skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually, there are substitutes. People who need to travel (and most of them don't) can just use trains or ships, and make the overall stay longer (decreasing overall number of trips). It was already possible more than 100 years ago, and it would be much less of a problem in today's digital economy.
Here is the developer's statement: https://github.com/sethvargo/chef-sugar

Article: https://www.zdnet.com/article/developer-takes-down-ruby-libr...

Note this is the same developer who left Chef in 2014 because he received death threats from their open source community.
Is sales worth it? It's a huge drain on productivity already since the most effective sales techniques revolve around annoying people until they buy something to shut you up, why should we let this market segment continue if it's got even more externalities associated with it?
But as soon as I work for myself my standards, quality and even goals start going down hill.

What does that even mean?

Are you talking about an entirely private project on your home PC that no one but you will ever see? Then it's a hobby and you can make it as good or half assed as you feel like.

Or is this open source? If so, then decide what your goals are or your reasons for doing it.

Most people don't appreciate free stuff and people who work for free often resent the way they get treated for idealistically providing high quality stuff completely for free. You don't owe "your best" to random strangers who won't appreciate it. If you are resenting that or feeling burned out or something, take a break, re-assess your reasons for doing it and decide whether to quit, lower your expectations, scale back your involvement, or whatever.
Great hack. I need to try this. I used to use the self audit approach where I'd critically review my own work as a boss on a weekly sit down. What's funny is it allows you to be empathetic to yourself. Kind of counter intuitive
>Same with history, studying history by studying primary sources has fallen out of favor because most primary sources don't align with our world views.

I can definitely see this for individuals. But are you seriously claiming that actual professional historians aren't working from the primary sources? Because if that is your argument, I'm afraid you're mostly wrong. For the most part, they are spending their lives in the archives looking at all the primary sources[1]. But this is an artifact of the specialization of knowledge and work: they trust that I'm over here writing code that works, just like I have to trust that they are over there synthesizing the primary sources into something understandable.

Now, some historians are like Fox/MSNBC in that their work is more about flattering the prejudices of their consumers than actually informing, but just like there are plenty of good journalists, there are plenty of good historians. Your nihilism feels unwarranted to me, because there are plenty of people writing interesting new books by tackling new topics, or old topics from different angles.

[1]: Source: Before I went into computer programming, I strongly considered going to grad school in history (not the civil war, that example was because I grew up in Virginia so everyone interpreted "history" as solely the War Between the States; I learned to use it as the example of why new history was written) so I spent a lot of time shadowing history professors.
"Earning" attention points is a frame of mind, as the reciever of votes may look upon themselves as a sort of beneficiary. Being invalidated by the metric of how many people/machines (digitally) voted against one's content does not invalidate the idea itself. Write instead for your curious audience of historians digging through archives over the next few decades. But more importantly, for those of us that know to wade through digital (or analog) noise in order to find valuable information worth repeating.

I prioritize reviewing the most downvoted content, because the average downvote is an overreaction (emotional response). Ignoring the first few "top voted" responses (or search results, beginning sentences of a news article) is a shortcut to the more useful content.

"Points" are not good or bad. They are an indicator of traffic (automated or genuine). They are not worthless.
Google Launches AI Lab in Bangalore, India
> But it does not mean you are right

I meant: But it does not mean you not are right
That's fair, but we are diving into subjective territory. Lets say (hypothetically) that half of the employees support ICE. Who decides then whether or not the contract is maintained? (Unlikely scenario in this case, but I am more interested in the general precedent than this specific scenario, so just playing devil's advocate)

Also, lets say you are the CEO who proposes that you should NOT work with ICE, but all of your employees believe you should. In that case, it is obviously not as simple as just listening to what your employees want.
Actually allowing access is not criminal provided they tell you they are going to do so in the TOS.

That's why we need a law to make it explicitly illegal to share any such information at all for commercial purposes. I don't really care if it destroys business models. Maybe some of those business models deserve to be destroyed.
I spent some time recently building my first extension ... and let me tell you, it's not that easy promoting one at all :)

If you are interested, it might be helpful to you. It's contributing to the winning "Productivity" category. It lets you see the competitors of almost any software product. Contextually. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/alternative-to-by-...
So how did the “original” pagan spring equinox celebration work? What was the connection to hares bringing eggs?

You’re being very cagey here. Just say what you mean.
I'm guessing you heard a bellbird - some of their single tone calls sound like a ringing bell. First recordings I found weren't a great example of the sound, but it also has some "dawn chorus" recordings: https://www.doc.govt.nz/nature/native-animals/birds/bird-son...
If you could declare a sufficiently advanced Lua script, that would negate all incompatibilities while still allowing complex blockers to function.

