skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The trading pin is just a few fixed numbers that you remember alongside your password. It's obviously not a second "factor". If one of my browser extensions gets hacked (or whatever), there goes my life savings.

Even my note taking app has 2FA! It's kinda absurd to me that I'm emailing back and forth with a massive financial institution arguing about whether 2FA is necessary. They put me through to the development team, and this is apparently their response. I'll probably be moving my savings to a different company.
HN does this, we aren't even employees, and it's far far less serious of a site than a workplace message board. HN isn't even paying for my time like my employer is.

Seems completely reasonable for an employer to moderate internal message boards, of all entities.
The pi-hole is too aggressive when it blocks stuff. For example, on the Fandango mobile app, the payment gateway is blocked by the pi-hole. A user should use the white list functionality to add the domain or two to get back the site's functionality.
Not allowing manufacturers to self-report means staffing up dramatically, and there is no will from anyone to balloon the number of government employees for things like this.
I would need quote on the 'vast majority' claim. You can't leave a bike for 10 minutes in downtown Seattle for a reason, homeless heroin addicts gets their drug and resource to procure those drug _somewhere_.
Software engineers are far, far more liberal than all other engineering professions.

Don't forget, a lot of engineers don't even consider software engineering to be an engineering discipline.
From the other side - if the world is on fire but a portion of the population thinks everything is just fine and dandy... is it appropriate for everyone to be politely quite until that portion comes to their own realization that the world is on fire? What if that never happens?

I feel like the gun control debate is particularly relevant - whenever a shooting happens one side calmly says "This is unfortunate but unavoidable given the cost to freedom we'd need to pay to remove firearms - please stop trying to use a tragedy politically" while the other side says "How many times does this need to happen before you realize 12,000 Americans died from this last year and I don't want my kid to be one of them."

Here's an issue where I think half the side thinks the world is on fire and the other is content - without getting into the merits of either side I do think it's unreasonable for the anti-gun control side to continue to argue against having a discussion for the sake of decorum. This is a divide we need to resolve.
Cython wouldn't help. The reason[1] is in the docs.

I already do Windows builds[2] - 21, becoming 23 in next release so that isn't a difficulty.

The problem is tying all this together in a way that is useful, with sensible defaults and appropriate tools. APSW supports python versions going back 16 years! I welcome discussion at python-sqlite[3]

[1] https://rogerbinns.github.io/apsw/download.html#easy-install...

[2] https://rogerbinns.github.io/apsw/download.html#source-and-b...

[3] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/python-sqlite
...and because Atlassian let Bitbucket's Hg support wither and die.
What if it's the case that advertising (placing unwanted audio/visual solicitations in front of people) as a business model just goes away completely? And businesses have to instead find other ways to get people to buy their stuff?

I, for one, have no trouble finding things to buy via search, rankings, or research, and give not one care if I never see another advertisement for the rest of my natural life.

I do not hold to the notion that advertising, in any form, is a necessary evil of capitalism. An inevitable parasite, perhaps.
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It would be nice if there were a cheap way to have a white roof in the summer and a black roof in the winter. Perhaps some kind of temperature sensitive paint that darkens when it drops below 60F or something.
Modern insulation is really good - much better than you get with rammed earth. Rammed earth isn't a particularly good insulator, it just has really high thermal mass, so once it heats up (and out here, it will heat up), it will continue leaking heat into the interior of your structure for quite a long time. Thermal mass doesn't prevent heat transmission, it just delays it.

The biggest heat transmission problem in most construction isn't the walls, it's the windows. The amount of heat transmission you get via glass - even high-performance triple-pane glass - is significantly higher than heat transmission through the rest of the structure. Your walls are going to be R20+, your attic insulation will be R35+. Your best windows are going to be equivalent to R6 or so, with the median windows being significantly lower.
> I don't want to have to remember your "pronoun" in order to have a regular conversation with you.

Good thing, then that the debate is about third person pronouns, which are used to talk about someone, not with them.

I have literally never seen anybody use customized second person pronouns (although of course honorifics are traditional — try refusing to address a judge in court as "your honor" because you don't want to remember their honorific).
Reminiscent of the Logitech Scanman handheld 2D scanner from 1988 (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Logitech_ScanMan...), but now in 3D. (How is there not a Wikipedia article about this product? I bet deletionists are to blame.)

I think this concept could eventually be a success just because it has the potential to be a lot cheaper than a fully automated/mechanized solution.

Just like the Scanman was a lot cheaper compared to the very expensive flatbed scanners of the 80s. Smaller, lighter, zero/minimal amounts of moving parts, etc. Perhaps not good enough for professional use, but the pro market was kinda small anyway.

