skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Their example here confuse me:

https://github.com/celicoo/docli/blob/master/examples/terraf...

`workspace` isn't a boolean flag. So it isn't clear from that example how - or even if - docli can work with more complex conditional arguments.

Is someone with any familiarity with this project able to advise how you'd handle that in docli?
ISTR hearing that getting approved for point-in-time credit card transactions isn't that difficult, but subscriptions where the user is not directly approving every individual transaction is a higher bar. The potential for chargebacks is much higher in the latter case.
It's worth noting that, as long as they don't explode (or get stolen), a lost nuclear warhead is pretty benign. They contain a relatively small amount (a few dozen pounds) of low-activity nuclear material and it all tends to stay together.

A reactor contains way more material, probably several tons at least. If it's been operating, it contains lots of nasty, highly-radioactive fission and decay products. Reactors also like to go all melty and sometimes (non-nuclear) explodey when they fail, although I suspect that's less of a factor when it's underwater.
I don't think so.

First, the form factor of AirPods are integral to their function. There is no separating them. Wires are a major design tradeoff.

Also, the function (multiple actually) -- social communication, gaining knowledge, entertainment -- is of high importance to many. So even small improvements are valuable.

I really don't think you're understanding this correctly.
This is a great example, I wasn't aware of Blender's funding model. Thanks for sharing!

For those interested, blender is crowdfunded and supports six full-time developers, and three part-time developers[1]. There's more interesting details on their funding page[2].

[1]: https://code.blender.org/2018/12/blender-development-fund-pr...
[2]: https://fund.blender.org
You can control two unique actions for left and right airpods. I have right as Siri, and left as play/pause.
Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Smartphone!
We did a similar thing, ask that no photos be posted, no discussions, etc. from family members

Obviously, there are still "leaks", but clearly discussing it with people and explaining why usually is enough. Although we get some strange looks, I explain what I personally can do with just a small dataset, and then people respect it.

I think it's probably the single largest threat to our society, because it's essentially normalizing zero-privacy. I personally think it should be a choice that can be made at 14 or something. I'm a libertarian, but I often think laws to protect children are relatively good. As such, I think a law protecting a child's privacy is probably something we as a society should consider. Implementation would be quite difficult, however.

The problem has more to do with the future adult. My work related to ML has me horrified to think of the future. With enough data about a child (and enough of a training dataset), it should be possible to predict outcomes (political leaning, wealth, death, etc.)
Yes. The last generation was taught from a very young age that what you put online is available for all, and learned from the mistakes of their older siblings / parents. I see way more "controversial" content on facebook / instagram from my older friends than from the younger ones.
> it boggles the mind to hear that people still bother to live and do business there

It's actually the largest city in the country, so clearly there's a demand for it. Which might have to do with it being the most important and vibrant city in the history of global civilization.

When reality is inconsistent with logic, it's time to check your assumptions.
>Nevertheless, medical intervention was needed for 149 incidents involving mushrooms in 2007, an increase of 19 percent over the previous year. In 2005 there were 70 incidents. Among the high-profile cases was an incident in which a Danish tourist raced his car across a crowded camping. Several tourists jumped or fell from hotel windows.

>In the case that led Ab Klink to propose the ban in October 2007, a 17-year-old French girl committed suicide by jumping from a bridge into busy traffic. It was later revealed that the girl, not old enough to legally enter a smart shop herself, had asked a friend to buy her some mushrooms.

http://www.dutchamsterdam.nl/662-mushrooms-ban-amsterdam-net...
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19440981.
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What you say is enough for it to be an adequate ad. It doesn't wind up automatically rejected or ignored. It gets put on the list of jobs I'll apply to, but not with much enthusiasm.

A job application that goes at the top of the list, one that I apply to with enthusiasm, needs one other thing: It answers why I want to work there. It says something to show me that human beings work there, not just robots. In some way, it has some personality, some human touch, some flash of humor.

How should you do that? I can't tell you. If I tell you, people will use it as a formula, and they'll just come off as robotically following a rule, rather than showing a genuinely human touch.
For servers I prefer using: https://github.com/alecthomas/kingpin, allows you to really nicely expand based on main arguments with flags. Also, setting defaults is a joy.

For CLIs - https://github.com/spf13/cobra.

However, will definitely try out Docli whenever I start building something new :)
The claim is that they'll always prioritize Volk over LTE. Which is an interesting promise, because if you're correct, they'd potentially be prioritizing the slower connection.
Not to defend the system, the incentives are clearly not well-aligned, but I also just went through this process had an unexpectedly great experience with my buyer's agent, whom I found through a referral.

