skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, but that's irrelevant goalpost-shifting. The original claim was that there has been a decline in journalistic integrity. Neither news agencies nor any reputable journals are working in any other way than they used to - I see no noticeable decline in any of the good newspapers or in the work of major news agencies. On the contrary, access to good journalism has never been as easy as today. You can sit at home and watch a journalist risk his life to get you first-hand in-depth reports from Taliban in Afghanistan or from Mexican drug gangs. These kind of documentaries didn't even exist twenty years ago, yet people complain about a "decline of journalism" because "they heard it on Internet"...
It shows your IP address to the machine you submit your message, and that SMTP server doesn't add the IP address in a Received: header, as mine does not, nobody else will know what IP address you used.
The Springfield Underground - something The Simpsons didn't predict.
I didn't read the article, because of a gazillion analytics trackers and popups. But the source is clear:

Data released today show that the European-average temperature for June 2019 was higher than for any other June on record. [...] Data provided by the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), implemented by the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts on behalf of the European Union, show that the global-average temperature for June 2019 was also the highest on record for the month. It was about 0.1°C higher than that of the previous warmest June, in 2016, following a strong El Niño event.

https://climate.copernicus.eu/record-breaking-temperatures-j...

Ps. could the link be changed to the source?
We need a very simple law. “1. You cannot track a user or send marketing spam without their explicit consent. 2. The user can take away the consent at anytime and you gotta stop the peepin. 3. The user can ask for what you’ve tracked and you gotta give it to them. 4. The user can ask you to delete their data and you gotta respect that.”

I know this is what GDPR is but we need a saner US version of it.

We can’t be technology leaders and still pretend it’s the Wild West.
Because for almost the entire world they’re not.
I would like a cat burger! Please give me a cat you don't need!
> on US soil

But not before they have technically entered..

(and no, this doesn't mean i'm anti immigration)

edit: or pro searching, etc
> but he created the 201th repo (we had only paid for 200)

That's an odd choice of a failure mode.

> AWS still refunded all costs...

Yeah they should. It was their silly design choice that lead to disclosure of secrets after all.

What kind of failure mode is that even. Failing to create the repo would have led to a better user experience for sure.

Can you imagine if S3 charged more for private objects and once you reach your count, it just makes them public and posts them on Reddit?
or even watch the movie the song was influenced by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Got_His_Gun_(film), or even the book that movie is based on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Got_His_Gun
... and will dump you as "not a fit" if you are over 30.
That sounds like an accelerationist position: instead of having some remnants of privacy, make them lose it all so they realize the value and take action to get back full/more privacy.

What if the revolution never happens? Then what little "privacy theater" stood between the corporations and the users is swept away. When corporations need to show some restraint, even if only to not appear completely evil, at least it's some restraint.
maybe fund = fine
Or "I have no mouth, and I must scream" http://www.mikedidonato.com/images/2009/04/harlan-ellison-i-...
Agreed. So many little details were watered down. Concept was amazing, production seems like such a missed opportunity.
This is my guess. They are being downvoted because the downvoters are offended by any criticism of capitalism. I mean, global warming is kind of a huge problem where we need to re-evaluate everything. That's scary.
I looked into using <details> to handle collapsing comment threads on Tildes, and ended up deciding it wouldn't work well and just went with JS.

It was a long time ago now so I can't remember much specifically any more, but I think that the styling and behavior for <details> were both too limited and too inconsistent across browsers.

I do use it in some other places though, like collapsing/expanding the text of text topics from the listing pages, and it works really well for that (other than the current lack of support in Edge).
Strongly second this. However, it starts very slow, so, if you do read it, make sure to force yourself through the first handful of chapters.
You don't need a screenshare to accomplish this. I'm amazed by how much people buy into a companies bullshit and then defend it online.
I'm only part way through the presentation, but I loved this line.

"And when people succumb to this instinct they tell themselves that they’re giving developers freedom. And sure, it is freedom, but it's a very narrow definition of what freedom is."

Yup. You get the freedom to choose a language and/or database with unknowns but you lose the freedom to leave work at a reasonable hour to see your family, pursue a hobby, or just veg out. Experimenting with new (to your organization) languages and infrastructure pieces is something you do between projects, not during.