I guess the endgame is that high-end 3d scanning functionality gets built into regular smartphones.
FWIW, I worked on a team that built a platform which used customer activity to predict their NPS score. The algorithm was straight-forward and the results were pretty accurate; enough so to be used by A/B testing platforms for testing new features on users. A side-effect of our research was insight into the key features that dictated a positive response. Even with a complicated product, success was highly dependent upon about four of the 200 or so features we collected.

I suspect that the minds at Amazon could come up with a much better solution than what we did. By virtue of having smarter, more experienced people on average, and a more simplistic product.
This is exactly it. It's almost totally a non-issue. I see orange needle caps and the occasional needle, but these junkies aren't attacking everyone, in fact you can just ignore them. I walk around in a dress downtown and on cap hill with zero issues. Never been attacked, assaulted, nothing. They lay in parks on cardboard and trash, but...so? Are they doing anything illegal?

Comfortable salaried people love to make a big issue about it because Seattle isn't scrubbed clean to perfection and they see a mess every once in awhile, but really the city isn't bad at all and isn't full of rampant crime.
Most of this political fervor is simple grandstanding. If these people really, truly cared about the issues they advocate, they'd have abandoned their cushy jobs at Google and gone on to make a real difference.

I fully agree that the American consumerist lifestyle has run its course, and has done tremendous damage to the planet. However, those who yell the most loudly about it should also be the ones to quit it first. Go live on a self-sustaining farm in Montana and show the rest of us how it's done. Until then, stop disrupting the office: people are trying to work in order to make ends meet.
Satisfied at what price point? Everything has a cost. Every dollar society spends on one thing is a dollar society can't use on another thing.

Nobody is going to be "exposed" to a highway overpass or the hull of a ship or some chemical storage tank outside a factory enough for it to measurably affect anyone. Why can't we paint it in lead if that lasts longer for a given price point? There's all sorts of things that are out there in the world that are not interacted with enough to affect anyone in any measurable way (obviously assuming the people who work with the lead paint when wet follow proper procedures).
Some people like working in javascript, or it's just what they know. I would agree, though, that it's hard to make an argument for JS in that context on its technical merit. Even with the power and universality of a browser rendering engine, I think JS on the desktop is a disappointingly hacky way to avoid investment in purpose built cross platform UI toolkits. (Either building better ones or hiring people who know how to use existing ones.)
You're proving his point. The Amazon is experiencing a more or less average amount of fire during its dry season as farmers clear/maintain cropland like they do every year. However, the internet media has turned this into sensationalism that captures people like you and turns them into doomsayers.

From nasa.gov:

> As of August 16, 2019, an analysis of NASA satellite data indicated that total fire activity across the Amazon basin this year has been close to the average in comparison to the past 15 years.

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/145464/fires-in-bra...

Things are not as bad as you think they are, or as bad as crappy internet news sites want you to think they are.
Yeah I'm not sure I get it either. The problem was that throwing heroin addicts in prison for 5 years doesn't rehabilitate them or solve anything. That doesn't mean that they shouldn't be held liable for crimes they commit while high.
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Not arressting people for theft is pretty extremist and I can't imagine how that is a good thing for the citizens of Seattle.
Oh, I know this one! From the broken political system that forces the optimal play to be a contest of two parties.
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I build stuff.
Oh by "report them" it just means to SponsorBlock and not that YouTube somehow doesn't approve of sponsorships.
Many avocados it would take to kill you
Sure, since this "rule of law" thing is going so well for the city /s
I don't know much about fish or live near the Pacific, but neither of the links in my comment (sibling to yours) suggest sockeye is a bad choice. In fact NE Pacific 'early summer' sockeye is a recommended choice, and many BC sockeye fisheries have MSC certification.
It's not clear how to send you feedback and/or ask questions, so I created a new sourcehut tag on Stackoverflow and posted my first question: https://stackoverflow.com/q/57628020/14731

Looking forward to hearing more about your service. Thank you.
I like that it took him two weeks of compute time and it's only a "partial solution"
Right they cited "perpetuating harmful gender stereotypes". From which we can infer that Google believes that claiming that absent any discrimination or social pressure women would not work in tech at the same rates as men as "perpetuating gender stereotypes".
> Your perspective promotes traumatizing systems. You are therefore a danger to yourself and society.

> If you are locked up as a result of this, will the reeducation take?

Ha! If offending people was illegal I'd have been in prison a long time ago.

> Thought experiment aside, you don't know what other people need and forcing your ideas onto them is how we get into these messes in the first place.

I'm not forcing my ideas on anyone. These are the laws collectively decided by us and and forefathers. As a group we've decided that we do not want people shooting heroin on our streets and we've made the practice illegal.

> Authoritarianism isn't a healing modality.

