skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Amazing read.

(IMO there is a small mistake. They write "I could see the fire on my left hand side" but the fire from the tagged window is on "the right" from inside...)
I live in the Balkans. The previous gov administration made public transport free for senior/old people that are retired (64+ y/o). They just kept spamming the busses as if its an amusement park, it was always full and dirty. They would spend the whole day in a bus, cruising around the city, use it as a meeting hub to meet other old people... Clearly it didnt work.
Freelancing always is a business. It doesn't matter if it's run on the side.

While you can outsource aspects such as marketing and sales you should be aware that in that case not only will you be leaving a lot of money on the table (because someone else higher up the value chain will capture that value for you) but you'll be dependent on third parties other than your clients, which means that your freelancing income can dry up at any time.
Yes. But then it seems like a mistake to have put the mattress against the door since that strongly suggests that someone is in the room.
That would be neat, browsing through several dozen fonts to find the right pick is a bit overwhelming, although one can argue it's a self-imposed burden.
So, if we take a look at Venezuela's situation, in which a system that worked well enough when oil was >$100/barrel becomes disastrous after the price drops, and we apply that scenario to Saudi Arabia, it looks pretty frightening. SA is far more central to world society (e.g. its role in the world religion of Islam, its role in OPEC) than Venezuela.

Perhaps the world should have done more to help Venezuela, but we at least had the option of ignoring it (or worse). When (not if) SA goes the way of Venezuela, it will be a far messier situation for the rest of us, and I don't think we are even thinking about it, much less preparing.
Sure, but if 2B of that population is in the negative, then even at minimum wage I do have the net worth to match 2B; its just the next 1.8B where comparison even starts to make sense.
Why There Are No Nuclear Airplanes
> I wonder why they shot at the tidy bed but not the unkempt one. The narrator seems to imply he knew hiding under the unkempt one was the better option. Why is that ?

I wondered this as well. He did say he has had significant training, but honestly, I think this was just pure luck.
Gattuso admits defeat with Higuain on road to Chelsea
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That's common in Switzerland. But it goes both ways, i.e. you can leave the company any time if you don't like it without breaking the contract.
That's a different argument that gets us back to the original premise I disputed, so you're now just begging the question with numbers.

That is, your numbers are only valid if I accept the premise that I'm rejecting. I don't believe that 90% of people who can answer such a basic question are qualified.
Economic Equality: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Other Dream
Yeah, you have two choices -- either a high-end international-clientele hotel which also has security, or something relatively anonymous. The other two quadrants (high profile international hotel with no security, or a low-profile guesthouse with a lot of western guests and lots of local information about it) are how to get killed most efficiently.

Big hard property means you'll probably be safe from petty crime, but you might be collateral damage during a large terrorist attack. However, most places can repel the smaller attacks.

Smaller/anonymous property means you won't be collateral damage from anyone else, but it will be a whole lot easier for someone to learn "rich American/European is staying in this guesthouse" and then do a trivial attack. You have to be consistent with this, using local vehicles, probably not going out much, etc.

Depends on the situation which is better (the external situation as well as who you are as a target). A big factor is that K&R/institutional policies/etc. do not permit the low profile approach. If you're living in a low profile place but then taking a big armored truck to/from meetings with the government at hardened sites, you're probably going to have a bad time, too.

I'd personally feel weird being in Afghanistan or Iraq without a weapon (and possibly security detail) today, despite it being "safer" than when I was there, and having illegal weapons being itself an actual risk now. I solve this by just not going.

Most of the third world isn't actual-warzone and you're not as likely to face a huge terrorist attack on the biggest target. The Kenyan mall/etc. attacks are outliers. I'd generally go for the hardened strategy myself, as I don't want to have to go through the trouble of blending in, especially on a longer basis.

(In a high threat environment I'd probably go for my own secured compound somewhere, just so I wouldn't be collateral damage, but that requires you be able to hold/secure the compound, which puts a pretty high minimum scale to be economic. I lived in a villa in Baghdad with Kurdish security, and then in Afghanistan I stayed at a guest house with a 2:1 rifle to guest ratio, but yeah.)
There are complaints like this in almost every European countries.
If it's 50M fine in France, 50 more in Germany, 50 in The Netherlands and so on, it should start to be a huge amount!
Who's talking about shipping "shit"? You are overreading by a very wide margin.

I also don't appreciate being called lazy, and especially by somebody who knows nothing about my business or my team.

Please try to keep your tone civil in future.
Could Albert Einstien have actually built a particle accelerator or an atomic bomb?
So FAANG doesn't include Microsoft. Are they different or does it just make things unpronounceable?
Ask HN: How do you deal with brain fog? Does coding give you brain fog?
If I spend more than an hour deeply focusing on something I get massive brain fog. Its very debilitating and its preventing me from doing any important studies/work.

