skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This kind of thinking is why I have to dread the day someone calls me a white supremacist because of my Cirth tattoos.

It's not even relevant to your viking nonsense. It's just LOTR. But people are being so submissive toward the peckerheads that they're just handing over entire spiritualities without a fight apparently and making it worse for people like me who aren't even in the fight.

It's honestly pathetic. Heh.

Edit: More on the point of being pathetic. Wouldn't the ancient pagans or vikings hate how pathetically submissive people are being here? Historical vikings weren't isolationist or racist from what evidence we have. By their nature they really couldn't be to grow their tribe.

What next? Are you going to settle and accept that occultism and satanism is for white supremicists too? Further play into the hands of the Christian church?

Manowar uses pagan symbology and runes in many of their songs, it's a very common thing in heavy metal. Are you going to play into the hands of the Christian church and let that be considered white supremacist too? Where does this cowardice end?

Furthermore, even though at first I found paganism and viking lore highly interested. I'm beginning to sour of it. But purely because its adherents allowed it to be labeled in this way and therefore make me feel like I did something wrong for getting something from a fictional book. This is spiritual cowardice on a level so profound it affected fiction. Pathetic. Ugly and pathetic.
Air conditioning != dehumidifier. One controls air temperature, the other moisture levels.

While air conditioning can reduce humidity, if you have good insulation then your your HVAC won't run that often, but things like cooking and bathing will effect humidity levels, and so a separate apparatus is really needed for that. They're not unreasonably sized:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKJnP_6uxcg
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3wd2yVwzvE
Gee, that sure is a nice bike shed. I wonder what color HN would paint it...
A quote from Chris Hitchens about religion springs to mind:

"Many religions now come before us with ingratiating smirks and outspread hands, like an unctuous merchant in a bazaar. They offer consolation and solidarity and uplift, competing as they do in a marketplace. But we have a right to remember how barbarically they behaved when they were strong and were making an offer that people could not refuse."
Same feeling here in France.

I get 3-4 opportunities for freelance work per week in the Paris region. I couldn't find any proposing full remote work (not just one day per week) after searching for 2 months

The funny thing is that now I work remotely for a German company from France
I'm with you, I also feel too young to know if this is how it has always been or not.
We are in the longest period of growth for some time, and the aforementioned temper tantrum, so it does seem like we are due for a recession, but it is hard not to tune the noise out.
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> but do you call living in a cage with your beak cut off "prospering"?

Better than die at ten days old by any of the dozen predators living in a rainforest, that is the destine of 90% of the wild chicken
Especially considering many start programmers and engineers seemingly exist to increase revenue of complete luxury services like Netflix.
Correct URL: http://movies2.nytimes.com/books/98/07/05/specials/oates-vio...
That looks and reads bad. I don't even get the point of the initiative :( Not what I'm looking for at all it seems. I just want company names that actively discourage/limit flying their employees.
This may be interesting. Script languages generally aren’t typed but maybe a language with very good type inference may feel like it’s untyped.
Two minute video answering the question[1].

Summary: they'll use a "urine diverting dry toilet" to collect the feces- which supposedly will be used for fertilizer.

They don't say what exactly will be done with the urine, so likely dumped back into the ocean.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gd2FCpU5wu8&list=PLDgJp6DTkM...
Doesn’t Microsoft still control almost 90% of desktops?

OS/2, Commodore, Atari, WordPerfect, Lotus 123, those DOS clones, Novell, BeOS.

They killed Netscape as a company.

Microsoft was a monopoly that certainly did some damage. The only reason they are less feared is because of Google, and because iOS and Android on mobile.
However, this is true for both modes. It's quite possible to imagine a world in which we had become accustomed to ignoring washed out dark on light, just like we became to ignore ghost images and trails. (Also, early LCDs were terrible at this, but somehow acceptable.)
How common is it to trade those off against each other? "Oh, because I went to that conference, I'm cancelling all my driving meetings for the rest of the year." is a sentence that has probably never been uttered before I just did now.
You are proposing he should also proactively refund the other ~40% of valid purchases to avoid the ~60% that end up in disputes? Did I get that right? If yes, that doesn't sound like a viable idea.
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I was a teenager when MS was at its worst. In the late 90's and early 2000's. I still remember the Halloween papers. Embrace, extend, extinguish. I know rationally that MS is not that bad anymore. But emotionally its really hard to let it go. At maximum I manage to be "Meh" about whatever MS does, never excited.

I do try to avoid the influence it has on my decision making. But its hard. And its something that likely will never go out of my mind.

