skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That particular story was completely made up. It was implausible to begin with, given that G Suite is a business product with contracts that doesn't just get "banned", and Google confirmed that they weren't aware of any such incident and failed to get in touch with the author.

This comment is a great example on the effectiveness of spreading unsubstantiated FUD.

Last discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17115643

Google response: https://www.reddit.com/r/google/comments/8l231x/google_banne...

> The original poster on Reddit (OP) did not identify him/herself or the customer account. We have made several attempts to reach out to the OP through PM, but have yet to receive a response. (If the OP or someone from his/her company is reading this, please get in touch with me. We have tried to identify the customer based on the information in the original post, including an extensive review of recent support cases, but have not found any cases resembling the description.
NYC tenants sue landlords for bunging IoT 'smart' lock on their front door
That's quite hard to measure, how do you measure expressiveness? Or easiness to grasp and get into? Take a CS graduate and have them build an app either with Rails or with Scala, in which stack will they be more productive? That to me will say a lot about a stack's productivity - because quality of documentation, community, stackoverflow questions, 3rd party libraries, general framework architecture etc etc etc..all those things are crucial for productivity.
My guess is that they're referring to the part where you can't just stop taking them cold turkey without a spectrum of bad things happening to you. It's a slow slow taper process.
Changing yourself due to increased neuroplasticity is a feature, not a bug. That isn't the same thing as "overdosing."
From Nvidia's site:

>NVIDIA Jetson Nano modules will be available from distributors worldwide starting June 2019.
Dell XPS laptop from 2018.
If someone could figure out a legal way to offer recommended-hardware Hackintosh builds as a service†, that'd be pretty ideal for what you're talking about, in the sense of "you could buy one for your mom", and it would "just work" (and hopefully continue to "just work" through updates, if they do it right.)

† I guess, if you were to operate a "Hackintosh OEM", you could sell the hardware build itself without actually doing the step of installing macOS onto it. You'd have a team that would continuously figure out what drivers + config would work best for each given macOS update (with a perfected DSDT, etc.), and then that team would package those patches up and hand them off to e.g. the UniBeast team, such that the regular Hackintoshing process that everyone uses would detect your build by the CMOS vendor+model ID, and just plop that OEM package in instead of requiring any config. And would also install an updater that would update your patch-package, and also delay macOS's own OS updates until a tested patch-package is available.
> can anyone comment on whether Firefox should be considered secure until the work on process-per-site lands

No and Yes.

No, theoretically there could be spectre vulns.
Practically we have seen zero spectre-based attacks in the wild. It's not a big deal.
> Righteous outrage isn't just an addictive drug, it's a hallucinogen. - Elijah William Eby

Although equating outrage with a drug is a metaphor it seems to me to be a strong one. No doubt its effects are mediated by neurotransmitters as are directly chemical hallucinogens. Yet outrage seems to generally enhance depression and anxiety.

Maybe that's because hallucinations caused by outrage feel more like simple perceptions of reality, and it's depressing that reality is so outrageous. Whereas chemically induced hallucinations can more easily be discounted.
Interview with Phil Knight, Founder of Nike (2019)
The problems I have with postgresql in a web backend context are:

Limited support for master/master replication (for availability); there are various approaches but none of them is really first-class in terms of driver support etc.

Limited support for async (non-blocking) connection in a lot of languages. Again, it's often an option but not really first-class.

Limited support for working with non-square-table data (even just simple things like having a "column" that holds a collection). Again supported by the server but often not really first-class in the driver etc.

Rarely clear what the performance behaviour of a given query is going to be - you can write a query that looks exactly like an indexed join (fast) but it will silently decay into a table scan (very slow).

Performance is slowed by mandatory transaction functionality that hardly ever makes sense in the context of a web app. You have to have a lot of indexes (otherwise you'll get aforementioned silent slow queries) but Postgresql will insist on updating all of those indexes before it will ever acknowledge a write. The overwhelming majority of the time, what you really want in a web app context is a "deferred index", but Postgresql doesn't have those; your only options are to wait for all index updates to happen or to do a fire-and-forget write without getting an acknowledgement at all.

