skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A comment on another thread, made about a day after my GP comment, mentioned an influential paper published in, IIRC, 1944 speculating on crystalline storage of complete human genetic information. (I'm assuming this would encompass a pre-double-helix understanding/conception of said data.)

That would tie into Clarke's story well (originally in several forms, that got consolidated into "The City and the Stars" with a 1952 copyright. And he would have been in a position (scientifically active) to have encountered it.

I don't know that any such thing happened. But, it was an interesting coincidence to run across that comment. (Sorry, I don't have it to hand.)
My uncle's company used to have a System/36, predecessor to the AS/400. It was the size of a large refrigerator turned on its side. I think it had 256K (yes, K) of RAM and 200 megabytes of HD. It had roughly 12 terminals and a couple of huge line printers. Interesting stuff.

In the 90's, they replaced it with a bunch of networked PC's.
This handbook expresses so many things I've felt, I'm surprised I've never come across it before.
Yes: sell it.

Or dilute it. The solution to pollution is dilution.
It could be put to use for CSP or nuclear systems that leverages molten salt for hex with water with some processing.
Their company logo, higher price and knowing you're part of the revolution (marketing claim).
could you clarify what you mean by a business website? Any examples would be helpful.
I don't like this approach. If everyone were to approach a problem with this mentality it would conjure doubt in the entire process. Nothing would ever get done. Question: "how do we know if anything exists?" <--(an extreme example). Answer: "well we don't but it doesn't help us with the realities of the problem at hand." I think this idea introduces confusion and does more harm than good, in my opinion.
There's more one can do than just that. I do not own or use cars. I try limit my meat consumption (not entirely successful on that front). I changed energy providers to buy from renewables sources. I do not travel by air. I don't have air conditioning.

I also sit on a pile of money, not sure what to do with it. Index stocks contain fossil companies which I don't want to support. Maybe I'll throw some at those silicate weathering pilot projects.
All the more reason to support Newspack and independent/local journalism over Facebook.
There is this assumption, that doesn't gel with actual English usage, that people throwing around 'he' and 'she's are assigning gender with their language. If we think about usage only, the vast majority of English speakers use 'he' and 'she' to report sex, not assign gender, consciously or not. That's because the sex-gender distinction is almost never operative, and when the distinction collapses, it's going to collapse closer to sex, not gender.

When one side insists that gender is the only operative concept, then they are possibly forcing a meaning (confusing sex for gender) to the other side, no matter how well-intentioned or offended they are.

That being said, I'd be okay with getting rid of the pronouns completely. Chinese seems to do okay without them.
Or they could judge applicants by how good they are at playing chess - I hear that also uses a person's brain and thinking. /s
I've seen this idea done a couple of times and it seems like the major problem with it is that while it probably works for small clients and impromptu projects, any client with a legal team is going to either reject it, or redline in so much legalese that the contract doesn't win you anything because you'll need legal review anyways.

I do most of our first-round contract review (we almost always end up getting things reviewed but once in awhile you get lucky and can accept a contract without it) and snags I've hit that this contract seems likely to hit:

* Doesn't establish independent contractor relationship

* Asks for no pre-approval on expenses

* Non-mutual indemnification

* The contract as written is assignable, so you can sign it and immediately sell the contract to someone else

There's probably a reason why Confidentiality agreements in normal contracts are a page long rather than just two sentences, too, but I don't know what that is.

I love that it's just a Google Doc though.
Slides from Alexandrescu's referenced talk [1].

[1] http://erdani.com/MeetingC++2018Keynote.pdf
Maybe I am arguing the same point as you here, but I am uncomfortable that you are painting the justification criteria as being debatable in these situations.

In particular, I think your criteria for justification is too low. The standard for justification is - however much is necessary to close off the possibility of something being not-wrong.

I find the JTB concept to be useful to reminder us (1) that the concept of knowledge is an ideal and (2) how vulnerable we are to deception.

As an idea survives rounds of falsification, we grow confidence that it is knowledge. But, as Descartes explained in the evil demon scenario, there is room for doubt in virtually everything we think we know. The best we can do is to strive for the ideal.
I hate to do this, but apparently you didn't understand what was quoted:

"One fewer child"

So instead of 3, have 2. If you were so inclined to have a vasectomy or tubal ligation after a 3rd child, it would help the overall situation.

It's about lowering the growth rate in human population. Similarly, your analogy to code is incorrect. It's about eliminating new bugs but reducing the number of commits.
Not having children is also not helpful if not done on a worldwide scale, so I dont see how your strategy is better.

