skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for sharing! I've been personally trying to move away from everything google and it's SO difficult. Gmail and Maps are the last things I'm using, but I am still hopeful. I feel it's more of an addiction than anything else really.
How to Efficiently Dismantle Networks
You shouldn't be downvoted, average cruise speeds now are less than in the 1980s and considerably less than in the 1960s. And modern short / medium haul airliners are designed for lowet cruising speeds.

Ryanair notoriously uses a very aggressive Cost Index for flight planning which favours absolute economy over speed, to the extent that sometimes ATC complains about their low cruising speed

More about CI:
https://www.skybrary.aero/index.php/Cost_Index
UBS estimates 75,000 U.S. stores need to close, as online sales and Amazon grow
That's not the sort of thing you care about learning in a "timely manner" if you're "not at the location".
You shouldn't use the term "ethical" without very clearly defining your definition of ethical upfront.

If someone proposes to me that murder isn't ethical, I can more-or-less get on board with that without a bunch of defining and qualifying. You're talking about software though. To suggest that Open Office is ethically superior to MS Office is not at all self-evident or the general consensus of most people.

It comes off as you being oblivious or close-minded to competing ideas of ethics, which doesn't lend credibility to your use of the term.
> "Zig is aggressively pursuing its goal of overthrowing C as the de facto language for system programming."

I think it's fine to have aspirational but unrealistic goals.

> If there's one truth I've learned in my decades of dealing with computers, it's that you can't beat C at being C.

You can't, but as the realm of computing expands, it makes space for new languages. There's a lot of room in the space adjacent to C. We have embeddable languages -- schemes, lua, even Python to some extent. We have languages like Zig, Rust, and D, that can compile to object files that look as if they came from C. And we have other languages that generate C, like lisps and ocaml have done for 20 years now.

C doesn't have to be a language anybody writes, to be a language that everybody uses.
I wonder what his favourite game might be. One I still have an unfinished implementation in C lying around.
See also: https://prism-break.org, but there are no "organizations" there.
why obsolete? i never said that. bitcoin will just decouple money security from state security. which is why when you compare energy consumption, you need to include at least some chunk of resources dedicated to army, defence, etc.
I'm just not that concerned about fakes faking their way in. Maybe it's a problem other folks have experienced, but it's not one I've had.
>Perhaps this is selecting for desperate job hunters who send thank you notes.

That's entirely plausible. I mean, you're probably <insert arbitrary percentage here> more likely to not turn an offer down, even if it's below the cost-of-living for the area in question, if you're willing to go to those lengths, yeah?

Their solution to the problem of having offers turned down seems to be not to investigate why but to just hire the people most willing to take them... I mean, they found a loop-hole but to quote the Big Lebowski: "You're not wrong, Walter, you're just an asshole."
Note that Fan's sudden disappearance happened last summer. Since then, she's reemerged -- the full title of this article makes this clearer: “The Big Error Was That She Was Caught”: The Untold Story Behind the Mysterious Disappearance of Fan Bingbing, the World’s Biggest Movie Star

> Then, on October 3, Fan reappeared as suddenly as she had vanished. According to the South China Morning Post, she had been held under a form of detention known as “residential surveillance,” at a holiday resort in a suburb of Jiangsu...

> After her release, Fan issued an obsequious apology on social media. Saying she had endured “an unprecedented amount of pain,” she said she felt “ashamed and guilty” for not “setting a good example for society and the industry.”...

> That same day, tax authorities reported that Fan had declared only a third of her $4.4 million salary for Air Strike, a Chinese action film starring Bruce Willis. The movie’s release was canceled, and a warrant was issued for one of its investors...
"Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty". One part of a company being ethical is them letting you pick up and move out in the event that they do start showing negative behavior.
> Lead is added to solder because it lowers the melting point. It forms a eutectic alloy.

