skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My specific complaint with the dialogue is that nearly every character talks in the same way: robotic and professorial. It's a symptom of Liu's poor character design, especially when it comes to female characters. His characters' motivations are often opaque so their actions are inexplicable.

I could forgive this (even Arthur C. Clarke wasn't much interested in characters) if it wasn't for some of the laughably absurd plot points the novel hinges on.
It baffles me when people treat RDBMS as swappable dumb datastore.
We have secret concentration camps?
Deploy a single-node kubernetes instance and learn some containers/dev-ops to put on your CV, that'd be my advice.
This can be done by encrypting each backed-up item and forgetting the key for deleted items that shouldn't be restorable from backup. You still need to decide how long the keys should be kept, though.
I've had a ton of fun with setting up FreeIPA [1] to do LDAP/Kerberos for single sign-on. It's a primarily RH project but I think they have a working server implementation for Ubuntu and derivatives.

[1]https://www.freeipa.org/page/Main_Page
Federally-funded farm subsidies are a huge deal to rural people in Midwest. Those are largely possible because mostly rural states like Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and the Dakotas have senators who strongly advocate for those deals.

Appalachians don't have the type of land that benefits from those subsidies, and they don't have enough clout to get an equivalent type of economic benefit package. The TVA was the last major economic project the feds funded, and it was hugely popular because it did actually improve the lives of people there. Better federal representation at the Senate level wouldn't solve every problem, but it could definitely alleviate some of the pain.
The southeastern portion of the state has (in what I’ve read) traditionally been considered part of Appalachia. Geophysically, it’s simple: the one-third or so of Ohio that wasn’t flattened by the glaciers. It’s rolling, increasingly hilly as you get down to the Ohio River. I went to school at Ohio University in Athens, and a bunch of classes there consider Appalachia a part of their studies and focus.
I read Hillbilly Elegy when it came out and my first reaction was “hey, wait, Middletown is really more blue collar, rust belt.” My second reaction is “boy, Vance sure is willing to speak for a huge geographic area that he’s at best only on the edge of.”
But to the Bitter Southerner piece, I want to say that the whole “you have to be from a place to talk about a place” thesis has, for me, been as wobbly as anything Vance puts out. So, what, born there? And the deeper inside the geographic boundaries, the better? Nah. But maybe the author (of the Bitter piece) makes a stronger point that ANY generalization of people tied to a geographic area is weak, shallow, insufficient by definition. People will surprise you. (That’s my generalization.)
Interested in the chess aspect, what do you do with the analysis when it completes?
I do criticize Google for many things, including their usage of email. But you are right, they can keep it forever as there is no mutually legal binding agreement and mutual NDA signed, witnessed and counter-signed by all parties.

When gmail was first created, I was one of the people to first whine about them trawling through messages for URLs and crawling them. Some friends and I would link to files that didn't set content length and would feed them data forever. They eventually caught on to that.
There is still WordPerfect for Windows, which has it. I tried using it again in 2010 or so, but found he program to be a little clunky UI-wise. My impression after reading support forums was that they spend minimal money on maintenance and don’t really develop it any more.
Oh, no, University of Houston.
I actually made a library for that!

It's published on npm and everything. It's small, a bit unpolished, maybe needs more docs, but it works pretty damn well if you ask me!

https://gitlab.com/svartkonst/match
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Exactly, they can just call it a "device management fee" "provisioning fee" or some such.
That wasn’t a government takedown request, so it wouldn’t be on this list.
They are native to New York yes, the eastern grey squirrel is a north american species.¹

However, the squirrels in Central Park, were deliberately introduced.

It's unclear whether they were absent from Manhattan naturally, or whether they were extirpated due to urbanization, and the re-introduced later.

And about the invasive status of the grey squirrel in Britain, it's sad that they were deliberately released in Britain, because it's not as if they swam across the Atlantic or hopped a freighter.

Now you guys are fighting an extermination campaign with all the regrettable suffering it causes to both squirrels and humans.

1: The Urbanization of the Eastern Gray Squirrel in the United States
Etienne Benson
J Am Hist (2013) 100 (3): 691-710.
Are you telling me I can look up projected ~11 feet sea rise coastal line, buy up cheap land, blow up the glacier and profit?
They do already have an extremely large moderation staff. Most likely every piece of content that has a large number of views has been moderated already. If it’s visible to you, that means they are OK with that content being available.
Yes, I'm in the US - Minnesota in fact. Our worst bush/tree invader is Buckthorn, but Honeysuckle is right behind it. I believe both were introduced as garden plants.
It's how they got Al Capone back in the 30s. Not for all the illegal things he did. For failing to pay the taxes on all the illegal things he did.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Capone#Tax_evasion
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basis for your first point is

I have read 100s of such 'studies' over the years, they are not meeting even the most basic scientific standards. I have brought one such case to the attention of the university of its author -- to no avail, the university buried it. Publication hoaxes like [1] don't exactly increase confidence, as far as I'm aware the author who exposed the publishing hoax was punished. And then there's the replication crisis (which is not limited to the question at hand), e.g. try to find a suitable replication of stereotype threat.

