skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s the easy stuff. Why waste time on the harder stuff if you can’t do the easy stuff? What does that tell me about your work ethic if you think you are too good to do FizzBuzz you probably also think you are too good to fix an off by one defect we found in production.
Indeed. It was this line of thinking that got us Windows 8.
Was there ever a meritocracy to begin with?
I am not informed enough to even guess. Was it the first robotics ciricculum or the gender dynamics of the class? Or both?

That was 7 years ago, now she is in an all girls high school. The same sex education has provided a much less distracting environment. (Don't want to get off topic but I could go on and on about same sex education)
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I forget everything that you need to do, but I believe I read that there's a happy medium you can strike such that a script would still input data but it wouldn't be shown to a screen reader.
Isn't IT something from the past? I would expect people knowing how to use a computer and what they need to do their job.
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The problem is: the second one is not going to be enough. Closing a few plants won't do it. We need to dramatically change how we generate our energy.

Figuring out where we might need dams may be enough for the next couple decades, but if ice caps continue to melt, dams are never going to be able to stop 60 m of sea level rise. Melting slower is not enough. And at the moment, it's only going to melt faster because we're still producing way too much CO2.
That is hopefully going to change soon - Linux phones are coming:

Pinephone (should be early next year, somewhere around $150)
https://www.pine64.org/pinephone/

Librem 5 (should be Q3 2019, $650)
https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/
Not everyone considers a "better service" to be a service that is more efficient. For a lot of people, privacy is more valuable than being handed a personalized ad for a product I didn't know I wanted.

It's not "just a bunch of computers". It's potentially putting a lot of leverage in the same hands. Here are 3 examples.

As a woman, it's nearly impossible to get a job when you're pregnant, so it's better not to let anyone know during the job search. If you have HIV and people find out, they freak out thinking you'll infect them right away. If you're chronically sick, do you want insurance companies to know that ? No you don't, because the price of the insurance policy will "magically" be higher for you. Privacy has it good sides.
I love this guy's series on ZFS.
I think it depends a lot on where you are. Older strangers here mostly want to talk about sports, religion, the latest reality TV show, how much they hate The Gays and trans people, and how much better things used to be when they were kids and everything was nice and stable because everyone knew their place. That is a nostalgia trip I can do without.

The people around my age spend all their non-work time commuting for work or being with family. They have no interest/time/energy--the reason varies--for socializing outside family.
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If a company violates your privacy and they are hacked then you have a double problem. So your focus on security is correct but security only really matters when companies have your data in the first place. And given the general state of security the very best way to ensure that your data does not end up in the wrong hands is by not giving it out in the first place, hence privacy ends up - for practical reasons - trumping security.

Not a week goes by without a major hack of some sort hitting the media, a much larger amount goes unreported. And even if the data isn't hacked it could easily be lifted using some legal instrument.
While it's generally true that people tend to allow emotions to contribute too much to opinions on society-scale decisions, which should of course be driven by objectivity, I also think it's a mistake to disregard emotions entirely, as the rules we make are meaningless without them.

Say you have an opportunity to end a person's life instantly, without their foreknowledge, without pain. This person has no friends or family or responsibilities of any kind. This person is virtually guaranteed to do more harm than good to society on par over the rest of his natural life. No other people will ever know of this execution. Without emotions, there's no reason not to legally oblige such an opportunity to be taken.
Hence the groupthink we see all the time... Not least on such a topic which is 'owned' by extremists who will not tolerate even a shred of non-conformity.

It's hypocrisy when mods say otherwise.
There has to be something somewhat out of the box for this, no? It seems insane to have to build this for any given project.

I'd imagine you could use Segment (or source(s) that plugs into it) to accomplish much of this.
> It's surprising how much computing power is stuffed into consumer laptops these days and how people keep buying new ones when their existing ones work fine.

This is contrary to my experience. Year to year these fancy webgl responsive webpages get slower and slower to load. I need an 8650U with at least 8 GB of RAM to surf the web and load some pages under 5 sec. The development of basically a new uniform os within the existing os's is just crazy.
So I’m sure you’ve heard that once you think everyone is wrong - you might need to look at yourself. That’s just like if I hear someone who has been married four times and complain about how each one of their wives were horrible people and since have gotten remarried and have happy lives, they probably weren’t the problem.
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They were really POWs, but the Bush administration had too many legal obstacles to declaring them as such.
Another thing is that a lot of people consistently place themselves in a spotlight and imagine that conversations could go south, but really, other people don't typically hold one to the standard one holds themselves.

