skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve seen a parked car with 3+ tickets on the windshied (didn’t count but there was a small stack of them) in Austria. Had a foreign license plate though so probably just didn’t care and wasn’t gonna pay.
While I agree that people should rely on science when determining the safety of food products, it's disingenuous to imply that selective breeding and GMO are the same thing, as it ignores the fact that many if not most GMO foods are transgenic with genes from other species and even kingdoms of life that would never find their way into the genome through selective breeding.
Correct english language grammar of the title would be "understanding containers". Can I suggest using a word processor that provides grammar suggestions and also teaming up with someone with excellent English to help.
I think that many people realize the emptiness of the things most of us strive for. Far fewer of us stop chasing the emptiness very much. As Steve Taylor said, "Off like lemmings at the gun/I know better, still I run."

Me, I can see that this stuff is empty, at least some of the time. I can even stop chasing it, for a few hours or days at a time. I can't seem to do it for long, though.
Where I live (London) there's a few of these lamppost chargers and people do use them. The thing about cars is that they... move. So you can drive your car to a vacant lamppost charger 5 minutes away and park it there. The walk back home, not a big deal.
I'm with the phonological camp. In fact, one of the things that surprised me greatly is that I can read Japanese dramatically more comfortably than English. I can read the symbolic characters very easily and since almost all of the phonetic characters in Japanese are grammar, I tend to gloss over it. However the grammar is very regular, so you can usually figure out what's going on without having to read every character.

In fact, I get very frustrated when I read children's books because they often omit the Chinese characters for words and replace them with phonetic characters. I just can't read it without a massive struggle.

It's also interesting that I vastly prefer computer programming languages that use symbols rather than words. One of the common "coding practices" in Ruby is to replace "if !whatever" with "unless whatever". I literally can't understand the latter and I'm always rewriting it in my editor to "if !whatever" so that I can understand the code. You might think I'm just used to it, but if I write "if not whatever" -- bam! I can't understand it. Weird, isn't it!
The cap is $1,232/week. I just ended my PFL.
I understand the idea of selective breeding but GMO is more than that. It's very possible to move genes from very different organisms that would never be possible via selective breeding. The ones that come to mind are the glow in the dark organisms that used genes from 2 different types of animals that could never breed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCPtDVnaQ1w

So no GMO does not equal selective breeding.
That’s a fair point. It does seem morally reprehensible to be aware of the fact that your platform has become a megaphone for genocide and to profit from it nonetheless. So I agree that on those grounds we should hold Facebook accountable.

Still, this is not a new problem. In 1939 an entire nation was susceptible enough to propaganda to accept global war and genocide, and several other nations were willing to turn a blind eye and ally themselves to that nation. Mass propaganda has functioned successfully for a long time, the only difference is that it used to be driven primarily by national interests while now its driven by global iconoclasts on platforms that have economic interests but are otherwise neutral. The reason populations in ‘39 were suceptible to harmful ideogy is the same as the reason they are today—they are cultivated in environs that, either becuase of material limits or cultural emphasis, do not emphasize instilling the ability to conduct critical analysis of agrumentation in the wider population.

Its important to recognize that while technology has certainly resulted in an acceleration of the spread of harmful thought and populist rehteoric it has not enacted a fundamental change in the nature of that rhetoric or of its function. Totalitarianism today looks much the same as it did a few years ago, and as it did even further back in history—only its vehicle has changed. In fact, one of the prime errors in the analysis of modern ills seems to lie in the willful ignorance of history, which in flavor differs from or day but in essence remains the same.

Also, I’m not making the argument that we should have adapted to technologies we couldn’t have foreseen—I’m saying the time to adapt is now not a few years ago. I simply think focusing too heavily on attacking the technologists (now) is the wrong angle and will fail to address the whole issue (though of course, holding them accountable is defintely a big part of the story), simply ensuring the problem lives on in another form.

The goal should be better education systems, and particularly ones that focus on producing rational human subjects , not economic cogs (what public education, for the most part, produces today) that, while plenty efficient (and pleasingly expendable) for corporations, have no aptitude for discerning judgement or humanistic reasoning to save them from political radicalization.
What? We're far wealthier in the US than the vast majority of the world. It's not propaganda, it's data and fact.

Healthcare and education are generally more expensive here than in Europe, but people also get paid more here and keep more of their salaries than in the rest of the developed world. Goods are much cheaper in the US than in Europe and we generally enjoy more material wealth than the Europeans.

