skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I started in the 80's and also had the pleasure to use Win16 and OLE 1.0.

GUID were already part of DCE/RPC and Taligent.

And COM IDL is initially based on DCE IDL.
You don't need extra projects to manage this stuff anymore.

There is a great answer here... https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52524112/how-do-i-instal...

brew install java (12)
brew install java11

And you can simplify things...

In your .bashrc:

export JDK_HOME=`/usr/libexec/java_home -v 12` # v9+ change to the version you installed
export JAVA_PATH=$JDK_HOME
export JAVA_HOME=$JDK_HOME
export PATH="."
export PATH="${PATH}:${JAVA_HOME}/bin"
The draft document here:

https://www.desmogblog.com/sites/beta.desmogblog.com/files/G...

appears to be incomplete. Specifically, pages 3-7 appear to be missing.

From the article:

> Suess [the state’s Spill Investigation Program Manager] defended his agency’s methods. “What I believe the North Dakota public wants to know is not how big is it, but is this spill a risk to me,” he said. “Personally, I have actually been told by others that we are one of the most transparent agencies out there. My boss is the North Dakota taxpayer, and my door is always open, any citizen can walk in at any time and talk to me.”

That statement sets off all kinds of alarm bells. Forget the facts. You can count on us to tell you what you need to know.
BlackRock given clearance to invest in cybersecurity company Cofense
If you need emergency care, you don't have to wait (UK). My grandfather had a fall recently where he hit his head, and had a brain CT within two hours (he fell about 1am; he was admitted, assessed, treated, and discharged by 6am). A family member had an urgent referral for a mammogram last Thursday, and was assessed and given the results today.

Routine GPs appointments can generally be gotten within a week, and emergency[1] appointments (where we wait until the GP is done at the end of the surgery, and are then seen) if the triage nurse determines you need to be seen sooner can be gotten on the day. You also have the option of speaking to your local pharmacist, many of whom can prescribe medication for certain conditions if appropriate, or otherwise point you at suitable over-the-counter primary care.

A number of places also have walk-in centres for minor ailments where you don't need an appointment, and they generally have long opening hours (8am-10pm, 365 days a year for my local one). Urgent dental care is also available 24/7 in many places.

You may have to wait longer for non-emergency / non-priority / time-insensitive treatments - my routine MRIs have a lead time of about 8 weeks, and a specialist referral can be something in the region of 6-12 weeks (sometimes longer) - but I think that's a fair trade off. You do of course also have the option of paying for private care as well if you don't want to wait (often NHS doctors / semi-retired doctors working evenings in my limited experience).

[1] bit of a misnomer really - urgent but not critical is more accurate
1) Metal cards suck, they often don't work in parking garages[1], and you can't put them in a shredder

2) They are not novel.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/churning/comments/4zwpvt/psa_your_f...
Just note that, while the download page is confusing about this point, the OpenJ9 distribution is not OpenJDK; it's a completely separate project, albeit one that copies much of the OpenJDK code. OpenJDK release notes are largely irrelevant to the OpenJ9 build.
This is awesome. Sounds more exciting to see greatly used PostgreSQL stuff packed together.
it'd be fun to drop this vector field on a graph (maybe a sphere's surface), interpolate between points, and then drop in particles and watch their streamlines.
It says JOKING about using php, because hurr durr php is stupid caveman language hurr durr of course you shouldn't use it. Idiot. That's dismissive, belittling and straightforward insulting. Yet of course everybody jacks off about elixir or scala or blogs running on custom assembly coded httpd. Because THAT'S smart. And php's bad and stupid. Okay, gotcha.

You converted me. I will stop whining and go code my homepage in haskell. That should keep me busy for a year or so.
Amex has Blue Cash Everyday - the non fee on gives you 3% on supermarkets, no fee. The premium one with a $95/year fee gives you 6%. The max on these amounts is really high, and I have a number of cards to work with.

