skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not super convinced about that. While it's true that we're ahead of schedule to so speak, Cape Cod has always been a bit of sand pushed up by an old glacier. It's been eroding at an average of three feet every year. Buildings get moved back or left to be swept into the sea constantly. Nantucket used to show visitors a video about how the island was slowly sinking and would eventually disappear. Again, things have accelerated recently, but people in the area already knew that this was all temporary.
It's kind of a running joke. Any "in-game" footage shown at a conference like E3 is almost guaranteed to be running on a high end modern PC even if the game itself will be released on a five year old console.
Not just bureaucrats. People generally -- it's the Planning Fallacy.

If you ask someone how long something will take, they tend to give roughly the same answer as if you asked how long it will take in the best case scenario. Estimating project time is hard, and people are bad at it in general.

The best method seems to be to instead ask "How long did the most similar project you've done take?" but that does require the estimator to have done a somewhat comparable project.
> And I am sorry to say that, but I don't think that a global framework enforcing the same environmental restrictions on every country in the world, regardless of its economic state, is realistic. Sorry.

Those frameworks already exist. There's a framework for CFCs that has been effective at slowing the destruction of global ozone. There's a framework that governs the disposal of radioactive materials. And yes, there's already one for greenhouse gases. The U.S. president just pulled the U.S. out of it. So, one thing that U.S. residents can do is vote for a new president who will put the U.S. back into it.

> once the global warming effects start noticeably affecting regular people, there will be a wave on businesses built around mitigating those effects

The fundamental problem is that real estate is by far the largest store of global wealth, and global warming will destroy some of that via sea level rise, and potentially alter some other parts by shifting weather patterns.

It is hard to solve social problems with profitable businesses in the face of large-scale declining wealth. That's usually called a recession or depression, and every time we've faced that sort of problem in the past century, the government has had to step in to help. In fact, addressing those sorts of problems is one reason humanity invented government in the first place.
Yes, I should perhaps clarify - I mentioned developers to point out that Facebook has the resources to provide excellent working conditions.

If I can adapt (and perhaps torture) your analogy, I'd say it's like Facebook currently has doctors who save lives and command high salaries, and janitors who change bedpans but don't have access to hot water and latex gloves. So inevitably, the janitors catch a disease (hospitals are filthy, after all! This is foreseeable!) and are no longer able to work, at which point they are replaced.

Given that the hospital can afford to pay the doctors, we might ask if they could splash out for latex gloves and soap for the janitors, too.
Have you ever noticed the odd fact that children sometimes grow up and wish to rent a home themselves?

They already might live there with their parents, but if they want to move out and stand on their own feet, they would have to pay double or triple compared to their neighbours. Hence they can not move out from mum's basement if they don't want to move away.

Of course this helps resident retirees who don't move and whose children have moved out, even if it is an economically retarded policy -- and retirees vote. Same as California's prop 13, really.
They are relevant. Most of the previous interglacials during this ice age were about 10ka. How come this one continues and how long do we expect it to last? To know this one uses Milankovitch cycles.

There is quite some debate over the issue, but we probably have 5-30ka left of warm weather.
"Part of the language" means that the language's syntax directly allows you to do a thing, while "in the standard library" means that the functionality is included with all (or at least most) versions of the language, but the language syntax doesn't provide the feature directly.

For example, take dictionaries (or maps). It lets you use a key (like "bob") to look up a value (like "555-555-1234" or "bob@spam.email").

Dictionaries are built into the language in Python, so to do the above, all you'd have to type is:

phones = { "bob": "555-555-1234" }

In Java, maps are part of the standard library. They're there, but you have to import them:

import java.util.*

Map<String, String> phones = new HashMap<>();
phones.put("bob", "555-555-1234");

The main difference is that features in the standard library can be written in the language itself. Java's Map classes are written in Java, while Python's dictionary utilities are written in C.