It reminds me of something a jazz musician said in an interview, "The audience doesn't pay to see you rehearse. Rehearsal is done on your own time away from audiences." Rehearsals are where you try new techniques, harmonies, instruments, etc.
It's not unethical to have children and no one needs an excuse to have them. Technically speaking, it's literally the only reason there is any life on earth. Don't have them if you don't want them, but this isn't an area where you can dictate someone else's choices.
They also cherry-pick data to fit their conclusions, e.g. https://tamino.wordpress.com/2018/08/08/usa-temperature-can-...
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https://www.emailprivacytester.com will let you know if your email client is leaking information about you, by sending you an automated email with various tests embedded (e.g tracking pixels).

If you're scared about giving your address to this tool, I wrote it. You've no reason to trust me, but you can scan the about/privacy pages for information, and it's also available to download and self-host.
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But borders are held to have suspended rights. And a large majority of the population lives within 100 miles of the border.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_search_exception

https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/population.html

It’s also been hypothesized that the “border” could be expanded to include many more. International airports are arguably ports of entry. Native American territories and embassies + consulates are considered foreign soil.
Any particular reason you chose that name? I keep thinking about the meme by the same name
Thanks, George!
Thanks. Oracle already has competing cheaper/free RDBs - though not an integrated suite. (I accept O's app businesses are secondary).

From your first link, compatibility is hard: AWS SCT clearly marks any code that it cannot convert so that you can manually convert it.

I would expect O to be upset that they don't even get a look in to an incredibly lucrative contract, and argue it's bad for the govt's well-being to exclude them. I can't see how or why they'd argue it threatens their existence...

Oh, so you are making the claim! Your comment makes a lot more sense now.

BTW congrats on winning the contract, that's amazing!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20335816
>which means there is no credit

Why not just have explicit credit instead of implicit credit?
I use GMail with the understanding that Google has access to my activity and content. However, I trust Google to not divulge* my activity and content to other email recipients and senders. That's enough privacy for me in my normal email usage.

* disabling the option of blocking image-loading in the iOS GMail app is definitely an aggravating and inexplicable tactic, to the point I'm starting to looking into switching away from GMail as my provider.
There have been very very few, if any, cohorts of humans who have not faced existential dread head on. Whether it was the tribe across the valley that wants to kill you, the barbarians raiding from foreign lands, the meat grinder of trench warfare, plagues that wipe out 60% of your society, burning fire dropped on your head from a warring nation, or just the dull, banal, existential dread of personal tragedy and the fragility of life.

Your ancestors managed to get through it, and have children, and their children managed to solve problems that they couldn't fathom at the time. They didn't just give up. This modern fatalism is pathetic.
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As somebody else wrote, what's really important is to stabilize a high level parallel iterator API that would probably be common even between Rayon 1 and 2. Of course I see some new APIs, like setting the task splitting policy, but some things, like parallel iteration over a vector and mapping through it should still work.

Java had to change the collection API when it added generics, but it showed that it's possible to split the API contract while improving on the underlying implementation over time. The low level Rayon primitives of course shouldn't be in the standard library name space.
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Because the friend was going to buy a cat anyways, therefore, globally, a new cat does not need to spawned.
Because if it doesn’t happen then what have you gained? If it does happen than what have you lost?

It just rings like all of the people claiming “end times” for hundreds of years.

But more specifically, is everybody on earth getting the same message? If not...why?
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Sadly, legal or not, tailored specs are the norm.

At a previous job, our company and three other companies operated similar programs, supporting the military. Call it company A, company B, and company C. Our company (company A) were doing a really good job. Our metrics were outstanding, we had the enthusiastic support of 3 consecutive commanders of the unit we were supporting, life was grand. Company B was also doing a great job, and they were better than us at certain things, but as a whole, we were slightly better. Company C suuuucked. Their metrics were shit, so they started gaming the metrics. Their metrics still sucked. The people in the unit we were supporting were well aware of their bullshit, and they regularly got dressed down in front of all us. They were absolute dogshit.

Imagine Firefox vs Chrome vs IE6. In the general case, you want Firefox, (Company A) unless you spend a significant amount of your time using Google Docs, in which case you want Chrome. (Company B) You don't want IE6.

