skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I rarely see violence in the movies I watch. The result is that I squirm a lot when I am visiting my son and we watch some blockbuster showing heads being crushed by sledge hammers. I believe that you do not find that sort of thing makes you cringe. I believe the term for that effect is "desensitizing".

In the 1970's, I once watched a soccer game with a family in France. On of the advertisements showed a naked lady get out of a bath, with full frontal nudity, and hug a very handsome naked man. I was shocked, but my hosts were more intent on getting drinks before play started again.

And, sex is like air and money. If you have enough, it's not really interesting.
Embracing OSS also started under Ballmer.

But also especially with Scott Guthrie, and his role as a leader for the future Micrsoosoft developer platform .

I don't know if Guthrie hired the likes of Scott Hanselman, Phil Haack, Mads Kristensen etc. But they have IMO made a huge impact, but internally and externally for the OSS push.

It's a big corporation and internally the fights had been big, becasue a lot of people don't understand how to sell free software.

Just to give an example.
I would love to know in which cultures a teenage son watching soft core porn with their mother is perfectly comfortable or possibly even celebrated.
Sundar is a consumer products guy. Great for social and chrome and android. he's not a cloud guy or a tech infra guy. He also is completely unable to handle challenging situations head on and will cancel meetings if something is even remotely controversial. that's a sign of a poor leader.
Stewart Lee: It’s the thought that counts with Brexit gifts
That’s true. It’s amazing how the Commodore 64 went from, adjusted, over $1500 to about 350 in just a couple years.
Lull+Mattress+Review
Insurance companies, to my knowledge, almost always pay out for "normal" claims on standard policies, with some reasonable exceptions. That's why when they don't, it's news. You may not get all that you think you deserve, or you may get more (after the 2011 tornadoes, our insurance paid for a new roof, although only about a third was damaged by the falling tree).
Access your terminals from anywhere via the web
> because it's arousing

So is violence. Not arousing in the same way, we are imitating animals.

> and has the potential to be greatly embarrassing.

That is also a social construct. Why should sex be embarrassing that violence wouldn't be?

That's the very definition of being prude.
Cert + personal project, that's my recommendation.

Associate's cert is mostly memorization and high level, but doesn't qualify you for being a trusted individual to do the job. It's good to make you aware of the right way to build things in AWS.

For $2/month you can make a static website, posted to S3, with a CloudFront front end and web hook to lambda to trigger content refreshes on specific Git actions.

I'd hire someone who did this with no professional experience with or without certification for an entry level position. That personal interest and drive is worth 1-2 years experience in my book... And I don't look for more than 6 months experience in entry level (I offer internships/ hourly for that group)
It is not. China, India, and most of Asia have similar or more restrictive attitudes toward nudity as the US and there is no God decreeing that you can’t have sex or be sexual.

The lack of real analysis demonstrated in this topic, the western centric thinking (US vs. Europe), and broad generalizations are just disappointing for a forum full of supposedly smart people.
My first introduction to pre Columbian life and thought was 1491 by Charles Mann. Definitely worth a read for a survey of the landscape: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1491:_New_Revelations_of_the...
The Desperado
deep learning at google was due to distbelief, not deepmind. deepmind brought reinforcement learning.
While I thought part of the solution would be to cite the individual journalists who made these claims against him, but having written professionally, often even the writers do not have copy approval on their stories before publication.

There are some terrible people writing these days, but a relatively anonymous editor slipping in something awful, ideological, or vicious under someones byline is quite common. If you don't play ball, you don't work again.

The way Heintz is described, I've encountered similar personalities among people we might describe as super high IQ (a kind of narrow dimension intelligence) where it's like you're a millionaire in a currency almost nobody accepts, and the meta-problem of how to apply and deploy that wealth leads to recklessness, paranoia, and seeking out self destruction.

This was a sad story about a clear trajectory of decline, but one facilitated and enabled by journalists.
I'm a web developer and lately I've been using less and less Photoshop, which was the sole reason I kept using a mac as my main dev platform.

