skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most of the Universe is uninhabitable. People keep talking about the "Goldilocks Zone" but that is just one factor.

* We are on the outskirts of the Milky Way because the center of the galaxy is radiation hell. A chunk of most galaxies is too "hot" for life. So take most of the SPACE out there and move that to the side.

* The planet itself has to be around a star that's not too big and not too dim, at the right distance, of course.

* Our Solar system is very special as it has the planets in stable, almost circular orbits around a SINGLE star. It's not "collision central", where most planets can still smash into each other, within a binary star system, to boot.

* We have gas giants, by chance, protecting us against space rocks flying into us.

* The Moon, just the right size, just the right distance, to keep us in stable rotation, with seasons.

* Just the right amount of water. Too much or too little water, and we would not be here.

* I am probably missing a bunch...

* And only then you get to the rest of the factors for life to be possible.
ACKs are generally so small its irrelevant, unless your bandwidth is ridiculously asymmetric (less than a 23:1 ratio 64B ACK vs 1500B packet) which even really crappy cable providers don't do.
1. Which part of the discussion were not mature?

2. The situation is not loophole left by the British. But it was specifically left in place so the one country two system would work for the next ( then ) 50 years. To guarantee the certain freedom of the Hong Kong people which was clearly listed out in the Sino-British Joint Declaration.

3. It is not a Riot. ( I am sorry but that has to be one of the most insulting thing ever said ) No one started a Riot, What was once, one of the most peaceful protest. by 1M people, was fired with Rubber Bullet and Later Metal Bullet to eyes and head shot ( Both in ER ), Along with Tear Gas with NO Prior warning, Against a group of people with bare hands and no weapon.
> And these people cannot just "adapt to changes" and move to new territories, because somebody is standing on the border with a gun. Tell them that "economic" thinking is the way "to move forward".

The “economic” solution would be to remove the people with the guns. There’s a reason why so many economists are in favor of completely open borders.
Israel Startups Address Consumer Automotive Market
The problem is bureaucracy and unwillingness of IT to be agile and responsive. Their weapon is procedure which quashes initiatives. At the same time though, going outside like that can have major effects on compliance if they are subject to audits, aside from the security considerations.
To me, this says more about the failure of interview questions about data structures than about that (probably perfectly competent) candidate.
I agree with you. But that was never an issue when US companies invested in China. It appears that cooperating with authoritarian regimes is fine as long as it is your nations companies that comes out on top.
Do you have a source? I'm not finding anything confirming this based on a brief search.

It doesn't look like most people can opt out or get any money before turning 62.
How to get the ultimate home office, according to 4 CEOs who work remotely
wow. that sounds horrible. did they ask you fizzbuzz or mergesort in the interview?
Laser engraving :) It would make a sick CV, but better suited for name cards.
UK police force and Microsoft are developing an Azure-based investigation system
That's the downside of boys crying wolf... when the actual wolf comes we don't listen.
and now..just imagine what China has been listening to on all the cells sent out from their factories into our homes ;-) Privacy & Secrets are soo 2000.
Black Mirror's Forewarning
Teaching how to code is constructive and creative btw. If you don't want the turret you can simply do so.
I don't miss the assumption that all developers are "guys".
Basically, there's interest because there's no alternative for me. I either have to use perfboards and solder a bunch of wires, or wait a month for my PCBs to arrive through the cheap post, or pay $50 to get 10 PBCs fast when I really only need one or two and will throw the rest away.

None of these options is really viable, and if I could make a PCB myself in half an hour for $1, I would jump on that.
No one said cars don’t share engines. OP is asking about why they make two models out of same engine.

