skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The "competition with China" angle is going to (already has) drive much of the decay of our moral society in the US.

How can we compete with China if we don't <have a surveillance state>/<edit embryos with CRISPR>/<patent everything possible>/<eliminate all protections for laborers>?

Much like Europe has with the US, there is an argument to be made that we should just let them have their piece of the world and return to living happy, normal lives that are less stressed and more focused on being good to one another.
Easy to say this from a privileged position, less so when it's your vacations or work travel on the chopping block. Free movement for me, but not for thee. Wouldn't want all those unwashed masses ruining your perfect vacation.
As far as I know there is no legal recourse against scrapping even if they specifically disallow scraping, people have tried to sue google for scraping and lost.

You using the data will break copyright in pretty much every country, it doesn't matter how you got the data it's how you use it. They will sue you for copyright breach and most likely they will win. There is no legal loophole even for people with googles money they end up paying for a licence for the data or remove it.
It may feel a bit anachronistic at times, but learning terminal based apps is a good way to beat the cycle of upgrades. Many tasks are not all that complex, and they don't need recent hardware to perform well.
Runescape was great for anyone with parents who wouldn't let you install things. All you needed was a browser and java, super low bar for entry into the world of grinding.
Yeah, that's a no from me. Who would want another massive heat-generative, power-hungry desktop/server humming along in their home office as their main workstation?

Now if I were to build a home lab, heck yeah I would jump on board. A couple of those systems would make a real nice private cloud.
TIL, I learned that the RR queue is the same as the normal ranked one. Ouch...
The discussed API changes do not limit malware to snoop on browser traffic, requests can still be observed, and scraping is also not affected.

Ad blocking is arguably one of the best ways to protect yourself from malware, and that is the capability Google attempts to limit.
Improving Vulnerability Remediation Through Better Exploit Prediction [pdf]
You can tack this tax to jet owners too, easily charged by airports that receive them and also based on amount used. Trying to make it as equal as possible and de-incentivize excessive flights.
Plus they have a 54000 square foot office in Mountain View, that can't be all for occasional meetings.
>Are you willing to pay the price for providing an alternate means of sky observation at a scale suitable for astronomy, and for cleaning up the debris that might result from expiration of, or collisions between, tens of thousands of commercial satellites?

I feel there is an implication that being able to observe the sky, and specifically the extent this is degraded, is comparable to the extent one is excluded from modern society without a fast internet connection.

>not having what you consider adequate internet.

I would think all the students who are unable to complete school assignments due to lack of internet access, sometimes with web pages outright failing to load over dial-up, would be the one's whose considerations of adequate internet we need to rest our judgments upon. One might say that a school shouldn't engage in having such an unfair requirement, but then that would mean limiting tools accessible to other students and to teachers.

>for even expressing concern

From the article:

>and calling for regulation

>I don't think you are approaching this discussion in a fair manner.

I feel a standard of fairness is being applied in a manner most unbefitting itself.
It's not necessarily a barrier if you can measure their output - it's not age discrimination if you have a clearly measurable variable that relates to productivity and use it for pay. The old "piecework" model.

It's also not unreasonable or discriminatory to argue that part-time workers can be paid less because they have more overhead .. so long as you apply this across all PT workers.
Germany did scale up its natural gas usage - from 40TWh in 2002 to 44 TWh in 2018. That's a rounding error. In 2016, gas consumption in Germany was about industrial (38%) and domestic homes usage (31%), not electricity production (15%).

It may very well be that gas is going to play a major role in replacing coal, but that has yet to happen - while nuclear energy has already been cut back significantly.
What features are missing? I use Google Docs in firefox and haven't noticed anything wrong.
I'm assuming that these bots impact other gamers -- either through some negative consequence for human gamers or overall inflation of the MMO marketplace. If that's the case, then these bots seem terribly antisocial. OTOH it seems like youthful mischief is a rite of passage for software developers.

Regardless of how you started: good for you, and good luck with your career!
Isn't this what Trinet or Gusto are for?
You are wrong. They are literally gene patents. For years Myriad had a patent on BRCA1. They enforced it against anyone else who wanted to test for mutations in the gene. Over a fifth of the human genome had similar patents. There is no "composition" argument to be made, it is just a natural entity. Aspirin is a drug you make. This is like patenting the idea of apples. It is pure greed.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enclosure
Well, not all. No broadened talent pool, and you still have commutes. IIRC that's something like 25min each way on average, so (math math math) you're saving people on the order of 200 hours a year by eliminating them, plus gas, car maintenance, maybe making dropping a car possible for two-car households, and we're talking probably 400+ person-hours a year saved, in actual commute time and in hours worked just to pay for commuting.
That's an interesting approach. It does seem like one does need to live somewhere for two years to get a good feel for the place and how it changes with the seasons. Do you always move within the same country?
3.1MB download for the Megawad!, how will I fit this on a floppy?
Listen, there's too many people for all of us to be at the top of the social hierarchy and enjoy traveling and consuming whatever we want, etc.

