skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't worry they have got brains, they will indeed setup a panel and go forward, with good plan.

It's not something like demonetization, to not have any discussion.
Maybe they will respond that management is basically routine, mechanical work ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Effective Remote Communication
Zuck just wants to spend more time with your money.
Egypt's per capita income grew over 20x from 1965 to 2015. And consider the population increase that happened over the same period. The overall GDP (constant US dollars) grew from $5B to around $335B.

Don't give me that "They can't do it" nonsense.
Conjecture: Security is a probabilistic thing. They have threat levels which are derived from real-time data and the predictability of behaviour. So if an individual suddenly changes browser or IP they might trip. Or if an entire IP range does the same thing, that might be a hint at a hijack.

My guess is that something bad has happened centrally, which tripped the security heuristics as an unexpected event at a very high level. It then elevated the security for a very large number of users.
But if they control the only/main wallet, generating new keys doesn't help. Maybe there will be wallets they don't control but most people won't use them. They will want the simplicity of user search that being integrated with FB provides. /shrug
Enjoyed the example chapter very much and just ordered via Gumroad.

Thanks, already learned a few new things which will be handy in future.
I could say the exact same thing about any language with just a few cunning string substitutions. It sounds wise and world-weary but is really no more substantial than any other copypasta.
When athletes speak in a competitive tone and express a desire to win, does it offend you?
It is not "legitimate". That word shares a root with "legal". But we should not pretend that some people do not do illegal things when the stakes are high enough.

Rich people get kidnapped and held for ransom to fund rebellions or criminal cartels. It's a thing that happens. Even heads of state get assassinated from time to time. It's a thing that happens. At the level of super-rich that Zuckerberg inhabits, I'd guess he already gets at least 2 attempts at theft, robbery, blackmail, or extortion per year, and some of them might even be successful. It's a thing that happens. People don't like to talk about it, because the successes encourage further attempts.

There were even GTA 5 missions entirely about manipulating public stock prices by criminally compromising or killing a company's CEO. That's how the player can make all three of their player-characters multi-billionaires.

I'm simply saying that if the only way someone can get to you is via criminality, then that is the way someone will get to you. Most people would always try the "legitimate", peaceful option first, if there is one. That's the primary reason why people choose to leave themselves open to the law. Surrendering to the marshals or getting arrested by state professionals is a more favorable alternative than getting caught by an angry mob. Just ask Qaddafi.

It's just engineering. If your structure is designed to fail at one weak point, then you can monitor that possibility more carefully, and predict the behavior following that particular failure. You can purposefully put in a weak element, so that if the structure collapses at all, it will do so more slowly and in a safer direction. In a corporate structure, you allow yourself to be removed by majority vote, and the failure mode is that you get paid off and live on in semi-retirement. Remove that option, and you don't know how you'll leave your office. It might be a memento-mori-scale heart attack, or complete failure of the company, or a sudden black screen as "Don't Stop Believing" plays on the jukebox.

In the wake of the vote to remove him, Zuckerberg could either step down voluntarily, or increase his security. He won't do the former, so he should do the latter.
What happened to desalination? The oceans are ripe for desalination!

https://phys.org/news/2019-06-hot-efficiency-solar-desalinat...

One can do it even by focusing sunlight, why can’t they do it at industrial scale? I think Israel started to.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/israel-proves-the...

They used to import icebergs. (It’s a good example of Cunningham’s law.)
It's interesting. I've encountered a very different animal, even without having the candidate do a "homework test" or a "coding test" during the interview.

I have found that this different animal is competent, and certainly can code, but is of the very unproductive, slow type of developer.

And so my biggest pain point is rarely around a developer's competence during the interview process (i.e. Does this person know the material and are they able to do the job?) but rather instead around their overall productivity, their "capacity" to build software using their competence.