On the other hand for the companies that's the price one pays for that behaviour. Humans are not perfectly rational. If you behave like crap there will be people that will harbor grudge until they die, regardless of how you try to make up for past behaviour.
I barely got the tail end of Microsoft's crappy businesses practices 20 years ago, and even I'm skeptical. Bad will takes a long time to reverse.
That would make sense if the game companies were the ones sponsoring the teams, but they only support esports in small ways.
I don't understand that - I get that the system that holds the data is old, but when creating an online banking system shouldn't the piece that holds the data be a good half dozen steps removed from the website and authentication?
I don't think it's necessary for GitHub to exist, or be owned by Microsoft, for open source efforts to be exploited in the manner which you describe.

OTOH, I'm unaware of any hard data regarding just how much open source work is done at the behest of commercial interests, and without compensation.

Come to think of it, that might violate minimum wage laws in some countries.
IMHO this is failure of layering:

* https://www.buildingscience.com/documents/insights/bsi-001-t...

Moist areas should not be able to come in contact with cold areas: if they do, you have a problem with thermal bridging, which leads to condensation.
Everything outside academia being pseudo-intellectual sounds rather presumptuous.

The author insinuates the topic to be about sex and race while the general public actually seems to be better situated here compared to academia. I think it is very easy to make an argument based on proximity as to why this may be the case.

Many of the most important intellectuals often had no big role in academic circles. Quite the contrary. Due to prevalent morals of the times.
The high-achieving SF market may be more likely to select against it.

IME it's much more common in 3rd-tier/mid-market tech companies, or even higher-profile companies where tech isn't the primary operating vertical, and locale != Bay Area.

Companies that can't compete on engineering culture or compensation are naturally going to attract less talented engineers, and there will be a wider variance of skill across the engineering org as a whole.
This is just false. Approximately only 2% of American workers are paid minimum wage. Everyone else makes more.
It would be nice to also compare memory use, which will vary between implementations.
Biggest Offender in Outsize Debt: Graduate Schools
15 days is still a laughable situation compared to all of western Europe.
I work in a role (Developer Relations) that involves a lot of conferences. Business travel, especially to conferences, has to be one of the biggest wastes of money and resources in corporate America today.

People spend thousands to go to a conference and the stated benefit is to hear a few talks that are definitely recorded and to have a handful of useful conversations.

Let's be honest: many people at conferences just see them as a way to have the company pay for you to get out of the office and go on a semi-vacation. I know I've gone to things with that mindset before.

Don't get me wrong it's not the events that are the issue, it's how far we travel to them. I'm sure 90% of the benefit could be had by going to local meetups and watching the big conferences online.
Retailers might enjoy better information (account history, items in basket and suchlike), might have already borne the cost of manually checking the order, or might have better incentives (as it's them who loses money if an order was placed with a stolen card)

After all, if the issuer had been able to figure it out, the payments would have failed preauthorisation.
> Vision research has shown that humans prefer dark-on-light

This is what bugs the ever-living shit out of me about this type of research.

A study may well have been done that shows a majority preference by humans for dark-on-light.

But unless the study showed that every human studied had that preference, it doesn't mean that all humans prefer dark-on-light.

Going from "the bell curve is a bit skewed to dark-on-light" to "vision research has shown that humans prefer dark-on-light, therefore light-on-dark is bullshit" is the thing that bad science journalism does, and it's a blight on humanity.
OpenBSD and FreeBSD do have sendfile(), but args are different compared to the interface presented by Linux. It should be trivial to write a wrapper, though:

https://man.openbsd.org/FreeBSD-11.1/sendfile.2
https://linux.die.net/man/2/sendfile
Longshot, but you don't happen to be th3j35t3r, do you? The name and description on ExpatSoftware seems so fitting :)
Yes! I wish people would take a better look at history and recognize that _throughout_ history we've had the ruling class make claims about the structure and survival of society and invariably those claims require the status quo of oppressed people.

Shorter work days and society will collapse. No slavery and society will collapse. Providing worker's rights and society will collapse. We find a way to survive because... the majority of people _are_ workers.

The only thing that collapses when we get rid of a slave population is the capitalist's free lunch.
Is stripe actually the one blocking you? Card brands regulate which MCCs are allowed to be signed on by acquirers. It could be Visa, Amex or Mastercard.
Finally I see some discussion which I always kept thinking about. My political preference is leftward, but the point which the right wing believers raise about the left-leaning leaders speaking about climate change is not completely invalid, as personally they do not lead a minimalistic lifestyle.

And this begs the question about their sincerity about what they are proposing about climate change, do they actually mean it or do they just want to appease their political base.
There are a lot of prolific people in esports that argue the same, that esports should be a grassroots, fan-driven thing, rather than the sponsor-driven model
Getting way off-topic but Stanford Law School had a project trying to encode law as code: https://law.stanford.edu/codex-the-stanford-center-for-legal...
> embrace extend extinguish

I don't think this phrase applies for an acquisition. It's more like "(1) buy. (2) do whatever suits my agenda. (3) no step 3."

