skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Follow what they are up to at the stations in Antarctica. It's boring and depressing. Mars won't be any different.
I think a lot of talk about Mars is marketing to sell some other product (books/shows/movies/people etc).
Some other government could (federal), but not the municipal or state governments.

That’s the rub here. These liabilities are hanging around the necks of governments that can’t pull a monetary supply lever.
I'd distinguish between first and third party cookies.

Is there any legitimate and reasonably necessary purpose for third party cookies? And similarly is there any undesirably exploitative use of first party cookies? As I am not a web developer, these are not rhetorical questions.
Possible in the next 50 years, but highly unlikely. We might get a few people to land, and maybe return if we're lucky, but that's about it.

Nobody currently has the spare cash to outlay the horrific expenses. (The US has 24 trillion in debts, China is still in the growth phase and unlikely to have the spare readies for a century or so. Nobody else can come close.)
Agreed. I was just bitching about that on twitter.

I was just working through some code to check for the intersection of two lists and use the result to iterate though. Creating new slices to put values in with loop in loops is not a productive use of my time.

I don't really want generics personally, I would just like some magic methods on top of the existing slice/maps in Go. They already are magic in the way they work so why not provide those few helper methods and solve a massive pain point I have with Go.
How to find out if your mobile has a spy app?
IANAL. But this:

"reports last June and December that Facebook had given business partners — including makers of smartphones, tablets and other devices — deep access to users’ personal information, letting some companies effectively override users’ privacy settings."

suggests breach-of-contract. Just by creating those privacy settings, the company is 'saying' to (promising) the customer who elects to use them that it will protect that information. That's an (implied) contract. Subsequently allowing anyone else to access that information is a breach.

It'd be interesting to see FB argue in court that breaking promises was okay as a form of restitution for the services they provide.
The same as anything that makes it to the frontpage - it's of interest to a nontrivial number of members, as determined by the algorithm.

It's not like HN has a mandated theme, it's just a bunch of people interested in somewhat similar stuff.
If you don't like it don't use the site. Viewing a particular website is not necessary 99.9%of the time so no adhesion. And tell your friends to do the same. Create your ad and tracking blockers and get everyone to use them. Create an anti-ad and ant-tracking movement. Let all the ad tracking websites die for all I care. But just don't tell me how to run my website or how many stupid cookie and gdpr popups I have to pester my viewers with or dictate to me one revenue model over another so you can sleep better at night knowing that you have protected the masses from themselves . And get your regulations off my back. Tell your teams of lawyers to go back chasing ambulances rather than the small businesses who are just trying to survive.
> Why should anyone be forced to live against their wishes?

People are free to not live if they so wish so. There's nothing stopping anyone from cutting their own supply of oxygen in the privacy of their own home.

> Are the reasons religious and it has become part of law?

Depends on where you live but yes many countries are monotheist so it is a bit biased in that regard.

> Once upon a time, termination of pregnancies were illegal, but desperate women tried it anyways risking their lives.

That is true and why abortion should remain or become legal.

> If one has degenerative illnesses or even simply a lack of will to carry on living, why shouldn’t they be given the dignity of departure. Afterall, our bodies ..and lives..are our properties, yes?

It's a complicated topic considering many patients who think about this are in desperation and lack feeling of control but completely agree that people have the right to die so physician assisted suicide should be legal.
>"Drawing from the right side of the brain" is basically just a brain hack to allow a person to essentially trace what is in front of them.

I really don't agree with this sentiment mostly due to the way it is voiced. Yes, the core of "drawing on the right side of the brain" is learning to see objectively and draw what you see. I wouldn't call that a "brain hack" or say that is "essentially tracing" what's in front of them (since "tracing" is kind of a dirty word in art context). Even if it were, that by itself is a very valuable thing to a lot of people, since a lot of styles of drawing and painting boil down to essentially just that, whether it's drawings of nature, portraits, or still lives.

I would say that learning to see is a fundamental drawing skill and this book teaches you valuable things by forcing you to stop and consider what things actually look like.

Of course, that by itself isn't sufficient, but it doesn't need to be. Nobody is suggesting that someone use this book as their only resource. But I do think it's a good introductory book for people who have very little to no experience drawing.
Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use microservices." Now they have 501 problems.
You may have that "founder personality" that makes it a little hard to work for other people. If you get over that, you should actually be a pretty good candidate, assuming you may have technical AND marketing/business skills right now. I don't think not having a degree will be a huge deal breaker for you.
Fun with SQL: Text and System Functions in Postgres
More than 1B Google users data is on risk
Chrome tool used to only throttle downloads, not posts etc, did they fix that?
read cracking the coding interview and leet code. Then use your startup as precious work experience and meticulously detail the value you contributed in your domain. A failed startup is not the issue, it’s getting noticed... so your resume needs careful crafting
खतरे में एक अरब लोगों का डाटा
And immigrants have no chance?
Beyond the Surveillance Business Model
>and probably roughly how much money they spend.

