skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a tough thing. Imagine someone was telling you that you had to change your career because people decided it's no good. What will you do? Put your life on hold and go retrain for something you never intended to train for? Possibly (probably) earn less? Potentially need to move for work? It's complicated.

I think it needs to happen. The US and Canada both spend major subsidies on oil and gas, and that money would do wonders in supporting and retraining these works. However, we'd need a very good plan and very good acceptance of it amongst the work force and tax payers. This would all be incredibly expensive. People would resent the retraining because it would cost tax payers to benefit a small subset of people, while less oil production equals higher prices for... Everything. People would be very upset, both workers and citizens.

It's going to be so hard to get people on the same page. I hope the disasters that push us to act aren't too awful.
I don’t think they are safe or a good idea. But, t.co ranked #36 most popular website. (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_popular_website...) So, they still seem to be very common.

DNS is incredibly important infrastructure, but the protocol is more than just a name. Getting a geographically local IP from a universal name is independent of what the name is. Replace Microsoft.com with MVKVS or other short string and that still works.
Why are the rest of us responsible for their mistake of building a non-hurricane proof oil platform in an area known for hurricanes?
> And most engineers, esp. technical engineers are introverts and do not like going to networking events.

Not every engineer is an introvert, and cofounders need to wear multiple hats, so you're better getting a 75% engineer who is more versatile.
We have unchecked corruption from the 2nd most powerful politician in the country, no one cares

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/02/us/politics/elaine-chao-c...
Have you tried LSD or DMT? What about the sparkles behind your eyes from rhodopsin channels?
I have aphantasia and I found out three years ago when I heard the research on radio, that others do see images in their mind.

So far, it has been very problematic to explain to others what it is like to not see images in your mind, I guess because it is fundamentally a process of understanding.

There is a reddit community /r/aphantasia if anyone want to know how it is from their point of view.
I also "have" (feels weird) aphantasia. Well, it's kinda hard, but I actually do look at a fair bit of antique furniture, and do a little wood working and repair, and I focus on materials, measurements and condition. Then when in place I can move things around and get a feel for a layout. A couch I would go by measurement largely, I know what's too big for my living room. For colors I try to use a color wheel or look for other peoples pictures online like "oak pub table with blue walls" etc.
How-to-solve-the-hardest-logic-puzzle-ever
Andrew is an amazing developer that taught me some basic C when we both worked together at Indaba Music years ago and a whole lot of other things about development. I miss those late-night coding lessons! Hope you're well Andrew!
US citizens and us tax residents are essentially the same burden here. Nobody wants to deal with that unless the potential profits outway the additional costs of the admin
A used BMW i3 for under $20k is a great deal, but the original owner took quite a bath.
Cloudflare managed to get an in-depth blog post, one which has incident details, points blame to other parties, and makes some really quite aggressive (for corporate blog posts) claims, all during an incident, and they did all that in 8 hours.

I'm impressed. At most other similar size companies, this would take 4 days. And in something like Amazon, it would be 2 weeks of approvals, editing, and review before a watered down version with all specifics removed is published.
No one claimed they're as bad as magstripes, only that they are not 100% perfectly secure.
I'm running CoreFlight on a rapsberry pi zero and I want to mount it on my bike with a GPS (and maybe some other sensors) to track my rides.
>Under the moral principle that most three year olds learn from their parents: "Clean up your own shit".

They didn't cause the hurricane. Your moral principle is invalid here.

>If you build an oil platform in a known hurricane area, well, you're responsible for cleaning up when a hurricane hits your (shocker!) insufficiently prepared oil platform.

