skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think I mentioned in my OP that I appreciate the eye to modern safety here. But the proponents of nuclear as a (or THE) solution generally aren't talking about this design. They're either talking more of the same-old reactor designs that are decidedly not safe for these sorts of attacks, or near-vaporware like thorium that no one actually builds in the real world.

I think safety from anything short of a nuclear attack, including insider sabotage, is essential. And the only way to do that is to build a reactor that can't fail even if its containment is destroyed. I haven't seen that design yet.

edit: I'm actually less worried about the theft of fissionable material, as commercial reactor-grade materials aren't anywhere near bomb-grade, and would need a lot of refinement (a dedicated facility) to make bombs. It's mostly a problem for state-level actors like Iran that will shuffle fissionable material from their civilian reactor projects over into secret military projects. fwiw, the reason Iran even has substantial uranium is because, in the 1970s, the US was merrily building a half-dozen civilian reactors for our good friend the Shah of Iran. So when the revolution happened in 1979, those all fell into the hands of our new most hated enemies. And 40 years later, they still have all that uranium and leftover know-how and equipment to play with. Which gets back to my whole "Do we build reactors in Yemen?" question.
Zulip lead developer here.

For chat apps, I don't think the problem of "data scattered around backend-DBs" is a real concern. E.g. Zulip has a well-defined data export format that's easily parsable JSON and contains all non-transient data (i.e. the status of who's typing right now isn't included):
https://zulip.readthedocs.io/en/latest/production/export-and.... And so do most of the other popular chat systems.

I'd be surprised if Zulip doesn't still run in 20 years, but in any case, we have data import tools for the export formats of Slack, Mattermost, Gitter, and HipChat, and ultimately it wasn't that much work (The most recent few we've added were each a few person-weeks' work). So I think we can safely assume that at least for chat, it'll be possible to import the history.

But even if they don't, there are already scripts to export the public history of a Zulip organization and turn it into a webpage that can be hosted wherever (see for example: https://leanprover-community.github.io/archive/).

The https://zulipchat.com homepage and https://zulipchat.com/for/open-source are relevant reading for folks considering Zulip for their open source project.
I agree. It doesn't look like Apple was particularly keen on letting people know that they can actually read most data that people consider private.
One limitation of the BigQuery dataset is they only look at repos with a license on them[1], the scraping approach can look at all public repos.

[1] https://github.blog/2017-01-19-github-data-ready-for-you-to-...
I've noticed a lot of kids seem to have migrated from Minecraft to Roblox.
Not supported by facts in evidence.
تحميل تطبيق سايفون برو للاندرويد برابط مباشر مجانا Psiphon Pro
That's a goalpost shift from the original post commenting about how these specific mosques were shrines to a warlord who committed actual atrocities. This wasn't an "assumption", these were actual events orchestrated by a real person.
It's faster in terms of development time. Faster to install packages and to push to docker repos.
Plus, the comment 1 level up had "CO2" rather than "CO₂."
> The link is to here (posted as image so you can’t accidentally click it)…

A very tiny image so you can't actually read it either.
Taking that view further most people pay a meaningless amount of money in taxes while the wealthy pay the vast majority. The tax cut helped my family, if it didn't help yours perhaps consider if the state taxes you pay match up with the services rendered.
A lot of the people who paid more in federal taxes are the wealthy in high tax states (CA, NY, etc.).
Ask HN: Would you accept an easier hiring process for an easier firing process?
I'm trying to come up with a suggestion for the company where we relax our ridiculous coding and systems design requirements for a more lax, faster hiring process. Instead of hiring for algorithms, we would hire after talking with the team for a couple of hours, going in depth on the projects they've worked on, maybe a single onsite coding project with follow up questions just to see how she codes and her thought process.

In exchange, we would have a high bar post-hiring, and give them 2 months to come up to our expectations. The expectations for each level would be well-defined, and would be very concretely communicated so that the candidate would know exactly what we are expecting.