Misogyny ... Sexism

Misogyny and Sexism are political terms, they are "Essentially Contested Concept" [2].

mostly an economic need for more
people in STEM

I agree with this, but note that this is a political reason in a general sense, not one of 'oppression'. So you seem to be agreeing.

countries that do have more women in STEM

Yes, and the best example are the former Soviet block countries. Note that they did not engage in modern affirmative action as we now know them for STEM in the west -- they more or less allocated people to jobs.

is a valid concern.

Indeed, but I don't see any reason to believe that the current approach in the west is the best possible one. Mostly it seems to be creating an unaccountable, non-democratic industry of enforcers.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essentially_contested_concept

[2] https://retractionwatch.com/2016/04/07/philosophy-journal-sp...
I recently started seeing songs that had 9 famous artists in the artist field, some of which were artists I follow so the song appeared in my recommended playlists.
If others are looking to move away from Spotify, here is a comparison of what streaming services pay artists per stream.

https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2018/12/25/streaming-music-...
Nice - I did a similar thing: https://gitlab.com/svartkonst/match

Yours is pretty clever and explores a few things I thought about, too
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Yeah, that was the point of the sentence. A man who wasn't Appalachian was telling a room full of educated Appalachian intellectuals that Appalachians are happy making 24k a year because they don't "need to show off".

Also, it wasn't an "ivory tower" (such a limp, worn-out descriptor) meeting, it was a book launch, and it was literally open to the public.
Most likely voltage regulotor coils (which live in PSU / GPU or motherboard)
I believe they are referring to the United States' ICE camps for deportees where there have been several notable deaths due to lack of medical care.
i used to have an obsessive habit of right-clicking the desktop and selecting refresh. took me ages to exorcise that out of me when i switched to a linux. i remember not liking that it didn't have that option.
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The Windows 10 EULA (XP has similar verbage) says:

c. Restrictions. The device manufacturer or installer and Microsoft reserve all rights (such as rights under intellectual property laws) not expressly granted in this agreement. For example, this license does not give you any right to, and you may not:
(skipping a few)
(vi) reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble the software, or attempt to do so, except and only to the extent that the foregoing restriction is (a) permitted by applicable law; (b) permitted by licensing terms governing the use of open-source components that may be included with the software; or (c) required to debug changes to any libraries licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License which are included with and linked to by the software; and

The EULA says you can reverse engineer to the extent that is legal in your jurisdiction.
Please submit again when there is such a guide. Right now nothing on the website even mentions the guide. The newsletter says "Subscribe to be the first to hear about our exclusive offers and latest arrivals." so you might target fellow partners and peers but it's not clear from the message.
Well, I'll admit to not being an expert on the American school system with which I only had a few years of contact. If that really is the case, that grade level of reading ability and number of grades completed is not linked then that is certainly an indictment of the American system of education. I'm happy to amend my claim that 10th graders can read the New Yorker to say that by American academic standards, they should be able to but often are not.

It doesn't change the fact that the CEFR framework is not intended either to measure native proficiency nor to assess the difficulty of a written text.

I'm not disputing that the New Yorker is written at a higher level than the average American cares to read, just disputing the use of CEFR framework to assess the text.
> While running Emacs over a modem, I got into the habit of regularly typing ^A ^E to pace my cursor back and forth across the current line, to keep connection warm.

Huh. I got into that habit recently, because over the past year, I've been frequently working on the go, by SSH-ing to my home desktop and using Emacs terminal frame (emacsclient -t)[0]. I do regular "weather checks" with ^A and ^E - because the hardware has its weather, SSH has its weather, and the link I'm on has its own weather too (particularly when using an LTE hotspot, though I've noticed even when being in the same LAN, the response time is not always consistent).

What's old is new again :).

--

[0] - With terminal emulators supporting 256 colors, it looks very similar to the GUI Emacs. This mode of working is really quite good, and lets me use my underpowered sidearm 2-in-1 tablet/netbook to do things that would ordinarily require powerful hardware.
A rant that reads very much in the style of Open Letter to Hobbyists[1]. Typical MS.

[1]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Letter_to_Hobbyists
Raymond Chen's blog is always a great source of interesting information.

But I remember the times when that blog didn't look like a webdesign internship project in progress. And there were interesting comments…
I think the main problem is the posted document referring to sources without giving even the title of the papers it refers to. Only a link, nothing else. This a very non-standard way to use references.
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> Wrong schema specifications and not knowing to implement nested set patterns is a sign that they don't have a knowledgeable DBA on staff.