You are deluding yourself with your bigotry against the US.
Clarify, please: Do you mean the cruelty of society to the nonconformists, or the cruelty of the nonconformists?
I caused havoc in high-school with that. And finding a way of executing binaries inside Novell's Netware thing, via the "Open" dialog within any Office application's Visual Basic macro editor haha
To some degree or another, and some better than others.
What’s Hipchat?
Relevant xkcd:

https://xkcd.com/1200/
We can make EV useful if we add an Expect-EV header similar to the Expect-CT header. And ideally add preloading to the header too.

This allows EV to have real benefits without requiring any user alertness.
That's because the headline (on thenextweb) is aggressively, intentionally politicized. It's partisan clickbait.
Some try, fewer truly succeed. It's one thing to reject your nature, it's quite another to not live in some lingering dissonance as a result.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HipChat
> Typical urban parking is designed so the average person is walking maybe a couple hundred feet maximum? That’s a lot of localized parking.

Typical urban parking outside of car-centric US cities is "your car takes up as much space as your apartment/hotel room/office cubicle, where the hell do we have space to put it?" For someplace as crammed as Manhattan, the parking isn't "around the block", it's on the other side of the traffic choke points.

> Finally, it’s likely the vehicle is not going to park, but rather off to pick up its next ride.

I don't buy that. Traffic patterns in large cities end up showing a distinct bimodal pattern: there is a large influx of people into the central business district in the morning, and then a large outflux of people in the afternoon. If I'm commuting by self-driving car, and I get in at 8:45-ish, there's going to be no demand for my car since everyone who needs to be in work by 9:00 is on the way.

You can see this in systems that are already optimized to move people en masse to/from cities: commuter rail and bus systems. Large city railroad stations often have rail yards for train storage near their downtown hubs simply to store the trains during the day.
According to Axios: Price less than $3 million.

https://www.axios.com/verizon-tumblr-wordpress-automattic-e6...

https://mobile.twitter.com/danprimack/status/116103870529508...
If that interpretation is correct, then the hypersane really aren't that rare.
Did anybody here played with Palantir's software stack? If so, how is the overall experience especially the UI?
I like the application to be tightly coupled to the OS, because then my applications have a consistent UI. All of my GTK apps look great, because I can change the theme for all of them with a single command. With one script, I can switch my entire system from dark mode to light mode, and have all applications have the exact same color scheme - can't do that if every application has their own implementation of the UI components.

And different systems have different UI requirements, so I don't think it makes sense in many cases to have the same UI between them. iOS and Android, for example, have very different standards surrounding what buttons mean, and how the navigation should work. The back button on Android, for example, completely removes the need to a back button in the application, while in iOS it is still required. And of course if you are making an application that runs on both touch screen devices, and devices with keyboards, the UI should definitely not be the same.
Yes. Or set scale to 0 or something.

Generally speaking we're creating contrived examples because in all fairness, I've only seen this once I can remember in the last 5 years of writing business logic in python. Usually language purists would prefer us to be explicit in our languages. And type safety is the best thing since sliced bread.

But effectively that's why python has taken off. Types do matter, but for most things they don't Lots of good software has been written using python.
Say No to the “Cashless Future” – and to Cashless Stores
I go into my office and shut the door. I put my headphones on and put on some music. I work the morning. I prepare lunch for anyone who wants it, help with the kids (we recently had twins), and then head back down for the afternoon. I've set boundaries with the grandparents and my wife has also worked full-time remote in her life so she already gets it. We'll see if the boundaries stick with the kids when they're older, though they may be in daycare before it becomes a problem.

I feel like the GP; truly, I feel blessed.
Ah, XKCD. Truly a blessing to the modern world!
Make the passwords one character longer than what is noted in the book? Only you know the character and where it is added.

For bank cards with fixed lengths, increment/decrement the nth character, swap two characters, or do a circular shift.
> What I'm eating is relatively bland?

If you don't live in a tropical country, yes. Bananas in temperate countries taste like Styrofoam.

I don't know if this is a problem specific with the Cavendish or because the bananas aren't ripened in the plant, but in Africa and South America (and probably Southern Asia) bananas have a far more intense flavor. Same happens to guavas. Mangoes and passion fruit, however, keep the same strong flavor.
I was agreeing.
Out of curiosity, are you using the durable, NATS-Streaming server, or just the ephemeral NATS-server? I’d be interested to hear more about the performance differences you see.
David Sinclair – Cracking and reversing the aging clock
All the npm cases I can think of have been in javascript code, not 'binaries'. So that wouldn't have prevented any of them.
> There is no such issue with braces

That is true, but mixing spaces and tabs is a contrived example. Literally nobody actually does that.

Same for the point about formatting, I think. The average python dev probably spends about as much time reformatting pasted code as the average C dev spends typing braces.

I guess my point is just I think you subjectively dislike Python’s syntax (which is fine) but are trying to make objective justifications for that which seem really far fetched. Why not just say you don’t like it?
> Tumblr had issues with jailbait and childporn.

