skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You wouldn't believe how many "engineers" I've seen open up random.org's string generator, and fiddle with the settings + copy a string from it only to drop it into a terminal for a root password/etc.

Point-in-case, I saw 2-3 "DevOps" engineers do it in my last position... over a screen share..! When you'd bring it up to people they would just roll their eyes and call you paranoid. =(
It's still the case but I wonder for how long. Not because of theft but I assume the newspapers that survived are probably making the bulk of their income from subscribers. I haven't seen anyone putting coins into those vending boxes in a long time.
Swanton Berry Farm along Hwy 1, perhaps?
I don't think Americans would measure it in KM... ;)
There's a farm stall in Bolinas, California that sells produce with the honor system. It's the first one I've encountered in my life.

I had no idea this was much more widespread.
And aren't newer reactors more efficient? Either way, even the old amount seems manageable to bridge the gap in switching to renewable energy.
This is what high trust society looks like.
coughDynamoDBcough
The definition of subsidy is "a sum of money granted by the government or a public body to assist an industry or business so that the price of a commodity or service may remain low or competitive."

How does that fit in this context?

The fact that farmers get paid little is due to supply vs demand. Agriculture has been optimized to a great level but food transportation is expensive.
When you realize your code has caused grave injury to someone, physically, cost their life, ruined them financially or ruined a relationship.

Everyone pays attention to plane or space craft crash. But bad software in cars, air bags, trains, medical equipment have cost lives. Bad software at financial institution have occasionally ruined people financially. Bad social media software have ruined relationships. Bad localhost software that has crashed and taken data could ruin people in ways many people can't imagine.

Someone out there is using something as simple as a text editor to write their favorite book or keep track of their finances and run their businesses. if the editor screws up their data, you can't imagine the hardship.

You never know how your users will use your software, don't take it for granted.
A.I. Could Be Weaponized to Spread Disinformation
Mobile Legends Free Skins – Hurry
Anyone have thoughts on the utility of the Intro to ML and Computational Linear Algebra courses? I've done Ng's ML course and was interested in the first of these as a more practice-oriented complement to it; the latter sounds interesting, but a bit more of an "elective" to me.
And also trips (unless you try really hard) the stupid "Safety Check" which I can see as beneficial in some cases (i.e. banking apps) but .. is frustrating in other cases (like Pokémon Go, other games/apps).
How Do Internet Browsers Make Money?
I was recently in Zurich and entered a small shop that was honor system. Scan and pay for your own items, no staff. Small food items, drinks, wine available.

Might be different since there could be cameras or some other form of accountability, but I found it interesting.
It likely took some work in the OS to support the larger RAM... grow some data structures, tune caches and heap managers, test on new hardware. Yes it's price segmentation but it's not totally arbitrary.
Devops = not quite a dev + not quite a sys admin.
I don't know, but I can guess there are two main reasons:

- farming contracts where all produce is owned by X

- decrease in honesty
Yeah, Docspen was a copy of BookStack. Was a really awkward and difficult thing to handle as maintainer with BookStack being my first popular OS project. It was done very purposeful in an odd way. I remember that issues, filed by BookStack users, were being re-created on the docs pen repo by (potentially fake?) docspen maintainers with pretty much the same text.

Yoginth would then commonly create issues on the BookStack repo, many of which would be issues with DocsPen and not BookStack, and would email me asking to deploy new releases. I remember being at-a-loss of how to handle it, I raised my concerns [1] and asked for advice on reddit[2]. The docspen repo then suddenly moved to GitLab before being hidden. Yoginth then deleted all issues and comments made in the BookStack repo, or this may have been just part of a full account deletion.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20180130085921/https://github.co...
[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/opensource/comments/7v7yl5/advice_n...
Are all rural dwellers engaged in food production? If not this is not a good argument.
>America stands to save hundreds of billions if we actually force the cost of living in rural areas to be what it is, rather than subsidize it.

