skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, but the impressive thing for me was that she and her group of friends swithed to other Facebook owned platforms. Not SnapChat or some other competitor.
Oh, are you talking about flash drives used as system drives on a Pi? Because in desktop use power rarely goes out and even more rarely has anything been written recently. In the Pi use case I have no idea.
If you just want to share files and not giving the option to upload files, you could try graft...

https://github.com/sandreas/graft

graft serve ./*.txt

will serve every txt file in the current dir...
> Very very few people “viscerally see how people live and value things differently” when they travel. ... Actually living in a different place will certainly do that, but “travel” almost never will.

Take one extreme case: a typical college grad doing a euro-trip to 10 countries in 14 days. They will certainly not be able to experience those cultures deeply, but compare that person to someone who never went to Europe, never saw their respect for the past, train travel, food cultures, and the high value they place on vacation.

Even consider those young travelers that mostly stay within the confines of their hostel and their group activities, or in a national bar where things appear familiar and comfortable: they are still better off than if they just stayed home and had not seen any of it.

Certainly, 10 days of travel is not much, but it's a lot more than 0 days. For some, those 10 days may be truly meaningful and eye-opening, for others, a familiar party with different scenery. Traveling is generally uncomfortable and different, and the experience can add something to even the most shallow traveler.

(caveat: It happens, although uncommon, that travel can be a detriment. Particularly, when someone goes to a country that is poorer than theirs, and attributes their lack of development to some genetic or racist defect. While this is possible, I do think it's exceedingly rare. When one sees how other people live up close, it's natural to look for the patterns and similarities rather than come up with differences.)
It's an important and interesting but unusually simple mathematical topic that can be explained quite well without dumbing it down, leading to a "surprisingly good" article compared to scientific divulgation in general.
The Things Every CIO Must Have for Success – Dive U Tech
I found reading this article gripping and it led to a lot of questions.

My first thought is how casual 'belief' or 'faith' in moderate Christians is what led JAC down this route. When society believes that not knowing God is a path to eternal damnation, then is it that surprising if someone with empathy and ambition makes it their mission to fix?

Obviously there is also a bit of the 'messiah' complex going on there - probably reinforced by other Christians and IG followers.

I was also thinking about how the dad felt, when he tried to talk his son out of what he was doing, but couldn't argue against the religious beliefs he'd previously taught him? At that point, if I were in his shoes, would I hold my hands up and say my faith had all been a big mistake, it was convenient to getting me where I am, but it doesn't really make sense. Or maybe I'd take the tack of 'don't be so extreme - be more moderate', something that really wasn't going to fly with JAC.

Also, as a father, I can't imagine raising a baby boy, a child, who becomes a young adult and then watching him take this path. The article made me think about how a father is a role-model to their children. His father went through a difficult time with his career and JAC was witness to this. I lead a stressful, busy life, I wonder what affect that will have on my kids outlook?
accurate & complete requirements capture
It was part of Ukraine, and republics of USSR formally could leave it (not that anyone would allow that though, due to the legal trickery). So that point 3 is not true.
What's New in Python 3.8?
Much of the value of HN, apart from the community, derives also from the subtle but firm moderation. I am not sure how that would work on a decentralized system.
”One country, two systems” is originally an agreement between the UK and China before the handover. Violating a treaty with another country makes it an international affair.
Lessons from Kargil war shaped India’s military strategy
Good luck with this battle.
Your number one role is to be a shit umbrella, protecting your team from all the shit that gets flung at them from all sides.

It’s you who will have to say no to the higher ups when they demand that you drop everything and start working on quantum computers because their brother heard about it on a birthday.

It’s you who will have to argue with other managers and team leads when they want to push work on your team.

It’s you who will have to step up when team members get into bad arguments with each other.

You will have to accept that your job will leave less and less time for the technical side you’ve done before.

You are no longer the same rank as your team members, never forget that. Because they won’t, and if you get into technical arguments with them they might follow your idea because you’re the boss, not because you are right.

If you can’t or won’t want deal with these kinds of things, please don’t take the job. Management is a real skill.
That sounds like a lame excuse - sorry.

Every child knows that you don't do whatever you want on the grounds of other people, in their gardens and homes.

Stop being jerks and just ask people politely if it's ok for them that you take a picture.

Also I don't get how they all need a picture of the same place.

In the end all they do is to deprive themselves from real happiness and the possibility to just enjoy the moment. Their POV changes in the moment they see the world through the lens of their cam and they don't even seem to get this.
the tax rate never increases

But assessed values do. My property tax bill is 50% greater now than 17 years ago.
Will take more than a day anyway though.
I thought you were digressing to Indonesian forests, but TIL Brazil wants the palm oil money too: https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2017/jun/29...
Google Takes Position in Controversial Vaccine Safety Debate
Blazor – Getting Started and First Impressions
This looks like a very interesting project to make a lightweight sftp server, though the dependency on an SQL db makes it a bit harder to install.