The current capitalist based system isn't bad. But we should get rid of the inefficiencies and cronyism and money shuffling.

It should basically be, if you innovate and help people enjoy their lives or live better lives, etc... you get rewarded for that. If you don't, you get to live a normal and healthy life without pomp.

Also, need to limit the number of people. Nobody should be having more than 2-3 kids or they get penalized with an equal and opposite economic penalty.
If you're running certain plugins you might want to check this page in incognito mode (or equivalent). I have an Adobe Analytics debugger plugin installed that adds a gigantic blob of JS to start of this page. Of course, it is now visible when viewing this page.
Based on this post, Digital Ocean is taking specific measures company wide to prevent similiar issues from affecting any customer in the future. So they did no just correct the situation for this one customer.
I agree with you about taking longer trips. That's always been my philosophy. A "short" stay in Paris for me is about 3 months minimum.

All that said, it's still travel. With many of the comcomitant externalities still in place.
The startup that I was working at, that came up with the pitch, fell apart before we ever had to make the call to implement it. Which I’m somewhat glad of; I don’t really like the idea of being forced to choose between ethics and helping a few friends survive. (And don’t get me wrong, building this extension would have been a matter of survival for the startup—we were depending heavily on piecing together a unified social-network graph to do Dynamic Network Analysis to, and social-network services actively resist having this data pulled from them.)

If you’re curious, the point of the startup was to path-find between you and people you want to be connected to but aren’t (investors, say), telling you which friends-of-friends to prioritize getting to know in order to later leverage them as intermediate links in the chain to meet the people you really want to meet, that are three or four or five steps removed from you, and so entirely invisible to your local part of the network.

(And yes, that’s a really darn cynical play. But the data that we did have showed that the intermediate “links” in your chain would almost always be business-people, “growth hackers”, etc. for whom getting to know you was valuable in its own right—they would value any chance to grow their Rolodex. So it at least seemed like a positive-sum interaction on the surface.)
My attempt: A “gene patent” isn’t about protecting a specific sequence of DNA, but about using that knowledge, and how the gene products act and interact, for a specific purpose. Example: the knowledge that certain genes are linked to cancer used to make a predictive test.

The rest, then, is the standard argument for patents and copyright: it takes money and time to investigate this and create a product that is useful. That investment makes no sense if the product can easily be reverse engineered on day one. Even if you could protect the knowledge through some sort of obfuscation, the public is better served by granting you a patent, because the latter is time-limited and the forced publication of your knowledge helps to build on and critically assess the product you are selling.

I generally don’t quite get the distinction b/w “invention” and “discovery”. I guess the idea is there is a limited amount of knowledge to “discover”, but inventions are theoretically unlimited? I’d love to hear from someone who is pro-patent for one category but not the other, preferably with real examples and not “what if you patent gravity?”
An observation: the baby boomers is one of the largest demographic cohorts out there, and they were exposed to lead a lot. So I'm wondering if the way politics was run from the 1980s onward has anything to do with impaired "executive functions that allow people to understand the consequences of their actions".
We’ve had 4 babies in 3 different hospitals and it seems like it is really dependent on the hospital and the nursing staff. We’ve had nurses that are younger and just following the playbook all the way to nurses that are much older with several of their own children who are much more willing to use their intuition. While the nurses have all been surprisingly excellent (maybe it’s a maternity thing? That hasn’t been our experience in other parts of the hospitals) some of them are happy to let you sleep if it seems like there’s no bleeding and baby is doing well, and some of them insist on taking all the readings, though they were all apologetic while they did it.

Since we went through different hospitals, it’s hard to compare, but at the last one, it seemed like the fact that we had 3 healthy children at home already made the nurses surprisingly willing to defer to our preferences, and we got as close to a full night of sleep in the hospital with a newborn that you can get.

As an added data point, we also told the nurses at every hospital that we wanted to leave as soon as possible, so trying to kick us out wasn’t a consideration.
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I got cVim related stuff in the header :-)
Congress has the authority to propose amendments to the Constitution. Approval from a supermajority of states is needed, without which Congress can't force the amendment through.

(State constitutions vary in how they can be amended.)
Can confirm that using users for social media scraping is huge. I worked in that field for some time, though the product was never brought to production.

Note that in our case, though, the user was completely informed that they were acting as a node in a network. They provide the ability for us to collect non-public data on other users, we provide them with non-public data on other users that they do not have access to.
(Edited-- I was reading the original paper, which showed good results for TypeScript; the new paper linked above refutes that result. My mistake. Thanks to the posters who corrected me!)

