skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From my internet researching a while ago the main difference, and why MLMs are legal, is that an MLM sells a product, whereas a pyramid scheme sells people. That is, you can make money solely by acquiring more people who pay to be apart of it, in a pyramid scheme.

I'm still not sure how I feel about MLMs. If it's actually a good product maybe it's not a bad thing, but when it is not, that's where it seems to get sketchy.
Open-spec touch panel computer runs on octa-core SoC
A basic little music player I made using vuejs
Game of Thrones – Season 1 vs. Season 8 Pictures Comparison
This is a simple vuejs project i undertook to understand its workings.. i am happy to say it kinda worked
Especially for EE anc CS programs. I came from a 3rd world country and a full time job there is still worse than a 1500/month grad student pay that has opportunity for 6 digit at graduation. Just like anything in life, you have to research before jumping in.
Just watched this documentary by David Attenborough [1] the other day. It's unfortunate that still to this day, scientists and researches have to emphasize the phrase 'climate change'.

It's sickening to know that rainforests are being bulldozed off by their hundreds of square kilometers every single day. And it's even more sickening that many think 'reforestation' is going to help this cause.

Rainforests are an ecosystem with thousands of different plants and trees, which contribute to a healthy and flourishing environment. Thinking that you can replace this with a few different species is not the way to approach this problem.

We really have to start looking at these issues from an individual point of view. We have to consider the fact that it might be our individual behavior that's going to inspire change in others.

World's Elite has proven time and time again that they do not care for the planet, not unless there is big money involved.

[1]: https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-47988337
Paying for services I actively make use of seems fair to me. It’s like a subscription to membership of a country.
"Think of the Nazis as a gang of uneducated mobsters"

Only that they were quite educated. Not the lower troops of SA. But the party members were very much into classical education, classical music etc.

And they totally went by law and order. "Just" a different order. With racism as its core fundamentals and the neglect of humanism in general.
At the Federal level there is a progressive estate tax up to 40%.

I don’t believe the rates have changed much, but the base amount which is excluded has increase to ~$5.5million per person, $11m per married couple.

Why do you say “used to”? This is not nearly so much of an exclusion amount as to approach an effect where “a very small fraction of the population will control the vast majority of all economic resources.”
The courage to stand up against your own ingroup is the highest form of courage and morals.

It requires independence of thought and high principles.
Was this post intended as sarcasm, or did you actually mean to equate the torture of a small number of prisoners with mass executions of millions of civilians?
There are many such ways to approximate somewhat arbitrary functions. Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Spaces for example.

The fact that NN can reproduce arbitrary functions is decidedly not what makes them special...
It'll be interesting to see how things turn out in France if the yellow-west movement continues.
Despite the misanthropic title, the article ends on a positive note:

> Thanks to our cultural evolution, we have cities, houses, and indoor plumbing. As a result, to the benefit of our health, we learned to use toilets. A primate with such behavioral flexibility, capable of going against millennia of natural selection, is nearly miraculous, yet an everyday event. Take heart. An originally arboreal primate species capable of being toilet-trained should also be capable of becoming planet-trained. In Aesop’s tale, remember, the tortoise triumphs. Because the hare and the tortoise are both part of ourselves, they can only win or lose together, which makes it all the more important that we get our hare-brained selves under control.

Personally, I find these heartening perspectives better than the pessimistic ones. And I have found that presenting such views to less informed friends makes them more motivated to take action and limit their consumption rather than the doom and gloom perspective.
The big picture is trivially true -- if you don't sleep, you die. Where's your favorite language, now? Similarly if you don't eat -- yet few people would make a rant about "food quality matters more than languages".

There's still a lot of nuance. What studies there are don't negate the existence of variability either. Well, then what's the point of bringing up the subject? Taken broadly sleep is important as life itself, but then it has no place in an earnest discussion around improving productivity. Taken narrowly, it's very context sensitive, so it's again rather useless in discussing improving your own or even your team's productivity unless you're already in the weeds of knowing individuals' detailed backgrounds.

There's a fun fact johnc's comment in that thread points out. We can all agree if we want that if people aren't getting their 8 hours (or some number close by), that has to happen first, and we can ignore whatever nuance/variability/context objections one might have. But with 8 hours, there are still over 100 other hours in the week. 80 if we're just talking M-F. What are you going to do to fill those more productively? If switching languages lets you do something in half the time as otherwise, why wouldn't you switch, and rather than just taking half the day off, continue working and do twice as much as you would in the other language for the day?