He was professional, ethical, and actually took his fiduciary duty seriously. He didn't claim to find listings that I wouldn't have myself, but guided my search a bit based on my criteria, gave candid feedback on them and what to look for, and bargained on the price with the seller harder than I would have, saving me more than his commission. When I discovered a potential issue with the property and had second thoughts pre-close, he didn't try to discourage me one bit from letting a done deal fall through, and was ready to support my decision. And he set up the many appointments with the seller's agents, handled the literal ream of closing paperwork, dotted the i's and crossed the t's, and made this whole convoluted process go smoothly. From my end, he more than deserved his commission he got out of the deal, and he will certainly have my future business buying or selling.
even those who post constantly are more aware than people just a few years ago about how much information the internet is absorbing about us.

I'm about 10 years older than the author, and we were aware. The Cambridge Analytica scandal is just the straw that broke the Camel's back. That was Facebook's MO all the way back circa 2010. It was just that most of us teenagers at the time simply didn't care. The adults warned us the same way they warn teens today but for the most part they didn't care about the data mining back then either.
the visa requirement for those countries were a formality, never being denied. it was just reciprocating the visa requirement of Brazilians to visit those destinations. it was a way to press for more international access for the citizens.

this action makes it clear that the current administration is giving up any hopes of international influence, a great shift from the previous workers party administration's stance, which was Brazil to be a leader of the BRICS
An Idea on How to Combat Spam Calls
I thought a nationwide movement/campaign might help to end these calls. Here is the idea: When a spammer calls, answer the call and set the phone down, continue on with your business. When the spammer (computer or real person) realizes there is not a real person there they will hang up. This will do two things. First it will slow down the rate a spammer can make calls, even if that spammer is a computer. This will make the spam campaigns less effective and will require more resources. This will help drive some of these people out of the business. The second thing it will do is tie up phone company resources, which would help force the hand of the phone companies to do something about this. Thoughts?
Fortunately, the free market will correct those problems. Consumers who find water quality important will not consume it, possibly by moving elsewhere, and force the company to fix it or go out of business.

Also fortunately, the tech industry is supremely concerned with ethics and public safety.
I took on community service hours because it was a requirement on a resume. Looking back at my younger self I'm disgusted that I did that, and disgusted that I was a part of a culture that encouraged that sort of calculated, self-serving motivation for public service. However, I still did the community service hours, and it exposed me to places and things I wouldn't have known or seen otherwise.

Similarly with standardized testing - I was very into studying for standardized testing because my parents put it into my blood that this is what I ought to do. So I took the tests, got perfect scores, got into an elite school. But I also learned a ton of math and science as a result of that study.

So, while it's true that getting into an elite school means playing a certain game, the game is not entirely without value.
Feels hard to justify - from a price and environment perspective. Especially if other equipment can and will go this route.
You are right that any philosophy can be distorted and made horrific. It’s kind of like how even lots of water can be poisonous if drank in sufficient quantities.

It’s hard for me to bring up a topic like this without being lumped into straw man town of equating “some religions tend to have more violently dangerous people, as data like the pew opinions show” with “some religions are universally bad and racism is ok.”

I think an understanding of my first quote is important while my second quote is not worth, to me, discussing because racism is really harmful.

That being said, while the kkk is very real and caused massive historical violence and even today has a non-zero level of threat. The evalgelistic Christians are about as dangerous, in terms of violence, as followers of Eris working to further the Eschaton.

Other philosophies and religions are currently more dangerous and we need to engage with, learn about, and support constructive ways to change minds so apostasy stops being a capital offense in our world.
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If it’s not an immediate and smashing success, it will languish in development he’ll until Google just gives up on it. Google has corporate ADD for anything not based around ads and gmail.
This is far from sufficient to support the statement "some unscientific bullshit, that probably has no real effect, except the bragging rights."

And if you've read this thread and come to the conclusion that "seeking joy" is all that's going on here, it suggests yet another benefit you might realize from some small experimentation: a substantial improvement in your epistemological abilities.
I stopped reading at the second line: "As you may all know, developers are a social tribe that is well known for using MacBooks with stickers on them"

I don't know if this is an American thing or the industry I'm in, but I've never seen a single developer use a Macbook or have stickers on their laptops.
Is this is a silicon valley, web developer kind of thing?

