skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Calvin and Hobbes has been the standard by which other comics are judged by me.

That being said

Hobbes: Look at the stars! Its as if the universe goes on forever and ever!

Calvin: Thats why we stay inside with our appliances.
Grow a spine. If you are too weak to withhold a luxury electronic device from a child in your care, you are probably too weak to raise a child in general... I think.

I mean, I don't have kids, but I can't imagine being plied into spending hundreds of dollars on something which I don't want even for myself, and which I think is bad for the recipient.
>It assumes/alleges salesforce knew that Backpage was in human trafficking and they knew backpage was their customer at the same time, neither of which they prove or even attempt to prove.

They haven’t “even attempted to prove their claims?” Have you read the plaintiffs Complaint? What do you think they brought the lawsuit for if not to prove their claims?
In my troop, most of the kids had never been Cub Scouts. Everyone in my patrol earned Eagle, and we never did any of the prepackaged artsy-craftsy stuff.

We crafted meals and campfires and patrol flags and lashed together poles to make camp gateways with banners and flags hanging off of it.

We slept inside caves, rapelled down cliffsides, and did weekend-sized training trips for week-long outdoor travel destinations like Quetico/Boundary Waters for canoeing, and Philmont for hiking, and then still did the council-organized camporees.

My troop joined with several others in the council to organize our own summer camp, because they thought the one run by the council was too weak, with respect to earning merit badges. You might get two or three badges at Ransburg. In the LBL group-camp area, you might earn a dozen, while also learning stuff like bow-drill firecrafting that isn't even a requirement for any badge. If you weren't in the right troops, you didn't even know about it.

The quality of the adult leadership absolutely has an impact on the experience for the kids, and that varies greatly. The economic class of the parents is also a factor. Some of the more interesting activities cost more money. That's when fundraising and sponsorship comes in. Richer parents get to have more independent troops.

If I ever had any inkling of going into the military, it all might have been an adequate replacement for about four weeks worth of training. Which would have gone instead into unlearning independent initiative and doing things the military way, instead of the situationally adaptive way. Scouts has a lot of ceremony in it, which seems somewhat lame, cult-like, and pseudo-patriotic in retrospect. That might have helped in a military career more than knowing how to build campfires and small game snares.
Is there any video/photo footage of this?

We can see space-x events from 32 different angles and audio of everything happening, I kind of assume you would record these events too?
After dark is the contiuation of the signal -- same music but different host.

I have archive of the last 3 years of the signal in mp3, it's about 90GB.

Send me a message at gimmespam at flamy.ca and I'll send you a link.
What adjustment for cost of living?

Assuming living in a Tier-1 where the tech-hubs are (Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen), rents for a 2/3 bedroom apartment somewhat centralish (these are vastly larger, more populous, and higher density than most American or European cities) will be at least USD 2000, possibly 4000 depending on taste (apartment, not house). Pension may need to be privately paid, and tax-band will be above 40% for anything that can support the above. Purchasing equivalent consumables like food and eating out western-style will be the same or double than the cost in most of the USA. If with kids then international schools are pretty expensive in China, over USD 20k per kid per year. International driving license not hard but car questionable as the above Tier-1 cities have restrictions / waiting lists / lotteries on license plates.

Cost-of-living adjustment is only relevant if: no kids, no pension, able to adapt to eat locally (quite hard for a lot of people especially when hitting the ground with a full time job), don't mind a 30-60+ minute subway commute (cheaper rents).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome :(
Just because there was a boom during the time of ham fisted rent control does not mean it was caused by rent control nor does it imply that rent control was even good for it.

Have you ever considered how much more housing might have been built if it weren’t for rent control?
As I recall (this was almost 10 years ago now), Salesforce had tools to allow you to make your own websites and custom integrstions based on Salesforce data, but you had to use this web-IDE for Apex. Apex is like someone saw PHP and JSP and decided that the best thing to do would be to combine the worst elements of both. Both the markup and iterative code components were non-standard (at least with PHP you embed code into actual HTML), and the development process and environment were not documented to any useful degree, since almost no one used it. I vaguely recall that a major version change happened during my internship as well.
Part of this may have to do that OpenOffice is more enterprise-oriented, so maybe more likely to be recommended by IT people with exposure to it, and more likely to be used in an organizational context. I actually recently searched for "openoffice" when I meant "libreoffice" (which I switched to years ago). So definitely inertia in various manifestations. I think this is why some forked projects make little effort to maintain "mental continuity" (visual, naming) with their parent; it might be just as well to appear as something entirely distinct from the beginning.
What is relative prominence of technology to the company's strategy and key decisions?