The design encourages you to run reporting queries/aggregations without any separation from your "live" operational updates. Because of the aforementioned mandatory transaction isolation that you're almost certainly not actually getting any value out of, it's very easy for those reporting queries to block, deadlock, or slow down your live operations. The tooling around tracking and restricting slow queries is very limited, and because of the aforementioned unclear performance it's not always obvious which queries are going to be slow ahead of time.

Aggregation has to be done in a horrible pseudo-English query language where it's impossible to compose more than one query together. Also, even simple key lookups use this language, meaning a lot of time wasted in parsing (I once saw profiling results that something like 3/4 of the time taken to process a simple pkey fetch was spent parsing the query).

A lot of serious engineering effort goes into these systems, but most of it is wasted in a web backend context. (Indeed for a long time the most popular RDBMS for web backends was MySQL, despite it (at the time) having very little support for all the supposedly-important RDBMS features like ACID). If the RDBMS was invented today I don't think anyone would use it for a web backend - it just makes the wrong tradeoffs for that context.
Thanks for the pointer, the toggle works in stable too but the smoothness you describe just isn't there yet :)
I turned slack into a chrome “shortcut” (which seems to be a PWA minus the service worker), which lets it run in chrome instead of a separate electron instance, but also have a separate app window.

Ive also found having slack be ~another chrome tab, instead of a copy of chrome via electron, to be really nice
Wow, this is an amazing list! Thank you for taking the time to compile it. I'll be trying a number of these out.
The company I'm at right now uses a SPA for both static and interactive things. On the static side, it's comedically slow and complex for what should be an HTML file with resources. On the interactive side, the load time is abysmal (and that's on a corporate network), and it does work well once you try to open a new tab. On the other hand, it makes for cleaner code.
I'm wondering if it's legal to block sites in Australia simply because "we feel this is the right thing to do"?
Sure. But the drive that is inside is listed as being SATA. I haven’t seen a tear down but it’s not soldered or proprietary at least.
Why on earth would someone use an expensive, patent-encumbered drug when there's regular Ketamine that can do the same thing?
I'm curious to see how skills hold up in the era of "every child must code."

I believe that a healthy amount of CS/CE students get into the field due to existing (strong) interest in the field. This is probably especially true of people graduating during the outsourcing era (2000ish-2012), when enrollment plunged due to fears that there would be few software engineering jobs left in the US.

I'd be surprised if people in it for the money rather than interest will perform as well. If parents start pushing their children into the field because it pays well, then schools may lower standards in order to increase graduation rates, thus flooding the market with unemployable people (see: India).
Is there significance to the 5-meo-dmt? It seems close to dmt, 4-ho-dmt, and some of the research chems like 4-aco-dmt?
My thoughts exactly! I imagine there is some kind of migration from every language to every other language, e.g. at least some developers migrating from any major web backend language (Java, PHP, Ruby, Node.js etc.) to Go. It would be far more interesting to have also a quantitative information, like in this graph: https://qz.com/192440/where-everyone-in-the-world-is-migrati... But for that you would of course need actual data...
We’re Asking the Wrong Questions of YouTube and Facebook After New Zealand
nginx transparently proxies using http2 to client and http1 to server. In a standard setup at any scale with a load balancer it doesn't matter that Rails doesn't support all of HTTP2. The client still gets all the benefits of header compression etc.
It does, but the movidius stick is USB.
How cool would it be if computers shipped with a small FPGA to get better performance for stuff like this?
In general, a formal action by the US government would involve a high-bar "prove harm or imminent risk of harm" test.