Have you had something like this?
That line stood out to me too, since relational theory has been such a success. I was surprised that [12] is just Codd's paper "Relational Completeness of Data Base Sublanguages," where he introduces first relational algebra and then relational calculus. I read that paper just last year, and it didn't seem like a mess to me. Perhaps he was thinking of three-valued logic (i.e. NULLs), which came later? I'd like to learn more about how the relational calculus is an obvious mess.
Wow that was very well written. In an intense situation where after the fact people want to write dramatically, this was the opposite in a great way. We all still feel attached and with a great sense of what happened, the pace it was written, and the events that stood out to him and were told. It's so nice to have something like that rather than an over the top description. Granted, I'm not sure if he wrote that himself or was helped / ghostwritten as is the extremely annoying case in tons of articles, but either way, well done.
I think you two are talking across each other, he's saying that if you lift properly it's not easy to get injured, and you're not saying that it's easy to get injured deadlifting properly but that it's easy to deadlift wrong and therefor get injured.

It's really quite rare that someone is deadlifting wrong the first time because they don't have the flexibility to do it properly compared to doing it wrong because they didn't ask for the right kind of help.
This is kind of a plea for help - how can I learn maths 'via' geometry?

I just can't get my head around 'numbers'. I can't seem to really visualise them or understand what they are. I know this sounds weird. With language or abstract things like 'problems' I can almost see them in my head. I can analyse a problem and all it's flows of cause and effect in a visual way. That's literally what happens in my head.

But with numbers I can't understand them at a basic level. Like - what are they? How do I visualise them?

When it comes to geometry it's almost like it's the 'language' of my brain, how I think, in terms of shape and form and translation and dimension.

I'll give you an example. I learnt Pythagoras theorem aged about 13 or something. But didn't truly understand it until I was about 20 something when I saw a diagram showing graphically the squares of the sides like this[0].

I really need to start at the absolute beginning, like build of a whole foundation of what maths is based on geometry. Does that even exist?

This might not be possible, but if I can even get started it would be great.

[0] https://mysteriesexplored.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/pythag...
There is nothing clickbaity in this title. May be you just are ok with the inequality and this fact makes you uncomfortable.
Even high end restaurants will take these things that are not presentable on a plate and turn them into soups, sauces, etc. because any decent chef knows that "dented cans" and ugly fruit taste the same as pretty ones. It's the everyday routine.
Make sure you’ve watched Mind Field episode about replicating Skinner Box experiment on humans. (It’s probably for YouTube Premium accounts only, but really worth it)

https://youtu.be/BR-eMMCp7tg
The hotel still needs to make money, so getting it open as quickly as possible even after a horrific incident is important for the bottom line of the company that runs it.

Fix all the damage, put up a plaque or other memorial to the victims, and then move forward.

This may seem harsh, but economic interests don't permanently go away when disasters happen.
I mean, RHEL 8 is shipping with Python 3.6 and Python 2.7 available. There is no standard /usr/bin/python without making the symlink manually, and the system uses its own internal python for dependent tooling, so it doesn’t conflict with user installed versions.

And, based on my experience, general open source is usually much more cutting edge than the larger distros, that’s the whole point.
You're on the right track. To go further, I suggest reading "How to Breathe: The symptoms If You Get It Wrong, and How To Fix It" or "The Oxygen Advantage". Best wishes.
I am not a doctor, just someone who reads too many medical stories, but the thing that convinced me was an explanation by Henry Marsh, one of the UK's leading brain surgeons.

A brain aneurysm poses a certain level of risk based on its size and location. So let's say you have an asymptomatic aneurysm with an annual mortality risk of 0.5%.

Now let's say you decide to randomly have a full body MRI and the aneurysm is discovered. A neurosurgeon tells you that you can have an operation to clip or coil the aneurysm with a 10% risk of fatality due to its location. Do you have the op?

Apparently most people do, despite the overall odds of immediate death. A 0.5% annual risk of death would ride most people out to their age of natural death rather than the 10% risk of the op, but people hate having even a tiny risk hanging over their head long term.

As such, there's a school of thought that you shouldn't have such types of screening (or at least to not know the results if they are minor) unless you are symptomatic.
The term "FAANG" initially comes from the stock markets, where those 5 where hot new tech stocks, and Microsoft was a boring, established player. Nowadays it's more used as a shorthand for "the big tech/internet companies", not the specific members indicated by the letters (e.g. Netflix is an outlier, and Microsoft probably closer to the others than it, in many ways)
That could be cool, but it would eliminate any subs that don't allow crossposting. That includes a few of the heavy hitters like ShowerThoughts and AskReddit.
Show HN: Library for capturing video in a React app
Cute observation, but the difference is Google gets consent for many different personal-data-collecting services without sufficient granularity in how it asks for the consent. And a myriad of other intertwined problems described at length in the fine article. The difference in nature was fundamental to their determination, as is well explained.
Yeah kind of would be honest whats the problem here? Are we disputing math now?
No, consents given BEFORE GDPR are considered valid. But, new google accounts are created everyday... and this apply to them
> if APT was designed today I'm sure it would use HTTPS.

