skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes the data enters need to be built in small towns with the energy production large cities or small countries, such as Facebook near the massive hydro plants in Luleå, Sweden.
> I'd rather plow more resources into educating members of society of the consequences of their actions.

And how has that worked for smoking levels in Japan, South Korea - I would say they have pretty high levels of education, with no dearth of information on bad consequences of smoking.

Edit: I think people are assuming I am for the ban. I am not for the ban. I don't think bans like this work. But plowing more resources into the education system is just not particularly effective at preventing addictive behaviors.
I've literally talked to RMS before about this. Torvalds etc might have such views too at more extreme levels, but RMS definitely has it himself.
It shouldn't be a matter of choice for them. Obviously, if left to their own devices, they will fail to protect people.
WebPack, properly configured, will let you import plain old .json files through the normal es6 import mechanism. It doesn't use this technique though: the JSON file is treated as normal JS source (preprocessed to remove unnecessary quotes etc.) and wrapped with an export.
> remember, code readability and maintainability are just as important (if not more).

I don't know about that. Prioritising making your own job easier over the experience of all your end users feels like a much more fireable offense to me.

In this particular case I'm still a little wary of it because it feels like it's optimising for a current implementation with no idea what the future performance implications might be (or current implications in non V8 engines?) but this trend of prioritising developer experience over everything feels like a very bad one to me. It's the same reason given to justify making every web site a React app with no thought toward the extra JS payload you're sending when it's not needed.
What I want to know is how much this extends into real engineering jobs, not just plumbing and web apps. I totally buy that ops and legal jobs in tech companies for example are growing strongly in NYC, but when it comes to real engineering problems I'm still only seeing a few teams at a few companies in NYC.

Don't get me wrong. I want this to be true, because I want Silicon Valley to lose its monopoly on the best engineering problems, but it's when the most interesting problems move out of Silicon Valley will I buy the idea that it has been dethroned.
People who want things for free will prefer getting them for free. Shocker. Everything being "worse or broken" is just at attempt at justification.

Again, just because you don't feel like paying for something doesn't mean you're entitled to it for free.
I am on-and-off conversing with the team at meetter ever since we started using it for some of our meetings. They are very responsive and helpful.

The concept is solid but it takes a cultural shift which can be hard. I am all for less but better meetings and condensing the schedules.

If someone would ask me to describe what meetter is I would say "An automated team assistant that tries to make sure that all topics of your org can get focused meeting time in one or multiple big blocks"

"Good" orgs will push for a commitment that everyone is available at the _same_ time slots, say 2 hours every Mon, Wed, Fri. Meetter (and well created topics) will do the rest and nobody needs to juggle.

Prerequisite is having enough meeting spaces or being more remote as the number of _parallel_ sessions (formerly called breakouts) is dynamic.

Edit: also the slack integration is great, makes creating topics a breeze and helps transparency.
This should be the top reply.
It would be nice to introduce data literals to JS so we would get this + syntax verification.
If you're going to do something like that, you might as well steal from the register numbering bits instead.

(many architectures have done this: Intel has lots of short-form encodings for "op {al, ax, eax, rax} #imm", and ARM has Thumb, which basically chops the register count in half for all instructions to shorten their encoding)
What's the point of going to school then if not to expose you to things and make you a better, more knowledgeable, well rounded person? If only grades matter then you can buy a fake diploma and you're done with it.

You may be aware that you don't need to go to college in order to be a software developer/hacker. But if you decide to do that then what's the point in faking the grades?
Packet Chasing: Spying on Network Packets over a Cache Side-Channel
> There should be a better job done by vendors to clean that up, but no-one seems interested in supporting this once the sale is made.

Working in healthcare IT (and I should note this is my personal opinion only), it's actually a little more complicated than that. Healthcare software vendors are generally building their software to meet certain certifications (because the clinics are demanding that), as well as fixing security/patient safety issues, and lastly adding in features the clinics want

The problem comes in that not every clinic cares about the certifications, and the software they have "works fine." So there's no incentive to upgrade to a newer version that has security fixes.

It's important to remember that, with a few exceptions, doctors are not IT, and many clinics are small enough that they outsource their IT. If that IT group doesn't force the clinics to upgrade, the clinic will continue using the version that does what they want, as long as it isn't obviously broken.

Clinics are generally risk-averse, which in many cases is the correct mindset. Unfortunately, that affects their perception of the benefits of updated software.
UCI team uses ML to help tell which wildfires will burn out of control
Los Movies is essentially the same thing.
That's the rub I think. Would this be an "important document" in everyone's opinion? For me it wouldn't, it'd go straight in the bin.
I don't have a degree and I've never had a problem, I've worked in Healthcare, for startups and for a publicly traded company. The biggest issue I've had was on a personal level, whenever I interview I'm anxious that others won't view me the same without a degree.

