skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Idk. Personally, you even said it yourself above, that just seems like it was honest/genuine “small talk.” It could have totally been just that and nothing more. I wouldn’t jump right to “invasion of privacy” if someone asked me that. To me, those don’t seem like invasive questions. Same thing I’d imagine to hear from any random stranger at a work event, for example. Pretty basic boilerplate “get to know ya/small talk” questions, besides the ol’ “so, this weather huh?!” Haha Maybe I’m just being optimistic that not everyone in tech is evil, with an agenda? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
If only half city that could be rezoned from 1 story houses, get some subway lines, and be paid for by taxing the richest people & companies in the world... Oh wait.
I don't follow the first example about jury deliberation. Isn't the criticism in that case about the method which might harm the behavior of the jury and not about the knowledge gained? I guess that the point is that it renders research impossible if there is no available method but this does not seem to support the argument that the topic of research is possibly immoral.
BCM64: A “bare Metal” C64 Emulator for Raspberry Pi
Point of order: Some of us really want ~/.local backed up or otherwise persisted; I've got the equivalent of a second /usr in there, and I only don't worry about "backing it up" because ~/.local/etc is in version control, and the rest is installed by my setup scripts.

~/.cache can burn, though:)
TLDR: they turned on Google Analytics.
Here is an example of a false Snopes article https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/gop-obamacare-repeal-elect...

Snopes claims that a meme (showing a picture of people, many of whom have red x over their faces, writing that everyone with a red x has been voted out of office) is true even though they admit

> Although memes are frequently grossly inaccurate, this one got the general idea and numbers correct (even if the persons actually pictured in the accompanying photograph are difficult or impossible to identify).

Some of the people with an x were not elected people and some did not get voted out. This meme is clearly false, yet Snopes calls it true.
This is context you might find interesting, I make less than 40k a year. This is a choice that I have made, and I understand that it has implications for the lifestyle I can afford.
The TP-Link Archer C7 has been meeting all of those criteria for years and is still readily available for under $70.
The problem with this analysis is that it assumes this move has anything whatsoever to do with Russia.
Neat. Was able to clone the repo, run cargo run, and drop into a python shell. Doesn't seem like can do much right now, but I really like the idea.

>>>>> a = [1,2,3]
>>>>> a[2:]
[3]
>>>>> a[1:]
[2, 3]
>>>>> fh = open('~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub', 'r')
thread 'main' panicked at 'called `Result::unwrap()` on an `Err` value: RefCell { value: [PyObj instance] }', src/libcore/result.rs:999:5
note: Run with `RUST_BACKTRACE=1` environment variable to display a backtrace.

What would be really cool if this could one day be like Nuitka- but in rust. Write in python, compile into Rust. Maybe even support inline Rust like cPython supports inline C.
This is what Mac does to track download locations, if I remember correctly (._file).
Whether people throw their shit on the ground is more of a cultural thing than an 'urban design' thing.

In terms of sustainability, it's not that hard: denser, less carbon-intensive living, where people can walk, bike and take transit, beats sprawl hands down. People have been making cities like that for thousands of years. What changed is our 'suburban experiment':

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2015/1/7/americas-suburb...
Saying that the maintainers are untrustworthy because they take an opinion that you disagree with is uncharitable.
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Why eat an appetizer, main course and dessert separately? Just put them in the blender and gulp in the goo... Also because entropy.
Very few people are pro- or anti- local control in general. People have specific policy goals, and achieve those goals at the level (local, state, federal) where they’re most feasible. There’s no hypocrisy there.
I work for a large IT outsourcing company and I have seen the opposite of it with our clients. Most of our clients wants to be on cloud but without any change to their habits so we end up building complete traditional data centers in the Azure or AWS.

Most applications are simply cloned from existing On-Premises Infrastructure because every project have a 2 weeks deadline and every single stakeholder just wants to stick it in. Patterns like Auto-Scaling etc is just a far fetched dream.

Supporting such Infrastructure where every server is a pet trying to survive in a Slaughter House is a deeply painful.
> Russia is a joke of a potential problem next to China, both economically and militarily.

You overestimate China's capabilities, and underestimate Russia's. Russia is better at international politics than China, while China's dominating and new found arrogance makes potential allies uncomfortable. Not to mention that Russia still has a better military, and better weapons.

In both Africa and Asia, nations that welcomed Chinese investment are now very uncomfortable on the demands being placed on them. Increasing comparisons are being made to the way India handles their diplomatic relations with them (less aggressive, more cooperative). For example, both Maldives and Sri Lanka have turned to India after Chinese economic investments soured there.

Second, while India today may be faltering under the current inexperienced, right-wing loonies running it, the previous government with Dr. Manmohan Singh at the helm has already demonstrated that India has the potential to take on the Chinese both economically and militarily.

