skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
[ For the record, not an invitation to a futile further debate, given your long-standing immutably-held views on DNSSEC. Since you'll probably say the same about my work to get DANE for SMTP up and running, we can stop here. All I can add is that those who say it can't be done should not get in the way of the people doing it... :-) ]

No, the major providers did not get together to do MTA-STS because DANE was bad. They did it because their existing DNS geo-balancing kit for e.g. google.com and yahoo.com does not offer an easy upgrade path to DNSSEC. Note that Microsoft has a dedicated domain (outlook.com) for email hosting, and can more easily do DNSSEC there without impacting their other "web properties". Note also that Google now MX-hosts many customer domains on "googlemail.com" rather than google.com.

So things are starting to change. Furthermore, there are now over 1 million DANE-enabled DNSSEC domains. MTA-STS is far behind, is not downgrade-resistant on first contact and uses weak CA-leap-of-faith DV authentication. It will probably be enabled at the biggest providers by the end of this year, but as you yourself said elsewhere, these providers are the threat, and if so, securing email delivery to the user surveillance empires is not necessarily that important. Mind you, they can play a useful role by enabling validation and helping to keep the TLSA records of receiving systems valid, and perhaps surveillance is not their business for paying customers...
You want to upset a millennial? Tell them as a gen-xer that you had a summer job when you were a teen, worked throughout university, your first car was used, beat up, and not a BMW/Audi or Mercedes. let them know you never paid $3000 for a winter coat or $1500 for a cell phone. Tell them about that time you got out of school, rented an apartment, save up bought a condo, and then bought a house after getting married..

Oh man... how reality and the truth is upsetting.

Health care is crazy and Student loans are crazy.. but do you really want to pay a student loan for a degree in a SJW subject with no potential, or a health care plan for anxiety medication because you're triggered by Twitter too often..

I really think the major problem is the incredible sense of entitlement.
Give it a good 1-2 hours and bookmark it in the meanwhile.
Fantastic news. Only 42 states to go.
Squeak was the inspiration for Newsqueak by Rob Pike, co-author of Golang. A lot of the concurrency ideas can be traced to this timeline, some fascinating stuff there. Check out this video by Pike: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DtUzH3zoFo.
>and it's broken. one of the dependencies symengine uses some kind of is_windows check https://github.com/symengine/SymEngine.jl/pull/150

What do you mean it's broken? Is it because SymEngine couldn't install? SymEngine seems to have a lot of issues because it relies on Conda and builds its dependencies in an odd way. Python package management is notoriously rough, which is why we are excising it from DiffEq v6.0 (https://github.com/JuliaDiffEq/DifferentialEquations.jl/issu...).
Tom Demarco wrote Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency[1] back in 2002. It talks about how keeping slack in human systems makes them more resilient and humane. I first heard about it from Joel Spolsky, who started Trello and Stack Overflow[2].

Slack is a great read for those responsible for managing software teams and illustrates that there are no new ideas under the sun; there are just repackaged ones.

[1]-https://www.amazon.com/Slack-Getting-Burnout-Busywork-Effici...

[2]-https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2005/11/22/reading-list-fog-c...
When I set up Windows to encode a video overnight, and I wake up the next morning and the encode isn't finished because Windows decided to restart in the middle, I'm not happy. This basically means I can't use Windows to encode videos, period. (And no, setting Active Hours doesn't work, because the whole point is I want the videos to get encoded when I'm not active!)

The same applies to downloading large files, etc. I realize that updates are important, but it's even more important that I can actually rely on my computer.
Yo, no spoilers please...... or at least warn about it. Not everybody has seen it.
TikZ allows whitespace in identifiers. At first it was pretty strange, but I actually really like it now. I don't think parsing it is much of a problem, and I would quite like to be able to use it in other languages.
I feel like if the interruption amounts to "Are you free right now?" -- "No.", it's not that concerning. It shouldn't be that difficult to build the expectation that if you're in the study, no one should expect you to be free, and if you're out of it, eg taking a break, then they can.

