skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I personally like keeping my root partition to a minimal and ever since docker came into the picture I keep running into spacing issues. So the allure for me to switch isn't technical but for peace of mind storing images in userspace
Yeah, watching Hacker News try to violate sanctions from first principles is amusing.
That comment deserves more detail. Blocking an entire sovereign nation from significant useful "free" information seems pretty important to me.
Does the US law say that the repos should be revoked with no notice, or that a zip of the code can not be sent when revoking access?
What does MVP stand for [and the recipe for doing it right]
Aren't early adopters gonna be beta testers for this technology?

These technologies are not without their downsides and some of the dangers aren't even clear.

But yea there will be salespeople who will sell this too without buyers coming to know about the inherent risks like it happens with opioids.
Another way of looking at it: What are better alternatives for helping people learn about available products? Or better yet, good ways of solving different problems in life, which may not always involve buying a product.

There is an inherent problem with advertising in that the incentives are somewhat misaligned. Company X doesn't want me to learn about the best way to solve problem Y. They want me to learn about _their_ solution to problem Y.

Or even worse... Company X wants me to believe that Y is a problem for me — when in fact it may not be, or at least not how they claim — and that only they can solve it.
I heard one fascinating story

https://www.nature.com/news/2004/040322/full/news040322-9.ht...

Apparently human big brains evolved after a mutation that left human jaw much weaker than their ancestors.

Who can say if we prune unwanted traits, we aren't also pruning some desired traits as well.
The US is not going to lift these restrictions. Why would they? If you live in these terrible places, I’m sorry, but you need to start fighting at home. I don’t know enough about your specific situations or what level of action you should take, but everything from peaceful protest to armed rebellion are options. Yes, you might have to die. You might be killed just for peaceful protest or if you’re government suspects you might be “trouble.” This is your burden, but liberty is worth it.
A history sheds light on venture capital’s ties to military-industrial complex
Iranian users being unable to use GitHub is an incredibly insignificant issue.
Ok. How is that going to work? How will the process be coordinated? Contractors hired? Decisions made?
Ask HN: How Would You Improve Facebook/Twitter/Instagram?
Imagine that you can change anything about the social media. What would you specifically change to make it work better for you?
There is no US law that forces Microsoft-hub to do what they did. They can easily fight whatever order they received if they wanted to.
How do you use this physical ID card online? Or phrased otherwise, how do you apply for a credit card or similar online?
Russia invades and takes over Crimea (again). This has repercussions for the people living there, many of whom are displacing those who lived there before.

Iran threatens to nuke other countries as soon as they can develop the nukes. They are in the process of trying to take over the whole middle ease, fighting in Yemen, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, etc. This has repercussions for the people living there.
Be very careful what you wish for. There is some evidence that debilitating, even deadly, genetic disorders correspond to higher-than-average intelligence.

Only about 2% of the U.S. population is of full Ashkenazi Jewish descent, but 27% of United States Nobel prize winners in the 20th century, 25% of the winners of the Fields Medal (the top prize in mathematics), 25% of ACM Turing Award winners, a quarter of Westinghouse Science Talent Search winners, and 38% of the Oscar-winning film directors have either full or partial Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry.

...

Today's Ashkenazi Jews suffer from a number of congenital diseases and mutations at higher rates than most other ethnic groups; these include Tay–Sachs disease, Gaucher's disease, Bloom's syndrome, and Fanconi anemia, and mutations at BRCA1 and BRCA2.

...

At least one of the diseases in this cluster, torsion dystonia, has been found to correlate with high IQ.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashkenazi_Jewish_intelligenc...
I really like https://tab.gladly.io/?u=antupis which raises money for nonprofits through adds.
The underlying assumption here seems to be that if only the FAA had examined in detail every aspect of the development of the plane, of course they would have found all the problems. Underlying this assumption is the idea that Boeing is either trying intentionally to create unsafe planes (as though this is good for Boeing) or that the FAA could hire engineers that are way better than Boeing's engineers.

I don't buy it.
Oracle+OpenWorld+2019+presenta+entretenimiento+de+clase+mundial
Not really, because space weapons inevitably lead to at the very least space weapons testing, and most likely space combat. Space combat creates space junk, which prevents us from going to space in the future, which prevents us from detecting and deflecting asteroids.

You might think "well, we just need to find ways to destroy space junk" but unfortunately (almost?) all tools useful for destroying space junk can also be used to destroy perfectly functional objects in space, and therefore count as space weapons, which lead to space junk...
There is a niche market consisting of experienced Developers living in countries with low cost of living, that work remotely for compensation below US market and above their local market. I used to be one, prior to moving to the US. I also helped to hire and staff a foreign digital marketing agency with remote developers. I'd be happy to hop on a call and give you some advice and share my experiences if you'd like?
I'm amazed that all the interested parties haven't got together to flesh out a microtransaction standard. The whole ad-blocking debate would be moot if we could pay a few cents to read an article free of distracting ads. If you choose not to pay, you get the ads and don't get to complain about ad-blocker-blockers because you were offered an alternative.