I'm really wondering if my next machine is going to be a mac. I'm pretty sure I could be as productive with a beefy IBM Thinkpad or a Dell XPS running Ubuntu.
https://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/241/what-is-a-whi...
I'll add that I have 3 T-series laptops. All are over 6 years old and still in great shape. The worst I've ever dealt with was a lose monitor cable after a drop. Build quality is only one of the reasons that I continue to recommend them over any other laptop.
Subreddit names aren’t always very indicative of their contents. There’s a whole set of “porn” subreddits that happen to be pictures of nature or people using fountain pens.
Or they fire the people that know this stuff now that they are in the cloud :-)
there's always been something odd about Apple's forums. You'll see that almost any post detailing a problem is immediately replied to by apologists telling the OP that somehow _they_ are at fault.
Your arguments apply to every company---do you not deal with grocery stores?
Are there any other manufacturers of metal laptops ? Seems like there are no competing metal-bodied laptops with a good centrally-mounted trackpad.
The enduring appeal of Armageddon (2018)
I wrote an article on why I think PWAs are the future in my opinion: https://osrec.co.uk/publication/3/Why_PWAs_may_be_the_Future

Maybe it'll help you see things from another perspective :)
This article was originally published on November 8. (I knew I'd read it before; it was probably linked to and discussed here.)

https://medium.com/s/story/if-san-francisco-is-so-great-why-...
sad to see this still has to be compiled from scratch on ubuntu 18.04.
Man thank you. I would take it a step forward and argue that the reason it is so embarrassing is because sexually explicit content clashes with our basic nature. Unfortunately you cant say such things without being painted as a caveman who refuses to evolve.
Maybe ask the question the other way around. Why should they keep compiling everything from source? What are the benefits?
Plus $14.00 for shipping in Canada.
That's not the point.

The point is about the disconnect of a society that protects/promotes speech/messages/images/behaviour about violence while refusing the same for sex.

While one is deadly and the second is not; while one can be a great resource of connection and pleasure, while the other is the exact negation of it.
Ironic you make fun of the ic devs, yet get something basic wrong.
Kubernetes as an API standard
Backreaction: Particle physicists surprised to find I am not their cheer-leader
Moral hazard requires a fiduciary duty to someone else.
If you consider nudity to be in that category, then many European countries.
I wrote this geometry library based on the lectures on projective geometry
It’s very useful when on a remote login where you don’t have root but want more modern software e.g. academic HPC clusters with shared filesystems, which tend to have extremely “conservative” OS versions (we are stuck on RHEL6 for the forseeable future).

I’m not aware of much else that fulfills this niche well - conda seems very very tied to precisely tested version combinations, and (from what I remember - tried and had problems) nix seems to want root/system level daemons.
My church doesn't teach it's only for procreation, and we are solidly Christian. We teach that it's also wholesome, fun, and great to be enjoyed between husbad and wife; a spark of the divine, if you will. That it is between a husband and wife and God to decide when to have children, and so contraception is totally appropriate. Sex helps build the relationship. I remember when my dad taught a lesson at church about how sex was great; and I took a class at a religious university where it was specifically taught we were sexual beings meant to enjoy it. Not prudish here, just also very conscious of how powerful a force it is and so it should be between life-long committed people who can make the most of it and enjoy it fully without having the emotional damage of sharing yourself with someone who then skips out on you. Use it how God intends it and it is even better.
The Chromecast audio got replaced by the Home Mini for the average consumer looking for a Google audio product.
Passwords and Muscle Memory
I read this as "develop and sell a niche tool that's useful in cloud ops or transformations, and market it like hell"
...or drive with a broken windshield, risking a larger loss.
One would say HN is pretty mainstream nowadays. Any suggestions for alternative communities? I feel like there is an extreme lack of what HN used to be. How do I get away from the people on it?
I think you are daydreaming. It is actually the people in academia and government whose job is to maintain this illusion which has tricked you.
Progress Not Perfection
> Look this ship don't turn fast no matter who's at the helm. And it's not even clear it needs to.

Microsoft have proved several times that they can turn a supertanker on a pinhead. They embraced the internet even though it meant abandoning an extremely attractive dream in MSN. They've embraced cloud services, even though it means choking up their own rivers of gold to get to the next one.

It's not pretty, but it's possible.
> Do you have experience with it?

I do.

> Do you have link to any data?

I spent a month plus at work tracking down SD card issues on a high availability project.

> Why do you think it will improve reliability?

They're made with not bottom of the barrel, failed everything else flash, do stuff like treat MLC as SLC by only putting 00 or 11 into a cell, have controller firmware that's playing significantly fewer games with your data, etc.