For online stores and restaurants/bars, I get 4% back with my uber card from barclays, again no fee (in fact both of these cards give you money just for signing up).

For me, restaurants/bars + supermarkets are the majority of my expenses, the other being housing, which I pay with direct transfer, no credit card option.

Most of my cards also offer extended warranty, free insurance on rental cars, free trip insurance, phone insurance, etc.

2% is the least I get when swiping, there's a lot of options for this including the city double with no fee. Apple wants me to exchange that for 1% and they make a big deal out of it. I mean, ok, they give a little more privacy, but again, if you value that, cash is king. I will say, their cool factor is really high, the packaging for this is way nicer than even very premium credit cards I've had.
It's diversity, just not how most people mean it. Intellectual diversity is extremely important for informed discourse.

> Sure, he had some women and minorities on his show, but mostly just white males. That's not diversity.

Yes, it is. It's just less than you'd prefer.
Fighting forest crime in Guatemala
It's not though. It's information derived from a publicly available source which is not quite the same thing as public information.

Often non-public information can be inferred through careful observation, aggregation, and analysis of public information or information that can be seen from a public location.

Or you can just see nonpublic information in public.

If you're at a restaurant and you see the CEO fighting with the board and then exclaim "I quit!!" --- knowledge that the CEO quit is material nonpublic information to the board. It must be disclosed in a specific way with securities filings. They cannot trade based upon it until there is public disclosure.

You, however, can do what you want.
I'd say in business context it is https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/slack
Exactly. It fits for the world-wide inflation.

> In economics, hyperinflation is very high and typically accelerating inflation.

> It quickly erodes the real value of the local currency, as the prices of all goods increase.

This is in process. You seem to think there's a specific periodic minimum that is absolute. If the period is decades, it looks the same.

> This causes people to minimize their holdings in that currency as they usually switch to more stable foreign currencies, often the US Dollar.[1] Prices typically remain stable in terms of other relatively stable currencies.

Given this has affected every currency (not counting some closed off systems like NK) the flight currency is property/land/gold/etc
Are all political contributions corrupt? If so, would we be better off banning them altogether? (Of course, then the only people who could afford to run successful campaigns would be the independently wealthy...)

If not, where’s the line? Citizens United was a case about a relatively narrow question, and the opinion was well reasoned. I believe it was correct. If you think it was wrongly decided, where’s the flaw in its logic?
Did Epstein finish doing his time before these people were willing to recieve investment money from him?
> The only remotely viable solution is improving access to ERs.

Telemedicine plus improving 24-hour pharmacy distribution and equipping them for rapid door-to-door delivery of critical meds (possibly by drone) might work, and might soon be more viable than ERs for the particular use case.

ER access addresses a lot more problems and probably wins aggregate cost/benefit analysis for the foreseeable future.
There's an even more Occam's-Razor-compatible explanation for where his money came from than the "Club Epstein" one: it wasn't his money at all. It was money he stole from Leslie Wexner, who had mysteriously entrusted him with vast sums, and even gave him his power of attorney (!). See https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2019/7/10/20689134/jeffrey-eps... for more details on the Epstein-Wexner relationship.

Why exactly Wexner chose to put Epstein in a position to steal so much from him remains a mystery, but if you buy that Epstein was a blackmailer a reasonable assumption would be that he had something on Wexner and used it as leverage.
The thing with math is it's very variable depending on talent. Maybe that's the case with history too. In one grueling math class I took, the ratio in time spent on problem sets between the kids who might become math professors and the best kid in the class was about 3. And it was only that low because the problems were really dirty. For history, I don't know what that's like. For software, the training time ratio is even bigger because the bar for "expert" is so low, and the knowledge required to start creating good software is small. As for chess, I thought it required a lot of study to play at a GM level.
Sqreen (YC W18) is one counterexample, but they came into YC at a later stage of maturity than your average YC company.

As to why there aren't many others, that's a great question. It's a hard space to get started in, since security is mission critical for essentially everyone, so that likely doesn't help matters. There's a lot more that needs to go into a viable MVP in cybersecurity than in other areas as well, since there's much less room for error and jank.