I know it has been attempted in the past with little success, but all those attempts were just companies going it alone and hoping for the best. If the W3C, browser makers, banks and publishers all got together a standard could be developed. Something that would be core to web standards. It wouldn't be easy, but it would solve a lot of problems.
You avoid recaptcha or looking up your name on the tool? Either way I'm curious why you avoid it?
I think that the democratizing effect of services that make money through advertising is vastly underestimated. There are a lot of people on the internet who can't afford to pay for Microsoft Office, or a set of encyclopedias, or courses like those which can be found on YouTube or blogs.

It's all well and good to say that you hate ads because you can afford to pay to remove them. Many can't, and we should think very carefully before we remove services they need.
Oy, really? Care to cede control over what portions of GitHub you're allowed to access over to me?
I'm not sure what you mean by "manipulated price". In a perfectly efficient market, labor will be priced at its marginal value. That is, you will receive the incremental value of your labor. In a perfectly efficient market, there is no such thing as 'manipulation', everything is priced according to its supply/demand curve.

I'm also not sure what you mean by "buy the expensive information necessary for acting efficiently on the market". What information is that? In the current world, all the information you could want is essentially free. What is not free is a certificate from a university. The information itself costs as much as an internet connection, though. And that can be had quite readily even on the lowest of salaries.
good idea! your ad tag is exactly the type of compromise we’ve been asking for since the web (and online ads) became a thing: first-party-served ads with only basic first-party analytics and clear delineation of the ads. unfortunately competition happens around targeting, segmentation, and conversion, which pushes us way past that.
Well technically PID 1 is not a daemonized process because there is no one who could have daemonized it.
Meet Gillian Tans, the CEO of Booking.com
I think, in this case, the “chain gang” might not be a gang of people, but rather a gang of e.g. Unix scripts in Docker containers scheduled onto a K8s cluster via SQS from S3 lifecycle events. (I.e. the original software written to solve the 1x task, now chain-ganged together to solve an Nx task.)

In cases like this, where both the solutions are software, the reason the company is relying on a progressively Matryoshka'ed system built on top of the original, "dumb" solution, is usually that they value developer time (to build a better solution) greatly over ops-staff time (to implement the infrastructure required to scale the dumb solution) + additional hardware costs (for all the overhead the dumb solution's method of scaling introduces.)

But even that doesn't explain why organizations refuse to switch from bailing-wire scripts to a pre-built, commonly-available infrastructure-component better solution. In such cases, both staying and switching are ops costs.
The bigger issue seems to be determining what "best" means.
While there are a handful of diseases associated with specific genetic variants that could obviously be cured, the traits people would likely try to optimize (e.g. intelligence) seem to involve a complex combination of genes and environment, and an attempt to select for such genes could incur some potentially negative side-effects.
Accuweather’s Chief Talks About Wildfires, Corn Output and More – Barron's
Gitea is a lovely open source Github-esque git server.
It is idiotic to fill out the form. They want my name plus the last six digits of my SSN! That leaves only a puny 3 digits unknown. This is why there is identity theft in the first place.
Also related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Atlantic_Anomaly

Our low-Earth orbit satellites go a bit berserk each time they pass through the SAA. Star trackers used for orientation estimation pick up lots of pixel snow.
I often think that Dart is a failure.. but every time I read about it, they have interesting ways to do things. Maybe it's yet another language that only exists to die alone and spread its gene for the next decade to pick up ?
Yes. It’s overengineering and most likely what you’re planning on building doesn’t even work. For example, offline support and caching work just fine with HTML, but you’re probably planning on breaking them.

No you don’t need React to publish some words on the web.
>I don't actually want to block ads. If you want to put a small text or image blurb anywhere on the page... Good for you. I'll gladly accept those on a webpage so that the content creator can make a bit of cash.

I would be more than happy to accept that and I do see it from time to time. But I still won't be disabling my adblocker - allowing ads served from DoubleClick et el is just far too dangerous from both a security and privacy perspective. Even if they're not responsible for the actual ad content they're at the very least complicit in all of it.
You could still keep your root partition to a minimal size, just create a larger /var partition.
But as the article points out, we acclimate to stimulus, so any ad that's welcomed and successful will lose engagement over time. Which is why we get either very creative compelling advertising or advertising that attempts to trick us.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jYMQx2RuVs

Relevant (and somewhat humorously self-aware) take on the matter from youtube channel Wisecrack-which is a channel that likes to look at the deeply classically philosophical aspects of how we react and inform ourselves through the lens of modern media.
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California prosecutors sometimes charge companies under that when they've done something else that's harder to prove.
Not necessarily. If it turns out it wasn't an emergency after all (just appeared to be), or if the insurance company decides that the remedy wasn't medically necessary (but the doctor treating you at the ER did), some states allow insurance companies to deny claims. They are slowly trying to unravel all of the protections created by the ACA, and they are succeeding.