So less government involvement in things? I assure you people in rural areas would gladly accept a higher cost of living if it meant getting the city people to butt out.

Unfortunately "we gonna tell the city people to fuck off" won't get many campaign donations since it aligns with approximately nobody's economic interest.
The most impressive to me, is to read only a single comment worried about the ecological impact and the sustainability
It is not a viable model.

How many people are actually paid by the Blender Foundation for their contributions to the software? How many fewer employees do they have than a company like Autodesk or Maxon?

The simple fact is that FLOSS is the outsourcing of large swathes of development cost to those stupid or interested enough to make something happen for free on their own time.

What do you do when that interest wanes?

You're fucked.
With very high fines if you were caught paying less or nothing, that helped a bit I guess.
I have always coveted a Telsa and waiting for the right time, but this behavior is the precise reason why I'm cancelling them out. I know they are desperate for cash, but this is truly terrible.
That would be the same CTT that makes money from the makers of Statins and has been accused of being insufficiently transparent around their studies[0].

0 http://www.drjohnm.org/2014/06/growing-doubt-on-statin-drugs...
Opera blocks ads wihout the need of an extension. It's just a setting.
A Journey to the End of Time [video]
I don't know what you mean by frustrating. For a Black Mirror episode, it had such a happy ending!
Well fortunately they’re .org. But next time, consider example.com/net/org.
Pixar has a house style, with procedural textures, written in Renderman. Everybody else mostly takes pictures of real world stuff and uses those as textures. Pixar's approach has the advantage that the camera can get very close to a surface without the texture going blocky. "A Bug's Life" and "Toy Story" use this heavily. Wouldn't help in making an Avengers movie.

Here's where that procedural texture approach started: "Road to Point Reyes".[1] First "photorealistic" render, 1983. Today, that's not even an acceptable game asset.

[1] https://lucasmuseum.org/works/detail/asset_id/1292
What does “economic”, in opposition to “social”, mean in this context?
Curious where you got this. Would like to read more
And this company has loyal fans?
I wish lemonade would expand to more states. I’m willing to invest in them until they do.
When Chrome did this they quickly highlighted how much control they have over what people view. Privacy focused open browsers will gain marketshare because of it.
Exercises in Programming Style with higher-order functions
Nothing new, tons of cars share engines. The same engine in the Sienna also powers the RX350.
> The notion that "people" aren't "able to make money" with FLOSS is just a fallacy

Which fallacy?
Yes. Two other candidates were illegally prevented from participating. And there were more fake news campaigns in brazil, where whatsapp is the de facto communication medium, than USA during the election.

"Lula’s criminal conviction on corruption charges last year came under highly suspicious circumstances. All year long, polls showed him as the clear front-runner for the 2018 presidential race [...] Ever since, Lula has been held in a makeshift prison cell inside a Federal Police building in Curitiba [...] An electoral court then barred Lula’s candidacy for president. Barring Lula from running as a candidate paved the way for the election of the far-right extremist Jair Bolsonaro"
https://theintercept.com/2019/05/22/lula-brazil-ex-president...
Typo? Did you mean s/that it a/that it is not a/ ?

edit: given stan_rogers' comment bellow and a direct communication with nemo1618 the typo is just the missing "is". The sentence should read:

"doesn't make it clear that it is a trusted service."
Build more cities.

I don't understand the reticence in engaging in city building activity on a massive scale. That is what happened when America was explored, wasn't it?

More people == more scientists, engineers, lawyers, artists == more universities == more scientific breakthroughs. Eventually colonizing other worlds will become a possibility, and then humanity will expand there too, finally becoming free of Earth.
I’m not sure what it means
What about methane?

