skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Being from Norway I considered buying electronics cheap in the in the US but discovered it was not worth it. Once you factor in the 25% VAT in, the difference shrinks.

Nowhere in the US is there a 25% sales tax (the US VAT equivalent); 5-8% is the norm. Some states have no sales tax at all.
Yes, as engineers.
It sounds like web apps are fine as long as the code is part of the package and isn't loaded after the fact? If so, I don't see a problem. Without this policy it would be impossible for them to enforce any other app policies.
Yeah, but unlike on Reddit, I never see "something went wrong" on Wikipedia.

No offense to you nor your team, but to me, as a consumer, reddit's product doesn't appear nowhere near as polished as Wikimedia's projects.
Same. Call me in 50 years when they've had as long to examine the effects of vaping as we needed to definitively establish the lung cancer link to smoking. It amazes me that people hear "no known, proven side effects" with a technology that never existed before and read that as "safe".
Nice. Why 32bit, not 64bit? I don't program much assembler - but after seeing how much simpler (sane) 64bit is (amd64), I'd have to be really motivated to do a hobby project in 16 or 32bit (for x86). So curious about that choice in today's hw world, where you'd have to hunt for real 32bit x86 hw.
Piling on to say +1 of lonely remote work. In my 3rd year remote I ended up renting a desk part time in an incubator just to be around people and get out of the house.
A Lady poisoned her friend out of jealous
http://archive.is/JCotP
Empirically true actually. The hardware for screen buildouts is branded Outfront Media (https://www.outfrontmedia.com/media/transit/rail?), including the mounts and cable conduits.
> I think every ounce of moral outrage spent condemning those who associated with Epstein (and, in some cases, stripping them of their positions) is an ounce less to spend on uncovering how Epstein got off in the first place.

You've provided exactly zero evidence backing up this claim. Intuitively, looking into Epstein's associates would help uncover examples of his judicial malfeasance. Why is this not the case?

> Just because you can imagine that those things are unrelated doesn't make it so. Of course, that goes equally for me: just because I can imagine that they are connected doesn't make it so.

This is not a real argument. The burden of proof is on you, since you are the one claiming there is some sort of tradeoff.

> By using that term, you are claiming that there is no connection between the "moral outrage against Epstein associates" part and the "actually getting to the bottom of how Epstein got off" part.

This is not what "false dichotomy" means. "Dichotomy" implies that there is inherent tension, not that two things aren't connected.
I assumed that was already known, but I think it's good to have your reminder for those who aren't aware of this.
Did the sun start charging by kwh now?

If not then I doubt this is a commercially competitive strategy.

Much like coal vs solar it'll get there eventually but I'm highly skeptical of this working out right now.
Some people really hate change.
In non-medieval units, that's 110 W/m², 9 times less than direct sunlight. Couldn't you get those low-light conditions more cheaply by stacking lettuce trays in a sunlit greenhouse, with lightpipes to shade the upper levels and get the requisite amount of weak illumination to the lower levels?

(Edited to correct the calculated values.)
I'm still trying to convince my wife, who's French, they are the same thing. She's convinced the medicines in France are stronger.
This. Porsche's traction control is fantastic.
Why can’t we just be happy they’re thinking of legalizing psychedelics because they’re a lot of fun and fairly safe compared to alcohol?

Think of how good pop music will be again!
Book Summary: The Inevitable by Kevin Kelly
The artistry of writing about how Goodreads is broken, on Medium, which is completely broken. Well done, well done.
Generally same in the US. In California, there is no sales tax on food except for 1) eat-in and 2) take-away of hot food. You see the latter apply in Subway, for example, when purchasing a sandwich with a hot filling (say, meatball marinara) versus cold (roast beef).
It's probably better not to create a black market for an existing, addictive product by banning it outright.
Nice tool. Some feedback: The drag and drop functionality has some accessibility issues: it works with a mouse, but not keyboard navigation. This interface would be difficult to use with mobility issues: moving items requires fine-grained gesture control.

