skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for writing that, totally agree. One thing is unclear to me, though:

> He's arguing that we should install glass more closely resembling the original medieval glass, which would allow more light into the structure.

I did a little research, and as far as I can tell, the windows were originally stained glass, then many were replaced with clear glass in the 17-18th century, then re-replaced with stained glass again after that.

So there's nothing "original" about clear glass, and I fail to see any evidence that the original stained glass was particularly lighter (the author calls the newest glass "gaudy bubblegum 19th-century stuff" but bubblegum doesn't mean "darker", and he calls the original glass "delicate and jewel-like" but that merely describes surface texture, not how deep the colors were). Stained glass keeps an interior pretty dark no matter what. So his suggestion to:

> let the sunlight continue to fall across these stones and get the endless Parnassian passages of Victorian-Era glass out to let the clerestory do what it’s supposed to do – be a clear story

Doesn't make any sense. I just don't think you can have all the clear sunlight (like it is right now, as beautiful as it may be) and stained glass. You just have to pick one or the other.
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No one. Or, more accurately, the government self-insures most launches, and eats the cost of a failed launch.
Oh, I admit there are good reasons for it. And there are people who prefer such a rigid, structured, and slow-paced environment. I ran into plenty while I was stuck doing that sort of work.

Good for them. The world needs such people, probably in much greater numbers than it needs people like me -- if it needs people like me at all :)
Much like accessibility, even if you are capable of doing everything by hand, it is usually nicer to have most of the gruntwork handled for you.
Well, I think nobody knows exactly what it is yet. It's an emerging technology, so even if there's a great deal of utility it's not surprising that predictions will be off the mark/downright wrong, and that opportunities will be missed that eventually seem obvious in retrospect.

And there is no cohesive "community" that's making predictions and measuring against them. It's just people speculating out loud, and then other people writing about the speculation.

It's a bit unusual because it started out as a cool technological curiosity vs. a product with a defined product/market fit. Sort of like desktop computing in the 70s.
And the latter (killed by exploding nuclear power plants) is historically zero.

All nuclear related fatalities are due to radiation exposure, and the immediate deaths are rather small numbers, with the lingering effects of the fallout (i.e. cancer) only pushing the numbers into the 10's of thousands.
I probably should have known this. I've read alot on Apollo, but never really internalized some of these facts.
Aaah this reminds me of noob me who thought I could just build a blogging platform of my own. Here are some non-trivial features that Medium provides to writers which we just don't notice.
1- Distribution channel
No one is gonna remember the name/url of your blog, Medium allows discovery.
1- Autosave draft
Unless you plan to write your post in one go, in one sitting with an extremely reliable internet connection, you are gonna need this.
3- Social plugin integration- Sure start writing oAuth integrations for each of the hundreds of social plugins out there.
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Whenever people hear about these issues (and now pretty much any issue sadly) they always jump to the worst conclusions and stop considering balance, which is ultimately what we need to preserve. This is a complex issue, oversimplifying it only serves to make things worse. Like any entity in this entire universe, deep-fakes can be used for good and bad. I am willing to bet there is a middle ground that makes sense and allows us to ultimately mostly benefit from whatever good this technology brings. Its about thinking within reason. Saying things like "This will be the best thing every" or the opposite extreme, "This will collapse society!" only speaks to the radical mindset it seems everyone has been poisoned with.

It is becoming difficult to discuss these kinds of issues at all with the way everyone seems to so easily move to the extremities..
Nuclear is not an essential part of any solution, it is more expensive than solar and wind per Mwatt, it takes far longer to build new plants, and if you want to make sure those plants are actually safe then you need to invest billions of dollars into them leading again to a higher price for electricity, the risks for said plants are still there, and unlike solar or wind they require big rivers or water bodies nearby. Uranium extraction and processing is still a dirty power hungry affair and that won't change any time soon.

Having deaths/mwt is also stupidly misleading because no solar plant ever had the risk of exploding and decimating a chunk of Eastern Europe, not to mention forcing thousands out of their homes and abandoning everything behind never to return

If you want to discuss things, then don't do it by misleading statements, that only makes you look like an angsty teen that opposes the status quo simply because it is cool to do so
> CGI was (and in some dark corners still is) a thing.

Yep. Tech does that - think about centralisation / distribution every few years, maybe it'll cycle back to people caring about their own containment tech in future. But not right now.

> Yeah but those people now have way easier to run local environments?

OK, so they wasted their time on their awful custom Docker/k8s thing that runs on top of EC2 anyway, and they have a slightly better way to spin up dev environments?

The rest of the conversation is about dev environments, bare metal, VMs and containers all have their place and I mostly agree with you (obviously containers are only useful when there's a Linux kernel on that desktop, Windows and Mac are bare metal or virtualising for the most part).

