skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> someone who belongs to a group that is never targetted.

Never targeted? What about routinely being accused of evil (racist, privileged, fragile...), and of having too much power and wealth, in most media? What usually happens to groups painted as evil and powerful? Something good? Try replacing 'white' with 'black' or 'Jewish' in the following articles:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/27/opinion/angry-white-voter...

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/01/opinion/kavanaugh-white-m...

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/americas-angry-white-men_b_41...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/made-by-history/wp/2017/...

https://www.salon.com/2015/03/04/10_ways_white_people_are_mo...

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/17/magazine/white-men-privil...

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/13/magazine/white-people-are...

https://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/12/24/dear-white-...

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/biden-says-whites-a-minor...

https://thoughtcatalog.com/emily-goldstein/2015/05/get-rid-o...

https://www.buzzfeed.com/michaelblackmon/17-harrowing-exampl...

https://www.reddit.com/r/TumblrInAction/comments/cwkc62/why_...

https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/a-sociologist-ex...
At first I thought you had a typo, but I'll be damned, I didn't even realize that was a position in the Executive branch.. I have now found my afternoon research project for the day.
I really had to chuckle when a coworker of mine called him "Barry" and then it turned out she had worked for him and that's what he asked his closest workers and friends to call him.

Then I had to chuckle when several of my coworkers took leaves (fully supported by the leadership) to help out running the Obama infrastructure under Eric Schmidt. At times they got to fly between Chicago and SF on Eric's personal plane. Eventually several of those people ended up working for him (it's always weird when your ex-manager ends up leading a government department).
this seems like an ad
What I Learned at Post/Con Part I: Examples and Mocking
Another nightmare, it's already possible to create convincing audio samples of someone else's voice that can be used for framing. I'm sure believable, fake video footage is around the corner too. Then what? You can create fake audio/video of anyone committing crimes. Or it can be used to fabricate an alibi for someone who is actually guilty. Not sure where we go after that. Maybe back to the time before audio/video technology was invented and rely solely on witness testimony.
Yes, when 400 people die for a company to save money, you must assign blame and put people in jail.
Anyone who finds this interesting might enjoy playing around with the meter analysis feature of my side project poetry text editor: https://versepad.com

(The meter analysis is the most complex part of the codebase, but that doesn't mean it's perfect. If you find a case that it's not handling well, please let me know so I can improve it!)

Fair warning: this project is very rough around the edges. But I'll be releasing some big improvements in the near future.
>It's quality control

My MacBook's keyboard disagrees
> Swift feels like a Frankenstein language though, there are so many keywords

That's a big reason why I don't like it. I also can't stand func, let, and var. Because func and var are totally useless, and let is the wrong word (should be const at least).

There is also all the question marks and other confusing syntax.
Citation needed.

One person's claim is not that whole story.

https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2018/mar...
According to the Pew Research Center there is evidence that America has become more more polarized since 2016.[1] This is part of a decades long trend.[2] This polarization is happening on both a rational[3] and emotional[4] level. According to some other researchers, political polarization is at its worst since the civil war.[5]

[1]: https://www.people-press.org/interactives/political-polariza...

[2]: https://www.people-press.org/2014/06/12/political-polarizati...

[3]: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/02/05/republicans...

[4]: https://www.people-press.org/2018/11/05/more-now-say-its-str...

[5]: https://news.usc.edu/110124/political-polarization-at-its-wo...
I've often found that asking things about the recruiters experience at the company itself is very enlightening when it comes to evaluating how it would be to work at the company. Questions like "What has been your worst day working for x company?" are sometimes a bit harsh but if you can fit them into the conversation they're great.
>In September 2019, the German police stormed and shut down a data center in a bunker near Traben-Trarbach, which is also supposed to belong to the company. Seven suspects were arrested.[9] Almost all sites of the website are not longer accessible since then.

I have long time family friends who were working at that Trauben-Trarbach datacenter since at least 2015. I pray and hope they are ok.
I grew up in that town (roughly 8000 ppl there) and would've never though someone there is capable of this.
Fuck law enforcement. Prosecutors only care about their case win rate and the cops care about their case clearance rate. They don't give a single shit whether you actually commit a crime... only whether or not they can convict you.
Typescript can specify required keys in a dictionary: function DrawRect(options: { at: Point2D, width: number, height:number}}

It will be checked compile time that all keys are provided (unless dict comes from serialized json or something).
One of the more popular Mastodon frontends uses Svelte.

https://pinafore.social/
Otherworldly worms with three sexes discovered in Mono Lake
Take one look on glassdoor for almost any company and you'll find a slew of feedback on their interview process. How much of that is taken into account when updating their process? I've found almost none. I can almost always use glassdoor negative interview reviews as a accurate indicator of what the interview is like - 9 times out of 10 no hiring team incorporates the feedback. And why should they? I'm sure right after my interview they'll find someone who 'gels' with whatever process they came up with and hire them. Sometimes, why even go through that process? If I hear something upfront I don't like, rather than listen to a hiring manager tell me they'll log me in to their system and try to barter and convince me to overlook their company's flaws, I'll ghost them with no remorse.