If you're interested in an accessible implementation of drag and drop, here's one I've encountered that does an excellent job:

https://github.com/atlassian/react-beautiful-dnd
Scientists are software engineers too
That company sucks then. It might be hard to measure between competent engineers but bad engineers stick out like a sore thumb. If that keeps happening it means the entire engineering department sucks at those companies.
This is interesting as a lighter alternative to DNS over Tor. Where is the padding going to be? Basic clients won't add EDNS padding by default, but intuitively there has to be padding somewhere. It reminds me of https://odns.cs.princeton.edu (I haven't seen a working implementation of that one yet). The most difficult challenge is how to present the ultimate choice - use the relay and maybe get slower Internet, or don't use the relay and maybe get tracked. What hasn't been much explored yet is using resolvers just to obtain the delegation (nobody needs to know who the client is for that), but that itself is not without problems.
I'd read it before commenting, and can't find the parts where Epstein received public accolades from MIT or changed MIT research priorities. (In fact, the treatment of him as an unmentionable "Voldemort" seems to indicate the opposite was true, and that the normal "love" offered to donors was not available to Epstein in the post-conviction era.)

Can you point out the incidents/paragraphs where you see those, if I've missed them?
> The project has a non-negotiable deadline and feature list and it looks like it's going to be late.

"Communicate early and communicate often. Managing expectations is key. Depending on the criticality of the project, we can look for additional resources or we can come to a consensus on alterations to the schedule or the deliverable."
I don't think it'll get there eventually, unless I misinterpreted you? See my top-level comment for the reasoning.
When I first saw that article, I swear it contained a link to the associated paper in Aging Cell. Now when I go to the Nature.com article, that link is no longer there.

How many people are currently thinking, "All three drugs/compounds are pretty well understood, and reasonably benign when administered under a Doctor's supervision with periodic blood testing; in the absence of specificity, let's just start with fairly standard daily prescription doses and see what happens..."

As someone afflicted by 'chronic aging' (at the rate of one year, per year), I'm hugely fascinated by prospective "cures." ;-)
I'm another person who for whatever reason was never able to adjust to vaping. It quite literally hurts, even with modest inhales, despite trying numerous models (disposables, cartridges, expensive sub ohm systems, you name it). This applies both for nicotine and thc vaping. I just wrote it off as something that was a personal eccentricity.

Honestly it was for the best - I ended up using gum and eventually just quitting, and stopped using thc for other reasons.
I already solved it, by not following the links. I don't need to complicate my life to work around some user-hostile business model.
Moore's law is part of a general set of principles regarding learning curves, see generally:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experience_curve_effects

During WWII, it was observed that each doubling of output reduced labour costs (or increased labour efficiency) by 20%.

Moore's law is dependent on the density of transitors (the count doubles for a given cost every two years). Increased density => increased computing power and efficiency, and speed.

Chip design is dependent on numerous factors: die size (e.g., 14 vs. 9nm photolithography dies), silicon purity, fab cleanliness (much as with cascade refrigeration, chip fabs now have multiple concentric zones of increased cleanliness), and the power and capacity of the software that's used in chip modelling itself.

The law is also not entirely exogenous as it relies on market forces and demand: need for increased computing power tends to proceed at a predictable rate, and the ability to make use of more capacity is also constrained by existing practices, software, programmer skill, etc.

Then there are the other non-CPU bottlenecks. Disk and memory have long been the foundations of that, increasingly it's networking. The tendency of old technology and layers not to die but to be buried in ever deeper levels of encapsulation means that efficiencies which might be gained aren't due to multiple transitions and translations -- the reason why a 1980 CPM or Apple II system had a faster response than today's digital wireless Bluetooth keyboards talking to a rendered graphical display. Bufferbloat, at the network stack, is another example.