I am an American, and I remain optimistic that we can fix our politics. In fact I'd say that fixing our politics is exactly the same as manifesting political will. For a generation since the labor movement dwindled there have not been any significant vehicles of popular will at work in American politics. It's past time to change that. To suggest we can't is simply despair - it will be true as long as we believe it, and no further.
With Google Reader Gone, Facebook and Twitter essentially have taken the place of feed readers. It makes a lot of sense for Facebook, it's not merely a social network anymore. It's acting like a social 'OS' for the users now.
Canada is massively better - many routings don't require going through security, leaving only a cursory immigration check (at special transit desks).
Salt build up in agricultural soil seems like a looming problem but I'm not seeing a huge issue with the salt from desalination. Can't we continue to dilute and put the brine back in the ocean? Is it ideal, probably not, is it better than rerouting rivers and depleting aquifers, probably.
Don't make promises you know you can't or won't keep.

Edit: To clarify, the above is advice for execs and marketing types. Alternatively, as a listener, don't believe any marketing you read.
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Thank you for the context.
“You should exercise your right to vote”

“Clearly, since this is the policy, it indicates that this is the will of the American people and a majority support the policy.”
>we are an "advanced" civilization

I wouldn't call a civilization "advanced" if 3 generations ago it had a vague idea about electricity and flush toilets.
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Tomorrowland is the Disney movie I have enjoyed most in my life.
>A large part of trust is auditability. And a large part of auditing a device is looking at its communication. What we are kind of running into is the security implications of a debug-interface.

Sure, but you can also look at the device's communication if you have administrative access to it yourself, rather than trying to MITM it. I suppose this could be a vulnerability itself if done poorly, but users have administrative access to their PCs; why should other devices they own be any different?

>These are much more essential, so it is more important that it is hard to MitM them even if the user gives consent.

If the user gives consent, they should be allowed to inspect the connection. The device's UI can make it _very clear_ that they're about to do something dangerous, but it's their device and should be their choice.
Ah, I understand. RSS is often used for things that aren't connected to a website at all, so I don't automatically make that connection.
There is no point in Typescript, as new ECMAScript specs provide most of the syntactic sugar and compile-time type checking is obviated by exactly 1 test, which people using it are writing anyway; this is not a compelling use-case for an entirely new syntax, and it needs to die, instead of contributing to the already-bloated ecosystem.
What you write is true but I don't think will be duplicable on a large scale without regulations and pricing negative externalities into products. The free rider problem is a negative aspect of human psychology.
The infotainment system, "autopilot" (or rather, driving assistant systems), OTA ability for all software, and apps in most recent high-end cars are actually very similar in scope to what Tesla provides, just very differently constructed (with a much larger focus on security in competing cars).

The interesting part is Tesla shipping this in the 45'000$ Model 3 while competitors at the moment are only shipping this in much more expensive models.
I guess this is one of those times where it helps to be a lawyer...

As a money transmitter they have extra obligations and a quick call to the regulator can resolve issues relatively quickly (if you're a US citizen and live in the US).
Yes, you can remotely hack building site cranes. Wait, what?
Absolutely no idea why you're being downvoted here when this is in fact the truth. Virtually all automotive computers use the CAN bus in literally ever modern car in existence.
They are, but that can only go on for so long. TSA employees aren't exactly highly paid, so they can probably only hold out for a little while before finding other work. I'm very interested to see what travel in/through US airports will look like in another week or month with this shutdown.
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It almost seems like we're hell bent on suffocating what little amount of innovation we have left.
I think you vastly over-estimate our power.

If the oceans die through acidification and pollution, and all of the insects die we will die as well.
The parent to this comment said

> It works fine for songs that modulate.

By definition, modulation is the act of not remaining diatonic. Modulation = changing keys. Diatonic = staying within key.

So, no, we don't need to assume anything about diatonicity in order to successfully do harmonic analysis using Roman numerals.
Non-technical? Do you think maybe the cause of insect collapse is related to something other than a tradeoff that came along with the use of pesticide technology? What's your hypothesis?
From The Martian by Andy Weir:

"They say once you grow crops somewhere, you have officially 'colonized' it. So technically, I colonized Mars."
This article is terrible. It contains lots of exaggerations and conflates all sorts of problems like the assumption that all energy usage means burning fossil fuels.
Is it too late to sign up to facebook? I heard good things are in the works
Your reasons for why “Agile” isn’t working is the same for why “devops” isn’t working - the enterprise refuses to let go of fundamental practices and assumptions of Taylor work models where planning is centralized by a manager caste and concerns for individual contributors are mostly cast aside (Deming’s approach is the opposite and is what the Japanese auto makers used to improve quality and dominate the US auto market in a matter of a decade). Furthermore, a great deal of the places in a crisis (seriously, why go through an expensive transformation if you’re fine?) have lost most of their software craft and are culturally bankrupt to do much more than manage things and watch them fail. Execution on anything besides sales is missing completely while an offshore team or a bunch of engineers too tired / hungry / captive to protest their conditions are dragged through it all.