... but action of private enterprises to cease to do business with an organization (such as telcos black-holing an IP address in their routing fabric) are another matter, unless regulation states otherwise.
In this case the author should make it very clear that what he is doing with the API doesn't make much sense. Judging from the comments, most readers seem to believe that he is describing a legitimate use-case for the machine. In fact, the question whether quantum annealers can be at all useful at solving any real problem is still very much open.
It's because there's no situation in which you (I hope) or I could conceivably be accused of being child pornographers. It will never affect us and the people it does affect are the worst of the worst and are identified as such by police.

I have mild conservative sympathies and get accused by idiots of being a "Nazi" depressingly frequently. It's screamingly obvious that the rush to clamp down on "hate speech" is in reality criminalising political dissent. Which is absolutely guaranteed to lead to more violence, not less.
Extreme Programming, a Reflection (2013)
> what are good courses for people from these countries to study so that they become more skilled ?

Just my opinion, but more doing, less "learning". I've interviewed dozens of Indian candidates at my company, and I've noticed a huge problem: a good 50-60% of them know the jargon and theory, but if you try to probe deeper they don't know what any of it means.

It reminded me strongly of Feynman's account of the Brazilian education system[1]

Basically, I think serious students need to actually build stuff and gain a deep intuition of the concepts they are learning. There seems to be far too much rote memorization of CS concepts and jargon without deep understanding of the why and the how.

[1] http://v.cx/2010/04/feynman-brazil-education
Correct on the book for extreme ownership. The other book is "QBQ! The Question Behind the Question: Practicing Personal Accountability in Work and in Life" by John G Miller.
There's no clear consensus on which way is best. That doesn't mean there aren't better and worse ways.
I reported this as https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1536481 - please comment there if you have more information or if you want to follow the discussion.
A new class-action lawsuit takes aim at real estate agents and their 6% fee
Agree. My 2011 Mac mini with only 2 gigs of RAM is almost as comfortable for web browsing as the 1350-usd brand-new Windows 10 box in the office with 8 gigs of RAM.

A recent experience qualifies me to say that using a recent version of MacOS on a 5400-rpm hard drive is infuriating compared to using the same version of MacOS running on the same Mac with an SSD.

My 2011 Mac mini has an SSD in it. Everything is fine with my Mac till a few months ago, when I get careless during an upgrade of MacOS with the result that my system is unbootable and I cannot wipe the SSD and re-install because there is data on the SSD I don't have backed up, so to recover I install an empty 5400-rpm hard drive I have lying around next to the SSD, then install the new version of MacOS onto that.

Like others here, it amazes me that Apple still sells computers where even the system files are stored on spinning rust. Right after installation (of High Sierra) the aforementioned hard drive had less than 32 gigs of data on it. I am mystified why Apple doesn't solder at least that much solid-state memory to the motherboard.
I've been using the "Mute sites by default" extension [0] for a while now and it does the job.

0: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/mute-sites-by...
The fact they are not paid well may be used as more evidence they are "bribe-able". I'm not saying they have been bribed, only that low pay cannot be reliable used as evidence either way.
Could reduce out-of-memory crashes if fewer sites are sharing the same process.
I generally don't answer any number that's not in my contacts. If I don't know who it is they can leave a message or I'll look up the number and block it proactively.
And eggs are bad, and if you want to lose weight eat less fat and more pasta!

I don't trust anything that comes from these people. They don't have the ability to properly test their hypotheses.
No, but not really following as to how you thought that I was?
>The imageboards are ephemeral

