skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Random but fun tangent: browse through some of the identification books by Paul Humann. Many fish have different traits in their juvenile, adult, and sometimes terminal phases (e.g. the spotted drumfish is breathtaking in JP and much less in AP). They can also change color. Memorizing these fish for scuba diving sometimes feels like prepping for the LSAT.
It's clear this is a phenomenon...too much subjective evidence to rule it out. He appears to have approached this from a fairly scientific approach and appears to have gathered some quantitative evidence. Where it breaks down is in the drawing of conclusions.

The real problem with this issue appears to be in the lack of interest from others in the scientific community to properly investigate it. If his theory about gas pipelines has merit, then it seems like there would be some simple ways to investigate and test that.
It never ceases to amaze me how deep and broad the knock-on effects of prohibition are. What a clusterfuck.
"efficient" is a little vague.

Ground and water source source heat pumps can keep their efficiency down to extreme temperatures as their source maintains its temperature. Air sourced heat pumps can go down to -20C and still be above 100%,(though this is notably below their peak in warmer ambient temperatures) and they often have fallback resistive heaters that are independant of outside temp and are 100% efficient (though probably not sized to work alone generally).

So whether they are efficient and expensive really needs a complex comparison including up front investment in digging trenches for geo or pipes, ongoing costs of fuel, predictions of heating and cooling days for the region, whether insulation makes more sense than more heating and so on. I don't think there's anything that strictly rules out heat pumps in most places people live or restricts them to California.

Stockholm getting heat from the North sea is a good example of their counterintuitive potential in colder climates.
World's Highest Wind Turbine Will Hover Above Alaska
> Not everyone needs any-platform syncing; you only need a solution that covers the devices you actually have.

You still have the vendor lock-in problem though. Somebody might only have Apple devices now, but 5 years from now the fact that all their data is in Apple's cloud (and maybe they got their whole family to put it in there too) makes it that much harder to switch away when you realize that Apple still hasn't fixed its keyboards.
The Vim addon isn't unofficial its a different program inspired by org mode that implements some of the features.

The difference between having multiple implementations of a standard and multiple similar tools is that you really can't access the same data from multiple programs or share data with users using a different app.
What happens in case you have swap space and run out of memory?
It's always weird how people in the suburbs complain everywhere about how crappy cities are and yet if you turn around and say you like them they get all defensive...
I don’t know that much about the history of RSS clients, but I’m not sure that Google Reader’s shutdown is comparable to VSCode’s future abandonment in terms of its effects on the market. The crucial difference is that Google Reader was not open source. Maybe if Google Reader had been open source, someone would have kept a fork of it running. I don’t know in what way the RSS reader market was “killed” or why that happened, though, so I can’t say for sure that such a fork would have prevented the market from being killed.

I agree that VSCode is not yet good enough to kill off competitors like JetBrains, so there is little need to worry either way.
Author said almost always. Nothing is absolute in cases like this. I agree with the article. We enable swap on our production servers precisely because the engineers don't rectify their memory leaks or whatever problems are internal to their software. Some of those engineers are our own and we can't convince them to fix their software. Others are for things we have no control over, such as Kafka, for example. When Kafka starts going out of control and you've got no swap, oom killer will kill it and you'll end up with corrupted index files, which is a bigger problem than the performance problem you'll see if it has to swap for a while until it gets itself sorted out.
What Is This SocialBlast Network I Keep Hearing About?
Remarkably, the I-Lab was briefly under siege during this time, by blockading demonstrators. And at the same time, MIRV, the fundamental US offensive system, was being finished there. Dr. Draper, then in his mid-60s, was basically hated during this period.
Prediction: we will evolve to find tasty what we formerly found disgusting.

Actually, I wonder why we find bugs disgusting (from an evolutionary perspective). I mean, presumably they're "dirty", but isn't that why we invented cooking?
Life is not fair, war is not fair, international politics is not fair.

Yes, it's hypocritical for the US to do it. But you know what, the only way to get them to stop is force them to stop with military force. And, quite honestly, there is no military in the world that even comes close to the US.

Also I'd rather the US control the airspace and flying drones wherever they want than some other country controlling the airspace and flying drones over the US.
In case this isn't a joke, what's keeping you from just using emacs or an org-mode plugin for your text editor?
Perhaps it could be made more clear, but from the post I thought it was very apparent he was only talking about API abuse; most of the introductory text was concerning rate-limiting.
Perhaps "Le Magot -- the new cuisine"
This is pretty impressive. I'm not a fan of the type face and some of the design decisions, but those are rather minor points. With Git it'll be amazing.
I don't like the UX, especially in a touch environment.
> I am in the process of dockerizing almost everything in sight

How many other individuals in this clearly legacy organization have the knowledge and experience to take over your "superior" variant of technical debt once you get sick of the job and move to something trendier?
I’ve participated in a number of Stanford research studies, and what the author is doing here is similar to part of it.

