skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It comes with a good slogan that will sound familiar to libertarians: Pollution is Theft!

Even anarcho capitalists can agree with this. Polluting the air shouldn't be free.

When it comes to the Climate Change debate, we have to stop talking about temperature and start talking about POLLUTION as a general phenomenon. Regardless of temperature. If you pollute my air I am going to care. You would care if a polluter emitted smoke near you and created smog. You would care if nuclear waste was dumped into your water. You only don't care because it's done far away, to someone else, and garbage washes up on someone else's shore, and someone else has to eat the fish with the plastic and mercury. If it wasn't many years away from hitting you, you'd care too.

1) Carbon Tax and Dividend is a bipartisan bill introduced in Nov 2018 to tax Emissions and REDISTRIBUTE 100% OF THE PROCEEDS TO THE PEOPLE OF AMERICA. Even anarcho capitalists agree you should tax negative externalities and provide restitution to those you harm. Climate Justice. Pollution shouldn't be free.

2) When WE THE PEOPLE are getting dividends from the carbon tax we will vote for it to be higher not lower.

3) Even the fossil fuel companies know the jig is up and are diversifying. Their monopoly was sustained by the same government, with decades of subsidies including and especially every time OPEC raised prices. All the wars we fought in the middle east and all the deaths are so we can fuel our cars with their fuel. We have a moral responsibility to become energy independent of the middle east.

4) Meanwhile the TRUTH IS that electric cars represent CHOICE of how you are going to generate your energy. Regular gas guzzlers are a LOCK IN same as Nintendo consoles are loss leaders that play only Nintendo cartridges. Do you want your fridge and computer to have a gas tank or doy you get electricity and let SOLAR WIND GEOTHERMAL HYDRO NUCLEAR FISSION/FUSION compete against fossil fuels? Yes. But for cars? Ooooh whatever can we do.

5) Did you know the EDISON MUSEUM IN NJ has electric cars designed in the early 20th century? Did you know the fossil fuel industry made sure TESLA was denied his funding to bring electricity to the world in larger ways because they were afraid of competition?

If the US government would not subsidize fossil fuels and allow markets to operate, we would have long had electric cars. It is still subsidizing coal miners and gas pipelines. It is choosing winners and losers and even Arnold Schwartzenneger made fun of Trump for trying to save coal and roll back pollution regulations to do it.

Electric cars get cheaper every year and would have already been cheap if not for government fossil fuel subsidies all thru the 60s, 70s 80s and til now.

You don’t run your fridge off fossil fuels so notice how “YOUR GAS COSTS TWICE AS MUCH” usually means CAR. In every other case, I could care less that “my gas” costs as much, I’ll use an electric stove and electric computer.
Thanks. It's unclear if Onetab does what I want because the UI is so horrible:

- I open a bunch of tabs.

- I click the Onetab icon. It closes all my tabs. What?

- It's now showing me a page listing the tabs I had open. Ok, I can name this group. I name it "Foo". Then I hit "Restore these tabs".

- I now have my tabs back. Great.

- I click the Onetab icon. It closes all my tabs again, and this time my named group is gone, replaced with an unnamed group containing the tabs as they were. What?

- I restore the tabs again (sigh).

- I open another window with some tabs. Maybe I can save this window as a separate group. I click the Onetab icon. It closes all my windows!

It's completely nonsensical. From what I can tell, Onetab is designed to wrap all your current windows into one group that can be saved and then restored later, but restoring it actually deletes the saved group.

It's as if you had a photo scrapbook in real life that disappeared when you opened it, leaving you only with the photos. Then, when you want to put the scrapbook back on the shelf, you get a new scrapbook and put everything back in.
There are lots of ways to save money if you're okay with lying.
I don't know that it's sexist. I'm not claiming that women are inferior to men.