Which is exactly why it's been continually reposted by some astounding individuals. Right-o.
Enigma: An isomorphic JavaScript crypto library
It's never crashed on unix for me after an update. Sounds like a Windows problem however.
Europe has a long and recent history of not being worthy of trust. Francoist Spain just ended in 1975. We had communist Europe fairly recently. The Nazis weren’t that long ago. We’ve had actual genocide in Europe within the past 30 years. It’s a mistake to “trust” any government beyond what can be immediately audited and verified. However to your point about analytics: that’s pretty benign unless those analytics are personally identifiable.
Facebook says no one flagged NZ mosque shooting livestream
In general, yes. SESTA/FOSTA nudged the definition of the safe harbor away from content that facilitated sex trafficking. This has no bearing on whether, say, iTunes is still safe in sharing the subversive, anti-government music of Creedence Clearwater Revival. ;)
How interested are most humans in communicating with the other reasonably advanced species on our own planet?
Guido explains why Python uses 0-based indexing
I did a PhD in pure math and now work for a big tech company. Having the PhD will get your foot in the door basically anywhere, so you'll at least make it to the screen, but ultimately you have to pass the same interview as anyone else. That means doing LeetCode and reading Yegge's stuff etc.

If your goal is to maximize lifetime earnings, a PhD is maybe not the right choice, but if you want to spend years studying something you love while financially breaking even then go for it. I definitely don't regret it, even though I would be worth a lot more if I had gone into tech straight out of college.

Btw, finance is also a common destination for pure math PhD's looking to leave academia.
They aren't buying iMacs, either. I work at one of the largest unis in the US and everything is dell optiplex from the libraries, to the lecture halls, to the research labs, and the hospitals. The only iMacs I've seen are requested specifically by faculty for their office, or are 10 years old in some windowless back room hooked up to a random microscope running snow leopard. That being said, I've never set foot near any art buildings so I don't know what happens in there regarding their machines.
Not necessarily, it could just be total and indiscriminate logging of HTTP requests.
This is an interesting survey result, but given that 5-MeO-DMT can cause sudden cardiac arrest I doubt this will ever go to clinical trials.
> I'm a little skeptical of the claim that you can't overdose on them (overdose in the sense of using them too much, not lethal overdose

I meant lethal overdose, like heroin. I certainly I know some people who take too many drugs. Personally I don’t feel like I have to do any psychedelics ever again, but maybe I will, I don’t know. They are not chemically addictive anyway.

And your high school friend taking them at such a young age?! Maybe that’s why, I don’t know. Maybe he’s mentally ill anyway? Maybe it was the drugs? Maybe it was other drugs? That’s why I would like to see more controlled studies from reputable places like John Hopkins. The data looks relatively promising so far, but more needs to be done I think.
Yup. I happen to be in an AMT situation where the state refund from last year isn't taxable this year, but it might still be for others as you point out.
It's not really all that useful to place the blame on the individual politician when they are all susceptible to this behaviour.

It's like how in my town there's a stretch of road that is really shitty. All potholes and uneven road. Almost all drivers I've seen go over it way too fast and often damage their vehicles. Sure, I can blame each individual driver for not being 100% attentive, but when they all fuck up in the same way, some blame must be placed on the conditions that allowed them to all make the same error.
One not about caviar: https://outline.com/ewEegB
It is already illegal in Italy.

I would have thought that an imaginative prosecutor could find an existing law that could be applied to punish the payment of ransoms; even if it is only failing to pay some sort of tax or duty. Something like that is what is supposed to have brought down Al Capone.
New Jersey becomes second state to ban cashless shops and restaurants
8chan is founded by people who thought 4chan was too tame and restrictive
… he says on hacker news.
Being open about my history is WAY easier — and far less likely to bring negative repercussions — now that I'm 70 and retired. My 35-year-old daughter and 67-year old brother wish I'd shut up about it, but I believe that the more open I am, the more good it will do.
It's the racket of big pharma. Ketamine isn't approved for the treatment of depression but Johnson & Johnson's patented Esketamine is. If you want to go the legal route that is your only option.

Depending on how much your insurance plan covers you, as a patient, might only pay a fixed copay with your insurance covering the rest, so you might not actually "feel" the $7k price tag at all.

The real scam that has played out over the last few decades though is that as employer insurance costs rise wage growth has slowed. We've all been paying for rising insurance costs even if we don't necessarily feel it.
Search results for human, traffic, dna, parent, no results.

If they are completely leaving out a clearly important aspect of this discussion, how can I trust they aren’t biased?