If she meets the bar post hire, then everything is fine but if she doesn't, we would give her a 2 month severance package and fire her within 2 months. This quick firing would only be applicable within the first 2 months, and afterwards it would be a normal process of performance feedbacks, pips, etc.

Is this more acceptable than the current industry hiring practice?
Everyone seems to think E2E encryption is needed everywhere (I know because the security guys at work think it is needed everywhere, even for everything inside a VPC), but even AWS here is advertising the fact that you don't need to do this:

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-tls-termination-for-net...

>Today we are simplifying the process of building secure web applications by giving you the ability to make use of TLS (Transport Layer Security) connections that terminate at a Network Load Balancer (you can think of TLS as providing the “S” in HTTPS). This will free your backend servers from the compute-intensive work of encrypting and decrypting all of your traffic, while also giving you a host of other features and benefits:
Those people pay more taxes in the first place though. The top 1 percent of taxpayers pay more in federal income taxes than the bottom 90 percent.
Ubuntu is 40MB but if you add a few packages with tons of dependencies it can quickly reach 800MB. Alpine has much more reasonable dependency trees.
Reading logs/traces on your log aggregation service and reproducing in a dev system?
Lessepsian Migration
About 3 years ago I bought a ton (~20) of Cree LED lights. Almost all of them have failed at this point. The GE ones and the later Cree replacements have faired much better however.
You can sue anyone for just about anything. But it doesn't seem like a very winnable case to me. Maybe in some crazy jurisdictions. Many places have 'good Samaritan' laws that protect people who are not medical professionals when they cause injuries during a good faith attempt to safe someone's life. I would assume injuries to someone's modesty are included...

At the end of the day, would you rather let a woman in need of CPR die because you are afraid of maybe getting sued, with an even smaller chance of a conviction?
I think the tax cuts were stupid, but I don't see how a tax cut can work any other way. The top 1% pay 37% of all income taxes, so getting 17% of the benefit is actually quite progressive.

https://taxfoundation.org/summary-latest-federal-income-tax-...
Wonder what the effects would be like in a coworking space/open office environment? Would the levels of CO2 be higher in the likes of a WeWork than a typical office setup? I remember coming across one similar setup where about 30 startups were working from a basement with pretty much no windows.

Then again, wonder what it'd be like in the average subway train or something. Even with decent ventilation systems it feels like the issue would be worse in a packed train/station during rush hour, though the effects would be limited due to no one actually doing any work there.
Sir David Attenborough: The Beloved TV Icon Has Brought Nature to Our Screens
If you have to pay more or your refund is lower, that's a good thing. That means you paid less money in taxes.

The government holding onto your money until the end of the year is not a good thing. You'd be better off saving that money and investing it.
The Micro Merlin is $799: https://www.microkickboard.com/micro-merlin

RAD Power bikes are reasonably priced, but a bit more at $1499 for a RadCity: https://www.radpowerbikes.com/products/radcity-electric-comm...
This story is so unbelievably fake.
Its like the antivaxxers who claim that they "educated" nurses and everyone started clapping, it has to be a joke.
The only believable part of this is the school being complicit with bullying.
Karl Polanyi Explains It All
To load test a SQL database, forget about the database
Does it upload everything you type to Google? "For your convenience" and "to improve our services", of course. It'd be ironic to switch to iPhone for privacy but keylog yourself in the process.
The only thing I can come up with is the OP is implying escrow is making his payment change monthly?
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That’s a subjective answer. I suggest you get a sensor and measure it yourself.

I plan on doing that for my place.
Let's solve it by keeping cars and fuel forever cheaper, and solving congestion!

Tunnels, electric cars, nuclear power (or solar, if you're prepared to sacrifice people's as-yet unsatisfied needs and unsolved suffering to that).
I do believe it is possible, but it is a compromise. Let go of one of the freedoms so that other freedoms (like "right to repair") have a chance. In other words: Commons Clause.
Elitism is when you tear down thousands of homes in black neighborhoods so rural drivers can go non-stop downtown. Elitism is when you spend a billion dollars on a freeway interchange in the middle of nowhere while cutting bus service in downtown Milwaukee. Elitism in America always works in favor of rural people because rural America is overwhelming White and American elitism is just racism.
You don't.

