skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Murder-Suicide Is on the Rise Among the Elderly
Oh look a YouTube video to a talking head.

A professor of evolutionary biology.

I wonder what ideologies he thinks are ignoring science?

The left likes to deny social science, biology, and psychology which contradicts its narrative. The right denies climate science, mostly by misstating science and for tribal reasons.

Maybe an interesting perspective on differences in town-planning outcomes, or a critique of economic schools compared to real world measurements...nope!

Your assertion that this proves something is quite vacuous, as his commentary is mostly aimed at evolutionary biology, which is denied by the left for political reasons, and climate science, which is denied by the right for political reasons.

Of course he has a lot of opinions on feminism, homosexuality and for some reason seems to have a lot of trouble imagining himself discussing these topics without offending people.

Because he faces lots of underhanded authoritarian tactics for merely talking about scientific truth. He's a Lebanese Jew whose family had to flee deadly religious persecution, who is regularly called a "white supremacist" or Nazi by dishonest people who just want to push a political agenda by sneering and name-calling.

It's high time people started calling out such dishonest smearing tactics and such authoritarian mindsets. What we need in 2019 is discourse and facts, not coercion and smearing.
Oh I was thinking of 4 minimum for the off business hours coverage. Actual 24/7/365 id put at 7-8 heads.

(Me: a guy whos been on oncall rotas for 15 years, worked swing shift for 4, and whos current org runs “follow the sun” support)
”I don't think we should be desiging jet fighters in 2 week sprints”

Then make the sprints longer. IMO, the Apollo project was run in an agile fashion (“They want us to send men to the moon, but we can’t go there, nor send men up. What baby step can we make instead?”)
Sure we should all do our part. But farmers could reduce their use of herbicides SLIGHTLY so that milk weed could go on the fringes of farmland like it used to and the problem would go away in very quickly.

I raised this with the Sierra Club of Illinois and they said that Archer Daniels was too powerful and there was no point. But the herbicides are a huge contributor to the problem. We are a democracy, no?
Seems like the top defines a reusable construct. Couldn't this be

(p [Skribilo is a ,
(ref :url "http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html": text "free")
document production tool that takes a structured document ...])

vs

\par Skribilo is a \href{http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html}{free} document production tool that takes a structured document ...

If we further examine

(ref :url "http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html":text "free")

\href{http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html}{free}

The first example defines a url with (ref :url :text) and latex is \href{}{} this is about the same amount of syntax being very similar to a function with 2 arguments

The enclosing scope is (p []) so basically 5 extra characters to define structure.
.. As a dane I completely disagree with this post.
The EU is a big machine, and yes some parts of it may seem outdated and or obsolete, and some parts of it may even be so.
That's how it is with big things, but it doesn't mean that it's bad, just that we need to keep improving it.
I have a really, really hard time understanding people that says we should leave the EU, especially when they hand out the same, or similar examples that you just did.

Beside legislating the amount of cinnamon bakeries use, the EU handles so many important things that a small country like denmark will never have the resources to handle.
This in no way means that they are perfect, but work to improve it instead.

We have this big project, it has been running in production for 15 years, it solves a lot of problems, but there are of course some technical debt that we should find the time to improve and fix.
In my head you are the new guy telling everyone that we should rewrite it.
Wait, what?

If there's any chance at all that the lottery does not draw from an equiprobable distribution and some numbers are privileged - but you don't know what they are, it's best to spread your bets to increase the chance that you bet on the hot number by accident. This is true if a single number has any edge eps>0. Therefore you should almost always (with probability 1) spread your bets.
Do these execs / decision makers live in some fantasy land where they think this looks and sounds okay? I assume none of the employees were asked about this, as any rational person would tell them "wait a second, I think this is stupid."
And with a section that defines what "the work" refers to? That has to be specified anyway. Wouldn't that sufficiently disambiguate the scope?
National media is the problem there. Anything at that level is a target for misinformation campaigns.

Local newsrooms are too many to thoroughly corrupt as easily as a national (or in the case of FB, international) media system.

I'm not sure your "pick 2 of 3" is valid here. Do you have actual examples to support your hypothesis?
It's not just the language though. It is also what's done with the language. Increased productivity also means all kinds of marginal convenience and monetization features will get implemented which gobble up additional compute cycles.

If everything were written in assembly we simply wouldn't have the human resources to implement 500 ad trackers on a web browser. Not to mention that the web browser would be far more rudimentary in the first place.
Can't reply to gens comment, so I'll do it here:

I see that you had many experiences with failing engineering, and so have I. What's more, car manufacturers have been involved in more and more scandals, and this does include code quality. As a matter of fact, I did meet people with direct experience on car systems code that reported deep quality problems.