The studies in which I’ve participated always start with a statement of what they are generally looking for in a participant. You then take a survey that confirms if you are qualified. You then given a release to sign (and keep a copy of), which states what you’ll be doing, and providing an IRB contact. You then go through the study.

At the end of your participation, you are asked “What do you think the study is about?”, and then you were told the real purpose of the study. Eventually the paper(s) is/are published, with hypothesis, methodology, and results.

This seems similar: You decide if you want to participate, and are participating; the only thing that’s missing is the final paper.
I think some people put VB6 in this bucket, because VB.NET wasn't really the same thing (they are more different than e.g. Python 2 vs. 3, AIUI).
Have you tried orgzly?
Web server down? Anyone else getting it to load?
> Not everyone needs any-platform syncing; you only need a solution that covers the devices you actually have.

Not if you want to sync with other people, or with work. There are three major types of desktop OSes and two mobile ones; even if you just one of each, you probably know and interact with people using a different set.
Sounds like you’ve advanced in your career by undermining your teammates and sacrificing professionalism in order to win praise from people who are willing to put systems and users at risk without understanding the co sequences.

I understand your point, which basically boils down to the axiom of managing expectations. But sacrificing professionalism is not something that should be accepted as normal, let alone celebrated as clever. It’s the oldest trick in the book.
Sorry nope NOPE NOPE!!!!!!!! Isn't happening I am not eating this sorry! NOPE!
Is there a similar consensus about Syncthing and whether it is secure enough (or not) for file-sharing among cryptography engineers?
Understanding Africa Through Travel Writing
For Sitecore I will shamelessly plug Coveo for Sitecore: https://www.coveo.com/en/solutions/coveo-for-sitecore

I think that we definitely have the best integrated and most full featured solution for Sitecore customers.

It's not only about querying but also having a UI framework, built-in customizable indexing, analytics tracking and access to machine learning available in one package.

Source: Am product manager for Coveo for Sitecore.
Yeah, the obvious point is that Batman is a billionaire businessman who could pay his taxes and get Gotham to hire some decent police but instead of actually focusing on the structural problems that cause crime in Gotham, he runs around banging models and beating up street criminals.

The Batman comparison is a great example, because the criticisms of the 10x developer match exactly the problems with batman.
It's quite possible the designers were avid Halo players in their formative years.
You are working under the fallacy that diversity of opinion will be correlated somehow to arbitrary characteristics such as Race, Gender and Sexuality. This is patently not true.
Of course there's a way to stop it. The U.S. military answers to the civilian population, and we elect our leaders. It's ridiculous to accept our current state of undeclared forever-war and disastrous international policy as "well life's just not fair".
But still is the same thing. If Ronaldo, the best player in the world, would be considered a 10x player, it would mean that him and just a goal keeper would be able to compete with other professional teams, which we all know is bullocks.

The original 10x term was about productivity (and namely, lines of code that is pretty much bunk).

For me is always about what is a 1x developer. If we consider them a professional developer that does their tasks (somewhat) on time, documented, and with minimal bugs, which I would consider the baseline for what I would call a professional developer, I have a strong opinion you won't find 10x developers compared to this.

On the other hand, if a 1x developer is a person that can't create a simple algorithm(fizzbuzz), copy pasts code from every possible source, including his own code from file A to file B, etc etc, then sure, 10x developers are there, but this is because we set the bar too low.
Thanks for the suggestions, but my problem remains : who's gonna pay me to do this :-)

It's mainly what prevents me to migrate them by myself. It's a lot of work and no one wants to pay for it.

So it remains on a VM and if it brokes, they were alerted it could happen.
Neither side has taken responsibility as far as I'm aware? I doubt the culprits thought they were firing at a civilian aircraft, I don't think its safe to speculate beyond that, it was an active warzone at the time.

Edit:
Safe as in I don't think its safe to speculate that they thought they were shooting down a drone v shooting some other military target.
Agreed that the article is poorly written for the Hacker News crowd, would be nice to have a description of his technique so the merits/faults could be analyzed without everyone conducting a reverse engineering effort.

It’s sad to have a smart guy like this dedicating his academic career to something this inconsequential. Anyone with enough incentive is going to be able to defeat any technique this guy dreams up. Anyone who might benefit on paper from detecting a headless browser isn’t going to want this because any possibility of a false positive is a missed impression, or a missed sales opportunity, or an ADA lawsuit (US), or an angry customer.
There are jobs that require you to look at porn. When I worked on Google Image Search I had to sign an addendum that I understood my job may require exposure to these images, exposure did not constitute sexual harassment, and I should view images only as needed for my work.