This is an extreme example of it.
I wonder if Indiana-Jones-style death traps would successfully show trespassers that the site's builders were serious, or if this would only attract more curiosity.
This looks really solid. I can see it getting big. Good luck!
You're right about that, but I do wonder if this will be perfect for making distributed darknet marketplaces and torrent trackers a la what.cd.
The natural reaction to tight deadlines
Shiny is okay as a way to share simple analytical apps but it's syntax and performance are atrocious.
Couple bits (good overall):
"1) Design the reports you want. Pay special attention to interactive elements like filters and drilldowns. List all dimensions and metrics you need. Think about privacy."
I think what you're getting at here is figure out what information you want to get and then work backwards to figure out if you have the data. A couple minor changes I'd make:
A) don't just figure out a a report, figure out what actions you'd want to see. If something gets above or below a threshold, who should be doing what? (Reports for the sake of reports is generally bad)
B) Are you trying to build things that will push for operational, tactical, or strategic change? The manifestations of those are often very different. Operational bits are often dashboards / KPIs, whereas with strategic changes we often would want to present something more akin to a story.
C) Privacy - Think of GDPR / PII _now_. Look at each metric / dimension and understand the data classification of it.

2 and 3 are tied to each other. You could have visualizatoin drive storage or visa versa. Just understand the tradeoffs.

I'd suggest for who's done it before / talks, etc. there are a ton out there. There's those chats from the FAANGs and various groups in the valley (Lyft, etc.). Tons of blog posts there. Vendors have (largely predisposed towards them) builds. Finally the talks/slides at datacouncil and strata often contain lots of more .. "pointed" information. The high level bible that lots of folks would say look at is Kleppmann's "Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems".
One big problem with that logic is that it ignores the fact that the incentive not to go prying into a potential miscarriage of justice after an execution has occurred is much much higher than after a prison sentence (even life without parole) has been passed.

That in turn is a problem because an innocent person convicted almost always also means a guilty person left free to reoffend.
Decimal Separator
My understanding was that most of the team focus has shifted over to the filecoin project in the last year or two, and they aren't dedicating as many resources to ipfs. That said, I agree that this is pretty deplorable.
> On the face of it, it is rather odd that currently someone may be extradited from HK (a territory of the PR China) to, say the US, but not to mainland China.

That's why it's a question of integration. If HK were fully integrated with the PRC, requiring an extradition treaty at all would be strange. But it isn't integrated and the protesters evidently want to keep it that way.

I don't know how many Puerto Rican separatists there are, but they would probably oppose extradition to the United States.
No it does not. Some creeps through the registration system, which is why we have additional trust measures afterwards.

On my own site I see 1 or 2 spam posts a week although I get the feeling it’s real people doing the registration. They sign up, make 1 comment, get reported very quickly, then banned.

We haven’t had to make our signup/registration system that strong in of itself though, because most of our largest clients end up using some SSO method exclusively and will have their own prevention methods.
I can't say I agree with everything here. I've found live coding to be a useful way to gauge how someone thinks. Prior to the in-person interview, a 10-15 minute phone screen has already been done as well as a easy programming problem that takes most senior developers 5-10 minutes to solve it. So when we bring them in, we think they should be able to "pass" the interview.

When they arrive on site, we give them a 90% completed program that needs 2-3 lines of code to finish. We tell them they can use the web to look up anything they need to. We're mainly looking to see how the candidate thinks, and we discuss what they're doing and why. We're more concerned about the why than the what.

Once this is done (about 15-20 minutes in), we have a reasonable understanding if someone would be able to do the work. Next we try to figure out how much they would need to learn to be productive, and try to see if the candidate would be a good fit culturally.

We had one candidate who a minute or two into the live coding exercise said "Geez, I really don't think I can do this." I reminded him we weren't looking for a correct answer and to just give it a try, and he wouldn't. I thanked him for his time and ended the interview.
The point is that water didn't just become scarce all by itself. It was the result of the economic activity upstream. To be honest I don't know what those people can do now, after the ecosystem collapse. But the situation could have been avoided in the first place I suppose. "economic" and "ecological" thinking need to work together to begin with imho.

