skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
.ICU domains are the 3rd most registered TLD at NameSilo
Whole new language & codebase. Old developer left, we don't write Go.
Fair, though it still indicates that Americans walk much less than Germans if for commuting Germans are using walking so much more.
I conflate the two because I was temporarily nuts. Doh!

Of course ultrasound exists, and can exist in air up to the GHz range (not for very far).

Anyway, sorry for misinfo and thanks for the correction.
Good that git is a distributed VCS. At least our master branch history is available on our local PCs, and we can freely work. Yupi.
Yeah, the train ticket from Stansted to London was more than the flight a lot of the time. I ended up going between them depending on circumstances. If I was booking late (couple days' notice) Cityjet was almost always competitive.
Linus's Law
That boy is always crying wolf, said the wolf.
Autodesk Maya plugin software licensing
Since the United States tried offering a general amnesty in 1986, the size of the unlawful population has steadily grown and while it has dipped in recent years, it still is over three times what it after the 1986 amnesty.
Sure, I'm not really faulting the individuals here. But we collectively set the rules for the game of life. Maybe we should pick ones with better outcomes for both individuals and society as a whole.
Interesting. Do you have any sources re: local business owners having issues with this?
Fuck em. I've learned my lesson and set up my own nextcloud instance. Couldn't be happier, definitely not going back!
Ok, but why did you name it after pineapples?
You can't spell GitLab and GitHub, so you deserve it.
Yeah in a squint-hard kinda way.... ;)
Privacy Preserving P2P Networks [video]
I don't really read it as inaccurate. They did launch the Chandrayaan-2 mission on the 2nd attempt after the first attempt was aborted. If the first try had failed completely, it wouldn't necessarily still be the Chandrayaan-2 moon mission.

Not sure why some folks are upset about the tone of the article. I read the entire article and didn't find anything snarky or condescending towards India and their ambitious space program.

For what it's worth, I'm Indian.
Quivering bird eggs prep each other for predators before they hatch
it seems many have missed the point, or at least that’s not how I read this.

This is not about if immigrants didn’t found company X, an American could do it (well that’s valid about crimes and drugs too! Right?). It’s also not about if they were first generation or second generation.

I believe the study shows immigrants overall had a positive contribution and big impact. Either by themselves or their family.

And this is a good study for people that only see immigrants as a source of crimes and negative impacts.
I can't find any results for either Norbert Weiner or Alan Turing saying those things - do you have a source?
It can simultaneously be the case that restaurant workers are underpaid and that the jobs at Facebook/Google are better paid. These workers may have improved their pay but still not be making enough to make ends meet.

Also, in many (but certainly not all) restaurants tips are shared with back of house staff.
Now I really want the author to rename it pineapple in the English localization, and leave it Ananas every where else...
OK now I can go back from MEGA
Thought this was odd - I don't think I've ever seen a .icu domain in the wild before. Apparently it stands for "I see you", not intensive care unit. Does anyone know what they're used for?

edit: Seems like it may potentially be because they are cheap to register - about $1.50.
I found out an old win95 computer with turbo pascal 7 on it. I was so amazed about the IDE .. yet hard coded keybindings made me suffer so much. I couldn't stop saying "if that was emacs I .."
> You will never see a left-leaning activist group representing the working class in California support a market-based solution like permitting more for-profit development. If that ever happens, it will be despite these workers' objections.

That's like, literally, the entire platform of the YIMBY movement. These groups are by and large left-leaning, and activist groups. They generally support more market rate or affordable (or both!) housing. Basically any development.
I hope these people manage to get better pay. I hope the same thing happens all across the Bay Area in all service jobs, and I hope the pressure trickles up until the tech employees feel the squeeze of $25 burritos, plus even worse rents as the people making their lunches can afford to live in the city and compete for housing. Then I hope people either stop accepting tech jobs in the Bay Area, or companies decide it's a losing proposition to set up shop in a place where you have to pay $250k a year to a new grad.

We've got better communications and networks than any time in history. Why do software companies, which consume no raw materials and produce no physical product (both good reasons for setting up in a port city), all need to cluster in half a dozen spots? Think how much more runway you could get out of your seed funding if you set up shop in Missoula or Albuquerque, where you can rent a whole house for $1500/mo, can hire from the local university, and have beautiful outdoor recreation within a 15 minute drive?
"A high % of your money" is not "all your money".

Let's say I've bought these bogus cards. This is the starting point, with dirty money. Anything bought here is obvious and traceable. I take that money, and I buy Visa gift cards, which basically function as cash. I take those Visas and buy Amex gift cards, losing 6% (ballparking here, it's actually 5.95% for $100) of my take to fees and then another 10% to fees/shipping for Amex. I funnel those through fake app purchases on the app store and lose a further 20% of my original take.