Edit: Just to clarify, I'm a low-level C developer in the UK. Most everyone I know uses Windows/Linux and laptops are mostly Dell/HP
This is one smart kid for that age. The critical thinking and reasoning skills are on point. Its comforting to know that the younger generations are more informed about the consequences of poor use of technology.
I have colleagues on Facebook who post literally everything their kids do, which means it's out there for everyone to see, and it will never die. God forbids Facebook gets hacked too.

It annoyed me when I was a kid that my parents were just babbling about everything I did to family, and the internet didn't exist back then. The thought of what they'd have done if I was a teenager today... ugh.

Ill never advocate for parents to never do ANYTHING that makes their kids uncomfortable...that's just part of growing up. But putting it all on the internet for their 750 facebook "friends"...no just no.
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You didn't hear? Journalism is dead.
That's no different than most professions. Consider software development. Who makes more money, the CEO, the top sales people, or the developers? It's probably top to bottom in that order.
While that is true, the paragraph is a paraphrase of their demo day pitch.
"Yet the world is doing remarkably well overall, and has not suffered any of the oft-threatened giant digital catastrophes."

Totalitarian states manipulating the political processes of democratic states for their own gain is a giant digital catastrophe.
Agree. If there was no major digital disaster that does not means that it cannot happen.
Your post is rather presumptuous. Do you consider playing classical piano, debating important issues, and helping the community as "really dull"? Because that's what I did that was "prescribed extra-curricular activity." And yet, I loved it all and got accepted to multiple "elite" schools. I didn't grind test prep either, acing my schools' coursework had prepared me over many years.

The real issue with these modern elite school graduates is that either they are massively indebted or that they come from an increasingly insulated wealthy class, not that they are dull.
Definitely. Some of my stuff was published when I was really young. From what I remember it was edited for clarity and slightly reordered for a better narrative. Core ideas and point persisted.
The more of an asset class is owned by passive investors (now approaching 50% for US equities), the greater the reward for the type of behavior you point out. It's effectively leverage: any "bug" found gets multiplied across the portion of passive investment affected.
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I had a unique opportunity of taking a year of classes at a good state school (in the top 100 for most STEM fields), and then went to an "elite" school for undergrad (taking a mix of CS/non-CS courses at each).

You can absolutely find motivated peers and professors at state schools, particularly if you look at places like the honors college. If you want to land a good job, go to a good grad school, etc (which is the goal for most people), all of that is 100% possible from a state school.

However, if you want to do something non-traditional (startups, research abroad, "choose your own adventure" style careers), I found that the "elite" school offered a lot more opportunity. Part of that is due to funding/size, where top schools have more money to allocate to students who ask for it. Students at elite schools have more support on average (from family as well as the school itself), so they tend to have more opportunities open, earlier.

It's like the difference between a big city and a small town. Plenty of people are successful without living in a huge city, so it's definitely possible. You could argue that the average drive of folks in a big city is higher, but a lot of that has to do with resources and opportunities as well.

The top students at a good state school would absolutely fit in at an elite school. The only difference I saw was in the support/resources they had before coming to college.
Their main purpose is to make your life a living hell by allowing your neighbors to run your life.
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This seems like a punishment inflicted by management, not a concession negotiated by the union.
"Slack is famous for its role in increasing connectivity between team members, but, at what cost (aside from the monthly fee)?"

And what's bikeshedding?
I knew a lot of kids who typed that way when I was that age.. (not me though, I loved my 1337speak)
Since MCAS and autopilot are two different things and MCAS is only active when autopilot is off I think it is faulty to assume that something that disables autopilot would disable MCAS--but in the heat of the moment I can see room for confusion.
Opinion:

Being deeply into buying "the most powerful technology," or "the most customizable technology" is also a lifestyle choice and tribal signalling choice.

There is no "I'm above choosing things for their lifestyle or tribe membership implications" position to take.
Maybe because the move from JS to Go isn't really from JS but more so from NodeJS, which is a small subset of JS community (largely front-end).

I don't know how big is the NodeJS community is today but I have a hunch it isn't that big anymore. Definitely smaller than the already-declined Rails. This is just anecdote though.
I had this same reaction, as a parent with one tween, and one soon to be tween who are both active on social media already. My wife isn't one of "those" Facebook moms who posts everything, so I could understand if the author had a mom like that, but she does share photos of our vacations, and other moments of our child's life with a close circle of friends and family.
In France, it is legally wrong, as you cannot share a pricture of somebody without consent. That will be interesting in a few years (very soon, actually), as some young adults are pissed off by the pictures of them their parents shared for cheap facebook karma.
I cannot imagine posting so much about a child of mine without them being aware of it at all. I talk a lot about my sons. They know. If I feel it is a story with sensitive information, I run it past them to see if they are okay with me saying that.