Go has a really good set of crypto primitives, an excellent ssh implementation maintained by the core team, and a great sftp server and client library which makes this project possible.

I recently added an sftp server to rclone: https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_serve_sftp/ - this can serve any of the cloud providers rclone support as sftp (or local disk). This runs on windows/macOS/linux too.

It was a joy to add this as the Go libraries are very well thought out and easy to use.
True, how off-putting would you find that though? Well I would anyway, so hats off to the guy.
Because they have an extensive framework of public policies to foster these kinds of industries.
> These are people so obsessed with their own sense of self-importance for the sake of a few instant “likes” on their social media profile that they find it perfectly acceptable to trespass, steal, disrespect the workers and their land – all in the name of “influencing”.

...

>They’d damaged the land. They’d stolen the owner’s products. They’d ruined the fields that had been tended to with hard work for months. But even the farmer’s final attempt to put and end to it wasn’t enough – they wanted more.

Oh, can't wait the day when we are going to look back at "social media" platforms and go: "what the hell were these creatures thinking?"

I really think social media is one of the worst tools for the human psyche ever conceived. It's a net loss for sure.

It's addictive and also messes up with dopamine generation. Not to mention the vanity/envy aspect of it: people comparing to selective representation of other people. It's remarkably insane when you think about it.

Maybe it's best not to think about it :)
That's definitely a thing, when you go bald you will definitely be treated differently.

For a concrete example of this just look at TV shows and movies and compare the number of bald lead actors to the number of bald people you know in real life. You could argue over the percentage of men that are bald but you'd still be arguing over a significant percentage.

Where as you can probably name ALL of the famous bald actors without trying.

I'd bet that dating sites would also be able to extract some interesting data too.

It's much hard to extrapolate that other areas of life such as job interviews (obviously bald people have jobs where appearance is less important that skills or experience) but personally I'd guess there is still an effect that can be measured.
I expected that. Is it for health or for ethics?

Also, can you please address the other points in my previous comment?

Feel free to reply to any of my other comments in the thread if we have reached maximum depth.
Users hate change
> ”One country, two systems” is originally an agreement between the UK and China before the handover.

That agreement was predicated on a belief that over time, China would open up and become more democratic and Hong Kong would smoothly merge cultures.

Unfortunately, that assumption was entirely false. It's been 20 years since the handover, and China has not at all moved towards freedoms generally considered a pre-requisite to social society in the west.

Hong Kong has completely different values than mainland China. Even if the current events fade away, they are on an unavoidable collision course.
Prolog Is Magic (2019)
Compartmentalisation is fine for liquid cargoes, but make it a lot harder to load and unload particulate solids like these because the walls and baffles get in the way.
Keep in mind, that with this kind of sell deal, employees and investors have drastically different risk sensitivity. For employees cashing in their stock options or getting stock, it could be up to a half of their middle-class compensation – not the kind of money a rational person would put into risiker investments. But funds that invest in startups are specializing in high risk/reward, which their customers – other financial institutions who put a minor portion of managed money in such ventures, or individuals who are significantly wealthier than middle class and can afford to lose a lot of money without damage to their livelihood and lifestyle.

So, my point is, these kinds of deals are very often win-win, and can't signify that there's something wrong with the company.
In Australia you're allowed to advertise about the existence and symptoms of medical conditions just not to recommend any specific treatment other than "talk to your doctor". The pharmacist is also obliged to offer generic versions of drugs at purchase.
> I wonder how they'd feel if tables were turned - farmers all photographing young people on their laptops in cafes etc.

I wondered if we could get a contest running: for every "influencer" picture, see who can find the most unflattering backstage picture for that set. Maybe once people realized that behind each "young and carefree" photo there's a professional photographer, lights, a mobile wardrobe, a ladder, and hundreds of people doing the same, then the madness would stop.

But then I realised that I just re-invented the paparazzi. And if they haven't changed people's perception of Hollywood glamour, neither will this plan.
> Instagram isn’t the root cause to why people suck.

That's even more depressing (if true) than this abomination of "social networks" that we are seeing right now.

But still, even if your point might be true, we should stop giving people easy ways to be degenerates. There should be repercussions or something, but good luck codifying it into a law :)

It's a difficult problem.
Research: The Average Age of a Successful Startup Founder Is 45 (2018)
Agree. Here is how I was thinking.