Or maybe "economic" vs "ecological" is the wrong dichotomy and misleading terminology. Maybe ecology should be just part of the economy. Who knows.
I thought Google+ was dead anyway.
Jepsen: TiDB 2.1.7
These messages aren't currently used as warnings, and exhibiting them as art will never diminish the literal message that they convey.
A nitpick:

Both the "Greek camp" (L4) and the "Trojan camp" (L5) of asteroids in resonance with Jupiter are called "Trojan Asteroids" - the group is named after the Trojan War, not Trojans as a people.
This is exactly the impression I've formed as well. I'm sure they have super smart people (and I've talked to many of them), it just doesn't seem they're interested enough in improving IPFS.

The "canary in the coal mine" for me is that pinning API ticket, which has been open for years and amounts to "please put an async UI over pinning". If something that simple and useful doesn't get fixed quickly, I'm not optimistic about the future of the project.

It's too bad, because I think it's an extremely useful idea.
Hello, author here.

The big missing bit so far is a text editor --- I haven't found an open source one which will work with my tools yet. (I have found te, which is GPLd, but I need to do some C compiler work first. CP/M is hell on stdio.)

I'm also completely willing to add more tools which are cool/interesting/etc if anyone can suggest any --- the only requirements are source and DSFG licensing; although what I'd really love some more BIOSes if anyone has them, so as to support more platforms.
> The CIO admitted that he had been approached and explained that he had informed the VP that IT already had a project with SAP to deliver what the VP needed. “Yes, but that won’t be ready for me to use for three years, and I need something today,” retorted the VP. The CIO was silent. Then the CEO asked the VP, “I’ve known you for ten years. You don’t seem like someone who would do something to harm the company. Why did you do this?” The VP hit right back: “Since I started this digital customer acquisition program, we’ve increased revenue $1M per month. Before we were losing revenue. If you want, I can shut it down right now. What do you want me to do?”

Shut it down right now and ask the VP to tender their resignation. Any company doing a 3-year SAP implementation is a very large company. That $1M in additional revenue pales in comparison to the risk introduced by sharing company or personal customer data with a vendor who has not passed the required security auditing. Data is no longer a thing to be thrown around in search of additional revenue and "but I made money" or "I had to because IT is slow" is not a post hoc rationalization for the behavior.

Regardless of the merits of large enterprises acting this way, this is a VP who clearly cannot function within the enhanced risk-controlled environment of one and should find a position with a smaller company where they have more freedom to pursue personal initiatives at the VP-level. Those companies exist. Go find one.
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I have my own PC strapped under my desk connected to public Wi-Fi. I use it to do all my work. My company pc is left turned on but disconnected, sitting on top of my desk to dissuade suspicion.
Would re-screening everyone positive N weeks after the first positive, and then re-screening the new positives again N weeks later, alleviate this (absent other symptoms)?

I'm assuming here a growing cancer is easier to detect over time.
I asked a Hong Kong lawyer this week about the proposed extradition law. In particular, of the following, who would it apply to:

a) Chinese nationals;
b) HK nationals;
c) foreign nationals.

He advised it would apply to all three.

Edit: he also said it's not impossible the bill will be withdrawn.
Maybe after the price of rockets drops by several orders of magnitude and the price of obtaining the elements on Earth also increases by several orders of magnitude.
It’s also a good warm up for those who can code but have a few interview jitters.
Too narrow minded. We create our own new life, of course. Then watch the smartest ones convince the rest that we don't exist.
IANAL, but I fail to see how fair use can be leveraged to give archive sites a right to host other site's content when that content is available publically und non-discriminatory, and there are eg. Creative Common license metadata tags for giving other sites explicit and specific permissions to re-host content. There are also concerns to be addressed under EU copyright reform (eg. preview of large portions of text from other sites without giving those other sites clicks).
If your point is that content creators can't technically or "jurisdictionally" stop archival sites from rehosting, then the logical consequence is that content creators need to look at DRM and similar draconic measures which I hope they rather aren't forced to do.
Implicit in protecting a business is that the business continues to exist, i.e., that it's run competently and can hit revenue targets, it can grow, etc. Focusing on rules & decorum is playing from behind, rather than thinking about how IT can become a trusted partner from inception (so that you are out ahead).