It's then logical to say there is a possibility Tesla screw up.

However, electrical cars have been holding computers since day one. Tesla demonstrated the ability to create, build and sell at scale complex electronic systems with generally well considered performance. Also their will to allow outsiders to attack it can be interpretted as a desire to improve the system, and hence it makes sense to think this desire existed before, and they that did their homework (which is the original topic of this thread).

We are discussing ability to setup a process, not to succeed in it.
Is Pro Publica going to cover your city council meetings or keep your state legislature accountable? What those government bodies do is important, and corruption can hide in them. Local TV news does suck, but local newspapers are vitally important.
I’d argue that also a centrist has an ideology.

I'm a left-leaning centrist whose attention has shifted more towards a 2nd political axis of Anti-Authoritarianism.
The moment I could afford to, I started avoiding connecting flights in the United States wherever possible.

The user experience is appalling, from parking lot to gate.

I have visited places that take security very, very seriously (Israel, Russia, China etc.) and all manage to make the entire process more bearable than the United States. I don't really understand why they can't make their airports function.
I wasn't viewing this as a following this guide solve all the problems. The article did provide some perspective, and offer some suggestions.
I think when it comes to complicated social problems, finding a way to deal with it successfully is highly personalized to the people involved. Hopefully, the more you learn about these things, the better you can get at dealing with situatins, and people.
I would be interested in anything you have to say on the topic, if you can find some time. :)
Countries in the EU are the most heavily surveilled in the world. Not sure what your point is. GDPR has nothing to do with to government surveillance, it just regulates commerce between private entities that exchange data on the Internet.
Capital One 360 is offering 60 month CDs at over 3% now. Just a fee of 6 months of interest if you withdraw early. Pretty liquid and would get you an extra $75/month of income if you just did half of your savings (+$150/month for all of it).
They wouldn’t need to. They already partner with IBM for that stuff.
Aquion Energy is making salt water batteries, that could be a good use for this stuff: http://aquionenergy.com
Miele's new Laundry System is on the bleeding edge – But there is a cost
Just feel amusing this was written by DoD
If you actually were to carry out an audit of a device you'd request source code, not the SSL key. If device manufacturers want you to trust their stuff, they need to stop locking bootloaders. Wanting stuff to be SSL-free for auditability is like asking for web pages to be fully renderable on lynx so you can scrape them
I also run a local news outlet, digital-only though and not print. Facebook is both the reason for our success and also the source of our biggest pain. They almost put us out of business within the last year.

For how they're helping, it's really hard to get people to care about websites. People as a whole just don't care. They don't want to visit your website. So we publish our stories and share them to Facebook. We get about a 10% click through of people who saw the story, which is better than we'd do without publishing to Facebook.

On the other hand, our biggest draw is the event calendar, organizing all of the city and business events into one local calendar. People visit for the events, and then also click on news headlines they find interesting. Up until April 2018, we got this event data from the Facebook events API and linked it all back to Facebook if people wanted more details. A win-win I think. In April 2018, they shut off the events API with zero warning. So these public events from businesses who want people to attend their events, events which are visible by people who are not even logged into Facebook, are now considered private data by Facebook and no longer part of their API.

The big draw of aggregating them is that people see a curated list of good events that are actually near them: in a small town, just clicking Discover on Facebook events shows you mostly stuff from the big cities nearby. It takes a few clicks to get to events actually happening in the small town itself. We still have it, but we have to type it all by hand every week, which leaves less time for writing stories, talking to story leads and city officials and customers, selling ads, you know the actual "local news" part of the business.

Facebook, if you're reading this and want to help local news: turn the public events API back on. A local band playing at my local brewery is not private information, it is the definition of "things that should be shared".
I'm not so sure about the point that the software would need to not change.

This will be really interesting to see play out as digital natives age. One school of thought is that we've learned a new generation of things, another school of thought is that what we've learned is the skill of coping with constant/rapid change.

So would an app UI changing throw off a mentally declining digital native? Or would they just relive the same excitement every day that their app got an update and has a whole new UI.

As futurist Alvin Toffler said:

> The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
as others are saying - you are correct - CAN is a shared bus so inherently insecure and physical access becomes a lot easier.
You reconcile it by reading some history books and realizing that life has always been tough and that the future probably won't be any tougher than the past.
I assume you know this, but just in case:

Note that they may have gotten the password from a hacked website--not from your webcam/microphone.

Check out https://haveibeenpwned.com/
There are many compelling arguments that Facebook is addictive. I remember feeling physically ill, as if struck by the flu, the first day I quit facebook.

