skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a huge mess. It's been going on for hours and there is still no status report on how long it will take to fix this. Fire, Ambulance and police are all affected, and half the regular phone network is also out so there are no alternate paths available. Big fuckup, people will die because of this and the post-mortem will be a very interesting read.
This is the most intelligent take on internet trust issues that I've seen. The conclusion is overly glib though: it took centuries for high-trust societies to develop the mechanisms that allow them to function as such, and even small changes can upset that balance (as we've been seeing in the real world over the last couple of years). We shouldn't assume it will be trivial to bootstrap those kinds of institutions on the internet.
I have the same experience as you but when I talk to peers I went to highschool with and say the same thing they seem to not have the same experience. I am not quite sure why that is. Might have something to do with how you treat highschool. If you don't take it seriously and don't do your homework then I guess highschool would be a lot less stressful.
Strange thing is that it didn't send it over my Bluetooth headset as I wasn't listening at the time.

>> it should be assumed that you are paying attention and don't need to be woken up

That assumption is false. Last week we got one for likely dangerous smoke and we had to get out of the smoke and close all windows and stop ventilation in the house. You might want to wake up for that as some people use the headphones and fall asleep.
The Le1 – Engaging students in electricity generation
Sorry I caught this so late, but no, ISPs do not have to use language like this to protect themselves. They can also provide the bandwidth the customer is paying for 100% of the time (or give the customer's money back), like my company does: https://www.pilotfiber.com/legal
Wait... Astrid isn't a POTS. And it's going to be phased out and normal cell networks is going to be used during the transition. https://www.rtbf.be/info/medias/detail_reseau-astrid-20-ans-...
Is youtube still being operated at a loss? If google runs a video sharing platform at or near a loss, funded by cash they get from search ads, then how can any other company possibly compete with them? By also running a video sharing platform at or near a loss? There is a very small number of companies that could conceivably do that.

This is precisely why google needs to be broken up.
>who looked to Seattle after not finding the talent they needed.

Were they offering competitive salaries? I doubt it.
Great post.

It's important to be close to your customers. If your customers are in SF, then being in SF can make sense. Another reason why you may want to be in SF is you need access to SaaS veterans at the VP level.

Having someone in the team who has already done it is the best growth hack.

But then, NY is getting as good as SF for that, and, you get to live in an awesome city (I live in NY).

All other reasons often raised like "pool of developers" or proximity to investors are BS.

Like mentioned in the post, you don't need to be close to developers and having coffees with investors is a waste of time especially in the early stages.

I lived for 3 months in SF. It was very unpleasant. The reasons are listed in the comments and in the post. And I am affluent enough to afford to live alone in a 1BR, dine out, drive my way around.

Raised money, got the hell out back to the east coast.
other rich areas violate civil rights. when people say "take care of it" they mean "we'll tolerate wild indiscretions"
I really don't think the research method is scientific.It is totally wrong and absurd.It is not Science but a joke.
Yeah, right now my biggest challenge is VR. I have been able to work around everything else, but VR is increasingly becoming the domain of those with 10 fingers and two wrists. I can play beatsaper by taping the controller to my arm, but the scoring system punishes me for not having a wrist. /sigh

Re: pill navigation- I find the navigation bar to be an outdated concept and I don't know why we even still have it at all. I use an app called "edge gestures" to navigate with swipes, and I disabe the system navigation bar. I suggest you try that.
Those only reached a relatively small fraction of all subscribers.
It's at the discretion of the runtime though. With native threads you have more control. And you can have several goroutines running on the same processor concurrently.
Well they didn't solve the halting problem so it looks like it's just in-house AVR. I give it a year before someone utilizes these services as part of an attack. (Assuming they haven't already.)
At what pricepoint? Is the issue, google is low cost, and competitors are not on the same level?
> In Hired’s findings, tech pros were never offered more than $149,000 annually.

I don't know where they are getting their data but that's a lot lower than good developers of all ages make. You can see on https://levels.fyi that large tech companies will pay senior developers 200-400k routinely.

I don't necessarily doubt the analysis but the data is very incomplete if they didn't see a single offer over $150k.
The examples are mostly about the military. It's hard to extrapolate that to IT.

If anything IT is becoming more specialized because our tool stacks are becoming more complex. For example, pre-web, UI's were generally easy to create and change due to their WYSIWYG nature. The Web pissed on WYSIWYG big-time because it's "flow-based", and different browsers, versions, and OS settings would render differently.

Thus, it generally requires a UI specialist to do it well. It might change with a new tool or standard, though. The pendulum of approaches often swings back and forth over time, similar to how the industry swings between server-centric and client-centric designs. And, data-centric versus code-centric, etc.
The statistics show that even allowing for the risks cycling is better than not.

