skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Although I dont agree what you said but I understand where it comes from.having said that, is worth pointing out, in East Asian Society, gangs have a much more complicated face than in west. there has been a culture of gang in Easter Asia, actually, nearly every modern party functioning in Japan, China and Korea has a gang root. China republican party relied on Shanghai gangs to maintain resistance under Japanese occupation. Japanese Yamaguchi-gumi is a crucial local power to maintain rules and help with social crisis. yes, they do bad things,really bad things. but Gangs in East Asia is not only about bad things. they sometime act like a rule keeper. like in the heartbroken earthquake in Japan in 2011, local gangs are required to help with injured and transporting supplies etc, they have their own ways doing things.police sometimes have some kind of agreements with local gangs：restraint your people, help us when we need, and we keep one eye closed for your business.
They are. Both Google and Facebook are actively working on housing developments in the area.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/02/08/facebook-unveils-new-...

https://www.citylab.com/equity/2019/06/google-affordable-hou...
Repositories are working for me but I can reproduce the issue with profiles.
> Someone should interview those founders and ask them about their views on illegal immigration.

An important distinction the media never makes. To actually get at the real controversy, they should study how many of these founders jumped a fence and used a fake social security number.
Isn’t the problem that there is a concentration of high earners?
Would building a lunar space station get us closer to being able to deflect mass extinction sized asteroids?
Is it broken down by origin, class, etc? If we parametrize financial success then it may make sense to prioritize certain countries, classes, etc for immigration while filtering out the less successful, for the sake economy, because that's what's important of course.
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Duplicate, Ubisoft's announcement: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20497883
Ask HN: How to Organize Knowledge?
I am learning web dev for quite long. I can code sites such as static, simple flask based, and WordPress sites. When it comes to build a big project, I feel lack of knowledge and confident. I think it is due to self-acquired fragmented knowledge. How can I be confident and organize the knowledge?
If the only time you can recognize fascists is when they already have power, then you are completely helpless at preventing fascists from attaining that power.

There are always fascists. Some people who "throw around" that word have correctly identified them, perhaps others are mistaken. Surely it is up to you to figure who's figured it out if you would like to prevent fascists from seizing power.
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Increasing wages will not help as they will be captured by rising rents. I hate to get all Georgist here, but landowners are not creating economic value. In fact, by supporting zoning laws they are vastly worse than landowners historically. They are leaching off the productivity of the city. The moustache-twirling villains are not the business owners nor even the corporations, it is the land owners who created nothing yet receive most the value these workers generate. Just because this is a tyranny of a majority who owns, this does not make their yoke any less evil.

From a policy perspective, I like federal land-value taxes that tax based on the counterfactual value of the land absent zoning restrictions, which would internalize the costs of zoning on landowners.

But almost no common law jurisdiction has escaped the zoning-law trap, save for Texas. So I don't see it getting better any time soon.
> we could simulate insect brains right now

AFAICT this suggests that we have the computational power but wouldn't it also be a significant challenge to create an accurate model for the brain simulation?
I can't browse repositories, can only get to their top level.
I love those drawn looking animation videos for games like
The Burdens of Shaohao https://g.co/kgs/419Tq1 but are there any video game examples where those tools would be beneficial? My video game knowledge is not wide enough. Blender I can definitely see.
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/610720/why-getting-back-t...

https://www.space.com/7015-40-years-moon-landing-hard.html

Lots of the know how, resources, and people are gone forever. Just because we have lots of computers now doesn’t solve all problems. Apollo was an incredible feat of humanity. There’s a reason no other country has ever sent humans to the moon, it’s really hard.
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Facebook is looking into paying its employees in scrip, and now they should also be indebted to the company town?

I get what you're saying, and I want to agree, but it smacks of the old Company Town that I grew up in, and the current FIFO/DIDO living conditions of remote Australian mining towns.

It is bad enough that so many FAANG employees are in trouble with immigration if they lose their jobs. The fear of losing one's home would be a pretty powerful force in labor relations.