There should just be legislation that all childporn posters and viewers just get immediately and automatically reported to the FBI....

Oh wait, the FBI protects pedos and lets them get murder-suicided in federal prison if they have too much compromat on wealthy pedos.

I forgot.
That doesn't seem to stop the article's example though.
They're not exactly the same, no, but there is nothing that says that eventually those organisms would have a mutation that gave them the ability to glow in the dark. We just make it happen quicker with science. If they can survive with those genes from other species, than they could in theory mutate them too.
People are already comfortable and used to other cultivars of other fruits. GMO isn't even necessary here, just other types of bananas.
A fact that many people miss about Ebola is that while its survival rate is very low when untreated, it becomes relatively high (I think in the 80%) with simple things like IV hydration. Basically you are going to lose a LOT of water through that infection. Feeding you water (and minerals) directly in the veins gives a surprisingly high survival rate.

What makes Ebola so dangerous is the ease at which infection spreads within the medical staff and how quick it can occupy all your beds and "simple" IV devices.

Depending on how it is made, a cure may not change much. If it relies on medical attention, then it probably won't change the high death rate of people outside medical care, which is what allows an epidemic to start.
It’s crazy how different his dyslexic experience is than mine. I think there are differently several different things going on under the umbrella term “dyslexic”.

Colored glasses do not help me. Reading is slow, but doesn’t cause headaches. Spelling is near impossible. After a slow start by high school my reading comprehension was at or above my peers.
But you don't know that. Maybe they would randomly get that mutation in some generation that we would then breed for. All we're doing is speeding that up with science.
How does this number relate to the number of KDE and LXQT/LXDE installations?
> The hubris to think we know which varietals are the best and will continue to be the best.

If they don't grow GMO Cavendish, they will pick some other variety and grow that everywhere, like they did after the Gros Michel went under. GMO doesn't seem to be a prerequisite for monoculture at all.

> the power of being able to still survive on pure nature's means

We haven't been able to do that since the dawn of agriculture. If modern agriculture disappeared tomorrow, the Cavendish plantations would not resemble Cavendish plantations very long, Panama disease or not.

The only problem I have with a "GMO Cavendish" is that it would likely be patented, which could create a company with some extraordinarily powerful IP, which is very dangerous. But that's a problem with the law, not GMOs per se.
I'm not necessarily a fan of Teams but there's an unofficial Linux client that I use almost daily. It has some issues but mostly works.

https://github.com/IsmaelMartinez/teams-for-linux
I bicycle, ride buses & trains, I have an e-bike and I love it. But realistically we have between ten and thirty years to fix all this. That's not enough time to reinvent the entire world from the ground up, so in addition to the technologies you list I am also hopeful for EVs, synthetic fuel, and so forth.
I've seen something similar in New Zealand. Probably wouldn't be fooling anyone given the size of the country and how distinctive the car was.
I don't usually call for something like this, but please please please, if you are an FTE, name and shame the company here.

If this company wants to ride a wave of publicity and good will by telling the world they offer paid paternity leave, they should face the public scrutiny and blowback for such a disgracefully uneven application of said leave policy.
To my knowledge, it played with only one account. It played exactly 50 games with every race. It was outed mainly because of two things: A very high win rate (above 80% IIRC) and the fact that as a zerg it produced units by selecting larvas directly, which no one ever does (someone explains that it uses control groups but they are hidden and dont show up in replays, I dont know how accurate it is)
You actually bring up what I think is an interesting point.

People automatically attribute virtue and goodness to the idea of sanity. The more sane someone is, the more rational and, therefore, the better decisions they will make.

But what if a higher level of "sanity" leads to actions that are ultimately bad for those who are less sane? They could perceive the world exactly how it is and conclude that destroying that world is the best course of action. How does one differentiates this behavior from actual insanity? It makes sense that one could tell whether someone isn't sane, since someone who is insane probably wouldn't have an experience consistent with other people, but hypersane bad guy seems difficult to accurately assess; they might be sane overall, but be totally insane in one particular facet, or perhaps not at all.
What information are you expecting that wouldn't be easier to find by googling Hipchat? I can't understand why anyone would ask this.
but I can't help but feel that most of this is an issue with human beings more than it is with algorithmics.

That's a little like saying we should do away with vaccines and antibiotics because the problem isn't disease, it's a poor immune system.

maximizes on the content that humans are drawn to engage with strongly which, surprise, surprise, all of history will show you happens to be vicious, inelegant, untruthful, and ultimately disastrous ideologies.

I don't agree with this view at all. The analogy I typically use is that people will keep eating potato chips and never feel full if they never get a good meal. Vilifying potato chips makes no sense, but vilifying people for only ever serving potato chips and no real meals makes perfect sense. That's where the real blame lies.