This is an important one. Even so-called tech startups are almost always driven by business goals. Marketing, sales, financials, etc. Tech can easily get put in the back seat and just asked to execute on business decisions they weren't involved in making. That makes for a very unfavorable culture to developers.
These tests ought to be banned by international agreements. This is not an achievement for anybody. It is a travesty.
The iCalendar standard does actually support that, but perhaps Google Calendar's UI does not. I suspect it does work internally, because it interoperates with iCalendar fairly well.

The standard calls it a "floating" DATE-TIME:

"The recipient of an iCalendar object with a property value consisting of a local time, without any relative time zone information, SHOULD interpret the value as being fixed to whatever time zone the "ATTENDEE" is in at any given moment."
The state can't release it into the public domain, because the state doesn't hold the copyright. The artist, Pierre Bideau does.
But highway network doesn't work as well as ResNet, and ResNet is simpler.
“Wanna keep living here” is also a choice.
Best Practices for Scylla Applications
Can you just read the article? Almost all your questions are answered or linked to in the article.
I wonder if a big part of Linux success story comes from it's relatively simple to hack on code.
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This case is specifically about sex trafficking, which is coercive and distinct from prostitution. If you're asserting that sex-work is inherently unethical, and that developers have an obligation not to lend their services to it, you need to make that case.
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HK has uncensored and fast internet. The language barrier can be a issue but English is still widely spoken, even in remote areas of HK like where I live. I know enough Canto for numbers, food and the rare times I get a taxi. I can't ready anything though. There's a big question mark as 2047 looms closer, which is till when China promised to keep HK the way it is now (capitalism, different currency, open, legal system and so on).
‘I Make Six Figures as a Travel Influencer’
I am unfamiliar with this project, is the name pronounced "Pattern Izzer" or "Patter Nizzer"??
How to make scalable and low latency Real-Time apps
If this is really all you want from your analytics then roll your own and serve it from the same domain. Problem solved. There are a few very nice open source analytics solutions out there.
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As long as ‘public opinion’ is in their favor of course, otherwise it’s cleanly removed, like this tweet. Disagreeing opinions need not apply.
Just a hunch - are you in the southeast US?
A question to both parent of this and this specifically.

How would you deal with the current EU situation? They have recently voted to stop yearly transitions to summer time. But there must still be a timezone assigned to an event.

Are you assigning timezones (in the certificates themselves) as the timezones of a particular geographic location,, rather than as time offsets?
Why should person A pay restitution for person B? Person A likely isn't granted powers of law enforcement and so has no means of preventing the crime.

How can person A prevent a crime caused by person B? They cannot. Situations happen. People commit crimes for the first time every day (shocking even close family members). People like serial killers (and many other forms of covert criminals) may go undetected for decades with those people having perfect records.

Since crime cannot be prevented by a landlord and cannot be completely avoided, what can that landlord do to mitigate their risk? They must discriminate. They look at groups which appear to commit disproportionate crimes (by whatever "metrics" they choose to look at) and then start cutting away. Bad credit, being poor, being the "wrong race", prior convictions -- the list of risks seems endless.

The law (with very good reason) prohibits this kind of profiling, but that causes a catch 22 in the mind of the landlord, so the discrimination simply happens in a less-obvious manner. Meanwhile, these people are shifted into bad neighborhoods and ghettos to become trapped forever and crime continues on regardless.

Since no crime is prevented (at most, its only moved elsewhere), the law is ineffective. That would be bad enough, but it also proceeds to punish the landlord and a long list of underprivileged people. The cure is definitely worse than the problem.
And such a coincidence that we're made aware of this "PEBKAC happens" when the law is a controversial one.
Here is one of the pictures this person said they used.
Seem credible to you?
https://www.dw.com/image/18154223_303.jpg
We handle space just as well as we do with Earth. Space however almost doesn't recover on its own. Those tiny particles are too light and are going too fast to drop down to earth.

If we cannot clean it up, we have a problem. Satellites are an essential part of our society.
By not making laws based on moral outrage but pragmatism. In countries where sex work/drugs/etc are legal - or at least decriminalised - it isn't necessarily done because the majority feel this is the right thing to do, but because of harm reduction after consulting with experts in the field. Similarly, if you want less dead schoolchildren, this one weird trick of highly regulating firearms seems to work.

Also, there are other legal avenues, see OJ Simpson's criminal vs civil trials (edit: this trial is a civil one. Not everything that is wrong has to be a crime to be punished, and not every court system has to work by the letter of the law like the US does.
Because that's the norm in India. Even the then PM, Atal Behari Vajpayee, had announced the successful test of Nuclear Bomb in 1998:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pokhran-II

And point to be noted is that this one was just after the election. So it seems like elections have not been a major factor in these kinds of announcement in India.
(Member of the team at Mozilla here )

Yes, that's the list.

And the layout of structs, strings, etc is up to the compiler, within the bounds of the restrictions WebAssembly imposes.