Yes, it would be a good to build more housing, and it would be convenient to reserve some of that housing for your workers, and it would be a perk to subsidize that housing for your workers, but we'd have to wrap some serious regulations around them that would likely make Company Housing devolve pretty quickly.
I'll go ahead and say the quiet part loud, if Blender can create a low cost alternative to Maya and the rest especially for entry and beginning level modelers and animators, this is a great thing.
At a state auction, I got a dual processor 2009 Mac Pro for $250. I did spend a bit on extra hardware as it's a server and a multiseat desktop. It has 2 low watt AMD GCN cards, 48 GB RAM, 2 hexacore processors, 4 SSDs and hard drives. It's quiet and is good enough to have 1 seat playing Tomb Raider while the other is playing Hitman while having nginx forwarding to Tomcat which starts Guacamole which connects to GDM so I can get my desktop in a browser as well as other more typical stuff like sshd.
I read a lot of UNIX oral history stuff and Dennis Ritchie's comments about a community forming around a single computer always stuck with me. Now, I have something like that and am enjoying the experience. If I can figure out how to add more seats, I'll enjoy it even more.
Generally speaking: "There are four boxes to be used in the defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury and ammo. Please use in that order."[0]

Where to draw that line is a personal choice. There are no simple answers. "You can never make that choice" is just as extreme and absolute an answer as "any time you are unhappy about anything the government does, start shooting."

[0]-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_boxes_of_liberty
Not all repositories / profiles are affected for me. And for repositories not all pages are affected.

e.g. https://github.com/typeorm/typeorm/ is accessible, but the commit list at https://github.com/typeorm/typeorm/commits/master is dead.
My repos are down too
I understand what the author is getting at. I myself have read links about new tools and frameworks and might think afterward, "that's pretty cool". Then I'll read the comments section where often I might fall into the trap of hoping others share the same opinion and maybe feel a little hurt and offended when those hopes are dashed. That is simply the nature of any social media platform. And it's probably healthier to let the comments section act as an additional resource on the topic, and one that might challenge our own way of thinking. In this way, comments are not agents of decline in our critical thinking. They are instead, part of its growth process, providing us with differing perspectives that should themselves be evaluated on their own merits and incorporated into our own thinking about the original topic.

I myself can't imagine this site without the comments, especially for additional links that are often provided relevant to the post. They are a great place to deepen one's own investigation of an interesting topic. And I've often been led to other parts unknown to me when reading them.
Identifying and taking action on underperformance is essential to running a great company and we have a lot of information on how we do this on https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/underperformance/

I don't think that working remotely is the main cause of this. There are people underperforming in many companies who work on-site.

I'll be the last person to say something about spending a lot of time on HN since I do so myself. In general we don't want to talk about how you spend your time but about your output. We measure results and not hours https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/values/#measure-results-no...
`git push` failing as well
Don't xattrs behave subtly differently on different filesystems? It makes sense to me to reduce the size of the testing matrix.
Yep. I removed them from my life after the 3 device limit and will.nit fo back. I will give a few bucks to Apple, Google and Microsoft for their file services for a while as I decide which one I like best.
Because putting a certain race in literal concentration camps isn’t fascism but just different opinions.
Actually, we provide a command-line interface, you can do pretty much everything the UI does with command-line. And you can also run it in server mode with command-line. In the current version, we haven't covered scheduling yet. A possible solution would be scheduling through Airflow BashOperator in airflow. Or we can implement scheduling solution into the server itself.
I don't see how it could be. What can insect brains do that we couldn't get AI to do?
Looks like it is now. Must not be automatic tho.
Popularity can be faked through marketing.
I promise I'm not a shill. I just know Teams takes forever to load, and Slack seems to load flawlessly as I scroll.

I know on the web interface Teams it seems to work, and perhaps it's just a matter of time before MS figures it out. Still, annoying.
Seeing this too. Not all repos seem to be affected. My guess is something got deployed too quickly on their side.
>The following line especially picked my interest

FYI, it's "piqued my interest."
"Not only will Ubisoft help funding online support for Blender developers, Ubisoft Animation Studio – a department of Ubisoft Film and Television – will also use Blender for their productions and assign developers to contribute to Blender’s open source projects."

This seams like a really big deal. It's one thing to try to create a desert of profitability around yourself, which a lot of huge companies giving money to tangential FOSS projects could be construed as. It is quite another to have them commit to use the software internally.

Are there any other large multimedia companies that are known to primarily use FOSS media production programs?
The housing crisis isn't because nobody wants to build housing, but because housing is difficult to build legally. The big tech companies face exactly the same problem that everyone else faces (actually: even more so since a "company town" is unpopular for other reasons).
Can't browse reps either
Yes, that's my point: you don't need to simulate a protein with that tool because we have good enough models of higher level structures like atoms. And similarly we might find models for neurons that allow us to avoid full emulation all protein interactions. We figured out how atoms work before we figured out how nuclei work, but with neurons it's the opposite: we know/can figure out how the the parts (proteins) of the machine work but not how the entire machine works.
Never knew about this, and completely missed it when reading about them on exploringjs.

Thank you for the explanation!
I think my cat is truly f-ing with me.

