skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Yes. A significant percentage of people are any combination of racist, sexist or homophobic.

And a great majority of people don't particularly like giving sovereignty to participate into a nebulous "European Union" which mostly promotes German interests and Brussels bureucrats, don't welcome immigration as panacea without thinking their race is superior (just that their country doesn't need more people coming in, whether caucasian or black or whatever), have a good relationship with their spouses without turning everything into a war of the sexes and a fight against "patriarchy", and are straight/LGBT/etc, etc, and content with it, without making everything be about their sexual preferences, or approving of BS demands like trans persons competing in women's sports, or the "cotton ceiling".

And yet those people are frequently classified as racist, sexist and homophobic, because any nuance away from a constantly widening Overton window is considered beyond the pale -- even if what they say could very well have been the opinion of the mainstream of the left population in, say, 1980s (heck, in 1999 in Seattle the left fought against "globalization", and today anybody that speaks against the same is a "populist/Trump supporter/xenophobic/etc").

>Why is it that these people always want to say that they're the real victims whilst sugarcoating their views with the phrase "opposing viewpoints". It's like there's a playbook to follow for disingenuous argument.

So, just like there's a playbook to demonize the other side with thought-crimes ("anybody that says X is "racist, sexist or homophobic", and you get to define how wide X can be...).
This tends to work better with smaller companies.

In my experience, in a small company, the CEO is still involved in the hiring process. If he's highly technical, he can conduct an interview, identify talent, and if it doesn't work out, it's his problem.

As a company grows, the CEO has delegate to people below him. Whether he's technical or not, hiring managers get involved. If a hiring manager hires someone good, degree or not, everything is fine. They don't get bonuses for hiring people without degrees who work out.

However, if an employee has to be fired, there will be a meeting to discuss what red flags there might have been that could have signaled that this person was a mistake to hire. If the hiring manager believes that they'll get in trouble for ignoring the lack of a degree, they're not going hire people without a degree. They might overlook talent, but at least they won't get blamed for messing up and hiring someone unqualified.
Higher ed in form of universities aren't meant to be trade schools. Their purpose is to produce thinkers instead of technicians, which unfortunately industry isn't well equipped to utilize.

Also, parroting political talking points about snowflake kids and such doesn't provide any value, even if draws support from a certain type of crowd.
To explain some of my sickening tendencies: I'm not associated with any such for-profit hosting site, so I have nothing to gain from this. I just use them.

Implementing such a feature would cost resources that someone would have to pay for. Storage costs would go up, it's not atypical that e.g. a repo that's 100MB on disk might be 1.5x or 2x that (or beyond) if you were keeping every version of every ref ever. Think e.g. accumulating throwaway topic branches with library imports you never ended up using.

So how do you pay for running such a thing, nevermind the initial development cost?

You could just make it "free", but then you'd need to roll the cost onto customers across the board. Or you could only enable such "backups" for opt-in paying customers, but most people aren't going to think to enable/pay for that, or think "I won't need this", until they day they do.

So wouldn't it be neat to have such a service on in the background, funded by high premiums to recover the data in case their backup version is your last option?

I've certainly permanently lost personal data by accident where I'd wished I could have paid hundreds of dollars to get back, nevermind someone for whom such a thing might be of critical business importance.

Think about it as being able to pay money after-the-fact to undo the car crash you just got into. With technology that becomes feasible in some cases, and in particular due to how git stores data & what people tend to store there it's relatively cheap compared to some other types of storage.
Interesting that nobody mentions GPU powered DBs that can actually compete with KDB+. There are also other "normal" DBs that have impressive benchmarks like VictoriaMetrics and Dremio.
A Mission wrap is identical to a Mission tortilla, but it costs more (2012)
Find a MUD in your target language.

https://www.reddit.com/r/MUD/comments/bhxejm/muding_for_span...
Simultaneously fucking awesome (that you pulled it off at all), and fucking useless (performance...).

Thanks for sharing though. Maybe could be useful in making a suite of zfs inspection tools?

Is the OP here? How difficult would it be creat a zfs reshaping tool, allowing for the offline expansion of a vdev?
> It's mind blowing

:) When people watch this[1], and I'm standing next to them, they'll often ask about the ripples. But if they were watching it alone, there isn't an easy way to do that.

Someone did an art project, where you sit and watch an interesting drama video. But why was it interesting? There's an eye tracker, and the video is a graph of scenes, like an old "choose your own adventure" story. So if you're interested in character A... the video explores/emphasizes character A.

AR/VR is coming. With eye tracking (eventually... patents). So...

Imagine science education that's consistently mind blowing, rather than boring. What might that be like?

