skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The participants had not read the agenda, docs and done their actions before the meeting?
First we knew that there was no 100% secure software but we were sure bugs would be fixed. Then we discovered that as we fixed software we introduced new bugs and we laughed. Now we think it's no joke. And we know it’s not "just" software, hardware tip. Tomorrow we will just accept to live in a insecure total messed up digital world. Why? Because nobody is ever accountable for nothing.

Edit: accountable
> Bitcoin is seen as competitor by central banks.

Some 'coiners actually believe this. Wow.

Most assessments of Bitcoin's potential impact on the economy come out saying it's negligible.
"After all, there aren’t many numbers left between 5 and 0." For some reasons, I found this sentence very funny.
I think it would suffice to place a block somewhere in the reconstruction engraved with the date of the fire and the fact that the fire collapsed a portion of the structure, which was then rebuilt with modern techniques and materials appropriate for preserving the building as a public monument.

The danger is that more ephemeral records of the fire are eventually lost, and then a future archaeologist uses evidence from the structure to make conclusions about construction materials and methods of a particular era.

Besides that, the flying buttresses were not an original feature of the cathedral. If those could be added later, and become part of the historic character of the building, why not steel structural beams and reinforced concrete supports now?
+1 would really love to read any style guides or writing class materials from Amazon, if anyone can share!
It took numerous attempts over several years for me to fully close my account and stop receiving their spam emails. During that time I certainly loathed them, and now, I rarely think about them at all. Occasionally I’ll click a link to someone’s LinkedIn profile if they have it set as their website on Twitter or something. I’ll see the ludicrous login-wall, chuckle to myself, and close the tab.
She's talking about Python being a dynamically-typed & interpreted language, making it "simple and so ergonomic to use [for] new developers" and "[suitable] to exploring", but "[less suitable] to long-term, stable systems".

It's not specific to Python. Big projects written in dynamically-typed languages are hard to reason about and maintain. And the lack of compiler makes it harder to catch typos, incorrect types, non-handled null/None values, etc… before runtime.
Not a valid Show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
You can't argue Hitler, Stalin, etc weren't smart in their own ways. So being smart is not inherently good, it depends on what it applies to. There could be smart pimp who makes a lot of money, does that make him good?

Maybe being good is inherently good?
DOE Study Highlights the Untapped Potential of Geothermal Energy in the US
You can't very well have it both ways. Either you recognize that there are real physical differences or you don't.

If you don't recognize differences in the female, then what you are saying is that sex is a social construct and that sex reassignment surgery is a make believe product. In such a case, feminism is a fraud product for a fake difference that doesn't exist.

Even if you can have a man and female that look physically identical in every way, and that might be possible, you still have to deal with the average distance between physical traits, which is quite real and measurable. And also the hormonal differences, and the differences caused by internal structures based upon this signaling which is often different even from an early age.

Feminism, as I have seen it, has its basis in recognizing that differences in sex can sometimes lead to only small gaps in task performance, and thus the sexes in many ways are like for like. Generally true.

Good luck being saved by an all female group of firefighters, however. I wish you all the best in that. But maybe that is the cost of "equality". More people die, and quality sometimes diminishes.

I'll believe your rejection of gender essentialism when men are delivering babies. They can obviously produce milk, and that's already well documented.

Edit: To be fair, you can absolutely have firefighters that are female and even more prepared to save lives than males. The problem is that a quota system encourages physical features rather than merit to be key indicators in hiring, which is absolutely the wrong thing. A serious weightlifter that was female could easily be an amazing fire fighter.
But, like, the search form at the top of the page has autopopulate country code.
Only nitpick: university isn’t meant for producing qualified workers. I get tired of that meme; the expectations of each environment is different. Good workers must be given space at work to produce quality outputs.

I see university as the mental equivalent of a long walk in the forest alone; it’s where you go deep on a topic you enjoy and carve out a little niche of your own there (assuming you go further than undergrad).

It’s for the students, not the employer. Employers can, by and large, pound sand. Society at large does not owe them fealty or the effort of producing “shovel ready” knowledge workers.
The guy ran and seeked asylum because he feared he will 'be made an example of' by USA. He sat in that tiny room for 6 years while US actors were working hard to smear him as a rapist and Russian puppet, while insinuating that everyone who claims USA is targeting Assange, or that there are indictments just waiting for his arrest is a conspiracy theorist.

The moment he was removed from the embassy protection (again, as result of extreme pressure by USA onto Ecuador), the indictment for a death-sentence charge becomes public, and his personal belongings are illegally given by Ecuador to USA.

In my opinion, Assange was proven right.
Not sarcastically: good for him. Sometimes I wonder if we put too much pressure and expectations on geniuses, like they are supposed to solve the world's problems for us. It's cool to hear your brother is just trying to maximize his happiness like any other person would.
Yes, it takes a little thought to write clearly and present the pertinent information, but it's plain bad manners to do otherwise.
> but calling somebody a regular writer somewhere when they actually just write articles for syndication feels disingenuous.