Having said that I have had a hospital visit.
1. Trello displays in conference rooms.

2. Admin terminal that sits on my desk.
How one knows what to fix regarding character and behaviour, if for the person nothing works? Not a little bit, less often, a little bit later, a little bit different, with different kind of person. Nothing works, never.

Please save me from the objectifying story, as both genders are gravely guilty of this (height requirements, demanding certain position and status from the men, very demanding list of character traits in general, all this while expecting appearance of someone professional like actors or celebrities).
I'd say the primary use case is data which you want to keep public forever. Such as your legacy before you pass away (it is pay once, host forever, right?). Such as an encrypted insurance file for Mr. Assange. I can also imagine this would be interesting for copyright infringement (eventually with spliced files; e.g. with RAR .rar .r01 r02 etc), or for an activism, or whistle-blower. I suppose though that once that 'blockchain' has a too bad ratio of 'morally bankrupt content' (that'd be our jurisdiction's definition) it'd just be forced to closed down the hard way.
the real difference is winter, people who have nothing to lose and no ties in NYC hop on a freight train and head west
Yak shaving usually refers to work that you started doing because you needed it while working on your actual problem, but the work isn't directly related to that problem's solution.

Here's a more detailed discussion: http://projects.csail.mit.edu/gsb/old-archive/gsb-archive/gs...
She openly admits in the video on using the AI to stop Trump’s re-election. Full video https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-06-24/google-using-ai-me...
仁者见仁智者见智！如果没有充分考察文化差异，单方面、想当然的将检测结果刊登，结果对于受检地区是不尊重的！我对这份检测结果合理性提出异议，对检测目的提出质疑。希望如果还有要把华夏儿女加入的检测，麻烦在检测之前能够去试着走近中国，看一看、听一听。
Can you go into any more detail about that or have any related resources about such a potential collapse?
I know this was the case but both N26 and Revolut have EU banking licences -- as of the past year.
Java: Add Items to a Linked List
They have a lot in common. They are both fringe languages that compile to run on more popular established VMs, both with strong support for meta programming, both encouraging a functional programming approach, and both employed to tackle roughly the same kinds of projects. The kind of people that are attracted to one are often also interested in the other. I think it's perfectly reasonable to draw comparisons.
Let Google decide which politicians stand a chance... I'm sure they'll limit the use of this power to Trump.
I used to refill my stainless-steel canteen from faucets and drinking fountains. The container was round, and the hole was on an edge of the circular side, rather than poking out of the cylinder wall, so it could fit almost anywhere that water was available, including a stream 15cm (6") across and 5cm (2") deep (filtered with bandana, made potable by iodine). It even had a canvas case, so that you could wet the outside with non-potable water to swamp-cool the drinkable water inside.

Unfortunately, everything you can find close to the same form factor today is shoddily constructed and near-worthless.

We wouldn't need water-bottle refill stations everywhere, if the water containers themselves were more easily refilled. All the bottles are tall cylinders. Where did all the short, wide cylinders go?
That is definitely what I took from the article. Nothing but a shock-title. Data stores were created because previous solutions were not working as well..
The alternate path is whatsapp and twitter as mentioned in the alerts. Or ask the person with t-mobile/vodafone connections to call the alternative number. Though I do agree about the other parts.
Given the arbitrary blocks to Google from the Great Firewall of China, I don't see how it can compete in the first place.
Ravelry, the Facebook of knitting, has banned pro-Trump posts
If only we could come up with a way to turn plastic into Flamin' Hot Cheetos.. (startup idea!)...

(You'll probably downvote me..)
Last time the power went off in Amsterdam, the internet continued to work just fine.
Machining Apple's Mac Pro Grille on a CNC – how well does it work grating cheese
That's neat. I hadn't realized type hints had gotten that good now. Cheers!

I've had issues reading code where I'm trying to trace control flow and I hit some dispatch point in the code and it's suddenly really hard to tell where to go from there. I do (did) a lot of Python programming and sometimes it's a little too dynamic, ya know what I mean? :-)
Well first you have to invade the country Baidu resides in, then you can break it up.
I just set up pi-hole on one this weekend. It was my first time trying a Raspberry Pi, and I loved it. With the news about the latest version and the improved specs, I'm considering setting up a couple to replace my kids' computers, which are all old and under-powered.
Well SF get's also cold af. I would go to LA or San Diego. So, while it might be a factor, it surely isn't the main factor.
Wasn't so much the difficulty as the sheer quantity of homework combined with lots of unbroken butt-in-seat hours, most of which weren't very useful. A start time so early I had to wake up at like 6:45 didn't help, either. Throw in lots of classrooms with no or insufficient windows, and certainly none in the hallways. Thanks for causing me to develop seasonal depression it took me more than a decade to get over, high school. Thanks a whole bunch.