Google has access to almost all credit card transaction data so that should be easy.
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You should be fine. Start applying for jobs. You have 7 years of experience. If you want (and can afford it) go finish your degree. Professors are definitely a resource and, since you will be more experienced than most, mentor people we owe it to the new CS people to help them in anyway we can like those who have helped us.
Slavery and child labour are coercive. Not letting you use a website is only coercive if that website is Facebook or Google or some other monopoly core to a person's ability to function in modern society. If you can't access Bob's Bargain Basement Underwear then you've got plenty of competitors to go to.
Thanks for sharing. Just wanted to add that I too think Dharma Bums is Kerouac's best book, I really enjoyed reading every page.
Precedent:

229 If a builder builds a house for someone, and does not construct it properly, and the house which he built falls and kills its owner, then that builder shall be put to death.

230. If it kills the son of the owner, the son of that builder shall be put to death.

http://iws.collin.edu/mbailey/hammurabi%27s%20laws.htm
Well yeah, Google uses Go, so clearly it must be the best technology out there! Why would a hip startup use crusty old enterprise technology like Java?
I used throttle to slow POST file upload for testing few months back. It worked.
The newer jvm languages (particularly thinking of Kotlin and Scala) though, generally are type-second languages.
Man if you think protobuf is fast, just wait until you try C pod structs with type-length headers.

They are literally infinitely faster to encode/decode than protobuf.

They even have the same obnoxious append-only extensibility of protobuf if that’s what really gets your jimmies firing.
SimBad: A Rogue Adware Campaign on Google Play – Check Point Research
the cost of power is chronically underestimated
I have worked in monoliths, implemented across several development sites, with 300 devs on average.

Monoliths only fail when architects don't have a clue about modular development and writing libraries.

Same architects will just design distributed spaghetti code, with increased complexity and maintenance costs.
Thanks. I can't upgrade clients to add reconnect functionality, and I can only work on the server side to solve the scaling issue. I think I should refactor my service as you mentioned by separating dedicated connection-managing servers and stateless worker servers such that I can scale workers.
The fact that the best method of verification we have is a line in an faq page says a lot about how much you should trust the app.
I find the idea of taxing one’s primary residence utterly distasteful. People live and work and buy things..all of which is taxable.

A house sits and does nothing. It doesn’t ‘consume’ anything and if it does consume or it’s residents consume, that’s taxed. We should have consumption tax..not property taxes for one’s primary residence.

We have road tax, gas tax, sales tax, income tax ..we pay for utilities, essential services, schools. But why should we pay taxes for living under a roof and getting married and giving birth and I guess when we die. That’s being taxed for existing.
Move to bay area and join an early stage startup, either as a cofounder or as a first engineer.
asn1 for the win
As these are photos from Flicker, they can include random people not aware about how their photos are used and where they are published. So it doesn't matter what license does photo have. I think it should be illegal to publish other people's faces on the Internet or TV, or recognise them without getting their consent. Also, search engines like Google should not be allowed to index such photos.
Top 5 Ways to Champion B2B ECommerce
Relationships can be your biggest asset. After 7 years in the industry I imagine you made a few friends. Reach out to them see if they/their company are hiring. They will know of your experience and skill first-hand.

Other than that just get out there. Send out some resumes, go to local events, that kind of thing.
Thanks a lot for the tips. Unfortunately, credits from my school expire after 5 years, so I'd have to start from the beginning and to be fully honest I really don't think I'd benefit from the material anymore as me and my team were grappling with pretty hard CS problems for the past 5 years that truly pushed me to learn and internalize a lot of CS.
>Dwarf Fortress is an unsung touchstone of internet culture.

Surely DF is far from "unsung"? I'd even describe DF as being downright notorious.
I really do wonder what kind of criterion people generally use to describe something as "obscure", "unsung" and such, since I find myself rarely agreeing.
Understanding C++ Modules: Part 1: Hello Modules, and Module Units
> I get what signing is — but to the ordinary person it solves a problem they didn’t even knew they had.

It's not just people are not learning. I don't see any ordinary email client is encouraging people to use signing or encryption. Which is very odd to me.

Just imagine what if all the email client start asking their user to sign their email, and mark unsigned email as "Untrustful".
I was hoping that the comments would have summarized the article.

Damn. I'll have to read it myself. :-(
I don’t see how that is clearer than giving operations a name.

Convince me?

I mean, I could decompose a lot of things into their more primitive representations from named functions, but when scanning a code review, I don’t want to miss a bug because someone transposed a colon in a slice operation.