Since I've started trying to talk to other people, I've noticed others doing the same to others and I. Occasionally someone in the same position will come up and say something awkward or basically a non-starter in conversation, and I find that I don't really judge them at all. Most of the time, I try to entertain them anyway or turn it into a positive conversation, and I've noticed others doing the same for me as well.
You (and I) were definitely part of the problem, but limiting the number of devices was brilliant on their part as it forced me (and many others) to think hard about my options. Unlike you however, I came to the conclusion that 1) Dropbox are far superior to the competition for me (eg., I regularily build and test out of a Dropbox folder), 2) I actually get enormous value of it. $120 (they raised the price) is worth it.

I am also unimpressed with this new desktop app which solves a problem I don't have, but as long as their core syncing tech. remains functional, I just want them succeed.
Not anything significant to be honest. There are alternative applications and hardware for almost everything nowadays. Convincing people that we need devices all running in the same ecosystem was one of the lasting legacy's of Steve Jobs that I realised wasn't really true in reality.

For searches I occasionally might have to check Google for a niche search term, but Duck.com returns the right thing for 95% of my queries. In terms of hardware, a Pixel phone, Fire tablet, Surface Book laptop, and Windows desktop fulfil all my needs, with only important docs synched with Dropbox and the rest stored on a couple of flash drives I have on me 24/7. For home automation I made my own using a Raspberry Pi and a bunch of ESP8266's, which does basically everything that big brand alternatives do and more (I can water my plants from my bed!) For software I use Outlook for emails and calendar, OpenOffice for word processing, Prezi for presentations, and admittedly mainly Google Sheets for that kind of data handling, as it's good for collaborating which is the only thing I ever use it for. Trip Advisor is great for reviews. BBC weather is all I use for checking that.

Nothing is slower I've found. I just had to experiment with what worked for me, and get the right 'flow' of using them, which I suppose took a few weeks to iron out. The great thing is that doing it this way means I can adapt to my needs, not be forced into using a suite that might not cater to them. It also means most importantly that, for the most part, I don't get snooped on!
I was thinking the same thing. As I read the page, all I could think was, "No, shut up." :-)
I agree. I know why humans must diversify, to avoid having all their eggs in one basket, but why is it obvious that companies should? Their owners should invest in other things, but maybe it's better to admit that a given company is a bet on a particular niche, and if it dies, it dies.

In fact I'd go a bit further, and say that if every company seems to become a conglomerate, that's a sign that something is broken in how a country works. If it's advantageous for two companies doing completely different things to be under one name, one roof, then it's likely that their real skill is in something else, like political connections, not in making whatever products it is they make. And that's unhealthy.
Not really. The original post said the following.

>But I think a community must have ways to discourage or push people out of the public sphere who practice unwelcome and unsocial behavior.

The point is, in much of even modern day US, and even more so in the past, just existing as a transgender individual who doesn't attempt to pass is deemed by a significant portion of society as unwelcome and unsocial.

When you tie discrimination to what is deemed unacceptable behavior, you encounter an issue when deal with a society that deems acceptable behavior as unacceptable.
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If I didn't need Dropbox for client work, I'd be dropping my Pro account today. They sent a nice flowery email [0] yesterday talking about some of the new features.

I decided this was a good reminder to go and check my Dropbox security settings and logged into the website -- which I rarely ever do. Only then did I see that my yearly price was increasing by nearly $21. [1] That should have been made very clear in the email.

[0] https://imgur.com/S04UAtL
[1] https://imgur.com/Dq4tzW8
> It's simple really - death penalty is permanent, while life imprisonment isn't.

Death being permanent is a feature, not a bug. Is it possible that evil people can continue to negatively influence society from prison? Or even continue to commit heinous crimes in prison? I'd say this scenario happens much more often than killing an innocent.

For example, organized crime. If you don't kill organized crime leaders, they continue to spread their secret oaths among other prisoners and continue to manage affairs even outside of prison via comm links.

I agree that it's bad to kill innocents, but I think with the right policy and rigor, we could make the death penalty an efficient and painless process that has an extremely low false positive rate.

In my mind it's like "yeah, we save the extremely rare false positive at the expense of allowing all the non-false positives to continue to spread and propagate evil for decades"
Could you back up this claim? Reading about fair dealing as it is called in UK law [0] leads me to believe otherwise, especially if the copy is used for archival purposes [1].

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_dealing_in_United_Kingd...
[1]: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
It's like they don't realize that it's all software. Software that needs to do administrative tasks needs administrative permissions on the machine.

I really don't see how you can develop such software without having at least the ability to easily gain administrative permission on the machine.
"Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones"
> Let's say it would cost about $1,500 per month to provide them with basic lodging and basic needs.