[Its] impact is 34 times greater than CO2 over a 100-year period

https://unfccc.int/news/new-methane-signs-underline-urgency-...
I think that ship sailed a long time ago. With transpilation, minification, and source mangling, the JavaScript ecosystem is largely opaque when trying to view sources anyway.
Those are really the key things. Buying a condo vs. renting a similar place? Sure, you can run financial calculations--and should--but a lot of factors that go into whether one or the other is the optimum financial decision are unknowable to a greater or lesser degree. Will housing prices go up or down? What will interest rates do? Will you have to turn around and sell the property quickly for reasons? Will maintenance expenses be more than you anticipated?

Much bigger are things like stability vs. mobility, being able to change aspects of the property to your liking, and whether you can even rent the sort of property you would like for an extended period.

Also "need" is an odd word in this context. I own and do a lot of things that I don't "genuinely need." But I'm happy for them anyway.
Right. At a previous company our Cloudfront bill ran up to $2000/mo because someone ran a test script a few times every minute that fetched a few resources from CF. Once we killed that script our CF bill dropped down to $200/mo.

Cloudfront’s pricing can absolutely bite you if you are not careful. Which is one of the reasons why I prefer Cloudflare over it.
So are pythons in the everglades. Can I modify those?
Surely every programmer worth his salaray should know latency figures, especially if he is working on a website! At least have a basic understanding of costs of HTTPS and latency of mobile connections.
Interesting post, I actually want the exact same thing! I've tried making playlists that duplicate parts of the main library, one per mood, but it doesn't really work. If Spotify could learn which songs I consistently skip after starting with (or completely listening to) a given other song, that sounds like it would solve the problem.
Once upon a time I cycled through vast fields of strawberries and other yummy looking produce in California.

I did see honour system stalls but they were pretty rare considering the size of the area. They were more like curious exceptions rather than the norm. They were also geared up to sell at volumes that didn't suit the bike, so too much to carry.

I got the impression from the article on Switzerland that this was more of a way to do your shopping, so sensible quantities not vast bulk purchases.

Incidentally I did not stop to freeload a single strawberry. On a bike with nobody around this should have been simple, there weren't even any barbed wire fences. However, my riding buddy - also a non-American tourist - was not so keen. The reason why was a simple one - 'don't they have guns in America?'.

Actually they have guns in Switzerland too and there is a lot of national service practice going on at the weekends. In fact weekends are quite wonderful in Switzerland as the shops are closed and people go out and do things including going to honour system stalls. The guns though are quite terrifying if you are cycling as you can turn a corner on a descent and feel like you are suddenly in a firing range (rather than right next to one).

I have to say that the Californian produce looked good but was not that good when I bought it in the shops. The land of plenty turned out to be quite expensive and bland to European tastes. Meanwhile, in Switzerland, the roadside appearance of plenty was not so good but the food bought in shops was as expensive as everything is in Switzerland (so no surprise) but delightful to taste.

The relative abundance of Swiss roadside honour stalls doesn't just say things about how honest people are in squeaky clean Switzerland, it also says something about the produce being of value rather than bland.
You have to understand that Switzerland is a very rich and very expensive country. Stealing some fruits would be a really dumb crime to commit, when you can steal much more expensive things easily.
Yes, and the next logical question would be: what has changed in Geneva these past 30 years? Hints: individualism, globalization, multiculturalism.

My father told me that when he served for our national army back then, soldiers just left their weapons alone in front of the train station while they were having a coffee before going into the train.
As an outside observer it seems like China doesn’t care very much about upholding agreements. And why should they? It’s not like Britain or anyone else in the west is willing to start a war with China, no matter what they do.
I saw one of these in Washington State in October 2016, and I thought it was super cool. I bought some sweet corn and BBQ sauce :)

https://imgur.com/a/wmka5yA
Your response to my comment is silly.

I was talking about the ultimate reason why they protested, it was influenced by the west, human rights.

Not the way they were massacred, or how people memorialized them.