I signed up for the newsletter to this site, I like the idea of companies flat out saying a degree isn't required - otherwise I feel like I'm being judged negatively for not having one.
Bit Torrent “consistent”? Having to worry about the quality of rips, whether there is a complete seed, titled correctly, has the right language, hard coded subtitles in another language, etc?

This is somehow more convenient than just paying $8 a month?

Even then, I would still need to pay for a VPN and no VPN provider provides the bandwidth to keep up with my gigabit internet.
Newton's Financial Misadventures in the South Sea Bubble
I'm mostly pointing out that e-cigs are hugely less risky than normal cigs. So you either ban both of those or none.
little feedback - there is lot of whitespace between the email subscriber form and the actual listing of the jobs.. you might want to move the listing to the top over the email subscriber form.
Congrats on the launch! Look forward to playing around with it.

I remember a similar startup making quite a splash on HN a few years ago — http://www.kimonolabs.com/. Do you know why they shut it down and what you guys are doing differently?
Sorry to be a pain here, but I very much doubt your ML thing is working at all. Opening a website and finding a dom element is trivial, so the only thing I'd get when buying from you is the promise that this will be resilient to website updates.

But at the same time, for $500/month, you can definitely have people updating the selectors manually...
The theory of higher education and a liberal arts degree, is what I'm assuming OP is talking about.

The idea of a liberal arts degree at a university is to create a well-rounded individual. The idea of taking classes outside your major is to learn about life. The idea of even going to college (which is ENTIRELY optional) is to learn. Not just to pass classes and get an A.

This is something that, traditionally, CS and Engineering students like to shit on - as an example, see the other post about Sociology being useless.

The thing is, there are boot camps and trade schools to learn job skills. People are now attending University and complaining about the 'gen ed' courses in their degree because they're not "useful for my future". This is meant to be "not job skills directly connected to what I think I want to grow up to be".

They aren't supposed to get you a job. They're not job skills programs. They're liberal arts programs. They're supposed to make you into a fully realized human. Those other general courses exist because many students enter college not knowing what their passions are, right or wrong.

Source: My career in higher education. One thing has been constant in the decades that I've worked in this field - Engineering and CS students complain about and shit on the 'gen. ed' classes more than any other major. They also don't like hearing that they can just go to trade school or a boot camp if they just want job skills training; which makes no sense to me - trade school is cheaper, and boot camps are shorter in duration.
Between the service fragmenting, hostile UX, and price increases I had no issue going back to piracy. I don't have a problem paying for content, but when it's significantly easier and more user friendly to just download what I want, and I can watch it on any device I want, that's what I'm going to do.

I used to pirate music because that was the easiest and most straight forward way to get what I wanted. Now I buy it from Amazon because with one click I can pay for it and get a direct download link to the DRM-free mp3s.
I think your last sentence is an example of semantic drift.

I don't think a single compile cycle per half day meets most people's definition of a sprint...
HBO has 2 streaming apps. 1 for cable / satellite owners and 1 for HBO's own streaming service. You should look for HBO Now!
I hate when someone produces a cloud of vape steam in the middle of a crowd of people waiting to cross the street. It just hangs there, a visibly stinking, redolent horror invading everyone else's nostrils.
Could you please talk more about how why you consider the facts you've cited "$75 fixed forever" relevant to the "not upgrading their infrastructure" discussion?
No one is voluntarily giving up progress, ML or not. The far easier sell to the public is a faster move to nuclear, wind, and solar, with battery powered cars. Then we won't need a Luddite revolution, and progress can continue making lives better.
Elsewhere in the thread someone linked the art assets:

http://asciicker.com/x13/images/

As you can see it makes use of (I suspect paletted) PNGs
> Anything you study has the potential to make you a better, more well rounded, knowledgeable and less ignorant person.

This is a pretty meaningless sentiment. There are plenty of things one can study that will lead to more ignorance and less well-roundedness. In the extreme, this is pretty much how cults can operate.
I believe it also applies to a number of subjects in mainstream universities, but I am not going to hop into that fire pit.
This is the point I was trying to make. This survey goes in the bin along with all of the ads sent to me.
People have a hard time seeing what they don't have interest in could have interest to other people.

Most people don't vape, so it's much easier to get on a moral high horse and tell others what to do; there's no consequence for the majority.

If they reacted to vaping the same way to cars, coffee, sugar, fast food, etc... they would suffer a loss of freedom. And people don't like to lose their own freedom, but plenty of people are eager to restrict others.