> What you're saying is that overzealous ops people who are looking to pad their own resumes should not be allowed to run amuck, and I agree with that, but docker is not the poster boy for engineering largess -- and I'd argue it never was.

You understand my point perfectly. I believe that docker is precisely the poster boy for engineering largess, but this is based on my own experiences (talking to a lot of young engineers in the startup world who love wasting investor money on ops) and it seems reasonable that you have had different experiences.

I think we have a good understanding of where we each come from and can end it here. Thanks for being civil.
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I you watch the TED talk by Angela Duckworth, author of Grit book, she says one thing where they still really have not figured out how to teach resilience to kids.

I was speaking to a high school teacher last week, and they use these grit scores and all the tips mentioned in the grit book. But at the end of the day, they still do not have a sure fire method to teach it or the growth mindset.

Years ago I spoke to a retired mathematics professor on this subject. I remember he pointed out that Évariste_Galois was an interesting case in home education. There was not too much written on this, but he was taught by his mother the classics. What he accomplished at such a young age is still be used today in all sorts of fields.
Minor nitpick, but the L2 point is selected so it doesn't need fuel to stay there. It's like a gravity well of the earth/sun system, any object getting a little further from it will get back to it.
I didn’t know this, I was hoping for it long ago when I used to play. Maybe worth installing to see if it’s good.

If it stays on Steam, anyways. Epic’s store probably won’t ever support Linux I’d imagine :(
This is response is a total straw man argument.
I was talking about robo calls, your response is about difficulties with email spam.

The phone network is controlled centrally. Government can force handling spam by phone companies, the same way they can force them to give police call logs etc for the purpose of collecting
evidence.

Further more, Robocalls usually are of a more local nature (not international). Government may instruct Police to investigate origins of Robocalls and enforce sanctions.
A formal complaint process could be made , where any end user may file a complaint, Providing proof is trivial. Both for the act, and origin (Robocalls are advertising a specific product from a specific company.)
A law could be made which mandates a speedy process for filing relevant lawsuites with small claims court, if found guilty the offending party will be levied a large fine.

This is from the top of my head. It probably contains many flaws. But it certainly doesn't seem impossible to combat Robocalls.
Today I learned something new. Thank you.
And don't get me started on group work (because it's 'pedagogically useful'). You get a team of 4-5, 2 hours and a task that can be done alone in ~10 minutes, 20 if you try and integrate the whole team.

And then you're in the real world, and you don't have enough people and time, and you need specialists for the different subtasks.. thanks, school.
Agreed. I have talked to people at JPL and all their tools are completely outdated, they have no room for creativity and everything they do is constantly watched and reviewed. Unless you are way up in leadership this doesn’t seem much fun.

Maybe it works at a startup where they try do something completely new but as soon as your stuff gets close to production it won’t be much fun.
Rape charges invented by the US. The 'rape victim' admitted the Swedish Police told her what to say. Open your eyes Cinderella.
Containers are "easy" because they are backed by tons of kennel code (cgroups, namespaces and basically a small part of many other subsystems). You can actually create containers from the shell!

VMs are "hard" because you start with nothing save some very low-level help from the hardware.
> There is no reliable evidence. . .

The premise of the entire article seems to rely on this one fallacy.

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, especially in a case like this where the effects are extraordinarily difficult (if not impossible) to measure AND there were extraordinary efforts made to suppress all the evidence.
How did this fungus come into being so specialized, I wonder.
I'm with the majority of the comments here. It seems an expensive way to run your business. Initial cost is usually a small part of the overall TCO. This post was written in 2017, any updates on their experience with this infrastructure? Prove us doubters wrong.
..well at the very least it is a form of backup/archiving no?
basically everything you described basically came with systemd. the thing that later made docker possible.

before it was just a mess.
and it also isn't that much older than docker.
I would like to see a comparison to the USD, and how much of the money flow is actually used for merchant transactions.
Are you sure? Doesn't work have value under any scenario, if only a residual educational value: a lesson for you and/or others? That would reduce "hard" and/or "smart" to multipliers of that value.
Actually, articles on non-famous people require extra notibility as there are more protections for libel. Helpfully, most people with wikis are famous.
Nothing wrong with that. But you should know what you are getting into.
On which subject, 'Face Swap', an entertaining (but somewhat NSFW!) short science fiction film i saw recently:

https://vimeo.com/306304445
I've just switched from a MacBook Pro 2011 15" to a Thinkpad X1 Extreme 15". I've been putting off making a decision for quite a while, hoping Apple would sort out the horrifying keyboard issues.