The author gets to choose where their writing get syndicated to. It’s a conscious decision, for whatever reason they make it: money, principle, or just good friends with the owner. So I don’t think it’s disingenuous to point it that they have chosen to write regularly for UNZ.

I haven’t judged UNZ either way, I’m just providing a citation for the claim that Jonathan Cook writes fro UNZ. Make of that information what you want.
So I've never used Docker, but it sounds an awful lot like FreeBSD Jails. How is it unique?
You know that a lot of us in the Biz are on the spectrum Dyslexia, Dyspraxia etc - writing can be F^g Hard.
Ask HN: Resources for hacking battery-powered tools?
I have a growing collection of battery-powered hand and lawn tools, incl. larger machines like lawn mowers and snow blowers.

Are there any online resources for learning how to repurpose these kinds of batteries and motors to, e.g. convert an ICE powered machine to electric?
Why is NSA surveillance awesome? Even if you don't like tech companies.
Smaller cities present issues in Germany (and Europe as a whole) for a multitude of reasons, for example healthcare[0], reliable bandwidth, older populations[1], etc.

Well, Nentershausen is very small ;). We had weekends with friends in Nentershausen for a couple of years. It's a village, not a city.

I was more thinking along the lines of (random Dutch/German university cities): Heidelberg, Tübingen, Ulm, Erlangen, Nürnberg, Nijmegen, Groningen, Leiden, etc.
Exactly! BTC futures or derivatives were precisely the tools that were used. With Bitcoin derivatives, essentially you don't even need to own any Bitcoin at the present to trade since it's a future contract.

BTC price reached its peak at $20,000 on December 17, 2017 which happened to be the exact same date that the CME Group (Chicago Mercantile Exchange) became the first provider of Bitcoin derivatives to the market. Immediately BTC price started dropping down the next day and it went down all the way to $13,000 only within the next five days! Not much needed to be said after that.

FYI: https://ethereumworldnews.com/report-crypto-platform-bakkt-u...
There was a campaign by the Maine Chamber of Commerce running against it on the grounds that the privacy protections didn't go far enough. They only applied to ISPs (carriers) not to companies higher in the stack (Facebook, etc.). [1]

I couldn't quite work out of this campaign was done out of legitimate concern or was a cynical attempt to derail it? I mean, I agree with them that privacy legislation should apply broadly, but then I'm happy to at least start somewhere.

[1] https://privacy.mainechamber.org/
They would have less of an opportunity to become iconic if the biggest media distributors censored them immediately.
I've been using this other unethical tech called Imagination. It's much cheaper and faster to render and has better privacy protection.
>This is the new attack vector of the left

Et-tu brute?

In any case, an actual response to the idea of an ad hominem attack:

Reputation matters, so does context, and words do not stand alone. When taking in speech, it is important to understand the motives of the speaker, to be aware of their level of credibility. This isn't anything new or special, I learned it in high school history. People are biased, and you need to be aware of those biases when evaluating their speech.

Some examples: 1) If someone tells you, "Come in, I'd like to have you for dinner", there's a difference if that person is your father-in-law or Jeffrey Dahmer. 2) If someone tells you that some person X should be freed from charges, there's a difference if it's coming from that person's lawyer, or from the victim of the alleged crimes. 3) If you're about to cross a bridge, and one person says it's not safe to cross, and a second says it is, it makes a difference which one of the two is a structural engineer.

In the case of this particular article, I began to read it and came across several statements that were attempting to gloss over or ignore reported facts. At this point, I wanted to know if it was the result of sloppy reporting (maybe this was some personal rant), or perhaps part of a structured agenda, which is when I started to research the author. I found out that the author is a regular columnist for a company run by a known funder of racist hate groups that itself funds racist and hate speech, with poor journalistic practices.

I personally believe that we have a choice in how we earn a living (google death star contractors), but even if you don't, I think it's only fair to the reader to be aware of the writer's biases.
Godot has caught my eye a bunch of times but I'm still not quite convinced to use it yet. I guess I need to just try it.
Even better is ttyrec + tty-player for full self-hosting without a third party intervening. You get interactive playback controls and scroll buffer access while paused.

https://github.com/chris-morgan/tty-player
Tell that to the civil rights movement, women's suffrage movement, lgbtq rights movements etc. Appreciable gains have been made in civil rights over the years by people paying attention.
They could have earned an equally useful degree for less than a quarter of the price in some European country like Germany or Finland where university is really cheap even for non-citizens.
I don't feel like it's undervalued; 93% of developers get frustrated by it:

- https://opensourcesurvey.org/2017/

It is a fairly thankless job because it's more difficult and the concept of bugs or missing features is fairly fuzzy (compared to software). But it is highly valuable, and people do notice it.