I'd argue it authoritarianism to force a law abiding member of society to put up with this craziness in their communities. The people I feel the most sorry for are on the lower end of the income scale that do not have the financial means to vote with their feet.
I meant "silencing" in general. Of course you're free to talk about what you want in your free time.

In the context of work "silencing" could mean preventing workers from raising (valuable) concerns about the ethics of their work.
>> What non-drug user would want to live in a town where someone shooting heroin in public is not removed from the street? I know I wouldn't.

Does your squeamishness about seeing someone use an intravenous delivery method really justify the cost of state intervention?
Apple still has a large market share in China. Maybe Samsung just sucks and couldn’t compete against Huawei? Only reason Huawei hasn’t beat out Samsung in the US is because of anti-Huawei sentiment in the US.
Yeah, they lived in moldy damaged houses in constant disrepair.
Photogrammetry apps are your best bet at the hobbyist level. Might be tough with some materials or shapes, but it isn’t going to set you back $35k.

I assume it’ll only be a matter of time before this tech makes it into everyone’s smartphones. Sensors and algorithms are cheap.

https://www.aniwaa.com/best-3d-scanning-apps-smartphones/
Got this in my emails recently: https://www.instructables.com/id/DIY-Budget-3D-Scanner-V3/
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houses are just too dangerous, time to sleep outside.
That sounds like a fine approach, but unfortunately politics creeps into more and more aspects of life, hardly any topic remains apolitical.
Like that quote "you may not be interested in war, but ..."
To the wider example, it gets much, much more difficult.

There is certainly a need for some separation between work and personal life, but it can never be totally distinct. I'd find it very difficult to codify where the line should be. Context, extent and motivation becomes hugely relevant. That makes it far more suited to an ethics panel or court of law, and completely unsuited for the Twitter court of outrage.

We could paint different shades of grey all day, but for a flavour:

A racist researcher discovering a major cancer breakthrough has reprehensible beliefs, as does Minsky - if allegations are proven, but it need not impact on their previous work's ability or validity. I'd accept the previous work - if that were conducted ethically, just as I take the lunchtime sandwich from the guy I never spoke to about politics, race or what have you. But...

It starts to matter if it goes to law - was it a $50 fine or a 25 years conviction? A drunk weekend party with a one off incident of incredibly poor judgement is very different to a sustained predatory history over a decade. Employing them in the next job, even continuing to employ them, or placing in a position of visibility or policy, could indeed be a different matter. If they crossed the line to illegality, how often and how far, might they bring the organisation into disrepute? If it gets so heinous they are convicted and/or struck off, e.g. Andrew Wakefield with the MMR autism fraud, perhaps everything they researched is taitned too and should be struck.

Hence it should be for an independent and hopefully considered judgement, with proportionate penalty, not a headline and outrage fest on twitter.

Tim Hunt seems easier - he made a bad call on what I think was intended to be simply a joke. Poor choice for a specialist conference, but the outrage afterwards seemed way over the top for the offence. More a case of needing a quiet word with HR or management to engage brain before mouth, rather than discounting all his work or firing.
That's rather condescending and ignorant. It has nothing to do with puritanical urges, it has to do with personal responsibility and everyone being responsible for their own actions, which results in having to suffer the personal consequences without having the right to impose oneself on others by one's own choices in life.

Unfortunately, this whole drug situation in the USA has gotten, like many things, totally out of hand through gaslighting abusive actions by those who claim to want to "help" and make things better, but instead have nothing but a record and history of making things worse, which they immediately sweep under the rug the second even they can't ignore their constant, repeated, and typical failures.

What this "caring" approach smells of to me is a kind of stasis, where the helper-syndrome types get to feel good about themselves, while getting rich as org directors, and also normalizing drug cartel operations. The Drug cartels and organized drug criminals are actually a real domestic terror and civil threat to society and communities as they kill and destroy lives by the hundreds of thousands and devastate lives by the millions every single year.

I do agree that throwing users in prison is nonsense, even though often ( and I know people who can attest to this ) it is the thing that saves them from the drug and it also leads to users giving up people on the chain towards the sources of the chemical warfare that is waged on the American people.

I also agree, this whole cottage industry of drug related careers and fortunes, whether it's NGOs or DEA, is an utter mess and corrupted. What really should be happening is that all drug producers, smugglers, transporters, and dealers be declared the perpetrators of crimes against humanity that they are and they should be treated like the enemies in war that they are, as they engage in chemical warfare that kills 80,000 people every year and destroys millions of lives and families and pillages billions and trillions of dollars.

It should be a scorched earth tactic against smugglers, dealers, and producers ... a merciless, ruthless, hunt for these people that are then erased as the war criminals and pestilence on humanity they are ... the mass murderers they are.