But this particular issue seems trivially resolvable, as long as you manage expectations appropriately.

In my own experience, my dad randomly worked from home (mainly when his day consisted of calls), and I just never assumed he was free; at least in the sense that I quietly asked, and naturally expected a "give me 10 minutes", and waited an hour before bugging him again.
What Is Going on Venezuela?
Command-Line Cartography, Part 1
"When we hold a World Championship for a particular sport, we invite teams from other countries to play, as well."

John Cleese talking about the differences between the UK and USA
I wish more things used email. It's really handy to be able to compose something in email and send it without having to think about whether or not I am online.
A podcast for the Swift community, by the Swift community
Show HN: Templates to get a CMake project started quickly
Moon and Me: the new baby TV show from the genius behind Teletubbies
Yeah. I'm not opposed to the idea in principle. "Managing" my time off around business travel, projects on a deadline, etc. can be a real PITA. (And, to be clear, I've taken essentially my full earned vacation--or have been paid for unused time when I've left--through my entire career.)

But, IMO, any company with this policy needs to establish some guidelines and management from the top down needs to walk the walk to show that they really expect employees to take 4-6 weeks off (or whatever) and stay home if they're sick.

Otherwise, it's just about keeping liabilities off the books.
Can the hand crank remember favorite positions? That's the big value add of this controller.
Congratz!
Motorized desks are for flexible working places. People need to change their desks to the right height before starting to work and they are more likely to do so if it is easier.
This is really foreign to me. Direction has never really been a question.

I grew up rural. Direction, where north is, etc... got built in early. Long hikes into the hills, canyons. By teen age years, most of us had the whole place mapped.

Today, I still can catch myself orienting, picking up references. When I travel abroad, I experience this massive orientation for a while, placing everything new with reapect to that which is known.

As a very young person, direction was a part of memory. I can tell you which direction all our houses faced and what was nearby.

Late 60's and early 70's were when those defining times happened. Maps made immediate sense.

If I were to struggle with this today, losing the tech is one option, but augmenting senses in the ways mentioned are likely to have better outcomes.

If you value these things, you want to grok, in the sense Heinlein meant. Make it an intrinsic part of you, automatic.

One of my favorites is sitting in an airplane. Front seats are different from kiddle and rear ones too. But, when I concentrate, I can feel the course changes, look out the window, identify the center point of a turn...

I feel this is something, this direction awareness, almost all of us can improve on. Worth it.

Seems to me apps can help here. Give people aural, haptic feedback and just have them place their phone consistently.
Ubuntu is my daily driver, but don't expect Ubuntu promoting something to mean they're sticking with it for the long haul. See Wayland[1], Unity[2], and NetworkManager (EDIT apparently still supported with Netplan). I once backported a bug in Ubuntu's version of a Torrent Client (Deluge), and got to inform the software's lead developer that Ubuntu had actually stopped using his software by default in the next release in favor of Transmission.

I've been using Ubuntu since 8.04, ran a LoCo team and even did some package maintenance, and I've watched Ubuntu embrace tech whole heartedly, and then drop it like a rock 2 releases later, over and over again. Ubuntu moves fast and breaks things, and them promoting something should not indicate to you that they'll promote it for the long term. Long Term Support does not mean long term new development, and LTS support does not mean helping to implement support in new major Kernel versions.

1. https://blog.ubuntu.com/2018/01/26/bionic-beaver-18-04-lts-t...

2. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/05/ubunt...
The problem with DP/DR is that the loss of control/feeling of unrealness is not pleasant. It's the opposite. Your ego is not completely lost, it's still very much present. But it feels really threatened. You feel like you are on the edge most of the time. You feel like you might go insane or die any minute (when the intensity gets high).

After years of getting my grounding, I feel like I can manage these feelings. I don't have them that often. But it takes practice, and you have to surrender when the feelings are overwhelming.