Or it would use the much more modern and more secure Noise, like I think QUIC will end up using through nQUIC:

https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3284854

https://noiseprotocol.org
Google will now be expected to do it all over, and follow the rules. If they fail, the fine will most likely be much higher.
One I’ve heard is that at a conference someone asked him “what do you do?” to which he replied “I cast false pearls before real swine.”

I don’t know if it really happened, but it’s clear that a lot of people didn’t like him.
I think this is just for France and for this case. If they continue, they'll be new fines. Also other EU countries, I think, can jump in. Changing behavior is what hurts them, and apparently here no need for 5 year investigations. Matter of months and the verdict is in.
This argument is really flawed. How is it different from: "I only take one road to and from work, why should I pay for roads other people take?"
Huge value here - great to see another tech->mgr telling their story about how they got better.
nothing justifies debian making you `apt-get install apt-transport-https` over `http` before you can add your own repos which are https only of course. but hey, it's debian.
Presumably Google Analytics which can embed on HTTPS pages.
Surveillance Is a Tech Problem, but It Requires a Policy Solution
There's an old story (that I can't find right now) about a bank employee that falls for a scam that costs the company hundreds of thousands. He goes to his boss and says "I guess you will be expecting my resignation", to which the boss replies "Resign? I just spent thousands of dollars training you!".

I would apply the same line of thought here: I don't think this hotel is any more insecure that any other. In fact, I would expect it to have more security than the others from now on.

I understand the emotional point - it's pretty much the same point that Chris Rock made about renaming the new Twin Towers the "Never going in there tower". But I can totally see the hotel making a comeback - if Charlie Hebdo is still in business, I don't see why the hotel can't follow the same steps.
Refuse all needs to be the default, because that is the law. Even when it comes to the intent of the law (which is to give control to the user and also not make lazy users "accidentally" give up all of their right to privacy) they are not doing fine. They're doing better than their peers, who have made even more malicious choice dialogs.
==But there are numerous reasons why, in a representative democracy, there would be a thumb in the scale in favor of policies supported by the top 10%==

Can you share some? Why doesn’t it exist to such extremes in other representative democrcies (France, Canada, Norway, Sweden, Australia, etc.)?
> can we design a package distribution system that preserves privacy against nation state level actors?

That's a great question. Also, can we do it on top of the current Debian infrastructure (HTTP and everything)? Or do we need to change anything?
Diving in on GTD and have thus far really been converted. Having a system - _any_ system, is critical. It became clear pretty quickly that my "system" was just me using my head and brute-forcing my way through things.
> Facebook is purposefully trying to focus Community Actions to be more narrowly concentrated on spurring government action than just any random cause.

So you can’t use this feature to ask FB to fix problems with its own platform? My first thought about this feature was: well, most organizations can ignore these petitions, but at least we can use them to get FB to quit doing bad/annoying stuff. Apparently not!
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Is there a color scheme that doesn't look like a tornado hit a paint factory? I couldn't find one.
worked at a company with 4 Petabytes on NFS ... FWIW
> and a 50M fine does send quite a message.

Yes it sends the message that France is going to keep trying to attack google & facebook until they relent and exit Ireland
There's no question that you can build higher-level deployment strategies on top of the system (or any other system). It's just not baked in.

Also, YAML in general is not a bad thing, but kubernetes presents you with a ton of boilerplate and a complicated DSL. There's a lot of rough edges (annotations don't get validated, for example).
>Some of those that could do it are good candidates.

Looks like you edited your comment. In any case, that's a non-statement, as some is quite different from nearly all (i.e. 90%).
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Hadron App - A new era for design and development.
Zimbabwe's High Court rules that Internet shutdown was illegal
I think that the Cnil should lead by example and I suspect that a lot of people see the irony. If they show what can be done, or even better, open-source a working solution, that could disprove the “everyone does it” argument which… hasn’t exactly proven sturdy to even minimal ethical testing so far.
Leaving them out and riding them on the sidewalks is definitely a problem.

But not wanting to walk two miles to a shop or restaurant is not a matter of inability or even of effort, it's a matter of time management. A two mile walk might be pleasant but would completely blow away my lunch break or interrupt progress on a project. There are limited options within a given walking radius, and adding a car, bike, or scooter makes this radius hugely larger. Parking a car or driving in traffic is a pain, so scooters and bikes are a useful - not lazy - solution.