But that's from someone that actually hates the misery and suffering and death that drugs cause. I do not get the sense that most people actually care one iota about the 80,000 people that die every year, not to count the thousands who commit suicide due to addiction. All those who do not want to end it once and for all with direct, hard, and merciless action are complicit in and guilty of supporting the murders by the drug cartels and criminals against humanity.
I think for entry level there are lots of apps for Android/iPhone that are passable for small objects but time-consuming.
Because in theory, a debate is a thoughtful discussion where opponents are respectful to opinions of each other and have the common goal of finding the truth.

In reality, political debating at workplace quickly becomes just ugly.

And for companies like Google it's also costly, because media adore leaked scandals in big corporations.
Ramirez is doing the twitch stream, though you're right that he was able to balance out how the computer analysis affected his commentary. OTOH, I felt that as an event dragged on, he'd rely more and more on the machine to tell the story of the game. Conversely, it'd be nice if they made Maurice Ashley comment without the engine for a while, maybe he'd have more interesting things to say again.
no, because like real-world refugees, we are left to flee Atlassian without an obvious place to relocate.
Agreed. Lots of times the sponsor content is creatively woven into video, providing either humor or entertainment, or both. I won't be using this.
This is not a partisan issue, it's a miscommunication.

There's a large chunk of people who think that "Let's take repeat violent offenders off the streets" translates to "Let's take away offered social programs and criminalize being poor", which is not a fruitful dialog.
I think even in wartime, people don't want to talk about the war all the time?

Also, there is a difference between specific calls to action and gripes that someone ought to do something. Some complaints are more useful than others. It seems possible to tell the difference?

Political discussions are an important component of Internet addiction and we shouldn't be naive about the bad effects of large amounts of low quality conversation in distracting us from more important stuff.
Well it prevents the ambulance from having to administer narcan an hour or 2 later
I'm generally not home during the day. Keeping them closed means I come home to a cooler house. But yes, I agree with your broader point being made generally-speaking. When I'm home, I'm using fans, including my window fan to expel heat from inside -- so windows are open.
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I'm interested in this. I'm a reader, maybe not the same stuff you are reading. Snail mail is something I miss.
Though Reader, Talk, Buzz, and Wave were all killed in quick succession and to arguably the exact same forces (Google+), for very similar reasons (walling the garden, "reducing redundancy"). That shutdown wave was brutal and nearly simultaneous enough that of course it defines the narrative of Google constantly shutting down stuff.
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Punishment should be commensurate with crime. If the penalty for robocalling is death, then there's no disincentive from performing worse crimes to avoid punishment for robocalling.

If I'm already at risk of death penalty, I'll have fewer compunctions about assaulting or killing someone who threatens to out me.
I don’t think border searches like this are out of the norm even by Western standards.
Why not just buy a dehumidifier made specifically for this with collection bucket and all?
> 1. What if the law that's being opposed is legitimate? Should someone that commits murder in Taiwan be able to escape the law in HK?

This is a good example of a particularly sinister argumentation style, and you can see it everywhere these days. It typically goes like this:

1. Take an objectively bad reality. "Citizens of Hong Kong could possibly be extradited to a totalitarian state for any thing that state decides was a crime."

2. Restate it as an abstract ideal or extreme case, ignoring the details that make it bad, and ask why one wouldn't want this thing that's actually good: "But shouldn't people who commit crimes in other countries have to face justice?" / "Should someone that commits murder in Taiwan be able to escape the law in HK?"

I'm not sure what to call it, but it would be good to have a two or three word phrase to succinctly call this kind of thing out. I'll have to think, but would appreciate input from others who have noticed it as well.

Edit: I would add that the really "sinister" part is that those bad details are ignored for the sake of making the argument, but are, in fact, the end goal.
No, what in my opinion they should do is:

1. use designated/official channels to report such issues (ex. talk to their manager or their HR representative or even bring it up at TGIF)

2. if #1 fails they have a choice: continue working or walk away. Nobody is forcing them to work for a company that doesn't listen to them for issues they deeply care about (presumably)

A company is not a democracy. There should of course be plenty of channels to get feedback up the chain but the decision is ultimately that of those hired to make such decisions, not of software engineers hired to do something else entirely.
I've seen plenty of people shooting drugs in Seattle. So what? As long as they're not out attacking people or giving it to kids or something, I could care less what they do to themselves.

Seattle has a different mindset, it always has, its just the new Amazon & Tech population is trying to change the culture.
> I, for one, have no trouble finding things to buy via search, rankings, or research, and give not one care if I never see another advertisement for the rest of my natural life.

How do you think those search results, those research rankings, are generated? People pay to advertise their sites at a certain level in search results too. Just because they are not immediately obvious advertisements doesn't mean they are not in fact advertisements.