It’s elegant in a minimalist way that all these things can be implemented in terms of slice operations, but why force everyone to reimplement these whenever they need to do something common that in other languages you just use the stdlib for and forget about?
Serious question:

WHY has not Boeing turned every single aircraft of theirs into a drone-capable device?

They should have a person, like we have with air traffic control, sitting monitoring all planes in flight, but that person is sitting in a pit on the ground.

They have to monitor X number of craft - and in the event of any anomolous data.... be ready to take over control of the machine in the air.

Imagine if all pilots had a life sensor on them, and should they fail - control of the craft auto switches to ground control.

We can already kill millions of people with dron pilots in nevada. Why not make drone pilots fly airliners.

Heck, in a few years - you just need a few technicians in the cock pit to be sure there are not physical issues - and let the ground pilots do all the work - but the air pilots can take over if the ground connection is lost...
The C919 has been almost ready for a real long time now. Comac can't even get their license built DC-9 up and running. As of last year I think there were five flying a total average of around one flight segment daily. The C919 is an entirely new design intended to have more domestic Chinese content — fat chance it'll be in production real soon now, even less of a chance it becomes a serious contender.

Meanwhile the Russians, who have significantly more experience with airliners, released the SSJ-100 to fairly positive reviews. Unfortunately the after sales support was trash and airlines struggled to keep it flying. Selling a competitive airplane is far more than just the plane itself. There's no way Airbus or Boeing see Comac as a threat.

The real threat was Bombardier. Their C-series was an extremely competitive offering and Bombardier has the support infrastructure in place to sell it. Both Swiss and airBaltic seem to love it. Of course, Airbus bought a majority stake in the program.
I'm financially ruined at this point so a move to bay area would be a little difficult for me. Oddly enough, I'm still passionate about startups so this might actually work for me if I can find a way to finance it!
>all of these organizations have fairly diverse tech stacks to my knowledge

>This leaves me wondering what software all these places have in common.

dunno what systems you're talking about, but seems likely they are mostly x86 systems and maybe even mostly using Intel hardware and microcode

those systems can-be/are rooted and more, to my knowledge
Macbook is a very poor choice for developer because of the keyboard without Escape key. I tried to use keyboard without Esc and it's simply too painful to use.

I don't care about the tax. But I can't buy a tool built for aliens by aliens. I could adapt to all the crazy keyboard changes all manufacturers tried over the years. But removing Esc key makes it completely unusable.
Thanks a lot! The book looks great will order right away :)
Yup, that was it. Once I turned off GPU rendering and waited a while, CPU usage dropped back to normal. Thanks so much!
Silicon Valley is erecting a monument to itself
They actually did a smart thing. Whatsapp is a private messenger, and random person from outside cannot see the photo while social networks are the opposite: they try to make everything you post available to maximum number of people. People might think their photo will be visible only to their friends and might be not aware that it now can be scraped by anyone.
Intuitively it seems that it should be possible. Physical fitness, confidence, kindness, empathy, social standing, even appearance: these things can all to a large extent be improved through effort.

Facial attractiveness seems extremely important to both genders, and is rather difficult and expensive to change. But certainly someone with a merely average face could achieve overall attractiveness by pumping enough points into the above areas.
To get back to your last open app you double-press the "last app" button on android P. Way better than swiping.
China blocks India's bid to designate Masood Azhar as a global terrorist
Is end-to-end encryption applied to files?
This is certainly cool tech, but I don't think they'll sell many of these.

I worked on advanced mobility products for over 15 years and with hundreds of quadriplegic folks in wheelchairs and listened to all of them.

Over those years I saw a lot of very cool products designed for them that they didn't want, need, or have any interest in using.

A wheelchair that goes off road is one of them. Most of those folks have no interest at all in that, and most will tell you, if you get to know them well enough, they're afraid of it.

There's good reasons for that too. We're talking about people that cannot pick up a sandwich or open a can of soda. They cannot lean back and forth much, or turn side to side. They don't have the muscle or muscle control to handle the shocks of bumps of going off pavement.

Now I have met some paraplegics that would love those. Not many, but a few. They were all "Type A" personalities who loved risky behaviors even after braking their backs.
Join a funded startup that's growing quickly. These (supposedly) pay market rate salaries (although "market rate" is rather skewed in the Bay Area these days...it probably won't be FAANG-like). They're also always looking for people, and they have an immediate market for every feature they put out (which can be a big help in avoiding the burnout/depression that comes with a failed startup), and your financial outcomes on average are usually better than with early-stage pre-product-market-fit startups.
We can mostly understand it when reading but it really is not a good idea to default to danish for a multitude of reasons.
Debug HTTP requests to your production server on your local machine
I use Netguard for this. Works well.

https://www.netguard.me

No root required, open source etc.
Yes, in the sense of busybox I would say.
Thanks a lot. This looks so promising. I am reading the docs :)
I think that's a fair point, though I think that semantic meaning is often decided by popular vote. If the masses of undergrads excited about AI have decided that RL == "Deep RL" == DQN, then that's the practical definition one should when discussing RL around the water cooler (for instance, "whether RL works in commercial applications").