There are plenty of people in the world who know the material but are extremely "slow" in actually getting things done and problems solved in a day job. Unfortunately, the in-interview coding tests don't do a very good job of measuring the person's productive capacity to get problems solved, only whether or not they can solve some coding problem in a 30-minute timespan.
How to manage projects and clients from Gmail?
How are these alternatives "privacy-friendly"? I'm pretty sure Opera, Vimeo and many others are monetized and include advertising. Also, why does something like Google Authenticator need a "privacy-friendly" alternative when it doesn't even need Internet connectivity to work? Don't get me wrong, we should put down Google products, but are the ones listed here really any better for privacy and security?
> I understand that by keeping fiat currency reserves, they can guarantee a minimum exchange rate below which the Libra can never fall.

The way this works is that it's a guaranteed arbitrage opportunity: if the price of Libra somewhere falls below USD 1, you can buy Libra at that cheaper price, exchange it at Facebook for USD (at the fixed USD 1 price), sell the USD, and pocket the difference.

> But how can they stop the Libra from rising?

The way this works is the same thing in the opposite direction: if the price of Libra somewhere rises above USD 1, you can buy USD, exchange it at Facebook for Libra (at the fixed USD 1 price), sell the Libra at the higher price, and pocket the difference.
Let me get this straight, you asked me to source my claim that climate change will affect america, so I use an official government report titled "National Climate Assessment" which details the effects on America, and you're rejecting this canonical source?

Your reply is "I'm not reading this, I did a fast google search instead?"

Oof owie, my intellectualism.

I shouldn't have to spoon feed you after I gave you an extremely high quality source.

But whatever:

"Climate changes pose challenges for an already parched region that is expected to get hotter and, in its southern half, significantly drier. Increased heat and changes to rain and snowpack will send ripple effects throughout the region’s critical agriculture sector, affecting the lives and economies of 56 million people – a population that is expected to increase 68% by 2050, to 94 million. Severe and sustained drought will stress water sources, already over-utilized in many areas, forcing increasing competition among farmers, energy producers, urban dwellers, and plant and animal life for the region’s most precious resource."

>Theobald, D. M., W. R. Travis, M. A. Drummond, and E. S. Gordon, 2013: Ch. 3: The Changing Southwest. Assessment of Climate Change in the Southwest United States: A Report Prepared for the National Climate Assessment, G. Garfin, A. Jardine, R. Merideth, M. Black, and S. LeRoy, Eds., Island Press, 37-55 http://swccar.org/sites/all/themes/files/SW-NCA-color-FINALw...
I love prototypes. You have the joy of the blank page, the freedom of the choice of COTS. You can ignore requirements that would introduce complexity. You do not need to follow the coding rules that impose verbosity. As a result, you can build something simple you can be proud of.

The prototype is a showcase that allows to show how development could be faster if there was less stupid requirements and less coding constraints.
When I bring home a new T shirt from work, my wife says, "Morale's bad again, huh"?
It's like with any big company:
they'll have a bunch of SREs and SWEs working on it and trying to solve this asap, but it's probably too technical to give more details than "we're investigating".
Roundtrip time.
> I'm pretty sure that this type of data collection tool is in use today by the Chinese government.

Yeah US is a bit slow to that party. Alipay and Wechat-pay has roughly a billion users (conservative estimate) in China. It's widely socially accepted.

Makes more sense in the case of China, which never had wide adoption of credit cards. In Libra's case...why should I ever use it instead of sticking with credit cards?
The Surreal End of an American College
Considering how expensive staff are, I've never understood the culture surrounding penny pinching the stuff that would keep them happy/improve moral/improve retention.

Forget the moral arguments for a second, even in purely financial terms it would likely pay for itself in recruitment savings alone, let alone brain drain/efficiency, training costs, and so on.

Even a "cheap" employee in a white collar job, is likely costing $60K or more (inc. the employer's share of taxes, benefits, etc). 1% of that is only $600. But people won't pay even that towards bonuses/comfortable chairs/second monitors/"thank you" lunches/staff parties.