We need ubiquitous scooter and bike racks, and respect from cars.
> I would not be surprised if it's one of their regular employee that just happened to speak english that do those.

For very low values of "speak english", of course - this is France after all. That translation is so peculiar, it reminds me of the Chinglish manuals we get with cheap manufactured products.
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As we have seen all too many times, these things are not guaranteed. The repository can be down. Semantic versioning might not be specified correctly. Packages might be transferred to a new maintainer who then abuses them to deliver malicious payloads. Or the package you pick might simply have bugs.

Fair enough, most of those are legitimately risks of external code that doesn't apply to internal code. However, I object to object that nobody writes bug-free code so the possibility of my chosen package having bugs isn't such a case.

> I can see no basis for that assumption in the world of JS and NPM

I overstated my point there.

> Giants like react have been brought down by tiny packages like left-pad.

Its a nit-pick, but react wasn't broken by left-pad. Babel was broken which is almost always used with react.
Python: Stream the ingest of data into the database in real time using dataflow
Bingo. I'm going to have a really hard time taking any new development coming out of Facebook as genuine, honest or non-privacy invasive. I simply do not foresee my opinion of Facebook, Zuckerberg or anyone still working there changing radically in the near future.
The fact it takes a team of highly skilled engineers from the top of the talent pool trying to make it easy should tell you perhaps the design is wrong ?
If 5G Is So Important, Why Isn’t It Secure?
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Summary (though I highly recommend reading this)

1. Men's sperm counts have gone down by half in the last 30 years in industrialized countries, nobody has established why. [A]

2. The environment is full of (>1,400) endocrine-disrupting chemicals that may be an answer. One such example is Atrazine.

3. "We examined two doses of ATZ which included the 'safe' level for drinking water, determined by the Australian government, as well as a 10-fold higher dose delivered to the mice in drinking water from weaning until 12 weeks of age,"

4. "Our results showed significant effects on the reproductive and general health of male mice." Including reduced sperm count.

5. Interestingly, "We found a change in gene expression in the liver following ATZ exposure. Two genes implicated in fat uptake were found to be over-expressed, an early stage of 'fatty liver disease,"

6. Lower doses over a long exposure time may potentially do more damage than a high dose.

7. This study has been accepted for publication last month. The pair is continuing to do more research.

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[A] - https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/sperm-count-dropp...
I really can't understand what some people are smoking out there. Is it's a push/lobby from companies? A need to have Orwellian control over the tenants? Misguided 'fellowkids' approach to appear 'hip' and 'embrace tech'..? Or just plain silliness? Hanlon's razor is failing me.
Creative Personality – Csikszentmihalyi, 1996
This came up yesterday, you’ll see if it you go back a page or two, or use the search.
Looks like riseml has shut down and taken their comparison post down. I was hoping to compare the results.
A billionaire paying a lower dollar amount in taxes than a secretary? Yes, I would also like to see data on that, because I doubt it happens. :P

The scenario does arise when we're talking about percentages, because billionaires make much of their wealth from capital gains and the like. But it's hard for me to imagine how the actual dollar amount paid could be lower.
In hot conflict areas some hotels are usually used to house people who are still having to go about their business. Such as airline pilots, journalists, ngo people etc... usually the fact that the hotel is being used for such purpose is common knowledge and there is some sort of extra military protection given. Of course this can also backfire as depending on the multiple interests of the factions involved in the conflict it can be in their interest to attack, ignore, or defend such buildings...in the case of this hotel in particular it had already been attacked in 2011 before this attack described in the article (which happened in 2018). You can read more about it here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel_Inter-Continental_Kabul
If sesame street is in, then every puppet or shadow show going back to prehistory is also a teaching machine.
I believe the parent poster is talking about the paperback books that used to come with your operating system. Not manpages.

I learned the command line from a book that came in a Redhat boxed set.
> So that why the auto play video feature just won't die despite everyone loathing it...

Everyone loathing it? Is this really a thing? I never actually seen anyone complaining about it on Netflix. I've seen people complains about the "Are you still there?", my SO also often complains that it's "too long" between episodes and ask me to press continue with the remote.

I do hate the autoplay from Youtube personally, particularly since I've on Youtube premium (my phone just keep playing videos in the background, that's quite annoying and I'm really lucky it only has happened while I was on wifi). Still I haven't seen any people complains from it and I do know it can be easily deactivated on the website at least.

> We know what we want to watch and we race to get to it without triggering those stupid autoplay videos.

Are you on a special version of Netflix? Are you actually talking about the trailers that play on the background while you browse? You don't like that feature?
now thats a blog post i would read
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