Some QC folk were in fairly private cubicles because they had to do testing on porn regularly. Hell, some could recite the ML grouping ID of major clusters of porn.
Fortunately, most of the property cost when you purchase in California is for the land, not the structure that sits on it.
Yeah - just got hugged!

Upgraded my mongodb atlas cluster to resolve the issue, apologies.
I'm always surprised when other people are surprised that flat organizations don't scale. Honestly, unstructured organizations only work in two situations. If the teams is 4 or fewer people, or if you have specifically curated a team of very experienced people whose personalities are exactly correct.

In literally any other situation, an unstructured org is corrosive to domain expertise, weakens code ownership and responsibility and creates a byzantine, implicit power structure that breaks down the decision making power of the organization.

The fetishization of flat orgs was in response to the unwieldy bureaucracies or large corporations. However the problem with bureaucracy is not the hierarchy, but the lack of agency in the individual teams. This leaves teams dis-empowered and unable to act on their core competency, their direct knowledge of the company's product. Instead, development teams should be well organized with clearly delineated roles. Most importantly, development teams should not exist merely to do work, but also to make decisions and take responsibility for those decisions.
You should get a fair idea via this video link:

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=879765945745630
Frankly speaking, I cannot say it is necessety. We were trying to find a way to utilize the technology for the hacathon so that it will bring value.

And yes, it did consume a lot of time. First we wanted to use ZoKrates to generate Rust code for Fluence. However, we found out that it does not generate Rust source code - only bytecode. So, we had to write the code ourselves, which was pretty complecated since none of us knew Rust) A mentor from Fluence team helped us a lot. Also, we contunued working on that part after the hackathon, too.
>We have three major desktop OSes and two major phone OSes, people have multiple devices - usually at least one running a desktop OS and one running a mobile OS.

Sure... Kinda. How many people spend a lot of time on desktop these days? I see two large camps; windows + Android and... Well, Mac (e.g. iPad + iPhone). Those combos already work (MS client runs on android.) How many people run android + iPad/MacBook, windows + iPhone, or Linux? I imagine not too many, which is perhaps why DB is so focused on Enterprise.
The subtext is that the IRS has become more aggressive towards the high-end art market because of previous scams.

For example:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/14/arts/design/mary-boone-se...

https://www.wsj.com/articles/art-dealer-larry-gagosian-settl...

There have been some clever plays in this market. For example, the dealer swap - two dealers agree to bid up each other's pieces at auction. The final sale prices are inexplicably very close, so they swap the pieces without moving much money around.

The market as a whole sees a much higher price - so they've made a few (tens of) millions on the assessed value of the pieces and also (probably) raised the value of future auctions of work by the same artist.

All for the cost of the auction fees.
May I suggest 'worm', as it doesn't seem to stop tequila drinkers.
Thank you. I appreciate those with the free time to fight the fights they feel are important.

I don't have the luxury to be principled. I just use whatever tools get the job done. Because when Friday afternoon rolls around, I'm going home to be with my kids.
An evolutionary perspective is the wrong perspective; there exist plenty of cultures where bugs are not considered disgusting.
I don’t have much feedback, except to say I think this is a really good, useful concept.
Not only that - circumstantial evidence is enough for a search warrant, and a search warrant almost ALWAYS reveals additional evidence.

The point is that once the cops know who you are, you're fucked. Even if they are using classified methods to ID you, they'll then find something circumstantial to get warrants until they find you.

The only way to get away is to completely avoid detection in the first place.
Updated. Thanks for pointing it out.
some stuff in your memory gets written to the swap page.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paging
I'll be honest--this makes me really angry.

The link goes to a very poor article that links to another poorly-written article at sciencenordic.com, which ultimately links to Elsevier where they want to sell you the original paper for an ungodly amount of money.

First, journalists are not capable of reporting on scientific studies because they are not equipped to do so. There are many newsworthy elements to the study, the most important being that it was not an original study but a meta-analysis of other studies. Meaning that any methodological issues with those other studies are incorporated blindly into the present study. This means that the present study is of far less value than would be a large (especially randomized, controlled, double-blind) prospective examination of the matter.

But the journalists writing the crap that is interpolated between the intelligent Hacker News reader and the original work are too stupid to mention this extremely noteworthy, and arguably newsworthy, fact.

The real story here is that science journalists have buried the lead so deeply that this second-rate so-called "science" becomes indistinguishable from actual science to the reader. And therefore the reader is led to believe that this study has equal importance and validity with any other results on the matter.

The other issue is that science journalists probably do this on purpose as clickbait crap to earn them some advertising money or to further a political agenda. In this case, the motherhood-and-nanny-state issue that wearing a helmet is good for you and should be mandatory. How dare you stupid people NOT wear a helmet! Stoking holier-than-thou anger is bound to increase clicks.