What we should be focusing on is how we can equip citizenry to better inform themselves, better guard against new means of propaganda and information, better imbue them with the critical sense to second guess the radical and largely unsupported claims they encounter on a daily basis. "fake news" is not a problem solved at the level of the distribution channels, which will always be susceptible to dastardly uses--it is a problem solved at the level of the receivers of the information, who need to be imbued with the critical foresight and reasoning skills required to defend themselves from manipulation.

Yet no one seems to focus on that.

It's something I try to do, but I'm just one person and can't seem to get any traction. So I don't know what to tell you. I keep on keeping on, perhaps stupidly so given the general lack of interest and the state of my finances.
> There is nothing in the design of EV that prevents this, and name collisions between corporate entities are common and acceptable practice

Which is exactly why name collision are not actually a failing of EV and why the Stripe EV trick, while cute, did not demonstrate anything meaningful about the utility of EV certs.

EV was never intended to be a perfect phishing prophylactic, so I can't understand why people seem to get so much mileage out of pointing out that EV's can't prevent all phishing.

What EV certs do better than DVs is provide a paper trail for sites that commit crimes. To get that name-colliding Stripe EV cert, Ian had to use his real identity to create a company; he even helpfully links to the record! That's going to make it a bit easier for law enforcement to track him down if they are investigating his website.
One alternative to GMO is to irradiate your organism until it randomly develops a mutation you like.

It's not "GMO" and isn't labeled as such, because it doesn't involve the same technical steps as inserting a fish gene into a tomato, or whatever, but you end up with an organism with de novo mutations that do... well, something, probably many things, and if you're lucky, something you want, that you can then use selective breeding to amplify. Voila, you've introduced a brand new, never-before-seen mutation, without any GMO.

Except it's stupid. It's an incredible amount of work, just to be able to produce something that isn't technically GMO, when you could reach in with CRISPR or whatever the new hot genetic tools are and do it much more close to exactly.
what was it like working there?
What they did at SpaceX, at least if I recall correctly, was use a powder metal bath and a platform, then would use a laser to melt a pattern into the top of the powder, then retract the platform a bit, shake it up to get powder evenly distributed again, then go over it again with the laser for the next layer. This design allowed for extremely precise, flight-grade hardware to be printed, and doesn't seem especially out-of-reach for a dedicated hobbyist either.
> it dwindled to a mere 370 million in February

You are linking to incorrect stats. These numbers claim Tumblr has more MAUs than Twitter and Snapchat combined.
Our Teams has Planner to do lists. Great, I thought, now our to dos are integrated into our chat platform. Then I tried to edit a comment I made on a card. Couldn't figure out, contacted our vendor only to find out it's NOT POSSIBLE! Googled it, tons of requests from years ago asking MS to implement edit and delete options for comments. Unbelievable.
Give the FTC Some Teeth to Guard Our Privacy
You can buy a fake social in Queens for $50. It's a deliberately flawed system because fixing it would utterly decimate the pool of cheap labor for the service sector.

Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/if-youre-a-good-work...
“Double-Checking” the Second Amendment
You may want to attempt to improve your sleep. Foggy head with reduced cognition and memory loss are pretty major symptoms of long term inadequate sleep. They’re very common symptoms that parents of young children complain about, and can have some very long recovery times. Personally it took almost 6 months to recover once my first child started sleeping through the night. All it takes is an hour a night deficit for an extended period of time to really impact mental acuity, but you might not notice because it’s almost enough on a daily basis, and by the time the cumulative effects show up, it’s not always obvious sleep is the culpret.
German Police Look into Killing of Rare Bird and Vigilantes’ Payback
This is hard to believe, yet true. This is the best example I’ve seen yet of just how broken healthcare in the US has become.
Advanced Quantum Technologies – Wiley Online Library
A responsive photography book on Ladakh
Maybe some people in the science and HPC community, but I find a lot of developers and people at meetups surrounding Linux technologies are often using Macs. Red Hat notoriously employees a lot of people that don't even use Linux. I personally use Arch Linux. You can't really compare something that is open source though and very modular, to something like Windows though.
Rebuildable is different than reproducible. The Nix system is predicated on rebuilding. Ideally the binaries would be all also reproducible however it turns out making compilation completely deterministic is actually pretty hard. When we reach that point and me and you can both independently produce identical binaries and hash them from exactly the same source code that is beyond fantastic for security and auditing.
I suffered with it from like 19 (came out of nowhere) til my late 20s when I started talking about it openly with friends, family, other people in general and realized wait im not alone were all nuts yet normal.

Wish I talked about way earlier and came to that realization.