But: the main driver for Moore's law is increased density leading to increased efficiency (the same centralising tendency present in virtually all networks), bound and limited by the ability to get power in and heat out (Amdahl's observation that all problems ultimately break down to plumbing).
There is a lot of open space in the United States. Time to plan and build the next Austin.
That's a bit dramatic.
>I don't think it'll get there eventually, unless I misinterpreted you?

Controlled farming has advantages on pesticide use, water use, location, automation etc.

So to my totally untrained eye...that seems like yes eventually that'll eat into the whole LED isn't free like sun advantage.
ISRO Chandryaan 2’s orbiter life is now 7.5 times due to economic fuel usage
Is stratifying income based off of IQ any more than we already have something that would benefit society?
I know that in the UK painkillers that contain codeine as an additive are common, which makes them stronger. I don’t believe it’s possible to get it in the USA.

To make up for it, it’s very difficult to buy painkillers in the UK in quantities of more than about 8, while Costco sells jars of literally hundreds of tablets.
Agreed. Daily driving in my 958 GTS is great. Long highway stretches are fantastic. But it's not until weekend autocrossing that I really get to feel how well tuned a 2-ton SUV can be. Turning in times in the middle of the same pack as the coupes is fun.

People that haven't driven a modern Porsche just do not grasp how precise the driving experience can be. It's astounding how well-tuned their vehicles are.
The only major complaint that I have against GR is that it is quite slow.

I don't really care much for recommendations right now, because the user-created lists will often get you what you want faster.

Furthermore, I think GR does a good job of classifying the books, or rather letting their readers classify their books for them.

All in all, I think the site should be more responsive, but there are tonnes of places to have long discussions on books, genres, plots and other things over at reddit.
There's no evidence that any of the ingredients of e-cigarette vapour are significantly carcinogenic. That may well continue to be true; there is no natural law saying that a habit you dislike must be carcinogenic.

There are many possible formulations of e-cigarette liquid, with the only common factor being nicotine. We are extremely confident that nicotine isn't carcinogenic, although it may cause mild cardiovascular harm. If we find out that some of the other ingredients in e-cigarette vapour are toxic or carcinogenic, the industry will voluntarily stop using those ingredients immediately; they already did so with diacetyl.
I see. And you are a US-based judge with experience trying cases for 30 years to make this determination even though he was tried and sentenced by a judge in US court already you know better. Cool. Just tell me with cricuit court you try cases, your honor?
I like this kind of write-up. Gritty & real view into a world obscured from most of us
No kidding. Bypassing all the ad/malware domains in my HOSTS file, which practically all other applications on the system respect, feels disturbingly shady. Where's my privacy now!?!?

If Mozilla wants to, they are more than welcome to work on encrypted DNS or VPNs or whatever else, but those should be at the OS level. Disrepecting configured OS settings borders on actively malicious behaviour.
Precisely this. The 800 pound gorilla changing the rules on everyone is very bad despite short term outcome.
"how to succeed: pick the right thing to do." How do you know it was the right thing? Because you succeeded.
You can build your own ZIMs from any MediaWiki instance using this tool: https://github.com/openzim/mwoffliner.

Maybe it would be worth putting together another zimfarm that is constantly updating.
It's really not... It's
legitimate fear...

https://fox59.com/2019/07/14/police-husband-mistakes-wife-fo...

https://trib.com/news/local/police-man-mistakes-girlfriend-f...

https://amp.clickondetroit.com/news/police-detroit-man-mista...

https://truecrimedaily.com/2017/10/05/dad-mistakes-daughter-...
What are the differences compared to WorkFlowy?
Are Minimal Circuits Deceptive?
The AWS cli is a simple pip install and the CLI documentation nearly universally includes samples. Input and output can be JSON. There are a lot of legitimate complaints about AWS but the CLI is pretty decent.
Weekly Update 4: The Road to OSCP
> I will disagree with your views, scientifically we are same race and our genetic differences are insignificant.

Insignificant except for the ability to digest lactose in adulthood, resistance to malaria, efficient metabolization of alcohols... And that's just off the top of my head for "significant genetic differences that tend to be associated with a race".