He'll go belly-up in front me, allow me to pet his belly while seemingly enjoying it, then, take a swipe with his paw, watch me retract, then go belly-up again.
1. The Bible

2. Mere Christianity - C.S. Lewis
Lesson learned: Don't keep cats.
this is still microsoft. are they going to drop the "open" from their name?
That immigration is a positive for America.

Are you seriously asking?
What is it like, not how is it like, you could say how was it like. but how is it just doesnt feel right
> If it works for other cities, the problem clearly isn't the rate of pay.

Ok. So if they earned 5 dollars a day, it would be ok because it works for cities in third world countries? I think it's obvious that the local cost of living is always a relevant factor in pay.
As a governmental entity, NASA will never be removed from politics. A million different things could completely derail any sort of 5-10 year plan, not to mention that as soon as NASA got a "guaranteed" fund-for-5-years-and-leave-us-alone budget, every other federal agency will clamor for that too.

Long-term planning requires alignment of incentives. In government, the incentives of top officials are short-term in the extreme: get re-elected at all costs; grow next year's budget at all costs (e.g. waste all the ammo at the end of the year). Of course, more authoritarian states often tout their 5 Year Plans, but you're making quite a few tradeoffs of civil and economic liberties to get there.

Until there is market-driven demand for humans to be on or around the Moon, politics will dominate the story.
This sounds like that story about Google paying people $5 to scan their face.

It's a trap. Don't fall for it.
The status page is showing that this affects git operations, api requests, and particular pages: https://www.githubstatus.com/
Can you provide sources for this? Like, how many people thought chess or go were literally impossible for computers to play at superhuman level? I'm actually curious about the history, and I don't want us to accidentally attack a straw man.

To me, the fact that Turing wrote the first chess program in the 1950s suggests that people thought computers were capable of playing chess. It doesn't seem too great a leap to imagine that they'd be open to the idea that a supercomputer could play superhuman chess.
Main repo page open fine. Cannot see commit log or PRs.
The fine should be more, a lot more. At least double that since the article said they are currently paying about the same as their quarterly profits.

But I am glad to see they aren't getting out with a slap on the wrist.
GitHub is down for some users
Many restaurant owners in the bay area are annoyed at Google and Facebook, because they keep on hiring away their line cooks and other staff with higher pay and better benefits.

I suppose this article is on the front page because it bashes tech companies though.
sd card performance specs are all a joke.

they are "at most" some speed. What even is the point of writting such spec?

the car analogy would be if you measure some car going down a hill (doesn't even matter if tumbling and killing everyone inside), measuring that it was 300mph and then advertising it as "speeds of 300mph!!!"
One thing I notice with the calculator is it is a simple scaling factor. While this scales for an employee's cost of living, it also scales how much they can save.

An employee on $200k in San Francisco spending 50% on their lifestyle and no kids can retire by 40 to a more economically sane region with similar facilities. A similar employee doing the same job in that more economically sane region for $100k spending that same 50% is working until they are 50.

Which ends up meaning that in the cheaper regions you are only recruiting from the pool of people unable to move to wealthier regions with higher pay (which granted is a high proportion due to family).
On an economical level, what's a better solution? Facebook paying their kitchen staff more (than the current $23/hr), or SF taking steps to lower its cost of living so that "one job should be enough" to get by on minimum wage (currently $15/hr)? Or something else?
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It's very impressive. The Russians also fixed the insulation on their Proton rocket carrying Spektr-RG with some glue and launched a day later! They had to wait a month after the previous problem, however, which required a battery replacement: http://www.russianspaceweb.com/spektr-rg-launch.html
Slack’s desktop app now launches 33% faster, uses 50% less memory
> What does it mean to mmap a file on an NFS server?

It means you have issues around synchronization and performance, if you use it as anything other than a private read only mapping.

And some things are just impossible, like a shared memory ringbuffer. Which is exactly what you do with the memory you mmap from a video card: submit commands to the command ringbuffer.

> So it's a better idea to not implement many of these things and instead simply return an error.

And now you need to start writing multiple code paths in user code, testing which calls work and which don't, one of which will be broken due to lack of testing. And when you guess wrong at the needed operations, software often goes off the rails instead of failing gracefully. Failure modes like blindly retrying forever, or assuming the wrong state of the system and destroying data.

Too many complicated abstractions break the ability to do interesting things with a system. It's death by a thousand edge cases.

On plan 9, you have 9p.

https://9p.io/magic/man2html/5/0intro

That, and process creation/control/namespace management, are the only ways to do anything with the system. There are few edge cases. Implementing a complete, correct server is a matter of hours, not weeks.
A reference to back this up:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_rent

At this point I fully support the "nuclear option" against NIMBYs: the state needs to step in and override local zoning. Local zoning boards have proven themselves to be self-interested obstructionists who are only interested in bleeding cities dry by restricting supply to profit off real estate inflation. My ears are pretty much closed to any appeal otherwise. NIMBYs can go to hell.
When you live in a city/state that is pushing out the middle/lower classes through increased government regulations and taxes, this is what happens.