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/1/29/16906558/a...

>His company uses Anthem, one of the country’s largest health insurance plans. In recent years, Anthem has begun denying coverage for emergency room visits that it deems “inappropriate” because they aren’t, in the insurance plan’s view, true emergencies.

>The problem: These denials are made after patients visit the ER, sometimes based on the diagnosis after seeing a doctor, not on the symptoms that sent them, like in Cloyd’s case.
Seems like another anecdote of where seniority and experience in engineering is something that can't be quite replicated/replaced by technical qualifications:

> In the middle of the Max’s development, two of the most seasoned engineers in the F.A.A.’s Boeing office left. The engineers, who had a combined 50 years of experience, had joined the office at its creation...In their place, the F.A.A. appointed an engineer who had little experience in flight controls, and a new hire who had gotten his master’s degree three years earlier. People who worked with the two engineers said they seemed ill-equipped to identify any problems in a complex system like MCAS.

I assume engineers new to the industry (and government regulation) would be lacking in "big picture" thinking and in confidence and skill in navigating and investigating bureaucracy – the NYT notes that Boeing's early MCAS report "didn't prompt additional scrutiny from the F.A.A. engineers". But the NYT also reports that the engineers made what seemed to be a straightforward technical misjudgment:

> In several briefings in 2016, an F.A.A. test pilot learned the details of the system from Boeing. But the two F.A.A. engineers didn’t understand that MCAS could move the tail as much as 2.5 degrees, according to two people familiar with their thinking.

Though it's hard to tell from that paragraph and its context whether the misunderstanding came from simple technical error and incompetence – e.g. misreading or not fully reading the specs – or deliberate deception/obfuscation from Boeing, and/or inexperience and naivety in doing regulatory work.
GitLab is hosted in the US and also must comply with the same US laws. When GitLab moved to GCP this issue came up because Google geo fences the embargoed countries: https://about.gitlab.com/2018/07/19/gcp-move-update/
> I don’t have to think about which hosts the (random) http client used in my application is configured to talk to because I can just magically retarget it at the container level by manipulating networking configuration” — is that a thing — does it actually work?

Yes, this works, and we've been doing it for a long time, since well before containers became a thing. When you're running services at any significant scale you can't have clients connecting to hard coded host addresses. The only way to get durability and scalability is to place the service behind a load balancer, have the clients find the load balancer through a stable DNS record, and have the load balancer direct traffic to healthy instances of the service. That's essentially what you have described above, without any containerisms.

What do containers add to this picture? Nothing. Containers themselves have almost nothing to do with networking and how traffic gets to your services, beyond establishing a net namespace, a veth pair, and a bridge to connect the pair to the host interface. That's just basic plumbing, not traffic management. Containers are about process isolation, not networking.

The networking problem for containers is addressed by container orchestration platforms like kubernetes, or compose/swarm. From a networking perspective what orchestrators bring to the table is basically an abstraction layer over the underlying provider resources for creating and tearing down all the stuff that implements the client->load balancer->service pattern.
> as far as forbidding embedded JS altogether

I do this on my iOS device. It's a bit of a pain to not have JS enabled in safari, but I can always share a page from Safari --> Duckduckgo's browser which i have installed for just such occasions.

Settings > Safari > Advanced > Javascript off
In what world is Iran a small country?
"It's okay because CNN and Fox News tells me to be scared of the brown man".

It's amazing how people don't see that this isn't because of human rights. It's literally one country bullying another.
If you blanket trust a CDN, doesn't this allow bad actors to still send JS to your browser? Anyone could use that CDN.

I found uMatrix easier to use and more configurable than NoScript.
Testing Powershell Applications with Perl6 and Sparrow6
I really wish Microsoft challenged this sanction in court.

We'd finally get the actual sanctions clarified.
Podcast ads are usually read by podcasters themseleves they don't track nobody sometimes they are even funny and if they are not to long, I don't skip them. So they are great example how all ads should be made.
To a minimalist advertising could almost be construed as a form of psychic attack on ones value system.

Imagine firing off hundreds of ads at a vegan about how eating meat is good. That's essentially what all the "buy this shit" ads are doing to someone who explicitly buys as little as they can to get by.
That “evil capitalist drug development system” that turned AIDS from a death sentence into a chronic illness, using anti-retrovirals some of which are already becoming generics?
>You would only do business with companies you trust to not cheat.