Those reasons likely contribute, but none of them are hard blockers.
Where is the proof or evidence? Are we so captive by our own belief systems that we no longer require a single shred of evidence that anything even close to this ever occurred?

Since this is a blog, it doesn't even have the benefit of built-in (although perhaps suspect these days) credibility of investigative journalists and editorial vetting at the NYT, Guardian, WSJ, etc. One would imagine that such outlets would have reporters on flights immediately. A spill larger than the Valdez would certainly be news-worthy!

There are no photos of this spill in the article, except for a photo of some tainted water that could be anywhere and an irrelevant photo of salt-water contamination. I'd think that a spill of this magnitude would have highly visible proof from drone or even satellite photos, on the ground, etc. Did all of the gas condensate, and evidence, seep into a massive hole in the ground?

The sole piece of "evidence" is what appears to be an email with all identifying information, logos, etc removed. Even the alleged company or investigating agencies are redacted. It doesn't appear to be an official form, purchase order, etc. It could have been completely fabricated in ten minutes in Google Docs. No deep fakes necessary.

In fact, @mods, the HN headline should probably be changed from the submitter's Whistle-blower reveals N Dakota leak of 11M gallons of gas condensate in 2015 to the actual Did North Dakota Regulators Hide an Oil and Gas Industry Spill Larger Than Exxon Valdez? Even the blog's headline is a question and not an answer.

As hackers/scientists/intellectuals, we should be asking for facts, hard data, and photographic evidence.
If I recall while I was living there was a pretty terrible winter around 2015/2016 I believe - perhaps that had something to do with it?
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!" -- Upton Sinclair

Money definitely influences peoples' perceptions and actions - if it didn't, we wouldn't have such societal institutions as salaries, bail, alimony, tax incentives, and campaign donations. People who don't play the reciprocity game ("if I give you something, I expect at least friendly relations") rapidly find themselves socially isolated.
Why IBM sees OpenCAPI and OMI as the future for accelerator-driven computing
“The job of the theorist, as I see it, is we take these facts and put them together in a coherent picture,” Young said. “Experimentalists can’t tell you what makes something work.”

This is not anything real scientists believe. In science, only experimental data can tell you how something works. Math models are just math models (not to imply they're not useful in understanding how things work, but they certainly don't are not sufficient.
> Self funding, while difficult and not applicable to all agencies, seems to inoculate regulatory capture somewhat.

I would absolutely want to see statistical evidence of that before I supported it. Regulatory agencies are destroyed from within. If you tie funding to prosecution, a few corrupt appointees can cripple an agency for years. Simply by passing on a few big cases they would destroy the funding flow and lose critical employees even if they didn't intend to.

If there is an external funding supply, it can be cut off but at least the agency will survive bad appointees. The US government in particular is built on checks and balances; betting everything on the agency keeping itself afloat is not balanced.
It's not about "drawling the line" - child sex offences are often "lifetime convictions" in that they don't come off your record (and for those in the public eye, would be impossible to shake in any case). Therefore they will often come up as part of criminal records checks, and if you have direct ties with felons of that nature, it could impact on you.

Getting to the bottom of these ties is important, especially given that there are many alleged crimes he didn't "do his time" for or will face potential justice for.

You can be friends with a convicted child sex offender, sure, but building close financial ties with (to the extent of essentially being a co-founder or co-host of a lot of different events) should draw some scrutiny, given there's an alleged pattern of behaviour that's been followed.
Or both are true simultaneously.
Well, that's not why I Jailbroke my phone. I Jailbroke my phone so I could:

• Install a Userscript to de-AMP pages in Google search results.

• Prevent Apple News from saving a history of what articles I read, thus disabling their recommendation engine and preventing a filter bubble.

• Add an extra row of app icons to my homescreen, so I can fit all my apps on one page.

• Get a warning when I set an alarm for PM rather than AM.