The the money you spend for being provider independent is the very money you save by going serverless.

Leaves the question: Is the risk worth the money saved?
Would caching also be a form of "guessing" what's next? Cache hits could be considered guessing correctly and while cache misses is guessing incorrectly.
> occasionally harmful American hegemony

Occasionally harmful? Hundreds of thousands slaughtered in the middle east in the past two decades isn't "occasionally harmful! China isn't even in the same league when it comes to the harm of US hegemony.
Or if you're a hacker you can buy one at auction for almost nothing.

https://hackaday.com/2018/12/07/liberating-birds-for-a-cheap...
Rising rural BMI is the main driver of the global obesity epidemic in adults
also a lot of work done by sens organization on age related illness and plans to reverse much of it assuming they get funding.
It is possible but since the fuel costs are insignificant compared to the construction cost of the plant there are no savings to be gained by shutting the plant down. Generating less electricity means slower amortization.
> Road cost efficiency increases the more small vehicle traffic you put on it. Think high speed autonomous caravans.

Higher density vehicles (like buses) increase road cost efficiency even more. For long distances, rail is far more efficient in terms of both energy and infrastructure cost.

> The cost per mile is already too low. That’s the over-demand problem being discussed in TFA.

The article doesn't really have a clear thesis and its (unsupported) title sort of contradicts that. The best I can tell is that the articles tries to argue that single-occupancy car trips should (and will) become more expensive because of no longer being subsidized.

> Autonomous driving technology will triple existing highway capacity by ~2050 when it becomes illegal to drive non-autonomously. That’s a lot of “free” infrastructure.

The wasted space of, and maintenance costs for, that infrastructure makes it far from "free".

In the short term, the degree to which autonomous cars and ride hailing make single occupancy car trips more available and affordable is going to increase the congestion and amount of needed infrastructure.

> We should not invest billions in light rail that will be unprofitable its entire life and archaic in 50 years.

The trade-offs of light rail vs. buses is complicated. I highly suspect that buses, and infrastructure to support buses is often the better choice. That is especially true given the flexibility we need in the face of a changing transportation landscape.

That doesn't justify "self-driving cars" mean mass transit "makes no sense". For some of that mass transit, rail is still the best option.
Interestingly enough Visual Studio now supports cross platform debugging ( you still need Visual Studio running on windows, but it can debug a linux based program )
Everything is just bits of energy being shuffled around. There is no value in seeing computers as being unable to comprehend things, when comprehension is little more than maintaining an internal model of some processes. And computers do that.
...and a well-written response to that by Yihui Xie: https://yihui.name/en/2018/09/notebook-war/

Since Xie's post discusses a "meta" layer above Joel Grus, I recommend people read it before JG. This actually helps one understand the underlying thinking in JG's slides.
Note the submission dates; the faster times have an extra six months.
> "It's not as good as this other (proprietary) software, but it's free" won't cut it.

Except that it has to cut it in order for a free software movement to exist, because otherwise free software is starved by a chicken-and-egg problem where developers don't use free software because it's inferior, and free software never improves because developers don't use it. In other words, being willing to use technically inferior software solely because of the superior freedoms it grants is the way to make the engine of free software run. GCC was not the best C compiler in the world when Linux started using it.
I wonder if cubic chunks is possible to add to Minecraft through modding, or to its nearest open-source 'competitor' (for lack of a better term), Minetest.
I think the bigger differentiator is Zuckerberg's ego. It's made him blind to his own flaws and mistakes and deaf to criticism, and he's maintained an iron grip on the company's steering wheel. I think he may run it into the ground. Google's direction is much less monarchical, and more willing to adapt.
What about people that must relocate for the new work?
Don't forget YouTube! I sort of agree but I think this is changing for better as competition improves. If I were to rate google services in order of importance and lack of decent competition, it would be:

