skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t know who the author is, but appreciate the pseudonym’s nod to HG Wells, so excuse me if any of this is already known to the author.

There are some interesting ideas in this draft, but it won’t work as a paper, in my opinion, until it enters into the wider intellectual conversation on these issues—there’s been plenty of exploration of this theme prior to San Fransisco’s current dire straits. For example, check out Langdon Winner’s peice, Do Artifacts have Politics which examines some of Robert Moses’s infrastructural projects in NYC and their rather direct political and social consequences. Obviously, that’s a bit different than the main thrust of the argument which has to do with servers and decentralization of computing power, but in general, exploring and subsequently citing works from the traditions of the philosophy of technology, history of technology, and social and political philosophy will help support the arguments in this essay, frame them within the context of prior human thought on the problems and concepts, and help fix vague and contentious use of terminology such as “ideology” with more specific, domain motivated contents. Since it’s a draft this point is less important, but the peice could also use a solid copy-edit.

Overall though, I’m very happy to see people are out there contemplating this stuff, and it’s an interesting topic.
One area where I would like to see more perception research is in 2D colormaps for values that have both an angle and a magnitude (complex numbers). The "state of the art" seems to be throwing it all into max-saturation HSV but I know we can do a lot better than that.
Maybe you could ask the people who use/maintain this: https://github.com/avleen/bashttpd
Starting with "Lol, probably just an oversight" and ending with an emoticon is excessively dismissive and flippant... that's how you lose customers, or potential ones.
America is a geopolitical idiot. It does not invade for lands, but just for showing off its presence. Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, all the same.
The next time a recession hits, you'll find no shortage of sober, skilled people, who will work for minimum wage.
Does Swarm’s closeness with the Ethereum means it will be unsuitable for any tasks which do not rely on financial incentives?

For example, if in the future debian is moved to IPFS, then many organizations are likely run local IPFS servers with Debian repos pinned. But if debian is moved to Swarm, I do not think that many organizations will be incentivized - the money are insignificant in the total spending, while engineering effort and organizational overhead (finance) is likely to be very big.
"utter pain to maintain"

How so? I've hosted a synapse server for a year and I have never had a problem with it even after major upgrades.
Intro to XGBoost: Predicting Life Expectancy on an HDI Dataset
> ...and to decreasing relevance, dynamism and power

Its funny how the author thinks we care about the elite's declining "relevance, dynamism and power"...as is I care about the end of the American empire.
B2 didn't used to be multiple ADs, or at least not multiple ADs over a wider geographic area, like AWS's regions. I'm not sure if that's changed at all. It used to be why B2 was able to be cheaper. You were paying for less durability and availability.

S3 storage is redundant over an entire region. Entire availability zones can go down (extremely improbable) without your data being put at risk.

It, therefore, struck me as odd to see:

> Due to S3 and B2 being at least nearly equally* accessible, reliable, available, as well as many other providers, our primary reason for moving our backups now became pricing.

but then ...

> * Science is hard, blue keys on calculators are tricky, and we don’t have years to study things before doing them

WTF? They're trying to be joking here I hope, but that comes across somewhat "We don't give a crap about our customer's data".
Aren't they equivalent? what makes one "more fundamental" than the other?
Not true. This is called "garden leave" in the financial industry and is quite common. I believe the theory is that a lot of a trader's knowledge becomes obselete quite quickly, and it is cheaper to pay a former employee for a year or two then to let them use their strategies at a competitor.
Digital Minimalism Book Summary
Forget about industrial espionage. They're now buying the loyalty of other countries, turning them into vassal states.

EU countries aren't safe either, see Greece and Italy.
The telemetry code is in the source. You can look at it yourself. It's anonymized.
(I disagree with the downvotes here - this is a reasonable position if you have no context)

In practice, non-competes that pay out 200k+/yr are quite common in finance (think firms like 2 sigma, Jane Street). They will pay to keep people from going to competitors, mainly to keep their strategies and implementation details reasonably protected.
Yes,

I've use Firefox for years and disabled autoplay for years. I don't even block adds otherwise. This Firefox cycle actually seems to be about enabling autoplay in a multitude of fashions. Where once I had to toggle one variable, now I have to research and change a dozen poorly documented variables in about:config.