I attribute most of my open source popularity/stars at decent/good docs+examples in my libraries, like the most recent one:

https://github.com/franciscop/ola/
It is only rocket science if you use rockets. If you get the telescope up with a space elevator then the term no longer applies here.
Car loans are stretched to the 84 month and 96 months now (and they'll helpfully roll your last car loan into it too)
This is an interesting freakonomic style perspective.

It makes the 1984 Lifeline (more commonly yet erroneously known as ObamaPhones) project to get phones to impoverished people have larger network effects.

It also points to the faults of the 'War on Drugs', as very little of this territory would be needed without black markets.
Why not just nip it in the bud and unplug the physical infrastructure of the WWW?
> I've been in meetings that start with 15 minutes of silent reading, then 45 minutes of discussion. No PowerPoint presenting.

I wish this could happen where I am. No one wants to bother reading anything ahead of the meeting to be prepared for a discussion. Then the same people don't have the patience to let the group review the material during the meeting before starting the discussion.
War happens, but places without a judicial system to solve conflicts between persons, families and regions don't seem to flourish, while many of the more prosperous regions and regions with the most wealth growth feature a judicial system that spans areas normally inhabitated by multiple countries (USA, China, EU, India).

Having a transnational judicial system in the EU (as the most recently formed example) allows coorperation and trade to a much greater extend. Sure, the EU might go to war at some point, but the circle of people and corperations you can trust to respect law and written contracts is very big, no matter if a war is going on or not.
I think you misunderstood the article. The case/result is not in favor of NSA surveillance.
I hate having to use custom build tools made by others, and I agree with you if we're talking about code that is going to be distributed.

But for personal projects that aren't intended for use by the rest of the world, I don't see any problem with them. Back when I played with custom build tools, I split the difference and made sure to implement a means to export a makefile equivalent. (Since then, I've moved back to just using the standard tools).
I was deemed gifted in school, and always thought of myself as smart. I've come to realize in adulthood that I just have a fantastic memory which I leaned on for everything. In other forms of intelligence I'm probably around average.
I agree. I also see this as protecting the ISPs from any future litigation from consumers since now the consumer has no choice but to give consent.
part of the snowden leaks was a document where the gov recognized JA as an increasing threat, and laid out plans to character assasinate him and other psyops things, and most of the bullshit being spewed about him is easily identifiable as feddback loops on that operation which continues today
Interesting. The rules seem to be different on different systems. Deleting two RIS symbols (whether they map to a flag or not) seems right in any case. Some other systems (Android included) will take the accents off separately when they are decomposed (but not for precomposed accented characters). Also note macOS takes just the accent off for Arabic (tested on U+062F U+064D).
For the same reason we don't replace cars with teleporters.
I think you specifically mean web companies that take VC money, and not just "SV companies". If you take someone else's money they probably want it back.. with interest. The unethical monetization just reflects the fact that the general public rarely pays for quality web offerings.
Yes, but... the difference between low-budget/amateur stuff is more than just acting. It's hard to know that it is even primarily acting. I just don't believe that successful actors are so necessarily due to their acting talents (not that there's anything wrong with that) and also that broadening the kinds of material their visage appears in doesn't necessarily detract from their reputation or the film quality in general. It might if they've only appeared in the greatest material and only if they are the very best acting talents.

What if you wanted to shoot a scene where someone is hobnobbing with the rich and famous? You might need dialog, but do you need authentic dialog? What if you want to shoot a scene where somebody is stealing Keanu Reeves' boat, and he is just acting like a normal dude in a weird situation? You don't need his acting talent for that. What if you're shooting an alternative history film and want to present situations that conform to historical accuracy, yet defer from people's memories? Etc.
It seems pretty rational and interesting to me that a persistent bias in the gender or research bias continues and amplifies a persistent bias in whom drugs are best serving.

Do you have an “anti-gender” agenda where you wish that gender is not discussed?
Well, rather topically, there's MapR. Depending on the desired scale and level of fidelity to real-filesystem semantics, one might also count Gluster, Ceph, and Lustre. Don't know if PVFS is still around. There are more proprietary offerings from IBM (GPFS/SpectrumScale), EMC, NetApp, etc. plus a plethora of startups. There are other object stores that don't make a pretense of being filesystems. Alternatives abound.

BTW, "hundreds of terabytes on hundreds of machines" isn't interesting territory any more. Most people's needs are far smaller, so HDFS isn't much help. Those who need more generally need much more, so HDFS isn't much help again. Richer semantics are nice either way. Imagine thousands of machines with dozens of terabytes each and you might start to see the problems with HDFS's design (though you'll still be far short of the domain I work in).
I thought skills over dress too. I could ask the HR department as they called me, it's not through a recruiter.
Add Hugo to Docker Build Image
I couldn't find links to the actual bill anywhere so I tracked it down:

http://legislature.maine.gov/LawMakerWeb/summary.asp?ID=2800...