Ultimately, India as an ally of both the Russians and the West, knows that it will have to bear the brunt of any new future cold war between China and the west and is preparing for it.
I was going to say, I've been actively working with nodejs for a few years and I've never had node_modules, package-lock.json and yarn.lock in my home dir, on either Linux or macOS. If you run npm/yarn commands in your home dir for some reasons, then you should expect those files there. On the less than handful of times where I ran npm in my home dir accidentally, I make sure to immediately go and delete those files.

It's also possible that the author runs a lot of scripts from various projects from github and sometimes those scripts' authors are not careful about running npm/yarn within their projects. I guess I don't play around with OSS enough. :)
I'd be losing anywhere from 1-5% cash back not using a credit card.
Are we saying Google's robot butlers won't work without an internet connection? That would severely diminish their value.
The original convention was dotfiles in $HOME. The $XDG_HOME_CONFIG convention is comparatively new as it was introduced in 2003.
Maybe just because most of these DNA services are based on bad science, and eventually people were bound pay attention to this?
Programs can use programs like 'touch' to create the files so you'd have to get meta into a chain of process ownership or something while exempting the user's shell.
* Runs without OS, direct to the hardware (via Circle)
* Boots quickly (6 seconds)
* Very low video and audio latency
* Based off VICE so very high level compatibility
* Done by my coworker & friend, with nagging from me :-)
Admittedly i didn't read all the article, the flashing gifs were giving me a headache. However;

I wonder if this could be manipulated by a bot? Wouldn't be too hard to set up one that posted moral fiber and BS in a timely fashion, actually if you had access to the end data, and could create identities to test, this would be an interesting (maybe deep learning) project.
> Arw you sure that's what has been said? That they might be re-purposed for delivering nuclear warheads? That's crazy.

Yeah, that’s what the Russians have said. I’m on my phone and I’m too lazy to search for references, but as a person that would be very negatively affected by a Russian strike on any one of those defense shield thingies (I live in Romania) I follow the subject closely and I can confirm that’s what the Russians think. You can search on YT for an interview with Putin with the German TV (I think) and when the interviewer mentions that the rocket shield installations in Poland and Romania are only for defensive purposes Putin instantly starts laughing. Not to mention that those installations were put in place with Iran in mind according to the official declarations from back then, but now even the Americans don’t use that excuse anymore.
Google wants extractable facts that they can insert directly in the search results. I speculate the users want it too, at least as long as those “facts” are actually true. The more voice makes up the percentage of searches, the fewer searches will be directly to a non-paid organic website.

Anyone trying to build a scalable business and expecting SEO to play a meaningful role probably doesn’t have a firm grasp on what Google has done over the past 10 years and will continue to do. Most businesses, and their investors, should be calculating what their numbers look like if they were to receive 0 free users from Google.
> "That’s why the adjective that so many people are affixing to all of these new capabilities to convey their awesome power is “deep.”"

One of the best pieces of academic marketing was calling this set of techniques "deep" learning. The word is so rich with connotations, it immediately brings to mind all the synonyms: profound, complex, arcane, etc. It makes people ascribe far more complexity to the system than it actually has.

When in reality, it's just a "massively multi-layered and multi-stage" network. But that doesn't sound nearly as profound, and doesn't allow journalists to spin wild tales.
I think this effect is a bit more understated for the Bay Area, because San Francisco is only really desirable domestically, and that’s a function of jobs, which the Bay already accommodates by incentivizing commercial over residential development. But there’s a realistic cap to that; eventually industrial boomtowns like Pittsburgh and Chicago reached a more steady rate of growth, and I would expect San Francisco to do the same.

The real places this effect kicks in are global status cities like New York or London, where it’s a status symbol in every country’s elite class to have a vacation home there. It may actually be impossible to supply both foreign and domestic demand for residential via the market.
This comment is truly bizarre. How did you read the parent, and only get that it's "painting all Americans with one brush". It was made perfectly clear by words such as "several" and "lots of".

It really could not have been made more clear. It explicitly referred to individuals that marcus has personally met. As an American myself, I find these anecdotal claims totally believable and unsurprising.

Seriously, how did your mind manage to filter this so severely?
It’s incredibly stupid for HR to ask that. We had training from HR so we didn’t even unintentionally ask questions during small talk they could indirectly force them to reveal sensitive information. How on earth could a HR rep make that mistake astounds me.
> (deciding how to carry out the split is not obvious, but can be done).

For this reason I like better the windows distinction, that (if I understand in correctly) distinguishes between machine-dependent files and machine independent files. for something like gnupg I would not really say what is data and what is configuration
Twilio closes acquisition of email specialist SendGrid in all-stock deal ($3B)
The way most editors save a file is like this:

f = open("the_file.new")
write(f, new_contents);
close(f);
rename("the_file", "the_file~");
rename("the_file.new", "the_file");

So the old file is never modified, it's renamed to the backup copy, and an entirely new file is created to take its place.