At some point it seems a lot less to do with what is rational/logical, and more to do with the power dynamics and people higher up the chain's apathy. Companies are actually hurting themselves for seemingly no good reason. It isn't even fiscally responsible.
Awesome Post from Matt!!
Have you tried Synapse/Matrix?
Pi-Hole, Plex, and Samba builds. Thank you. I’m working on automating my home lab builds and your code gives me more ideas.
This is a great, great list, but what the heck is this:

> This is what most people get wrong about adding booleans to check the number of True values.

This appears in two different sections. Who are all these people adding booleans as if they're integers? It's like someone wrote a whole treasure trove of sensible life advice that included "this is why most people have trouble when they use a dry-erase marker as a toothpick."
Writing your own little personal-use web apps can be really nice - not sure how common this is, but I highly recommend it. I did it for tasks, time tracking, invoicing, and personal finances, partly because Google and others kept "upgrading" and screwing up the UI & performance of the tools I was relying on.

Each took about a day to write, and is customized exactly the way I like it; if I need a shortcut key, a weird little feature, etc. I can do it. I'm kind of an optimization / performance nut too, so they all run uber-fast, no perceptible delay from click to page / screen loaded (Sqlite is great for these kinds of things). Data is totally private and under your control. It's really nice.

However, calendar was complicated enough that I just use Google's. Might be time to rethink..
Any response would take 12 years as well.
after that, the fall of man.
>There is going to be a fee for sending currency across the network.

What do you think the cost will be? Cheaper than the typical 1-3% of credit cards or more in line with debit card (ach) fee ( .005%)?
I have been told there is guidance that generally that either management gives a lot of stock or none.

It probably does also vary with your role/responsibilities - I am a software engineer in SWE on high visibility/impact work. Apple does definitely does make you earn refreshes - they don't give them for average performance oftentimes is my understanding, there seems to be a lot of stories out there that this is the case.
A bit of cyberstalking suggests that the commenter here has a background in crypto stuff, so i suspect that the belief predates the being paid a lot of money.

A lot of people genuinely believe that crypto bobbins is inherently positive, and might well believe that crypto bobbins with a big serious alliance backing it is more likely to succeed, and so even more positive.

And, if projects like this are going to happen, i would certianly rather that they had optimistic true believers involved!
Got it. Where do I collect my medal?
And to think that there is likely an Easy Mode system out there.

A habitable planet on the low end of the mass spectrum needed for a stable atmosphere with other habitable planets in-system. And all that close to another star with habitable planets, possibly in the sub-lightyear range.

Basically everything ripe for a spacefaring civilization to grow without too much trouble and with plenty of motivation.

The Earth is hard to leave and everything else in our system is dead rocks with hellish environments as far as we know with the nearest alternative at least dozens of lightyears away
The Issue of Unpaid Stock Options in Startups
Some researchers wanted a 128-bit space for the binary address, Cerf (recalled) ... But others said, "That's crazy," because it's far larger than necessary, and they suggested a much smaller space. Cerf finally settled on a 32-bit space that was incorporated into IPv4 and provided a respectable 4.3 billion separate addresses.

"It's enough to do an experiment," he said. "The problem is the experiment never ended."

https://www.networkworld.com/article/2227543/software-why-ip...
As well as a new sort, SProp!

https://coq.github.io/doc/v8.10/refman/changes.html#version-...
Western Union transfer costs 35 dollars to Argentina. Libra may be cheaper.
This linked post doesn't say anything about Google Calendar.

It's not necessarily that I doubt you, it's just that the press release is pretty specific that consumer GMail isn't going to be used for ad customization from now on, and it seems like if it was everything in G-Suite that would be mentioned somewhere.

I don't suppose there's a list Google maintains anywhere online that shows which of their own products they use to aid with ad targeting?
Event2Mind: Commonsense Inference on Events, Intents, and Reactions
Nvidia will support Arm hardware for high-performance computing
> the CEO would give out... gift cards. Occasionally, usually after someone was severely overworked. And I’m pretty certain he got them for free/cheap in the first place.