Pure tin already has a melting point of 230 °C. Yes, Sn63Pb37 (arguably the best solder alloy ever created) has a somewhat lower melting point at around 180 °C but no one uses such low temperatures except when absolutely necessary.

Being able to make the alloy eutectic is yet-another advantage, but the main concern was clearly tin whiskers, because these were breaking devices in the field.
What? I googled, and found this: "The Times newsroom staff peaked in early 2008 at about 1,332 employees, [...] still employs about 1,300 in its newsroom."

What are the correct numbers?
Found a very good one. In case anyone's still reading this thread: searx.me
> the NDRC said should be phased out as they did not adhere to relevant laws and regulations, were unsafe, wasted resources or polluted the environment.

Of course - why do you need to mine it, you can simply trust the Central Bank-regulated cryptos that don't need PoW
The obvious point to make is that American student loans already suck so this may be an alternative. However, this makes me feel really uncomfortable. The first is the same reason as student loans: At the age you're agreeing this you are very unlikely to correctly judge your own value. It's the same reason why students take on ridiculously onerous student loans.

The solution to that problem in my mind though is to regulate out of existence exploitative student loan conditions. Instead this mechanism creates a whole new way that lenders can rip students off. The Yale example is good but let me pick at this:

>Purdue, for example, caps total payments at 2.5 times what a student borrowed, so the most successful don’t feel gouged. That would be a 15 year loan at 15% APR. That IS gouging.

There is a good reason why super high APR loans are heavily regulated - because they're almost certain to cause debt spirals and are only entered into by those who are desparate. The nature of finance companies creating these schemes is that the schemes will be designed to favour the finance companies not the students. So in no way does this solve the problems that students face.
Seattle is at least marginally cheaper
Same book, same game, and same error.

The only difference with my introduction during my childhood was my father had a friend, who was building RAM extension boards (and other things) out of his garage, and he, excited that a kid was into computers, extended our TRS-80 for free. I can't remember the exact number at the moment, but it was something insane like 40Kb of RAM (But it was sometimes... Unstable).

I was the only one of my friends with a computer at the time, and we used to gather round and play BASIC games we either wrote ourselves, or write up the latest magazine game.
A Crash Course in x86 Assembly for Reverse Engineers [pdf]
Masters+Golf+Tee+Times
Hackers beat university cyber-defences in two hours
https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2016-05/10/0...
Lie I said, it's probably a mix of things. If Firefox ends up offering better privacy and user empowerment than the alternatives, it's still the better option. I suppose Opera when it was still a paid product might also be in here, but that didn't survive.
IMO this is also true for grappling martial arts, specifically Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.
Removing strikes and focusing on ground grappling makes a wonderful substrate for a thoughtful martial art. You have plenty of time to think what you are going to do next, and you have to focus on anticipating you opponents intentions (and what is remarkable is that usually it's your conscious mind the one doing the job, I find other martial arts such as boxing much more subconscious/instinct-driven than BJJ). In order to achieve this you have to keep your mind calm, and when you have someone's whole weight on you (or you're being choked out and start feeling the pressure on your neck) this can be hard to do. That's an interesting handicap.

Never found a martial art as intellectual as BJJ. I usually give the same example: I doubt you could learn anything about boxing reading a book. But for sure you can expand your BJJ game reading a book (of course it's not a substitute for real training). What I mean is that there is a huge amount of of knowledge in BJJ that you can acquire, consciously, reading a book, watching a video, or listening to someone's explanation.
Again, in boxing, you won't improve much your combinations just listening to an explanation on how to punch. Training is not just necessary to improve, but also to reach a minimum level of proficiency.

But even though in boxing listening to an explanation won't improve your combinations significantly, listening to an explanation on how to escape the mount (the position where your opponent is basically sitting on top of you, both knees in your armpits, ready to deliver punches or proceed with submissions) will definitely make a difference, even if you don't practice it much. If you consciously know the sequence of movements, chances are you're getting out much faster than someone who doesn't, even without the intuition that you can only achieve with continuated practice.