Is this your own opinion or are you claiming this is exactly what happened? I don't want to get into an argument over opinions, thats why I'm asking.
VCV Rack 1.0.0 released – open-source virtual modular synthesizer
I don't get where you get that idea. I'm in no way saying "only mentally ill people thinking killing themselves". What What I'm saying is that from time to time we all find ourselves with poorer mental health and we can learn from it.
Thanks! I used FX9AHKWHWXLR
Back in that oft-forgotten age I was privileged to know, work, and chill with the brave volunteers (and, subsequently, paid RIR staff) holding down the buttons. It’s worth mentioning that even back then there dwelt in the west a large ugly troll whose name was AS701 (AS701 was not alone, either, having two hideous siblings, AS702 and AS703, that lived in other climes). Everyone tiptoed around the beast, because when angered it would flap its routes and there would be a great wailing and severe packet loss. The brave volunteers tried many times to tame the awful creature and I’m very sorry to see that it is still fucking everyone’s announcements even today.
This is a good point. They need to know what Bluetooth is around me to build up their database.
I adjusted them to both be 'slow/medium'. It's all rather subjective and handwavy to be sure.
Personally I have a Model B running Alpine and SSH to receive incoming connections at home.

I’ve also convinced the company to buy 8 3B. Each of those is connected to a 1080p display through HDMI and each one of them boots raspian with chromium-browser in kiosk mode into one specific Grafana panel or playlist. I control what URL each of them boots into from Saltstack states.
How We Realized Putting Radium in Everything Was Not the Answer
I find it funny that most cities have banned skateboarding on sidewalks, but an electric one with a handle is okay... as long as the company gives the city a little money. This along with lobbying makes me think it’s time for another revolution. We are being taxed on everything, but it’s the corporations and lobbiest groups that are represented by our government.
"measure twice, cut once" in big cedar letters on the wall of my next business.
Do you have a screengrab of your cat?
Have a small team going, hoping for the best. Haven’t looked seriously at Security Hub yet.
DigitalJs: Digital circuit simulator in browser
>>I can reasonably guess that you are the owner of some business for whom labor is just a cost and taxation to support public goods is going to cost you more than it benefits you. That includes everyone from corporate interests down to small business owners. The rest of the republican base is those who can be induced to be allies of the above on the basis of race.<<

Frankly, this is just an example of the type of polarization the article describes. "If you support some X that I oppose, it is not because you have a principled reason for believing it to be beneficial, but rather because you are racist/sexist/etc."
I've wanted to get into this field for a while now - how does one get in? I'm hardly going to build myself a hobby self-driving car!

While I'm working full time as a backend engineer, I do have final placement I am yet to complete. Would doing it in computer vision-y areas be of a particular value add, or would my best bet be skill up in C++ and then look for a relevant job?
Maybe another interesting factor would be learning curve. I bet C++ and Rust have a pretty steep one compared to Go for example.
> Is the market aligned with the interests of society? Generally yes, with big exceptions.

I think recent history has shown us that the answer is "Generally, no."
Check out udacity self driving car class.
We can only hope :)
Immediately dismissal anything connected to James O'Keefe as garbage is perfectly valid.
Not yet, it doesn't. That's a pipe dream.

In the same way, you could claim we have no plastics problem, because we don't need plastic. That would be the same logic as saying we don't need oil because we could use solar power.

Maybe in theory it is possible, but it is not a reality yet.

And it is not even proven that it is possible, either. Solar power is not zero impact, either, it may just have a slightly smaller CO2 footprint than oil.
Back in Web 1.0 (1999 or so) I worked for what was then a large Social Network. There was no security. Any engineer could look at anything.

When the thing went belly-up (it was acquired and then ended) the servers were scrapped without even being wiped. Someone probably bought them at WeirdStuff.
There is no inflation, fake news.
OpenBSD Home Router: IPv6
Nom 5: parser combinators for Rust
For HTTP APIs, I'm a full convert to OpenAPI - write your API document by hand, then code-gen the client/server stubs.

It requires a small investment upfront, but will pay huge dividends once your project is rolling. You have a single source of truth for publicly exposed endpoints and model descriptions (your API document), and you can instantly regenerate certain key components (e.g. model binding, new routes, etc) whenever that document changes.