We'll definitely have a test suite, but this is all early days, so a lot of all that isn't yet in place.

And yes, this can be targeted by LLVM-based and other compilers. In fact, Emscripten could use this as the foundation for their POSIX-like libc and library packages. The syscalls are indeed exposed as Wasm function imports.
As additional note, gcc only picked up steam when Sun decided to start the trend of selling UNIX developer tools as an additional package.
Check out Austin, TX. The trick is finding something happening organically like that and then growing with it.
The best candidates dig into product and market and get all the info they need from that.
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It seems odd that this was ever required in the first place.

To me, it would make a lot more sense to require any site that could contain adult material (porn, anonymous file upload, file sharing, etc) to add the RTA header [1] to all pages and then put the responsibility on parents to use parental control software to check for the header.

It is trivial to add the header to all modern web servers and load balancers.

In Apache, it looks like this:

Header always set rating "RTA-5042-1996-1400-1577-RTA"

In HAProxy, it looks like this:

http-response set-header rating "RTA-5042-1996-1400-1577-RTA"

On a web page, it looks like this:

<meta name="RATING" content="RTA-5042-1996-1400-1577-RTA" />

[1] - http://www.rtalabel.org/index.php?content=howtofaq
I prefer TIA over UTC and wish it was widely used.

Leap seconds mean the same UTC time can happen twice if we fall back a second, or a UTC time may never happen when we skip ahead a second. Leap seconds also mean that epoch milliseconds derived from UTC do not represent milliseconds between the timestamp and Jan 1 1970 unless the conversion is aware of all leap seconds. Leap seconds are prescribed every six months with six month notice. There are many time keeping devices that are not updated as often as UTC leap seconds are introduced.

I'm pretty happy with ISO-8601, but dates after the year 10,000 will not sort lexicographical. A 64 bit signed int storing milliseconds since Jan 1 1970 covers 29225733 B.C to 29229672 A.D
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The arrogance of many of the questions posted here surprises me. I am not unwilling to give answer to all sorts of questions that aren't the employee's business, but for some questions posted here the tone is so hostile and assuming that there is ill-will that I would probably not hire those people based on arrogance. The fact that software engineers are in a good position market-wise, doesn't mean you can say whatever you like to someone.
What ever happened to the Super Micro story that was denied by all relevant parties as well as uncorroborated by any actual proof? Certainly Bloomberg would never publish stories supported by questionable evidence would they? Considering that Bloomberg has the ability to move the market, such conspiratorial thinking isn’t completely without some merit. I am not saying this particular story is suspicious, but after Super Micro, Bloomberg has earned some doubt.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/10/22/super_micro_chinese...
I didn't realize the internet or cars were created by the employees of advertising corporations for the sole purpose of furthering their surveillance and user manipulation capabilities.

Also, my comment was about people being given awards, not people inventing things.
Dont confuse UTC with GMT.

Store absolutely everything in UTC, do all calculations on UTC, and show in whatever timeunit the user wants. The one edge-case where user inputs a local time thats is not unique (repeated hour due to daylight savings time) can easily be solved consistently, and often is not even a problem at all.
> It's the same principle that we use to mandate e.g. drivers to successfully insure themselves against some sorts of liability, before they're even allowed to drive.

it's really not the same at all. drivers are liable for damage and injuries they directly cause in accidents where they are legally at fault. they have to purchase insurance because most people can't afford to replace someone's car or pay their medical bills if they cause an accident. we don't sue car dealerships for selling cars to irresponsible buyers.
"Unless you’re of Chinese descent and speak the language, you won’t be able to advance in most companies."

There is no such issue when working for international or western companies and/or startups. Also a local mobile games company is not a good example to generalize with since games industry is known for being pretty horrible here. Internationally as well.

While there are some things many westeners might find annoying, there are lot of good things as well. For example income tax and living costs are very low. I moved from Europe to China to work in software engineering and my living standards have increased significantly.
>If you are very wealthy you have to contribute back to society, that's not a thing to admire but to require.

You're complaining about someone who does contribute back to society... seems somewhat misplaced/misguided.
y, the social network is a great movie. Even if it isn't 100% accurate it's an amazing story and fun to watch.

The recording failed sign ins to harvest the journalist's passwords always intrigued me. It does make you think when you see they are recently logging passwords.
Yes, I know you could potentially earn 180k as a junior per year but then you potentially have to live in the US.
Unrelated, but France's power in EU results in some weird stuff as well. In order to protect their own wine manufacturers, they've succesfully lobied for a total ban on new wineyards in whole of EU.

When Croatia was scheduled to join EU in July 2013., in the run up to that date its government gave out fat subsidies to anyone who converted their land into a wineyard, because once they joined the EU, game over.
Most wealthy people I know don’t work much if at all. They may have a serious hobby, but it’s unusual to work more than 15 hours a week.