Other than that, the difference is largely semantics.
Vectorizing the Merge Joiner in CockroachDB
Maybe when they apply. But from the sound of things that idea would vanish in the first week.
Not when talking about payscales. To say defense contractors don't pay FAANG salaries when FAANG companies are in the defense business is a failure of awareness. I was simply pointing this out.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BFR_(rocket)

100+ tons to Mars. Doesn't require any major technological breakthroughs. It's just really big.

If you want a rocket that has already been built, the Saturn V could have launched a ~50 ton boulder to Mars. Not quite hundreds of tons, but that was also built 50 years ago.

If the Earth was suddenly facing interplanetary war with Mars, I imagine we would start building some very impressive rockets quite quickly. And they would all obey the rocket equation :)
>> If it's a shit job that isn't worth the pay, people won't do it.

That assumes perfect knowledge. As mentioned in the article, these moderators often do not understand what they are getting into until long after they have committed to the job. Once you have quit a previous job, moved, setup your new life, only then do you realize your new "brand consultant" job means watching kittens die all day.

Jobs like this also open persons to realities that we normal keep tucked away deep in our brains. We all know that cops don't investigate most reported crimes, but that doesn't come up very often for us. A facebook moderator sees the crimes, sees the lack of response by the police or anyone else, every minute. Repeatedly, every minute. Nobody can appreciate what this does to ones' mental state until you have been there.
Rockfall has always been part of the fun of climbing on the upper parts of Mt Rainier. The practical effect of warming is that the season where you need to worry about it is now extended.

What's more worrying is the possibility we'll see some major collapses. Many of the big features on Rainier like Gibraltar Rock and the Willis Wall are anchored by ice at the base. As this disappears those structures may become unstable. It's conceivable that collapse could trigger lahars, which are a big risk for people in the valleys below the mountain. In the past these have run all the way out to Puget Sound.
Chrome and curl seem like competing products. But I agree. I don't see this as that bad relative to the other things they're doing at the moment (i.e. breaking uBlock, user agent blocking).

In any case I admire curl has a binary size of ~1MB, which is 1/5 the size of my filter list for Chrome.
My problem with these kinds of libraries is it’s not at all obvious how it behaves in edge cases, and they’re so simple I’d rather just implement it myself. Maybe I want it to throw an error, maybe I just want it to return false. Even the documentation doesn’t tell you what happens for non-integer values, you have to look at the source, at which point you may as well copy it into your own source tree.
It is decentralized, just family rather than work.
Nick Clegg isn't exactly well thought of. They goofed hiring him, which is great because the more Facebook fucks up the better the world becomes.
I wouldn't, because that would be horrible...
Have you ever worked with mechanical turk or anything of this sort? You pretty much have to do at least 15 minutes of manual moderation per day. Training "human workers", setting up rating templates, finding human mental "bugs", i.e. things that raters/moderators get consistently wrong - it takes quite a lot of time.

Granted, not everyone does that, someone nibbling at the frontend or sitting deep in some distributed DB generally does not care much about data quality.
His point is that cryptocurrency is the wild west. Claiming to be someone you're not is, unless you're actually executing identity theft by e.g. taking out loans on someone else's name, is not illegal AFAIK.

I'm not sure what he's trying to achieve, in any case. It's not like the title "you are Satoshi" will do much. You become a key player in the crypto industry by merit, not so much by name.
Finally, Canonical applies the kill switch on 32-bit with Ubuntu 19.10
Not everyone agrees on the validity of mob rule.
That's why I use YouTube Music for $15/mo which includes Ad free Youtube + Music streaming for 5 family members.

I fully expect google to decouple the YT ad free portion (they already decoupled YT Red), but until then it's a reasonable value prop.
How did Nasa put men on the moon?
Yes, you could write a proxy auto-config file[1], host it somewhere and have it rewrite the urls you want.