I am claiming that as far as I can tell, there is a difference between how men and women view the importance of a costly wedding. It's possible that you think this is a sexist idea. I don't, and I think it's just a value judgement. (ie, a preference)
When your threat level is government agencies then, sure, you have issues. But git wouldn't solve anything, unless you have a way to verify the hash or signature.
Food is the first cost around here weird to see it so far in your list.

My breakdown of the three largest expenses was about 40% food, 20% clothing and 10% the honeymoon.
And I think you are going to bring a lot more data to back up the nobility of "bringing a child into the world" because I think that's straight up BS. Ignoring the scores of unplanned pregnancies I think the notion that "bringing a child into the world" is "the most important thing most people will do" is reductionist and frankly disgusting that you think THAT is "the most important thing most people will do". What a sorry state our world is in if that is the case.
Language theory and lambda calculus classes were some of my favourite in college. I wonder how many serious bugs would be averted if programming languages came with more complete type systems.
Cake is a commodity. I don't have to buy it from a vendor that specializes specifically in wedding cakes.

I should have set the premise up a little better: I can go to my local supermarket (2 9s) and order several cakes of different sizes, and get a fancy serving tray, to get the multi-tiered cake appearance that's classically what I think of, when I think wedding cake.

If my supermarket doesn't give me exactly what I want, nobody would really care, since most people don't go to supermarkets to by Enterprise Cake. They go with a more specialized vendor (5 9s).
Shameless plug: This script I wrote a while ago "automates" setting up a hidden tor ssh service that isn't faulty for ssh-host key enumeration. I'd like to improve it, but I'm not sure which audience I should target. If you could review/try it out and you have any feedback, a GitHub issue or comment here would be very appreciated.

https://github.com/norpol/opensshd-tor-easy-setup
> The countries we live in do lots of bad things but we can still be proud of our country

I've always found the idea of 'being proud of your country' to be a strange one. Pretty much all of my country's accomplishments were before I was born, and even the ones after I was born were done without any involvement by me.

So what's left? Should I be proud that I happeend to be born on this patch of land? Why?

“The cheapest sort of pride is national pride; for if a man is proud of his own nation, it argues that he has no qualities of his own of which he can be proud; otherwise he would not have recourse to those which he shares with so many millions of his fellowmen.

The man who is endowed with important personal qualities will be only too ready to see clearly in what respects his own nation falls short, since their failings will be constantly before his eyes. But every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud adopts, as a last resource, pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and glad to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer
The Z coord is a flexible field that can handle any numerical range. Zoom level, elevation, timestamp, etc.
Google uses algorithms to check for pay discrimination, find more underpaid men
Second HIV remission patient rekindles cure hope
NAT traversal is a useful and underrated Tor hidden service use case.

Careful though: installing the version of Tor which is included in Ubuntu’s distribution is not recommended, is often very out of date.

Use the Tor project’s PPA instead.
Yeah. I really really can't think of a single valid reason why DarkMatter would want this that is not malicious.

From the EFF

> The concern in this case is that DarkMatter has made its business spying on internet communications, hacking dissidents’ iPhones, and other cyber-mercenary work. DarkMatter’s business objectives directly depend on intercepting end-user traffic on behalf of snooping governments. Giving DarkMatter a trusted root certificate would be like letting the proverbial fox guard the henhouse.

Its also worth mentioning that the FF truststore is regularly used as the truststore in various flavors of Linux.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/02/cyber-mercenary-groups...
Ask HN: DevOps Career Advice for an Oldy
Hello,

I'm a late 30's devops / SRE guy who previously worked as a sysadmin in financial services. Suddenly, the jobs in my area seem to ask for only 5 years of experience of Python, AWS, Kubernetes, Docker and CICD, my salary demands are too high and I'm being interviewed by people in their 20's who think I'm an idiot. I'm struggling with the whole process I have several paths and I was hoping you could pick what YOU would do:

A) Continue learning more Python - I'm good but I don't know the math and sorting questions I'm getting asked. Continue with AWS. Take a lower-paying job with folks 15 years younger just so I can pick up Docker, Kubernetes, etc. That's a 30-40K pay decrease in New York.