De-emphasizing atom doesn't sound evil to me, really. Re-licensing it with some crazy terms like "you can't say bad things about MS or sue MS" would be evil. But you can still use Atom and modify and distribute it with relatively few restrictions from MIT license. Just the feature pace sounds like it's slower. Maybe that's natural with an acquisition?
grog knots is also a nice app from the same folks:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/animated-knots-by-grog/id376...

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.animatedkn...

It’s worth having a hardcopy version of Ashley’s Book Of Knots if you’re really into this sort of thing... but for (my) practical purposes, i prefer John Long’s “Climbing Anchors”.
Mold growths under specific conditions which can be controlled:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CK4xr7faQYA
A friend of mine says, "money does't buy happiness, but it effects all the things that create happiness" (vacation, good health, food, plane tickets to see family)
I can't tell if there is humor tied to this response, but either way it's a brilliantly written reply to my comment. Gave me a chuckle, and got my upvote.
If your "fun" requires you to produce tons of CO2 then maybe yes it is.
The IEEE is (in this role, at least) a scientific press. They should have, and assume, a strong 1st amendment protection in pursuing that goal. The fact that they didn't assume this -- and then had to subsequently reverse their policy once the lawyers weighed in -- is pretty damning to the leadership of the organization.
A lot of "cryonically-frozen" people are only their heads, since it's been well-known for a while that there's no way to unfreeze the bodies. I suspect it may literally be easier to scan their brains than to unfreeze them, even if they were healthier to begin with. That's not a statement of my belief in the ease of scanning a brain; it's a statement of my belief in just how hard it is to "thaw" a body and get anything back. I'd say it's like getting handed a pile of slag and told to turn it back into a working engine, except that task is multiple orders of magnitude easier.
That should be pretty trivial to implement with getrusage()

http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/getrusage.2.html
(Slightly) more accurate analogy...

The vampire is feeding cookies to the developer, and sucking blood out the company that hosts the developer's code on the vampire's cloud.

Not such a bad deal for us developers, IMO.
Canadian Sentenced for Selling Encrypted Phones to Criminals
Constructive mathematics is alive and well for 2 reasons.

1. The type theorists/homotopy theorists that are exploring homotopy/cubical type theory as a foundational approach.

2. The objective fact that in general the internal language of a topos (in general) does not validate the law of excluded middle or the axiom of choice. This means that if you prove a result while using constructive logic you can apply it to a broader class of models than classical logic. This viewpoint of logic makes the whole "argument" between constructive and classical logic seem very silly: it's like arguing whether or not it is "true" that groups are abelian. Some are and some aren't!

Intuisionism as in Brouwerian intuitionism with choice sequences etc that disprove LEM is still a niche subject, especially foundationally but is still being explored, with the help of understanding of sheaf models that allow it to be studied from a classical perspective.
I've had the same problem with Verizon, in the past the password would only store the first 20 characters. Took me an hour or two to figure it out and fix the problem. I'm not sure if that's still the case, hopefully not.
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It very well might be. But why is it bad? If there are more incentives to open source more things, I say let them go nuts. Our incentives are aligned.

What OSS does is to democratize access to tech building blocks. There is still a ton of wealth generation possible by using these blocks to build useful products.
Other way around. This is a major ingredient what went into the blender that produced modern english and icelandic both.
As pointed out by a sibling comment, some phosphor sustain would have helped much with flicker (compare the original monitor for the IBM PC 1550) – while, at the same time, presenting the problem of washed out characters with animated or scrolling views.
I agree, you can't (just) appeal to morality. You have to change the system (responsibly) to influence decision making.

Otherwise it's just the prison dilemma game and tragedy of the commons.
In Kazakhstan local food is not cheap as well. Yes, human labor is cheap. But that means that it's cheap for supply chain as well. I live in Astana and a lot of fruits are imported from Uzbekistan, even those that could be grown locally like apples. There are people who grow apples, potatoes and other vegetables in their gardens, mainly for themselves but they also sell what they don't need. And that price is not low. On the other side, imported vegetables usually don't have good taste, probably because they are optimized for export, so that high price vegetables have their buyers.
I agree. They really try and take care of their customers. I think it was the launch of 2017, and my team upgraded right after the release. (I mean like within hours.) We were having some problems with the upgrade and TypeScript (I think), and it asked me to rate it my experience with it so far. Admittedly, I was in a slightly bad mood and aggravated at the time, and I gave it a low score. They wrote me an email and scheduled an hour to talk to like 2 or 3 people from different product teams about what was wrong and how they could make it better. It's not often when a company does that.
Tutorial for OpenFaaS with Kubernetes, Linkerd2, and MTLS
> github is becoming a marketplace where consumers of open source software (corporations, etc) can accumulate labor by reducing their own costs

This is kinda the perpetual quid-pro-quo of Open Source, though, right? It's mutually beneficial so it continues like this. Folks who fear misuse/abuse from licensees usually gravitate towards GPL -- it's much more user focused and IMO makes some sense.
What he's saying is that currently doing nothing costs him less than what paying 0.4% to 'insure' transactions would, so why bother with insurance?

