skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Also that argument is pretty bad. There is a huge utility in driving. I allow you to drive because I need to drive too.

That's not the way it was when the automobile was first introduced. The general public argued against its utility, and made arguments that it was far more of a nuisance than anything else.

We're still in the infancy of the utility of personal drone devices.
Looks like they just rebooted firewalls.

I wish the lessons learned bullet points explicitly stated that management interfaces should only be accessed from internal bastion hosts (jump boxes). You'd be surprised how rare the practice is. Just getting people to disable internet access is a pain -- "but it has a really good password".
You're not going to be able to kill capitalism before things go really wrong, modern capitalism still has a stranglehold on us all and it probably won't fall until climate change kicks into high gear and eradicates huge portions of the western population. At least the anprims will be happy.
See You Mercedes-Benz
S/Unlikely/unknown
Having used bc as my calculator for a while, i recently switched to insect - because it has fore features. For example it can parse and convert between physical units and has a lot of predefined constants.
So instead of using two command line tools (bc to calculate, units to convert) i just use insect.

https://github.com/sharkdp/insect

There is a web version available as well: https://insect.sh
In your case, who is the more-than-countries-employers trusted party on the other end of DoH pipe?
Seconded on examples, but example code needs to be integrated into software testing for projects that are frequently updated. Broken examples are arguably worse than none.

Even less arguable is when examples that worked are broken by an update and remain unchanged--they'll work for people on outdated versions but break when they upgrade, and also break for new users, and nothing will sufficiently explain why.

Please add your documentation examples to your testing pipeline (or write tests clearly enough that they can be good examples, and just use those).
As someone who has been using chrome extensively it’s also denial of the fact that I’m having a life-long, interconnected, searchable dossier built and the emotional discomfort of the total freakout of facing this fact.

I considered a longer comment describing some scenarios but deleted it before posting.

So, this particular kind of oppression is already resulting in self-censorship for me personally.

This is a good talk on why privacy matters: https://www.ted.com/talks/glenn_greenwald_why_privacy_matter...
Shows you how clueless they are. Fingerprinting Brave is easier than fingerprinting Chrome and in addition they broadcast unique http headers and lure people into deanonymizing themselves by using Tor inside Brave.

The only two reasons there are to use Brave are either you are homophobic or you or your employees name is Brendan Eich.

Anyone else who uses Brave deserves to be declared technologically illiterate.
Even if everything Benford said is true and there were no other incidents, Minsky still knew that Epstein was pimping young girls out at his conferences and kept taking Epstein's money and attending the conferences for years afterward. That's awfully damning.
I have some issue with the idea of buying/leasing land to protect the environment. It's a noble idea, but I don't think it will work in the long term. Most likely, you won't be able to outbid private companies- at least not for any useful portion of the land. Their usage makes money, while your idea takes money. For your idea to win you would need a lot more rich environmentalists than currently exist. I think a better idea would be to enact reasonable laws that protect the environment- the money that you would have spent buying land could be used to elect non-corrupt politicians.

There is a similar effort in Colorado to buy up land and pay off farmers to prevent them from using too much of the Colorado River so that way downstream states like California can have some. It's created with good intentions, but I think that it can't work in the long term- all it takes is a publicly accessible portion of the river to get overdrawn, or a stubborn farmer to refuse to sell and instead start piping his access of the river to other farmers, and then the idea fails. It's more sustainable to have legally binding usage agreements created by the states that can be enforced with the police and jail time- you just need to motivate the politicians to get off their butts and create the agreements.
> Tech companies disagree with the notion that they are plundering academia. A [typical large dotcom] spokesman, for example, said the company was an enthusiastic supporter of academic research.

On occasion, I've asked multiple professors why they don't criticize particular dotcoms or industry practices, or warn undergrads about the nasty cultures of particular companies, and they've said they need the funding from those dotcoms.

Personally, I'd love it if undergrads learned a sense of professional ethics and objective understanding of current industry before they applied for internships, and, consequently, anyone who went to one of the worst (but best-paying) ones for a summer would have greatly increased difficulty getting dates when they returned.
They said getting a business to 13million+ users, not getting a business into a competitive space alone. The point is the users are where the money is and getting to that many users is the most difficult part, neither gathering a group of engineers nor entering a competitive space.
The third option should be more contrasted with the second one. It's: 3. It's happening and we can't prevent it so there is no point doing anything.

People that refuse to consider changing their lifestyle will happily leap frog from 1 to 3.
In Japan, Yahoo is still among the champions.
what is 'state of charge swing'?
Stands to reason it wouldn't have been impossible to make an analogue medium using similar technologies. Imagine the refraction angle varying continuously and some wide-range pickup that converts to electricity.