The latest change was:
Setting media.autoplay.enabled.user-gestures-needed
to false. How much sense does that make? But it disabled wordpress' video where the six other tweaks didn't. At least you can find all this stuff searching for "autoplay". Still, who know how deep this will wind-up going.
I second school of life. I don't know more about them than having watch their YouTube videos and they are surprisingly good.
This is true: hypocrisy is not a proof of incorrectness. Smoking does not become healthy simply because a smoker told you it wasn't.

On the other hand, if adtech practices are bad (and they are), then it is not only Facebook that needs to change.
Unless he didn't mean to use the word "stunted", I would say yes.
Hang in, there.
Last I checked it was dumb. Possibly breaking block boundaries based on a rolling hash.
Hey, very cool!

Somehow I forgot about it.

As you say:

> I think all censorship should be deplored. My position is that bits are not a bug.

> — Aaron Swartz (1986 - 2013)

Edit: But I like https://nab.cx/ better. Or at least, as an alternative.
Are you concerned about potential long term side effects of the drug?

Like MDMA, which has also garnered attention from researchers for potential medical benefits, I was under the impression K had nontrivial neurotoxic potential if abused.
For some reason the discussion in this thread is far better than the earlier one you linked.
Show HN: PH7Builder v15: Dating Software Builder Finally Released
I asked. Also I was a supervisor later on and did plenty of hiring myself.

The store level employees you are interacting with have no authority to change anything--there isn't even a process in place to contact someone with the authority to make changes.
Thanks for mentioning Monica. It looks a lot more polished than the last time I took a look at it.

I've been toying with the idea of making my own crm, but always put it off hoping someone else will do it better.

Other than syncing contacts, are you happy with Monicahq?
I am unable to identify any technology which was stolen by any colonial power from China.

Nuclear reactors? Machine guns? Bombs? Steam engines? Cannons?

Gunpowder "Theft" dates back to the 14th century. I think everyone will agree that this is realllllly stretching it.
And while we're at it, how about we deal with companies taking ownership of employee ideas, projects etc that occur outside of work?

For a nation supposedly focused on entrepreneurship and individualism, we allow corporations to get away with a lot of behavior designed to stifle innovation. If a developer makes an application entirely on their free time and using their own systems, it is absurd for a company to expect the rights to that IP.
His point may be that devs that are constantly job-hopping for better pay will "experience the same year 10 times" and not grow in skills.
I'm not sure I agree with that viewpoint.
I used past tense, and the parent comment I replied to writes "just disable the telemetry", linking to the same FAQ the OP of the linked issue tried to follow to disable telemetry.

The VSCodium docs (linked in an above comment) mentions baked-in telemetry. Presumable this refers to the binaries rather than the source code, but then the issue is two-fold, being telemetry in the source and telemetry Microsoft may insert into the binaries. So following some FAQ to disable telemetry will not address the latter if you're not building from source.
For people like me who are slow:

cap - res f/t
| | chg c/t
mem - ind flx

Squares are neat.

(Not my area of knowledge; have no real clue. Hoping someone comes along and explains further.)
Hollywood Upended as Unions Tell Writers to Fire Agents
I did professional ketamine treatments twice. The first session was over four weeks, with weekly injections given for an hour each session.

It helped tremendously for about 4 months. Then my depression kicked in again, and I enrolled again. This second round I cut off after only two sessions. It was too intense. The first one was exciting and psychedelic. The second was psychedelic but... uncomfortable? It’s hard to describe. I didn’t enjoy it, and stopped after only two.

I can see the possibilities for it, and it did help, if only for a while. But that brief respite from the constant “you’re a shit, James, no one loves you and they never will,” that voice was silenced for a while.