I am definitely stunned to know how hacker news people comprehend

edit: confirmed hacker news upvote/downvote buttons work like reddit's ones, and in turn work like facebook one except facebook doesn't have a downvote button neither
Crop plants can't grow in the wild (outside human managed areas) either.
I switched to Brave.
Traffic-busting $100B Bay Area tax plan taking shape
I would think it makes a ton of sense for a graduating student to use managed micro services instead of their own monolith they need to continually support.
It was interesting to see the photos of the Union Jacks marching around. Anyone with first hand experience in Hong Kong, are there many people who wish for a return to the commonwealth, or is that a tiny minority?
Not sure if it is something I picked up from my dad but I hardly chat to friends I have made over the years. As I have grown older I have gotten closer to my family including extended family. When I do meet with my friends we kick off as if we last saw each other yesterday yet sometimes it is a good 5,10 or even 15 years since we last met. The older I get the more memories I seem to have that include my family so I just focus on them. Not to say I don't talk to other people but I make way more effort and it seems much easier to talk to family. Maybe it is an African thing most of us are big on extended family. My uncle is a good 15 years older than me. Growing up he was an adult now we both adults so we can converse on the same level. Same with my dad.
>XBL stats update :

>* 28 bindings (9.33% of original bindings)

>* 10517 lines of code (21.02% of original LOCs)

https://twitter.com/mozxbl
Taiwan is a very democratic and open society, but evolved on its own from a dictatorship to a proud free society. I think many Taiwanese would be very proud to say they developed it with their own distinctive Taiwanese values (and bento box throwing matches in the Legislative Yuan).
How would you deal with questions like "provide all content accessible to a user" in a system like this? Would you watch and replicate to your own database?
Lighter Than Lightweight: We Built the Same App Twice with Preact and Glimmer
Very common in rural New England as well. This may be common in many other rural areas, I’d guess.
Show HN: CloudCron: Run Docker-based cron jobs in cloud easily
I grabbed the salary from the page I linked. It’s for 2018-2019, while your number is for 2019-2020. Obviously the number is going up every year. I don’t know why I’d use 2019-2020 NHS figures when the US figures aren’t for 2019-2020. (Because there is no nationwide salary scale for nurses in the US, most pages quote BLS data which lags a year or two.)
Boy, you should have been around when the pioneers were around! We'd have saved Trillions just staying in what is now New York.

The arguments around treating rural living areas as sub-standard places of investment simply because of your inability to reason with potential future demand/growth/needs is astounding to me.

The fact is, as cities become more and more dense, they tend to be less attractive to families or individuals for that matter looking to live an active life. Take even very well "planned" cities such as Singapore for example, you would hate living there for a year or more given how tiny the homes are and how expensive everything is. . .Your complaints about your parents location needing living facilities is pretty one sided given you're calculating the bottom line assuming no one else who buys property there has the access to the same, isn't it? If you apply the same logic to the post war highway projects, it would seem that those were money pits if the economic benefits and lifetime usage were completely ignored.

Please do not skew your logical analysis of a subject by what seems to be a pre-existing bias against a section of the population.
That’s what those in power want you to think. Here’s a list of 19 protests with at least 100k participants: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_protests_in_the_United...

Four of them have taken place since November 2016.
How much plutonium is likely to be released in a nuclear incident? I thought Three Mile Island and Chernobyl mostly released radioactive isotopes of iodine and a bunch of noble gasses, with cesium, plutonium, and strontium being present in smaller quantities and generally settling closer to the reactor.
I don't feel that it's their responsibility to tell people that they are such a service. This should be obvious to anyone who needs secure randomness.
These articles always leave me wondering what I can do today to contribute. Not money, not scientific research, just daily change like not using plastic bottles (or something).

This problem is always presented as a massive unsolvable thing that the government or someone with deep pockets needs to contribute focus to.
Print is weird.

For most print mediums, circulation is more important than sales. Because higher circulation generates more Advertising revenue, which is higher than sales.

But they can't give a newspaper/magazine away, because that would bump them to a lower category for which advertisers pay less.

The solution is to sell as cheap as your desired advertising demographic allows, and incurs lots and lots of "loss".