Though a cautionary note: there's apparently a problem of students, who have consistently had excellent teachers, clearly and motivationally presenting material, reaching college without the skills or inclination to themselves wrestle with a body of knowledge and distill understanding. Another opportunity for improvement. :)

[1] stop-motion animation with individual molecules: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSCX78-8-q0
> Now, I'm by no means a traditionalist or conservative, but there is something very off-putting about the attitude of those attempting to reimagine the structure.

Notre-Dame has been "reimagined" repeatedly throughout history. For example, fron 1857 to 1864, the inside and outside were heavily refurbished, including many new decorations put in placee, entire sets of supports and walls replaced, and a brand new and taller spire designed from scratch to replace the previous onee. From 1991 to 2001, many of the exterior stone blocks, turrets, and gargoyles were replaced again, as industrial pollution had caused them to erode at an accelerated rate.
What evidence do you have that the labor laws are a response to polish domination of freight, or that those laws would would somehow only cause polish carriers to become unprofitable?
If we're talking about dangerous in general (not in this specific case), then anonymous accounts might be sockpuppets.

And, indeed, we are seeing that very prominently in the last few years, in US/world news, as part of a major and unresolved threat.

This general situation is one reason to adopt some practices. Getting practice with practices is good practice.
See "The Case Against Education" by Bryan Caplan for an argument in favor of the signaling viewpoint.
Facebook Faces a Big Penalty, but Regulators Are Split over How Big
>It's purpose is to reward you for doing the right thing

And who defines what "the right thing" is?

>The surest way to invite misery is to go chasing happiness. Ask a heroin addict.

Or you could ask an entrepreneur who made his dream come true by chasing happiness. He would tell you the surest thing he did to get out of his misery was chasing happiness. Depends on who you ask.
My bigger concern is Google in this case. No Android phone manufacturer does anywhere near as good of job at security or privacy compared to Apple. If you can’t install LineageOS (needless to say, I skip adding Google Play Services) on it, I wouldn’t feel comfortable owning it.
This article seems to imply it must be a craft of some kind, but I'm not convinced natural phenomena can be ruled out. As an example, ball lightning is still not particularly well understood and behaves in rather peculiar seeming ways. The speed that this 'object' moved at makes much more sense if it's entirely electromagnetic in nature.
That link was useful, thank you. I don't find it hard to believe technically, but it strikes me as a fundamentally different practice than what I'd head of before. If I request for traffic to go to a certain IP, I expect it to be sent to that IP. MITMing and manipulating that traffic is bad, but not delivering it at all is qualitatively different. I suspect it could be grounds for a serious civil or criminal action.
The problem with training is that you hire 10 people. 3 of them pan out. Then they leave for 100% more salary from a company that doesn't need to make up for hiring those other 7 in the first place.

In my experience companies that rely on armies of junior programmers to do things manually tend to end with horrible code bases and a lot of technical debt. Few abstractions, lots of repetition, little automation and so on.
What if Universities were as low cost as community colleges, as they are in most of the economically developed world?

High tuition colleges only exist prey on low-talent people trying to buy fake credentials. Anybody talented enough to learn from a college what they can't learn at a lower priced college, can get a scholarship to that college.
> In California, there is no annual limit, but workers can’t be disciplined for not working more than 72 hours per week.

So in California, it's not illegal to discipline your employees for working a mere 70 hours per week?
I'm aware, it's also been constructed and reconstructed over centuries. Don't be pedantic, you understand that I'm talking about the two general attitudes/positions being put forward. If the reconstruction internally used a stronger concrete or something while still trying to recapture the essence of the cathedral, that is not the same thing as wanting to reimagine it for the sake of dismantling its identity. And that's not catastrophizing or making assumptions on their behalf, that is literally what they are saying.
> Migration greatly helps the people who migrate, more than other forms of foreign aid. It also helps their relatives back home due to remittances.

It helps the people who migrate and their families, at the cost of the development of the nation they're leaving behind who lose skilled workers, and it also hurts those left behind in the country that aren't receiving remittances as the influx of foreign cash raises costs and prices.

> More people means more customers.

And more workers (putting downward pressure on wages). More customers offsets that slightly by increasing demand for products, but between the effects of increasing labour supply and cash leaving the country (those remittances you brought up), is it a net positive for both sides? There are losers, where's the equilibrium?

> The question is whether and how to take all this into account in your cost-benefit calculation. It doesn't seem at all obvious to me, without actually doing the math

Of course you take everything into account when doing the maths. The problem is that those who make decisions are swayed by corporations and lobbyists, so they optimise for what's best for corporations, not necessarily citizens.

> Conclusion: this stuff is complicated.

Very. I studied it in university, it doesn't get simpler the deeper you go. And the answer of 'migration is always positive' is a simple answer, and doesn't take into account the winners and losers.
I got the update and containers are working again but, it seems like it forgot my old container configuration and I had to set them all up again.
One of my favorite short stories, and nobody else has ever read it. So glad to see someone else reference it.
I completely agree. I feel like this quote in particular is intended as a personal attack, and that its inclusion dilutes the actual potentially valuable criticism and suggestions to the point that they’re basically irrelevant.