You can say that, but it's very, very incorrect. Seattle spends $1 billion on services, clean up, housing, and etc. for a homeless population of 12,000.

https://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/news/2017/11/16/price-of...
I've seen people "get away with murder" - corny jokes, terrible cliches. The term "sheer force of character" comes to mind - if you're confident enough in yourself, you can usually lead social situations/protocols against the grain as if you can establish that fundamentally you mean well most people will eventually go with the flow.

YMMV though, the people I know who can do this were able to do this from very young in age and I liken it to having a skill, except that it's hard to teach and not many people explicitly value it as something to "learn" - people would rather assume it's something innate
Jesus, what is this mess? I just want to be able to sync files without any hassle. In fact, I'm willing to pay for that luxury.

Why does Dropbox need video conferencing now?
Eh, it works fine enough in the Boston area. The key is to be able to read people's response quickly. You make a small comment or witticism, and they'll either give you a non-committal remark back or they'll literally light up and begin conversing with you. If you continue on when they haven't reacted positively, that's when you're perceived as annoying or weird.
How do you figure? If they merge, we get three main market leaders all competing head to head.

If they don’t, Sprint tanks, and we still have three main market leaders, however two will remain significantly ahead of the third. Keeping in mind that the two that are ahead are now playing the monopoly game and buying into other industries (see AT&T and Time Warner or AT&T and DirecTV or Verizon and Yahoo, etc)
This is the exact opposite of what I'm interested in -- the UI for cloud files should be the UI for files on my local machine. Pretty much every time I have to abandon the Windows file folder UI in OneNote, I feel like something has failed somewhere.
Anyone else find the design of the page so distracting it was hard to focus on the content? All of the animation behavior, hiding and showing of elements, etc.
Maybe, with a little tweaking, Ant's Editor from IOCCC 1991, the one that says "#define T isspace(*(t=Z(p)))&&". It's a passable vi clone in C using a gap buffer, and it compiles to 7K of amd64 machine code, and somewhere the author has posted the non-obfuscated version. Nominally it depends on curses, but I suspect you could get it to work with implementations of move(), addch(), clrtobot(), clear(), and mvaddstr() that just emit some escape sequences, a getch() that just makes a BIOS call, and null implementations of initscr(), endwin(), raw(), noecho(), and idlok().

IOCCC '91 was before the IOCCC switched to open-source licensing, though, so you might have to somehowe find Anthony Howe and get him to relicense. Or maybe he already did.

I don't know, maybe I should just write one. Is there a reasonable emulator for the Amstrad?

Why are you using ZCPR1 instead of ZCPR2?
When I had to renew my Apple developer account for PhotoStructure to sign binaries, I tried to log in on my Linux desktop and was getting back http 500 server errors. On a whim, I tried on my Mac and the same URL stream worked.

Realize they aren't prioritizing cross platform testing or support. I found that other people had reported the issue a while ago.
They need to hit their growth numbers. Either they come up with something new ( which is really hard) or they keep expanding their current main product. The latter is much easier.

In my view a lot of products could be frozen once they are mature . MS Office could have stopped most development a decade or more ago, Gmail could have stopped years ago. Windows could have stopped UI changes with XP or 7. But what are all these people supposed to do if not tweaking their product?
I would be surprised if Dropbox still exists as an independent company in five years. Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive and Apple iCloud are good enough, cheap and integrate well with respective player's eco system that makes it incredibility difficult for competitors.
Alternately, log to disk and have another process ingest and write to the database. Appending to files is an amazing persistent queue.
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The guy is probably a shill. The account was created a while ago, and has no other activity besides this discussion.
It wont last 10,000 years. Nothing more complicated than scribblings on a tough rock will, and even those will likely be indecipherable.

Seed banks are especially funny/sad. They need to constantly produce seeds, which means constant growth of male/female plants, under human supervision.

No seeds last more than a few years under ideal conditions. Even DNA is unrecoverable/unusable after a few centuries iiirc.
Recently I was playing with IPFS: https://genesis.re/kleros-metaevidence-metahash/

Using another part of crypto ecosystem (Infura)

It's still not straightforward.

BTW... A few weeks ago I saw on HN an automated tool to publish static website on IPFS. It was pretty sleek...
Story of a disruptive product

1. make something simple and useful
2. grow big
3. add more features
4. repeat steps 2-3 several times
5. congratulations your product is now bloatware
> a simple but working example
It's a bit cynical to call homelessness "risk free" in any sense of the term.

You seem to be arguing for criminalising poverty. That's going to work just as well as criminalising stupidity, short-sightedness, death, or losing your car keys.
Do you happen to still have that script lying around?
> When you tie discrimination to what is deemed unacceptable behavior, you encounter an issue when deal with a society that deems acceptable behavior as unacceptable.

