skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some time ago I tried registering an account on a site where the password policy was that you couldn't use special characters and that it would discard any characters you entered after the first 15 ones.

But you know what the worst part was?

They never bothered informing you about these limitations. The site just returned a generic error.

Not supporting special characters I can kinda understand but silently discarding characters from the password the user has picked is just evil. It took me LOTS of registration attempts and password resets before I figured out what the hell was going on.
One reason why I love my NUC. I have it running everything under the sun and it plus my networking gear draws 18 W. To be fair I haven't checked when it's under heavy load, but the internet says it shouldn't be more than around 35 W.
> I don't have any data or anything, but I think that brain development is not even complete until well after 12th grade in humans. In particular, I think the ability to self regulate is compromised.

12th grade is seriously lowballing it as well.

The human brain doesn't stop developing until well into our mid-twenties, and there is still some plasticity even after that.
This is just not the case, at least not in the modern world. There are quite successful auto companies who have made safety central to their marketing message. Go car shopping on Volvo.com today, for instance, and the very first thing you see is a big notice for their "Summer of Safety Sales Event."

They don't do this because they're trawling for Internet virtue points, they do it because safety sells cars -- especially in the family-hauler SUV and crossover segments, which these days outsell more traditional sedans and coupes by large margins. (See https://www.latimes.com/business/autos/la-fi-hy-2017-auto-sa...)

This notion that safety is only of concern to people who aren't directly relevant to the car-buying decision (such as, ugh, women) has flown in the face of the evidence for decades now. It's the kind of mindset that led that 1974 brochure to ignore the subject completely, which is one of the blind spots that ended up getting Detroit's clock cleaned by imports.
> At this point, with so many outages showing the need for self-hosting,

Are they really showing that? None of the major cloud providers, even constrained to a single region (or even AZ) seems on average less reliable than the on prem datacenters I've seen, and there's

> not allowing customers to do so shows how little you care about them.

While the solutions may not be as complete for all use cases as public-cloud-only ones, are any of the major cloud providers not working to enable and selling their capacity to support hybrid-cloud deployments?
perhaps he didn't want to lose out on the benefits like shared pool access and whatnot.
One of the drawbacks of video chat is that the camera on your device is offset from the face of the person that you're chatting with (typically your camera is on top of your screen, rather than embedded in the middle of it). This leaves people chatting with the impression that the person they're chatting with is staring at their neck.

This new iOS video chat software modifies your video stream to correct for this camera/screen offset by _redrawing your eyes_. The end effect is that the person you're chatting has the impression that you're looking into their eyes rather than at their neck.

The effect is subtle, but can be made more obvious by putting a straight wire in front of your eyes. With the software feature disabled, the wire appears straight. With the software enabled, the wire appears bent.
Well I think the exercise of power inherently will result in killing people, manipulation, lies, and general suffering inflicted on some group of unfortunate people.

Not sure it’s as easy as taking a dollar from funding Western Hemisphere coups and putting it towards health care. I think it’s also important to try to appreciate the security concerns of politicians and policy makers during the Cold War when attempting to prevent Soviet/Russian influence from creeping into the hemisphere (Monroe Doctrine).
Strange that nobody says anything about Christmas lights.
There are good questions below about lifetime of the video, etc. and while I can just state that everything is fine, the real answer is that schools in the US are not the closed organizations that are implied by a lot of the response here. School administration is 3 people, the district has a couple dozen. Budgets are public information, board meetings are open to all, and getting an agenda item to address concerns is not that difficult. This is the benefit to our education system not being centrally directed by some Federal organization who would be all too happy to have the 'FAANG Classroom Panopticon' installed so they can say they're 'doing something' about whatever the issue dujour is.
Assuming the trend continues, at some future time there will reach a tipping point. Historically, once a population becomes so oppressed by those in power that it starts pushing into fundamental needs (food, shelter, etc), the population finally revolts and it's usually not a pretty picture.

Unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately in most other contexts), those revolution level standards of living are tremendously lower than what your average citizen has now even though we complain about home ownership and health care we still have places to live and emergency rooms. I'm not saying I'm willing to accept this level of modern indentured servitude, I'm saying most are.

For awhile, we had a generally progressive labor movement in the states where average citizens demanded improvement and progress. It seems to have reached a sort of stagnant state of complacency at some point and began to decline with much of that culture and momentum dying off in the process (not being passed on to future generations). Now, people just shake their heads and accept things the way they are instead of fighting for improvement in their lives. How do you educate the general population and convince them to support movements to continue to increase US workers' standards of living? I don't know the answer to that question.

