skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree. "Life" isn't some category out there in the world that has absolute boundaries. It's a human concept. In reality there's a gradient of more and more sophisticated kinds of processes, and there's no absolute cut off point between non-living and living. It's the human need to have absolute categories that makes it seem like it is a binary category.

Richard Dawkins has written an excellent essay on this matter (the human desire for absolute categories):

The tyranny of the discontinuous mind

https://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/the-staggers/2011/12/issu...

He's also written about this topic here:

https://www.edge.org/response-detail/25366
You can work Sunday, but weekend work typically needs approval as it is compensated higher.
This is great tutorial. I used to be confused by the macros in scheme
Except they do the same thing with paid accounts.
Not my experience in Europe though. My last two employers here constantly over promised (e.g.: unlimited vacations/parental leave, flexible hours, work from home, etc) and really really under delivered. I would rather have things set in stone first nowadays b/c the mindset of most managers here are still not ready for those.
I was surprised by that when reading her book. There wasn't anything about curbing our tendency to acquire, it was all about making space for the next cycle.
We have this in the US. 99.5% of values are collected by a computer and therefore recorded accurately.

I've never seen anyone clock in and out of a pee break people only clock in for the day out for lunch back from lunch and out to go home.

Employees are strongly encouraged not to put in made up values that happen to result in them being paid more money on pain of termination and or prosecution.

Employers are strongly encouraged on pain of getting sued not to put in made up values that don't reflect the work the employee actually did.

People STILL do cheat but having the legal expectation of maintaining an auditable record normalizes accurate time keeping and makes it hard for smaller fish to make targets by cheating as they have to actively forge records and encourage behavior that is obviously erroneous.

Think of being asked to help out with additional work after your shift vs being asked to explicitly clock out THEN get back to work. Its a clear and obvious line made explicit by time keeping practices.

Of course record keeping is necessary but not sufficient. You do have to be willing to enforce the law but this would be doubly hard with lax or non existent record keeping.

On the overall I cannot even imagine how this could be deemed onerous. On net someone that works 8 hours spends perhaps 1 minute clocking in and out. It could even happen via an app on the employees phone or at their computer.
https://rclone.org/, works everywhere. You don't need to rely on 'company X app Y'.
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Maybe it’s just me but I couldn’t find an actual argument. Unless it’s that the murderer’s life is just as valuable so it’s bad to steal part of it from him by putting him in prison. I don’t think anyone outside academia values the lives of murderers very much, is there another argument in there somewhere?
How many European countries don't do random control?
And you don’t think his manifesto is propaganda rather than a attempt at reliable narration?

Coming to “the truth” seeing the reality of the world at first hand is a much more stirring story than being radicalised by lies on the Internet. Plus it fits directly into all the other racist propaganda put out by white supremacists about the state of Europe and France in particular.
Interesting how used I got to the compensation model of a lump sum per month (or every 2 weeks) for software engineering jobs.

One of my first programming jobs required time tracking and so there was really no need to work more then 38 hours a week - because working more cost the company extra and always required approval from manager. Weekends and holidays were compensated 2x, during week after 5pm 1.5x I believe.
another thankyou for f.lux here!
Is there any evidence that it’s possible to “cure” violent sex offenders?
For me, that comes down to threat model.

Should every organization assume that every attacker has access to Linux 0-days that they can use to privesc on a box?

My opinion is that that's not a realistic assessment for every attacker.

Do some attackers have that? I'm sure they do, but not every company should assume that every attacker will be able to do that.

And all this goes back again to the original point. The trope "containers don't contain" is overly simplistic and not appropriate for every companies threat mode.
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I'm having difficulty understanding how a 100% artificially engineered sequence would come about? What is the raw material that would be used to start something like this?
Aren't they missing the point here? The problem isn't that this guy streamed what he was doing on facebook, it's the fact that he did it in the first place?

As these large hosts move more and more away from mere platforms to content curators it does make a lot of sense that they'd also be more responsible for what they curate, but at the same time, it seems like this responsibility will ultimately leak back into the parts of these services that are really just platforms and ultimately to those that don't curate content at all.
I agree, I think it is a fantastic product and I use it a lot, however the Android app is really confusing and doesn't really work that well.
Sweden is at the forefront of this movement. Have you seen Swedish crime statistics lately?
Homosexual conversion therapy does not work, but pedophilia conversion therapy magically works?
I too was struck by this, although not entirely surprised. Still, as a counterpoint, I've been a Dropbox user for nearly 10 years now, and have been paying for 8 - 9 years. I'm completely happy with the service and, although alternatives are available, I haven't found any compelling reason to change.
They storage is slow as shit and always been.
you forgot putting "/s" .
Yes. This sounds a bit silly for New Year in particular because its timing is slightly less arbitrary than other holidays', but holidays move around: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Monday_Holiday_Act
There's clearly many examples out there to support any opinion. The only reason to ask for a single article instead of giving concrete opinions is to derail the topic by trying to point out flaws in whatever you find. It's a really common trolling tactic.