I can't really comprehend the thinking here of the family members who did this. They talk about her but not to her?

That's the opposite of "social" behavior. That's treating her like an object, not a person.
These are good points. I would add that generally there's not a problem with having lots of risky debt in the system, as long as it's held by investors who are aware of and can handle the risk. The reason that CDOs led to the financial crisis, was that there was lots of risky debt being packaged as AAA and held by investors (i.e. systemically important banks and insurance companies) who couldn't handle losses on it. So the big questions about CLOs should be: who's buying the AAA debt, is it being mis-rated, and if so, can the holders handle losses on it. In general, I think the rating companies reacted to their vast and obvious failings in 2008 by tightening rating criteria across the board, even in structures such as CLOs which did okay during the crisis. Is it possible they're still being too optimistic? The thing about the rating models is that they're very sensitive to correlation assumptions that are difficult to observe empirically. Also, they tend to have a blind spot about things like fraud. Is it possible that junk-rated corporate defaults could end up being much more highly correlated than the models assume? There are transmission mechanisms that can cause high correlation. For example, an uptick in defaults in one sector could lead to a tightening of credit standards across the board that could lead to rollover risk. (Most of these companies are highly dependent on being able to rollover maturing debt.) Or fraud in underwriting standards could be much more pervasive than assumed. (This one seems unlikely, but who knows.)
I've used a similar solution called TalkYard [1] which provides a interesting combination of commenting and forums, and has super-helpful support.

[1] https://www.talkyard.io/
There's a phrase that large companies often use to explain "puzzling" features like this to detractors: you are not the target audience. Often this phrase is mis-used to cover up straight up bad ideas, but in this case it's right on the money.

The target audience for this feature are CIOs of organizations Google sells G-Suite to. Companies do need IRM on emails, to prevent leaks that could happen by accident or intentionally; to limit email audience; to avoid endless replies-to-all on announcements; to put an expiration date on the "perishable" bits of information; etc. I'm pretty positive that they have to have this to compete with Office 365, which had IRM [1] for a very long time.

Yes, it's not perfect, however, if it's there, it mitigates a lot of the issues I mentioned above. Note the wording: "mitigates", not "fixes".

It's interesting that they still list screenshots as a possibility: email clients (e.g. Outlook) are able to utilize OS mechanisms to prevent those as well. I thought that browser protected media APIs would allow Gmail opt-in to this kind of protection too.

[1]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office365/SecurityComplianc...
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> How would it be in a corporations interest to abuse either their employers or customers in a competitive market?

Ask AT&T and Verizon. Or Facebook. Or Monsanto. Or Nestle why they behave the way they do towards their customers.

You guys have WAY too much faith the benign passivity of publicly-traded companies. There is a LOT of money to be made in price-fixing, cartels and customer abuse.

And I'm not sure why you're bringing the USSR into this. This is almost a Godwin-like reprieve for those with no awareness of the 10-20 million people a year who die as a result of capitalism and capitalist policies, globally.

How about the US itself? It has murdered almost 20 million people since the end of World War 2 in its efforts to maintain its economic hegemony and take revenge on countries that leave the petrodollar.

The US, most aggressive and expansionist nation of the 20th and 21st centuries, is a capitalist country that can't even provide many of its citizens with clean drinking water.

"Capitalism is the worst system, apart from all the others" is a common refrain amongst those capitalism actually serves. They make no mention of the lives destroyed when a capitalist wants what you have.

But we move off topic.
Pretty much. I started my career in SV at a startup and have a Macbook with about a dozen stickers on it. At all the companies (all startups) I've worked for, they've given me a Macbook pro by default. You'd have to make a strong case to get a PC.
Crunchbase tracks startups not TechCrunch. Misleading headline.
In fairness, I'm strictly referring to my degree (CS). NukeE is very highly ranked and second only to GTech.
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And I think it's very arguable that there have been. There have been provable infiltrations of infrastructure, undermining of democratic processes, and that's not counting the more 'mundane' cyberattacks. STUXNET was an attack on a nuclear facility that had real-world, hardware effects; that's a digital disaster, just one in which the outcome isn't objectionable to a good chunk of western observers.
I don't think it's drive, talent, or the quality of the education at the institution. I think it's the contacts.

At Stanford, you get a good technical education, but you also get contacts that will become important players in tech. At Harvard, you get contacts that will be important players in government, business, and media. At Random Public University, you get contacts who become players at the state level.