And it was heaven.
> |auto| with a factory function sucks because you have to look up the return type.

It's funny how we never hear Ocaml or Haskell programmers complaining about type inference.
I have clients who occasionally do this while we are half a world apart. It ends up wasting our time because sometimes I can’t get back to them while they are in the office and an entire day passes before I know what they want.
I get what you say. But it's arguable that most of those actual WWII Nazis didn't really know much about anything. I mean, watch Riefenstahl's "Triumph of the Will". There's stuff in there that reminds me a lot of Young Pioneer camps (not surprising, I know) and Woodstock (except for the lack of drugs). My point is that they were just belonging to something that seemed cool.
Well, very technically is a euphemism for a scapegoat, which matters here only because whenever humans are organizing to create scapegoats, having a euphemism for the project is important.

-- Which is to say I basically agree.
archive.org has it!
Without reading the post, I read this as make a histogram with 6 bins in range –1 to 2 with name x. Then sort data into the histogram. What I don’t understand is the relevance of x, or why not just have a h.fill() function.
Paper money was invented by the Chinese first, but AFAIK historians have consensus that when the Italians adopted paper money later on, they had the idea independently from the Chinese.

The secret of porcelain making was guarded well by the Chinese, eventually Saxons (or the British, it's disputed who was first) figured it out without their help.
Arsenic in fruit juices isn't really all that surprising given that many fruits (principally apple and pears) have arsenic in their seeds. Even fruits that don't may use apple juice as a bulker or have some from cross-contamination in factories, that way.
Multiple lines of mysterious ancient humans interbred with us
The stated reason for moving to B2 was pricing. No breakdown of cost was given however. I’m not sure how they arrived at that conclusion.
For those that don't know, OPC Unified Architecture (OPC UA) is a machine to machine communication protocol for industrial automation ( from Wikipedia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/OPC_Unified_Architecture)
Sex is a biological variable – in the brain too
Exactly this: such an ultralight, accessible implementation would make it better suitable to run on embedded devices and mobile phones. And since we still live in as fairly disconnected world this is probably an area where IPFS can accelerate.
You didn't do enough. At the dose I tried I don't see it as a party drug either, I didn't move.
Didn’t Ross Perot leave IBM because they changed his commission schedule because he was so ludicrously good at sales? I can’t find a source for that particular story quickly but it lines up with his Wikipedia article.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Perot

> After he left the Navy in 1957, Perot became a salesman for IBM. He quickly became a top employee (one year, he fulfilled his annual sales quota in a mere two weeks)[10] and tried to pitch his ideas to supervisors, who largely ignored him.[11] He left IBM in 1962 to found Electronic Data Systems (EDS) in Dallas, Texas, and courted large corporations for his data processing services. Perot was refused 77 times before he was given his first contract. EDS received lucrative contracts from the U.S. government in the 1960s, computerizing Medicare records. EDS went public in 1968 and the stock price rose from $16 a share to $160 within days. Fortune called Perot the "fastest, richest Texan" in a 1968 cover story.[12] In 1984 General Motors bought controlling interest in EDS for $2.4 billion.
It's semi-common (or was, in the 80s) for couples who didn't want to change either of their names to instead give their kids a hyphenated name with both the mother's and the father's name. So my mother's maiden name is... Dolan.
To answer my own question: no difference in terms of telemetry.

Both pull from MS source and are prebuilt, so there should be no telemetry in either. This explains it well:

https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium#why

In case anyone wants to compare the minutiae:

https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium/blob/master/build.sh

https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/tree/trunk/...
It doesn't works, you can search the proof in vscodium issues(keyword: little snitch). It's the main reason why regex are used in CI pipelines to clean MS code from telemetry servers.
They're there because they've been excluded from mainstream sites. It may seem extreme, but one way to assess how uncensorable something is by its content of stuff that you hate. Even stuff like child porn that any sane person would hate. So you just ignore it.
Bombs and Cannons were both Chinese inventions.
Dupe?

https://snyk.io/blog/malicious-remote-code-execution-backdoo...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19569959
Why I Switched from Visual Studio Code to JetBrains WebStorm
Whats a safer alternative to these things?
Port it to Javascript, naturally.

bash.js has a nice ring to it
I call BS. There are just too many variables that have not been solved. The biggest variables are the random drivers that decide to do something stupid. Look at how hard it is to drive in a stormy or heavy snow day for humans. How will cars handle that?