I actually contributed the F#/Giraffe generator to the OpenAPI generator project, which you can find at https://github.com/OpenAPITools/openapi-generator
Come on, try looking for work these days in the middle of the country, try sending your kids to school in the middle of the country.

No, not HN/techy work, and no, not a job that has no benefits. A real job that will pay a mortagage. They just don't exist.

EXP: Get a clerk job in Norman, OK. Here's the indeed link [0]. Medical clerks are about as an average a job as you're going to find [1]. Look at that pay, it's $12 an hour, or ~$25k/year. Granted, these kinds of jobs come with benefits, so that is really nice. What kind of house can you get with the two of you working at ~$50/year? At best, you can get a $1000/mo mortgage, or a $150k house. Here's what those houses look like [2].

All looks pretty alright, yeah? Think you can make it like that, yeah? Well, the poverty rate there is 60% [3]. Yeah, 2 of 3 random people in Norman, OK are making no more than ~$26k/year.

So where is the disconnect? If you get an average job in an average place and get an average house in your price range, everything should be roses, right? But the overt majority of people in an average place in the country are making no more than ~$500 per week.

Look, everyone knows that Norman OK is not a place you want to live or try to thrive in. Oklahoma's educational system is ranked down there with Mississippi [4]. Ranked 24th is Ohio where they kicked creationism out just 2 years ago [5].

Moving somewhere else is NOT a realistic solution. You know that.

[0] https://www.indeed.com/q-Clerical-l-Norman,-OK-jobs.html

[1] https://www.aol.com/2010/11/11/americas-most-popular-jobs/

[2] https://www.zillow.com/homes/for_sale/Norman-OK/pmf,pf_pt/33...

[3] https://www.towncharts.com/Oklahoma/Economy/Norman-city-OK-E... Look at the charts near the bottom that include the non-working poor, working poor, and non-labor force poor.

[4] https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/oklahoma

[5] https://www.worldreligionnews.com/religion-news/creationism-...
If it's useful, then the person creating the struct can explicitly set it to nil.
Also had one of the largest oil spills in history - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1969_Santa_Barbara_oil_spill

and another one recently - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refugio_oil_spill

A fair bit of that tar wound up there because of human activity.
Do you have a link to the "door drive" that you're using? I've had this idea for a long time and really want to build it.
I meant what FlyingAvatar suggested.

Quoting Wikipedia: In statistical mechanics, entropy is an extensive property of a thermodynamic system. It is closely related to the number Ω of microscopic configurations (known as microstates) that are consistent with the macroscopic quantities that characterize the system.

and

The second law of thermodynamics states that the entropy of an isolated system never decreases over time.

Applied here, when plastic breaks into pieces, the number of microstates -- ie, the entropy -- increases.

It's not the same as the ideal gas law, but similar.
Definitely but I'm not sure if there's a linter for this. If so, I'd love to use it.
Low frequency electromagnetic stimulation selective for cancer growth arrest
Because there is no social safety net. If you don't have a job you have to live on the street. Companies have the jobs. When the alternative is seen as living on the street, Americans see these issues with fear for their immediate well being. The environment being destroyed is a far-ish off problem. To many Americans, homeless could be a month or two of joblessness away.
Its pretty simple really, I built OpenOCD from source on the RPi (that is just download the github repo[1] and add some libraries like libusb), when you run OpenOCD, by default it opens a gdb server on port 3333 and a telnet server on 4444.

From anywhere on the network when you start arm-none-eabi-gdb, you can type

target extended-remote debug:3333

And poof you're connected to what ever dev board OpenOCD
id debugging. Then just load your .elf file (which flashes it) and start it and you are off to the races.

Since the Black Magic Probe has its own gdb server you wrap it with nc(1) so on the Pi you run

nc -kl 1234 < /dev/ttyACM0 > /dev/ttyACM0

and now you can connect to port 1234 on the debug server. At which point you're talking to the BMP. The ports are selectable so I typically set up as many ports as I need (depends on how many sessions I might be running) and write them on a boogie board[2].