I see an additional problem with the sort of bifurcation trend we're seeing in the middle class where people seem to be shifting to either upper middle or lower middle. The upper middle are typically more educated and so hammered in the rat race trying to salvage what remains for themselves, they can't find the time to support everyone else's rights. The lower middle typically aren't as educated: college is absurdly expensive and cultural + economic trends lead many of our most talented away from teaching (where many should be). This leaves the lower middle to be more susceptible to adopting media manipulation/ideology trends that aren't in their interests. I have a very bright and good friend who recently retired who told me if he was my age, he'd seriously consider migrating out of the country but he's retired and has a family. I hate to say it but sometimes I feel a tendency to agree with his evaluation and that's sad in one of the wealthiest countries in the world that has been a beacon of democracy and growth for many years.
Bet those words universally show up more prominently in modern brochures / their web page equivalents.
New FaceTime feature in iOS13 corrects eye contact during video call using ARKit
I'm sure that happens too. I didn't really mean "shouting" to me taken literally, but it's out in the open rather than subtle behind-the-scenes manoeuvring. My experience is from academia where it's pretty difficult to fire someone without going through a long drawn-out process which is often more draining than trying to ignore the bullying, at least in the short term, and with an uncertain end. This means that pretty undisguised derision can be let slip if that person is relatively powerful.
It sucks to lose work when you performed well and had a good relationship with the client. I feel your pain. Good advice in the comments here about staying in touch - offshoring will most likely fail for them. Swallow your pride and check in with them and/or offer to help in an advisory role. In the meantime work on skills and build your pipeline for new work. There's always another door...
Not quite true, and as the link you posted highlights, they are prohibited in using tax funds to advocate for or against gun control. They’re empowered to do studies, but they must not use tax dollars earmarked for specific initiatives.
Correction: The Pi-Top 4 has been announced. The Pi-Top 3 is the previous model that is currently available for purchase.

https://accounts.pi-top.com/products/pi-top/
Google OAuth and Rails for an Easy Admin Login
pretty neat!@
The checkboxes are actually above all of the images.

I tried scrolling down, realized I couldn't, then scrolled up to find the unfilled row at the top...
Think of how much personal data Facebook could gather on you if it knows 'EVERYTHING' you purchase or at least a huge part of what you purchase.

They've already been busted selling personal data under the radar to third parties.

It's less 'omg control of the financial system' and more 'you're not exactly the exemplar of trust with peoples personal data'

I'm all for crypto making the lame financial system we currently have obsolete but I don't know if Facebook are the most trustworthy people to do it.
As others said, 300 watts is a ton of power, if you're actually using that much compute then you're probably getting your money's worth.

My little pizza box R210 II PFSense router uses 30 watts (even though the PSU is 250), once I turned all the BIOS power settings down.
I don't think you misunderstood. That commenter was definitely making that argument. Do you have thoughts on that?
Wait, how do you get to the second screen?
> isn’t it folly as none of us will survive and it is akin to species suicide?

Do you have a link to a credible source that predict human extinction? Someone serious like the IPCC.

Most model predict huge problems and catastrophes. If the hot and low level part of the word become more difficult to inhabit, there may be huge migrations and perhaps wars.

Imagine something like: Everyone moves from the south of India to Siberia, and that makes India and Russia unhappy. But in most models the change is slow, so perhaps something like this can be done peacefully. (I guess not 100% peacefully, but I hope with a small amount of problems.)

What are the predictions for the increase of the sea level and temperature in 2119?
> There are mountains of evidence demonstrating that people change their behaviors when they know they are being watched

Then why do many students and young people post photo evidence of them engaging in illegal activity on social media? I don't think it would make much of a difference. Besides we're on camera in most places of commerce and in large cities, pretty much all the time.

> Do we really want to rob children of mischief, conflict resolution, and making a case for themselves in a way that cannot always be substantiated with hard evidence... Some of the best teachers I had would've been fired for what they taught, or allowed students to do.

I think you're romanticizing what goes on in a modern US school. No one is going to go after children for small mischief. They don't go after them now because its just not worth it not because they can't catch them doing petty infractions. As for the teachers, for every great teacher having controversial and important discussions with their students, there are 9 that just roll in a TV to watch a movie about once a week.
I don’t think it’s much of a stretch to say that the only thing keeping Russian tanks out of Berlin is the US military/nuclear umbrella.
One thing about the famous "500 miles" post that I realized doesn't make sense:

----

An odd feature of our campus network at the time was that it was 100%
switched. An outgoing packet wouldn't incur a router delay until hitting
the POP and reaching a router on the far side. So time to connect to a
lightly-loaded remote host on a nearby network would actually largely be
governed by the speed of light distance to the destination rather than by
incidental router delays.