0. YouTube
1. Maps
2. Search
3. Email
4. Docs
5. Drive
6. Calendar

I put YouTube as 0 as it is at the very top of the list. There's virtually no comparable competition for YouTube and that's why Google is also getting away with abusing their power with YouTube trending feed, censorship, demonetization, clickbait etc. YouTube really needs some proper competition but I really doubt any company will want to take over this massive infrastructure. I don't consider Twitch to be a competition for YouTube for non-gaming content.

Maps is the only one which I cannot live without. Apple Maps has improved drastically in the last couple years though but in Canada, they are still not as good as Google. But they seem to be on the right track.

DuckDuckGo is pretty good actually and I think most people can get the job done pretty well with it. For email, there are okay competitions and I still have an alternate yahoo email but they have been going downhill in last few years.

Docs is one place where Microsoft Office is good but Docs is superior if online collaboration is needed.

Dropbox is superior to google drive imo, especially since I am on iOS and Mac.

I have never used Google Calendar as I use iOS offerings and it does pretty well.

I think if Apple can improve their Maps and if Siri stops being so useless, it would be for the better and will help take away some power from Google. And somebody really needs to compete heavily against YouTube.
There has been upward pressure on the comps by American tech companies setting up shop in Vancouver. That said, OP's salary is probably in top 10% in the Bay Area, so I just made a rough mapping based on that.
Ultimately freedom (as a human) and opportunity.
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> Sheldon Brown's (RIP) bike pages[...]

Off-topic, but how sad to see the state of that website today. I read Sheldon's website religiously before he died, but hadn't seen it in over 10 years.

This[1] is how it looked like when he was alive. Now it's stuffed full of ads, and the first thing you see is a pop-up cookie warning about "our social media, advertising and analytics partners".

1. http://web.archive.org/web/20080111140407/http://www.sheldon...
That's the kinda stuff that keeps me installing adblockers on computers and phones of relatives that don't know about it.

My aunt's android was slow as hell and had lock screen ads, how is this possible?

Be kind to your relatives, install an adblocker.
Fact based on what? I don't doubt the kernel claim. There are regular LWN summaries, about what companies contributed to whatever release.

But I have no clue what you're basing your second claim on. There's huge amount of FLOSS programs that work fine, are useful, but don't get much contributions. And I don't know about any studies/overviews on what number of programs say in a Debian distro is a work of passion, and what is created by paid devs.
I think you could get more gains by using the restroom before a race.
Easy, you just think you have to add a content type.
I've got two different sets of wheels for the same gravel bike. Its standard 42 mm wheels for gravel and 28 mm slick wheels I assembled for road. Same brake rotors and same gears on the back. The set of road wheels is about 1.5 kg lighter (3 pounds). The bicycle seems to fly with them. Rotational mass is really important and also slick vs threaded.
But but but... America is great again. The best president ever is in office.
Here's an interesting observation on MarketWatch;

> Income was subdued. The slight 0.1% gain in March follows a 0.2% gain in February and a 0.1% fall in January. Year over year, personal income is up 3.8%, moderate by historical standards. Disposable income was flat in March.

> The weakness in income was concentrated in proprietors’ income. Wages and salaries rose 0.4% in March after a 0.3% gain in the prior month.

It makes sense that strong job growth at lower incomes, and low-income wage growth, would squeeze proprietors' profit margins, but if it were merely redistributing income, wouldn't the overall rate stay the same?

EDIT: I think if you look at Table 1 in the full report it gives better context. [1]

[1] - https://www.bea.gov/system/files/2019-04/pi0319_0.pdf
What happens when UC Berkeley students try to ‘hack’ the housing crisis
If they go defunct or if the C# debugger somehow becomes unavailable, that’s a strong incentive for someone else to build one, given C#’s market reach. Perhaps that person would even be kind enough to open-source it.