That is why even in the USA (land of the people-will-grab-anything-not-bolted-down) some newspapers still have that coin+trust box for newspapers.
Very likely different forms of "lower social cohesion."
> And probably I will get downvoted by mentioning this. The Tiananmen Square massacre, which originated due to the protesters fighting for more freedom/human rights, from I heard from my uncle, it was because of the influence from westerners.

Marxism, or the morphed variety of the CCP, also originates from the West. That doesn’t mean that Mao or the 6/4 movement didn’t have a genuine appreciation of “Western ideas” and want to implement them.

And yes, the West causes lots of problems. At least there is freedom to discuss them, and the probability of being sent to a camp for pointing things out is extremely low. That doesn’t discredit Western ideas; indeed, the self-awareness and capacity for self-criticism of the West is an important feature of its political system that the CCP increasingly lacks.
Darwin will win...
Hong Kong Protest Draws Up to 1M
Cool service. Would love to see some more templates
The French approach to liberty is extremely different to American libertarianism, though. Huge support for state control of business in particular, strong unions, employment law etc.
Like several other commenters noted, these types of roadside stands are prevalent throughout rural areas of the US. You usually only see them on side roads though, if you're just passing through on the highways you'll miss them.
Well,they never asked for Microsoft Explorer/Edge code.
They don't just get paid for the food they produce, they also get to claim subsidies for food they don't grow but could have.
Why Is America So Far Behind Europe on Digital Privacy?
And why is there more money? Because more people want to live there than other places. Why is that? That’s where the jobs are. You’re not rebutting my argument at all.
The mass death permanently crippled the native nations’ population, reducing their ability to meaningfully resist illegal immigration into their lands
That's another thing destroying civilization much faster than nuclear waste. Not sure why you mention it in this thread on nuclear waste.
These rules aren't put in for a laugh.
If you are not using load balancers, lambdas, provisioned iops, internet scale databases, pipelines, streams, cdns, data object storage, machine learning apis - you are not using “cloud”.
I still fail to see the problem. I understand your complaint. But Valve is doing fantastic. It's not their mission to bring out new titles. A company is not a democracy where we get "to vote" what direction they should take. If it's not what you like then don't work for them or buy their products.
I ran into this in California at a small farm along Highway 1 a few miles north of Santa Cruz. It's a scenic ocean side rural locale but near all the big Bay Area cities and frequented by day visitors from there. There was a shack with a good variety of their produce laid out, with price labels. Up front there was a cash box, with about $40 already in it, and a sign that said pay here. This was late '90s. I really hope that it continued to work for them for a long time after that. I haven't seen that elsewhere before or since. I overpaid as a tip. I hope that happens enough to offset cheats.
Related: GoogleX co-founder Tom Chi gave a fantastic talk on carbon debt (with a rather depressing 238 views at the moment; I hope more people watch...):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyQvfaW54NU
You “really don’t get this POV”, and ephemeralism expanded on the POV you don’t get. Not to mention quite a few points of yours are heavily pushed narratives by the Western media based on thin or exaggerated evidence, when Western media are clearly not neutral on Chinese matter. Funny how you mentioned China “threatening” neighbors, and ephemeralism pointed out that the U.S. has started numerous wars (and bankrolled more), with boots on the ground.
Well, to a degree, that's precisely right. Only a massive movement will fix this systemic problem. Throwing out plastic bottles won't fix the problem, although I wish it would.
Quality of life in the country side in my opinion, tends to be far better than what you'd find even in the best of cities, but that's a personal opinion and one that individuals should be able to make on their own.

If you'd like to live in a dense concrete jungle, then, yes, you should be able to do so for your own reasons.

On the other hand, if you'd like to move away from a dense swath of people, you should have that option as well and having connectivity to amenities should be reasonably available.

We have the technology and ability to do so today and allowing citizens to inhabit any patch of available land in a nation that's allocated to residential purposes is fine.