Why hasn’t the blocker community proposed such yet? It seems like it’s the missing piece: How little scripting capabilities are necessary, etc.

If you had MATCH expressions, CASE statements, and $1/$2/... capturing backreferences, would any of this even be a problem?
Growing is the only time they collect carbon. We could plant enough trees to zero out carbon usage (for now).
I was just looking for a source for the claim. Found my own pretty low-detail source; if you've got something better, I'd love to learn more.
A Curious Tale: The Apple in North America
That is good! I guess they will eventually transition to this.
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21029481
An area of research that I don't hear much about is creating hydrocarbon fuels for applications that really need them, like airplanes. Essentially, using hydrocarbons as a chemical battery instead of an out-of-the-ground energy source.

As with any contributor to climate change, the issue is not burning the fuel, the issue is that the fuel is bringing new carbon out of the ground into today's carbon cycle. Hydrocarbons generated in real time from carbon currently in the environment, using carbon-free energy[1], would not contribute to global warming.

The chemistry is complicated and presumably it would take a tremendous amount of energy to do so. I think I read that the Navy was exploring it for aircraft carriers--which have plenty of energy thanks to redundant nuclear power plants onboard, and obviously would benefit from being able to generate more jet fuel whenever they need it.

[1] I know there is not really such a thing yet; nuclear, wind, even solar panels take fossil fuel to make today. But in theory man-made jet fuel would decouple the end use from the generation, allowing planes to keep flying the same way they always have, while cleaner fuel generation could incrementally supplant new oil in the supply chain.
Lab isn't the only perceptually uniform color space out there, have you tried any others?

Jab is a fairly new one, maybe it works better for you:

https://observablehq.com/@jrus/jzazbz
I sincerely, sincerely doubt it. Just look at the history of the actual bug (not hard at all to believe it could have happened by accident), and the fact of how undermanned OpenSSL was, and I'm just surprised it didn't happen sooner.
Maybe I didn't read too far into the thread, but it sounds like they laid off a guy, provided some severance, and there weren't many managers that sent him a goodbye note? I don't see the connection here... what was the bad thing they did?
If only there were other dependency management build tools they could use as good examples to emulate....
> I've called Amazon around AWS issues and I have to disagree with you

AWS support is stellar. We have workloads on the three major cloud providers, and AWS support is better by an order of magnitude. If anything, this has spoiled us. When things that take minutes to solve (or figure out) on AWS takes days on another cloud provider, no amount of technical wizardry can make up for it. They won't be dragging your feet just because you have a lower level plan, but if you want to call them to solve stuff right now on the phone or have them showing up at your company with specialists in tow, then you have to fork over the required amount. It's well spent, IMHO.
Yes, it is not literally "printing money" in the way that the US Mint physically does. The term is appropriate though, as the result of translating from the paradigm banks operate in into the paradigm natural persons are bound by. We can only give away what we have received - I cannot give a friend $20 in exchange for an IOU, and then transmute that IOU into a crisp new $20 bill.
> A world with greatly reduced air travel is a more insular and less understanding world.

I don't think there is an evidence for that. It is more likely that immigration increases cultural understanding rather than travel.

In any case, emissions of travel can be greatly reduced by using other modes of transport and by making the stay in the target country longer. Such a cultural shift could actually even improve the understanding between nations.
"So what?" Incentives. If subgroup A doesn't travel for sales, subgroup B who travels will likely outcompete them by more than the cost of the travel, or subgroup C who is large enough to have many local offices will outcompete A, making it harder for new entrants to a market to compete and concentrating business activities in select cities (which is great if you're rich enough to live in those prosperous cities).

I'm not making moral value judgments here; I'm making economic value judgments as that drives much more behavior I think.
To give an example of how the law sometimes work, Sweden has a similar law to section 230 called "The law regarding electronic billboards", which gives the provider legal space to operate as a intermediate without legal liability in regard to the message. During the Pirate Bay trial the founders argue that this gave them protection.

The prosecutor and later the court judgment cited a different law, one which was created in order to give the police the power to seize biker bars from organized crime. They argued that the website, just like a biker bar, allowed for "primarily" illegal activity and thus made the founder liable for operating it and gives the police the power to seize it in order to stop further crime.

Even if twitter, google or any other private operated website is not treated as the publisher or speaker, the operators can still be charged under any law that do not distinguish on the accused being the publisher or speaker.
That is both very thorough and totally useless - so much so that it looks like you were deliberately trying to misunderstand.

Could you explain how you think Hanlon's Razor has any relevance to brundolf's post?
I think it's reasonable to say "this software is open and anyone can use it, and we don't control who downloads and runs it themselves".