Feeling slightly giddy, I typed into my shell:

$ units
1311 units, 63 prefixes

You have: 3 millilightseconds
You want: miles
* 558.84719
/ 0.0017893979

----

But surely for Sendmail to register a "connect" with a remote SMTP server would require at least one (or many?) round trips to the remote server, so one-way speed of light time doesn't seem like it would really be relevant. Am I missing something?
Could be coil whine? Many modern GPUs are notorious for it.

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetically_excited_ac...
IRS is run under the Treasury, which yes may be part of the Executive Branch - but that doesn't mean there's 100% support for the current President in every desk. Just like any department, there's a lot of career employees and hold-overs from previous administrations. Just look at the EPA... or FBI.

Not to mention Trump just became president in 2016... they've had his entire life to review his taxes. Wouldn't there be a whiff of something foul, somewhere, if there was something nefarious going on there?
Let them complain and ignore it.
... wait, is MongoDB considered a boring technology?

... but Cassandra is "shiny"?
We worry today about incriminating twitter/FB posts derailing careers. What will happen when people can retrieve your childhood and show that OMG you dissected frogs?
"I’ll probably get downvoted for this, but a strong argument can be made that the European welfare state has only been made possible due to massive US defense subsidies and economic stimulus during the post WWII/Cold War. "

As a German that's actually something I agree about with Trump. Europe lets the Americans often do the dirty work for them (an example would be Yugoslavia in the 90s where nothing happened until the Americans started doing something). Europe should be paying more for its own defense.

But that shouldn't be an excuse for a lot of dysfunctional policies in the US. The health care system is expensive and bad. Mass incarceration is very expensive and disenfranchises large population groups. A lot of low income workers are being exploited without recourse.

I also question if the US really needs to spend as much on military as it does.
Kenneth Arrow did a great analysis on efficient markets and the US healthcare industry. Basically it doesn't work the way it works in most free markets because of information asymmetry (he got the Nobel for it). Even if you had price transparency, you aren't in a position to decide what treatment to buy because you're not the doctor and don't have the necessary knowledge to make that decision. The whole process is misaligned because the recipient is not knowledgable enough to make the decision, the decision maker (doctor) is not the payor, and the actual payor (insurance) is often neither of those. Efficient markets require certain preconditions to be met to work. It's true in many situations but there are some well known edge cases.
And "MATLAB packages" are especially painful. The fact that you "install packages" by adding folders to the path is somewhat insane, especially since that is somewhat of a silent global change. I think the hardest thing to do with MATLAB is get someone else's scripts running, because it's always like "oh I forgot to give you my special plot function which I keep in this folder, but requires other things, so just add this whole thing to your global state, but it's incompatible with XXX since I use a function named A". Remembering those incidents makes me shed a tear... while Python and Julia allow you to import without sending every internal name and you're done. And in Python and Julia, people add continuous integration tests to packages.
We flirted with unquestionably native California grasses. There's a significant fire risk. Humans are all about overcoming natural cycles, which include burning us out of here periodically, killing any of us who can't run fast enough.

Our front yard is now weed cloth and chips. Inert, it looks great, and the town no longer cites us.
There's a lot of equivocation in the term "capitalists". Using the term to mean "people who want to take the capitalist system and turn it into a non-capitalist system that permanently writes their own benefit into it" is, well, I'll go with "not the path to clear thinking about the problem". I'm not comfortable calling it wrong, I mean, such people exist and in quantity, but it's definitely asking for muddled thinking on the topic to call someone deliberately tearing a system apart a name that implies them to be an advocate of that system.
It only goes back to 1901, so what are you supposed to do if you're 159 years old... Lie?
These are also available in some phones, as provided by my employer: https://statics.cirrus.com/pubs/proBulletin/CS47L35_201507.p...
So you created an app without considering the current staff or stack, made a zero effort change to satisfy the actual requirements, and then abandoned your work at the first performance problem you encountered?

I am not sure MySQL was to blame here :)
I highly recommend the book "Redesigning the American Lawn" from Yale University Press [0] for people interested in this subject matter. It offers a deep dive into economic, cultural and environmental aspects of the standard manicured lawn, which they refer to as "industry lawn". They propose the concept of a "freedom lawn" as an alternative and solution to the problems presented by the infamous lawn.

[0] https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300086942/redesigning-am...
> Combining your two experiences (weird high, and CBD
> induced migraines), it may be that you,
> unfortunately, do not react well to marijuana.

That's what I thought. Oh, well. I really wanted to be able to use CBD (especially in the future, for future ailments that afflict us all as we get older - arthritis, muscle strain, etc. Plus migraine, of course (I have excellent control over it with Ibuprofen, but I was quite excited at the possibility of using a natural product).
The fact that "weather" has no free will, but humans do, makes your analogy unworkable. If a meteorologist has all available information at time-T, as well as the computing power to crunch all the numbers and run a simulation, it's impossible for them to mispredict the weather.