(You might argue with Milton Friedman, that the free market should be allowed to provide addictive goods. This may well be true, but there's no D.A.R.E for social media; there are also very few non-social media users you might compare with social media users for reference, as you might for potheads and cokeheads.)
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I was always under the impression that the microprocessor on the chip should not allow a payment to be processed without the correct PIN. Apparently, based on the behaviour you described, my assumption is very wrong and the authorization is not made offline on the card itself.
"what kind of news people want to see" discussions takes place in news rooms, editing rooms, and journalism schools around the world. There isn't some all-encompassing "journalism" cabal who are only dedicated to reporting all the news that ever happens without bias.

This only exists in the minds of people who've never seen news and reporting get made.

These decisions are made every day by the editors-in-chief and publishers of large multinational news conglomerates, and this ultimately makes these positions very powerful. It's why Rupert Murdoch owns so many news/media properties and why people say the Fox news network is biased.
"The amount of things you have to know in C++ is arguably a bit larger."

Arguably, lol.
Author is dead wrong. Products exist today that perform DPI on SSL streams: https://www.a10networks.com/resources/articles/ssl-inspectio...
I felt like Agile was like rewarding people for rats tails, so people start breeding rats. There was too much focus on clearing out stories, even if it meant a ton of bugs, but the bugs were good because those led to more stories and the PM could take credit for "getting so much done." This was at a certain dysfunctional, highly political networking hardware company.
GM confirms it's moving away from hybrids to focus on all-electric – Electrek
> that sounds like you believe that people make a conscious choice regarding what they like and don't like, and to what degree they do so. I'm pretty sure you're going to have a rough awakening at some point.

That's not how I meant it. I was alluding to the many examples in society where discrimination against homosexuality is not tolerated: in the workplace and legally in other cases, but also in the community at large. That is an observation of the society we live in and how a member of it should adhere to the norms of that society and its laws. It does not contain information about my own individual, personal viewpoints.

To clarify the point I was making: let's say a company needs to transport an employee to another state. The employee is afraid of flying. That company, being sensitive toward the employee's phobia, permits him to drive instead. Contrast this with an employee who refused to make a sales call to someone who is gay, because that client is gay. Would you say that that employee should receive the same amount of tolerance and sensitivity as the one who was afraid of flying?
Properly in this context would mean achieving the same effect at the lowest possible overall expense of energy (including those of developer laptops) given specific hardware.

Google spends a lot of effort optimizing their software because they bear the energy cost of running it in their own data centers.

Websites do not bear the energy cost of running their code on enduser devices.

The lack of incentives turns energy waste into an externalty which means it is not factored into development.
Maybe too late now, but i would like to point that I went to read Elasticsearch, Algolia, and Xapialand product descriptions before I made my comment, so I know well what Algolia is for, and in the example I gave, I was searching for a Headline, not for internal content inside the comments, and It was a headline that was in the first page of results at HN on that moment, so, I think I have phrased my comment in a polite way towards Algolia, understanding that search has more moving parts then the pattern matching algorithms of the logical core.
:ps I am sincerely grateful for the information you gave in your comment, about Entities, Concepts and Relations on a Knowledge graph. This is exactly the kind of info I was looking for when I made the comment, so It was enlighting to know that, and thank you again.
A life lesson!
It reduces absolute CO2 emissions if everyone has less children. Biology tells us that life does not stop reproducing short of extinction level events, however.
"Chinese hackers aren't "Us versus Them". The British _helped_ the Chinese establish a modern propaganda program over the past decade. Where are the British in this article?"

Can you point us to some articles about this? I've never heard of this. It's fascinating!
Er, really? Usually it's the other way around. i.e. when flying from country A to country C via country B, in country B's airport you just go through a cursory security check but no immigration or customs formalities.
Great, best wishes to you. The best practical advice I can give is, again, that no one can--or will--help you more than you help yourself. Also, look for medium- and long-term patterns. It's easy to be in a short episode and feel like it's permanent. When you recognize that it's okay to feel down for a while, that there are natural ups and downs, and that you will feel better soon, it's easier to handle, and that makes it last a shorter time and raises the "floor" of the experience, so to speak.
It forced my government to break national monopoly on internet access, bringing ASDL prices down from $265 month to just $8.
The monarch is pretty and many people have a personal connection to it (either through media or personal experience), which makes it an effective species for drawing attention to the broader issue of an ongoing global extinction event in which extinction rates are far higher than would be expected without human activity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction
Not for brine.