You can strategize at many levels, you usually have time to think (not always, obviously) about your next move, the pace is slower than in the striking martial arts, or even standing grappling martial arts. You don't need only instinct and subconscious skills, you also need hard knowledge about the technique being used.
HTC has unpublished many of its Android apps–including Camera–from Play Store
Who cares if it's renewable when it's inexhaustible.
> The point of the survey is to test whether or not people are aware of what google is doing with their data, not whether or not they're okay with it.

I'm not sure that's true. From the article itself: "DCN surveyed a nationally representative sample to find out what people expect from Google — and, as with a similar study we conducted last year about Facebook, the results were unsettling." Since the notion of "expect" is baked into the purpose, I think some manner of "okay with it" is fundamental to the survey. (Because when people don't expect something, that's usually not okay.)
How long before loans to D-grade students are securitized and sold with a triple A rating to dumbass pension fund managers?
Fathom - very simple, very pretty, great all in all

Countly - a little richer, e.g. geo view

Matomo - the most feature rich, closest to GA (haven't used)
Is there anything in the world quite as dumb as this form of argument?

If Democrats in the city or in Sacramento actually cared about the poor or the environment
Goldman Sachs to pay students $100K to tackle Wall Street technology challenges
Are you familiar with the weather this spring in the midwestern US? It is extreme and unprecedented. There are quite a few scientists who have been studying the extreme nature of the changes occurring over the past few decades. Here are some sources to help get you up to speed.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/midwest-flooding-perfect-storm-... : Perfect storm of extreme weather and climate change drove deadly Midwest flooding

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/03/180321130859.h...: New data show that extreme weather events have become more frequent over the past 36 years, with a significant uptick in floods and other hydrological events compared even with five years ago, according to a new publication, "Extreme weather events in Europe: Preparing for climate change adaptation: an update on EASAC's 2013 study" by the European Academies' Science Advisory Council (EASAC), a body made up of 27 national science academies in the European Union, Norway, and Switzerland. Given the increase in the frequency of extreme weather events, EASAC calls for stronger attention to climate change adaptation across the European Union: leaders and policy-makers must improve the adaptability of Europe's infrastructure and social systems to a changing climate.

https://nca2014.globalchange.gov/highlights/report-findings/... : The US government maintains a website warning of these threats: As the world has warmed, that warming has triggered many other changes to the Earth’s climate. Changes in extreme weather and climate events, such as heat waves and droughts, are the primary way that most people experience climate change. Human-induced climate change has already increased the number and strength of some of these extreme events. Over the last 50 years, much of the U.S. has seen increases in prolonged periods of excessively high temperatures, heavy downpours, and in some regions, severe floods and droughts.

https://www.ametsoc.org/ams/index.cfm/publications/bulletin-... : The U.S. Northern Plains and East Africa droughts of 2017, floods in South America, China and Bangladesh, and heatwaves in China and the Mediterranean were all made more likely by human-caused climate change, according to new research published today in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (BAMS).

The seventh edition of the report, Explaining Extreme Events in 2017 from a Climate Perspective, also included analyses of ocean heat events, including intense marine heatwaves in the Tasman Sea off of Australia in 2017 and 2018 that were “virtually impossible” without human-caused climate change. Also included are analyses of Australian fires and Uruguay flooding.
Thanks - it was something specifically for web hosting, iirc. You could then add a little "CO2 neutral" banner to your web site.
Microsoft: Our bug bounty payouts hit $2m in 2018 and we're offering more in '19
Free File Fillable Forms are pretty easy to use for anyone, regardless of income. It doesn't hold your hand and walk you through it, but assuming you can read English at a 4th grade level, I feel like you should be able to do it. Not that I think it should be even this complicated to do taxes, but it's not a terrible option.

https://www.irs.gov/filing/free-file-do-your-federal-taxes-f...
I really think there's something magical about beginners typing in whole projects by hand (instead of the modern copy-paste). It really helped me when I was getting started with programming.

