skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Worth watching the initial announcement by Reagan: https://www.pbs.org/video/american-experience-reagan-announc...
Starts with "American does possess NOW, the technologies..." tails into - hey scientists, show us something cool we can use to do this. So initially it was a big pot of money for ideas to achieve it. Then you had the big companies set the direction with space lasers, few CGI's (that cost loads to make) in a time that it was still very new for TV and suddenly you have the media and directional focus going with that - as a majority of people of that era will recall it due to media focus upon that, at the time ->
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smrZrimAuis "STRATEGIC DEFENSE INITIATIVE STAR WARS RONALD REAGAN 33112"

But 30 years later, and only starting to see lasers deployed upon very large ships - shows how long it can take from feasible towards practical and dare say, still kinda in the flintlock stage of it's evolutionary cycle. But then, we may well see power generating inventions born out of the need to power these things, trickling down into consumer hands, which would tie in with the title most aptly.
This sounds so comical, but I imagine it gets old fast.
In four lines you manage to be arrogant, insulting, patronizing, and intellectually sloppy (“by definition”?) I'm disappointed. I'd like to invite you to produce a higher level of discourse.
And the Guardian app as well. Opens to the last front page headline, and then refreshes after a few seconds.
Blocking sites like this is never reasonable.
This kind of skepticism isn't actually skepticism. Its internalizing good arguments without understanding them, instead using the phrases associated with these legitimate concerns as magic words for social dominance and denialism.

The typical "correlation doesn't imply causation" retort we see denialists level is a classic example of how people tend to use a phrase to avoid a reason-driven conversation about correlations (of which causal relationships are a subset) and instead shut down the entire topic.

The core of skepticism is inquiry, not denial. And modern Reactionary skepticism (because that is what it has evolved into now: a kind of reactionary culture clique) is all about stopping any inquiries it isn't predisposed to prefer.
A long-ago girlfriend taught me how to drive a stick when I bought a second vehicle that had one. I knew how to drive a stick and my parents had had manual shift cars that I had practiced on a bit but you really need to develop the right feel for the clutch and throttle.

I remember for about the first month making a real point of avoiding routes and times that would expose me to a lot of stop and go traffic, especially on inclines.

I can't imagine what initially learning to drive a stickshift somewhere like SF must have been like!
> There's an official denial of a "green light"

Have you considered the possibility that a green light was, in fact, not given, and that Putin has simply outmanoeuvred America in this case? I think the evidence points towards Russian intel backing Turkey's latest operation.

America completely failed to implement her interests in the region partly due the absolute mess of her internal politics, e.g. a still completely dysfunctional and understaffed State Department: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/11/state-d...

Three pieces of evidence that Turkey is drifting towards the Russian sphere of influence:

1. The nonchalance with which Turkey exited the F-35 program preferring the purchase of Russian made S-400 air defence systems.

2. The recent agreement between Turkey and Russia to use the Russian MIR payment system and to settle sovereign debts in Liras/Rubles instead of US dollars.

3. This latest incursion into Syria, which serves no American interest, but clearly serves Putin by taking an American ally out of the equation (the Kurds).

edit: perhaps Trump greenlit it, but America didn't.
Well at least that's something I guess
Is this B...? Really wondering what culture is like there now, though the CEO seemed to have ambition the recruitment process was really weird. The in-house HRM/recruiter basically warned me he was narcissistic and was still code reviewing everything, often publicly shaming you when you made mistakes. Whether I was okay with that and often doing unpaid overtime as it was quite common. This was a few years ago so not sure what it's like there right now or if the situation improved.
iirc Salesforce uses gsuite internally
> Never do this on an exported type. If you embed sync.Mutex that makes "Lock" and "Unlock" part of your exported interface. Now the caller of your API doesn't know if they are supposed to call Lock/Unlock, or if this is a pure internal implementation detail.

Isn't that exactly what they say?

> Embed for private types or types that need to implement the Mutex interface.