The difference in price between macs and windows back in 2011 wasn't as great as it is now and that really made my toes curl when I spec'd out the next machine. I've 32GB of memory in the X1 and I can boost that later to 64GB which, as a software developer, lets me run a lot of VMs and Docker containers. The trackpad may be no match but the keyboard is much better. The X1 is really quite sleek so I don't feel I'm losing too much of the great Apple design aesthetic.

I'd still prefer a mac but right now I can't wait around for them to sort out their issues.
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The guy lived for ten years after the accident. He spent the first four or five years undergoing chelation therapy daily to remove the radioisotopes from his body tissues. At the time of his death, the dose model suggested he would have about a 12% chance of not having cancer. He didn't have cancer.

So, he rolled a 1 on an 8-sided die and didn't get cancer in that time. If he had lived longer, cancer would be a near certainty, though it still might not have been what killed him.
Rome is proof that you can build with concrete and not wind up with a godawful fugly bunker. Likewise, the first skyscraper era shows that you can build with steel and produce things of beauty.

I'm not sure an eyesore can be avoided if you allow a modern architect within a hundred miles, though.
Why do you want to present a false sense of improved privacy by only obfuscating your DNS queries in these networks?

It seems to me like these DNS tricks are parlor tricks in a security sideshow. Any attacker that could see your packets can also see who you are connecting to. It's pretty rare that SNI does anything relevant to a real threat model.

I think a false sense of privacy is at least as dangerous as the alternative.
Do you have a reputable source for your assertion?
That's a pretty significant part of the character- most of AVGN's older material is about pointing out the frustration of playing games with incredibly bad controls or non-obvious puzzles.

My bigger complaint with AVGN is the toilet humor, but I still think he does an awesome job of curating awful video games.
Do you think the rape charges were made from nothing?
The RBMK design was very safe, too. And it exploded due to a combination of design flaw and dangerous operation. Sure, the rest of them were fixed after that, but.

Fukushima was a very safe design, too, and well regulated. Three Mile Island was a very safe design. And let's not even get into the history of lesser-known accidents with less-safe designs, in the hands of paranoid military operators and secretive, embarrassment-shy governments.

Of the well-known accidents, all of them were unexpected. And all of them could have gone far worse, were it not for heroic actions and some luck on the part of the operators. And all of them involved a degree of government coverup and the public distrust that causes. So it's not only expected that the public would distrust nuclear power more than is maybe absolutely needed, it's very reasonable for them to do so. The safety of nuclear power worldwide is the safety of the worst design with the worst crew, built by the lowest bidder.

Don't just react as if the public is stupid, or there's no risk involved. Those things are the reason the public doesn't take pro-nuclear activists seriously.
They figure it out for themselves. No one has to tell you. It is a very difficult balancing act. I could write a long essay length document on my approach to this. My son is older, age 12, and he knows he is smart now, but, I think about it in concrete terms of how does this matter? He just /IS/ smart. He won't ever be dumb. But if I can't teach him how to work hard and apply his natural gifts and what he has learned what good is being smart? I think kids are really good at figuring it out and using it (intelligence) without a lot of guidance. Of course, we do things and I try to keep them challenged at home, but I also try to show them what hard work is and how to enjoy simple things. In the real world, people care more about what you can do than how smart you are. Of course we love it when smart people do great things, but... it just doesn't matter in practice. I think it is all about focusing on values and emphasizing things (like hard work) over smart.
The whole thing looks like a mess where it looks like every party did something wrong.

Let's not forget that Wikileaks violated certain journalistic standards for divulging confidential information. It's a "two wrongs do not make a right" situation.

Yes, the rape charges are an awfully convenient distraction. But they exist, and should be investigated.
The parent comment has had its context stripped: it was about the Fukushima evacuation which resulted, directly or indirectly, in an estimated 2100 fatalities (or "premature deaths" to be precise). Mass panic, evacuation and long-term displacement have predictable consequences.
Thanks, I was wrong about that. On iOS, Firefox switched to webkit for iOS for rendering (which includes JS). For the desktop, Firefox used and uses Gecko; the desktop version of course came first.
Standard suburban detached-house above-grade bedroom count in the US since at least the 80s is 3br in normal neighborhoods, sometimes 4 in the more expensive ones. If for some reason you want a 2br house you're probably gonna have to look at neighborhoods 35+ years old, or attached (duplex, say) housing. Lots of the 3br houses in places where basements are the norm have been upgraded with a fourth, basement bedroom—sometimes "nonconforming" (no emergency exit window) especially if it was finished 20+ years ago, but that hasn't stopped people from sleeping in them.
Why did people hate the LEZ in your opinion?

EDIT: Article says “City centre residents are happy with the LEZ
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I am interested in a switch to Linux (web developer, I use OSX, I need the terminal for all my tasks) but had not looked at Mint yet. The website looks like it was made 15 years ago, are they more modern than the website seems?
Just returned to say: OS 10.14 rebooting while asleep because it's pouting about some nonstandard software or file.
It is perfectly ethical to be able to watch what you want.