...and countless other little things.

Separately, I consider $100 an awful lot of money, especially for a subscription, which I try really hard to keep out of my life.
But pipelines still are better than trucks. The alternate to the pipeline wasn’t no gas at all.
Yes. Both of those deserve to be shouted from the rooftops, considered carefully, and then praised or cursed appropriately. If someone wants to hold one of those opinions, that's their right, and doesn't give them less value as a human being.
It's pretty easy to find a list of his guests and compile that if you are interested.
At the current price of oil, a gallon of oil comes out to $1.34.

That's about $15 million, which though not 0, is not going to have an effect on the vast majority of oil companies.
That's a different question. You own the device. Now you are demanding that other services interact with your device regardless of how it is configured.
I use Ubuntu Desktop as my primary machine and find it very stable. I use it primarily for development with WebStorm, Atom, VirtualBox, Chromium, Node, and Bash. I rarely play games on it, and my taste in games is not fancy. I handle mail, videos, and writing chores in Chrome and Firefox. I listen to music via Spotify. I use the video card built into my motherboard. The most demanding thing I do with it is record videos that capture what I do on the screen.

Perhaps I am not a typical user, but nonetheless, I rarely have trouble with Linux. Everything just works.
I think this is very simple: if the person has cleaned up their act (Epstein was dismissive of issues with his behaviors) and your judgement isn't clouded by dollars (Ito's / MITs were).

If those things aren't both true, you're not supporting someone who's done their time, you're being greedy and/or complicit.
For what it's worth,

> Odd take - almost all of the stories are about people who ended up engaging extensively with him after he'd already been convicted of being a sex offender.

When I engage with people I often don't do a search on them. Even if I did, I'm usually not fault someone for a past mistake; assuming I think they have changed.

That being said, I think the OPs take was that simply funding or working with a research group, doesn't make the research group guilty by association. Perhaps some investigation is warranted, but if you're doing research you're typically not going to turn down funding. How many research groups take funding from the DoD to literally build weapons to kill people?

That's likely worse than this association. I don't think that was the MediaLabs purpose, it was an unfortunate relationship.
No, but that’s sort of my point. Ambiguity and fear shouldn’t be used to dissuade helping those who did do their time, so it’s important to point out exceptions and why they are exceptions (Epstein was unable to be reformed IMHO, which is both tragic and a cautionary tale).

It’s hard to discern the reformed from the monsters sometimes, but the reformed still deserve another chance.
Just a quick rant about Firefox -- an INSANELY annoying bug that they've yet to fix is when trying to copy the URL on Mobile Firefox, 99% of the time I get the wrong address (the previous page I was on), because it seemingly doesn't populate the address as the page you're currently looking at if the page hasn't fully loaded yet. It's so odd.

Other than that, Firefox > Chrome. Privacy situation is vastly superior and web standards support is comparable. I also just feel that Mozilla is a way better company ethics wise, and for the software community at large, than Google.
> Historically, 10-30% of mercury was lost in the mining process, resulting in widespread contamination of river and lake sediments

That is a LOT! That explains the frequency of red areas on the map. What a shame.

Here in BC it's a similar story with the ocean and dioxins from industrial effluents. You can't harvest shellfish around most of southern Vancouver Island. It seems like everyone has a story of poisoning their own food and water.
New York Enacts the Shield Act (NY GDPR?)
It's a short list, and some "inventions" are dubious at best. OLPC for instance.
>No one is allowed to accept charitable donations from felons

Of course they're allowed. It's a free country.

We're discussing how reprehensible it is, and we focus on certain kinds of felons (not some guy who once did a victimless burglary or a DIU), and also on cases where they didn't just "accept donations", but visited the felons to their private lair...
I always wondered why Instacart never took their Group Carts feature and made it more holistic.

Right now, Instacart lets you create shared "Group Carts" for their grocery delivery, which I use with my girlfriend. But, there's no payment splitting, ability for other people in the shared cart to add items after-the-fact, Instacart Express benefit sharing, or any sort of shared order management abilities.