In my personal experience, startups and even top tech companies don't really have DBAs on staff. They hire good generalist programmers, but they rarely get true specialists, especially DBAs.

DBAs are generally found in banks and in non-tech enterprise companies, from what I've seen.
X-ray data isn't as identifying as facial recognition. And quite honestly, you're so concerned about this, you've already lost the war since everywhere you walk, you're bound to be caught by a camera.

You need real legislation to fix this problem.
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"the street finds its own uses for things". possibly it should be piloted in small groups first
> I often would use the mouse cursor to 'mark' the position of the loading bar (we really are spoiled for speed these days).

This is just me, oh my gosh. I thought I was the only one who did that. But now I come to think about it, it can't be true.

It has been a really long time since I used that technique last time...
> It's about making it really clear what is happening.
You could say the same thing about Java, so your argument basically boils down into “I like Go, and I don’t like Java”. What is clear and important to one person is needlessly verbose to another, what is cryptic to a newcomer might be beautiful and concise to an expert. I’ve encountered idioms that horrified me the first time I saw them which I eventually grew to love, and I’ve been smitten by syntax sugar that I thought would be great and turned out to be a disaster. It’s hard to know how stuff like this will play out, every language evolves its own style and rhythm over time, and sometimes it takes reading and writing a lot of code to find the right balance.
Was it? Do you have some links about that?

I meant the fact that after several years since Vulkan was launched, Apple still doesn't support it on macOS / iOS.
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We’re looking to bring in a product-minded full stack engineer to own development and growth of Hack Club Bank (https://hackclub.com/bank/), which we launched on Hacker News four months ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19257241).

Hack Club Bank is growing quickly, crossing $600K in transactions two weeks ago. You will have a founder-like engineering role and will work with our founder and Executive Director to flesh out the vision and strategy. You will lead the charge to get us to $6M in transactions over the next 12 months. The potential goes way beyond high school hackathons: it’s every US nonprofit with an annual budget of under ~$300K (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiscal_sponsorship).

The product is revenue generating, we’re a well-funded growing nonprofit that recently won the $1M Frank Foundation grant (https://grant.frank.ly/), and we have two major partnerships for HC Bank close to closing, but we need the right person to make them happen. These two partnerships would add an additional $4M in transactions over the next 12 months alone.

Interested? Email me at zach@hackclub.com with why you think you’d be a good fit for this role. About you: obsessive, product-minded, deeply technical, past experience with Rails and if not, able to learn.
I suspect these things change mostly in generational waves. Children have a tendency to see things exactly for what they are.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roREnVhd_og
> Add passport(s) to your current one, and see your score improve.

Interesting, but it's not so easy to "add" a passport to you.
More remote work isn't going to make a significant number of people want to stay in these uneducated, economically-depressed locales. They aren't just leaving for the work, they're leaving to get away from the local culture.
All the EU countries (Norway, Switzerland and Netherlands) include the footnote "All or vast majority of requests relate to illegal gambling investigations."
I've seen this story before. It was a fun read and there are a few others on this site as well.

https://dbrgn.ch/stories-from-the-internet.html
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Location: Berlin, Germany

Remote: Yes, if needed. I've managed and worked with remote engineers and have access to good a co-working setup (the Factory in Berlin).

Willing to relocate: No; but occasional travel would be possible.

Technologies: Kotlin (backend), Elasticsearch, AWS/Docker, Java, Stellar and lots more.

Résumé/CV: jillesvangurp on Github/Linkedin/Twitter/HN/etc. email me for a full CV

Email: jilles AT jillesvangurp.com

I'm looking for contracts for backend engineering work and am comfortable in senior/tech lead/CTO type roles. I'm mostly specialized in Kotlin/Java but also looking to branch out to other tech stacks. Anything involving Stellar, Elasticsearch, or location based services would be a good match for me.

Things I've done recently:

- Build Kotlin clients for Elasticsearch and Stellar (Github)

- Set up ELK based logging and analytics using Elastic Cloud. If you'd like to modernize your logging, security auditing, monitoring/metrics, apm, etc., I can help.

- Build Inbot (I've been a 1 person dev team for the last year+) - Stellar based reward program where our users earn InToken for rewards issued by our customers.

- Build the search engine for matmatch.com using Elasticsearch; a material and metal alloy search engine.

- Lots more for Inbot, Nokia/Here, and others.

What I can do for you:

- Generic Java/Kotlin projects. I've done Spring Boot, servlets, data crunching, and much more. I've been doing stuff using Java since 1996 and Kotlin for the last few years.

- Jump start converting your Java code base to Kotlin. I'm good at refactoring and modernizing legacy code bases. Kotlin makes Java fun again.

- Get you started with gaining insight into what is happening in your systems via Elastic based tools.

