skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't believe I have much control over how my city is organized.

I am not sure where you live, but I find the opposite is true. Where I live, in Denver, CO, USA, I have found that my city council members and state reps are often responding to emails directly since they have little or no staff.

I have found them to be super receptive and easy to talk to. If you have concerns, and you are polite and thoughtful, your ideas will carry weight with them.
Are you usually a partial fan of stomping out governments? So much hubris. So little understanding.
Thanks for the link! The async/await code is definitely easier to parse mentally. Look forward to the release.
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I'd argue those people that are too lazy/inconsiderate/uncaring to not invite people who are not on FB are not friends at all. It takes a few seconds to text/email someone, sometimes even less if you text/email a whole group at a time. Expecting people to give up their privacy and use an addictive surveillance platform just so they don't miss out on parties and other events, is way too much to ask of anyone. This is especially true of close friends and family that one cares about. It's easy for people to forget the true consequences of using a platform like FB. It's literally inconsiderate when they do so, however.
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You're cutting off the first half of the quote which is pretty damn relevant:

> we need to find some way to fix userspace's assumptions that they can always get high quality entropy in early boot, or we need to get over people's distrust of Intel and RDRAND

Though ts'o is also ignoring the third option — and the one used by openbsd — of storing an rng seed after boot (and on shutdown).

The very first boot does remain problematic if the image isn't seeded though.
To me, that sentence is first stating a current fact, not the problem. The problem is in the following sentence.

That is, they acknowledge not using the pronoun is an insult, but SE has now changed it so that avoiding a pronoun by referring to someone in a different way is now also an insult.

Like, for example, I haven't referred to you by a gender-specific pronoun. If you asked me to refer to you as, say, 'she', I would probably still not refer to you using a gender-specific pronoun. I'd continue to use 'you' or 'ergothus'.

That would not be acceptable under the new rules coming into play.
It'll take an existential threat (war?) to sort the wheat from the chaff. Typically the best and brightest of a country trickle to the top when duty finally calls.

Though, there are opportunists. Like Mao. Or Hitler.
I'd much prefer if things were more self-contained and self-reliant rather than so deeply interconnected; I don't yearn much for simple (pre-industrial) life. But given the reality we have, it makes it extremely important to protect our civilization from shocks and reinforce the most fragile aspects of it. That's why I often speak up against revolutionary changes, for good or bad. I'm for more gradual changes, and strongly against those that risk breaking civilization, because that would be game over for everyone.
Highly recommend reading 'The Courage to be Disliked' it may not revolve around 'privacy' but makes you think a lot about the 'self-validation' feedback we are trained to think we need... it helped me cement a decision to leave social media and other things in general within my personality.
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Macbook keyboard maybe?
Nah, I see nothing hopeful in enormous suffering and death of billions of people, which is what would happen in days following our civilization breaking to pieces.

(And to be clear: I'm not exaggerating when I say billions.)
DNSSEC. It's the solution to walled garden brands. The problem is that it needs the support of the big brands to be successful, and the big brands don't want competition.
After using PuTTY for many years, and then Bitvise SSH client for some more, I shifted to Termius. The thing that finally made me switch from both the earlier really good products was its ability to work across Windows/Mac and Android, and syncing hosts/credentials across the instances. It has a free version which provides SSH and port forwarding and a paid one with more features.

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If you kill political dissidents and harvest their organs as part of an active genocide campaign, you lose any claim at behaving ethically. Ethics are measured by the actions you take that you'd rather not advertise.
I guess the current long routes would not work, but apparently airliner fuel efficiency improved by almost exactly this much since 1980 (https://www.greenaironline.com/news.php?viewStory=684), so it still seems that's the era we'd go back to...
I took the comment to mean, why does the original article's title not have 'Chinese' in the title.

In these days of click-bait "news", it's a valid question.
Yes, just not for this role at this time unfortunately.
name@mydomain.com would be layer 3 correct? using the oauth services of mydomain.com to authenticate yourself as name@mydomain.com should be layer 3.5, not layer 5. To me that comes before the "person" layer 4.
> What is the rationale for not allowing newer language features?

"They aren't proven"

"They aren't mature enough"

"They are bloat"

"They make the code too complex"

"They don't scale"

"They are slow"

"They make it hard to read the code"

"The language vendor might pull the plug on them"

"They have bugs"

"They aren't any easier than <MY_WAY>"

If you read between the lines, people that object to new language features are almost always doing it for a single reason, which they may not even admit to themselves:

"I'm not a competent enough developer to understand the language feature, so nobody should use the feature"
It's not a religion. We not only have data we also have the visceral reactions when confronted with real-world examples of what climate change is doing right now.