_why_, of course, is a different question
Why would you think that we send 7bn people into space? There should not have been 7bn people to start with. It just happened because somehow species tend to multiply until their environment can't sustain further growth. In space, it will be MUCH harder to sustain a population, as a result, the population there will be much smaller (think of maybe 100.000), at least in the early stages.

I agree that we should be able to save the earth. I think both are possible and also intertwined, because whatever our solution, it will likely require advanced capabilities to deploy technology into earth's orbit, be it large scale solar shielding, some atmosphere transformers, or whatever.

Still, repairing earth and creating space ships are two different things. We did not design earth, and the size of it makes it hard to control. It will be MUCH easier to sustain life in an underground lab (or space ship) than it is to repair earth. At least conceptually. But of course you have a point that we should not abandon most of the population for two reasons:

1. It's a bit cruel and probably only the worst of mankind will survive again, as it always did.

2. Project "Space" might turn out to be one hell of a disaster, since it's hard to predict how humans will fare in space. So we should have a backup plan.
After this came up elsewhere here within 5 days of this comment thread I’m giving it the name “The XYZ Problem”

https://cohan.io/the-xyz-problem/
Not a lot of progress in the last year.
It's too cramped. If you can't move your bow arm freely, you're using pressure instead of speed to produce volume, which ruins the tone and kills projection. Might as well go with mp3 at that point, honestly.
We may not be able to remove that CO2, but we could stop adding more.
The discussion is not going after the positive contributions of the company but after its insidious shadowy practices of collecting personal data forever.

Asking what about unrelated x, y or z is a frequent pattern of “whataboutism” used to derail conversations.
There is plenty to enjoy about vinyl without buying into foolish ideas about fidelity. Nostalgia, the effect, the sense of occasion, the large variety of interesting old recordings, the artwork. Streaming is obviously “better” in any objective way, but that doesn’t mean it’s more fun. Same reason I’d get a Miata to enjoy driving even if my daily is a Tesla. Not for everyone but not wrong either.
Or "mons".
The company I now work for has decided to separate out admin accounts in Windows

Do they know that doesn’t work?

If you do a run-as then you are as vulnerable to PTH as you would be if you just logged in with the admin account anyway... you need to go full PAW these days.
The only reason why it would be banned in the EU is if the display was made out of Red or Blue LEDs - you cannot have any lights in those colours that are not already part of the factory equipment(that law exists to prevent people from having flashing red and blue lights and impersonating police cars).

If the display was made out of white or green LEDs then I can only assume there would be no issue using such device.
The article links that "white key" description to https://www.int-res.com/articles/esr2009/9/n009p013.pdf which describes it as 31%.

Figuring C-F as 2(5/12) = 1.33 .

Figuring F-B as 2(5/12) = 1.42 .

So, most likely C-F.
At the big tech companies, you don't really get to negotiate your level.

For L6, for example, you might be able to convince the recruiter to set up the right interview process, but your level is 100% tied to your interview performance.

Salary is a different story--negotiate, always, but be aware level and salary are related.
Stratospheric aerosol injection costs in the first 15 years of deployment
Yesterday HN had a front-page article about how making your app do less was the key to making it more useful.

This is a meme I’ve never understood.... how is it more “useful” if it is less “full of stuff to use”. When people equate streamlining experience with feature removal you get this kind of frustration.
We've built a unversity system in the United States for the past few decades that is not at all serving society's interests.

Unfortunately, unless born to wealth, we all require a supporting job. Jobs that don't pay the bills are hobbies. Attending university to broaden one's education is not a sound basis for borrowing money and encouraging students to do otherwise is shamefully wrong.
It sucks seeing MS kills Wunderlist. I’m always a huge fan of it. Simple, intuitive.
You want (?:, not (?

Without the colon, the parser appears to be interpreting (? as "one or more instances of (", but ( is no a full expression by itself and therefore cannot be modified with a quantifier.
A proximate cause is that other drivers are depersonalized since you see them “embodied” as a car. I think if these could be used to humanize other drivers that would help address that issue. For example, using these signs to say what you are doing eg “going to grandmas!” or who you are eg “just a tired parent, sorry for any bad driving!” would lighten the mood and hopefully trigger empathy in other drivers.
You pay for those benefits. Those payments go to the people using fossil fuels. It's not an externality.

Your thought experiment about banning fossil fuels doesn't tell us anything about externalities. An externality is when part of the cost or benefit of a thing is borne by someone with no control over it. This is bad because it means that the market will produce an amount of usage that isn't optimal. If the net externalities are negative, the market will use too much. If they're positive, the market will not use enough.

The fact that a blanket ban would leave you worse off only tells us that the optimal amount of fossil fuel usage isn't zero and that the current amount of usage is better. It doesn't tell us whether current usage is optimal or, if non-optimal, whether it's too high or too low.