Also, people are going to want self-driving cars to be perfect never mind that most drivers are far less. So, just by pointing these few items out of many more that still need to be solved means that we are ways away from the goal.

Musk needs to define the stages that will be possible over time and promise that rather than full self-driving by end of the year. He's defining reality by what he wishes will happen rather than what reality is.
You can get more by seizing all the property of foreigners directly. After all the US has a strong military.
Funny, Jack Ma also said “Don't want to die in office, I'd rather die on beach”. http://fortune.com/2018/09/10/data-sheet-jack-ma-alibaba/
Disclaimer: This is it’s a series of posts on how to get better at life written by someone that ended their own life.
Then it sounds like it wasn't worthwhile to begin with if the only risk was tens of thousands of dollars.
What's the difference between DAT and IPFS? I'm trying to understand all these new technology with a grand aspiration to replace the current infrastructure.

https://ipfs.io/
https://datproject.org/
https://beakerbrowser.com/
I would look for tasks and projects that:

* fall outside the existing skillset of your team

* are not opportunities for your team to develop skills that they care about

* have discrete, well-defined deliverables

* you can easily integrate the results into your product or operation and they will require little maintenance.

Regarding project size, I think it would be best to start with small but non-trivial projects to establish trust with freelancers and prove the results of this program to whoever is giving you this budget (even if it is yourself). Then, once you have established connections with proven workers, give them larger tasks in their areas of expertise.

Finally, and I say this with some bias as a freelancer myself (who will probably be cold-emailing you about this once I look in your bio), I would say to stay away from large freelance platforms like upwork and instead hire from your business network. Be ready to but work into finding the right person, almost like an employee, and be prepared to pay for quality, it is worth the cost.
If you also set 'x' then you'll get a log of how it's interpreting each line.
Pintf – Parallel INTegration Test Framework
LOL. I see what you did there xD
Slack's design encourages water-cooler back and forth ad nauseam. One of my clients uses it, and because I now track nearly all my working time, I know exactly how much money they waste because I'm on slack. In fact they waste even more than I charge them, because there are usually at least 2 more people bullshitting on slack pretty much continuously. Something that would be solved in 5 minutes through email or chat turns into a 30-40 minute clusterfuck and nothing gets solved.
<Regrettably, the additions and enhancements which resulted from this work have not picked up by Google.

Maybe Microsoft does and push it upstream?
> sober adult will not roll over onto the baby

This has happened. Some people are just very deep sleepers. We’ve resorted to co-sleeping on occasion, but I’m not about to pretend that I feel great about it.
I'm a man and I am ignorant of this alleged man-only social network that supposedly helps me get notice of job openings. Doesn't that suggest that it doesn't exist? If it does exist yet I'm ignorant of it, doesn't that suggest that the same might exist for women? I propose that there is a woman-only social network that is helping you to get notice of job openings, and you are exactly as ignorant of it as I am ignorant of the one helping me.
You should ask the red states and red cities. Generally speaking, they don't have these egregious nimbys. Houston even with 2 MIL population, and fast growing, still keeps housing prices low, even after a hurricane!!!
Thing is that people should accept a salary that covers the conditions in a contract, including non-compete clauses. Sadly most people don't recognize this, so it seems coercitive action like the one you propose is needed.
My comment was not specific for the article.
Nokia (recent, it's really a Chinese company). Also I'm in Vietnam.
I'm on the fence between you two. On one hand, it's true that missing pieces in a mathematical symmetry often motivate us to go find the real-world thing we haven't observed.