The salt comes from the ocean in the first place, and the water returns to the ocean relativly quickly. Unless something changes and we start to notably change the volume of water in the ocean, dilution is the only way to maintain the ocean chemistry. If we don't, then we would be reducing the salinity as the water returns without the salt.
DuckDuckGo will use Apple Maps for local searches on the web
Thanks for the sources. The Nature paper is very informative.
>I don’t understand the need for insane UI’s, do companies feel they must make major UI changes so it looks like they’re not stagnating?

I've noticed this on more than Netflix. The entire lifecycle of the Xbox 360 I think they made maybe two major UI overhauls. In the year since I've bought my Xbox One the UI has had major changes at least four times. Every couple of months I have to relearn how to find things and it's aggravating.
* Problem 1: It gets into the ground water.

* Problem 2: If dumped into the ocean, it increases the salt concentration (see: Middle East).

Disclaimer: Worked on some related projects on how to find a positive use for Brine.
But 1/2 of the world is already wilderness.[1]

I think people underestimate just how big Russia and Canada are and the fact that for most the part, they are completely undeveloped.

[1]https://www.conservation.org/NewsRoom/pressreleases/Pages/12...
Teachers should get out of their comfort zones and into the open
FoundationDB was not open source before it was acquired by Apple. They had a free version you could download and use, though.
Robert Heinlein's novel The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress has a lot to say about a space colony (in this case, on the moon) depending on resources from Earth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Moon_Is_a_Harsh_Mistress
The A12 is peerless I admit, and a good 4-6 months ahead of the rest of the market.

It's a shame that Huawei phones can no longer be unlocked too, part of a trend towards dumbed down consumption devices I suppose.
That's a hypothetical situation, we could talk about those all day. And history shows us the government doesn't really need access to my browsing history to oppress me if that's what they want to do.

Re: insurance: Is that happening right now? I am not aware of any reports that indicate that is currently occurring.
The pattern with human activity is that anything less than ideal will eventually kill us.
Thanks for great comments!

The Stopping Work section wasn't meant to give contractors the right to stop. If the client materially breaches the contract by not paying, they can get out of their own obligations. I added Stopping Work mostly because it comes up a lot, so it's nice to have terms in the contract, rather than background law, to point to. But also so I'd have a place for the deadline-postponement and fees-keep-adding-up terms. Those don't go without saying.

I hear you on Conflicts. There's no escape valve in the section for contractors who do often work for competing interests. I might look into adding a mechanism there, so the contractor can write in the names of competing clients for preclearance, that gets signed as part of the contract.

Your toint on subcontracting is well taken, but note that Personnel allows statements of work to override the contractor's ability to use employees and contractors at will. When folks use the form as individual contractors, or when clients use it to hire specific people at firms or studios, the SOW can specify a named individual, and prohibit subcontracting.
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It's the difference between good and evil.
Believe that all sides are always equal is ideology on itself and harmful one at that

No one is promulgating that. Very specifically, the idea forwarded is that both sides are human and therefore subject to human biases and groupthink.

That's not ideology. That's just well established fact. Also, don't conflate that with my description of the current political climate in the western world, which is largely one of polarization and tribal entrenchment.
That's exactly what the parent is saying, that few of Facebook's actions have been done with best practices (ethically or morally).

No reason to cheer on a company to profits at the expense of the society that made that company possible and you have to live in, then they have no incentive at all to do the right thing.
This is a great contest. The value of winning a Tesla will be more than the value of the Model3 up for grabs.

And it's relatively cheap for Tesla to pay out to get these vulnerabilities found and addressed.
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Same here. In fact, I have actively avoided travelling to the US for the past four years, which means I have mostly missed conferences. I would really like to travel there again, I have friends and favourite places, but the hassle is just too much, even with a passport that makes things easier than average. Sad! :-)
Super sad, it's not even something that requires measuring to see. I visited the Monarch sanctuary in Santa Cruz in 2017 and there were thousands of butterflies easily visible. In 2018 it was so hard to spot even groups of tens.
FTA:

> The primary byproduct of desal is brine, which facilities pump back out to sea. The stuff sinks to the seafloor and wreaks havoc on ecosystems, cratering oxygen levels and spiking salt content.

The issue is the dissolution process is slow enough that the salt has time to wreck havoc on the environment. And if you're taking river water or aquifer water to dilute the brine to a point near the local salinity why go through the whole desalination process to start with instead of using the water to dilute this byproduct?

It's easy to forget that at large scales the ocean doesn't really disperse things evenly. Surface salinity for example ranges from 30-40 g/kg across the surface of the ocean.

https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/styles/full_width_f...
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