I was a bit shocked when I heard that the Greenland glacier is melting from the bottom. Arctic waters are feeding energy under it. It is melting at a higher rate than ever recorded before [1].

Here's a fun fact. Last 5 years are the hottest on record [2].

Tuvalu is sinking [3].

This isn't theoretical anymore. The change is coming, fast.

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[2] https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/02/2018-...

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Institution may have been a better word than Brand.
I couldn't adjust the height of just my desk, it was physically one long piece for the entire row of 5 people.
Also, back in the day opening a 5MB logfile in Wordpad was a recipe for stalling your system.
I never had facebook, irc and some forum was everything I wanted, exchange of knowlidge and ideas. In term of "beeing nobody" I never cared. I am 42, highly valued in technical circles. Lots of friends, paragliding, mountain biking. Never had a car. Didnt need it. Lots of friends to go for a beer with. I use phone, sms, email to communicate with real, physical friends. Never been unemployed. There is just nothing "social media" can offer to me.
I find the same...I have a lifetime of equipment, specifically configured for how I work in my home office. Everything from ergo keyboards to multiple os/servers/monitors. I hate working on any other setup - typical office gear just can't compare.

Also, with all the cloud stuff, I don't even have to go to the data center anymore, further reducing my need to be on-site.

P.S.
Lots of places open to tele-commute. You should NOT have to give up half your income to do it. If you get tired of the current gig, I'm sure you'll find a remote position with a competitive salary.
The problem with ethanol is it absorbs water, which at greater altitudes (lower temperature and pressure) freezes and blocks fuel lines. For that reason aviation fuels have limits on ethanol content.
That's right: when you can't answer, just downvote. If you didn't have 66,000 karma, maybe you'd be held accountable by the mods for religious and political flamewars. But since you do, you can act however you please.
If the lease was cheap, what would force the owner to price their services any cheaper? No one can compete with them anyway as they own the spectrum
I have no issue with them mentioning Oracle's involvement. They just went too far, by taking up [exactly] 50% of the video, the marketing spiel is a distraction from the breakthrough. Media companies aren't going to promote it, as it's an obvious advert (I can't see it on the BBC News website, I checked both health and science sections). "Our cutting edge cloud data services enabled..." that would have been sufficient.
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> “I stand by my assertion that very few large employers ignore location when it comes to salary offers.”

I agree with you but only because most large employers enforce commodity models of labor, and only far up the hierarchy do you get to unique employment requirements that break commoditization.

This doesn’t fit Gitlab at all though. They are still in a phase where very few employment needs are commodity.
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Even if you could defeat the conventional forces, the ensuing insurgency/guerrilla warfare in mainland china would make Afghanistan casualties look like a teaparty.
https://www.monoprice.com/product?p_id=38068

I use something exactly like this product (an old one from monoprice actually I believe). Simply plugs into the back of a 2.1 speaker set I have. Guests at my place love it, they can easily just connect to the Bluetooth and play through speakers. Pretty seamless. Not sure of any quality drop, my speakers aren't the best.
The people who have successfully quit online social media aren't going to be the ones posting and discussing it online - whether on NYT, Hacker News, Reddit or anywhere else.
At first I thought you were making a joke, but it's blank for me, too, even with adblockers/https redirect disabled.
It is quite usual in global consulting organizations. The format is always like this: "X has happened, is happening or may happen. X is bad. Any Y or Z actions identified in our workforce related to X will be subject of termination of employment."
> US has some founding morals and principles they do not forget.

Excuse my french, but what the fuck are you talking about?

How about imprisoning and torturing US citizens without due process in the name of a nebulous war that only gets worse the more we fight it?

What about all the puppet governments we've set up so that our corporate overlords can make a quick buck at the expense of some country who's resources we want to plunder?

The US is an empire. Not based on governmental control, but based on financial control. The difference between surveillance in the US and surveillance in China is that we've managed to keep our surveillance largely in the private sector; but that doesn't mean 1984 doesn't already exist here! In fact, you carry 1984 with you in your pocket everywhere you go!

I'm not saying I'd rather live in China than the US, but putting the US on some high moral pedestal is extremely ignorant of all the terrible things we've done as a country.
> when pretty much every available case study (re: drone strikes and terrorism) clearly shows otherwise?

I'm pretty sure I read those case studies differently than you do. Why, do you suppose, the military continues to make drone strikes if they are ineffective?

> How authoritarian would you rank [Trump] compared to Obama

Waaaaay more authoritarian. By his own admission, even. Trump praises, celebrates, and socializes with dictators on a much greater scale than Obama.