I also think it's reasonable, given an entity you don't want to do business with, to say "we don't enter into contracts (even our standard contracts) with these entities, and we don't provide any kind of support to these entities".
Worse. They're suing ten people for booing them at Black Hat, as well as suing the conference for not providing a heckle-free marketing platform which they paid for.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/08/compa...

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/09/the_doghouse_...
It's obvious to me that Microsoft will end up buying NPM Inc.
First off, I love the philosophy, and the package format is nice.

I'm not a language hipster, I don't care what language you write something in as long as it fits the purpose well, and shell can certainly do that here. However, some uses of shell in the package manager are non-obvious, and that will make it more difficult for people to troubleshoot or maintain this code.

@OP: I imagine you've examined Slackware's pkgtools? (https://slackware.osuosl.org/slackware-12.1/source/a/pkgtool...) They're written in shell too, and have been in use since 1994. I wish they would get a bit more updated to do things like read metadata (especially for Slackbuilds) and handle build dependencies, but I always found them pretty easy to understand and modify to my needs. Later I threw together some scripts to automate the most common configure/make/make install/packaging steps (https://github.com/psypete/public-bin/tree/public-bin/src/sl...). My scripting experience was, let's say... "limited". :)

I ended up making a couple thousand packages from tarballs. What that taught me was that actually managing build dependencies, and the complications of layering different software into the same file tree, was a lot more weird than it seemed. So depending on people's intentions with this distro, it may end up being a lot more complicated for them to manage than they think.
It's always fine until you have an actual problem...

The issue with Stripe's ethos is that it wants to stay really lean, which usually means not scaling customer support. If the entire company is 2000, how many full time support staff do they have? How has the headcount grown with # merchants onboarded?

This isn't specific to Stripe, by the way. I think Google has the same culture around support. My Google Pay account has been in a permanently screwed up state for years and have never been able to reach someone to resolve it. They just care about operational efficiency above all else.

On the other hand, I actually think Square has a very mature and responsive support staff. I have gotten what would probably be considered low priority issues resolved in less than an hour through various channels.
ooo.. I'll get on that.

There are in fact 10 default extensions. Will filter them out...
Thanks for leading a vanguard of anti-racism against deepfakes.

Moving your left eye, nose, mouth, and right ear independently of each other is fundamental to acting?

"Unexpected" is a milder term than "never before seen on a human seen, nor interpolated".
Currency is printed. Money is created as bits in a ledger. Money is not synonymous with currency.

Thats the difference I'm pointing out.
I will concede that perhaps I am wrong about AirBnB being less compliant than Stripe. Bravo to them for doing so in an environment that rapidly changes, sometimes designed to hem them in.

However, I will move the goalposts to rephrase my original point- AirBnB appears to operate in an environment that has more regulatory challenges, especially new ones, than Stripe, which operates in banking, which while regulations-heavy, which doesn't seem to be moving at nearly the same clip. And so my original point about AirBnB's problems still holds- the consequences of dealing with more lawsuits and having to spend more on lobbying.
As the 28th largest company in the world, there are not very many targets larger than Amazon, and most of them have also been targeted by the EU over something.
That's not the install size. From the documentation there are multiple install options ranging in size so they just decided to package it all in one. "Minimal" install is like 400-500 MB iirc.
Not to mention people learning more about other countries, people and cultures from personal experience.

This can make them more rational and less prone to manipulation & hysteria than if they never left the town or country they were born in.
3D antimony nanochains may increase Li-ion battery capacity andcut charging time
> right-wing anime

A little off-topic, but is right-wing anime really a thing?
Chicken has black bones, organs, and meat: Here’s why
> I use the Medtronic Guardian Plus because it ties into my insulin pump which then regulates how much background insulin to give me.

Oh, so we are finally over that hurdle. Last time I checked there were some liability concerns that prevented manufacturers from closing the loop – the user had to input the numbers.
This is worrying. We are planning to move to stripe hence I have a few questions. Were you experiencing any other issues before they did these, for example, there is a high number of refunds, fees charged etc..? Typically you are allowed by law to dispute chargebacks.

I learned from previous experience, never have a single payment processor ever. The best rule of thumb pay the higher fee but diversify.
Actually, posting here from a fresh account allows to reach a quite broad audience with over-generalized warnings for ALL small businesses to take care while dealing with Stripe.
The story lacks details, names timing and etc., although most of the commenters immediately believe the OP and start blaming Stripe’s support line and support processes in IT industry in general (problems exist, sure).
It may be rather considered as opportunity, that someone from Stripe offers help in such situation with description that looks like blaming and crying that Stripe is EEEVIL instead of searching for advice, how to solve the problem.
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Rails, Postgres, heroku. The fastest most reliable and pleasant way to build an mvp that I know of.
Congrats on making something that you are able to share.