The winners in this paper are Clojure, Haskell, Scala.

I look forward to seeing Rust added. The authors go into substantial detail about what they consider errors, and in my personal experience Rust solves many of them. See e.g. "Some defect type like memory
error, concurrency errors also depend on language primitives."
We have both remote and office employees. We have offices around the world and it's very common for people who formally work there to mostly work from home anyway, because we're so remote-friendly that it doesn't matter. So in many ways we're more all-remote than anything else. The offices are optional, a nice bonus for when you feel like going there.
It seems like it's won't be working on Safari for much longer. Info from 2 days ago "I can confirm that on macOS Catalina Developer Beta 1, uBlock Origin is completely removed as it is not using the MAS distribution method."
Src: https://github.com/el1t/uBlock-Safari/issues/151
Every comment here so far is about power consumption, which is mentioned in the article:

> And there are also considerations here from the perspective of power consumption. A big box that’s always plugged in will inevitably use more power than a tiny laptop, even if the big box can do a lot more.

[...]

> But if you can make the case for it, it might be worth your time. In my case, I was looking to have more of a desktop experience for times when I wanted slightly more horsepower than a laptop, and I also wanted a machine that could do virtualization when needed or desired.
Why do you think that happens?
Ok comrade.
The case against E-Verify for illegal immigrants to the US
Yup, the renter class extract value (money) during the economic churning cycle. As the money flows back into industries they extract more than is necessary or a reasonable profit.
This is confusing though, since Digital Ocean credit can mean like a referral, or by prepaying your account - something I do to prevent billing overages.
Reading the title my mind immediately went to

mov ax, 13h
int 10h

I'm old.
I guess Australias Proximity to China is maybe having more of an effect than "Western minded" people there might like. What a disgrace this happened. The Authoritarian fetish is strong in Australia.
I agree that overloading the semantics of function calls is ugly, but to play the devil's advocate, does it have to be "design" in that sense if it truly does address the shortcoming in a practically sufficient manner?

Aside from not appealing at all to my sense of esthetics, I have no qualms about this because it does address a problem that a lot of people have complained about in a way that I could get the idea within a couple of minutes of reading the proposal. That said, a keyword might have been nicer.
> Is shyness necessarily a bad thing?

in today's world it most definitely is a very bad thing. It's a social and economic handicap.
I’m in the same situation, with the exact same problems.

We also found 401k's to be a problem that our payroll vendor that had helped us with all the state issues before we had a 401k, couldn’t handle (or didn’t want to handle). So we had to change everything to switch to Paychex.

Basically everything is harder than it should be, because the states all have crazy rules and are set up to deal with local companies.
What's more, the companies involved knew it was toxic from day one:

* https://www.thenation.com/article/secret-history-lead/

* https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/leaded-gas-poison-...
> It should basically be, if you innovate and help people enjoy their lives or live better lives, etc... you get rewarded for that. If you don't, you get to live a normal and healthy life without pomp.

Except if you can travel, you get experience that will make you better at improving people's life. If you don't, you will have a narrower POV.

But I agree with the sentiment, there are too many of us for our life style. You can't do anything anymore without being surrounded by thousand others, everybody wanting the same experience, and paradoxically, wanting it to be unique.

People keep saying it's not a zerosum game. But we are in a finite environnement. We are not going to live outside earth anytime soon and we are just getting started on consumming everthing.
Not more or less than you within the constraints you live in.
why? their machines are now fashion products/statement for (rich) people that socialize via socal media videos. (most people here will disagree while not being that demographic. they will also not have a reason to buy a $50k youtube poser machine)

your argument is like saying a shoes manufaturer should just include the purse.

it should instead offer more expensive stand options! because people will buy those. I mean, the people that is already buying 6k dispays (I.e. spending that much money and not even being technical enough to buy products based on actual resolution, but marketing "Nk" where N>4)
I crave isolation - remote work is perfect for me. I detest offices: stinky lunches, music, mastication noises, and too many snacks.

Not everyone is the same.
I can't talk about power consumption, but I have a couple of old HP z420 and the loudest component in them was the old Quadro cards. Swap that out and the system is very quite.
It's a negative externality. Price it into the cost, use that extra money to offset pollution/whatever, and the problem is solved. It's simple to say but nobody wants to do it because it hurts.
I find it more effective. To looked over a screen you need to talk to me (or IM me), I then need to walk to your computer, squint at the screen and then ask you to move over if I need to dig into something (which then results in you squinting at the screen). The last one may involve me asking you to come over to my computer since your setup may be harder for me to navigate.