It makes sense for me: most people don't work on self improvement so imposing self improvement on others is a way to feel that society is improving.
I switched to Firefox for Android after getting tired of ads that redirected to a landing page or Google Play and prevented me from actually using the site I wanted.
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You're making an incorrect generalization about a large country by misleadingly citing isolated examples which seem to support your point once you realize that you can't back your initial argument up in a meaningful way. You may as well be arguing that England is a poor country because London has a low income neighborhood or two. Stop grasping at straws.
No, if they aren't due to “willful neglect” and are corrected within a reasonable time (for which the minimum allowed is 30 days after the offendig party either knew or reasonably should have known of the violation, but more can be allowed based on circumstances), no monetary penalties can be imposed for HIPAA violations. See 45 CFR 160.410(c).
Can anyone speak about the benchmark posted on the blog post? Is there some fundamental difference to CockroachDB that is causing it to be that much slower? Or is it really just raw performance?

EDIT: As another note, I believe Aurora added multi-master support recently. How does that compare as well?
At the risk of "no true Scotsman"...

If it's creating more overhead, it's not agile. It may wear the label, but it's not the real thing.

If the existing process was already the optimal one, the agile thing to do is to not change it. If the "agile" changes are adding overhead, the actually agile thing to do is to go back to the previous process.
Steven Pinker's books are... let's say subject to much criticism. (For a good summary: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/transformation/steven-pinke...)

But yes, that's the big question - does rational thought win in the long run? We don't know. And there are indications that some of the "fringe" thoughts that are irrational and harmful have the potential to collapse the marketplace of ideas before they get sorted into the mainstream. (In which case, we, at best, get to start from scratch)

You can look at the collapse of progress in the dark ages. You can look at how dangerously close the world was to a different outcome in WW2. You can look at authoritarianism to day and ask the question "if most of the world swung that way, how would we ever escape that grasp"

And even if it does win in the long run, is there some way we can bias the marketplace away from fringe ideas? Should we? What qualifies as fringe?

All of these are important questions. None of these can be addressed by pretending free expression is really econ101. (Just because we call it a marketplace doesn't really make it one)
I was never patient enough for piracy as it takes diligence to find reliable sources. One thing that does irritate me is this general antipiracy attitude on the web today. It's like the entire population works for Big Tech. It used to be if you did enough searching, you could find pretty much anything you wanted, but now everyone acts like the piracy police and gets all offended if you even insinuate piracy. Probably sounds rather antisocial, but I think that attitude is dangerous as it gives corporations way too much influence, beyond what we've yielded them already. Maybe it's just the places I frequent.
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Genuinely looking for clarification - what does "untestable claim" means to you in this context?

If it means that you personally can't test it, then yes, it is an "untestable claim" and you are right, the whole thing is effectively a magic black box.

If it means that some other party/authority can't test it, then no, it is the opposite - a "testable claim" - to use the nomenclature put forward.

As a counterpoint to illustrate this, others who can, and do, test include:

1) internally (within the bank itself)

+ risk management: they define acceptable level of risk for login architecture & management

+ enterprise security: they define standards for login architecture among other things based on risk standards

+ infosec - they enforce ent. security standards

+ finance/analytics: test stuff like
"what did we/our customers lose to this type of fraud before/after we implemented this black magic box"

+ internal auditors (IT): assess and report on compliance

2) externally (outside the bank)

+ external auditors (who believe it or not, actually test this stuff)

+ regulators (who can mandate security levels in some jurisdictions - esp true outside the US)

+ pen-testers: banks hire them to ensure that the security posture works

In large bank environments, developers cant simply put out a username/password login architecture and expect to see it deployed to production.

There are a ton of other groups defining what they MUST do. The degree of functional separation in (large) banks is astounding - but it mostly works - because everyone has to toe to requirements defined by other functional groups.

I would argue that another CS-related analogy to this is machine learning. Everyone says they do "ML", most people don't understand it, some do understand it and a few understand it deeply; from an execution perspective, most are doing it ML badly, some doing it OK but there are a few are doing it really well because they understand it really well.

As with ML, for the case of user access management, the fact that *most" are doing it badly does not negate its (very real potential) value if done right.
I live in Fort Collins and use Comcast Business (because I depend on my internet for work) and 1 GB internet (only downloads) is $499.95 / month in comparison.

I cannot wait for my municipal account.
Tell him to get Certbot.
nvm, tell him to do a http>https redirect.
Hakyll: Static Site Builder with Haskell
> But why anyone takes TripAdvisor seriously after the whole "Shed at Dulwich" debacle is beyond me.