I've been there, and it wasn't even a startup. The company credit cards had 1% back, redeemable as gift cards. The owner/CEO insisted on paying as many vendors and contracts as possible via credit card to rack up the points. The stack of gift cards (for places he didn't like enough to keep the cards) became the de-facto office "perk me up", particularly after bouts of excessive overwork.
Thanks for looking at it. :)

My experience thus far is using a (somewhat modified) Shapeoko 3, so personally I only have a very basic practical understanding of using fixtures.

Most of my stuff was cutting MDF, for engineering prototypes though. Haven't done much with alum or anything tougher (yet), thus the limited fixturing experience. ;)

> It's an interesting project. If the market is large enough it might make sense for someone to pay for the design and fabrication of the tooling to offer these parts at a lower price.

Yeah, similar thought. They look to have added a forum (without any posts yet):

https://opensourceleg.com/forums/forum/ankle-knee-control-sy...

Asking the above there (eg have they considered potential changes to reduce manufacturing cost?), would probably get it in front of the right people.

Any interest in pinging them? If not, I'll can do it and share the response (etc). :)
We can easily conceive of loans that are contingent on the major not changing to something useless. I don’t believe flaws in the current system have to stick forever.
Now that would be interesting. A set of pitch decks showing companies in their pre-funded stage, but with some context as to the founder's background and connections.

Elizabeth Holmes was the child of a well-heeled, well-connected family. Bill Gates' mom sat on the board of United Way with an IBM bigwig, with whom she set up a meeting for her kid to pitch to him.

The decks themselves are pretty boring and lack detail. It'd be much more helpful to figure out the network these people had that connected them to the money men.
god I read 'of Glass'..
And tried to make a compelling argument that MMS is passé. Everyone who needs MMS should use email instead.
So try this as a thought experiment; the slaves have no economic benefit, they add nothing to sustaining the only mode of existence the south had thus far, in fact they are only a direct drain on a crop farming ecosystem. Do you still see the south seceding? I mean are you saying that they just loved having slaves no matter what it did to their bottomline?

Slavery was not an end unto itself; it was a means to an end... namely prosperity. Nobody loves oil for oil's sake--you understand that, right?
We do have one problem that could do with a technical solution:

If we managed to invent a carbon removal technique scalable and cheap enough to deploy on a massive scale, we'd still be able to prevent the worst.

The problem is, currently there is no money in it, so the efforts are not the size they should be. We'd need a war economy on all fronts here.
> "Every day was a hot new idea and yesterday’s priority was forgotten. Why bother making progress towards a goal that will change tomorrow?" ("Rob's" comment on the OP's article)

This to me is the single biggest killer of motivation / productivity. If you've got this problem, I agree with the video that even large monetary rewards won't salvage productivity.
It's ddos protection.

Probably a lot of users are trying to refresh calendar right now (which will probably hit the calendar service).

If they put ddos protection in front of it, it won't hit the calendar service but the ddos-protection-service.
Out of the fire into the frying pan.
Show HN: The future of retail and how products should be presented
Considering I just said make college free, yeah I think I've considered the possibility.

Even going past that, though, if studying History can't get you a job that makes enough to pay off your debt, then why does it cost so much in the first place?
Seriously, multiple downvotes for an accurate recounting of an observed event contradicting a parent assertion, yet no one provides any new info? I don't expect any upvotes, but what am I missing here? Is there something against posting actual data and events?
Where is the salary listed?
Breaking the Fourth Wall
iCIMS Acquires Jibe
> Climate change doesn't lead to global increased atmospheric water vapor and the water cycle is very complicated on a global scale.

It also doesn't lead to groundwater depletion and the absence of well water. That's more or less independent of climate change. Well water is a semi-renewable resource. In other words, there's only a certain fraction of rain that will filter down to where the wells are pulling it from. If wells pull more than that the water table gradually drops until the wells run dry.