BTW -- if IT's goal is really to protect the business, then you should find & discover the ways people are getting around your fences, because the first thing that a malicious actor is going to do is find & hop those same exact fences. These people finding security holes should be lauded as whitehats finding your mistakes, not people to be punished for not following rules.
Seriously, just put everything in Postgres. You have so little data, you shouldn't even be thinking about an "analytics system".

I have seen so many developers over-engineer this exact problem. Forget about Kafka, Kinesis, Redshift, Airflow, Storm, Spark, Cassandra etc. You don't need them, not even close. Unless you want to add a bunch of expensive distributed systems and operational overhead for fun/resume building, they're going to waste your time and hurt your stability.
Slot Wars
> How is that not "cruel and unusual"

Cruel refers to punishment which is torturous. Prison, in theory, should not be torture, despite often being so. Many aspects of incarceration in the US which are effectively torturous are commonly excused as being necessary for security and safety (e.g. solitary confinement) or medical reasons (e.g. force feeding), or being acts of other prisoners not under the control of the state (e.g. bullying). By contrast, many other countries' prison systems treat these factors as being within their responsibility.

Unusual refers to the punishment being arbitrary or not appropriate for the crime. This doesn't set a standard for what punishment is reasonable, but only requires punishments be consistent (for similar crimes). Additionally, if the punishment could not have been expected, then it can't be considered useful for the purpose of deterrence.

Crucially, the requirement that punishment not be cruel and unusual does not require the punishment to be reciprocal to the crime.
Late 90s, early 2000s... CSS Zen Garden, the amazing community of true forums/messageboards, IRC, learning from O'Reilly/Sams 24 hour/etc. books... so many memories...

Things were just more fun and about hacking. Now it's what's the next hipster JavaScript library.
This is my current situation. Being a SWE, IT and security are always putting out fires with networks or upper echelon cybersecurity violation complaints (mostly people downloading software without authorization). They have very little time, almost none for investigating new software, and all software must be installed by them. End of the day, nothing gets done on our work computers. I once waited two months for them to say no for a piece of solution we as the team approved. It's absolutely frustrating.
I don't think CCP has put on any pretence about desiring peaceful re-unification.
Imagine an AI without access to external sensors or knowledge of humans. Would they believe in a maker?
Help Wanted: We’re Short on More Than Just Engineers
Wouldn't the best place to look for life be right here on Earth? I mean, if it could be demonstrated that life has or had more than a single origin on Earth, then we'd have 2 data points, and it would suggest that under the right conditions the emergence of life is not an anomalous occurrence.
Step one I assume is calling it "interim" or "temporary".
Who knows, if steroids are indeed a net positive for the body they might even have legal choices available by the time they're adults - the trend of reviewing currently banned substances seems to be taking pace with new attempts to use Psychedelic drugs to treat depression and weed for pain management.
You are totally right. I read that and I felt a chill right up my back telling me, There's cool stuff in there, go get your crowbar!
The case of Timothy Evans, who was wrongfully convicted and hanged in the 1950s in the UK (classic case of him being in the wrong place at the wrong time) is even more appropriate. After his execution the actual killer (a serial killer) went on to kill several other women.

It was highly influential in the eventual abolition of the death penalty in the UK in the 1960s.
> Today the product is advertising and the goal is just to drive more eyeballs. Engineers have become commoditized and micromanaged (agile) by PMs who are driven by advertising goals. (PMs as we know them today did not exist.) Except for Apple, none of the big names today (FAANG) are tech companies anymore.

Does anyone know any tech companies or industries that aren't like this in the US?