If Instacart extended the "Group Carts" feature to actual "Group Orders", this would make situations like mine (and also those who use Instacart with roommates) much more convenient and would be similar to how you describe Seamless
Yes, as part of Websphere.

It was quite good in the past and one of the first to support JIT caching.

Never used it after it went open source though.
No. It's a source-only project. Various companies and organization provide both certified and uncertified builds. There are certified builds from Oracle, Red Hat, SAP, Azul (Amazon and Alibaba provide builds of OpenJDK forks), and uncertified builds from Adopt (that also provides OpenJ9 distributions, which are very much not OpenJDK).
>Personally I am far happier working as a one-man show. I only take on projects where I can deliver real results on realistic timelines and budgets.

There is a middle ground between Big 4 and one person consulting. I used to work in the services/consulting org of a decent sized software company that sold data products. We had ~25 consultants in the US and were focused on deployment and light/medium customization. Our selling point was that all consultants were like surgeons and did focused work. We were not a staff augmentation group.

Two great things came from this 1). We didn't have enough people to support multi-year enterprise projects and all the BS that comes with that. If a customer had a big project we'd bring in a partner (e.g. Accenture). 2). Individual consultants could push back on unreasonable asks. For example, more than once I got asked to configure something (e.g. databases, firewalls, etc) that the company I worked for did not sell. I could simply say that I could provide info (e.g. schema recommendations, what ports to open), but the customer had to find somebody else to do it. If you work for a big consulting company the services manager will come in, say we can do it, and things just grow more complex from there as more and more people get dragged into things. Or worse, the services manager leans on you to do something totally out of your expertise because they don't care.

At least 75% of the projects I worked on were reasonably scoped and budgeted. Of course 3 years after I started somebody somewhere decided the consulting team needed to generate more revenue and take on bigger projects.
I don't think it's possible to exercise your way to weight loss. A handful of Oreo's will negate an hour workout. Simply cutting out as much added sugar as possible will drop weight quickly on just about anyone. Cutting out sugar isn't really a diet but more of a habit change. I'm not saying don't exercise, I'm saying both are necessary for results.
100% complete and total disagreement from me.

1) Write a JSON library from scratch.

2) Write a method to handle a binary format from scratch.

3) Compare them.

I understand that you are likely relying on some JSON library or language feature, and I would argue that you will bear the weight of that all of that code the instant it has any problem, and that you bear the performance cost every time you use it. Maybe that library or language feature doesn't have any functionality bugs that you encounter; you will still pay for the loss in performance for as long as you use it.

Maybe this is acceptable. For me, if I'm writing a tool that either delivers a result that a human relies on, or is a tool that a human uses, I consider it immoral to waste that human's time without a very good reason.

I always try to avoid wasting my own time. Reasoning about code that reads and writes binary files is much easier for me than reasoning about an entire JSON library.

Desktop, laptop, and tablet CPUs are not getting faster overall. In fact, they're getting slower as cores are added to the silicon dies.

We've lived as developers for far too long under the performance gains provided by hardware advancement. Software has generally improved performance only when put on newer and faster hardware platforms. As a general rule, faster hardware platforms aren't a guarantee anymore. We may have more cores to run on, or more CPUs thrown at us to improve performance, yes. We can improve performance in other ways, with zero hardware cost. Avoiding JSON unless it is actually needed is one way we can reclaim performance from the debt of our previous decisions.
Big tech firms join forces to advance ‘confidential computing’
Figma – 50 Tips and Tricks in 25 Minutes (YT)
It's not necessarily about the story; it's more about the narrative. When viewed this way, these unsubstantiated reports make a lot more sense. The truth isn't necessarily the goal; it's the message.
>when you apply it to a statement credit

You can get it deposited to your checking account instead.
Here’s an FT version:

https://www.ft.com/content/2eed925a-c3cf-11e9-a8e9-296ca6651...