You can see the user responded anyways when I refused to participate. Why didn't they just say that the first time?
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Do you get paid per hour or a lump sum each week/month?
Our US friend like to maintain their utopian views of Europe; don't distract them with facts.
People can change, but it requires a lot. Most of the time, people will just follow their patterns of thinking and behavior, mainly because they are not aware of the patterns and do not have correctives to change their behavior when they recognize old patterns. Sex offender treatment tries to train them in this.
Well, these are two different things. One is to like A instead of B. The other is to still like A, but not do anything about it.
Alas, that's the broken one. It seems to be able to see the other hosts in my swarm but can't actually sync any data. Except sometimes. But then only random files.
Define “correctly re-integrated”. Note: defining it based of re-offending makes your argument circular.
> Thankfully we have these things called websites I can use whenever the app doesn't work

Lol :)
Obviously, given the article and the discussion I am wrong, but what you propose sounds to me exactly like the definition of unix time:

The number of seconds since January 1. 1970 UTC.

Even if UTC counts the same second twice, this does not change how many seconds has elapsed since the unix epoch.

If you click through the articles reference to wikipedia and again from there, you will end up on "The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 7, 2018 edition"[1]

Which says:

> The relationship between the actual time of day and the current value for seconds since the Epoch is unspecified.

Which again sounds like there is absolutely no reason to double count or skip seconds in unix time.

However, I am not quite sure of the implication of the formula written there, but I fear that it says that the number of seconds since the epoch is defined, not as the number of seconds since the epoch, but by the UTC definition of the current time.

[1] http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1_...
So it is the society's fault and not the fact that he is pedophile.
You rely on employees or former employees raising an issue and investigating. There is little money to be saved by not paying bob for 15 minutes that one time. Companies that abuse this do so pervasively and consistently providing ample evidence of their misdeeds.

Alternatively employees can raise the matter in court where the additional incentive of money paid to settle the claim makes it worthy of a lawyer handling the matter purely based on expectation of obtaining a cut of the money.
> Moreover, a DNA molecule with changed codons is slightly different chemically at that place - which means a protein that might have previously attached there for some reason now might not.

That shouldn't be a big concern. For one I think they only altered the base pairs inside the codons of the open reading frames. Most of the important protein binding during transcription and translation happens on regions outside the open reading frames which they left unaltered. Additionally the codons that code for the same amino acid share 2 out of the 3 bases, so they only had to alter a single base, which is usually not enough to change functionality a lot espacially when their main functional property is being translated.

Disclaimer: I only have access to abstract right now
Lump sum every month, 38h / week
About half of the oil is used for gasoline, another quarter for heating oil and another ten percent for jet fuel. All of these uses will likely go away completely or be dramatically reduced over the next twenty to thirty years.
> All the initial comments were about how Dropbox simply repackaged the abilities of free built-in linux tools.

No. No no no.

The now-first comment was asking what the value was for a linux user and also had two other pieces of criticism/advice that were very valid. The same user that posted that also said "You are correct that this presents a very good, easy-to-install piece of functionality for Windows users."

Second top-level comment calling it genius. Third calling it good but also sharing one of the other pieces of criticism. Three more calling it good. One asking about scaling. Etc. The thread as a whole is exceptionally positive.

Go refresh yourself: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
I believe it's something in between both views: Society is just shifting its operations to social media. This does bring a few changes, but ultimately nothing new is happening, it's just happening somewhere else and becomes easier to identify.
A few people exist who are genuinely able to use Racket macros, but they all have a PhD in CS.

As opposed to the larger group who think they understand them. I was once in that group, but now I've just given up.
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Ah yes, the spherical cow of software development: it's much simpler to build software which interacts with nothing and especially nobody.
You as an individual don't matter. However, there are plenty of individuals with power inside whatever organization they're a part of and/or in the political process of the country they live in, who are vulnerable to the exact same issues.
> Is it possible that perhaps this difference could be split by legislating against harming others?

It could. But I'd put (at least) extremist/hate speech into the category of "harming others" and that puts me on the side of "censorship" which, I think, is in disagreement with them (and, it seems, most of the people in this thread.)
>I don’t think anyone outside academia values the lives of murderers very much

What.
And Julian day:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_day
Certainly that may be the case but at least with this strain that didn't affect the viability of the organism.
Whistleblowing is the last of my concerns. I live in Italy and PEC is a thing, it’s a government certified email with legal value.