Becuase when I've traveled I've just hit up the top TripAdvsior attractions and restaurants and have always had a great time. I've never ended up at a "Shed at Dulwich."
In which case it essentially boils down to: X reminds me of something bad, but I am personally OK with keeping it around. Y reminds me of something bad, too, but I am personally not OK with keeping it. All you did was being selective about it, but the underlying reason is essentially the same, you just apply it selectively based on your own values without considering anyone else's.

Although, this does not seem to meet the seemingly only criterion: "reminds me how my country was occupied and annexed by Soviet Union". History books do that, but you do not seem to want to NOT keep them. So perhaps this is not the only criterion, there is something else. What is it? Could it be subjective value? If so, I still think that it is not a good reason to get rid of something because you have not found it valuable AND reminds you of something horrible.
And they're extremely litigious on IP matters which makes competing with them a nightmare.
If we are to ban anything that could endanger public/youth health, then we should ban alcohol & driving as well. (In the US) It's absurd that same cities/communities that were behind legalization of cannabis also are the first cities to crack down on vaping. Why is one thing a champion of individual freedom while another is the scourge of soccer moms?

Make the legal limit for everything 21, I don't care. I'm an (young) adult and would like to consume the same substences humans have been consuming for 100s of years; alcohol, cannabis, & nicotine (tobacco), It shouldn't matter that I'm mitigating the harm of the worse one (tobacco). The goal isn't to be 100% safe, otherwise I'd also have to eliminate driving, red meat, etc.
I don't have a degree (though I do have a few years of college in the CS /engineering fields) and I'm pretty sure every programming job I've ever had required a "degree", if you were to look at their posted job requirements. If it's known that you can do the work (which is the kicker of course), I've never seen an employer hiring people to write code actually care about the degree. Even in academic environments I've been offered programming jobs (obviously not teaching jobs).

Now, you should definitely get a CS degree or similar if you want to be a programmer. I would have done a lot better having one even though I got by without it. Also, my career path was ridiculous and is entirely non-replicable.
Smoking cigarettes hurts everyone within a 10 meter radius of the smoker.
I think basically everyone in this thread is looking at this all wrong. Banks don't have a ton of fancy hidden security gating the login itself most of the time. Trying to build a digital Ft. Knox in front of the login page and then paying no attention to what the users do after they login is the wrong way to go about securing these types of accounts.

I'm pretty sure they have much more security around detecting and blocking suspicious behaviors after you've logged in, like adding new payees on bill pay systems, requesting transfers of large amounts of money to random accounts, particularly overseas, etc.

I also argue that banks have much, much better security than anything most of us have ever touched, because they handle billions of dollars moving around routinely and manage not to lose it. Meanwhile, half of the internet can't manage not to lose the email addresses of everyone who signed up for their cat picture website. If they're trying that hard to steal something of little value like that, how hard to you think people are trying to steal the billions of dollars that banks handle?
Common Lisp: The Connection Machine (Thinking Machines Corp) used a variant called *Lisp. I wonder if that was an influence?

http://www.softwarepreservation.net/projects/LISP/starlisp/s...
Existing quantum computers are evidence against a strawman of the Copenhagen interpretation, which is "everything the size of an atom or smaller is quantum, everything bigger is classical, and whenever the two touch, a collapse occurs". This is of course silly and arbitrary, and has been known by physicists to be false for nearly as long as quantum mechanics has been around; there are plenty of quantum effects that involve objects bigger than an atom. Quantum computers are simply another example.

Any genuine interpretation of QM will agree on what a quantum computer outputs, because by definition, interpretations are ways of changing the words you drape around a calculation, not the result of the calculation itself. So quantum computers don't support or oppose any genuine interpretations. They only oppose strawmen.
>why remove a bunch of highly accessible primary sources

I agree with you that we should not remove "a bunch of highly accessible primary sources" .su is not that kind of source. .su "was assigned as the country code top-level domain" and that country does not exists. It is not like picture, book or building. Why should we use it now?
I suggest you step outside of your circle. When I did, I found that many lower and middle class parents were using pirating setups that I didn't even know existed.

For example, I learned about PopcornTime from a single parent who ran it on a laptop connected to their TV. The guy is bus dispatcher.

When I need a recommendation for a streaming site or tracker, I ask my old neighbor who works as a lab tech.

I've found that I'm generally ignorant of such things because everyone in my IT circle just pays for streaming services.
The black market will inly grow when the substance is outlawed. These bans are effectively deregulating and needlessly endangering constituents.
It is if e-cigs are causing a higher overall use if tobacco products. The time to stop it is early on, now. Traditional tobacco products on the other hand are so entrenched that it would take a truly astounding amount of effort to institute such a ban. I agree there's some amount of moral panic at play here, but it's not the only factor and maybe not even the dominant one.
So if I want to learn this GQL, where do I even start? I'm also confused about the naming, is there more than one language that could be called GQL?