For an example of something with positive externalities, consider public roads. Consider the road between me and the local grocery store. This road benefits me and the store. If I were responsible for building and maintaining it, I'd probably make it a minimal one-lane dirt track, because that would suffice for me, and the added expense of more lanes and more durable surface wouldn't pay off for me. But thousands of other people benefit from this road as well, and the total benefit to everyone makes it well worth building a wider, paved road. Left purely to the market, that road would be a narrow dirt track. Thankfully, the government steps in and builds a proper road, then captures the positive externality through taxes.

Another way to handle it would be to make it a private road and charge everyone for access. Transaction costs make this impractical, but if we could handwave those away and have efficient micro-transactions for road usage, that would get rid of the positive externality and give us efficient road use and construction without government intervention.

There's nothing like this for fossil fuels. People pay for the stuff based on how much they use. Other people pay those people based on the benefit they bring. The benefits are already captured. Subsidizing fossil fuels would increase the amount that gets used, which would be farther from the optimal usage than where we are currently. We currently use fossil fuels at a level above the optimal, because individuals deciding how much fuel to use aren't bearing the full costs of using it.

There's no indication that anything like that is at play with fossil fuels.
Artificial Intelligence, Human Capital, and Innovation [pdf]
I don't think FAA regulations apply in Canada.
There’s another somewhat marginal position of: change is happening and it’s not “the apocalypse”
It explicitly lists this as a point when providing examples of incorrect reasons "why industry is going green on the quiet."

> It refused, not because the innovations were trade secrets, or because it risked losing a cost-saving competitive edge (due to cheap electricity prices, the cost saving amounted to less than 1%)
Yahoo Japan is still fairly popular. It's one of several areas where Japanese internet users seem to have different tastes than everyone else.
If this talk is too long for you to watch, I can recommend this segment towards the end:

"This is a tool. PHP is not important. What you do with it is important."

https://youtu.be/wCZ5TJCBWMg?t=3879
Use archive.is, e.g.

> http://archive.is/2qktN
I wish for a person who understands the thing to still be around.

Most of documentation I've met in my career is either outdated incomplete or often both at the same time.
It's explicitly ruled out as an option

> It explicitly lists this as a point when providing examples of incorrect reasons "why industry is going green on the quiet."

> It refused, not because the innovations were trade secrets, or because it risked losing a cost-saving competitive edge (due to cheap electricity prices, the cost saving amounted to less than 1%)

that is what I was referencing.
Wikipedia page for the company behind Unity. In general, when someone quotes something exactly and I want the source I google the quote, google is quite good at finding exact quotes :-)
Yes but at the same time not enough people truly believed scientists when they said it was critical, so maybe people won't quite believe the "point of no return" aspect either, and will just react from the remorse of having fucked up the ecosystem. I'm not advocating that approach (yet) but just want to point that it's not a guaranteed failure.
https://www.greenbiz.com/article/plastic-bag-bans-can-backfi...

Plastic bag bans can backfire if consumers just use other plastics instead
Rebecca Taylor
Friday, April 12, 2019 - 12:30am

...

My research has evaluated carryout bag regulations from many angles. In a recent study, I examined how plastic carryout bag bans in California have changed the types of bags people use at checkout, as well as these bans’ unintended impacts on consumer purchasing habits.

My results showed that bag bans may not reduce total plastic usage if people begin purchasing trash bags to replace the carryout bags they were previously reusing for their garbage. As this finding shows, well-intended product bans can have unintended consequences.

...
It would be really nice though if politicians would trust scientists to tell them which "solutions" don't actually solve the problem at all.
>I was at Google for 2 years and I got promoted L5 to L6.

Congrats on making the leap. It's tough.

> The key (I think) was working across teams with people who were already L6 or higher, and who were willing to write for my promo packet.

I agree; having L+1 reviewers is key. In my case I had the equivalent of a Google L7 or L8, but it didn't work out.

Having a good enough project, even though it's often out of your control, is very important.
How about training drivers to not be dumbasses instead?
Based on a skim, it seems that this requires individuals (or whatever class of entity we don't want to leak info about) be expressly identified in each record of the queried dataset, eg with a uid column. So for a dataset that one wanted to use this method with that doesn't identify individuals (eg in the web log case, not logged in visitors, or simply not recording logged in user), one would have to heuristically assign a (potentially synthetic) identity for each record first. Is that right?
Check out this talk from Andrew who worked for Hulu & Riot Games. I enjoyed the session at QconSF https://www.infoq.com/presentations/microservices-pitfalls-l...
I know it sucks when your environment sucks and your tools suck and people tell you your habits suck too. I can tell you're frustrated by your tone in this thread even before I told you that you may lack the skill of slowing down enough to read technical documentation. So, you're right. I'm telling you to be better and try harder, and I don't even know your situation! Maybe that does make me an asshole. Certainly most people higher on "agreeableness" than I am wouldn't say those mean things.