But yeah, coulda CLEP'd out of at least a year of college if I'd known better. No-one told me that and I didn't figure it out until it was too late. Never even occurred to me that I could knock out all those credit hours on the cheap with some very, very light studying over a summer. I mean college is supposed to be really hard, right, otherwise what's the point? eyeroll
I am no fan of Trump, but this is exactly why Google should be broken up. Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc.'s control of the digital public square is a threat to discourse and free speech. And Google is the worst offender of them, given how monolithic and ideologically skewed their internal corporate culture is.
Why does it need to compete with baidu?
You really don't want any one in the internet flooding your #911Emergency hashtag.

I can understand Skype and WhatsApp having some kind of official emergency option, but not a hashtag on Twitter.
Unfortunately this will just make it more difficult to get real work done, as security is tightened further. Maybe they just ought to physically isolate their networks.

Working at a large engineering organization, I have given up and now do all engineering work on a stand alone computer, with dongle licensed software. I feel bad about the piles of CDR I burn through to transfer files, but it’s the only solution to getting work done.
HTML5 Sprite MMO First Test: Surface Tension
> We can’t grab a coffee with a random investor tomorrow. We don’t meet as many driven people who are interested in tech. We can’t go to fancy networking events.

In Bodrum, that's correct. That's where people go for vacations. But compared to Istanbul's 16m, San Francisco is a village with a population of less than a million people. Even the whole Bay Area has half the population of Istanbul despite being five times bigger. There are many, many universities located there which results in a huge number of startups, investors, incubation centers and alike. I feel this perception comes from a very biased viewpoint. SF isn't the center of the world.

> And there aren’t millions of coders who live nearby to potentially hire

Hell, just mail me the position details and I can max out your inbox with people who would love to work for less then a quarter of SV rates.
Hmm now I'm confused. The articles you sent are about microplastics in fishes, I thought the comment I replied to was about microbes which should (I really don't know though) break the plastic down...?

Edit: Now I see that I have misread the comment and confused molluscs for microbes.
In b4 flagged.
Why is that disingenuous? People put food and rent on credit cards all the time, do they not need those things? You need a place to live (as you say) so by your logic we should forgive mortgages right?

It's crystal clear right now that "an interdisciplinary degree in religious and women's studies" has little to no economic value. That's always been the case and if you took out a huge loan to get that degree, you made an obviously poor financial decision that you alone should be on the hook for.
lru_cache doesn't support unhashable types.
Nonsense！Shame on Science
There are some earphones that use bone conductance, but this sounds like a special case.

If hearing is down to tiny hairs in your ear resonating with the audio frequency, I would have thought being hard of hearing was down to those hairs not being able to function properly. How does bone conductance audio get around that? Does it use a different sense?

My eyesight is also going, I have to rub my eyeball on the phone screen like one of those anti-deorderant balls, I daresay my hearing will be next.

homo cyberia

(That's probably nonsensical latin, if anyone with a modicum of latin knowledge wants to go all Life of Brian on it, please feel free. What is latin for augmented human?)
Because none of those things are done by governments. They're done by companies that provide water, food, medicine, airplanes, cars etc.

Governments mostly just insist that good results happen, and can easily cause problems doing even that. Meanwhile other things run directly by governments do have a long track record of being worse than the private sector equivalents, and taxpayer interactions is clearly an important component of that.
Many sects of Christianity seem to include the idea that believers need to spread their beliefs to non-believers, so if you just allow people to commit suicide (which the religion deems abhorrent), then that basically means the believers failed in their mission.

It's the same reason that religious societies (including Christian ones) tend to try to push their religious values into law, instead of allowing citizens to choose freely.
Bodrum is heaven. Quite boring during winter though.
The alerts have reached only a fraction of all subscribers. Interestingly, some KPN customers can still call each other.
The Front Lines of Teaching Data Science
> but grab a cup, fill it, drain it, and throw it away...then go back 20 minutes later and repeat the process.

They don't perceive cups to be as wasteful as plastic bottles? Are these plastic or paper cups? Pure paper cups would be acceptable because they degrade faster.
Other than having parentheses, it doesn't look very lispy.

Namely _ instead of - as word separator, :: for namespaces and depends on Rust.

wracket and Schism are more in line with Lisp spirit, even though they are Schemes.
That's on the monitor, whatever process it is using to scan for input, warm up, or other needs. Buying a cheap offbrand monitor or something low end has drawbacks.
Whenever I get a spinner after clicking "Decline", I just reload the page. Often, it works. Presumable, it sets the cookie on the page ("user accepted/rejected the cookies") before setting the cookies on partner pages...
Were you able to get it to work? (I'm the developer of the demo.)
No idea, I don't work there any more. It would be really interesting to know though.
He's using a debit card, not a credit card.