Of course I've got that particular RasPi mapped to the host name 'debug' for that reason, the one that runs the waveforms software is named 'instruments' :-)

[1] https://github.com/ntfreak/openocd.git

[2] https://myboogieboard.com/
I'll give a consequentialist argument:

If way make a policy of forcing oil companies to pay for damage due to leaks caused by hurricanes, then they will choose not to build oil platforms for which the expected damage caused by such leaks exceeds the expected value of using the oil.
You can duplicate chip & pin EMV cards too. They are prone to fraud just like mag stripe cards.

https://www.consumerismcommentary.com/chip-credit-cards-frau...
What issues are you having getting Postgres setup in Windows?

I've used the Windows installer[1] and have had no issues.

[1]: https://www.postgresql.org/download/windows/
Just saw an episode of American Pickers where they at some guys farm going through all of his 1920's era car collection. There was a little side part where they talked about how common electric cars were in the late 1880's and early 1900's before Henry Ford and the discovery of Texas oil.

Made me think about where we could be if we had not made the wholesale switch to gas powered cars and instead focused on building a more cost effective electric car.
I’m looking for CEO/CMO. I have built numerous stock and option trading algorithms that are successful. I have struggled to market all this information. I’m a register investment advisor / SEC online advisor. I have an existing website and lots of data to back my claims. Primarily I’m a great chief algorithm builder/coder, but a poor marketer.
Yup. As an outsider looking in on bioinformatics, a lot of the datasets I have played with have some real glaring problems. They often have small amounts of data or some serious bias. A naive ML approach on a lot of sequencing data will probably be undermined by the bias of the sequencing machine and the researcher who processed the biological materials.
On mobile you can quickly hit the X in the address bar as the page is loading, it accomplishes the same thing.
> iirc there were some studies showing that productivity is not significantly different across languages

If it's the same studies I'm thinking of, the result was that productivity was about the same in all languages _when measured in lines of code per day_.

So say 1k lines of assembler took the same time as 1k lines of Python. However, the higher level languages can _do_ more for the same number of lines.
Related - has anyone done much with UDP load balancing on prem?

We're starting to hit performance and HA walls with ingesting Netflows from edge routers - you can only nominate one target, and using Elasticsearch / Logstash there are some hard limits.

Would AWS be appropriating nginx under the hood here?
Looking for a serious remote front end (react/web) developer.

Its a good idea that can grow very fast.
I have angel funding.
I did a short landing page trial and got a few paid users.

I am doing the back-end development.

The front-end portion is very important, and will grow into a team very quickly. Probably single digit % equity.

email in profile.
Most people who point to Elixir's lack of static typing as a weakness, or believe their productivity would be adversely affected by it, do so because they haven't actually used the language.

Anyways, this subject occasionally comes up for discussion in the community. This post sums up my thoughts fairly well: https://elixirforum.com/t/static-vs-dynamic-typing/9824/3
> We attempted to write some software to prevent money laundering but it didn't work. So we turned it off.

What are you talking about, that's completely reasonable.
Yeah, I know it. It’s called going on Instagram.

To be fair, the instagram accounts of people you know IRL aren’t ads. Probably.
You overestimate human rationality in emergency situations. Last time I was calling for an ambulance, I had a hard time giving my own damn home address, and I've been living here for decades.
I'd love to know how out-of-band telephone networks (landline and mobile) actually are any more. A surprising amount goes via SIP on public IPs.
I think that what they're getting at is that once the impulse is not met with success it ceases its grip and might lessen to some extent. Not sure I agree with it but at the same time it is possible that if the means of committing suicide were more easily available and required less upfront effort a lot wouldn't have the time to hesitate and commit to it
This is a feature. The manufacturer has made an intentional choice to not cater to people trying to build products with Pis. They're an educational non-profit.