Anyway, the Pentagon needed to select one of these programs to build into a long term DoD program, as opposed to a live in theater prototype, so they commission a study to evaluate the three programs. They hired an outside contractor to perform this study. The company they hired to perform this study was Company C. Company C's study showed that Company C's product was the most effective one. Their numbers were straight up lies- they literally made up bullshit and wrote it down on a piece of paper and submitted it to the Pentagon as a formal document. The unit we were attached to was livid, and wrote up a formal complaint to the Pentagon. This was ignored.

Our program was canceled, I was laid off. I don't work in defense anymore.
What bothered me the most about tracking pixels in emails (when using Apple Mail) was false positives:

I would occasionally have someone ask me why I opened their email 20+ times before responding (I didn't).

After a while, I realized that when using the "arrow down" key to scroll through your inbox in Apple Mail (with split view enabled), Apple Mail will open and render every email in the split view when attempting to open an email further down in the inbox. This would result in every tracking pixel being loaded/rendered dozens of times, even when the email was open on the screen for < 200ms.

After a few times hearing people ask why I opened their email dozens of times but haven't responded (when really hadn't read their email at all), I ended up disabling images from loading in emails entirely.

Does anyone know if this is still an issue with Apple Mail? Or if this also happens with Gmail configured in split view?
Did you read the article? The author addresses this specifically. Justifying bad behavior with existing bad behavior is counterproductive.
adaorardor is a friend that can share an invite!

But, group work travel is super interesting. Feel free to just email me-- tejas [at] carry [dot] travel directly, and we'd love to chat and see how we can help, especially if your team has a trip coming soon.
Look into https://github.com/finos/perspective/

WebAssembly might help you as well.
It's convenient to blame someone else and thereby excuse your own behavior, isn't it? I mean, why should you have to sacrifice anything? We all share the responsibility for this, those companies don't exist without people buying their products.
Yes, Irccloud isn't a bouncer by that definition, but a hosted client.
> Remember that only 100 companies are responsible for 71% of climate change.

How many companies does it take to account for 71% of the world's economy?
obviously I'm more for neutering, gently eliminating them globally
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> For all we know, both of those functions return <Board {game} />.

No.
Slightly tangentially, someone mentioned recently that he'd like a feed of only non-science/tech related HN articles. I put together some code[0] to get the feed from the API, and parse them with either a word blacklist or a classifier trained on a text corpus, but my results weren't really good. If anyone has any insights, I'd be happy to hear them.

[0] https://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/lordgrenville/browser_sc...
Absolutely, Veneur is something we looked at quite a bit when it popped up. It's clear Stripe was feeling a lot of the same pain points we were when we started building Vector and they've come up with something really impressive.

As you mentioned, it seems they've focused more on metrics out of the gate, while we've spent more of our time on the logging side of things (for now). We're working to catch up on metrics functionality, but interoperability via SSF is an interesting idea!
When you outright dismiss arguments that compete with your own (like labeling people with a different opinion than you such as you did here), then you'll never evolve your opinions.

Look for ClimateGate on DuckDuckGo. There are leaked emails where they discuss cherry picking results. It's in their own words.

Take 15 minutes doing research to DISPROVE man made global warming before you automatically accept it as truth. There's a lot out there.
What you described is equally true of Kobo, Nook, and pretty much every e-ink based reader. And they all support more formats than the Kindle does.
Due diligence about whether the gift recipient is likely to to use it personally rather than passing it along to a malware researcher?
There's a story there: I first worked on it because we had a bunch (20~) docker images to build in parallel, and the goal was to "build them fast" (we succeeded: builds from scratch went from ~40 mins to ~15 mins when combined with multi-stage builds)

I suppose it's the same reason there's a python HTTP server of the same name
If they were planning to get a cat anyway, then it would actually help.
"70% of corporate travel is booked without any tool or agency"

That always bothered me. We used this middle man agency ... there was no savings, I still just booked it myself for the most part. I just had to use their crappy site.