Personally, I would never embed a sync.Mutex though because even for an internal type it is confusing.
As an undergrad back in the 80s I took a few classes on geo strategic planning, MAD and game theory etc. A few years later came to see that stuff as time wasted on useless classes.

But with a recent trend of undoing various interlocking systems designed to promote safety I wonder if we have a set of policy makers world wide who have forgotten or never knew the point of those complicated systems (e.g. overflights)
I live in Türkiye. You're just entitled westerners with 2 steaks complaining you don't have a potatoe.
So, hopefully a country is more than their president?
It looks like they were able to back-port the fix for this into Chrome 77. Hopefully, the issue won't stay live too long.
In my first job I was put into a team of about 5 people in a company of roughly 10,000 employees. After a year or two, another junior person joined my team and he started making contact with senior people all over the place, not quite C-level but only one or two levels down. Not even just in the software department but product development and in sales (to get an idea of user requirements). He sat next to me so I heard all the phone conversations (and winced!).

As time passed, it gradually became apparent to us mortals that he wasn't just being humoured - the people he was contacting came to respect him and even consider him their man "on the inside". He ended up doing pretty well - not promoted instantly to senior management, but certainly promoted faster than me (and ended up moving to sales).

Now admittedly lots of things are different from what your comment is suggesting. That company was big, but not as big as Apple (?) and intra-company communication nowhere near as bad by the sounds of it. This guy also didn't try turn over the whole company culture; for the most part he just spoke to the right people to progress things within our team's products. And finally, a key ingredient was him; if I made a conscious decision to act like he did, I'm sure it would not have gone well.

But my point is just that you shouldn't always write off fighting the corporate hierarchy. For the right person, in the right situation, it can actually make sense.
> incredible amount of communication fidelity lost compared to in-person meetings.

Yes, but is it critical ?

Do you really need that high fidelity interaction everyday of the week, all month ?

I feel a lot of strategies can be used to mitigate the need for that much bandwidth and hi-fi interactions. There’s orgs where some people working together only meet once a week or once a month.

If I remember well github teams only physically meet once every many months.

There are of course downsides to that, but the upsides (e.g. living a healthy life) can compensate them largely enough.
Rippling: OS for Employee Management
I'm sure they worked for a paycheck, providing the critical infrastructure needed to property manage that many office spaces and customers.

WeWork has tens of thousands of customers who for the most part are able to seamlessly come and go, check out conference rooms, pay for various one-offs, and their membership fees.

Did they need 1500 engineers to build all of that, no. But when you take venture capital in the expectation of growth, you have to grow.
I think understand your point, I just feel that the scale mismatch is so large that it doesn't really matter that much in day-to-day socializing.

I understand that I'm in competition with n other people to get a specific apartment, but I'm not likely to actually encounter any of these people unless it's in the waiting room at the leasing office.

I agree that I'm competing with people like me and my friends for housing, food, etc. I just don't see that as necessarily an impediment to helping, being kind to, and/or befriending strangers. it's an important issue, but orthogonal to what we are discussing here imo. maybe it affects your social interactions differently.
It's all wasted money until it's not, right?
Communication remains the hardest problem in Software Engineering and despite all the I do not think remote = onsite is the same thing. We might reach there in 2-3 years but today is not that time.

I have worked as a remote engineers and have hired remote engineers. There are scaling issues and then there are life satisfaction issues. While many people think that being with their families and familiar location might be good for them it does not turn out to be the same.
You could make the same argument comparing Elixir and Go, or Go and C++
Whats going to happen with their meetup.com subsidiary?
If we are going on size of ecosystem/what companies are invested in/etc, then you may as well stick with Java and the JVM with something like Vert.x. No need for Node.
Unless you're stuck in a job where you're below market in exchange for equity, as long as the checks keep clearing, you're not really incentivized to run for the hills. Keep your resume fresh, sure. Though we can make presumptions about what having WW on your resume will do reputation-wise, it sounds like it was a good opportunity to also fill it with a ton of buzz words.
I still don't think its shady. Mozilla have publicly stated that its possible to change the DOH provider, and furthermore they have clearly laid out their requirements for Cloudflare to participate in this experiment. This seems like a good compromise in order to force other providers to start encrypting dns requests.
It's really not a big deal. You can be fancy if you like but you don't need to be. Prepare some simple dishes and buy pre-made sides, etc. if you want to. People will bring stuff. You can ask them if you like.