And if the single largest signal you're drawing from Anwar al-Awlaki's killing is that Obama is authoritarian, then I think you need to step back and examine that situation more broadly.
The real number is unknown, because parasites are shared often among different hosts, but could be much higher in fact.

Each species of free living animal known have at least one parasite, hosting 20 different species is not uncommon. Humans have several thousands just in the Platyhelminths group. Each plant known have at least two or three parasitic fungus. All known viruses except virulent bacteriophages are parasites, and is expected that most unknown viruses will be parasites also (we only had studied a small percentage of the extant viruses and there are serious estimates that calculate over 100 millions). Many bacterias also are parasites. Lots of fungus are parasites of animals also. And parasites have its own parasites.
What is the evidence for such a claim?
Yes, Churchill said plenty of stuff that was racist/misogamist even back in those days. Bojo models himself after him. Btw I'm a big Churchill fan in spite of all that. The flawed hero.
Wonder what the odds are that old critically underspecced transformers can act as impromptu fuses and break apart the gird fast enough to protect some of the bigger units
> While the third point makes all the difference in the world, what Amazon really did get right that Google didn’t was an internal communication system designed to make all the rest possible.

> Having teams acting like individual APIs and interacting with one another through interfaces over the network was the catalyst of a series of consequent actions that eventually made possible the realization of AWS in a way that couldn’t have been possible otherwise.

Google has worked this way since time immemorial. That’s what protocol buffers are for: to create services and pass data between them using well defined interfaces.
Depending on how capital intensive the plant is, this might still be cost competitive with intermittent low, zero or negatively priced green electricity.
Er, no - verbal confirmation of delivery, in the event it succeeds, is not better than guaranteed delivery; it is strictly worse. If the message gets dropped you have no way of knowing - you might be waiting forever.
I've had pretty heated arguments over this with an old friend of mine from one of the big US companies. They argue forcefully that DNA information is not medical data and HIPAA does not apply to them at all. I don't agree with their claim, and believe HIPAA should apply, but it seems the US regulators are going along with them for now.
Looks really cool, but I'm skeptical of all the demo videos and whether or not a person or software flew the drone. Would like to see some independent reviews of their following capability.
The only reasons I can think of is nuclear war and a second black plague
So, tangental question. I have read about the Earth's magnetic poles moving in the past. I have also read that the poles are likely to move or start moving again sooner rather than later. Would a large geomagnetic storm influence that? I.e. would it make the poles more likely to shift, or kick them into motion? Would it make the poles less likely to shift or hold them in place? Setting aside the disruption of a major change to the cardinal directions, would a shift of the poles be disruptive to infrastructure like the storms in the article are said to be?
Thanks for an actual answer to my flippant comment. Actually, I was hoping to see an explanation of why the different design leads to smaller, more efficient motors. I understand that the flux direction is different, but I don't understand how that enables the improvements.
Amazon, for all its ethical problems, is not a monopoly
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But forcing you to change tests from using sqlite to mysql because of int vs smallint is an overreaction. If I was to prioritize moving tests from sqlite to mysql, over getting functional requirements done, I'd be nuts. Especially if the tests catch 99.9999999% of issues. Its very unlikely to have an issue with this type of thing. That's not a good manager, that's a moron.
Council meetings are held when normal people need to be at work.
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IIRC Wordpad could handle LF but not UTF-8 and Notepad could handle UTF-8 but not LF (^_^)
Not sure about execs, but this happens in engineering meetings (regarding new features being implemented or other semi-major changes). Whoever is initiating the meeting writes up a paper describing the terminology, the nature of the change and why it's needed, how it will be implemented etc. The entire dev team (+ maybe other dev teams within the group), management (the initiator's boss + 1 level above, maybe other dev team managers too) start the meeting with hard printouts of the paper, armed with red pens. The meeting "starts" with ~15 mins or so of silence for everyone to review the paper in the room from start to finish. Then the paper is reviewed end to end and torn up on the way. Often there are multiple of these meetings (i.e. first one went badly or if things change along the way of building/implementing it and questions come up)
Maybe they should start shooting cops now.
How do you think almost ever other country in the world with more mature and developed democracies manage to maintain human rights without hoarding firearms?

I'm genuinely wondering.
In some ways but to steelman they are constrained to not be within their power to change even if they were elected or seized power.

You can and should yay or nay developments of importance locally but some things are on long time tables or resource constrained such that they wouldn't be that great of an idea even if they had broad support in principle.
You're still missing the point. It's not about whether RMS is right or wrong, it's about his right to argue his position in a personal capacity while still heading the FSF and CSAIL.