I think that's how an ad-blocker worked on iOS before they enabled the functionality.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_auto-config
A CLI that generates beautiful README files
PSCs?
> We'll need to work together on challenges like tooling

If you wonder what is meant by that, I think I know of an example. They have done this (quite unusual) choice to not include a Cargo.lock into their project because it gives a bad developer experience on merge conflicts [1]. They'd love to have a merge tool for the purpose, see more in [2].

[1]: https://github.com/libra/libra/issues/52

[2]: https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/1818
For the industrial Internet of Things, defense in depth is a requirement
That bridge is definitely crossed with Google which has an (approximate) effective userbase of 3 billion people. That's a larger directly-influenced population than any government in the history of mankind. And the best part is that Google's operations are entirely undemocratic to their users.
Except he probably won't be able to create a hard fork; if my understanding of crypto / bitcoin is correct, he needs a majority of miners to go with it, and given that the Bitcoin is international that's going to be very difficult.
How much would you pay your house cleaner? 100k a year? Do you tip $100 USD in restaurants so that waiters can enjoy similar effective salary?
That was indeed my intention. Remember we're hypothetically reinventing C from scratch so there's no legacy code to worry about.

By making 0x literals of bitwise type, they can only be used with bitwise operators. Decimal literals are regular integers so can only use arithmetic operators.

If you want to use a hexadecimal value with arithmetic operators or decimal values with bitwise operators, use the operator that converts one type to another.
Super optimized as in the sense that this line was distilled to be as small and lightweight as you can get it while making sure it works with actual tests.

Just search for "Javascript check if variable is window" to find all kinds of solutions that seem to work at first glance but would probably end up breaking under some specific situations. Some people tests against the .toString of the variable, others look to see if the variable has under it what 'window' usually contains while some create a new instance of 'window' and compare it to their variable, etc.

The solution that "is-window" brings seems to be as perfect as you are going to get it. In an ecosystem where things change quickly and you are not sure where your code is running it's easy to become dependent to such crutches. You do not want the mental burden of remembering all the hacks.

I am not defending this particular package and I'm sure we could come with a better solution of testing it. If you do, make a pull request. I am merely explaining why those package happen.
"I have a bottle of wine (a bottle of well aged Penfolds Cabernet Sauvignon (1995 vintage). How to put it, Plum red. with a nose of tobacco leaf, cedar and capsicum. A light vanilla with a slight aftertaste. The tannins are mild and it is drinking well now. I do not see much more time for this wine. It is at to just past its peak and needs to be drunk now).

I have a mixed vegetable lassangne with a rich capisum sauce and nutmeg bechmel."

The fact that he needs to use capsicum (he even misspells it) instead of the colloquial word, pepper, shows what an insufferable twat this dude is.
Hello, saw this post a couple days and would be interested to apply.. do you have an email address to learn more about and discuss this opening? Thanks
Nobody moves for $30k a year.
(Thankfully?) it gets that right
Not very peacefully to say the least
I don't know what boot environment this is emulating exactly, but it looks like a straightforward OVMF, presumably hacked up with HFS+ support and a bunch of Apple extensions to make macOS boot. In that case, running Mavericks should be no problem. I'd have thought Snow Leopard should also run, at least in K64 mode (64-bit kernel), but I've not tried it in a long time and don't recall if there were any gotchas.

Note also that software support is now pretty weak for these old releases - you struggle to find any modern web browsers that still run, for example.
The article is a commentary on the vilification of wolves, not whether or not they're literally prey animals.
Yeah, that's kinda how free markets work.
> I think the name was chosen only to indicate how it should be used ("like regular curl")

Or, like my colleague just suggested: to improve typesquating in search results. Considering it is both a Google thing and as mentioned before an internship both are likely.
You can't search for cities to my knowledge.
Nope, that's not true (unfortunately). Most of the moderators in Dublin (approx 75%) are contractors, but there are a lot more full-time moderators in Dublin, as global moderation (ex US) is run from that office
It’s common practice for them to do so. Not just at Facebook, but YouTube and other platforms.