- Architecting a search engine and guiding your product managers through the process of adding search, autocomplete, did you mean, and other search related functionality to your product

- Get you started with a block chain based product using Stellar, Ripple, or similar. Also interested in getting you started with the Libra tech stack and learning along with you what that entails.
Recently I heard someone talk about MPA, Marine Permaculture Arrays, that gave me a bit of optimism. There's plenty of pessimism, but we can choose where to focus. Imagine regenerating vast rivers of the fastest growing plant, kelp,
not just along the coasts where warm water has been causing die-offs, but in the open ocean too.

MPA are floating kelp farms. Floating, but submerged, using wave action to power pumps that provide nutrient laden cold water to help the kelp grow. These pumps are like the flaps valves in your toilet tank. Kelp could provide biostock for fuel among other economically valuable commodities. There has been prototype work done in Indonesia and the Philippines. The next implementation looks like it will be in Tasmania. There are a couple of challenging technical obstacles - the cost of current (ocean current) sensors, and nutrient sensors is too high now to make this scale. Some innovation is needed to bring the cost of those sensors down.
From some notes: The long range vision is to create an industry that will provide a range of ecosystem services that would supply food, fuel, fertilizer, fiber, farmaceuticals (nutraceuticals). Not just along the coasts, but in the open ocean. Think of it as biorefinery management. An MPA would likely have a 3 month service interval, and 3 year overhaul schedule to deal with things like biofouling that are part of maritime activities.

A one sq kilometer MPA might generate $1 million a year in value from kelp, maybe another $1 million a year from fish. The fish part is an unknown.

The best way to ride out an ocean storm is to submerge, like whales do. They could adjust bouyancy of an MPA if satellites tell them a storm is coming.

They intend to use mesoscale ocean current eddy shear levels to move MPA's to different locations in a region (imagine using foils to tack across the difference in current layers speeds, or to keep them circling in a small area, and want to develop cheaper marine vessel navigation automation [This means they won't need to anchor or tether the arrays to the bottom of the ocean]
You can install bind on it to serve your own dns, or wireguard vpn so you don’t get pwnd in a coffee shop. You could get dnsmasq going so you can give your lan computers proper domain names though it might not play nice with bind if it is on the same server.
But some things are inherently more difficult and that means a smaller part of the population are willing to put in the effort or are are smart enough. Nurses do different things than doctors and that means there are different requirements on their education.

Just like a software engineer that creates simple internal CRUD applications for an Enterprise will have lower requirements than someone who works in R&D at a cutting edge field. One is easier than the other while both still give value and both are still important.

One thing to note is that when it comes to for example doctors there are more young female doctors than young male doctors in Sweden these days so soon we will probably see a field were that is true for all age groups.
I created fake nudes in high school about 20 years ago... It's always been on the table for an artist to fake them, the only difference in that and deep nudes are that a computer does them. Why is it just now bothering people? Because of the buzz word of deepnude?
As marcosdumay says, smart should handle this, but you do have to look.

Iffy sectors get marked as Pending, Reallocated sectors are also marked. There's some smart stats for seek times too, I believe (but those weren't as clearly associated with failure as sector counts).

There is a danger that manufacturers will avoid acknowledging problems in smart, but so far, I haven't heard about that happening too often. There are certainly some drives that are dead or dying with fine smart values, but it seems rare, and there's often a not obvious dependency where a drive that is very unhealthy may not be able to record new smart values.
Yeah, the uploading of copyright infringing content is one aspect, but I was also wondering about just uploading rubbish and somehow generating fake listens or tricking real users into listening to your track (game the ranking algorithms to get it into recommended playlists) to get royalties.

Something like the Amazon ebook scams:

https://www.zdnet.com/article/exclusive-inside-a-million-dol...

https://www.inc.com/minda-zetlin/amazon-book-stuffing-author...
I wonder if its the anarchists or the libertarians you have upset?
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The dosages of CBD used in this study are far, far, too low to have any effect. Just like most CBD dosing in commercial situations. Usually scientific investigation use the actual useful dosages of 300-600 mg in humans. I guess these guys didn't do the required background review beforehand.

CBD is not active at the CB1 or CB2 receptors. It has very low affinity for them. It has moderate affinity for the serotonin-1a autoreceptor (that the anti-anxiety medication buspirone also targets). But only at very high dosages (ie, 300mg+).

So... this study has only really tested the placebo effect.

edit: I finished reading the journal article and it turns out they didn't use clinically relevant doses because it'd cost too much. So they decided to just go the placebo route.

>The doses used in this study (25 mg/d to 175 mg/d) were much lower than those reported in some of the clinical literature (300 mg/d to 600 mg/d)12–14,17 for 2 reasons. The first is that in our experience lower doses appear to elicit an adequate clinical response. Second, the current retail cost of CBD would make the use of 600 mg/d cost prohibitive.
Yes, Slack is blocked in China and other parts of the world. And not everyone uses Slack.