Is the point that you shouldn't unnecessarily waste your waking life for some company? Fine, but you shouldn't do that even if you're getting 10 hours every night and are only asked to work 30 hours a week if those 30 hours are truly a waste. On the other hand, you might be in a situation where 80+ hours this week (hopefully not forced to be compressed to M-F or intrude on your sleep requirements) spent on work is the most non-wasteful thing you can think to be doing with your life at this time. Circumstances are different.
Wow, I've never read that but I will do so now!
Ark II
I don’t need the daily telegraph to remind me of this. Worse than people that exploit others and don’t care are the people that do so and do care to some extend.
I highly recommend a Wiimote if you have one lying around. Super easy setup on Linux (couldn’t figure it out for the life of me on Windows, but that probably has more to do with me than the OS), the gyroscope works, vibration works, and overall it’s quite a lot of fun. I think I got a maximum of four simultaneously connected.
We don't yet know. Right now the consensus is that the universe will probably expand forever and will ultimately reach heat death. If the acceleration is accelerating though that means a Big Rip scenario, but it is very unlikely.
I'm saying, the reason the restriction is present on private employers is so they don't make a low offer to someone who had been paid less before.

My understanding of federal employment is that the pay scales are published and public record, and job postings state which scale it's on. This level of disclosure seems to minimize the possible harm here, as there's far less room for negotiation for anyone.
This is a late reply, but does this mean that even thermonuclear bombs still direct most of their payload above the ground?
Or the ball is projected from a 3D surface infinitely far away :D (holographic universe theory)
Looking at the list of characters in the game... and they all reference other FOSS projects. It's both cute and cheesy. Fantastic!

https://supertuxkart.net/Discover
I get your point, but please compare the ~2010 screenshots to the present ones and actually play a few rounds. For me at least, it’s more fun than a number of proprietary modern console racing games at zero dollars and open source.
The sats don't change orbit every few hours though, also without AGPS you usually can use the ephemerides from last time you used it.

This is fun to observe when you buy a new phone and don't connect network yet, it takes a good while to find any satellites and finally find a fix. Then after cycling GPS, it finds it almost instantly.
I built something like this for myself as I was unsatisfied with systems like pelican or jekyll. Currently it’s not documented at all but you can have a look at it here:

https://github.com/adewes/beam-up

It’s a very simple system that relies on Yaml files for configuration and uses plugin-based builders and processors (e.g. for Markdown or Jinja). We use it for all our production sites (e.g. https://gdpr.dpkit.com, source at https://github.com/dpkit/gdpr-portal) and it works very well without getting in the way. If there would be some interest I’d be happy to write up some docs for it, right now I’m just scratching my own itch with it.
If you can churn out 1 paper every 3 months doing 8-5 that’s fine. The truth is that the incentive model is based on papers you published (to be subsequently used in NSF proposals). Hence, for most people that means working their ass off to churn out papers at a decent rate. I guess you could say something else is broken — like the way conferences have super low acceptance rates?
Receiving funding is different from being funded by, right? It may have been payment for the service provided by Huawei to the China's military and intelligence, right? Or can Huawei not provide service to them even if it's a Chinese company?
Incredible how certain tech seems to live on.
> today, most beer is served cold

It depends what you're drinking & where you're drinking it. Almost all the beer I order is served at room temperature.
Lovely piece of writing.
Howdy! I work fighting climate change, and I guess it's that time again for a what-can-you-do-about-it post :)

So what can you do about it?

You can get a job fighting climate change! Solar, wind, batteries, and EVs are now competitive against fossil-based incumbents, so now the biggest issue is scaling them up. That means tons and tons of problem solving, which means great software and engineering jobs and startup opportunities!

If you think about it, the switch to renewables means we need to deal with situations where the sun isn't shining and the wind isn't blowing, yet still keep the lights on. That means you have to build in a ton of storage and load control and electrify as much as you can (transportation, heating, etc.). All that new infrastructure needs to have good communication and analysis, which means software! Something like half of the impact of the energy transition will be done through software optimizing the deployment and operation of clean energy assets.

I've posted about this many times[1], so please check out my previous comments on links for finding climate impact work. It's mostly about (A) browsing sector-specific conferences and looking at the expo and speakers' companies for ones that interest you, and (B) showing up to energy meetups just to meet people working in the space. If you're in the bay area, I run a calendar of all the clean energy-related events (https://bayareaenergyevents.com), so I encourage you to just start showing up :)

My favorite climate change joke is, "They say we won't act until it's too late... Luckily, it's too late!"

Why not turn the fatalism and anxiety you feel into a paycheck?