I now have about 55-65% of my original take in relatively clean money that I convert to bitcoin and back. If you're talking thousands of dollars here, this can easily be worth it. Doubly so if you live in a country where the expectations of police are that they're not going to have the resources to pursue this kind of crime for whatever reason. Get enough people doing this and enough accounts to make the flow through multiple channels, and you've got yourself the makings of a multi-million dollar money laundering service you can sell out to identity thieves (or use for your own thieves).
Just imagine a small being jumping up from the ground onto your hands, walking over them repeatedly against your will (hitting random keys on your keyboard and putting their butt in your face while they're at it) and following you wherever you go. If that sounds unpleasant to you, then it's probably unpleasant for a human.
I can not name the company, also I am not technically an employee - I do remote contracting for them, but it is likely to be long term. I found them through my network, but I am getting emails with offers for UK recruiters on an (almost) weekly basis - so there is remote work out there. It requires a different mindset tho, and what helped me, is that I managed remote teams before - thus I kind of understand what the other side expects.
This is off topic, so I'll understand if it gets downvoted, but...

Why are other, normal comments in these threads about GitHub being downvoted so quickly?
Probably.

This will in turn evolve a fauna that is well adapted to change.
That's a little difficult given that he died in 2016. There are not so many people left alive who remember the hard end of WW2-era fascism.

The one I always refer people to, written in 1995 but applicable to any time, is Umberto Eco's "Ur-Fascism". http://www.pegc.us/archive/Articles/eco_ur-fascism.pdf - written from his personal experience as a young boy in fascist Italy at the time of its liberation.

The full essay is long and detailed, and interestingly contrasts Italian fascism with Nazism; Eco's view was that Nazism was a specific philosophy and programme that was capable of clearly delineating what it was about, while fascism was much less intellectually coherent.

> Fascism became an all-purpose term because one can eliminate from a fascist regime one
or more features, and it will still be recognizable as fascist. Take away imperialism from
fascism and you still have Franco and Salazar. Take away colonialism and you still have
the Balkan fascism of the Ustashes. Add to the Italian fascism a radical anti-capitalism
(which never much fascinated Mussolini) and you have Ezra Pound. Add a cult of Celtic
mythology and the Grail mysticism (completely alien to official fascism) and you have
one of the most respected fascist gurus, Julius Evola.

But he ultimately distils it down to fourteen characteristic points. It is up to the reader to apply them to modern movements and see how well the resemblance holds.

(cult of tradition; rejection of modernism; irrationalism; disagreement is treason; appeal against intruders; appeal to middle class; obsession with a plot against the nation; feel humiliated by the ostentatious wealth and force of their enemies; life is permanent warfare; popular elitism; heroism as death cult; machismo; selective populism & anti-parliamentarianism; and "newspeak")
Free markets work better than controlled markets as history has shown.
> But almost no common law jurisdiction has escaped the zoning-law trap, save for Texas

If by 'Texas' you mean 'Houston', then yes. AFAIK most if not all other major TX cities have more traditional zoning laws.
Let's not compare unchecked immigration with what the US has been doing for many decades. H1B is a very selective process, it filters for the educated and the active. It's no surprise so many of them succeed in the US.
I built this because i wanted to make my career advice blog https://nealshyam.com/advice more engaging on social and realized, why even both with clicks?

You can't post links on Instagram unless you're verified or have 10,000 followers. And even then, every link is a roadblock.

Frankly, long form content is at disadvantage on social media, because these platforms prioritize video and advertisements. So, I decided to turn my blog posts into videos. No clicks, no distracting sound, no friction. Just a clean, lean-back, and engaging experience.

It has a few limitations - infinite scroll is hard. It might not work well on a super JS heavy site like CNN. But for static site or square space / word press blog, you should be fine.

And yes, I know the icon is dumb. I'll change it :)
Yes? 2D art is useful in both 2D and 3D games (billboard sprites, UI, textures).
I think what they may not consider is teams that have a small number of Linux users. In that case, Linux support could be required for the team to use Dropbox, even if the actual number of Linux devices is small.

My point being that the 0.1% of sales might be true per device, but "supporting Linux" might actually bring more revenue than just the devices themselves would indicate because the whole team's revenue would be lost if they didn't support Linux.
By purely organic means of which we only have one current way of creating (e.g. via birth). The question is whether we can create AGI through other artificial means.
You've got to wonder what the regex that caused _this_ downtime is going to be
About 50 / 50 down for my repos. API unresponsive, returning 500s.
I agree that people who get involved with space programs will be glad to "take what we can get" in terms of funding whether that means deep-space robotic missions or another manned moon landing.

Good things will happen with both. But why not choose the best way forward when it comes to space exploration?