It’s management 101
> Why doesn't it have…

Perhaps because it wasn't intended to be used for everything —

"What sort of problems is Erlang not particularly suitable for?
…
Most (all?) large systems developed using Erlang make heavy use of C for low-level code, leaving Erlang to manage the parts which tend to be complex in other languages, like controlling systems spread across several machines and implementing complex protocol logic."

http://erlang.org/faq/introduction.html#idp32114576
So the counselors were probably an afterthought. I'd even bet the decision was made not as a way to keep the moderators from going insane, but to protect the company's image.
Wow that’s a zinger! The underlying issue with the file utility is bonkers! https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/file/+bug/248619
>People having terrible economic backyards may want to move near you

Nothing to do with that. Facebook is saying that they have a new lawnmower that could improve some lawns, and I'm saying to stop it because Facebook has shown that it does not care about anybody's lawns but their own, and their lawnmowers could very well accidentally release asbestos to screw users and non-users alike.

>any cryptocurrency could have major monetary policy implications

Yes. However, up until now no cryptocurrency has had the full backing of a behemoth such as Facebook. Facebook could very well use their power to act as a bank and as a financial actor bypassing regulations put in place to avoid problems.
Yes.

https://phys.org/news/2017-05-differences-east-coast-sea.htm...
https://www.nature.com/articles/nclimate1597
>He also needs to have registered it in the first place.

Not true. Unregistered marks can still be defended (it's just harder).

That's why there's both ™ and ® symbols. Trademark and Registered Trademark.
> indexing the array you can have unrestricted read/write access to a large section of memory.

but won't the memory protection (write xor execute) stop the function pointer from jumping to the array body (since that's write memory)? Meh, i guess in actual practise, it's much more complicated than that...
Yes. This is very petty. I'm ignoring these threads from now on.
I imagine many people wouldn't. It's potentially shortsighted to have that sort of myopic utility maximizing mindset when it causes you to debase other values like social stability.

But in a society that advocates the hustle, I gotta get mine, right? /s
> The problem is that gamers were promised "decisions that matter" and in the end everybody got the same pre-canned three endings. The problem is that gamers were promised "decisions that matter" and in the end everybody got the same pre-canned three endings.

I don't think it is. The decisions made did matter, as much as anything matters, they just didn't effect the ending cut-scene you got. Is there an intentional philosophical message here? Maybe, maybe not. But there is opportunity to reflect on our relationship with decisions and outcomes. Is our time spent with the game less meaningful because of how it ended? Given a time machine, would we have chosen not to play if we knew the ending? If the ending is the thing that is important, why play the game at all instead of just watching cutscenes on youtube?
It also sounds like they are sold on the empty promise that these jobs will get your foot through the door into the lucrative technology industry.
5. I do not know if it's pythonish, but I use and abuse functools.partial
Given the description of the videos in the article, I'm not sure that merely paying the moderators more would solve it.

I think for most people that I'd want to be moderating content (e.g. not sociopaths) making them richer isn't going to do anything to deal with the real reason this is worse than a call centre - the content itself.
I'd rather see facebook put more effort into protecting moderators from the content they're viewing. I realise this is a non-trivial problem, but here's a few ideas of things they could do which may help:

* Once a video is confirmed bad, fingerprint it and block future uploads.

* Provide colour-inversion buttons to help reduce visual impact

* Rotate people between areas, so they aren't looking at the same class of bad content constantly

* Use ML training to detect which content is likely to be the most severe and for this content, reduce minimum viewing interval to ~ 5 seconds, and ensure that a single individual doesn't get too many of these.