To me, it feels like typing each character manually cements the knowledge in there much deeper than 'oh, I think I understand what I'm copy/pasting.'

Maybe that's a shallow truism by now, but I still see people struggling to learn programming via copy/paste from examples.
The amazon build of OpenJDK 11, Corretto [1], seems to be back porting some version 12 fixes as well. This could be the start of fragmenting the ecosystem all over again.

1: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/corretto/latest/corretto-11-ug/p...
Well, you can interpret QM in different ways. The headline makes an appeal to our intuition using one interpretation. I think it would be interesting to know what that appeal would look like under a different interpretation of QM.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpretations_of_quantum_mec...
That's a useless definition when it comes to software and software services.

It's easy to think of good arguments for Twitter being ethical and unethical.
Didn’t say this..
wow. I find it very sad that most people don't grok what pure means. The statement "no one writes pure functional programs. I mean, because they don't exist." is just wrong by any stretch of the imagination.

But at the same time, it's not that surprising, it's not something that comes to us humans naturally. The only way to learn it is to do it. This is something I highly recommend to everyone, you'll find the experience incredibly rewarding.
An iOS app that secretly spies on you
You need to shadow the car's driving manually at any time, in case the lane assist gets confused. How is this better than no assist? Now you need to drive and babysit the car at the same time. (edit: "autopilot" is a confusing term, replaced with "lane assist")
Prop 13 isn't really in the control of SF city residents.

But damn, California ... time to put that wealth-transfer tax for the old, rich, landed elite to bed already.
Have you heard of Boston subway's daily breakdowns?
How is it that so much aggressive political rhetoric related to race and the tech industry is coming from this area if there are very few African Americans there in the first place?

I live in Atlanta where the minority population is much higher all around and I don't get the sense at all that there's rampant racism or discrimination.

Is this problem unique to the Bay Area or is this largely white guilt?
I just filed my taxes in 10 seconds using the tax authority's smartphone app. It had pre-filled all my deductions such as interest using info reported from my employer and banks.

Apart from bribes from those who make tax software (which should be pretty easy to expose) I can't understand why congress wouldn't want to make paying taxes simple and efficient?
Repeal of Prop 13 would be implicit in any land value tax, so not mentioning it is a severe deficiency of understanding the power of San Francisco to properly govern itself.

Prop 13, despite benefitting landlords and commercial property owners more than homeowners, has an unfair reputation of keeping "grannies" in their homes in face of unfair taxation. Mention repeal of Prop 13 for commercial property, and even otherwise sensible people will start saying how heartless it is to ignore the plight of grannies, since this inappropriate connection is so strong in the collective psyche.
Or perfect information. Or infinite time to acquire information.
I wonder if premiums are higher for women due to increased likelihood of just becoming a housewife and providing no income?

Correct me if I’m wrong but the anecdote in the front is also a much worse deal than the table later on. 279/month = 3,348/year. Thats 6.7% of her 50k salary, which is before tax to begin with.

Tons of other loopholes I’m curious about. Like salary vs other comp?
I went through the article. I'm not seeing exactly how this is clickbait, or as some other comments that are strangely claiming, buzzfeed-like. Are we missing something here?
This is like saying that a regional dish in the US isn't "American"...

China is a vast place and has a multitude of local flavours and dishes.

This does not mean that HK isn't Chinese.
It is a terrible deal. Lambda School’s stipend programme (places limited) pays students $2,000 a month for the nine months of their job training, while they get trained 40 hours a week and that includes interview prep and placement and job search help that makes university careers offices look like they’re going through the motions, not trying to get the students a job.