The very definition of free-will means that the above is impossible for predicting human behavior. Even if you had perfect information, models and computing power, you still can't predict human behavior with 100% accuracy. A good analyst may be able to predict human behavior with higher levels of accuracy than others - but even a perfect analyst with perfect information will still make mistakes due to free will, which makes it qualitatively different compared to a meteorologist.
The thing is we don't really know what the world would look like today without post WW2 USA hegemony. Before that, the world was far more violent under what was essentially European hegemony than it is today. Instead of plundering at will, arbitrarily breaking countries up, and colonizing - the USA has taken an approach of world police. And yes, lots of mess ups and greed fueled wars. But the USA has carried the brunt of this policing and the world is safer than it has ever been in the post industrialized period. for the record, Europeans generally thought of themselves as more civilized and sophisticated than the people they were colonizing and the crude Americans. This is not a new perception Europeans have of themselves and is perhaps part of general European identity.

So, we don't know how many of these wars and coups have been "needless" to maintain the peace we have. Perhaps many of them have led to less peaceful times globally, but we can't go back and A/B test this hypothesis. But we shouldn't just assume the world would be peaceful or even more peaceful without continued USA intervention into the affairs of others. Perhaps it would, but history does not suggest so.
Yeah there is no way this has anything to do with the same behavior. What's likely happening is there's a delay in auto-scroll, and by generating new mouse events your triggering manual scrolls at a higher rate (or in addition to?) than auto-scroll.
That would be a quite a laggy effect at this point. The US has been having it’s longest continuous period of economic growth ever.
Aussie ISP gets eye-watering IPv4 bill, shifts to IPv6
HP makes laptops with very decent keyboards even in their cheapest tiers -- starting around 200-300$, Celeron, fanless, 4GB RAM, plenty for writing; they have several light but sturdy 11 inch models, and they play nice with Linux too.
This reflects my experience in Canada. It's really hard to figure out how much of your taxes goes specifically towards health care, but we put a significant amount of effort into a calculation a few years ago and came up with a number in the same ballpark as the premiums for a very good private plan in the US. The problem is then trying to compare the composition; there are lots of aspects of the Canadian public plan that are superior to the USA, notably access to frontline services and certain widely used drugs (in the news: cheap insulin w/o a prescription). There are also many components that are vastly inferior, like timely access to diagnostics or procedures that seem "quality of life" related but really are not (ex: delayed hip replacements lead to major health issues).

So it's not just free vs. pay, but also what exactly you're buying. Unfortunately the single public payer in Canada system is a sacred cow, much like the idea of "socialized medicine" in the US is a non-starter. Everyone just digs their heels in and holds to the extremes, so the idea of small experiments of change never gets much traction...
That last one is brilliant.
I've seen several talks where they demoed showing access to hydroelectric dams, etc.

I'm thankfully not this person, but at a basic level I could see some bored teen turning off a dam just for fun.

Honestly the only reason I don't is because it would be "wrong" to do, but the internet is full of people, it's certainly not a stretch that somebody would want to.
Agreed on your first point.

Although I think massive US defense spending during the Cold War was the primary factor in deterring the Soviets from tank rushing the Fulda Gap (and Soviet domination of Europe in general). I think it’s pretty clear that the Soviets were aggressively opportunistic in expanding their political and military influence (Hungary in 1956, etc)
Volkswagen Plugs Scooters, Admits 'Traffic Collapse' Will Kill Car Use in Cities
> Choices can change. This would require some changes in laws on euthanasia obviously, nothing insurmountable.

Sure but questions arise:

"How much mental trauma/cognitive damage can a normal human mind sustain before it is no longer capable of comprehending its choices (or even the concept of "choice") at all?"

"Will the brain-in-a-vat scenario exceed that limit?"

> ...some of which might be able to handle Alzheimer's

As I alluded to before, is it possible to unscramble an egg?
A new genetic algorithm for traffic control optimization
DevOps Culture, Whatever That Means [video]
I'm confident that the Alt+f4 cheat-code was around before Runescape ;) It was inevitably told to every new member at our LAN parties in the late 90s - the few who knew were often assigned admin duty to diagnose network/PC problems (which were frequent).
Interesting. Maybe I should experiment again with Sativa. Thank you for the info.
A couple things I find useful:

- ZFS fileshare

- Plex Server

- Time Machine server for Macs

- CUPS server, my printer is old and requires drivers, so now I can print from my phone and computers without drivers

- Run your own IRC bouncer if you're into that kind of thing

- Run a seedbox, just for Linux ISOs of course :)