I am not really aware of any RL (deep or not) being deployed in commerce besides bandit problems used in recommender systems and the strong similarities between shortest-paths / graph planning. Any thoughts?
It is funny how the world wide web was invented for the purpose of improving scientific publishing. It revolutionized everything but scientific publishing. Scientists still seem to be publishing their research as PDFs with citations written at the end of the page
This is actually nice. Made me smile early in the morning. :)
Audit the Federal Reserve
http://www.emptyloop.com/unlocker/

I use it in Win 7; I think it works most of the time (not always).
Vue CLI 3 Full-Stack App Structure
Not really when one's work is related to graphics programming.
That's great advice. Thanks a lot :)
That's true, thank you very much.
Revisiting Rothenburg Ob Der Tauber: Germany's Most Beautiful Town
I feel like I see this quite often with large, single man projects, both inside and outside of IT (Henry Darger comes to mind). I feel like there might be some kind of bias at work here, but I do think it's interesting to see that traits like "being a good developer" don't seem to correlate very strongly with making large, successful personal projects.
Yes. Your correction is better than mine. Thank you!
Exactly like it was with Chrome “applications“ four or five years ago.
List of dead Google products, services, and devices
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They (We) are pretty nice people. We're rational, scientifically inclined, reasonable, and empathetic. We're responsible for our actions, since we don't have any mystical ideology or supernatural deities to fall back on.

A vast majority of the music we listen mocks stereotypes, oppression, points out to hypocrisy, the real violence and aggression shown by the 'normal' masses.

We have cleaner track records. Some of us will dress up to appear aggressive and immoral, but we know you have pitchforks and judgments that you're waiting to hurl at us.
Wow, I'm surprised to see the typical "Well, why didn't you just use Rust" comment hasn't been posted.

At the end of the day, it sounds like they just had some clunky C++ code that was due for a rewrite anyways (and the author admits as much). If you don't need it to be ultra low latency, some nice abstraction and modularity can already do wonders.

I've found Go to be an excellent Java replacement when all is said and done. Great for the vast majority of services you might write. But if you need to do anything lower level or that involves complex type logic you always end up with a clunky solution (and I'm not going to sing any praises for C++ having an elegant solution either).

That said, modern C++ (especially 17) can be made to look decently clean and without weird behavior in most cases. Yes, there's always the person that shows up and points out weird edge cases that you can run into but the situation is far, far better than it was years ago. With some good engineering practices in encapsulating low level optimized code you can largely limit the "danger surface" of your codebase.
In Erlang it makes perfect sense to have a single counter variable be a gen_server by itself and be part of a supervision hierarchy. Deploying and versioning that counter separately will still correctly get laughed at.
What do you mean by "stalled for years"? I haven't played in a while but according to the website[0] the last development progress wasn't even a month ago.

[0]http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/
The references are based on actual historical figures. We've been known as a community to enjoy bits of entertaining historical trivia now and then. And that page is very, very entertaining.
Imagine how f-ing annoying any city would be if everyone in the streets had a megaphone. Instead of a conspiracist standing on a box and shouting from a corner, now they can echo through the streets and draw other like-minded conspiracists together into a mob. That's what Twitter (and other social media) has allowed.

There's such little thought put into actions because action is immediate and satisfaction is self-served. A group dedicated to seeking action will always find something to nit-pick over to add fuel to the fire. If the desire is bad enough, emotion will surpass logic, which is like an addiction.

When people favor their actions over thinking, and neglect consequences, they will do things that make no sense or do more harm than good. But I suppose as long as someone gets their way, none of that matters to them.
> Idiomatic Go would have you not put on one line what is more clear on two.

Each operation was just clearly described with a single word; I think it's possible to describe them clearly with a single line
No, the MCAS is fundamentally different from the envelope protection on the airbus aircraft, and AFAIK the protections on the 777. The airbus aircraft sensors have triple redundancy, and if even one of the sensors disagrees with the others, the FBW system degrades from Normal law to Direct law.

In the case of Airfrance 447, all three pitot tubes malfunctioned due to icing conditions well outside the the expected range required for type certification for that aircraft. The aircraft also did degrade down from normal law as was expected.

Admittedly, the sidesticks on the airbus do not provide feedback but both pilots ignored the aural "dual input" warning, as well as the warning indication on the panel.
Sorry to go on a tangent, but if they were going the redesign the airframe anyway, why didn't just make the plane aerodynamically stable with the bigger engines (make landing gears longer?), instead of lifting the engines and using software to compensate?