If the supposed problem is that what you watch may be unethical to some other person, that also does not compute.
Why should I care what some religious zealot thinks about the ethics of me watching self-created deep fake porn in the privacy of my home?
Cryptographically signed where and how? Do you mean to say that you get a full string like "a=1&b=something&c=[1,2,3]" and hash/encrypt that? Or do you encrypt each individual field? Or something else?
Statistics: P values are just the tip of the iceberg (2015)
Sprint and T-Mobile are trying to sell Boost in order to get the merger approved. Amazon would most likely secure a promise the the MVNO agreement would carry over to T-Mobile after the merger.

Additionally, the brand image doesn't matter. They'd likely just rename it to something like 'Amazon Wireless'
If nothing else thanks for the comment because it’s reply’s have great insights. Be well friend
There are lots of options for automated accessibility scans, but there are many common accessibility issues that aren't feasible to test for with automation.

My team at Microsoft recently open sourced a tool called Accessibility Insights (https://accessibilityinsights.io). The web version is a chromium extension that includes both automated scans and also a guided assessment option that leads you through how to test for and fix the stuff that has to be found manually. This is the tool Microsoft pushes its own teams to use as part of their release processes.
Americans who fled the country to escape their student debt
Well. You're going to run out of CPU and memory bandwidth pretty quickly. So you'd need replicas to share processing load.

But I honestly don't think hundreds of users each querying 100s of GBs is all that common.
Once I overheard a guy ranting about how iPods were bad because if you carried your music with you everywhere, you could feel whatever you wanted at any time, which was unnatural and bad for your psyche.

I think he was crazy. But it gave me pause
Yeah it's as if the exam is the goal rather than understanding the subject...
This is pretty amazing. One thing I wondered is if this is a glorified aim bot, but it’s a “tag” version of CTF so that’s less of a factor plus they reduced the reaction time of bots. It also takes raw pixel input so it’s not gaining an advantage by having an altered game model. However, sounds like the bots didn’t receive sound input, which could be a human advantage (e.g. hearing footsteps of a non-visible player behind a wall).
Yeah, unlike most other stations, this one is a bona fide tourist attraction that generates income from the businesses contained within. If we had more like that the MTA's budget might be in a bit better shape even if they cost a little (or a lot) more upfront.
> and missed out on huge fortunes

So they missed out on a gold rush, so what? Another will appear in due time, be it Beanie Babies, Tamagotchis or Fidget Spinners.

> Well, some people here thought for themselves and analyzed the technology and ideas on its merits.

You are talking about buy low, sell high. The bitcoin boom was in 2017, what changed in the underlying technology?
tl;dr: sometimes medicines don't achieve their early promise. But what are you gonna do about it?
> permission from "Schwarzenegger as a service" (TM pending) to use his likeness as a deepfake in the film?

Just like regular intellectual property licensing, either they won't even talk to you or it'll cost far more than you can afford. If you do it without permission you'll get takedown notices or worse.

The fake porn problem really should not be underestimated in a society that still does incredibly vicious slut-shaming. Previously you could argue that one could avoid this by not taking any nude photos or allowing your partner to do so, but once these things start getting generated from just a face it's going to be practically impossible to control it and the demand for legal action will grow.
But that's the reality of life and part of learning as well. Most of us don't get the luxury of doing things on our own schedule or terms. Usually the schedule is decided by someone else, like the customer or the boss or whoever is paying you.
I can agree with the motivation, but the law is not particularly well written.

If the EU passes a law and it takes armies of lawyers over two years of negotiating with the EU to find a compromise of what is and isn't included in the law (with the EU changing its stance regularly), then it probably isn't a good law.

It took a year and a half of wrangling for the EU to decide that internet advertising was not a "legitimate business interest" or "necessary to perform tasks at the request of the data subject" (despite the advertising being a primary source of funding to pay for the requested task). Then the entire internet advertising industry had just 6 months to design/implement/deploy a system that can meet the requirements and migrate all their users to the new platform (keeping in mind that their users have a financial incentive not to switch, since the old system is more profitable).

There's also the weird catch-22 of how it only applies to users with EU citizenship, but you can't collect, use, or store the information on whether or not they are an EU citizen without their permission.
No, because it's a lie. Actually one of the victims just recently (after the arrest) reiterated her accusations and called for re-opening the prosecution.

Meta: This endless "do you have sources" plays right into the hands of liars. If you don't have real reason to believe that some crucial fact may be missing you shouldn't invite them to spew their nonsense. If they had something real, they would have posted it the first time. Asking them just lets them draw the "I'm just answering an honest question" card, thereby making it seem that now there are two posters discussing the issue. A well-known trick.