And also I've worked at a company that was linked to a callcenter, I can say with 100% certainty, how someone behaves during an interview is never an accurate portrait of how they behave on the job
In principle all these bunkers are designed to be able to run on diesel generators, in some cases for 10+ years. I imagine the power requirements of a 1950s communications bunker and a modern datacenter are not too far apart.

But in reality it probably doesn't matter, I doubt you can get a search warrant based on "they use a lot of power and have great internet connection"
They are using CentOS for builds, which was released only this week, and also build on AMI, which doesn't have 8 yet.
That seems to be the norm on any twitter reply thread I've read, especially if the subject is something even remotely mainstream.
> I'm thoroughly confused.

You are indeed.

> Drawing parallels between the way you attack the character

I didn't attack the character, I only portayed the character for who she is.

No judgment attached, just the crude reality: she builds weapons for US military and uses a very aggressive and dehumanizing vocabulary.

I would never use "remove" when referring to another human being, alive or dead.

> It was my understanding that Stallman was imploring people to use a more accurate term in describing his friend's actions because he felt the other term invoked harsher connotations

He was concerned that the term "sexual assault" would be disputable by critics.

because legally and in layman's terms has a completely different connotations (people associate assault with physical violence, the law doesn't)

> What does any of that have to do with what she said?

I think it's interesting that a person who would like to "remove" other people ends up building weapons instead of schools for refugee kids.
I don't know for certain but I'm fairly sure that the idea is that you don't activate the reactor until it's in space. Before a reactor is turned on the fuels are less radioactive. It's once you turn it on that radioactivity increases dramatically and you get all the nasty decay products and such.

So not zero but not as much as you might think.

Personally I don't like the idea. Environmental concerns are real, but those aside it's likely more expensive than multiple refueling flights with big conventional rockets. These would be expendable and very costly to research, develop, fuel, and launch, whereas for the same cost you could probably put stages in orbit and send fuel up to them with reusable tankers. Like hydrogen this is another example of NASA chasing the sexiness of high performance in a pure sense (high iSP etc.) without doing a total cost analysis.

In general SpaceX and Blue Origin have the right approach.
Keep in mind that even with test pilots briefed on the behavior, one of the three ended up losing the plane during testing of single event upsets of the Flight Computer.

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/newly...
I just think average is not the right word here. Less experienced is better. Yeah jokes aside some sort of a “rabdomized” selection methodology of multiple pilots should be sufficient.
If you're thinking I'm going to disagree on that note, you're wrong.

But the Obama administration also created the US Digital Service and 18F (after the healthcare.gov debacle), which are doing stellar work and continue to do so in the federal gov under the Trump Administration.

Obama also did create the Office of Science and Technology Policy, so maybe this was the successor of what this office would've been. But they were more science focused.

But that doesn't address my question about this particular office.
Income inequality in U.S. is at a five-decade high
How to get what you're owed – on your phone
You say it is quietly working, but can you name me a country where it IS working. Where wind and solar are providing sufficient energy for our current standards of living. Why are the critics of wind and solar (as outlined here for instance: https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2018/05/08...) wrong?
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I use Claws Mail. It can handle loads of mail with a multigygabyte inbox, it's fast and very stable.
Recommended.
That's an interesting proposal. Thanks for bringing it forward.

It would certainly increase costs in the industry and might introduce discontinuities in the pilot supply, particularly during irregular ops (weather delays causing crew timeouts causing crew substitutions) when pilots of 2015-era narrowbody jet #7 can't fly the 2014-era narrowbody jet #7 because the type rating is different or we have to stuff into their brains the qualifications for both the pre- and post- and have them alternate recurrent training between the two types, which brings its own safety concerns as compared to sending the crew to only one type of recurrent every required period.

Alternatively, we might address that by giving a common type rating to the aircraft (such as with the 757 and 767, which share a common type rating [the pilot qualification basis] today despite being built on different type certificates [the aircraft certification basis]), which would allow for common recurrent training with just differences training across models/series.
> in fact, I'll offer the (probably contrarian) opinion that it's one of the greatest languages of the past few decades.