Why not free ourselves from the strictures of yet another "space race" with low-brow nationalistic goals where we again end up citing uninspiring spin-offs as the reward for "winning" the race?
Interactive Tour of Lascaux Cave
In that we've achieved maximum hype and there's a winter around the corner?
Going Back How far? AT&T was founded by an immigrant for example and Henry Fords Mum Was an Immigrant.
Yeesh, what an ugly, simple-minded way to look at the world. Why on earth would you intentionally switch the blame to a more general, less accurate group? "Let's not blame criminals for crime when we can just blame the residents of this neighborhood, which oftentimes are the same people as the criminals".
Here you go:
https://web.archive.org/web/20190701222409/https://github.co...
I think more than a few keybindings have changed. My muscle-memory is basically useless. I'm also not really sure about the whole icon thing - I doubt I'll be using them. Still, I'm quite happy to see the changes - despite using old blender enough that I have the muscle memory, I still had to look keyboard shortcuts up all the time, which is in my eyes a sign of bad design.
2017 S3 outage was a big reminder as well

https://aws.amazon.com/message/41926/
it could automatically reject bad-looking code perhaps
> I'd be literally shocked if small suburban streets weren't safer than almost any other option.

Depends on what you mean by 'small suburban streets' I guess. If you mean in small suburbs, I would find that surprising, if you mean the street itself being very narrow then yeah maybe. But relatively few American suburbs have actually narrow streets. To most Americans, "there's only barely enough room for parked cars on both sides plus 2 lanes of moving traffic to pass each other" means it's narrow.

Random reference I just saw: so far this year Seattle has had 10 traffic fatalities, 4 of them on foot vs 5 with vehicles, despite walking being far less popular than driving in Seattle (which is not nearly as walk-friendly as NYC).
Even worse if libraries / packages are only hosted on Github. Then the main ecosystem of a language dependent on those packages can grind to a full stop from there.

I'm looking at all of you CocoaPods, SwiftPM, npm, Cargo, vgo.
This is the perfect time to take a break. Kick back, have a coffee, contemplate your life choices. That commit can wait, that PR (i was about to merge) can wait too. It's not the end of the world.
Tell that to my cat, who will brush against your leg and climb on your knee until you give him a stroke (he'll start pawing at you if you _stop_ when he's in that sort of mood). Only time he complains is if you pick him up, and even he tolerates it if you're just moving him off something.
>You will never see a left-leaning activist group representing the working class in California advocate for a market-based solution like permitting more for-profit development.

Is that really true? Elsewhere I have seen left-leaning activists advocate for higher density for-profit development housing so long as it is zoned to force developers to target all income groups in some manner, not just the most short term profitable ones. Is it really so different in California? You don't have to have a completely free market to have market based solution, after all. Which is a good thing as you're unlikely to ever see a truly free market there.
Ananas, Analytics made easy :) Pineapple was cool too. Will probably change it if we see more comments ;)
Push and pull doesn't work for me. For a second I thought this was my company's subtle way of terminating my employment.
Noise isolating headphones, not noise cancelling, are the trick. Throw on some white noise and a screaming toddler one aisle back won’t even register. I’m a fan of the Shure’s (although their lightning cable sucks and their bluetooth option isn’t much better, and the microphone isn’t what it should be from company that specializes in microphones)
Pretty much everything that insects do is beyond our current AI and engineering tech. Ignoring the "engineering" feats that biological beings perform such as replication, respiration and turning other plants and creatures into their own energy source, their behaviour is very sophisticated. Imagine programming a drone to perform the work of a foraging Bee, using a computer that fits into a brain the size of a grain of rice. It can manage advanced flight manoeuvres, navigation to and from the hive, finding pollen, harvesting it, dodging predators and no doubt a dozen skills I can't even imagine.
Israeli Queue Data Structure
> 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.

To be fair, and this is certainly the case in the UK for all but the 0.1% of absolute best restaurants, this is not a terribly high bar for Google and Facebook to stagger over.

Restaurant pay is, by and large (and even in restaurants that serve good food), not good at all.
If we are being pedantic they were both spelled correctly.
Gitlab also has a keys URL, but I can’t say if it’s available for unauthorized clients from the top of my head (currently on mobile). For me it’s usually the fastest way to authorize other team members.
The great AWS crash of 2017 convinced me to distribute a bit more, thankfully
Daniel Kahneman was once asked how we should respond when we make an analysis mistake. He said:

Whenever we are surprised by something, even if we admit that we made a mistake, we say, ‘Oh I’ll never make that mistake again.’ But, in fact, what you should learn when you make a mistake because you did not anticipate something is that the world is difficult to anticipate. That’s the correct lesson to learn from surprises: that the world is surprising.