For functioning in this world, you do need a sense of self. But it also helps when that self realizes that it is part of a whole. Without a self, I don't think you can operate in this reality, so there's no point trying to get rid of it.
Efficiency is a sub-goal of getting things done. IF you cannot get the job done you are out of the running no matter how efficient you are at your failure.

Henry Ford got more and more efficient at making the model T. At first his customers appreciated the lower prices he was able to deliver for them. However as time went on his competitors who were not as efficient at building any one car were able to build a new car with features like electric start that were worth paying extra for. The model T could never get that as the assembly line was too efficient to allow the extra steps to add new parts, the jigs had been optimized to the point where they couldn't be changed without a large set of other changes that his line's couldn't handle.
I presume the first thing you'll do on your next Apple machine is disabling updates.

Don't forget to also disable auto-updates in Chrome/Firefox, since they are enabled by default.
"at this time"
I would not be surprised if the future labels 2010-2025 as the REGRESSIVE ERA

As society is losing morals, common sense and the ability to logically think on a massive level
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> But I wonder: if there was a way to reduce the duration of the cases, would that reduce the impact on whistleblowers?
They are often separated by the employer, including different rollover amounts and rules, for..... reasons I guess?
To be fair, the hyperparameter tuning behind these AutoML systems are getting fairly robust. Google bases theirs on Vizier [0]. The Amazon Sagemaker group has people from the gpyopt project [1]. There is also tons of open source projects out there to help for non-enterprise projects [2] [3]. There are also stand-alone companies that help with this explicitly for enterprises [4] (Caveat, I am a founder).

Increasingly I think more time will be spent on the creative/bespoke aspects you mention later in your post, like making sure that you are building a system that actually achieves some business value (vs just getting a better academic-oriented metric result). Hyperparameter tuning is basically trying to do high-dimensional, non-convex optimization on time consuming and expensive to sample functions. Hand tuning is a terrible way to approach this, and is different for each problem as you point out. Experts can leverage their domain expertise and the unique aspects of their data, models, and applications in much better ways.

[0]: https://www.kdd.org/kdd2017/papers/view/google-vizier-a-serv...

[1]: https://github.com/SheffieldML/GPyOpt

[2]: https://github.com/Yelp/MOE

[3]: https://github.com/hyperopt/hyperopt

[4]: https://sigopt.com
> If the company receives orders for an unusually large number of a component, such as a certain kind of Pentium 4 chip, Dell goes on red alert, rushing to wring out emergency shipments from suppliers.

> If the components are selling too fast, executives can instruct Dell's Web site administrators to offer customers a deal--a discount on a better component or, in dire emergencies, a free upgrade.

These are the vital parts - if you have no buffer to handle irregularities, how do you handle them? In Dell's case, it's (presumably) paying extra to get emergency shipments and losing some revenue via discounts to adjust demand, and those situational costs are (presumably) worth the general case improvement.

If the math works, great! Neat! Inspirational, even. I think some people were inspired who didn't consider the math for their industries though.
When it comes to that inequality, parents play a huge role as well. I had friends growing up whose parents paid all their bills, bought their car, bought their condo, gave them an 'allowance', so when everything is free for you, and you never have to stress. It makes life easier.
No, I'm waiting on a fix for the other bugs first since I've monkey patched this one so far by using some unsafe.
I don’t understand how the dirty money is allowed to be used in purchasing real estate to begin with. When I purchased my home there seemed to be pretty extensive checks to see where the money I was using came from. REITs are mentioned but wouldn’t the money being invested in a REIT be under similar scrutiny?
I would read Domain modeling made functional.

I wouldn't go back to domain modelling in a oop language after that.
They are from Prague (Czech Republic). While not SV, I can assure you they could easily find VCs there (or abroad, maybe in Russia?) if they wanted to.