Downside: I have grey hair and I think I'm competing with cheaper people.

B) Go independent contractor. I have done this but I am very bad with marketing myself, and my network isn't wide enough to score jobs, so I'm stuck with recruiters. I like this the most but I'm also struggling.

Downside: Everything else is perfect, but my marketing skills are 0 after all these years.

C) Go management. I've already been a manager on the infra side. I shied away in future roles thinking I preferred hands-on (even though I got accolades as a people person and a well-organized improver of infrastructure).

Downside: Narrow job listings to choose from, also weak at marketing.

What would you do and why?
Anonymized Metrics of 150k+ Programmers
Is this specific to India or in general?
Weirdly, you seem to be missing the fact that children happen as a consequence of sex (and not uncommonly as a consequence of promiscuous sex).

Accidentally becoming pregnant can be exactly as "hedonistic" as accidentally becoming HIV positive.
...the gamers that have specifically been cultivated as fans by the AAA distributors and their studios. For years.

There are plenty of people who consider themselves gamers that won't touch "gamers" and their community with an 11-foot pole.

I am particularly miffed about the current gaming business environment, wherein many games require a constant network connection, force you to play with strangers, and set up the gameplay to encourage frequent in-game purchases. And you can't pause it for a week and pick it back up right where you left it. Why would the major distributors care about people like me, who will wait until all planned DLC is released, then buy the complete package on sale and then not buy anything else for 6 months, when they can string along addicted superfans who will pay $15 per month, forever, and also take the place of well-programmed NPC scripting and AI by being a vicious live-human opponent for everyone else that plays?

See Fallout 76 for an egregious example of this. There are no NPCs in it. So the intentional experience for players is to wander around an empty-feeling world, full of mutant animals whose main challenge is to kill them before they eat you, getting quests from holotapes, and to have human griefers--who are bored with the game, but still either want to get their money's worth out of what they paid for it, or to punish the developers by ruining the gaming experience for others--pestering them constantly to activate the dueling function or launch nukes at each other. I'm not going to subject myself to that, or pay money to allow my misery to be someone else's fun.

But I had zero hesitation whatsoever in snapping up West of Loathing, or its DLC, Gun Manor. That's single-player, offline, pausable, scripted, funny, and has simple mechanics with clear win conditions.

No online leaderboards or competitive mechanics or guilds or clans or PvP means you don't ever have to play with people who make the game less fun for you. If there's no meta-game, you never have to touch the out-of-band communities. The "gamers" become irrelevant. Maybe someone writes a FAQ with spoilers, that you might look up if you get stuck.
Hmm, when did you try it? FaunaDB and the cloud service have changed a lot in the last few years, and performance is always improving.

Typical write latencies in Cloud are in the 100ms range because the data is globally replicated. Typical read latencies are the 1ms-10ms range, because global coordination is not required, discounting the additional latency from the client to the closest datacenter.

If you experienced something worse than that recently, maybe there is some other issue going on.
Ask HN: Long-term power of Domain Expertise in Tech?
For those that have been in the industry for a while (like 10+ yrs) and have worked at once company for about 5yrs.

I imagine getting domain + institutional knowledge was extremely valuable. Couple questions though, since I'm struggling a bit with trying to be content just sticking around a company for too long but kinda like it where I'm at now.

How were you able to not cave in to working for another company with "fancy new shiny tech" for so long?

Once you left, how valuable was the experience in gaining that domain + institutional knowledge in a new setting?
Visual Group Theory (YouTube Videos)
So don't say anything you're not allowed to say. I think the main point of a throwaway here is to say perfectly legal things, just without worrying about potential death threats.
That's why I wrote "it doesn't introduce anything beyond the source code into the binary". Unfortunately, I forgot to emphasize the anything.

A build process that names things with timestamps or leaks your locale into the build configuration (or doesn't pin build-time dependency versions) will make the build depend on things other than the source code (both program and build settings) you made available.