On the other hand, your example of a multi-layered substance that exhibits negative refraction does seem like "cheating". We can make transistors by layering different doped silicone variants together, but it's not considered a fundamental electrical component. If memristors require the same amount of engineering, are they "natural"?

What would be fascinating is, what if the missing puzzle piece implies an exotic shaping of "just" wire that would act as a memristor? Some crazy contortion like the magnetic field designs I've seen for containing fusion reactions.
Oh wow, I didn't realize how much processing went into the Impossible Burger. Seems to me that meat substitutes might be a coming threat to peoples health. People want to eat healthily but we are heading in the wrong direction. Thanks for the info.
Water moccasins are cool snakes and it would be sad if they disappear.
The size of the table isn't the trick. It's the perfect hash function that you want. If you have that then you've already solved the problem at hand.
The irony (if that's the word) of reading this story on a web site literally covered in advertising using stock shots of people who of course got paid for their face to be used. In ways which stem from this girls legal experience.
When one of those snakes is notorious for eating humans it’s reasonable to deprioritize their survival.
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19644152
I'm told the V6 /48 include ddos mitigation defensive routing. Many of them have a covering /32
Does synapse allow that for self hosted?
Interesting thought. Might partially explain why Germany balked at the US request for banning Huwei phones from 5G.

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2019/03/21/future-of-5g-us-allies-d...
It doesn't have to be 100% decentralized to be useful though. A central server could be in charge of linking the hash to the latest ipfs directory of files. (Or they could use ipns, but let's ignore it for a moment.) But then all of the files are available from a decentralized cloud of users, from everyone running ipfs and hosting the content. And if the central server giving the latest hash ever goes down, people will still be hosting the files and people can find the latest directory hash elsewhere.
https://github.com/miguelmota/ipdr
VSCode initializes the module they use to collect telemetry (Application Insights / A.I.) even if you disable that setting [1].

1. https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/63404
Canada’s legal pot is going well
Virtue signal received. Help is on the way.
How about PHP 6? not a fiasco?
Not enough people know about rainbow colormaps being problematic. This is a pretty cool tool that scans bioRxiv for preprints that use Jet and then automatically sends the authors an email asking them to improve the colormap, e.g. to viridis, parula.

https://jetfighter.ecrlife.org
Despite not personally believing Assange is a journalist, I think this underlying story is true: the legal fate of journalists worldwide now hangs on the kinds of law abuse being wreaked on Assange. His rape case and his self imposed incarceration don't alter the risk to journalists and don't diminish the risk to journalists.

Finding stuff out now carries different risks to the old ones and shield laws and other defences like 1st don't cut it all the time.
Your disclaimer is a touch ad hominem isn't it
Moo North: Cows Sense Earth's Magnetism (2008)
The way I see ot, ot goes both ways. He has taken a lot of shit for Tesla,SpaceX so obviously when something good happens then too he gets a lot. The dynamic is a bit similar to actors/actresses in movies. If it flops, nobody is blaming the makeup artist,dialogue writer. Btw, i do find some things related to Elon's life overglorified(those parts do not involve SpaceX,Tesla)
BTW, read this thread about Tom Mueller.
https://mobile.twitter.com/mekkaokereke/status/1081619342377...

Really inspiring. This thread got picked up by many news sites. I just googled "spaceX engineer lumberjack" to find this.
Again, you interpret everything through your prism. Sometimes it’s worth to be more empathetic and just go with it.

This book taught me to value my cultural norms less and be more accepting of others: “The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business”
A file in ipfs is stored/addressed by a hash of its content.

If you know the hash of the next version and put that in the file, then that hash will affect the hash/address of the file itself.

But the hash of the next version depends on the hash of the _next_ next version, and so on out to infinity... and you almost certainly don't know all those hashes, so you can't compute the hash of the next version, so you can't compute the hash of the current version, if it must contain the hash of the next version.
How does this work? Are you mutating the sequences in some random, but reversible way?
Ketamine is unique in that it is very much a different drug at different doses. Do it again and this time do much more.