The summary:
"This bill prohibits a provider of broadband Internet access service from using, disclosing, selling or permitting access to customer personal information unless the customer expressly consents to that use, disclosure, sale or access. The bill provides other exceptions under which a provider may use, disclose, sell or permit access to customer personal information. The bill prohibits a provider from refusing to serve a customer, charging a customer a penalty or offering a customer a discount if the customer does or does not consent to the use, disclosure, sale or access. The bill requires providers to take reasonable measures to protect customer personal information from unauthorized use, disclosure, sale or access. The provisions of the bill apply to providers operating within the State when providing broadband Internet access service to customers that are billed for service received in the State and are physically located in the State."
I would highly recommend the book The Pyramid Principle for improving your writing in a professional environment.
I'm not trying to dispute the facts, but anecdotally I just don't find that to be true.

40% seems very high to me, but then again usage of ad blockers isn't exactly exciting conversation that I try to bring up when I'm around my friends.

I wonder if we will start seeing "you wouldn't download a car" style ads targeting users of ad blockers soon.
According to the UN Special Rapporteur on torture, who just visited Assange [1], he has fallen gravely ill and shows all the signs of prolonged psychological torture.

Apparently at first he assumed Assange was just a good actor, but after visiting him it had become clear to him and the medical experts with him that this is a case of treatment amounting to psychological torture, the likes of which (psychological, not physical) he has not seen in 20 years.

He's been giving numerous interviews about the matter and says that extradition to the US should be ruled out at all costs and that he has very real fears for Assange's health and for the probable violation of his human rights.

[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/julian-assange-showing-sy...
This process is designed to ensure that the docs have been read and have been freshly read. I think of it as moving the time and effort into a defined and nearby time, and it's far from a "waste" of time, IMO.
1) 'Rape' as in he didn't go and test himself for STDs when the woman he had sex with demanded it afterward.

2) Do you think no woman ever made up accusations about being raped? Every black man lynched for 'raping a white woman' really did rape them?
The strict processes that got even more strict after they realized they weren't being strict enough when they mixed imperial and SI units.
They seem to have banned my IP (an Algo VPN instance on a pretty reputable web hosting provider which I just use for normal, reasonable web browsing). Not cool.
You will send it to Louis Rossman, and he’ll fix it :)
Google is smart enough to handle duplicate content. It's a false problem.

From the source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQZY7EmjbMA
Bake it into the meeting.
> 1. While average deaths per kWh might be relatively low (compared to other forms of power generation) the worst case scenario is much, much worse. A coal plant just isn't capable of making a thousand square miles uninhabitable for centuries.

This is one of the main issues with nuclear technology in general. We just don't have a good 'training data set' for many of the energy applications.

With weapons, we have a very good suspicion that 'tatical' uses of the technology will cause the end of the world. The probabilities are well-enough known and the outcomes are dire enough that we've been living in 'pax-nuclei' for nearly 80 years now.

With medicine, we know how nuclear based medtech works and we have a 'good enough' idea that the benefits outweight the costs. Yes, the contrast dye is not good for you, but it'll give us a really good idea where the blockage is. Yes, the radiation chemo is not fun, but the cancer will kill you before the radiation does. The probabilities are well known and the expected values are understood.

However, with nuclear energy, we do not have a good understanding of the expected values. Sure, the French run nuclear plants fairly well. But we thought that the Japanese did too, and look what happened when a 'black swan' came along. Deaths/KW-hr may be less for now, but we have a farily good suspicion that they could go up by a whole heck of a lot. Chernobyl was a disaster, but via the heroics of the people there, it was somewhat contained. What would have happened if they only had 90% of the heroes that were there? 80%? That fault-tree contains a lot of very bad situations. As such, it is not unreasonable to say that we need more information on nuclear energy before deciding on our energy future.
No way is it possibly a new car every four years. There are over 200 million licensed drivers in the US and less than 20 million new cars sold per year.
If you're not on Mark's newsletter, Weekly Axis Of Easy, you owe it to yourself to subscribe. It's funny, to the point, covers most of the really important tech news with a focus on infrastructure and privacy and is pretty much a commercial-free zone. Microsoft Certified and NSA coneheads might not like it much (but hey Edward S. was an NSA conehead for a long time so there's some smart and good people even there).

Home office: I like it for myself but many of our staff would hate it. I also like to have in person meetings at least a couple of times/week with major collaborators where we can site together and look at a screen together and have eye contact and read more subtle signals.
> (...) Over the past year, Medium has become more aggressive toward us. (...) They started threatening us with a lawyer.

I'm interested in what kind of case they thought they were having.