It may even be desirable for it to be non-reproductible - if, for instance, you want to use optimizations targeted to your specific system, then your build system will have to introduce the architecture information into the build process and your build will result in a unique binary that targets your own machine.
More realistically: we bought a company even though we knew full well the founders sold spy software, now that it probably becoming clear that Saudi Arabia used it for murder, we think it's best that said founders leave quietly with a good exit package because values.
Solving the model is usually CPU bound while rendering is usually done by the GPU.
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/11/u-s-secret-service-warns...
One possible curl/bash attack is to serve a safe file to browsers but a malicious one to curl. In that case a step where you verify the integrity of the file curl downloads would be useful.

(I seem to recall there being a way for the server to reliably guess whether the file was being piped or saved to disc, as well, which would let you restrict the malicious version even more. Google is failing me at the moment, though.)
Cooking, biking, sailing.

Anything that doesn't require a screen, basically.
I've been to weddings where people do cupcakes in lieu of cake. Everyone gets dessert faster, since you don't have to cut it up and serve it individually. I was a fan of the planned efficiency. The couple did actually have a small cake for the ceremonial cutting of the cake. Beyond that, everyone was OK with cupcakes, if they cared to eat dessert.
Is 'maximising your compensation' the only goal?

Isn't maximising your earnings supposed to be a means to something greater, not an end in itself?
> So we should be blaming Brin and Page for this directly?

I'm totally fine with that.

I'd add Schmidt into the mix too. He's had the biggest had in turning Google into what it is.
Often times, it is the reports themselves that mention average and not median. If you want their full data set, you usually have to pay out the nose for their 'premium service' or whatever.

At the end of the day, this article isn't investigative journalism. It's not different from articles where they obtain a quote from an email or phone call with a university professor on some topic, without a critical analysis of that professor's research focus, conflicts of interest, etc.
The goal is likely to show that they are managing to penetrate the competitive Indian market, a valuable market to be in, in the long run.

Whether they are able to remain competitive is another matter.
CFO quitting might be something to do with "dirty" russian money ...

Widening Russia Money Laundering Scandal Hits European Banks

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-05/dirty-mon...

..."Revolut suspended the use of “a more advanced sanctions screening system”....
> it has a moral and fiscal obligation to make as much money as possible, in perpuitity.

This is simply untrue.

Also a 'moral obligation to make as much money as possible' is fucking hilarious.
Just because failure can happen doesn't mean it's frequent. For the record AWS does this to protect against correlated failure. At their scale, they assume they have some percentage of local nodes down at any given time, so have designed the system to tolerate both network partitions and local failure at the same time.
To be fair on the cake:

Most regular cakes are small affairs. If you go to that same baker and ask for a 3-tier, ornately decorated cake that will feed at least 50-100 people and has a keepsake decoration on top, it'll be more.

Cakes like that are a different beast. They require special recipes so they don't collapse themselves. I know professional bakeries are able to spend less time than I did making my sister's wedding cake - a 3-tier affair - but they are still a decent amount of work and effort. Doubly so if you are paying the baker to transport and assemble the cake.

So yeah, of course wedding cakes are expensive, depending on the bells and whistles. But so are equally decadent cakes with the bells and whistles.
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Because I experience it with the requirements on my own work, hear it internally in discussions, and see it addressed in upcoming work.
Final Tagless Seen Alive
See also pure type systems

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure_type_system
> You can't use ReCaptcha (or any captcha) for ads. Captchas work because they prevent access to content users want until they solve the captcha.

If you've used ReCaptcha in the past few years [1] you might have noticed it often doesn't ask you to solve a captcha. The parent is describing using a similar approach of detecting bots to identify ad impressions that shouldn't be counted (spam).

[1] https://security.googleblog.com/2014/12/are-you-robot-introd...