If you're shipping a product, some of the other things they do like exposing lot codes that mean something, taking bug reports even though you didn't a million units, and exposing internal status counters are really nice.
I recommend fine tuning resumes for the job requirements, and a cover letter that emphasizes a passion for the language they are looking for (or a desire to learn something you can't claim experience in that is requested). Publicly available samples of work also helps.

Mega corps that machine parse applicants are a pain to get into, but you probably don't want to work there anyways :-)
If you are risking all your savings, you can't afford to self insure.
Often (I don't claim always), such a person is not as good at being an engineering manager as someone who was just ok with developing, because they keep wanting to interfere in low-level development decisions. Because, you know, those were the kinds of decisions they made when they were doing the job they actually loved doing.
Spotify reportedly in “advanced stages” of acquiring podcast company Gimlet
Why is this downvoted, this is actually an important part of insurance.
This is a meme I've heard before. From an anthropological view, I think sex (or the restriction of it through memes like this) is used as a way for one group to dominate over another group. Usually, a tool user by religion, especially around the dogma of marriage, where religious have the authority. This meme is so effective and convincing that it's often propagated without much thought.
What? Violence is embarrassing -- not arousing. And like sex, I wouldn't be comfortable to casually snack on popcorn while watching movies which present detailed re-enactments of people murdering each other. And I certainly wouldn't be comfortable to watch it with anyone else either.
It’s not difficult to see why the Catholic priests believed Atzecs were devil worshippers: Tezcatlipoca sounds literally like the Christian devil.
California is bleeding something like 60,000 people each year just to Texas. The Californians moving to north Texas metros do not appear poor relative to neighboring Texans enjoying superior standards of living with deprecated wages compared to California.

When I bought my Texas house about a decade ago the average house price in my metro was about $200,000 and now I think it is about $250,000. These average houses are individual units from 2500-3000sqft on a quarter acre lot. If you are able to sell an equivalent CA house for $2,000,000 you are moving in wealthy compared to Texans. It doesn't mean you can afford a mansion here though, because property taxes are about equal to CA property taxes at about 6.5% per year.
After recently getting back from Portland, it couldn't be more painfully obvious that the entire problem comes down to housing. They are building new (affordable!) apartments there like nothing I've ever seen. You literally can't walk two or three blocks without seeing a construction crane. And the local culture reflects that. So many business that simply could not exist in SF were thriving due to the cheap labor and plentiful customer base of 20 somethings that can actually afford to live on their own in the city.
pkgsrc[1] is portable to most Unix(-like) systems, and can run as a non-privileged user, so that would likely work as well. I'd trust it more than homebrew anyway.

[1]: http://pkgsrc.org/
I heard the genitalia censorship is a western influence, but I haven't found a really solid source. This is from a Cracked article:

>Despite what the censored porn might imply, nudity has never been taboo in Japanese culture. Not only were women used to walking around topless, but what we call porn was just another common genre of books, like cooking or travel. Japanese porn, or shunga, was a traditional form of visual media that had no stigma attached to it. Most artists created it without violating any type of social code. They were just making pictures of people fuckin'.

>It was only in the 19th century, when Western morality came to Japan, that the Japanese government decided to crack down on such traditional practices as public nudity, in order to make the case to the West that Japan was totally a civilized country. By the time World War II rolled around, Japanese porn had gone from an everyday part of Japanese culture to a demonized art form that, as the Pulitzer-winning expert John W. Dower noted, now inexplicably valued idealized Western versions of beauty, like long legs and big tits.

http://www.cracked.com/article_19098_6-wtf-japanese-trends-y...
With all this censorship, isn't there now a massive unmet demand for a service that allows uncensored distribution of relevant, sex-related content? Necessarily located in a European country and avoiding any US-based platform that censors such content.
That also became the law in Massachusetts in 2018.

https://www.mass.gov/service-details/learn-more-details-abou...
Grad student who studies DNA here:

CRISPR is just a cool pair of scissors. What makes it cool is its flexibility. Different target? Pick a different guide RNA.

But think about it. Many of the challenges of using that pair of scissors still exist. How do we get the scissors to the target? How do we repair the target after the cut? How often do the scissors work? Can the scissors cut exactly where we want them too (is there a PAM site nearby)?

Of course, scientists know all these challenges, and they're clever. I would take a peek at this CRISPR guide (https://www.addgene.org/crispr/guide/)if you want to know how people actually use it.