Complaining about this is akin to complaining that your VW bus can't tow a house.
The original purpose of the original ARM chip was to drive the Acorn Archimedes desktop computer. While they were aiming to design a power efficient device, the power consumption accidentally turned out to be far lower than intended, which has been a big reason for ARM's continued success in many uses.
Facebook, Myspace, Snapchat... is it that hard to, you know, not do asshole things when you sign on in a position of responsibility working for these companies?
This is brilliant. I have the same problem, and an extra gen1 pi hanging around, and I'm quite excited about this solution. Thanks for posting. :-)
It's not terribly surprising it's vague as it's an entirely internal mental experience that has no hard external effect like other mental differences (I hesitate to say issue or problem since) and the description in both directions is hard.
I want clean energy as much as the next guy, probably more (it's one of my top concerns). But plans like this are extremely naive. I agree, we need to get the of fossil fuels as fast as possible. But very few articles like this mention what we'd replace it with. Wind, solar, and hydro are all fantastic, but hydro is the only one that can produce constant output. It is also difficult to throttle the other two and bring up demands for surge. There's a big reason fossil fuels are still around and it isn't just politicians lining their pockets (not denying this is happening) and big oil conspiracies.

The fact of the matter is we don't have the technology to replace it. Batteries aren't just there yet. Can we wait for them and hope? I'm not convinced considering we needed to start building things decades ago. I'm pro nuclear because of this, because it's the only current technology that can be built anywhere (yes, this is a major issue) and can throttle output. But people are scared of it. It deserves the fear, but what should be scarier is it's basically the safest form of energy we have. But it is also expensive and we can't just pretend that we'll get economies of scale right away.

So what do we do? I think we push out fossil fuels as fast as possible. We heavily invest in battery tech. We minorly relax nuclear regulations to allow us to build newer generation reactors that are safer and hopefully cheaper. We go harder at researching fusion. And most importantly, we dump a lot into sequestration research. I think this is a safe bet, but it is still a bet. It's not a fool proof plan but it diversifies the portfolio and reduces risk of failure. But it'll be costly. Definitely not as expensive as a mass extinction event, but costly. And it is hard to get people to realize costs from an existential crisis.

I mean look at the article. When we talk about climate we still aren't listening to the scientists and are talking past one another. So what do we do?
I don't have any numbers to support this, but I'd question whether "large majority" is accurate. I think most people aren't remotely aware of the types of negative externalities caused by corporations because they struggle plenty in their day-to-day lives that they have no bandwidth to form an opinion about or, heck, even _learn about_ such things. Like if I ran a survey of random US citizens and asked "do you think a corporation, that through their own neglect did x damage to people/place/thing, should be made to pay for x damage?" I think the vast majority would respond "yes." I do agree that it's baffling that anyone would reply "no," but that is absolutely true and any number >0 in the no column is an indictment of us. And it's even more damning when elected officials in the US, the purported stewards of being informed, seem to be in the "no" camp. I'm tempted to say we've lost our way, but maybe we never had it to begin with.
You don’t know me,why you judge me?
Nobody claimed they where 100% secure, at any point in this thread, during the development of the technology or during the rollout.
>It doesn't cost a provider like Verizon anything to have such limits in place. And there's no good reason, other than sloppiness or laziness, that they wouldn't have such limits in place.

I see you haven’t had much experience with large Telcos. They are all like this.
Lots of things, but the most useful yet is the RPi Zero USB stem which turns it into a dongle that gets power and network from my Mac. Very useful for quick and easy access to GPIO pins for ad-hoc use.
I partially agree, but none have the preemptive green threads of the BEAM VM and its amazing tooling around supervisors and worker hierarchies.

Trust me, if somebody puts that in Go, Rust or OCaml -- I'd ditch Elixir tomorrow.

The BEAM VM is just too good. You can have thousands of smaller tasks running in parallel and nothing lags until you hit the physical limits of the hardware -- which 99% of the apps never do.