Most of the Agile coaches I think know this and just want their cash before these places sink (takes maybe 15 years, enough time for a decently long career), and if maybe one of these places is saved they can feel good. But really, I think the situation isn’t too different from what Mitt Romney’s private equity firm was accused of doing for decades (and anyone else in PE for that matter).
Would you trust a Pro Publica article "sponsored by" FB? Or NPR programs supported by contributions from FB? That's right up there with 1950s TV programming sponsored by cigarette companies. After all 9 out of 10 doctors...
Oops, that's on me :)
Wordpress plus Divi theme. Gets you 99% of the way there for any basic business website.
Marketing site for a business is simple, use Wordpress until there is a reason not to. Oh I know I said the W word, but it works, it keeps you focused on building your product instead of worrying about building a marketing website.

Now if the product IS the website, then Wordpress wouldn't be the starting point, likely. But even then choosing a stack depends on the problem you are trying to solve. The common SPA frameworks are nice but are not right for all problems, so the problem you are trying to solve matters. No different then what database to use, depends on the data needs.
I do not think signing up for a commercial VPN service is a good plan for improving your security or privacy, nor do I think using Tor Browser is particularly smart. This seems like a security checklist compiled by someone who has read a lot of popular writing about security, but hasn't consulted very much with security people.

By comparison, the Tech Solidarity checklist is the result of a survey of a bunch of different security people and is both generally more sophisticated and sound than this checklist and also manages to be a little shorter (in word count):

https://techsolidarity.org/resources/basic_security.htm
I don't understand this logic.. are you saying you are secretly running a business operation?

It's virtually impossible for one to prevent competition

If your business idea is so fragile that can be blown away by competition, you might want to rethink your strategy.
I think the only way for the U.S. to go back to a sane system for international travelers is for people to stop visiting the U.S. for vacations. We won't change until large businesses like Disney take an economic hit.
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It indicates no such thing.
Also, it's easy to export your entire workspace as raw data. Markup files, images, etc.
> Nobody on the software development team is talking with and observing the users of the software in action

On every new project (usually internal enterprise software) I plead to let me talk to the users. Every time in vain.
"Us" vs "Them" is a cognitive bias. A title that attempts to exacerbate that bias isn't very nice.
Pro Publica was created by billionaire bankers a little more than 10 years ago. They aren't in need of any funding. Also, it's a bit of a stretch to say that pro publica is the standard of journalism or accountability. Pro Publica is an advocacy institution.
That is an excellent summary. There is no silver bullet and you can't have your cake and eat it, too. The approach to multi-region that FoundationDB 6 takes suits my needs (I'm not Google) and I like the compromises they made.

Since most of what I do (or consult with) does not need massive performance, I'd rather pick databases with compromises favoring consistency and correctness. This is why I like what I see in FoundationDB so far.
And what prevents the compromised Tesla system from lying about its software signatures? When you have a compromised system, literally everything that system tells you or is capable of telling you is suspect.
Compared to Nix 1.x (not sure about 2.x), I think it's simpler to use (Guix co-maintainer here and before that a Nix contributor). This is the reference of 'guix package' (analogous to 'nix-env'):

https://gnu.org/s/guix/manual/en/html_node/Invoking-guix-pac...

Because it's all Scheme, Guix has well defined APIs for all sorts of things. For instance, there's an API for search paths (environment variables you need to define when you install packages), one to create application bundles, one to create VMs containing GuixSD, etc.

That, in turn, leads to clean CLIs in my opinion: 'guix package --search-paths', 'guix pack', 'guix system vm', etc.
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> as "fast development" and "secure development" are hard to get together

This is just not true. Software that often goes unupdated is the most insecure software of all. If Teslas are more insecure than other vehicles it will simply be because their software is more complex than the competition.
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> At your left, there’s a map of Minnesota, dangling precariously from the wall. You’re certain it wasn’t there this morning. Below it, you find a plush M&M candy.

> If none of this makes sense, stick with us; by the end of this piece you’ll be using the same techniques to memorize just about anything you’ve ever wanted to remember.

No, it won't ever make sense and it may continue to come as a surprise to many that not all of us have the ability to form visual based imagery in our minds. A common term for this is Aphantasia.