By the way: I might be a Linux elitist, but nobody's ever called me that. I use OS X in my day job. I've been programming in some capacity for about 30 years. Your mileage may vary. If you take my advice you may hate me for it, but it will almost certainly make you a better developer in the long run. And I don't mind if you think I'm an asshole. I know I'm right, and you probably know I'm right too.

Finally, if we weren't having this interaction in public, I'd be kinder, gentler, and might not say anything at all. But if one other person who hates reading difficult technical material is pushed to overcome that limitation by reading this thread, it's worth it, even if it means making you mad.

And just in case you're still reading, in addition to reading man pages, and taking notes, here are the other things you should be doing:

Preferring textbooks over blog posts and youtube videos to learn a new field.

Reading original research by pioneers in the field, like Turing, Shannon, etc, rather than their main findings rehashed by lesser minds.

Reading source code rather than jumping from documentation to Stack Overflow when something doesn't work.

Reading Knuth on algorithms, Stevens on Unix networking, etc. In other words, read the classics that everyone says you should read but most people don't. Work through the exercises. It's the closest thing to an actual superpower.

Look around for people better than you at all this stuff to help you improve.

Good luck!
I would just like a horn that can blow to the car in back of me. thanks.
> Which is neither here, nor there

If my personal anecdote counts for anything, it means that complexity is orthogonal to the 'good' in music.

If so, it is here and there.

> You don't get to be a concern pianist or violinist if you only play the simple pieces...

I haven't heard analysed enough classical music, not do I have the ability to, to determine if there is any value in complex music other than coincidental. If you are a musician I'd appreciate your view.

I can't deny the amazing skill in the singing, but is this complex? I love it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tDm_uH0O30

If you'd like to nominate some complex (in your view) music you like I'd be very interested indeed.
Then you realize Led Zeppelin thought Stairway to Heaven was a throwaway song - they laid it down on an inside track. It’s popularity caught them by surprise.
I don't think this implies that there's five distinct groups of users that each use an independent set of 20% (for a total of 100%) -- such that all features implemented are mission critical.

Not everyone has an identical 20% --that part I can follow and agree with-- but surely a single user's feature usage overlaps substantially with many other users. Maybe there's a core 15%, and a few users customize the last 5%. All in all, maybe it's more 30-70 vs. 20-80.

It probably depends on the product in question, but I think this overestimates the length of the longtail, and the overall distribution of usage of product features.
> I see the meritocracy working perfectly here, on average the richest students had the best training and equipment, and as such developed into the best musicians

Theres a lot wrong with this analysis, one point being that the "best training and equipment" is hardly the only factor for being a better musician.
Are the best programmers the ones with the best laptops who went to the best schools?
No, of course not- its not an apples-to-apples comparison but great musicianship is not simply a matter of money spent.
In some cases no amount of training or quality of equipment will result in professional success.

Wealthy students/early-career musicians can also better weather career hardships that are intrinsic to pursuing a career in the arts.
Being able to live with family while working or having a fallback if a risky career move doesn't pay off are luxuries that underprivileged musicians often don't have.

This also ignores the value of a wealthy families personal network- being on an advisory board for an arts institution, as many wealthy parents are, usually means you can pull some strings.
These factors have nothing to do with merit.
If push comes to shove a breeding population can survive for millenia in underground caves huddled around breeder reactors.
Consider the plight of the medical student though. Worse than that of a CS grad student, that's for sure. Made to practice medicine on people while sleep deprived as a form of industry-approved hazing, a practice that doubtlessly has a substantial death toll associated with it.
Just get out of your car and tell them if they aren't moving. It's not that scary. I don't get why people don't just get out of their car except in extreme anger. You'd really sit there and type something up to communicate with a person ten metres behind you?
This reminds me I still have to read "Le Pourquoi pas dans l'Antarctique" that I bought some years ago.

I've always been quite fascinated by Antarctic exploration, and one of my all times favourite books still is The Worst journey in the world by Cherry-Garrard, that relates Scott's last expedition and lost race to the Pole (highly recommended if you're keen on adventure books).
I feel the ‘solution’ MS Word, Excel, Chrome, SQL Developer ++ have taken on this is to give the user the bare minimum that everyone need to begin with and hidden all the features. This way they get the best from both worlds. The difficult part is how to group those hidden features together.
It is not a chat app. Its a searchable document and knowledge database. Same goes for note taking apps. Same as GMail. What makes these ultimately valuable(and sticky) to companies is that once they get some use, they become essential searchable databases.
If we can’t agree that it’s suspicious for a pedophile known for prostituting young girls from Eastern Europe to then show up with two young girls from Eastern Europe, I think we’re done here.