Finally, The Institute of Transport Economics in Oslo gets about 100 million kroner annually to do this kind of research, which they then publish at Elsevier, who wants to screw readers out of another $35 or so to read the research that they already paid for. This creates a system where science journalists can mislead the public by hyping a bogus study for advertising dollars without actually reporting on the results.

They dish out this crap and people accept it uncritically, then turn around and preach it like they have the moral high ground.
Or that they use a bunch of deprecated or modified functions, and haven't cleaned them up yet - so their code isn't stable on 7.x.
So it's nice to think that maybe this could work to turn food waste back into edible protein, but is this actually more efficient than just composting the waste and using it to grow crops? Sure, maybe this is a good source of protein, but so are, say, beans, right?

I would hazard a guess that for most western cultures, it's probably easier to convince people to replace meat with plant-based food than it is to replace meat with bugs. So if we want insect-based foods to take off, I feel like there's got to be some fundamental advantage over just switching to a vegetarian diet. Maybe that advantage exists; I just don't know what it might be.
Note that Slack has only sent the email about account access since 2018:

>Additional security features: As of January 2018, we began sending an email every time your account is accessed from a new device; this is a simpler and more immediate way for you to be aware of new logins to your account than periodically reviewing your access logs.

(Quote from the "Slack password reset" email they recently sent out to affected users.)
Should be back up now! Apologies - had to upgrade my mongodb atlas cluster, it got hugged.
Wonder what DuckDuckGo might have built for its search..
Yes, it's the same idea. But Julia's differentiable programming capabilities are far more advanced and mature than Swift's. As far as I'm aware, Swift still doesn't support differentiating code with control flow (branches or loops), which, needless to say, eliminates pretty much all non-trivial programs.

Compare that to the situation in Julia: ∂P works today on arbitrary programs—like the ray tracer and other examples in this paper—programs which are highly non-trivial and use iteration, recursion, mutation and global state. All of which Julia's ∂P can take derivatives through.

When you additionally consider Swift's essentially non-existent computational and data science ecosystem, it's a bit hard (for me at least) to rationalize the Swift ∂P effort. (Are we going to differentiate iPhone apps?) They're attempting to bootstrap their computational/data ecosystem by allowing calling Python code, but as soon as you call into Python, you lose all ability to take derivatives which only works for pure Swift code. So any program which relies on Python to do some of the computation you want to take a derivative of won't be differentiable, which kind of defeats the point of having ∂P in the first place. We'll see how it pans out but the Swift effort has considerable technical and social challenges to overcome.
NextCloud, Syncthing or a NAS like Synology.
The correct answer is routine password rotation, but of course that's stupidly hard to do.
https://github.com/Obbut/iCloud-Control
Google Brain and CMU Advance Unsupervised Data Augmentation for SSL
The most important Dropbox advantage over OS-integrated solutions is interoperability. I can sync a folder between Mac, Linux, Windows and mobile platforms. There is no other product that does it so smoothly, and neither iCloud nor Window Live will ever do that.

This new stuff, however, is irrelevant. I just don't care, all I need from Dropbox is to keep syncing a folder between my devices, that's it.

They could have spent money on innovating in their core field of competence: syncing. Hey Dropbox, how about seamless syncing with S3 for one? Remote NAS access? Distributed cross-provider virtual filesystems?

But no, instead we have this silly file manager.
i'm a heavy emacs user but ive never been able to really grok org mode. what makes it special?
When you lower the transaction costs of something, demand usually increases.
We are entering a new dark ages ruled by the priests of austerity, unable to value anything but short-term money.
Wouldn't even be the first time the US has shot down a manned Iranian civilian aircraft, in Iranian airspace [0].

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_655
From using both, my recommendation is AWS for anything Node-based, Azure for anything else. GCP is severely lacking to both and has never struck me as a serious contender, but maybe there are industries that benefit from the simplicity.

I like the control AWS gives you, but it is overwhelming at times. On Azure, everything feels easier to find, and there is not such a steep learning curve. I can set up a site, a repo, my CI/CD pipeline, and a DB within minutes, complete with qa, staging and production deployment cycles, telemetry, and alerts. The reason I wouldn't recommend Node-based deployments with this flow is because Visual Studio and VSTS does not play well with node, feels like it is constantly fighting you to use anything but Node, but for a project in React and an ASP Net Core server, it's incredibly seamless.

Meanwhile on AWS, I feel like the control of VMs is a lot better to control. It is more intuitive to set up load balancing schemes on AWS, and the CDN makes just enough more sense than Azure CDN to make me prefer it, but it can't beat the productivity gains I have in Azure, though I feel I just don't have the right use cases to benefit from whatever imrpovements AWS offers.

All in all, at this point, you don't lose by choosing either AWS or Azure, other than spending time to learn how AWS services are integrates and what parts of the ecosystem is relevant, so I am not surprised MS is benefiting greatly from Azure.
How Big Is AWS?