No one is tying discrimination to the issue though. It’s 100% about public health. See my examples about dirty needles and crack smoke.
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This is why you need a multi-layered solution to fight spam. Captchas reduce the amount of fake accounts, which can then be taken care of by the additional layers.

It's easier to fight against a bigger opponent (botnets, etc) if you mitigate their superiority in number first.
Is this question a trap? Isn't it rather obvious that Apple, a company that has never really had a business model built on surveillence, is less offensive than Google in this regard?
Agreed. I think it was a step back.
> It's probably not needed for a vertically integrated stack of APFS on a Apple SSD controller.

Apple code has no bugs that could send back bad data? Apple has access to hardware that does not experience bit rot? Apple's gear is not susceptible to firmware hacking?

* https://www.wired.com/2015/02/nsa-firmware-hacking/

The various old school SAN vendors have all sorts of control for storage controllers and disk firmware, and I've seen ZFS checksum errors appear on scrubs with them.
Oops, I did miss that, but this seems to be compiler or calling convention specific. x86_64 gcc 9.1, linked, shows no difference. However arm64 gcc 8.2 and x86-64 clang show a difference.
Sometimes I do the initial screening, sometimes someone else does it. Generally, I find if I do a good job of explaining what we do and need, people tend to resonate, or not. Most people don't want to show up to a job they can't do successfully.
One of those stats is not like the other, but regardless, 15% is the sort of impact that rises prices, increasing the search for alternatives, rather than leading to “mass starvation”.
Thanks, good catch - it is indeed the number of cycles. I had reorganized that sentence planning to move the number of cycles and instead it just got dropped.

Fixed and credited. Now it says:

> Let's say the load takes 300 cycles to finish, which is a typical latency. Then, on an Haswell machine with a ROB size of 192...

https://github.com/travisdowns/travisdowns.github.io/commit/...
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In some ways, I feel like I'm watching that scene in Schindler's List, where the Nazis are planning parties, and they're making a shopping list of the things the party needs. The really GOOD chocolate, cognac, champagne, sardines! And, oh, try to find nylon stockings...

There are definitely some storm clouds on the horizon. Some gigantic supercell of a thunderhead.

Maybe it will just blow away, and go somewhere else.
The point is that what people find to be "socially unacceptable" in public is totally arbitrary.

Why do you all really care if I smoke crack in public?
My org uses a similar ranking method for hiring panels-- your feedback can be anywhere between "I'd quit if we hired the candidate" to "I'd quit if we don't hire this candidate" with a couple options in between, and no option for "maybe" or "I don't know". Of course people try to get around that by saying things like "soft yes"...
In theory sure, it just doesn’t happen in tech interviewing though.
There is still an active KeePass bug bounty from the european commission:
https://www.intigriti.com/public/project/keepass/keepassbyec
I'm not sure what your definition of tangible, physical resource is but bandwidth is limited and measurable.
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Atoms, photons, sure. DNA is dead for all practical purposes after less than 1000 years.
Okay, but what reasonable level of evidence and plausibility hasn't been passed for global warming? At this point, what else would it take a reasonable person to see the danger of the situation we're in?
>A lot of the content and data I consume on a daily basis is rarely-changing, so it would be fine to be immutable

Would you want to see typos corrected, facts checked and other improvements on that content?
The guys in Gitmo were captured on the battlefield so the alternative is that they could be dead.

But let's focus on the lack of process in taking them captive instead of just killing then.
> ... looked like the nurses or receptionists or Dr Marks himself.

That would be because Dr Marks can't see himself. The difference between a high functioning, long term heroin addict and everyone else is that the heroin addicts require large support staffs that keep them high functioning.
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One could argue it is still occupied
Thanks for sharing your findings! I've been reading Mary Meeker's annual Internet Trends Report for a while now, and I've found it informative. But it does make sense that the motivation behind it might be marketing/advertisement for a VC firm. The reports are a kind of proof that they do thorough research and have domain expertise.
Well, the CO2 in our atmosphere is too high, and it's been built up over the course of more than a century. It won't immediately drop back to normal levels even if we did somehow manage to stop producing any CO2 at all.

At night the temperature drops not due to a lack of CO2, but due to a lack of sunlight. If we were to be able to partially block the sun, or reflect significantly more sunlight back into space, we would indeed be able to lose heat more more quickly, but that would require engineering on a scale we've never done before.

So sure, paint the entire Earth white, but how? Or build a giant solar screen in space, but again: how? Besides, blocking sunlight will also have many negative repercussions.