Not everyone's goal is to build with investors' money. Sometimes it is easier to succeed without it.
How is a PhD in romantic comedies any more ridiculous than a PhD focusing on the works of Ovid, Aristophanes, or Shakespeare?
I would imagine a ruler and some tape could do that. But yes a motorised system is a lot easier to use.
I'm forced to use Paper as a wiki now. Search, discoverability and extensibility is so bad that I miss Confluence....
Buy rent calculator
That's popularity tracking, not curation.
> It's true India has a lot of issues. But the good thing about investments like these is that it creates an opportunity for everyone involved to potentially make a change for the better. This could be the start of a new series of investment in manufacturing and the potential could batter enough heads together to fix issues like electricity reliability especially if every has a vested interest in making it work out.

In theory this is all true, but you really have to look at the facts on the ground and the specific situation. Tons of folks have agreed with what you're saying, and poured in investment, and the situation remains really challenging. It's not for a lack of effort — India has a huge potential labor force, it's well-situated for shipping to emerging markets (like China, parts of Africa, or India itself). And, as was pointed out above, it has a strong democratic tradition that makes it appealing to Western investment.

But that same democratic tradition makes it a very different situation from China. It can take literal decades to organize and satisfy all the constituencies involved for projects like a power station, factory complex, or highway construction. Labor constituencies are strong and organized enough to seriously push back against projects, and are often skeptical of foreign investment and "interference". Political parties even resort to violence to stop initiatives that they disagree with.

I'm not saying that it's going to be like this forever. As a US national of Indian origin, I would be happy if the the situation was different so that I could work with manufacturing partners in India. Having some cultural and legal ties to the country would give me an advantage that I don't have when working with partners in Shenzhen or Shanghai.

But it's really just not the case right now. By all means, I'm happy that this investment is happening, but I think we need to be realistic. For a manufacturing ecosystem to develop that looks anything like China does, it's going to be more on the scale of 50 years or more, not 5-10.
No, but an inconspicuous marking with a permanent marker can.
I've got some leg/knee issues that come and go. I like to stand, but I often can only do it for an hour or so.

I've got the Skarsta at home, but I rarely crank it up because it's a lot of effort and I'll just have to crank it down again in an hour.

At work I have an electrically controlled sit/stand desk. It's great.
That's a great point. Which rules out using alternate streams as a tagging system.

But not tags themselves- so I'll still like a file-system that supports tags natively.
This exactly supports my point. There was no artful or skillful "maneuvering" on Dropbox's part. They made an offer and negotiated a purchase that was amenable to both parties.

Had this been a hostile takeover or had Dropbox forced them to sell "snare" would indeed be applicable. However the Dropbox relationship was one Hellosign unequivocally stated they were "thrilled" about as far back as last November:

https://www.hellosign.com/blog/announcing-the-hellosign-exte...
Let 1000 flowers bloom.
Apple in 2018: The Six Colors report card
I think libraries (API's & frameworks) matter more than languages in a good many cases. Most mature dynamic languages are flexible enough to give you plenty of ways to express things such that libraries are the difference makers. (And they all have their own warts.) Rank and file coders are mostly just "library gluers" anyhow, for good or bad. A "better" language won't change that aspect much.

Thus, with PHP versus Python battles, for example, looking at libraries matters more. (PHP tends to be easier to set up for web-oriented projects. Something to consider for small or often-changing teams.)
Because California employment law requires paying out PTO.

Employees outside of California who want the benefits of California law should lobby their State government to adopt similar rules.
It can be FLOWN with near zero-accidents by dGPS and control alone. That's steady/level flight, not counting issues with weather, launching, landing, and responding to in-flight emergencies. In a driving failure case, you crash or slow down, and you generally keep the accident constrained to the road. In a flying failure case, you've got a high-speed projectile moving in 3 directions.
52 Actionable Ways to Hack Your Productivity (satire)
An ancestor to Pharo. Which, sorry for the recurrent linkage, has a pretty obligatory MOOC https://mooc.pharo.org/
Gmail smart completion is more akin to a template, like giving you an empty class or an empty main function. Its utility (at least in my experience) hasn't gone much farther.

The example you link (from Zsh, not fish) is a fancy looking history autocompletion: in bash, just press Ctrl+r.