The mostly idle rich simply have different hobbies and social circles than most people. So, you only really hear about the rich people still running companies etc.
Perhaps you answered your own question: "It's a lazy way to try to draw attention to it". It's not crazy, though, to me at least. The general population has some understanding of the Nobel but doesn't with others (e.g., Fields Medal). Why not give a comparison point?

The only one that sticks out as pernicious to me is the Economics Nobel, which was explicitly created to sound like a Nobel prize, but really isn't one.
> So if a policy starts at 00:00:00 and ends at 23:59:59, that's the full day, all the way up to midnight.

If you had a policy for the calendar year 2016 would it not have covered 31 December 2016, 23:59:60 then?

https://www.timeanddate.com/time/leap-seconds-background.htm...
In cases where the satellite is orbiting low, Kessler shouldn't be a problem. In this case the satellite was at 300km and the pieces would decay in less than a year. Even if pieces were pushed into a higher orbit by the explosion, they would still dip down to 300km periodically and decay just a little longer.

Example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbital_decay#/media/File:Alti...
There are lots of legal reasons for this. To be able to settle in a currency, you must have an acquirer that can accomplish that (ie, they have a bank account there). And then next, the Stripe and you will likely need to setup a local entity to have a bank account that can take the money. This then exposes them to more regulation from that country.

A processor just doing cross currency and settling in a few countries is much easier to do.
We've mainly based the current design on CloudABI/Capsicum, but it's all early days, and Fuchsia is on our list of systems to at the very least take heavy inspiration from :)
I don't think you're going to get away from this. By living in and working in China, paying Chinese taxes, and supporting Chinese companies, you are directly supporting an authoritarian regeime.
For the free plan the API key is probably needed to count how many requests you do. Free plan without entering a credit card on the other hand would be great. :)
I think for AWS resources at least you are much better off with Terraform. Terraform supports new AWS services and features much more quickly than Ansible since many more folks are using TF to provision cloud infrastructure.
While I agree with your over/underestimate statement, I unfortunately think you've got it backwards, where we're overestimating the change this pressure is going to lever on how our data is utilized in the short term, and underestimating the reversion to the mean.

Next to companies like Palantir, AT&T(Room641A), Equifax, and hell, even credit card processors, I've always found the ire directed at Facebook to seem... scapegoatey? I'd observe that anger against those companies was quick to fade, and has not seemed to negatively impact employees to work for them, nor created a regulatory environment wherein that work isn't supported. (selfishly us-centric here)

Hell, after the snowden revelations, did those with NSA/govt credentials have trouble getting a job? If that didn't move the needle (and I say this as someone who had been doing gov. funded research at the time, and would have liked to see a stronger response) I'm pessimistic that we'll ever see meaningful long term perceptual shifts in this respect outside of when they're driven by a media-cycle furor.

(To address the root of this comment tree, I think the fad hasn't outlasted the media cycle, I think the media cycle has realized this topic continues to drive clicks for now)

Simply, I worry a lack of privacy, and lack of accountability for corporations/govt, has largely become normalized; or at least that people are increasingly unlikely to act in this direction without heavy media pressure. I hope I'm wrong.
I don't think it necessarily was caused by rent control.

It's still an extremely inconvenient fact for anybody advancing the hypothesis that rent control impedes housing development.

It might very well be that the effect is real but is so weak that it is completely overwhelmed by other factors.

It might also be that bringing down property values (which rent control will do) lowers the bar to housing development, spurring more of it.
(Current PhD Student)

Although the case for building new and more powerful hadron accelerators doesn't look good, accelerator physics is flourishing with other types of machines.

Particularly interesting to me is ultrafast electron diffraction (UED)[1,2]. UED is cool because you can create atomic resolution movies with speeds that can (in the near future) resolve chemical reactions as they occur. (eg. imagine being able to see a protein change conformations in a biological reaction)

This application is limited by the number of electrons we can stick in a given volume and get traveling in the same direction. The only way to improve this is by increasing the electric field in your electron gun or by choosing good materials for your photocathode. [3]

My research is on the second route and I'm currently building a measurement system that will allow us to test several theories related to how we choose these materials. Improvement in this domain is important and could open up a huge amount of research, but unfortunately doesn't get the kind of publicity that the big projects do.

[1] https://lcls.slac.stanford.edu/instruments/mev-ued

[2] Dwyer, J. R., Hebeisen, C. T., Ernstorfer, R., Harb, M., Deyirmenjian, V. B., Jordan, R. E., & Dwayne Miller, R. J. (2006). Femtosecond electron diffraction:‘making the molecular movie’. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 364(1840), 741-778.

[3] Rao, T., & Dowell, D. H. (2014). An engineering guide to photoinjectors. arXiv preprint arXiv:1403.7539.