Not everyone thinks the same way. Any attempt at mass producing some means to know something better/faster is probably not going to work on a subset of the population.

I was able to use the Memory Book's number to letter technique a few years ago to memorize short lists of objects, but my recall for that is pretty good anyway so it's not worth the time taken to memorize stuff using the process (which itself requires memorizing certain objects for the numbers). For those who visualize, I would imagine such techniques could be quite useful.
which is doubly ridiculous: cinnamon is actually one of the few parts (probably the only) of the cinnamon bun which is good for you: it's high in fiber and has been shown to have numerous health benefits.
I think it'll take more like 15-20 years, but yeah, it'll take a long time, and who knows how reliable the tech will be.

These laser headlights, for example, are much brighter by default than standard headlights, but their safety for other drivers depends presumably on moving parts. When these parts wear out, what's the likelihood that drivers get them fixed versus just continuing to drive as-is, melting other drivers' eyeballs?
From TFA:

>The stuff sinks to the seafloor and wreaks havoc on ecosystems, cratering oxygen levels and spiking salt content.

>Because this stuff is denser than typical seawater, it sinks to the seafloor and disrupts vibrant communities of life, which find themselves wanting far less salt and far more oxygen.

>But brine is more than just hypersaline water—it can be loaded with heavy metals and chemicals that keep the feedwater from gunking up the complicated and expensive facility. “The antifoulants used in the process, particularly in the pretreatment process of the source water, accumulate and discharge to the environment in concentrations that can potentially have damaging effects on the ecosystems,” says Jones.
Political reality in america is that there were multiple changes of ruling party in the last decade and MPs being voted out on specific issues. Of course a representative multi-party system would be preferable, but it's not that it's impossible to achieve anything at all.
It's potentially happening right now.

While circumstantial evidence would suggest the cop who is being asked to decrypt his computer is in fact guilty of at the very least looking at child porn, we don't know concretely, yet he is being jailed until the judge decides that he really won't release the password. Imagine a less scrupulous judge and a more innocent man, maybe he's trying to protect the identity of source, suddenly it doesn't seem fair that the man should be jailed, yet in a world where we can compel you to release the password both cases are the same.
Hey, you're the ones with the open borders and all that SJW shit. We told you not to do it, but Kali did it anyways. Just wait until full-on big "C" Communism hits the US--the commies were and are the WORST when it comes to environmental protection. The Soviets dumped radioactive waste anywhere they pleased. This is what it looks like when regular people have NO CONTROL over anything. It sucks and will continue to suck until the revolution and its natural population control.

There is no fixing this short of cutting world population in half at the least.
While the law is generally built upon extending similar cases to novel situations, you're stretching too hard here to bring in case law that is too easily distinguishable from the matter at hand.

While I concede that your position is correct academically, I've successfully argued my position in court several times (pro bono, since I only take on criminal def when I believe in the case), so I'm confident that my position is correct where it matters.

And if you're ever actually practiced in the California court system, you would know that you only need to convince a single appellate judge statewide to make valuable precedent. (Because in California, a lower court can follow the precedent of any higher California appellate ruling.)
Hm, well, education is an exception already, but political speech and comedy are not enumerated as exceptions. (Though I guess these things will be decided by the Courts eventually, as the Directive is about proportional remuneration).

Also, the proposal leaves intact other Directives, and it'll take a bit of work to figure out if all of these are in harmony, or if there's a conflict between the rules. (And if there which one prevails.)

"Except in the cases referred to in Article 6, this Directive shall leave intact and shall in no way affect existing rules laid down in the Directives currently in force in this area, in particular Directives 96/9/EC, 2001/29/EC, 2006/115/EC, 2009/24/EC, 2012/28/EU and 2014/26/EU."

for example 2001/29/EC is the WIPO copyright treaty [ratification] directive, which already protects political speech and parody/caricature. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Directive#Exceptions... )
Any people in this thread capable of creating revolutionary vehicules, mass building them, and selling them for years, raise your hand.
That is correct; you can't be Scheme if you just have the best of it, and not the rest of it.

E.g. Racket doesn't have set-car! and set-cdr! so RnRS-conforming Scheme programs which rely on these won't work.
It was actually a fact, not an ad hominem. You clearly know less than you think you do about GPS. Ironically, it seems like the mark of a contrarian to assume that people are attacking you when they aren't and a lot of climate skeptics come off sounding that way to me.

Furthermore, it seems you're still just launching your own arbitrary theories into the discussion and not responding to anything specifically wrong with the article.
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