The parent has a point: I've spent time working with absolute beginners in programming and the first thing I was teaching them was to ignore the IDE "smarter autocompletion" and suggestions. For typing faster, sure; for suggesting anything else, not so clever.
I'd still call this "use it or lose it", just a less harsh version than a yearly reset to zero.

I've never heard of anywhere doing this sort of yearly zero-reset anyway. Wouldn't this make it literally impossible to use the vacation earned during the last pay period of the year?

Typically the yearly reset is for awarded (as opposed to earned) PTO. e.g. On Jan 1 you reset, but back to 15 days, and you have the rest of the year to use it. I'm guessing this is also legal in California because PTO is not earned in this model.
Exploring the use cases for 'AI' nowadays is more popular than defining it, I would like to see more dialog around discussing what constitutes 'Artificial Intelligence'.

As with most of us in this field, I hate the often-overused term. More aptly, I believe these are 'Decision Making Machines', they really don't do Critical Thinking, or Abstract Thinking, they simply have a set of given inputs, and a function that decides which set of those given inputs matches a given output.

There's no better example of this than Watson, and Medical Diagnosis. That is not AI. We have an enormous database full of years of medical history. From that history, we draw conclusions about symptoms. For a patient's given symptoms, we are often able to crawl back up that ladder to the diagnosis. Yet we still call Watson AI.

Sometimes, these decisions are chained, giving the illusion of Critical Thinking, but at the end of the day, they are goal-driven algorithms.
Actually, it is barely done at all. Tar and feathering is another one that should be brought back--the Clintons and the other crime lords in our government would have second thoughts after the hot tar treatment.

Don't get me started with the "warrior class"--a bunch of drunks, mainly. The MIC sucking the life out of our society for their endless wars.
There are different rules for the rich, and different rules again for trusts and corporations. Sure they technically violate some points but they have so much money and funded my political party don’t you know?
You get a notification when Windows plans on restarting somewhere in the future. I just click on it and manually set the restart date 1 week in the future. That's it.

I'm also leaving the computer on for weeks and never had an unexpected reboot with this protocol.
Random aside: Anyone else watch the Fyre Festival documentary on Netflix? I feel like that could be an interesting choose your own adventure similar to how Bandersnatch was done. Let people make decisions as if they were in charge of the festival and see if they could come out the end of it having made it a success or not.
They are dynamic and late-bound, for starters. Ruby always supported the notion of methods as message handlers. JavaScript added some support for that in ES6.
ImmortalDB – A resilient key-value store for the browser
$500/month will go a long way in many countries out there or for many life styles. Since we don't know who this person is or how/where they live, I wouldn't automatically assume they need to target a higher MRR.
So every other Friday or Monday ~= 25 days per year. Sounds pretty reasonable to me. Personally I prefer vacation in blocks but others don't. He also stopped being available on weekends? Sounds like decent life/work balance.

No idea if he was otherwise a good co-worker but neither of those facts by themselves raise a flag for me.
> Most companies institute limits on accrued holiday

Sick days are not holiday/vacation, and have additional restriction on use where they exist instead of combined PTO. But, in any cases there wasn't an accrual limit here, they just had a limit on cash out at separation.
Projects about faster Scala compilation:

[1] https://medium.com/@gkossakowski/from-kentucky-mule-to-faste...

[2] https://github.com/twitter/rsc
There's a clear gradient toward virtuality. Ultra HD, VR goggles, social network.. I see a natural process of risk/cost reduction at play. Nobody likes to die, nobody likes to have negative emotions due to social interactions .. the market boils the frog very nicely.
Study tracks dramatic retreat of Canadian glaciers
An esp32 would enable so much cool features. Like control by bluetooth/wifi, apple homekit integration, ...
That’s all I wanted lol thanks
The Bekant motorized desk is a terrible product with bad ratings on Ikeas own site. https://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/S49022538/

Does this project fix any of the underlying issues.
Scientific Growth != Societal Growth &&
Technological Growth != Social Growth