- For posting require a hacker coin.
- Challenge/wrestle the validity of post by staking some amount of token.
- Whoever wins the argument takes the opponents token.
- There can be a karma component as well, where in the bad actors need to pay 1.5x amount of token if they did a bad karma last time.
yeap .. I see this in myself occasionally and so far they seem to coincide with periods of stress
> People seem to be outraged by vague allegations of Russian meddling in other countries' affairs but China should be treated like a colony by the West... That's highly hypocritical (if not racist).

If your core values are freedom, democracy, and the right of the people to choose who governs them, then it does not seem hypocritical at all.
I would like to point out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law
> It's the most diverse political landscape. That could potentially mean it's much more democratic than the US.

Democracy doesn't require a lot of parties, it requires that the people actually have the power to elect someone in charge. The EP is powerless and none of the EC members are elected or can be removed by a public vote.
Scientists Built a ‘Living Drug’ to Beat Cancer
make users take a photograph of the correctly-parked scooter

You can upload any picture of any of their scooters. It's just a picture, and it may or may not have any metadata, or unaltered metadata.
I have worked in gamedev for 12 years (the only industry I've been working in my entire life) and have never seen anything like the stories you most likely mean. It's not all sunshine and rainbows, and I often think about switching into something else, but overall it seems just like any other tech.

Plus, in my experience at least, Unity as a tech stack is one of the best paid, at least around here.
I was in this field. In 2012, tt was already seen as a crazy accomplishment in showmanship and fundraising.

Everybody in the field thought this was irresponsible and foolhardy, but good for the field overall.

Long story short, I left for machine learning as everybody else without wet lab experience also did from my lab.
I think the difference is between organizations like square, and those that aren't.

I work at an organization like square. My manager could probably fire me. Not today, but should he desire he could manage me out, at least of his team. I have the autonomy to move elsewhere.

But I am working with ICs right now who have more organizational I influence than my manager. Certainly he decides the priorities for his direct reports, but these ICs influence the priorities for our organizing as a whole, much more strongly than my manager does. And he certainly can't fire them.

So sure, my manager is senior to me, but that's because he's senior to me. There are equally, and more, senior ICs in our org who he has to defer to in practice.
I don't see your point. Adding custom build steps is a basic feature that's supported by pretty much every single popular build system for decades now, just like adding your own dependencies. Heck, cmake even allows users to configure a project to download packages from the web and integrate them in a build and with custom build steps if needed. Even if we ignore this fact, there are also package management tools such as Conan which handle this case quite nicely and also support cross-platform deployments.

And let's not pretend that in some platforms such as pretty much each and every single popular linux distro already package and distribute C++ libraries and offer packaging tools and also package repository services to distribute any dependency.

I'm starting to suspet that those who complain about these sort of issues have little to no experience with C++.
Why would I use this over the original, iconic HN run by Ycombinator?
I'm affraid that the current US administration has a really wide interpretation of what "US national security" is, far wider than any other administration, including not only the political or geostrategical scope but the business scope too. And technology is a core part of business.

Before this US administration, EU was considered a "friend" or "allied" of the US, meaning sharing common values, like human rights, universality, or that it's better to have win/win trade than win/loose trade. There was competition AND cooperation.

But now, it seem that the US administration sees the EU only as a competitor and as a foe. This US administration is only restricted to bully the EU because the EU is strong enough to not let it be that way and may retaliate.

So yeah, sadly, I think that US will try to sanction the EU in some or other way (and in fact already started). The more the US is centered on itself, the less it cares about the rest of the world and the more it think that it DOESN4T NEED allies and friends, and it can treat EU like a servant.

And more sadly, I think that EU will have to stand for itself, to not depend nor a Russia or China... but not on US too.
It's quite possible to structure a contract such that payment entitles you to either some other benefit or a refund; whether there is a breach at all depends on the terms of the contract.

And it is the norm that return of consideration is the limit to damages for breach of contract; the exceptional circumstances permitting additional recovery almost all involve you having—both in fact and in the other parties knowledge (and, IIRC, generally requires this to be expressly part of the body of agreement in the contract)—relied on the promise in the contract to forego some other opportunity that is lost in the breach.
Javascriptcore; jsc. It's part of webkit (comes from the webkit2gtk package on my system).
I want them to give less ads to people who don't click on them.

It won't effect their statistics and a larger group get's ( perhaps) a little bit less demotivated to go on Facebook.

The people that click on all says ads, nothing changes.
> It is also possible for emotional stress to trigger an outbreak of hives.