Non refundable debit card purchases isn't a problem unique to Revolut.

If this happened with a bank of america debit card, you'd face the same problem. This is why I explicitly refuse to carry debit cards. Only ATM cards and credit cards.

If you use DEBIT cards, you don't get the same kind of protections you get with CREDIT cards.
We are still living in a bubble where we believe that cloud providers aren’t going to oversubscribe their hardware

AWS doesn't oversubscribe their main class of cloud servers, but they will sell you a cheaper t-series if you're willing to accept throttling under heavy CPU use.

They used to have "noisy neighbor" issues with some of their older instance types where another server on the same physical hardware could monopolize the disk/network bandwidth (but not the CPU), but they've resolved that now, every server can use it's published resources (except for network which can burst up on 10 Gig on some instances types, but sustained except on large instance types that can sustain 10Gig)

They've built their business model on selling dedicated resources, and I don't see that changing.
The difference is if both are sound the math will cover all cases. Your tests can be sound but miss a special case and thus be wrong. In that sense the math proof is better because it will catch all special cases.

Note that tests will often catch cases where the math is not sound. Because you are putting an expected result it is more likely that you have a sound reason for that expected result even if you cannot express is mathematically. I recommend you use both: in the real world they cover different areas of the problem.
The cheapest Tesla is three times the new price of the car my wife currently drives (£38,000 vs £12,500). That kind of implies the Tesla is a lot more carbon intensive than buying a cheap car, even over its lifetime.
What is the average cost of living along the beltline compared to other areas of town?
Also, from what I have seen, traffic is a nightmare in those areas in the morning and end of day because the road systems werent updated and cant handle the volume of new cars. I would not want to be in that mess of traffic.
The quest for high-quality data
Traditional TV news channels actually have too much power and nobody to question their outright bias. This situation is so bad in India. Nobody questioning them for fake news, doctoring content etc.
And in what way,G has "too much power on our news and information.". In my case, the articles in my Google Feed have actually helped me discover many different articles etc. Yes they have too much power but not in News, imo. For news,info it would be Facebook.
Sorry, I should have been more specific: I am referring to visible homelessness, people living on the street, etc. The colloquial meaning of the term 'homeless', in other words. I should have been more specific, especially given that this confusion regarding the use of this term is a pet peeve of mine.
The overwhelming majority of homeless people in California lived in the same county they currently do before they became homeless. Climate is clearly not the main factor.

71% in SF homeless already lived in SF, 90% already lived in California: https://socketsite.com/archives/2016/02/san-franciscos-homel...

the cite link in that article is dead but refers to http://hsh.sfgov.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/2015-San-Fra...

75% of LA homeless already lived in LA: https://www.lahsa.org/documents?id=2059-2018-greater-los-ang...
Wow that’s amazing

Def getting one. The rasps are miles ahead of the rest on support. So the upgraded hw on top of that makes it a front runner in my books
It looks like Rust with parentheses, not really Lisp.
For further context, here’s another report on NASA’s security in 2012.

https://oig.nasa.gov/congressional/FINAL_written_statement_f...

Sadly, it doesn’t seem like things have changed.
I appreciate your link, which I had not found by a fast scan of the fastmail docs. It certainly answers some of my questions. However the line of argument of this text is so-so. They say that the regulation is "irrelevant for them" because "it is highly unlikely that...".

The words "highly unlikely", however, do not really mean anything and the argument falls down.

Besides that part, most of their text seems quite honest, clear and compelling. Βut I would appreciate that they delve precisely into these "highly unlikely" cases.
I 100% agree with the author on this. VR in its current iteration is clearly not suitable for this in any way, but down the line the fundamentals of VR align perfectly with some of the pain points of remote collaboration. With all current collaboration tools the parties are still bridging the gap of working in different places. In VR, everyone is inhabiting the same virtual space. It's just completely different. Practically, all things switch from n representations to 1 representation. Psychologically we register the interactions completely differently because the parties are saying things not in their room with a video displaying them in your room. They're saying things next to you, to the person sitting across from you, while turning and walking away. The fidelity of interactions (and in turn the interpersonal bonds and memories you form) is just an order of magnitude higher.

If hardware is good enough for this to be a practicality, we may be working in AR 100% of the time anyways, and depending on if you want to be remotely present with others, you just swap out your real environment for a shared virtual one. In that dream scenario, the glasses or whatever are high enough res anyways you'd rather use them to make virtual dynamic user interfaces than stare at a static 2d monitor.

It's going to be a long, long, long time before any of this happens but I'm guessing these are the kind of far-off things the author was implying.