And after paying students $18,000 and spending nine months getting them job ready and helping them find a job they only have to pay back

> Upon completion of the program, students will pay 10% of their salary for a five year period once they're making at least $50,000 per year. The max possible payment is capped at $50,000.

https://lambdaschool.com/stipend/

Or if you don’t get the stipend

> There are no up-front costs required to attend Lambda School; we only get paid when you do. Once you’re earning at least $50k per year you’ll pay back 17% of your income for the first two years.

> Total tuition possible is capped at a maximum of $30k, so no matter how much you’re getting paid the most you could possibly pay is $30k.

https://lambdaschool.com/about/
“Exodus” spyware posed as a legit iOS app
I don't mind as long as it's optional. I as a user still have the ability to run unsigned/un-notarized apps, and there's no indication that's changing. I can also turn off SIP and load unsigned drivers if I want (and I do).

iOS, by contrast, doesn't give you any choice in the matter. That's a big difference.
Thanks, we spent a lot of time working on the video! We plan to mitigate the toxic behavior through a behavior rating system (similar to Overwatch). At the end of the session, users rate the other person in the discussion upon both positive and negative qualities (Respectful, Knowledgeable, Charismatic... Absent, Aggressive, Crude, Interruptive).

Over time, we use these ratings to determine who to match, or just who to ban if they are acting in bad faith conversations.
It's weird that technology oriented people see code/IT in terms of infrastructure, but too little from a city as such.

I'm living in Vienna, Austria which is a city consistently rated to be in the top 5 most livable cities by multiple independent evaluations.

How did that happen? A strong sense of ownership and infrastructure thinking over a _century_.

Just to mention the obvious, property prices do not exist in a vacuum and cities where property prices go through such a steep and continuous rise as in London, Moscow, San Francisco etc. are not a reflection of desirability or market forces but rather the total abdication of planning and responsibility from the local authorities.

There are dozens of things local leadership can do to fix infrastructure and living standards issues, never let anyone tell you otherwise.
Hey, thanks for stopping by.

So better not bother even thinking about ethics at all?

More on the topic of ethics here:
https://ethical.net/ethical/future-ethics-with-cennydd-bowle...
https://ethical.net/ethical/ethics-should-not-be-a-luxury/
Some of the nature reporting (non-climate-change related) is also good and seems to have people who genuinely care about their area.

But yes, mostly the BBC news output has become trash now. Technology/politics seems especially bad.
> You don't have to be an all in orthodox believer to participate in a faith based group.

No, but it's tough to find one that doesn't require either believing in supernatural entities or lying about that belief in order to remain welcome, and I can't convince myself to do either of those things.
Who says? People want money that isn't controlled by the government.

Is moving gold lower cost?
Can you provide a justification for using any user-centric analytics at all past gross-request counts?
A course that has brought women even with men on a spatial cognition test (2016)
The utopia created by hackers on this very site
I could so see a planet-bound version of the movie Elysium. The elite top 5% live in walled off fortresses, a la Aeon Flux's city, and have everything - while the rest live outside in a daily fight to live against a dystopian environment financially and economically.

I don't think it's inevitable though, so the question is - how do we stop it? We have some of the brighter minds in tech on this forum, what are your thoughts?
Even though Seattle has gotten more expensive, it still pales in comparison to SF...plus no state income tax.
Somethings are part of the rules by virtue of the alternative being uninforceable.
'spaceplane' that could travel between New York and London in less than an hour
POS hasn't been proven to work without centralization.

It's why alt coins have stayed basically irrelevant.
The problem of Linux package management has been solved, and the solution is not flatpak (nor snap). It is Nix/Guix.

About the user experience, I'm right there with Linus that Chrome OS is the way to go forward. And this opinion is not new btw., he already voiced it way back when he got his first Chromebooks.
Sorry I ninja edited with a better thesis. :P

Yes I used to live there. The subway system in Boston and NYC is very badly run, but the city as a whole at least for Boston isn't bad. They do a better job with urban planning at least.
I'm also seeing this issue - started getting emails this morning about being subscribed to multiple forks, now I am unable to load GitHub at all