Another thing that I'm thinking about: DNA is more than a 1D string of code. It is a semiflexible polymer wrapped around proteins, constantly changing in space and time. It bends, folds, and interacts with itself. Every cell does this organization differently. And I haven't even mentioned epigenetics.

I'm not morally opposed to gene editing in the future. But I'm not so sure we're there yet. Then again, if I were blind, and CRISPR promised a cure...
Definitely. The last thing anybody wants is to run an application on a Mac that looks and acts like a Windows application. How could you be proud of that?
SF isn’t so great anymore. It’s like New York, but with more junkies and no cheaper boroughs.

It has more drug addicts than people enrolled in public high schools. https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/02/sa...
The Nature of Sex
I’m pretty sure that is exactly the point the op was making when they said “Plenty of cultures have much looser taboos around this than yours, its not how human beings are wired.”

All I am asking for is an example of such a culture. A mother and teenage son watching some film with nudity and simulated sex and neither of them is uncomfortable at all about it.
For easier technical comparisons of what is out there: https://www.hackerboards.com/home.php
Why are you buying a 5000$ massage chair if you can't comfortably afford to replace it?
Someone is about to post how the original author was not hired by Google...
cries in money
Sounds to me like this is an opportunity to sell security/disaster prevention services to the companies you describe.

Walk in and show a list of externally visible problems (in a way that clearly does not suggest "hacking"), and propose a project to get them correct.
I’m interested to see how many people on this thread actually know someone who got pneumonia from mold in their apartment (in Bay Area)?

I know at least one couple.
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Fuck cloudflare.
To be fair, she failed to use an exclusive or ;)
Daydreaming about what though?

Look at the US economy it’s the strongest it’s ever been. Maybe that’s not a good indicator for the rest of the world?

Let’s look at some of the poorest countries? Have they improved over the last 20 years or gone south?

I don’t think I’m day dreaming, I’m working hard and building things. I can sit there and speculate or I can worry about impacting things.
You are asking in good faith, so please don’t take this the wrong way.

I can give you one clue: from your comment I already know that you are a white American, and that the “well-educated, intelligent people [you] know” are also overwhelmingly white. Ask yourself: how do I know this? It’s because never in a million years would an African-American, or Muslim American, or Native American, say something like that. Non-white Americans experience racism, both overt and subtle, every day. Most White Americans are oblivious to it because they live in a highly segregated society, and they don’t have any close friends or family experiencing it. So they perpetuate the myth of a “colorblind society” - the idea that race doesn’t matter in America anymore. And by denying the problem, we are doomed to perpetuate it.

I recommend reading White Rage by Carol Anderson, it’s a good introduction to the topic. Every American should get educated on race relations 101. You can’t understand the USA without understanding the role racism plays in its history and institutions.
> Violence is embarrassing -- not arousing.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/arouse - you have no idea.

But great, you'll learn something fundamental about a human construct we devised to help us cope with that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catharsis.
Everytime I see one of these "Shot on ____ ", I think about the following:

People used heavy film cameras, awful lenses, rusty shutters amidst a raging war to take incredible pictures (Magnum photographers). If they had iPhone cameras back 50 years ago, they'd kill to get such a small camera system in their pockets.

Good photography (and cinematography) is largely a conceptual thing - put the right brain behind the tools, however limited, and they'll produce incredible content. This is hardly surprising. It is the Jimmy Hendrix equivalent of using an eBay cheapie to shred incredible music. Or look up Robert Rodriguez's El Mariachi film shot with a total budget of $7000. No shit!
Something like indexDB our one of the layers on top if it are probably good solutions.

CSV is probably easier to work with, if you're having trouble converting from xlsx to csv, DM me and I can help out.

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Eternal September did pass some time ago, so I would assume this comment is from one of our new friends.
Issue 1711: Linux: eBPF Spectre v1 mitigation is insufficient
I don't do it a lot but I am pleased at the speed I can do it now

It was mind numbing and tedious editing when I had a pentium 4 editing to VGA resolution

now its like 1080P on my laptop and things go super fast. 2K, 4K, 8K has zero utility for me so this is perfect.

Ipads are also fast enough, but I like the idea of having a fast enough networking connection to still render on more powerful machines nearby or in the cloud
Though, you could get some awesome results from VGA webcam and edits on an Amiga, I'm sure. :-D