I absolutely agree. Its such a beautiful easy to read and code language. Its got its quirks for sure, but I absolutely love it.
History of games of chance and their origin
That wouldn't actually do anything for DNA, cut hair doesn't actually contain any DNA at all the only way to get DNA from hair is if the follicle is still attached which wouldn't be true generally in a barber shop.
>Typically, overseas regulators follow the FAA’s lead. But after the MAX crashes revealed shortcomings in the FAA’s certification process, that’s no longer certain.

>Before the MAX is cleared to fly passengers again, both EASA and the FAA will require flight tests of the new updated software. In addition, Ky said, EASA will require Boeing to demonstrate the stability of the jet in flight tests that include high-speed turn and stall maneuvers with MCAS switched off.

Source: https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/europ...
She worked on the guidance systems for an autonomous ground vehicle for the DoD that's basically a proof of concept at this point.

We're equating that to war monger?
But the same people complaining about the current abuses were very much complicit with elevating the presidency to demigod status (congress giving up war powers was the most important elevation of presidential power imo).
>If the topic is complex like something about the separation of powers, we do a little intro to that, then the news. I'm not sure it would be popular, but at the same time, i'm not convinced it wouldn't be considering the competition.

I have a similar wish, where political news is mostly just civics class.

I tapped out on political news and conversations because it's become sports for people who don't like sports. Well, it's actually worse than that. At least people obsessed with sports know the ins and outs of the rules and can rattle off statistics. I was having an discussion with a couple news junkies that knew all the talking points and fashionable positions of their preferred team. Somehow it came up in conversation that nether of them knew the three branches of US government. WTF am I even doing with my time?
Not playing the blame game is what you do when you have a development team figuring out what went wrong when something went down for a couple hours.

This is a corporation putting a product on the market with a critical safety system that lacked redundancy and poor training given to pilots. Yes, there is blame to be placed here. Individuals who worked on the system aren’t the issue here, a greedy corporation is and I feel no sympathy for the company itself.
I guess one downside for those selling the ads is that other companies could easily attempt to poach based on this information... what upside would there be for a company who sells ads?
Not necessarily a republican techie but what if that office or other government offices satisfy a need but one that's bursty -- maybe we really only need them for six to nine months every seven or eight years?

I'm not saying that's the case here but it seems like an interesting challenge to somehow leave an agency intact but be able to spin up and down like that. People in general prefer a lot more consistency in their careers.
I've had it be persistent ever since it was introduced.
What about when the misinformation/propaganda/etc. is in a reply instead of in an original tweet? Two-sided sword, as they say.
If you want to add someone to your org who likes to stand on his soapbox and derail everyone else's email threads and work, Stallman's your guy...
If we take "she presented herself to him as entirely willing" as a fact then we can deduce that Minsky did not rape her.
Who is going to apply for the job of being an "average" pilot??
How Blink-182’s Tom DeLonge Became a UFO Researcher
Errr he was the LEADER of the Republican Party, literally the Speaker of the House.
Newt Gingrich was the leader of the Republican Congress that closed the OTA, not a cherry-pick.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Technology_Assessm...
I don't disagree in principal, but:

> well-designed economic game theory

Game theory is loosely based on the idea of behavioral economics, which is an imperfect science.

The fact that the Winkelvoss twins have to store their BTC password separated into several hidden physical vaults (bank safes mind you) is all you have to know about how the trust system actually works in real life.[0]

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/19/technology/bitcoin-winkle...
There is a difference between what we in tech consider a post-mortem, and a more literal one.
I’d like a comprise feature that automatically paired back the annoying bots, such as only allow my followers and my follower’s followers reply. That way you get enough of a network effect to get interesting replies without the garbage.
He simply expects anyone who wants to keep their freedom to use youtube-dl, which is packaged in trisquel.
There aren't any serious edit houses that use FCP X outside of gimmick advertising deals like some late night shows. Everyone is using Avid or increasingly Premiere anyway.

In my experience, the past five years have seen a dramatic shift to windows in professional facilities (Oscar winning editors).

I do know one very high end editor who cuts on a Mac mini. The old school guys are used to proxy workflows and you don't need lots of power for that anyway.
I don't live in the US. I live in Mexico where Apple products are on average about 20% more expensive when converting currencies.

If you compare the value of the peso in Mexico vs the dollar in the US, Apple prices are in comparison much more expensive than in the US.
Didn't Facebook make this data available months ago?

Where is the pressure for google to do the same?
Transformers 2.0: Deep interoperability between TensorFlow 2.0 and PyTorch
Because that's what the law says. You can't vote at 17 years and 364 days either. (Or drive at 15 years and 364 days.)

What would a "spectrum of consent" even look like? 'First base' at one age, second at another, etc.?