Ultimately established companies know how much chargebacks cost them and thus whether this product is worth it (= costs less).
Will this work with stripe elements not just stripe checkout? I'd like to upsell my connect accounts this feature.
That manpage is an import from freebsd, not part of base -- As far as I can see on my system it's not there:

OpenBSD:

$ man 2 sendfile
man: No entry for sendfile in section 2 of the manual.

$ grep -rni sendfile /usr/include | wc -l
0

FreeBSD:

# grep -rni sendfile /usr/include | wc -l
30

edit: typo
This company is super fascinating to me - I understand you can't sell these phones to cartels and killers, but I do think there's a market for very security conscious people who want everything they do to remain private. I'm thinking about Global 2k CEO's, hedge fund founders, etc. who deal with huge amounts of money and whose info could generate huge returns if you had an inside look and who want to protect it at a high cost.
Well, no. If the demand is less, this would trigger low number of flights flying. Basic supply and demand logic in a free market.
Also true in North America: see prevalence of 2x4 and 2x6 frame houses.

Yet my parents live in a house whose frame was built in the 1890s. Though, of course, they don't live in an earthquake zone.
This is a nice angle! I don’t believe the ostensible reason but it works quite nicely. Conferences these days don’t feel super friendly so good to keep in mind.
Problem is Fortnite really isn't that watchable on a competitive level. Following a 100 player deathmatch on a third-person shooter is cumbersome to say the least.
If you only read click-bait articles, then that worldview would hold.

But if you read industry journals and look at the data, you'd see that the complete opposite is true.
Then get yourself elected to a national level office and get to work. Usually an idealist's first set of budget or appropriation meetings is enough to cure them. It sure worked for me.
In a country with a less developed transportation network local food will be cheaper than transported food. Keep in mind that lowering food prices for a developed country is a much different optimization game than lowering food costs for an undeveloped country. Not every country has a freight rail network as effective as the US.
Your manager makes all the difference. Having a remote manager is the key.
Yes. Humans experience life as a narrative, and the wider the set of narrative experience a person can understand the wider the set of humans that person can get along with or connect together.

Does reading fiction guarantee that a person will not do bad things? Do we require reading fiction to be good people? Of course not.
> You need to be self sufficient but also be willing to reach out proactively when you have problems

It's not that different from sitting in a cube, at least for software development. It's just threshold when something becomes a problem to reach out for help is higher for remote work, since it takes a bit more effort to communicate. You do a bit more so you have something to show and to discuss, not try to reach out for every little thing.
Based on my research, light on dark is actually better for you when you're staring at an array of lamps all day. With OLED screens you would also be saving energy.

The one thing I do agree is that contrast is king. You should also always have night mode/redshift enabled and choose palettes that use low energy colors to reduce eye strain.
Conferences don't exist for the majority of the people who attend them. They're a sales tool for converting B2B decision makers, usually C- or VP-level, for which the acquisition cost helps justify the conference expenditures. This is from all sides, whether hosting or sponsoring the conference.

Developers and 'practitioners' are typically background noise to the main purpose, unless of course they have influence on the decision makers.
> When it gets down to it–we're talking trade balances here–once we've brain-drained all our technology into other countries, once things have evened out, they're making cars in Bolivia and microwaves in Tadzhikistan and selling them here–once our edge in natural resources has been made irrelevant by giant Hong Kong ships and dirigibles that can ship North Dakota all the way to New Zealand for a nickel–once the Invisible Hand has taken all those historical inequities and smeared them out into a broad global layer of what a Pakistani bricklayer would consider to be prosperity–y'know what? There's only four things we do better than anyone else: music, movies, microcode (software), high-speed pizza delivery.

- Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash
Usually? Revolution.
The endless Microsoft bashing in this thread makes me so sad, I think they've done really well and put a lot of work and effort behind it.

VS Code, Ts, .NET Core, WSL (v2 soon), Github (yes I know they merely bought it, but changes like allowing free users private repos wouldn't have happened without MS) among others are all quite amazing.
Isn't this what Ethoca and Verifi do?
But this product isn't taking away consumer protection via chargebacks, nor hurting small businesses in any way.
Let’s stop idolizing or demonizing any big companies. Basically they are all the same. They may look friendly or hostile from time to time. But in the end they are not your friend and should be viewed with skepticism because of the power they gain through their size and wealth. They can cut the little guy off whenever they feel like it and can trample on people when they want to.

I think we would be better off if we had more smaller companies but I guess capitalism lends itself to power concentration.
Google Cloud goes down, taking YouTube, Gmail, Snapchat, and others with it
How do you propose to double their income?