This has a number of advantages, but does not play well with any extended info the old file used to have, unless they are copied explicitly. And in a tagging-oblivious program, they won't be.
Killing all left-handed people is also a possible valid outcome of a democratic process. That wouldn't make it acceptable. You can't wave the democracy wand over a bad outcome and make it immune from criticism.
Because these institutions have mostly transitioned from mutual insurance companies to public companies.

Their duty is to shareholders vs policy holders.
The whole situation is complicated. While I'm sympathetic to people who want the place they've lived in for 30 years to remain the same, there's already a federally mandated (and, thus, undemocratic) thing which ensures that change will happen: unrestricted internal migration. So the question is not about whether change will happen, it's just a matter of whether change comes in the form of increasing costs or increasing density.
x86-64 is anything but "boring" and "safe". :)

Real mode, Mod R/M and SIB byte encoding weirdness, REX prefixes, 80-bit floats, parity flag, hard-wired registers for shifts/multiplies/divisions, builtin CRC32 over the wrong polynomial, Pascal calling convention support, binary-coded decimal, high halves of 16-bit registers, MMX overlap with x87 floating point, etc. etc.
They opted their users in to analytics (using Google, no less) with disclosure so minimal, most users would miss it. They would not entertain any suggestion that analytics should be opt in, saying that unless you're a contributor, your opinion on the matter means nothing.

They showed a shocking lack of judgement and an abundance of arrogance. I can't trust them anymore. I don't think others should, either.
Yes, but that's okay. Why should humans not be able to lie to machines? We value privacy because there are some things that are not other people's (or other machine's) buisiness.

In the end it matters why you share the data. If you share the data with a service because you have an addiction problem and the service will help you to overcome it, then it is reasonable to be more open and personal. But if the same data is also given out to others to judge your credit-worthyness, then we have a breach of trust and that is rightfully not acceptable.

If you share your data on facebook (or any more trustworthy plattform) then your objectives are of a different kind: You want to share aspects of your social life. This is a lot less private than the addiction service and also a lot less critical when it comes to the correctness of the information.
Flatpak?
If this ended up making it possible to run Python in the web browser, that might be interesting to a fair number of people.

(There are advantages to running the same language on the server and client, and there's plenty of server-side web application Python code out there.)
Bingo! You can choose the keep the physical form the same, like they've done in Boulder, but then what changes are the people, because only a certain class of "landed gentry" can afford to live there, served by people commuting in from the surrounding towns. That's very much change too, even if it's not the form of the buildings.
Yes, this is the discounted price because the hardware is a bit old. However, I think there are some decent affordable routers around the world. More so if you are open to ordering from China. I haven't been following the ultra cheap space too much, but you should definitely check out the forums. There are also APU2 boards (https://www.pcengines.ch/) that may provide a good bang for the buck. There's also old x86 hardware if you don't care about power consumption.
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>That would be absurd, as such decision has no technical merit.

You think a CTO's job is only to decide which technologies to use?
Now this is something I will donate money to…

Python with Rust as its foundation sounds like the best idea ever.

I’m curious to know whether or not it would be possible (or reasonable) to eventually get the same or better performance as CPython.
second-hand price.
I just keep my home folder in /etc/username and use this construct:

(just an example, not actual)

environment.etc = {

"qemu/bridge.conf".text = ''allow br0'';

"username/.inputrc".text = ''
\$include /etc/inputrc
"\e[A": history-search-backward
"\e[B": history-search-forward
set show-all-if-ambiguous on
set completion-ignore-case on
'';

};

to write configs into /etc proper and my home folder.
China’s First Major Sci-Fi Movie ‘The Wandering Earth’ to Be Released in U.S.
Which company? I know State Farm isn’t good
For my eBooks, I use a java app called DocFetcher. It's indexing and word search capabilities are pretty nice, and I've had great luck with it, especially as I can set it up portably.
Digital exchange loses $137M as founder takes passwords to the grave
Speaking of Windows, their situation is worse. I remember installing a couple of games and suddenly my "My Documents" folder had "EA", "EA Games", "Electronic arts", "Rockstar games" folders.
Good point, I had almost forgotten about those!
I would honestly like to blacklist my home folder. Do you want to create a new file/folder? I am notified with a popup and if you ask to often I am gonna stop using that. Not really workable but one can still dream...
What's odd is that you talk to people in the following places who are convinced that an "unlimited" number of people want to live in their area:

* The bay area

* Boulder

* Austin

* Portland

* Seattle

And so on and so forth - and even right here in Bend, Oregon!