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baseball_metaphors_for_sex
I think there might have been some sort of misunderstanding in my post. I’m explaining a phenomenon I see: people aren’t generally angry with their bank over identity fraud, and that makes holding them accountable difficult. I don’t disagree they share much of the blame, just trying to point out how non-HN people see things. While you may very well be pissed with your bank, I think the general response to your story is “relief” at getting the money back and “anger” at the criminal. Again, I am not implying this is who they should be angry at, just who I see them get angry at. So, step one is convincing others to have the same response as you if the goal is to hold them responsible.
I just hope this won't harm the actual availability of MDMA much. According to my experience, an evening spent on MDMA together with wife, talking and having sex (with help of viagra - erection is miserable on MDMA without it even if you are perfectly healthy) is worth by orders of magnitude more than years of psychotherapy or vacations. It's a miracle drug if used properly (incl. taking lots of strong antioxidants before it and never taking it more often than once in some months).

It also makes my arrhythmia-prone heart work like a Swiss clockwork, it's the only substance that can stop a heart attack reliably, the substances the doctor has prescribed me (e.g. propafenone) do nothing but make my heart attacks much much more frequent.
A large scale credential stuffing attack
Thanks. What are all the vodoo:// links?
> Provide whatever proof you like that you wrote these down today... This scheme generates the proof that you wrote it down early

But what proof is there? Newspaper clippings from today's news in the envelope? That's hardly conclusive proof it was written on that day.

One solution would be to encode the prophecy into a blockchain, and reference that in the envelope. This way there's multiple witnesses that you did something that day at least.
Interview with Wes Bos on how he learned code
The very same civil liberties that protect that heroin dealer from prosecution also protect innocent people from prosecution (maybe even you). Individual rights and strong limitations on government are a Chesterton's fence to many people, it is easy to see the immediate utility of doing away with them in edge cases where they present an obstacle but it is harder to see the systematic protections they afford and the culture of freedom they support.

And again, rampant heroin isn't an inevitable consequence of freedom. We don't have to destroy civil rights to get rid of heroin, it's just that the actual root cause social solutions are a lot more nuanced than sending men with guns to use force. But more force is an easy story to sell to the public, and it happens to be convenient to the people at the top.
That's fine, it will represent the views of people who don't see technology primally as a way to extract wealth from fellow residents.
This overuse of the word “nerd” is really bothering me even if it is used positively.
Love what you're trying to achieve here.

My main worry is how you can do this at a non-net-negative return for your fund while also not coming across as predatory to the people you're trying to help.

> We often talk about ‘bootstrapping’ but very few founders actually build a business with literally no outside capital, savings, or help. In our personal experience, from asking lots of founders in private, a large portion used their own accumulated savings from a high paying job, had a spouse that covered the bills, had a windfall or inheritance, or relied on loans and help from family members. Every one of these is systematically harder in some way for founders of color, female founders, LGBTQ founders, and founders from underprivileged geographies. Note, none of these are insurmountable and we all know folks in every one of those categories who has successfully bootstrapped a business, but bootstrapping as we know it is systematically tilted against underrepresented founders in a way that we believe justifies a countervailing strategy.

You seem to be arguing (and I'd agree) that underrepresented founders find it much more difficult to get to the point at which Earnest (and others) would normally invest. What with them not having access to the considerable personal or F&F capital necessary to get there.

So it seems like you'd have to invest earlier, when there's more risk.

Now, I'm happy to believe that - because these founders are underrepresented - you can find 'better' founders overlooked by others.

But still, at that early stage, the risk will be significantly higher than at the P/M fit, post-revenue stage.

So I'd love to hear how you plan to offer terms that won't be called out as predatory (or somehow taking advantage of underrepresented founders) by others?
Not sure what the reasoning was at the time, but I can provide some personal thoughts on the idea - so don't take it as representative of everyone who is center-right like myself.

I don't trust a government entity to be "independent" or "non-partisan." The rule of thumb I use is "would I trust this government entity if my respective political party is only in control ~50% of the time?"

Some other folks in the threads already mentioned this, but as one example: the Obama campaign was pretty close to the Facebooks / Googles of the world - meaning that there could be a scenario that this OTA office was staffed fully with ex-Googlers or the like, almost like a lobbying firm would do. On one hand, they're fully qualified and (probably) very knowledgeable; on the other hand, I wouldn't trust that the office would provide a fair assessment into regulating those tech companies.

EDIT: grammar / more precise vocabulary
>Like Google did with Oracle's GPLed Java source code.

What are you talking about?
This should in theory increase the number of iOS users because who doesn't want a jail broken iPhone. I know I am going to switch from Android once a proper method is available. They should make it work for the new iPhone only instead in the future to increase sales.
This wasn't a web service that was unavailable for a couple hours; planes crashed and people died.
If they use average pilots, it still means that reactions of the other half of pilots will be worse than the ones they tested.