And if you're saying that "99.99% of our dna is shared, so there are no significant differences and no races" - why would that not also apply to species like dogs?

So, a question for you - do you have any scientific basis for your views, or are they based on an idea of how the world should be?
The negative externalities of owning vulnerable devices need to come home to roost at some point, yeah.

I've chosen to own a "dumb" (read: "reliable") washing machine, and it cannot be used in such an attack. I have to endure the indignity of peeking downstairs to see if I left clothes in it, which is a cost of sorts, but it's nowhere near the cost I'd expect to bear if I bought a vulnerable washing machine and it provided resources to knock Wikipedia off the internet.

What other disincentive to putting vulnerable devices on the internet do you propose?
My frustration is more commonly the opposite.

Adopt an AWS service through the console. Then discover advanced feature [X] can only be done from the CLI via APIs.
>There is mounting evidence that these are worse than tobacco.

No there isn't. The evidence overwhelmingly indicates that e-cigarettes are far, far safer than any form of tobacco.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/e-cigarettes-an-e...
When I was recruiting interns for CS at Apple, a good project trumped just about any GPA north of 1.0

If I could see you solve problems with code in a got repo with history, and you can solve a problem live for me on a laptop or whiteboard, I don’t need to approximate your ability through coursework because I have more directly measured it. This gets fuzzier for non-entry level qualities, but they don’t really teach those in schools anyways. I always tell people in school to lean heavily into their projects.
I suppose in ruby you'd re-open Object and add new_method there... (in part by overriding method_missing, maybe).

I wouldn't recommend actually doing that, however.

If actually doing this (adding new method to a class) I think it's quite easy to re-open a class in ruby (see sibling comment(s)).

I can see adding methods actual instances (only) might be more work in ruby though.

What would be the typical use case for a special instance in a given scope, as opposed to a special class in a given scope?

Ed: i see qquark's so link address the technical part: define_singleton_method (so no need to open Object to add that...)
Any books or other resources you used for guidance?
I just stopped using such tools and use visual studio code and file system. Folders and text files I can grep it and I can keep history in git.
made me think of this story https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-submarine-losharik-un...
Where did you live in the UK?

I have had really nice experience in Leeds with sandwich shops, but I don't think these exist anymore in London.
I agree: the device administrator should be in charge. Essentially, I see this conversation as having spun into an awkward regime where there is an implicit and entirely incorrect assumption here that the options are 1) the network configures the DNS setup and 2) individual apps configure their DNS setup; what happened to 3) the owner of the computer (the device administrator) configures their DNS setup?

The status quo implementation has been that the operating system handled DNS, which actually did put the power in the hands of the device administrator: I don't think I have ever seen a device that wasn't clearly owned under some crazy MDM scheme where you couldn't choose your own DNS servers. Sure: recently, it happened to have a default to trust the network... but that was just a convenience, and is a "new phenomenon" brought on by DHCP being widely deployed. All of the software wasn't designed with that as an assumption.

So, if I want DoH, why am I not just setting up a custom resolver on my computer, that all of my apps use, including Firefox? The "power struggle" alluded to up-thread is actually much deeper: it is using network operators as an excuse to take power away from users, by moving what used to be an operating system feature into individual applications in a world where DRM via code signature is being deployed to lock users into curated application domains to prevent them from modifying that software to do what they want.

(That said, I mean... the way Firefox implemented this totally still gives the network administrator control, due to the opt-out provision? So in some sense a lot of this conversation is useless... for now.)
3 years ago i had some vague hope that things do improve although i am not aware of the bugfixes so i started tracking the bugs as GitHub issues

Soon after i gave up. Too many silly bugs, and no fixes.