Either way, because C#/.NET and Roslyn are open-source, the likelihood of .NET shops being left high-and-dry without a debugger is very slim, since it wouldn’t be all that hard for an experienced developer to build another one.
So does every other company when subpoenaed by the government. If they didn't comply, we would be complaining how a corporation feels they are above the law.
TL;DR at bottom

define small, so about twenty percent to labor is small? start inching up from there and many get scared quickly. plus it won't move many out of poverty what it will do is move many who are not employable out of a job. the people you hire at $15 are going to be held to a higher standard than those you would accept at $8, $9, or even $10. Plus you will get people come out of the wood work would never have considered "stooping" to such a job but for $15 an hour its fine then.

So Mr Tattoo who has a bit of an attitude problem but you take him because he is available for $8 isn't someone you will let cross the threshold at $15. Little Ms May who is always late or out sick will be on the other side of the counter. Why, because once you break a mental threshold in pay you get people who would not had considered working there. Now they won't all be seeing a career but they will see a job that is worth their time.

You want to help those in poverty. Then get government off their backs. From expensive government services and fees, to ordinance inspectors who troll poor neighborhoods, to the cops and legal system who prey on the very same. That $20 bucks you paid to update your license could be make or break it for some and that is just the tip of the ice burg. More low paying jobs are in regulated occupations which forces the poor to incur debt just trying to get licensed to work.

TL;DR
$15 an hour won't change the attitude of those demanding it, they will feel even more entitled because they are not suited for employment. Won't matter because it will bring out those who are.
The author is naive about monetization. Google should not care if making a better product hurts its existing revenue sources. If Google doesn't do it, someone else will. A smart company worries about having the best products that people want to use first and about monetizing those products second, and unlike a startup, Google has the luxury of being able to wait to monetize new products until the ecosystem around them becomes clearer.

The author's simple-minded reasoning is why Microsoft was late to the Internet search engine game.
Not sure why you assumed that I am living in the US. I am not, I am living in Europe.
> single box

In production, the smallest box has half a gig of RAM.

In development, it's indeed a single box, usually a laptop.

> all developers to agree on which base image to build all their services from

Yes. In a small org it's easy. In a large org devops people will quickly explain the benefits of standardizing on one, at most two, base images. Special services that are run from a third-party image is a different beast.

> Storage is cheap, but bandwidth may not be.

Verily! Bandwidth, build time, etc.
>If it's stolen you look up its GPS location and the police help you get it back.

Do your police do that?
The article is kind of a waste of time. It's from 2014, based on an abandoned idea [0] that never went anywhere.

However, I would like to mention posthtml [1] which is an actual practical tool for "transpiling" HTML.

[0] https://github.com/OscarGodson/HTML6

[1] https://github.com/posthtml/posthtml
It wouldn't be "surprising" if the mail parsing were done 100% client side, with a 100% certainty that no data is gonna be sent back to the mothership. But since it's done 100% server side I cannot honestly know what they are going to do with that data and knowledge.
Old thread from 2013: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6048761
Study: U.S. Fossil Fuel Subsidies Exceed Pentagon Spending
I’ve only ever worked on a handful of systems where performance was so critical we bothered with load tests.

Almost every single enterprise database has a handful of users or so little data they can handle it by throwing money (hardware) at the problem.

Honestly, having to care about performance is a lovely problem to have - it makes for much more disciplined database engineering compared to performance doesn’t matter so just throw in a load of triggers.
> Bonsai Buddy didn't do much other than annoy

and eat up the limited amount of RAM on low-end machines, back when 32 MB of RAM as standard was still being sold in OEM builds.
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Many Christians take the bible to be a literal historical account. Which details of that we can or can't prove are irrelevant.

If you want something more concrete, the Catholic church committed atrocities during the crusades (which were conveniently also around the 10th and 11th centuries), and there are still statues and altars of historical saints and popes.
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