This is not a blueprint for the rest of the US. I hope voters take notice.
Or the status is automatically being updated once a certain percentage of requests fail in e.g. the last 5 minutes, thus introducing a bit of delay.
Forming an opinion based solely on the title or the (perceived) author's bias without ever reading the content is a problem no matter where you stand. Which is why I asked OP to help me understand their reasoning behind discrediting the author, suggesting a conclusion but not even attempting to discuss the content. How is this different from anybody responding to a comment solely by attacking the person who wrote it and their political affiliations rather than attempt to discuss the actual content?

Would you question a reply like "Please keep in mind that this opinion came from [a member of party X] / [a supporter of cause Y] so I don't think their opinion is neutral [period]" to one of your comments or remarks? And that's not even going into the whole "what's a 100% neutral opinion".

And so many downvotes for a question that was not leading in any way (offered both alternatives as equally probable) also suggests a bias to consider only the arguments that support your own views and react "aggressively" to anything that seems to clash with their beliefs.
maybe until you have more people it would be cool to just have one episode a day? So everyone can come at the same time and maybe decide (via chat) what to watch.

It's a little disappointing to be alone there
Humans are not GI's - evidenced by the fact that we have no idea how to build an AGI. We're only good at surviving using society, technology and all the resources of nature.
Do did not increase revenue by 10x in 2018. We more than doubled IACV (and hence revenue) in 2018.
Relevant discussion: “Linux users were only 0.1% of sales but 20% of crashes and tickets”[1]

I feel like in open source this tends to work itself out with community patches, but with closed source it can become a real pain.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18845205
On one hand, this got everyone to focus and things happened fast.

On the other hand, the result was only what was asked for. We went half a dozen times and then that was it. You want bigger missions? A base? Mars? Nope, not what we’re going for.

Without JFK’s challenge, I’m sure we would have taken longer, but maybe it would have been more sustainable.
The GDPR (and other data privacy legislation) uses the concept of a "data controller" and a "data processor". Data controllers use a variety of data processors to deliver a service to their users.

If you ran a SAAS and used Fathom analytics, a SMTP email provider (to send password resets), a newsletter provider (for your monthly newsletter), a blog host etc. each of those would be data processors as you (the SAAS) are making the determination of where user data is going on the backend.

As a data controller, it's your responsibility to make sure that each of those services you are using is handling the data in an appropriate and safe way.

As to who gets fined if there is a data breach: the answer is likely nobody. I say this because it's not like you have a credit card on file and breach automatically means a fine. What really matters is what actions you're taking before and after a breach.

- As a data controller did you notify your users with no undue delay?

- As a data processor did you notify the SAAS with no undue delay?

- Did you identify the source of the breach? Did you take steps to remedy it?

For almost all these privacy regulations if you:

1. Take steps to protect user data/privacy like https, encryption etc.

2. Provide a mechanism to allow users to make data requests for their own identifying data

3. Notify users if there's a data breach

You would be in compliance.
Or risk taker. Going to a country you have no ties to, and starting a whole new life... Takes guts...
That can be a useful analogy, but it's important to realize that this is only metaphorically an ecosystem. Human society is created by conscious agents with specific intent. It's a designed system.

Talking about parasites can explain what is happening, and point us in the direction of solutions. But is must never be used to justify.
If you pay people more than the parties with the highest leverage will extract more rent from your employees.
I can't download it: https://github.com/ananas-analytics/ananas-desktop , I get a Github server error. Is it just me?

Edit: not just me, Github issues.
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Warning: Elizabeth Warren on Medium. There's a lot of "here's what I've been doing", and "follow my policy proposals to avoid a crash". Oh, and of course, "Trump is driving us toward the crash".

She may in fact be right. But right or wrong, she definitely is campaigning.
Vote different. Same guys for decades.
Both of those links are down for me.
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That is the tweet of a man who slept through 2014.
They do, it's linked in the blog:

https://blog.mozilla.org/javascript/2017/12/12/javascript-st...

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=192782

Also did you mean http caching? Not sure why would want to remove that. It's still important for the browser to get the latest script content before the bytecode caching happens.
GitHub uses an insane amount of caching. I bet that’s why some aren’t 500. But probably will be in a few minutes once it expires.
Looks like GitHub is experiencing errors, just had the same problem with an unrelated repo.
Some of our repos are down, others are fine...

We'll have to wait.
Mine too! We have been mislead all along...
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