Reference: https://github.com/andreineculau/fl-aws
Space missions have been, from their very beginning in the past century, not only tribalistic/nationalistic but very overtly and pointedly so; indeed, that was practically the reason they came into existence.
10 W/sq ft is 107 W/sq m.
We set out to build a better Goodreads a while back called Helloreads (my wife thinks we didn’t differentiate our name enough but whatever). It never seemed to get traction probably due to the monopoly and network effect of Goodreads. We thought and still do that Goodreads user interface is terrible, the site is slow, the reviews are too volatile. The one thing that we truly could not compete with them on is the data. The book data problem is insanely hard. New books come out and there is not authoritative database of book metadata. We had a blast building (and the iOS app) it but have put the development on hold.

[0] https://www.helloreads.com

[1] My books: https://www.helloreads.com/ryanhittner
No offense taken, I don’t work on the product side of things there.

Also, with the caveat that I don’t know enough about the implementation details of the product at Reddit: I’d argue that Reddit’s workload is more write heavy that Wikipedia’s workload, which makes caching and scaling a bit harder for Reddit, relatively speaking.
> It is difficult to grow coral outside of the ocean, so the transplantation is very laborious.

With proper specialized equipment (say, a budget of $10 million), what kind of an improvement change could be achieved in your opinion?
Does your OS allow you to configure global DNS-over-HTTPS settings? Then you can hardly blame apps for not importing them.

Yes, getting rid of shitty old standards means we have to live with multiple in parallel for a while and in the mean time bear additional complexity/work. Otherwise civilization will never advance.
I've never used the pens and only use a "mod" with nicotine base mixed with 50% VG/PG at a local shop and haven't had any issues. In fact, I use my rescue inhaler far less since I've started vaping, which I only picked up after 3 years of being unable to quit the nicotine lozenges I originally used to quit cigarettes.

All the recent fear aside, I think we can form and do deserve a well regulated market for these products.
While this sounds attractive, the major benefit (salary/cost-of-living arbitrage) completely goes away.

Local employers can't afford to pay you your big-city salary, and the benefit for a big-city employer to keep you remote is retention and a known quantity (assuming you're worth your salt).

It's a win-win for the worker and their employer.

The article focuses on the supposed loser: the township that loses out on a local job - but the newly relocated remote worker adds to the tax base and pays for groceries, etc.
If I ever get to Dublin I want to see Hamilton's quaternion plaque on Brougham Bridge.
In order for wikipedia's anyone can edit to work, its really important that when someone makes a bad edit to a popular article that it can be removed immediately. This is important both to get things fixed quickly and to make it less of a juicy target so less people vandalize (no fun to vandalize if it doesnt stay up).

I suspect latency in the minutes for cache updates would be unaceptable to wikipedia users
With any luck I will manage to dodge even Kubernetes straight to serverless!
This can extend beyond school. Once we hired someone who had a good phone interview, and not that great an interview, though there were some language issues. We were growing rapidly and this person got the job.

They liked to work late, often talking on the phone...within a few days we realized that they were discussing the work with someone on the phone, who had probably been on the phone screen and probably had a day job. The employee couldn’t program at all, and was employed by us about a week total.

I don’t know how they made it through the interview process but the VP of engineering immediately revamped the hiring process!
Yup. This is a good change and should have been the default from the start. But it wasn't, so you need to play by the rules - standard first, let the framework developers at least implement this so it doesn't require header hacks, and then release it.
That's an uncharitable reading of an extremely clear statement. And it's also understandable why it's less affirmative. He's being conservative because he can't speak for what everyone who works for him may or may not have done, for example a rogue employee.

The main Apple filing is unequivocal:

>Apple has never built a back door of any kind into iOS, or otherwise made data stored on the iPhone or in iCloud more technically accessible to any country’s government. The government is wrong in asserting that Apple made “special accommodations” for China (Opp. 26), as Apple uses the same security protocols everywhere in the world and follows the same standards for responding to law enforcement requests.
You have questions, and I have answers!

https://www.wired.com/2015/04/hire-like-google/

If you have more questions after reading that, then ask away.
You are correct, any acetaminophen with codeine would require a prescription. Careful what you carry in your luggage. :^\