That massively increases the barrier to entry. Right now you can make a new site, sign up with an ad network, and start showing ads. No one involved needs to trust you (much) since the ad network is in a good position to detect cheating. Remove that, and big trusted publishers (NYT, FB, Google) are still fine, but smaller ones wouldn't be able to demonstrate to the ad network or advertiser that they should be trusted.

> Or just charge flat rates.

Adverse selection will kill you.
How I (Stranger Parts) made my own android phone in China
They will be the scapegoats thrown under the bus when the scandals will erupt. Remember Volkswagen's "rogue engineer" who apparently single-highhandedly caused millions of VW vehicles to cheat on emission tests?

Yeah, don't be that guy and whistle-blow on such things.
Well, We're talking about Léo "I built the first nuclear reactor with Enrico Fermi" Szilárd here... :)
(Too late to edit: The bit about Firefox revenue should read 'almost entirely' -- they have some negligible revenue streams, but the vast majority of income is dependent on Google)
I don't know if mobile counts as a spectre in 2019. Unless you mean in the sense that gaining significant market share on mobile is a tall order in a way that it isn't on desktop?
If ~every doctor is familiar with his condition, and there are no problems with the medical establishment that contributed to this situation, how did it come about that he was never treated for it, and he had to (allegedly) propose a new surgery in order to treat it? And the whole process took over a decade? And doctors (allegedly) now voluntarily consult with him on obscure cases?
You are assuming all is in the genes.
What shocks me is that you, aswell as the guy in the video say nothing negative about your plight. Is this seriously a society that you condone? Do you not see yourself as a victim of an extremist ideology?
50 Years After Apollo, India Is Carrying a NASA Laser Reflector to the Moon
Small ads on the web are still more targeted than newspaper ads, since web ads appear on specific websites which are of interest to the user. If I visit a motorcycling forum, I should get motorcycling ads, and they can be effective even if they're small.
It is really hard to reconcile BoingBoing's behavior as a publisher with their content. This goes far beyond ad tracking. The BoingBoing store sells categories of products (insecure IOT disasters) that the site's editorial content rails against, and I've lost count of the number of cheap dollar store level knockoff products are pushed by the editorial staff in order to take advantage of amazon affiliate links.

I've seen people banned, and have been banned myself for drawing attention to these things on their bulletin boards.

>> I'm not an absolutist that you can't criticize a system you benefit from (it's ok to criticize Apple's labour practices if you own an iPhone), but there is a big difference between admitting participation in a flawed system and passing yourself off as an objective critic of a system you benefit from.

Exactly. Also, given the site's legacy, political slant, and access to technical talent, if they don't choose to explore ethical modes and models of behavior and publishing, what hope should we have for the rest of the industry?

(The only positive thing one can say about BoingBoing on these matters is that they do not block ad blockers.)
A company isn't a person.

What percentage of current Microsoft employees were there 15 years ago? Very few, I suspect.

In this case "forgetting the past" is perfectly fine if you're making decisions about how to interact with Microsoft now.

It doesn't make any sense to judge current employees and leadership by mistakes made by an entirely different set of people as far back as a couple of decades ago.

If Microsoft is a supporter of open source now, then let's just embrace that and be grateful for it. What's the use in dwelling on a past that no longer matters?
This is how the government works. The government is just an institution, and institutions do not care about you. They just don't. They follow their rules and guidelines. If the guide is to put a GS-13 in that slot (employment category), then that is what will happen. There's no magic. Just rules.

Boeing did not build great planes because of the FAA. They built them because their culture and expertise were aligned to do so.

In the fact, the safety culture at Boeing was once so great that they often worked with the FAA to establish standards and guidelines, because the FAA simply did not have the expertise that Boeing had.

When that culture failed, Boeing failed.
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Sulfur-based flow batteries are supposed to be very cheap in principle, with the active chemicals costing around $1/kWh. Of course all these lab technologies face a perilous journey to the market.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/energywise/energy/renewables/new-s...
The irony is that is exactly what Khronos shows on their glTF presentations.
They are rich - I don't have the confidence that they can be stopped in this age of lopsided wealth/power concentration. Better to let them be the guinea pigs evolving the technology to become stable and inevitably common. When everyone is able to buy genes, we will all be at a new square one.
You must be looking at the wrong form. To claim the $125 they ask for your name, mailing address, phone number, email address and birth year. That's it.
About social position of the jewish group, there's also a link to the religious notion of usury in catholic places.
The background of all of this is increased corporate power in American society relative to individuals. Regulatory capture happens more quickly and fluidly when government is more accountable to corporate money than to voters.
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The cost of the raw materials is more interesting with flow batteries, where you can imagine adding big tanks containing the electrolytes without adding more cells.
The Mesh Deformation Tech in Oculus Medium
Man Builds His Own Android Phone from Scratch Using Parts from Random Stores