That last line should be written on forecasters’ walls: The correct lesson to learn from surprises is that the world is surprising.
Cats don't have owners, they have staff.

Cats are far more independent than dogs, which is one reason why I like them. Certain cat breeds can be very dog-like, particularly Arabian Mau, Abyssinian, and Norwegian Forest. All are ridiculously intelligent and will happily accompany you like a dog, have dog-like mannerisms, etc.
I highly recommend running at least a local, self-hosted git mirror at any tech company, just in these cases. Gitolite + cgit are extremely low maintenance, especially if you host them next to your other production services.

Not to mention, if you get the self-hosted route you can use Gerrit, which is still miles better for code review than GitHub, Gitlab, bitbucket and co.
> FB is easy to pick on because they are sitting on so much cash.

It's also popular to pick on FB these days.
Many people would probably use ‘portable’ software (in the Windows-world sense) in internet cafes, but I imagine most cafes forbid USB sticks or at least running your apps.

Even if a cafe uses some sort of sandbox environments that are wiped after each visitor, there's a danger that you'll bring in a ‘Scriptkiddie 2019’ exploit pack on the stick.
Even if AGI is achievable, we already have plenty human intelligence. It remains to be seen if AGI will lead to anything over what we can already do.
It might help short term, but I don't think its obvious it would work long term. The idea is that it wouldn't solve the structural problem.

The structural problem is that nothing prevents landowners from charging whatever the market will tolerate and so sucking all plausible value out of the people paying the rents -- even to the degree that renters are forced to work so much they do nothing else and should expect a shorter life. Since there's no structural impediment to doing so, if you pay the renters more, the landowners will take the value...at least eventually.
>I did it because I figured Github has to have better reliability

Have you looked at the GitHub incident history? https://www.githubstatus.com/history
You are always SO quick to shut down discussion but the guy you’re replying to is not flaming anyone and he is making really interesting points
I think the result was this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dartmouth_workshop
Reminds me of Artificial Owl:

http://www.artificialowl.net/
The truth is that the only way to increase wages is to protest or to quit their jobs en masse so I support these workers protesting. The problem with low-skilled jobs is that there's probably someone waiting to take their job at $23/hr, but that's how the system works and unfortunately low-skilled jobs don't have a tremendous amount of value. This is the counter argument to allowing illegal immigrants - they are more willing to take these low-skilled jobs and to suppress wages much longer.
Rebuilding Slack on the Desktop
Going back the moon is the logical next step in going to Mars. You don't send off materials and bodies in the hope that years later it will work out.

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

It took many attempts to get a successful moon mission where we landed. How many more before we could dig into the rock for a habitat? Now multiply the time by the round trip to Mars. The fantasy of being on Mars in X years is fraught with dangers that include our own imperfection in execution. Don't expect a man on Mars in your lifetime, at least not one who comes back.
I already noticed that after the workspace selector looked different Slack was no longer being regularly killed by the OOM killer. Finally.
> You want bigger missions? A base? Mars? Nope, not what we’re going for.

Could be specified as well:

"Internationally organized base station (ISS style) on the Moon by 2030, permanently staffed after 2032, an experimental ecosystem to work towards self-sustaining O2 and food generation set up by 2037, usable as launchpad for Mars missions by 2045"

That would at least provide clarity on priorities but it's risky: the success would make you famous forever (see JFK) but so would failure.

On the other hand, it requires the next 7 administrations to support a programme that will make _you_ famous, not them.
The answer of course is to distribute. Silicon Valley has an echochamber problem already, maybe it's time for these companies to spread out/move their HQs across the US. There's plenty of room.

What's so special about the bay area? Surely if FAANG move somewhere else their employees will follow.
I wonder if all of these downtimes are related to the summer holiday season...
- Illusions by Richard Bach

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusions_(Bach_novel)

- The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield. Disclaimer: this book is seriously woo woo new age junk with recycled western and eastern mysticism concepts, but it hit me at the right time in life and I took away some really life-changing lessons without succumbing to any of the woo woo junk. I've re-read it a few times.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Celestine_Prophecy
GVFS (https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/gvfs/backends) now provides a package that lets you log in to your Google Drive account and access it from Nautilus, but you have to be on GNOME for it.
HN is not typically receptive to snide corrections/remarks. There are several more productive ways to address a minor capitalization error - the best of which is to not correct it at all because it's so trivial and unimportant.
Now apply this same thinking to the Equifax breach and millions of credit reports.

Now apply this same thinking to the OPM breach and security clearances.

Now apply this same thinking to medical records breaches.

I don't want anyone to have my data, but I resign myself to the fact that data security is, and never will be perfect. That does not mean I resign myself to the fact that all my personal data should be freely available to the entire world via a well documented REST API.