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15127154
Nobody wants one.
Because Google didn't open source Blaze soon enough, and Xooglers who moved to other companies wanted something similar and ended up building clones (Buck and Pants come to mind). Eventually, Google did release an open source version of Blaze called Bazel, but by then the eco-system was already rife with many other similar but slightly different build systems.
Perhaps HN could change the title too.
There have also been some cool Game Boy Zero mods where folks replaced the insides with a Raspberry Pie and a color screen, added more buttons, and installed a bunch of emulators and retro games.
Japan's 'vanishing' Ainu will finally be recognized as indigenous people
To be fair, if I wanted to build covert surveillance I could also trivially make the switch appear to turn off the camera to commercial camera software but not actually disconnect from my covert software that I provide to TPTB.
Schools Don’t Support Personal Development, They Distort It
So I have a really serious question. I'm not a denier/skeptic. I just like to look at things logically and pose questions.

Over the next 50 years these 3 things will occur:

1) Only electric vehicles on the ground, air and water

2) All meat for consumption grown in the lab, no farm animals raised

3) No coal plants

Won't this eliminate all major types of pollution?

If at this point, the planet still keeps warming? What are "they" going to blame it on then?

It's quite easy to see this is where technology is going. But yet I never hear anything about it. Just we have 10/12 years until we all die.

Also please don't just down vote me. I'm interested in knowing if there are cycles in warming due to the earth or the sun. I have come across youtube videos and articles that we are in-line for another ice age. I just wonder, if we'll ever get to a peak warm, will it reverse and we'll start cooling rapidly?
The sibling replies neglect to mention that midday naps are very common in China (across all age groups), with lunchtimes typically being 2 hours long.

It's really not that different to Google having nap pods.
I think it boils down to taste, just as there are many languages which have basically the same expressive power. Similarly, there are many shells like bash, tcsh, ...
Art is ageless. Metaphorically speaking.
but we're also conveniently shielded from having to come up with actual good and humane solutions to the problems these people have. I don't think the benefits are worth the cost.

We have a long history of simply 'hiding' people who were inconvenient and/or problematic, where in many cases various forms of treatment have essentially solved the problem.

I personally remember a time where kids with AD(H)D were sent to 'special schools', lumped together with others who often had more severe problems, for example. I definitely think things got a bit better now that we found ways to keep these kids integrated in society.
It's a hard thing to do right despite looking deceptively simple.
Regardless of what you think of the "militia" - the fact that a donation service can just get rid of you is a really dangerous situation. I mean the reason could be anything at all, and you completely rely on someone's whim that you can't predict.
The most important step is to remember that data is a "toxic asset"[0], in that as long as you have it its a potential danger. Data deletion is a valid strategy for controlling risks, and as bdibs said in another top-level comment here, you can't have a data breach for data you never had in the first place.

Regarding [pseudo]anonymization, there are plenty of deanonymization attacks against various [pseudo]anonymization techniques, so always look into potential problems specific to the type of data you will be storing and [pseudo]anonymizing.

Something I would recommend to handle the data you do decide to keep; look up a HIPPA electronic compliance guide, and see what engineering practices have been settled on by folks who will get hit with enormous fines if there is a breach. Curiously, when there are consequences for breaches due to non-compliance with data-handling best practices, companies get much better at doing the right thing. Industries where data-mishandling laws have teeth tend to have fewer breaches.

Although I do think there are lessons to be learned for virtually everybody from HIPPA compliance guidelines, the approach you will end up using to protect your data will not be a one-size fits all approach; you will need to consider the architecture of your system, the kinds of data you need to keep, what you'll be using it for, whether you will access it regularly, etc.

A good place to start looking is here[1]. It's got a huge number of short "cheat sheet" like guides that cover a narrow topic relating to security. Some ones you might want to check out: password storage[2], authentication[3], attack surface analysis[4], SQL-injection prevention[5], cryptographic data storage[6]. Find guides related to your data and what you want to do with it, then read up, following some of the recommended other links in each cheat sheet.

[0] https://www.schneier.com/essays/archives/2016/03/data_is_a_t...

[1] https://github.com/OWASP/CheatSheetSeries

[2] https://github.com/OWASP/CheatSheetSeries/blob/master/cheats...

[3] https://github.com/OWASP/CheatSheetSeries/blob/master/cheats...

[4] https://github.com/OWASP/CheatSheetSeries/blob/master/cheats...

[5] https://github.com/OWASP/CheatSheetSeries/blob/master/cheats...

[6] https://github.com/OWASP/CheatSheetSeries/blob/master/cheats...

Disclaimer: I am NOT a security expert, just someone with a hobbyist's interest in security. All opinions expressed in this comment are my own, and are not necessarily reflective of the security community at large. I encourage anyone reading this to do their own review of security best practices, the opinions of security researchers, and the technical literature on security.
I think the best explanation for the rise in popularity of dnd in the US are videos of people actually playing the game online. Reading the rule books doesn't really tell you how to actually play or what to expect when you play, it mainly just sort of tells you how to make a character and calculate dice rolls. I tried dnd in highschool with a starter set but none of us really knew what we were doing so it just seemed like a board game with vague rules.