That's what is happening in India (and in a lot of other places.). They've drilled too many wells and depleted the ground water. Fixing climate change isn't going to help with that problem.
Money transfers if international are prohibitively expensive. Lets see how this thingie works.
Tell/Ask HN: Pivotal Web Service Doesn't Prorate. Stuck with Large Bill
Hey HN,

I'm not sure where to ask for help. So, I hope it's ok to post here.

I was trying Pivotal Web Service (PWS) because I needed more fine-grained max RAM, and Heroku doesn't support it.

So, I created/destroyed the $99/month database (provided by ElephantSQL) a few times over a span of a few days.

Later, I've learned that PWS doesn't prorate their database service. Even if you create the database for just 1 second, you'll get charged the price of one whole-month. And I created the database a few times. They even have a page explaining this practice (https://community.pivotal.io/s/article/How-are-services-acquired-through-the-marketplace-billed)

This upsets me a bit.

Heroku and DigitalOcean prorates their services. ElephantSQL proudly announces that they prorates by seconds. But using ElephantSQL through PWS isn't prorated.

I have been emailing with their customer support. Their customer support has been talking to their legal and internal team, and the impression that I've got is that everyone at Pivotal thinks this is sensible. I don't think it is.

What are the possible actions that I can do to resolve this situation?
I think you meant "paid customers". Pretty much all the people wrote here are "customers" one way or the other. By "updates" if you meant the message in GSuite Admin account notification section, it's no more insight than what's describing here:
https://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=issue&sid=2&iid=cc...
> At this point, I think I'd honestly rather put my money with Facebook than many of those actual banks out there.

This is so ridiculous that I don't even know how to argue with it.
Daylight saving time rules can change... Just because you stored it correctly now doesn't mean it is correct in the future (when it's needed).
The thing people don’t realize is this. E-cigarettes cut into the tax revenue regular cigarettes generate.

Of course SF wants to ban e-cigs as it cuts into the tax generated from cigarettes.

Someone pointed this out to me. Part of the settlement with big tobacco was big tobacco had to run ads to get people to stop smoking, and to allow states and cities to tax tobacco as warranted.

It’s free money for cities and states. If you think they would genuinely ever ban cigarettes you’re gravely mistaken.
Yawn. This is a tempest in a teapot. Why would anyone bother to use Libra? People buy crypto mostly for speculation, hoping that it will go up (or at least not lose value over time, due to inflation). A stable coin that's pegged to major currencies is no better than the major currencies. It's also no worse. It's boring, and most people won't care.
Serverless = Distraction-Free
Amazon’s attack on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is corporate gaslighting
And I'm just starting to learn about the fact that the placement of landmasses massively influences the global climate. We're looking at a very different system here.
Envoy Mobile
Tidal lock is caused by differential gravitational attraction. The half of the Earth currently facing the sun experiences more force pulling it towards the sun then the part facing away - which manifests as the spin of the planet having to do work against gravity to keep the spin going.

As a planet gets closer and closer to it's star, this gets more and more pronounced and all the various deformations and instabilities begin to favor braking the planet rather then it continuing to spin.
The problem with using sarcasm as a vehicle for genuine discussion is that not everybody gets the joke.
Yet another attempt to define what "serverless" means, in the broader context of recent technology trends.
"Many years ago, when I was very young and you were even younger...Grinding through emails"

Dude you're still young!
I believe the chemical engineering field developed that mantra at least 100 years ago! Although it was more like "this magic chemical will fix everything!"
You store the offset or you store the users configuration. Use the users config and/or offset to convert it from UTC. There should be a way to account for DST. I’ll look into it when I get a chance.

If the future date was input in EDT or EST you’d know what to do in the future when you convert back to either EDT or EST based on the time of year.
HAHA! Thanks, sometimes I need a kick in the rear. I was thinking one way.