Technical rules for the formation, transmission and validation are mandatory: read receipts are automatic.

To use the service you must have a PEC box with one of the authorized managers. The publication of the list of authorized operators, the supervision and coordination is entrusted to the “Agency for digital Italy” (AgID).

This means that every citizen with a pec is paying to obtain an email from a bunch of friends of friends of the government, in a market with virtually no competition, and that your mail box is heavily surveilled but left unsecured.
To GP and this: Have you considered the Android One Xiaomi phones? I can't imagine having ads in the default file browser. And a Mi Account for USB debug is just "No".
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Post the link to the project directly; sharing just a product-hunt link makes your submission seem like low-effort spam.
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> A date string is a function of a Unix timestamp and a timezone

If offset or zoned. Sadly the average date string has no more inherent timezone information than a unix timestamp.
I like Swatch Internet Time.
There's pCloud[1] as well. I've been using it for a couple of years now after Dropbox → Google Drive → Seafile. (And maybe another one I forgot.)

They're not perfect but definitely good enough. They reeled me in with a lifetime subscription when I was contemplating buying a NAS for home.

Where I've run into syncing issues with them is working in a project directory with Git on Linux and Windows (using Git Bash). The latter (I think) caused syncing issues. Anyway, it's a bit niche and one isn't supposed to do this anyway. Still Dropbox and Seafile seemed to handle this fine.

[1] https://pcloud.com/
> using threads for embedded development

Reminds me of something -

I used to work for an embedded shop where they used exception-like error handling that was implemented through some basic C macro fuckery. It made the code markedly more succinct, had next to zero overhead and it was just a fantastic piece of work in general. 20 years later and I still remember it fondly.
I'm reasonably sure that any assumptions about how our anatomy will look like in 500 years are more wrong than right.
For a counterpoint, see Celia Green's 'Human Evasion' (available at http://www.theabsolute.net/minefield/humevas.html ), which argues that preoccupation with the social sphere is just a psychological defense mechanism against one's finiteness and limitations.
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Or psychopaths, for that matter. I would very much like to see the attempts to "cure" someone like Ted Bundy.
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Horrendous UX with those animated section transitions.
Politicians trying to save the environment:
Policitian #1: Um, I can't think of anything. Can you?
Policitian #2: I got it! Let's make a new tax! It'll annoy these guys, while we'll insure our state jobs, and it'll make state finances look a ton better for all posterity!
Policitian #1: Yeah, that sounds really great and all, umm, but will it fix the problem with greenhouse gases?
Policitian #2: Don't be silly! This is as good a reason to make the state richer than any.
The ascent stages of the Apollo Lunar Modules were deliberately crashed onto the Moon to generate shock waves to support seismology experiments:

https://www.popsci.com/how-apollo-lunar-modules-were-smashed...
Wouldn't you be limited to going 180 degrees? any more than that and you'll start falling straight down on the backswing instead of swinging.
> It seems some editors or the article writers think that when they cover something as a "debate" there's a "win" somewhere for them

Except that, in this particular area of uncertainity there has been debate, heated opinion and entrenched positions. Nature is reflecting the messy, human business of the process of advancing science.
> There is the age-old cliche of intelligent people finding 'normal people' dull.

I'm manifestly not a genius, not by a long stretch, but I am an outlier along several axes. Still, when I was younger I was certainly guilty of thinking along these lines and so, perhaps, it's just maturity that's changed me.

As time has gone on what strikes me again and again about the quality of an "average" life lived well (partner, children, family, home, job) more than anything else is its richness. I know it's not easy, but neither is it dull, and the joys and triumphs of it are real. I envy those who possess it and I'm glad for them in equal measure.

(You can of course argue that this is simply a "grass is always greener" mentality, but I believe that can often be a weak and lazy argument deployed when someone is unable to come up something better on their own. That said, what I've expressed above is my own point of view, and I acknowledge that it's by no means universal.)
I will just repost this article here from Tyler Cowen, I don't think I read anyone has said it better.

>The U.S.-China Cold War Will Get Worse Before It Gets Better. That’s because the major issue between the two nations is not trade or ideology but a lack of trust.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-01-23/u-s-ch...
I live in Ireland, we have those too. I think that most of the meat is not like that though.

More like this https://c2.staticflickr.com/4/3265/3239157183_91c5fbc582_z.j...
I thought it was frowned upon to use version control on binary files? Or is it just git that doesn't support them?
> How does UTC jumping around affect this? If a leap second is removed it doesn't mean you've waited 0 seconds.