> Only the current audio/video frame is being sent to the viewers, there is no way they can download/cache the videos either for future usage.

In the end, if the video ends up at the viewer there is a way to capture it.
It sounds you're saying that the developer who deleted their gems in protest shouldn't actually own their work, because exercising their rights as owners might inconvenience others.
Pretty much every tech company, hundreds of consulting firms, dozens of construction firms, etc, etc do business with DoHS and ICE. These are huge organizations with thousands of employees that buy products and services from thousands of suppliers. Everything from software to sock. Are you gonna get angry with all of those companies too? And what about the DEA, FBI, NSA, CIA and DoD? They all do things that some Americans consider evil. And they all buy from the hundreds of tech firms big and small. Everyone from Amazon to Oracle. From HP to Cisco. It just seems mean and petty to pick on Chef to me.
It's a matter of fiscal policy if we will see higher rates. If someone like Yang is elected with his free $1000 per month, we will see quick inflation and less people looking for work. The Fed mandate is to maintain some price stability and full employment (of people asking for jobs), so we will see higher rates in this case. If the banks start to crash and burn we can see non-leaking reserve QE in the same time.

Some people believe the bond markets can force higher interest rates and QT, but this seems less likely now. If nobody is buying new bonds for example, people think Fed will be pressured to override normal mandate, even though they should be independent.
'Classic' LLVM noalias as a function parameter attribute is weak, but the metadata version is much more flexible. I looked into it in the past and IIRC it's not a perfect match for Rust semantics, but close enough that rustc could still use it to emit much more fine-grained aliasing info; it just doesn't. But there was also a plan on LLVM's end to replace it with yet a third approach, as part of the grand noalias overhaul that's also supposed to fix the bug. Not sure if there's been any progress on that.

As far as I can tell, MIR inlining currently happens with -Z mir-opt-level=2 or higher, and that is not implied by -O. But I have no idea what future plans exist in that area.

I admit I have a bias here: it feels to me like everyone (not just Rust) is running away from doing things at LLVM IR level, and the resulting duplication seems inelegant. But on reflection, part of the reason I have that feeling is that I've recently been spending time fixing up Clang's control-flow graph functionality... which itself is 12 years old, so it's not a new trend at all!
Does anybody actually use these TI deep learning libs? I've never even heard of them before.
I have to ask, what is this? Even the most basic introductions are missing, and it seems to just ramble on one thought after another. Epstein seems to be involved. Who is Searle? Who are most any of the principles? Editorial, please!
I am pro-ICE, pro-immigration, and anti-human-trafficking. Ice separates children from human traffickers and parents alike. Human traffickers bring children to the U.S. for sale by the tens of thousands every year. We should praise ICE for their commitment to protect children & their families who have traveled to America illegally. If they want to seek refuge, they should use our immigration system to seek refuge instead of sneaking into our country.
Note also that cloud cover increases albedo, namely how much light is reflected back to outer space. Does that mean contrails are good for the environment? Probably not, but this a very complicated system that one can’t make simple statements without sitting down and doing the math.
Cost of living is much higher in blue states, unfortanetly. It's a outcome of higher regulation which customers end up paying for. Higher cost of living in terms of Shelter cost, Utilities and generally higher taxes.
The coolest thing this enables is a way more precise ASAN: https://clang.llvm.org/docs/HardwareAssistedAddressSanitizer...
What about fusion power? It's the dream energy source: the fuel is seawater, the waste is slightly lighter seawater. It seems the perfect target for a Manhattan project/moonshot sort of effort. Giving several teams with competing designs $100B each to develop and test their reactor, in parallel. The potential benefit of near-free clean energy is so absolutely world-changing that it seems worth it to spend on the order of hundreds of billions of dollars to develop it.
Comment. Juuust one :(
> There is a used car lot by my work that ONLY sells used police cars, they've been there for at least 20 years, and I just don't know why people would go buy them.

Sometimes it's the whole "role playing" thing.

But sometimes - depending on the make/model/etc - it's to get the cop car performance package. As long as the car hasn't been beat to hell, it's a cheap way to get a nice upgrade on what is usually otherwise a low-tier/grandma kind of car.

The Ford Crown Vic with the Interceptor package was one of the "go-to" upgrade kind of cars. Horrible gas mileage. But if you got one with the upgraded gas tank (with racing bladder installed - because they had issues exploding in fiery death when rear ended - ala Pinto) - plus all the rest - it was supposedly one helluva vehicle to drive. And cheap because ugly and used.

While you could do something similar with some other car (ie - LS1 a Honda Civic or something like that) - you would end up spending way, way more money on everything needed to do such an upgrade (also - the CV was rear-wheel drive, which is rare to non-existent in sedans).
Google apparently has attained quantum supremacy