(Disclosure: I work at Google in ads, though not in spam.)
New Video Shows the Critical Moment Hayabusa2 Fired a Bullet into Ryugu Asteroid
Do you have a source for this or is this speculation?
There might be greater inefficiency in weddings compared to restaurants, due to the requirement to serve every diner's main course within ~15 minutes. Higher kitchen door peak bandwidth, but lower average utilisation.

Of course, you've got to balance that against the efficiency gains from the much shorter menu.
We had a deaf tuner. He “heard” through his hands.
Joining? This is the result of it. Every parcel and package is photographed and available to LE.
Hey kfichter, care to share what your stack looked like?
Did you use any public libraries (e.g. BeautifulSoup)?
Best Startups to Work for in Copenhagen
Would it be fair to say that if i am considering Gemfire/Geode, i should also consider Fauna?
Paul Graham: a soft-spoken force for equality
I'm sure a lot of casino operators feel the same way.
> As someone who is planning a wedding, I don't really see what they are trying to "disrupt"?

These days, "disrupt" is really just fig-leaf language for "How do I get me a piece of those sweet, sweet margins?"
Using EBPF from Go for Fun and Profit
To be honest I don’t blame you. I have the same anxiety whenever I consider posting anything on the internet. Once it’s posted, there’s no going back.
How serious is this vs. tongue-in-cheek? The tone of this article (dripping with sarcasm, I think? E.g. over-repetition of "Web Design".. Web Design 3.0) seems weirdly out-of-sync with the content. If it's a Kaufman-esque joke it's done really well... if it's an actual advertisement for nicepage, it's weird... _BUT_ if it's a stealth thinkpiece about how _no_ design really matters if your content is off, it's absolutely brilliant...
How Much Money Computer Jobs Make in Your State
Not the Graham you might think.
List of highest-grossing media franchises
That statement was never valid in India. Facebook introduced (or tried to) FreeBasics, but they had to withdraw after Net Neutrality regulations.
They've "fixed" the loophole by sending you a physical letter with a pin number that you have to input onto their website to activate the service. However, someone that's targetting you could still steal your mail with the pin.
Everything old is new again. Hard to believe you can start an email marketing company now and still be successful. Just goes to show old, boring markets have room for new players.
What decision or choices do you make based on that new data stream? What is the advantage, because I really don’t get the idea.

Edit: I see below; that theft awareness and not having to go check the mailbox are the features... ok, I guess. I have trouble believing that this applies to so many people they need to support a public facing service for it.
I like knowing what’s coming so that if it’s missing I know a theft has occurred, and given how infrequent I receive useful mail I know when to check.
I know of no jurisdiction where becoming an elementary school teacher requires a professional degree or practical internship.
It’s well known the FBI monitors mail going through USPS. They are able to flag addresses or people for inspection and backtrack all mail.[1][2] People used to send a lot more bombs through the mail and recently anthrax. I’m supprised it’s not so well known.

I’m not sure you have an expectation of privacy sending mail through anyone like USPS, FedEx, and UPS. They can open whatever they want at any time. Tracking packages should be trivial.

[1]https://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/04/us/monitoring-of-snail-ma...

[2]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mail_Isolation_Control_and_T...
These programs are all about domestic law enforcement. (The same goes for ICE checkpoints inside the us borders).

In the case of TSA and ICE, they feed the prison system with more petty drug offenders.

NSA data is widely used for “alternate reconstruction”, where the NSA flags someone and then the police falsify evidence to make it seem to the courts as though the evidence was obtained legally.

Note that there’s no need to even lie about illegal surveillance that is outsourced to companies like Facebook and palintir, since the right to privacy only extends to government actions in the US (not government contractors).
Eh? Does the sun ever set on American military bases?
privacy.com & other sites that provide disposable CCs are typically banned
Looks good, but I'd need to see more features & screenshots before signing in with my Google account.
I had this back when I lived in Chicago a number of years ago.

Unfortunately, I still have it even though I've moved away so now I get to preview someone else's mail.

The last few times I tried to unsubscribe, the USPS web site was not working properly, so I just roundfile the incoming messages.