I have a suspicion that everyone wanting to live in all those places probably isn't actually true.
Eh, I still wouldn't say they're equivalent. A CEO with an ego you can build a strategic relationship with, a headless mass of uncoordinated politicking and beuraucracy is that times 1000, and is often far more impenetrable from the ground floor
People will nearly always opt for the language that conveys the most meaning, even if doing so outstrips the underlying phenomena being named, since the point of language is to convey meaning
You're right. I can see anything like scripts getting difficult. It wouldn't work for all use cases.
> IIUC, it's because a war would likely cause harm to a large number of clients at the same time. The insurance company could not afford to pay so many concurrent claims.

disclaimer, I know nothing about the insurance industry, but for sake of intellectual argument:

insurance companies already have to deal with scenarios like this e.g. home earthquake insurance in California.

They do this by re-selling the income and risk from their policies in the "re-insurance" market. This spreads the risk out to counter-parties (who are in the other parts of the US and the world) who buy this stream of income+risk.

In turn, those counter parties are probably buying the income+risk of all kinds of insurance policies from different geographies so any one event of earthquake or war is less likely to catastrophically affect them.
The backstory, for those unfamiliar with Renaissance: they have more than one fund available. Their highest performing fund, Medallion, is the one which made them famous in the 90s. In the early 2000s it was closed to outside investment (likely due to capacity constraint for the strategies it uses). It's now exclusively an investment vehicle for employees and their families, somewhat like a large proprietary trading firm.

The really interesting thing here is that Renaissance received clearance to roll employee IRAs into the Medallion fund. That leverages significant tax advantages on a fund which already provides significant returns for its employees.
Yes I will. In the mean time the most recent photo is always here: http://imgur.com/a/BqbwqRG
I encourage you to read the local progressive press in San Francisco - for instance, the 48 hills blog[1]. There is a serious and growing sentiment that removing local housing authority and controls is the proper solution to these problems.

In fact, there are governmental working bodies that are moving in this direction - Plan Bay Area comes to mind, as well as Governor Newsome's proposed transportation funding mechanism[2]. Or just read the literature from the Yimby party in SF[3] - see part VI, bullet #2 ...

[1] https://48hills.org/

[2] https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2019/01/gavin-newsom-...

[3] https://yimbyaction.org/sf/platform/
Not enough people recommend the Tor Browser at times like this. It's really good!

>Cookies (don't allow cookies, don't browse the web while logged in to facebook, google, etc)

Even better, try not to have account on those sites at all.

>Javascript, browser fingerprinting (disable unnecessary javascript)

Firefox has a good about:config option privacy.resistFingerprinting

>Installing sketchy apps (which is most of them - don't)

F-Droid is a good repository of trustworthy apps: https://f-droid.org
Windows does something similar with Alternate Data Streams [0]

[0] https://textslashplain.com/2016/04/04/downloads-and-the-mark...
You're right, it's a collective action problem. It would be better for everyone if everyone developed entry level people, but looking at just your own company, rather than the whole trade, it may make more sense to avoid investing in entry level employees. So I guess I lied when I said I'll never understand it. I do understand it. I just think it's misguided.
Asking questions about protected characteristics (race, sexual orientation, gender, age, disabilities, etc) isn’t illegal but it’s incredibly stupid since the company is leaving itself open to trivial wrongful discrimination suits whenever the reject a candidate. If you don’t ask for those details, you can’t be accused of using them to screen out candidates.
I think it's less "the Rust crowd is excited about wasm" and more as "there is a crowd which is excited about doing certain things with languages and software, and Rust and wasm are both exciting means for those ends." Perhaps a good approximation is, they're both tools for using high-level programming techniques with high performance for domains that were previously constrained in terms of what languages you could use.
Can you propose a control experiment? What will that look like? Cold, but not too cold chambers? Hot chambers?
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maybe ~/etc would have sounded more "cool"
Better rate limiting within Node.js – includes middleware for ExpressJS
I concur with the others. I'd be shocked if this wasn't some kind of identity theft scheme.
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Those videos were totally unnecessary, and could have been still images.
The Bay Area is still much worse. In the NYC area you can rent a place for a family in Queens or parts of Jersey on a modest income and still have a not-ridiculous commute into Manhattan. There aren’t really any equivalents left in the Bay Area.
Deep Learning ‘Godfather’ Bengio Worries About China's Use of AI
Perhaps a dumb question but...

"The mysterious object flew within about 15 million miles of our planet on October 14.

But it wasn't until four days later that humanity finally spotted it in telescope data."

How do we know any of this if we didn't see it until later? Or are we just reverse extrapolating it's orbital path from what we saw later?
Have you seen actual programs (not shell scripts) that do that? I've heard of code smells, but that's a programmer smell with there.
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Hardware is quite important; wireless standards keep evolving, some people care about how many ethernet ports they have, and system details (CPU, RAM, flash memory) determine performance and features (you lose a lot trying to fit your system in 32MB of flash).