With screen sharing I don't have to move, don't have to squint, we both get to have a perfect view of what is going on and I can pull things up on my own computer concurrently (and show it to you if I want to).

edit: In fact, I find it so useful that even when we're in the same room the approach is to screen share.
it uses the same syntax as functions, but it doesn't behave like a function – functions generally can't manipulate control flow like that. so calling it a function is weird because it's closer to a language construct like `await`
I think the motivations for the things you listed are just tied to human nature.

They have nothing to do with China.
Meh, these old systems can be fun to tinker with but are _slow_.

E5-2667v2 vs i9-9900k the i9 is 60% faster single core, 44% faster multi-core (both are 8c16t). At lot of use cases, including the majority of development work for most people, is still dominated by single core performance so you're giving up a lot performance to save a couple bucks. The power draw on these server/workstation systems will likely also suck which will offset some of the $ savings.
Seems so, Ubuntu's defaults (at least in 16.04) set nomodeline with a comment about security vulnerabilities.
Microsoft, Oracle team up on cloud services in jab at AWS
The Koch brother are not going to like this. Nor are the people at ALEC.
I'm sorry to dig heels, but that's no excuse. If the credit they were given allowed them to use the resources, it follows that using the resources is not a breach of contract.

From the description I imagine Digital Ocean offers a free period or tier, to reduce friction in customer acquisition. This is a marketing tool, and must not, in any way, cause situations like the one described.

If a marketing tool induces service failure, it has no place in a professional setting.
In my experience Xeon workstations are no more noisy than personal computers. That's including my current Lenovo with can't-even-remember-how-many cores and just shy of 200GB RAM.

I never felt a need to measure how much my employer pays for electricity.
This is already done for private jet owners. (A lot more fees too actually.) They just don't call those fees a "travel tax". But yeah, the more you use your jet, the more of these fees you are paying. (But like everything, there's probably some level at which they will give you a break on the fees if you are rich enough and always going to the same places a lot?)
General statement: The presence of a hero means something has gone terribly wrong.

Anyone got a counter-example?
Exactly the same story here. When I was 12 or 13 I tried to use bots in Tibia to make some money on selling gold, eventually leading me to the path of trying to write my own bots for different games. I had one of the first proof of concept bot for Path of Exile which I reverse engineered myself.

I think it's really a great way to get into programming, since it's SUPER rewarding to make the computer game work for you especially if you can sell some of this work afterwards. I know for some people it can be viewed as a shady practice, but I regret nothing ;)
Supreme Court rules on particular laws and outcomes of nuanced regulations, and in this with patents it has ruled on vague administrative procedures that the patent office promulgated which happened without legislative guidance.

That means Congress can always just change the law.

The Supreme Court didn't say "gene patents are unconstitutional" they said "patents under this x,y,z regulation don't fit x,y,z part of the constitution being argued, we agree/disagree with the lower court". So Congress changes x,y,z regulation with a,b,c law to provide clarity, and it may create the same outcome as before, amongst other outcomes.
Some of this is overblown. Locals who live at tourist destinations have always complained about tourists, even when those tourists are the economic lifeblood of the area. Talk to anyone who grew up in a beach town.

The multiple snide comments about cruises seem both classist and misplaced. Most of those cruise ship passengers are going to travel somewhere, and having them on the cruise ship effectively minimizes their impact on locals. When they get off the ship, most passengers either take a guided excursion in an already heavily touristed area, or just go to a beach club. Would you rather they rent Airbnbs in the downtown neighborhoods of the cities they'd like to visit? Or would you rather build new resorts and timeshare communities at beach destinations?

Venice also seems like an unusual case that might need special attention. Most cruise ship ports are not beautiful places in need of preservation.

Many places in the world (especially national parks) are successfully restricting visitor volume. The solutions are well known: Require permits (either via purchase or lottery) and/or increase the cost to visit (via entrance fees, additional hotel taxes, etc.)
"Too many people"

That really is the root cause of most of our problems these days.

The reality is that it's not possible to live a "western middle class" lifestyle when that lifestyle is accessible to billions of people. The planet cannot take it.
I added an equivalent script after we moved to Cloudflare. I found it's easy to make a mistake in the Cloudflare DNS web interface, e.g. it's easy to accidentally remove an entry.

Now, at every deploy to production, we do a backup of the DNS configuration on Cloudflare and save it on S3. This hardly costs us anything as each backup is only a small text file. But I now feel much more comfortable when editing our DNS config.
The Supreme Court is not always ruling on the Constitution.

When they rule on a matter of statutory interpretation, the bits of federal common law that still exist today, or other federal grounds for a decision that aren't about the Constitution, an Act of Congress is plenty sufficient to change that by eliminating or modifying the basis for the decision.