No doubt, stress has physiological effects, but so does laughter and excitement. Having stress is a normal part of being a human. In reasonable doses it's fine.
The classical example of expecting another piece is when Maria Joao Pires performed in Amsterdam and only during the orchestra introduction figured out her mistake. See her reaction on Youtube [1]. As opposed to the article above, she hadn't performed this piece in over a year.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fS64pb0XnbI
I read someone mentioning India, others the UK, etc. Not that any makes much sense.

It's no wonder such sensitive situations were mishandled. The theoretical magical chain of events that lead to sustained "freedom" was always there, on paper at least, but using the US examples we should conclude that its cost-benefit is waaay way lower than necessary to consider it a useful foreign policy tool.

Of course, an avid idealist might argue that this just means the US (or the world, or the West) just needs more experience to be able to better export "freedom"; and of course it is something we should never stop trying. And even today, even after the whole ISIL/ISIS campaign every place is better off now than it was before. (No Saddam, no Gaddafi, etc.)
The Internet is mostly v4-only. What do you mean?
Good info!!
Actually they learned that general male hairloss is an autoimmune response where your own immune system attacks your hair follicles. Cyclosporine was the reason they discovered this after people who'd receive an organ transplant started to regrow hair.

Obviously taking Cyclosporine for MPB would be a bad idea.
> it is the norm that return of consideration is the limit to damages for breach of contract

What contract law are you reading? The standard damages for breach of contract are called compensatory damages... meaning they put you in the same place you were in had the contract not been breached.

Suppose you sign a contract to buy $1000 of widgets, but the seller never sends the widgets, and instead you have to go out and buy the widgets from someone else for $2000. You have a pretty clear breach of contract claim for the extra $1000 you needed to pay someone else.
The Problem of Mindfulness
> I'm affraid that the current US administration has a really wide interpretation of what "US national security" is, far wider than any other administration, including not only the political or geostrategical scope but the business scope too.

It's not actually wider than recent Administrations, which have had similarly expansive definitions and in at least on case expressly included environmental concerns that this Administration rejects as even real, much less matters of national security.

What does differentiate the current Administration’s view of national security from prior ones is that it is utterly unmoored from reality.
Also it's the classical buy vs build.

Ok, given the size and budget of CERN, it's probably cheaper for them to develop things in house. But maintaining a team of people not at the heart of your activities is always a bit challenging from an organizational point of view. For example, as it's not core for your activities, in case of a budget reduction, this team will likely be reduced, re-purposed or removed, leaving a lot of their services unmaintained with no bug fixes and difficult to operate by IT.

It's also less battle tested than off the shelf software, so you will hit all the common traps before having a stable solution.

And open-sourcing the code is not a magic bullet. Even if the code is open-sourced, the likelihood of the project building a community of users and external contributors is quite small.

That being said, sometimes the offering for off the shelf software is just so bad that it's preferable to implement it in house. Or you have an idea that, even if not core to your business/activities, could provide a competitive advantage/huge gain in efficiency. But to pull that off, you need to be well ahead of the curve, have smart people in-house and significant resources to dedicated to that (CERN actually crosses these boxes). But it's also likely the world will catch-up and you will then be stuck with your in-house solution lacking features and reliability.
The main issue as I see it is that creatives and beginner/advanced-beginner programmers are very eager to standardize on unity and unreal but it's basically like wearing a straitjacket for advanced programmers.
I was curious: my Laptop needed 18 minutes.
Trump has been in place for 2 years.

You seem not to see the true damages he and his team did to, for a start, transatlantic alliances.

And that this is not headed the right way for the next decade either.
Not very encouraging, but the coding horror post refers to the name. Not the underlying need for the code.

One of my jobs is to mentor, which is something I liked doing in my prior job (different company).

I also understand the business reasonably well so hopefully there’s something I can offer my people.
> Young hairs are maintenance free

Have you spoken to any women about this?

Or ever had a haircut?
All iconic centralized systems have points of failure. Why do many people feel insecure or powerless by facebook ? It was iconic in its time !

PS : I am not of any extreme opinion that everything should be decentralized. This post was just a thought and so decided to post here.
So whose will should trump the other? The majority or the minority?

Perhaps you should spare some sympathy for the majority of the Crimean populace who wished to rejoin Russia- I notice you have none.
Social media is important - I'm tired of all these people claiming the opposite. Maybe quitting social media works for your lifestyle / situation, but I'd hate it.

I have many overseas friends that I can only stay up-to-date with via Facebook. Could they message me directly? Maybe. Would all of them do that? No.

Not everyone is a "best friend" and likely to update me directly, and that's OK - they're still my friends though, and I wanna stay in touch.

And I daresay (gasp) enjoy posting sometimes, and liking things.
Yes, that’s a classic. It didn’t help me years ago.

But maybe with age, it’ll be easier to practice.