Japan has had a huge tabletop rpg (which they more suitable call tabletalk rpgs) explosion due almost entirely to the development of "replays". Replays are the transcriptions of actual game sessions into a book for people to read. Multiple prominent japanese trpg designers were introduced to the scene by randomly picking up one of these books. They sell for something like $4 new and easily be bought for $1 used so it is something that is very easy to buy on a whim. Video replays are also very popular, ironically enough, they are usually made by putting the transcription of a session through a text to speech generator...
Yeah my MSc paid for itself. The only real cost to me was two years not in the workforce.
I get your point, but the question seems to be about code bloat, not RAM.
You think the planet reaches equilibrium a day after we stop emitting? There's quite a bit of heat capacity at planetary scale.

Current anthropogenic emissions may be causing melting of glaciers and warming for decades or hundreds of years to come. Chances are "they" will continue to accurately blame the 20th and 21st century emissions into the 22nd and 23rd.
The Guardian once again makes itself the topic.
My Ted talk: how I took on the tech titans in their lair
Because it’s easy to implement something that does 80% of the features, and also it’s easier than learning all the gnarly features of make

Last year I learned about .PRECIOUS and it was awful
I think that isn’t a smaller stone, but a similarly sized one with a notch that fits the hole that must be filled to make the structure rigid.
I prefer vhdlisp[0] tbh, but I prefer vhdl over verilog anyway.

[0] https://github.com/domus123/vhdlisp
Can anyone who's used both compare Buck to Blaze/Bazel?
I never said they were equal. I don't know if anyone was punished for doing it though.
I'd never seen that Casey Reas reel before. How cool that those drawing "processes" formed the basis of the Processing environment ;)
This site keeps the front articles of hn for 8/16/24 hours. So you don't have to keep visiting the HN
Speaking of speculation, there could be quite a few speculators in this thread that are invested in SpaceX. The downplaying of the actual event could be their own way to shape the stock price.
It's not the same thing.

In Python you don't have the full power of the language at your disposal, you can't add primitives like if/class/etc; in Lisp, the sky is the limit.

The lambdas are crippled; as are the threads, using processes is a completely different game.

I would consider spending some of that energy on learning Lisp.
Disclaimer: I work at a company that is both an Akamai and a Fastly client. I worked with Fastly first, then Akamai after. Opinions are my own and not the views of my employer.

There has definitely been a push to catch up, but I wouldn't say you're there yet. The Terraform provider for instance is not up to par with the Fastly one. Having attended an Akamai DevOps workshop not so long ago, there didn't seem to be an easy way to use the CLI tools to configure a property in an idempotent way in a CI/CD pipeline. Maybe things are different now.

Akamai has some advantages for enterprise customers though such as easy assignment of cost using the CP codes. That's very handy. The integration with Let's Encrypt is also very nice.

Fastly delivers in it's simplicity and documentation. Whatever use case you need, you'll most likely find it in their docs and on their blog. Being able to use VCL to configure your caching is in my opinion way easier (and with less limitations) than the Akamai rule tree (even if you don't have previous Varnish experience). Varnish's finite state machine makes it easy to configure and debug any kind of behavior you want. The Akamai rule tree has caused me quite a few 'WTF' moments. It's difficult to debug when something doesn't behave as expected and there's a certain amount of 'black magic' in the behaviors sometimes that makes it difficult to judge what the outcome will be.

The good thing is that both companies have different features and get pushed to incorporate features deemed useful by their customers at one or the other provider.
> Nazis as a gang of uneducated mobsters

Not at all e.g. most of the Wannsee Conference attendants had "Dr." title. Numerous responsible for massacres of civilians or inhumane medical experiments had the "Dr." title. The so called elite can turn into monstrosity as well. It's not "the primitives" which are the real threat most of the time. "The primitives" gain power only after the the elite is purged and/or expelled - see the first decades in Soviet Union after the Bolshevik revolution, or Stalinism in Poland.
"The villain of SuperTuxKart, Nolok is always concocting some sort of malevolent plan inside his fiery lava castle."

I wonder if this is a reference to Larry Ellison. He owns most of the Hawaiian Island of Lanai.
Aristos don't pay inheritance tax, that's for the plebs.
The problem is, and I used disclosing tabs as a kid too, that unless you're being continuously monitored your behaviour can alter. I think the concept I raised is different.

Seeing inputs is also useful.

I guess if you were to use disclosing tablets every time you brush ...
Fantastic! This sort of access usually requires something like WGA membership ;)
Security flaw in French government messaging app exposed confidential info