* Flag accounts who post bad content too often, and shadow-ban them so their posts are not visible by anyone else (this could go in stages, starting off by blocking re-shares of their posts or something)
The question of whether or not a bitcoin or whatever is a security is only the tip of the iceberg of regulatory questions that someone might ask about cryptocurrency. How does anti-money-laundering regulation apply to it? Does a cryptowallet need to come under FDIC insurance? How does the Volcker Rule apply to someone who takes deposits and also engages in trading around a cryptocurrency? etc etc etc Large parts of the law are written on the basis of the assumption that currency is actually a dollar bill printed on paper, or a number in a bank computer with a very narrow sense of what is and what isn't a bank. Those definitions are being blasted wide open, and asking the law a bunch of questions about cryptocurrency often resolves to "it does not compute..."
TextIQ Raises $12.6M
There is a lot more to that website than /b/. The janitors on /out/ do a very good job of keeping the board clean.
> yeah, that kind of shit must be stopped. you disagree?

Actually i don't disagree. And look, facebook coin has addressed all these issues from the get-go.
React Native Apps Generator
> If it's a shit job that isn't worth the pay, people won't do it.

That is not how the labor market works... At all.

"Worth the pay" is overridden by "absolutely need this money for me or my kids to survive"
personally i always pip install attrs numpy pendulum, but my criticism is more or less the same.

The stdlib is of variable quality. I'm happy it's there, but there are absolutely crufty old dragons in there these days, and it updates very slowly compared to pypi.
Google's AI was fooled into thinking a 3D-printed turtle was a gun (2017)
The great thing about bitcoin is theres no central actor for the state to target. Libra's biggest weakness is its connection to facebook.
I'm not in the game industry at all, but, do you or anyone know how this goes? What goes into a game design? How much more detail and story and worldbuilding is there behind the scenes?

I mean if it's anything like software development, the answer will for the most part be "well there's actually nothing here". A lot of sequels feel bolted on in that regard, where they just took elements from the original game, world and story and build on top of that.
If there are cameras everywhere, and keyloggers, don’t you think they can see what you type?
There are court documents in the Papdopoulus, Manafort, Gates, Cohen, Stone and Flynn cases. Have you read the court filings to see the evidence? How much of the Mueller Report have you read?

==I need to see something convincing, that preferably consists of something more than colorful stories based on "confidential" evidence (that I have no idea is faked or misinterpreted, both of which have been done before).==

Again, this justification could be used to back up any belief when it comes to government. It is a convenient way to brush off all the lying, obstruction, indictments and convictions as some mere conspiracy. Blanket cynicism (and whataboutism) isn't a valid replacement for actual analysis. That we have hacked other countries doesn't change the facts of what Trump and his campaign did. They are entirely different cases that can be discussed on their own.

==Is Trump better? Who knows, but anything I've seen suggests the alternative is a never ending line of groomed Neoliberal clones who act as well-spoken PR managers, while behind the scenes the US military and TLA's do as they please.==

Odd that you say this as we are sending more soldiers to the Middle East [1]. What about the 1,000 soldiers and military activities happening in Niger under his leadership [2]? The bombings (often of civilians) in Yemen [3]? Attacking a Syrian airfield [4]? Did you see hard evidence that Iran bombed the oil tanker [5]?

In making these decisions, Trump is using the same intelligence community that you and he both say is corrupt and untrustworthy [6]. It makes it appear that he only wants to discredit them when it affects him (Russia investigation) personally.

None of this even gets into the obstruction of justice, felonies related to campaign finance, numerous campaign officials in prison or under indictment, or taking Putin's side over our own intelligence agencies in Helsinki. This gives us a view into the type of person Trump is and the company he keeps. You have decided to support that, which is your choice. I don't agree with your attempts to blame it on Democrats, the media or the intelligence committee. Just own it.

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/17/politics/us-additional-troops...

[2] https://www.thedailybeast.com/senators-are-stunned-to-discov...

[3] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/12/27/world/middlee...

[4] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/06/world/middleeast/us-said-...

[5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DU6kCyqDOM

[6] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-44852812