I've been considering saying goodbye to the American market and going to Europe for a few years and see how things are there first hand. The one thing that would make me stay is the discovery of an industry or large company that doesn't micromanage and commoditize programmers.
Python and “Dead” Batteries
That's true as well. ISPs have no interest allowing end users to host anything meaningful.
May not be enough. But there are ten of thousands of potential hostage.

Real the statement by American congress majority leader about the case.
Federation (email, nntp, matrix) is decentralization, but it's not p2p.
From previous reading, both are banned, Fuji recently: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/05/31/lto_patent_case_hit... (Although previously I remember it was Sony that declined to start up LTO-8 production, after getting their importation of similar BaFe LTO-7 tapes banned, maybe el Reg got which was which confused in the article.)
Yes, in long muscle fibers and in the syncytiotrophoblast of the placenta. This involves repurposed viral DNA. Viruses use that DNA to spread directly from cell to cell. The placenta makes a giant multi-nucleated cell to block any gaps.
That list was never intended to be literally used as a warning - think of it as a set of acceptance criteria against which any plan to mark a nuclear waste disposal site must be judged. It needs to communicate those things, unambiguously, across time and culture, for 10000 years.
Maine Governor Signs Strictest Internet Protections in the U.S.
They are an apocalyptic death cult. The end is nigh submit to the elite or forever perish. How is submitting to the 1% going to save earth? They used to say by the end of the century. Year after year their predictions fail and the cult marches on.
Anything shipped from mars to earth will be 500 days out of date by the time it arrives.
Can't be worse than all the software manufactured in the US.
Is PHP Supported on My Web Server? – Moopost
Since the question of why removal might be sensible has been raised, I thought I'd offer a historical perspective.

From a 1966 BBC documentary:

"Well, he who has access to information controls the game. This is very dangerous. I think both your country and mine have never trusted the government completely. We do so for good reason. Here we have a mechanism that could be abused. Here we have a mechanism that would allow the creation of a dictator. . .

I've yet to see an expression by anyone in Congress about this new type of danger. In fact, we see proposals for centralizing information, we see proposals for rushing ahead into new, more efficient computer information systems, and very little thought is being given to the dangers of the misuse of these systems. . . I ask a lot of people about privacy, why they valued it, and I was surprised by the number of people who said "Well, I don't do anything wrong. Why should I worry about privacy?" And then, on the other hand, I think there's a more wise group that says, 'Privacy is really the right to be wrong, then go on and live the rest of your life, without having it mark you forever.' I tend to think this latter view is the view we should hold."

https://youtube.com/watch?v=FwaDvJYZTVk&t=29m31s

The speaker is Paul Baran, of RAND Corporation, and the inventor of packet-based switching -- the technology which makes the Internet possible.

If you want to know who could possibly have forseen the negative consequences of universal information networks might have been: their creator did.

Baran's full archive of RAND publications are now freely downloadable from RAND, after I'd requested access in July of 2018, for which I'm immensely grateful.

Backstory:

https://web.archive.org/web/20180725104347/https://plus.goog...

Archive:

https://www.rand.org/pubs/authors/b/baran_paul.html
These are valid points. I should also say that I rarely go to the gym anymore, as I far prefer swimming and running at the moment. I don't even have a current gym membership (first time in over ten years!).
I’ve spoken to people who get about as far as writing a loop and printing the number but just have no idea how to go any further with the fizz and buzz logic at all, even with lots of hinting.

I think it’s because many developers just call one API and send the result to another API - they never have to write any actual logic themselves, so they don’t know how.
Every substantial program uses at least one data structure. The problem isn’t asking about data structures or even algorithms. It’s about asking leetcode.
In my last job I tried to handle this in a similar way. The issue we ran into though was that often these managers would not properly evaluate the software. They would get wowed by the sales guys and sign up for huge contracts without, sometimes, even checking with IT or testing other vendors.