I did not understand the point of that, but man it was policy.
> Sestan did acknowledge that, yes, theoretically there is nothing stopping a scientist from immediately building a perfusion machine that could support a human brain. The BrainEx technology is open-source, and pig and homo sapiens brains have a fair amount in common. And there are plenty of conceivable applications for a human-optimized BrainEx.

Imagine that you are a billionaire. Money is absolutely no object at all. And yet, you are in an accident. A car crash for example, your body was gravely injured but your head intact. You are flown to a facility but die on route.

This technology is a get out of jail card. What's interesting to me, is where is the cut off point. Right now I assume its within minutes? But one day it could be a week? Your head in a jar until they either create a new body for you or find a donor body?

Then there is this:

> Consider, Greely suggested, the case of the Italian neurosurgeon Sergio Canavero and his associate, the Chinese scientist Xiaoping Ren, who claim to have transplanted a head from one cadaver to another. Undoubtedly, a scientist with fewer scruples than Sestan, fewer moral qualms about human experimentation, will emerge. “Somebody will perfuse a dead human brain, and I think it will be in an unconventional setting, not necessarily in a pure research manner,” Greely told me. “It will be somebody with a lot of money, and he’ll find a scientist willing to do it.”

Putting the current ethical concerns aside. I find this absolutely fascinating. How long until the technology is perfected and some form of immortality is reached?

How would it work. Do you get to 90 years old and they pull out your brain and put it into a newer body?

Just so happens that in 50 years I'll be 90 myself. I a more ethical version of this tech is around in some form or another. I'd love another 90 years!

Oh and for over population concerns, don't worry. I'll be happy to be part of the new expedition on Titan or Ganymede or further out. :)
What are you on about? That's exactly how honest science works. You said it yourself here:

> They attack the cause of Antarctic sea ice collapse by claming that temperature flux changes in the Antarctic bed are caused by geothermal activity. Scientists investigate, adjust for this variable, and it's still the fact that the brutal increases in atmospheric and ocean temperature are the cause for the collapse. Crickets.

1. Scientists publish findings on climate science

2. Someone says hey this might be incorrect if you haven't considered X

3. Scientists conduct further research while accounting for X

Final result is now more accurate than before the "attacks".

It seems to me the position of climate change proponents is that nothing should be questioned. This is not honest science.
Thats a chicken and egg problem. I would like to see more USB C ports on purchases that are supposed to last a long time
Didn't CS Lewis cover this in his highly prophetic sci-fi "That hideous strength" /s ;-)
Is there any way to get a copy of the application? I'm sure there are some of us that would love to take it apart and look for URLs / file hashes it is looking for.
The mindset is not bringing more humans into the world to suffer on a planet with too little arable land and potable water left.

> You’re just removing people who will grow up to better protect the planet

It's too late for that. This is a crisis for people who are adults today to address, or it will be too late. The IPCC says we have to cut global emissions by 50% by 2030. We can't wait for your little Jr to grow up and maybe turn out to be an environmentalist.
If you update all the data why is this more efficient?
You could use a dedicated dns provider, such as AWS
What if climate change isn't a problem but a predicament with no solution?
Yes, for me at my current job it would be half a day - an hour plus each way for a ten minute "bankers hours" task.
FWIW I did a project with Ractive before React became popular, and I liked it. I guess for many problems it would still be enough if only it were more popular.
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The reports really do not say we're fucked.

Things are going to change a lot, yes. It might require a lot of changes to the way we live, yes. It might have some really tragic consequences, yes.

But speaking about climate change as if the apocalypse were nigh and there were nothing that could be done about it is not only counter-productive, but has played an important part in guaranteeing the situation got as bad as it has (remember Al Gore saying that, by 2014, there would be no ice at the poles? Do you think people who heard that are more or less likely to pay attention to climate change, now that 2014 has come and gone and the ice caps are still there, even if smaller?)
It's a horribly short-sighted, irresponsible and dangerous attitude. When your service goes down on its own its users can switch to some backup process temporarily. If half the internet goes down, they are screwed. How much they're screwed depends on how they're using your services at the moment, which you most likely can't even know.
This is called a conscientious tax and game theory does not support your decision.
They're correct actually. We've been overcompensating on personal responsibility, but changing personal behaviors won't save us from climate change. It's not enough. We need massive political mobilization and aggressive government action.