No, but it means UNIX time does not advance by exactly one second per elapsed second. Instead it advances by either 0 or 2.

> It's not Unix time doing that. It's UTC.

It's also unix time. unix time is (86400 * days_since_epoch + seconds_since_midnight). A leap second means a day is not 86400 seconds, and thus you'll either get a skip or a repeat on midnight rollover.
>whereas the goal in America is vengeance and isolation

Given the way American politics runs on lobbying, I'm inclined to lean towards the goal actually being maximizing profits. This can appear in various ways:

Private prisons lobbying for longer sentences, and service providers monopolizing service to prisoners to charge exorbitant rates: https://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/making-profits-o...

Training voice AI on prisoner phone calls: https://boingboing.net/2019/01/30/prison-profiteering.html

Even profiteering on halfway houses: https://www.prisonlegalnews.org/news/2018/mar/6/cages-commun...

And others. Just look up "prison profiteering" and you'll find endless examples.
Geniuses are more likely to break systems than perpetuate them. With incredibly rare exceptions, being a founder/CEO is very much an exercise in a certain kind of conformism. So while you may have some very very smart people being founders, the outlier geniuses are going to be doing something else.
This is not about labour rights. In Spain at least, it is about the government making cash via labour taxes (as an employer, you must subtract a percentage from the employee's wage to pay for social security).
As the taxes are so high, many employers resort to hire employees officially for 4-6h and under the table they pay them the remaining time free of taxes. Most companies here have less than 10 employees, they just can't cope with the high taxes, and the alternative is not hiring at all.

Now this new law in Spain means nothing for employees. The govt just forces employers to have an accurate time log they can inspect at any time to make sure they are paying labour taxes. THEY WONT CHECK AT ALL THAT THE EMPLOYEES ARE BEING PAYED THAT NUMBER OF HOURS. Guess what, exactly 4h will appear for every employee in the log. There is no official approved system for time tracking, it's up to the employer, with even an excel being accepted, so it is absolutely manipulable by the employer.
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What a simplistic dichotomy.

Consider the possibility that there are a set amount of pedophile's born in every generation. We as a society can decide how we treat people with that condition, and what might work best, reducing suffering, at a reasonable cost.

It's not a ridiculous statement to assume we haven't found the global optimum for that problem. Specially considering the huge risk of recidivism.
Why not talk to the coal plant owner directly? Or how about the other 100(!) private citizens living around the world who control the companies that are responsible 70% of the greenhouse emissions of the entire Earth?
I talking about the other countries. Import import duties reflecting the cost of the global pollution created by the manufacturer of the goods.
> we also want China to be able to assume its rightful place as it develops and becomes a superpower in its own right,

Singapore economy is depending on trade and prolonged trade war will ruin Singapore with its unsustainable debt.

But how does China 'assuming its rightful place' should look in practical terms? Withdrawing US fleets from Pacific? Allowing East Asia to become China's vasal teritory? Tolerating growing economic and military threat?
A couple of other things I've noticed while logging in today:

* Whatever the previous free tier limit was on mailing lists, I'm now getting a warning that "You can't add another Audience - If you’re ready to build another audience, you’ll need to upgrade your account." I currently have 3 lists/audiences that I think are grandfathered in, previously the limit seemed to be on total subscriber numbers across all lists, not the number of lists.

* I can't archive Cleaned addresses (ie email addresses that have been unsubscribed because they've been bouncing emails), so they're permanently in the Audience numbers even though you can't (and shouldn't!) market to them. I assume they need to be archived so the system knows "don't allow this email address to be resubscribed".

* Maybe this is a Firefox Windows bug, but if you've got only one person in your search/segment, and you try to select Actions -> Archive, on a standard Full HD monitor the Archive & Delete menu options are offscreen and you can't scroll the page down to click on them. Meanwhile options like "Resubscribe" (!) and Make VIP are visible. Zooming the page out to 80% works, but it just feels like one of those dark patterns, even if unintentional or a bug.

I'm definitely looking for alternatives now (recommendations welcome). Even if these are all things I can work around, I don't like their overall trend. I should have got the hint when Mailchimp started defaulting new lists to not require a confirmed opt-in from subscribers...
This looks cool, I've also built something similar for my needs. The difference is, it's a web based app – so I/my wife can add expense on-the-go.

Uses Google Sheets as a database.

https://github.com/mitul45/expense-manager
Do you have by any chance a proper spectrometer? After all you developed f.lux?

Would you be able to share images on what the real difference is with and without f.lux? And also the ophthalmic lenses? I just got some so i'm quite curious :)