature engineering.
China Sentences a Canadian, Robert Lloyd Schellenberg, to Death
Since you have no way to know why any particular individual is whatever weight they are, it would be wrong to judge them for that.
"Most of us don’t miss the male gaze. It came with catcalls, harassment and unwanted attention. Instead, we feel free from the tyranny of worrying about our looks. For the first time since we were 10, we can feel relaxed about our appearance."

I call bullshit. People spend Billions to become more attractive, and rarely anything to become less attractive.

If these women would have suffered so much from the "male gaze", they could have taken steps to look as unattractive as possible way earlier than in their 70ies.
Css tricks design v17
Search for England’s Forgotten Footpaths
- Found negligent in the San Bruno gas pipeline explosion

- Found negligent in the pollution in SoCal Hinkley groundwater pollution
Its really easy to sign up for a Google account for stuff like this, and I have multiple accounts on gmail anyways in case I dont want to share my important personal email.
And jurors.

This one's my favourite:

The jurors who used a Ouija board to find a murderer guilty - https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-05-08/ouija-board-juror-mis...