That’s a shame, because I also believe that all projects like this have room for improvement.
ESR release in Debian also has this option available. I think the option is generally available with Firefox installed from any Linux distro.
> why wasn't it done before?

I saw (fenced-in) goats trimming grass in the Berkeley Hills as far back as 2000. I'm sure people were doing it long before then.

> why isn't this done more often

Possibly because it's hard to make sure than none of the goats escape, breed, and wreak havoc on the native species. Eradicating invasive species can be unbelievably expensive and brutal (e.g. helicopters and machine guns), even on small islands. Hopefully they've embedded GPS trackers in all of their goats, but I still suspect that they're taking chances.
And at least as far as recruitment goes companies want X years experience on 12 different things ... and their recruiters spam me constantly, and then humm and haw when they find out I have 1 year experience, they don't know java /= javascript .... but they were totally impressed with my resume ....

Not that I need them as I have a job, but if their search / recruiting is garbage maybe not finding someone says more about their requirements / process than the market, meanwhile they don't hire even a noob.
I support carbon taxes as well. Crazy how far steelmanning can get you.
It is, when we insist parents work two fill time jobs to feed, clothe and house their children.
The surviving inner structure would block the light anyway. The same structure that stopped the roof falling into the building too much.
Ability to write toy code on a whiteboard has almost zero correlation with actual competence in real software development. It's a lazy, cargo cult interviewing technique.
From ghacks (comment section): https://www.ghacks.net/2019/05/04/your-firefox-extensions-ar...

This should allow the extensions to work until the next check (Verified locally):

1) Shut down Firefox

2) Open extensions.json (located by about:profile -> Root Directory)

3) Replace all instances of “appDisabled”:false to “appDisabled”:true

4) Replace all instances of “signedState”:-1 to “signedState”:2

5) Save and close extensions.json

6) Start Firefox

7) Close Firefox

8) Open extensions.json

9) Replace all instances of “appDisabled”:true to “appDisabled”:false

10) Start Firefox

11) Disable and re-enable all extensions in about:addons
Hey this is pretty cool. Thanks for releasing this!
Start Bing-Reading
Electronic voting isn't a solution, it's an attack. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3_0x6oaDmI
There are dog breeds (Great Pyrenees and all the other large white European mountain breeds) who have co-evolved with humans specifically for guarding livestock from predators. They’ll probably accompany the goats.
The attacker is also threatening to make these private repos public, or misuse their access to the repos in other ways (likely additional types of breaches).
Why do schools exist in the first place, if almost everyone can just learn on their own?
There is zero website, news team or otherwise that adheres to your nigh-impossible lofty ideals of 'neutrality'. Every single site is going to have some bias in one direction or another.

For example, EFF is obviously going to be biased against anything that takes away privacy. The Guardian is going to be more left leaning than The Daily Mail and so forth.

Can you name me a single example of a website behaving according to the rules that you've laid down?
> Not all workers have a union.

The three year reference period doesn’t apply to those workers. If there is no union, there is no collective bargaining agreement, and without a collective bargaining agreement the maximum reference period under the law is 4 months (similar to the rest of Europe). As to hours, the new Hungary law is not crazy out of line with that of other countries, especially the more market-oriented/capitalist European countries. The Netherlands and Denmark have no annual overtime limit. In the Netherlands you can be asked to work up to 60 hours per week. In Denmark it’s 48 hours. Norway has a limit of 400 hours by agreement. The new Hungary law works out to being the same as Norway, similar to Denmark, and less than the Netherlands. Austria has an extremely low limit (60 hours). Maybe that’s a good idea and maybe it’s not. But people in Norway aren’t “slaves.” Calling more liberalized, but still within the mainstream, labor regulations “slavery” is propaganda. And it’s propaganda to try and make readers think workers are being told to work for free.
Perhaps more cynically the job of universities is not to train students but to rank them. If you are the top of the class at some ivy league school there is a likelihood of you being good a good paper shuffler at mid level management position
Applying the Gestalt Principles to Code
I have done both things at different times with different people. Lately, after some recent experiences, I err strongly on the side of letting go of myself, abandoning any pretense, and trying to be unconditionally supportive. I would make some attempt to do that even if I were not especially close to the person. A lot of people tell me they don't feel comfortable extending themselves in that way and that is fine, but I have decided it is the ideal we should aspire to.
Absolutely, I agree. Thing is, practicals should make students, well... practice a lot.
So if a university produces great thinkers and average workers, I'd say that it achieved what it was set for.
If a university produces great thinkers and dismal workers, then that university does not exist.
Isn't this most likely just a response to the surge of drones over the last half decade?