They find time to imply (only imply) that this was created by Trump though.

I already get that impression from their choice to use “blacksite”, let’s be honest these are JSoC blscksites, they’re just just undisclosed locations for the sake of the children, esp as the article accuses of sexual abuse.

Let’s say for a second that department of homeland security, ICE, CBP are all not mistaken when they say that human trafficking of minors is a problem at the border, is The article justified in saying that these temporary housing facilities should be disclose locations?
It ran bash, sure, but BeOS was not similar to Unix at all.
Going to need a citation on that. The US presently dominates the tech sector. Rankings of programs are generally to be taken with a grain of salt, but MIT, Stanford, UCB and Carnegie Mellon all rank the top 4 on almost any list you'll find.

Meanwhile, in the UK CS grads have the highest unemployment among any field, and have maintained that "award" for nearly a decade. That certainly indicates that your educational programs for CS are lacking if you didn't go to a school named Oxford or Cambridge.

There's a lot of ways you can measure which country has the better educational system for a given degree type, but there's very few metrics that indicate anything other than the EU being way behind the US.
Amounts of CO2 are one thing, but on the other side: imagine the amount of waste produced by the electric cars running on lithium-ion batteries... Imagine millions of cars each having 10.000 small batteries which can be scattered around in case the disposal is not strongly regulated and controlled...
Yes, and your experience is not unique - Syd Barrett is a very well known poster child for frying your mind with psychedelics. He was also a brilliant mind whose use of LSD destroyed his coherence.
That Didn’t Last Long: CBOE Bails on Bitcoin Futures Trading
> It’s possibly the second worst widely read book in the humanities.

Alright, I've got to ask: what's the worst widely read book in the humanities?
> I tried using NativeScript with Vue and it just wasn't the seamless "3 NPM commands and you're done"

I had a similar experience. I will say, though, that the nativescript-vue plugin is now officially supported by Telerik rather than just a community plugin, so it should theoretically be getting easier to use.
Strong use of loaded language in the headline and introductory paragraphs. The government is contracting out to various facilities, which may, in turn, contract out to other facilities. The government failed to properly disclose which facilities are being used, and the standards of care they maintain. The facilities themselves are non-secret. For example:

https://www.millcreekbehavioralhealth.com/

https://www.rollinghillshospital.com/

It's a bit misleading to call these "black-site shelters" or "secret shelters" or "clandestine facilities" or "off-the-books facilities".
If we're making an F-Droid list and checking it twice:

- FreeOTP+ for 2FA

- Wireguard for use with Mullvad VPN

- AnkiDroid flashcards

- AntennaPod for podcasts

- Telegram for messaging

- Twidere twitter client

Plus a few already noted above.
Came here to say exactly that. Replaced my big 2008 MacPro with a mini and couldn't be happier. I do wish the storage were upgradable internally, but so far it hasn't really been a problem.

One big plus: it's quiet, so I can leave it on.
>Because people vulnerable to radicalization view public websites.

Why do you think people should be legally prevented from accessing information? Don't you believe in free will and the idea that everyone should be able to internally decide what is right and wrong for themselves? Or do we want that power to be put in the hands of the state?

Where were the accusations of online radicalization and calls for censorship when that one guy shot those Republicans at a baseball practice in 2017[0]? There's definitely no shortage of hyperbolic anti-Republican sentiment, out in the open, on social media platforms even more mainstream than 4chan. Surely if we're banning access to places where the NZ shooter was (allegedly) "radicalized," then we should prevent people like that shooter from being "radicalized" too, right? What's different about the two situations that warrants completely different rhetoric?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Congressional_baseball_sh...
Well, the thing is with `width: 9000px; max-width: 100%;` is that you know neither. And it forces people to use silly things like `padding` to maintain aspect ratio in e.g. embedded videos.
Pretty much every SSRI (the most commonly used class of psychiatric drug? Not completely sure) has really nasty withdrawal after only a few weeks