I imagine UFO sightings have proportionally increased and thus the number of ad-hoc reported sightings within the Navy finally crossed the threshold.

It could even be a foreign government or spy agency doing amateur reconnaissance with new tech.

As the article states,

> The lack of a structured procedure and classification system, and the nebulous fear of being stigmatized by reporting things like UFOs [is] something that has long plagued the military and private sectors alike

There is also the nebulous fear of people overreacting whenever you finally decide to implement these common-sense policies. You must be hiding something, even if you were ironically just trying to be more transparent.

I don't mean to sound like a denier. The released IR footage from the same observation period [0] is incredible and, if real, proves that high-G maneuvers without exhaust or aerofoils exist and we are still lacking some very fundamental understanding about the nature of gravity.

I also found the article to be well thought-out and that it covered most of the most obvious answers without trying to paint a particular picture. I'll have to pay more attention to Rogoway.

Speculating on the shape of the aircraft, would the round tic-tac shape provide the least average air resistance in every direction provided an aerofoil is not needed for flight?

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9D8dzl4zGk
>This is a concern for some

I don't think so. Why would it be a concern? It's not like the web rendering engine will "phone home" under your nose or something...
Well, it's a hardware defect in some memory modules. Same types of tricks can be used to trigger nany kinds of hw bugs in various CPUs and other chips.
Everyone keeps mentioning that iPhones get more expensive, but when you look at it (inflation adjusted), that’s not really true.[0] Apple is still charging about $700 (inflation adjusted) for a phone just as they did when it was first released. The only outliers are the SE, X, and Xs.

The only reason phones seemed cheaper is because AT&T would subsidize your brand new iPhone 3G so you only paid a few hundred, not the full price.

[0]: http://static.digg.com/images/a24b0086e42c464fabd1652cf01f8a...
I don’t think university is very well equipped to produce either thinkers or technicians.

Right up until you get to your postdoc is seems like you’re mostly playing ‘guess the right answer’ with your professors.

It’s great for another dose of slightly more specialized basic knowledge, but it’s not going to prepare you for anything after that unless you stay in academia.
Thanks, you just saved me a headache.
It was incredibly fun to see how some changes had drastic effects, but I was also surprised by the fact that most modifications past the header either had no clear visible effect, or kept the image intact. Somehow I'd come to expect otherwise.
I’ve personally seen what some would call a UFO, and was too awestruck to even consider recording the event. I’m not saying it was an alien craft, but it was being chased by military jets and lost their trail when it started flashing a row of rainbow lights and rose from above the trees to disappearing like a satellite in the sky. I’ve never really spoken about it and who knows what it was. All I know is it didn’t follow any propulsion rules I’ve ever seen, and didn’t even think about the chance to record it until much later.
One thing I love about luakit is the window is rendered no-frills -- just the content. I use openbox with undecorated windows, and luakit is the only web browser that lets me just have a rectangular space in my display containing web content, resizable and scalable to any dimensions I want. The vim-like interface for me is just a bonus.
That's a lot of FUD I've never seen actually happen.
Probably because it isn't pornhub, you'd remember that.
I think that can be fixed by hanging some big galvanized air conditioning ducts from the ceiling.
All education is inherently time/resource consuming and thereby expensive.

What many are proposing here is expending that into trade schools/edu, which I suppose makes sense for what most coding consists of. But what's most revealing is this insistence on the public shouldering that burden instead of employers who reap the benefits investing into the training.
The Most Underrated Gift of Mathematics Is Stillness
It was explicitly stated by French president Macron, that the goal is to end Polish dominance in truck freight :)

Basically the law change is this:

Now, if you are Polish truck driver employed in Poland, you are subject to Polish tax and labor codes, including things like tax rate, minimum wage, etc. What France wants (and what was passed, but is not in effect yet) is that if said truck driver crosses the border of another country (say, France) he should be subject to that country tax and labor code. Which is riddiculous, because the driver does not change his tax residence, he just enters France for a few days it takes to make a delivery, and then comes back to Poland.
Slave labor found at second Starbucks-certified Brazilian coffee farm
Einstein went to school before he wrote papers.
In good design, form follows function. I don't see the purpose in that angled glass structure other than trying to look different.
My school uses this for its data science classes so let me provide an example. Say that you have a lab or homework assignment done in Python. It may require a lot of storage (a large dataset), compute (maybe you have a large model), or dependencies. JupyterHub is one way to setup once and then deploy to multiple users regardless of their computer.
More people already trust Google and are comfortable continuing to trust them (I don’t and I don’t think you should either, but it’s your choice) compared to an unknown entity with no data protection policies that we know of. Besides, there’s no denying that the Chinese government has used its access to digital information to track down dissidents, advocates, and journalists—not to mention racial profiling and persecution.