Having people over doesn't need to be some major stressor.
Subjectively, most of the performance regressions I've had have been in Firefox, sadly. They had an issue that absolutely torpedoed flexbox performance for quite some time, for example. It has since been resolved, but it's still the leading cause of performance complaints I see from my users.
If I could pay $50 per year to opt out of Google tracking that would be so freaking awesome.
The process outlined in the article shows respect for candidates in many ways, but especially by providing feedback. I have no problem going through an in-depth interview process, because I can always look at it as a learning experience, but it can be very frustrating to go through a process and then not receive feedback, positive or negative, on your performance. I understand that all employers are busy, engineers' time is valuable, and that often communication is managed by HR people who don't have in-depth knowledge of the reasoning behind decision-making, but I think that making constructive feedback an expectation for the hiring process would improve the experience for candidates manifold, and ultimately would result in less arbitrariness in hiring decisions.
Skepticism is about inquiry, not denialism. You're not practicing skepticism if you make a decision that something is false. The point is to defer decision (or threshold your decision probabilisticly) on the evidence as it becomes available.

Saying "no" to everything is no different than saying "yes" to everything from a logical perspective.
Sounds trivial to me - just accelerate.
Tableau did very well and was acquired by Salesforce. Looker went to Google, Periscope went to Sisense, and there are still dozens of new upstarts.

I don't see how a free open-source visualization library is going to harm these companies, if anything it should help new startups with their own products.
I was aware. But the costs of accommodating refugees are more than just financial. The social cost is much bigger. I think it's fair that Turkey is looking for a longer-term solution for asylum seekers, not simply taking money and feeding them.
Our power was out for slightly less than 24 hours.
Yeah, a couple of nonprofits and an academic institution (the latter of which doesn't appear to have any vested interests related to blueberries). Sure, bias is always possible, but to talk of an "industry" appears to be stretching it.
Thank you!

This is awesome
David Ferrucci: IBM Watson and Jeopardy
That is not how adoption at scale works.

Everyone on C++ community is gravitating towards CMake, Conan and vcpkg, they won't migrate to something else now.
It’s not so much that it’s banned; it’s that because the GPLv3 allows users to modify their software and Apple doesn’t without their developer licenses, you can’t give the user all the freedoms the license provides.
Slight tangent on that off comment at the end - why did you cancel your other accounts? If Monzo services fail or briefly go down (which is a somewhat medium risk since they've had a couple this year which lasted days) you are screwed.
Why do many companies have internal projects that do the same as well known open source software? Because someone was bored, or wanted job security, or wanted to feel needed.

You should not start a project if a readily available, production-strength alternative exists unless you have a very good reason.

Internal projects usually arw underfunded and have bad UI.
1. Criticism is not blocking.

2. It's a military invasion. The precedent of Operation Olive Branch indicates that calling this an "effort to stabilize" is an abuse of semantics.

3. Do you have any source indicating that Kurdish control is contributing to the displacement of people?

4. More about "efforts to stabilize": "Criticism of Turkish alleged support for Jihadists, including ISIL, and of targeting Kurds" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_involvement_in_the_Syr...
> the web is just an advertisement platform

And a key UI target for a huge chunk of their applications and services, including search.

If "web browsing" doesn't work in Chrome, that's kind of a big deal for Google.
The work-a-thon that helps Dr. Peter Scott-Morgan become a cyborg
I am astonished by how any organization with considerable resources to solve these things could arrive at this solution.

If its good enough to show, it's good enough for me to look at. If it's good enough to look at, don't fucking rip it from my eyes.

Do not touch the viewport after content has been loaded. Hydrated into the feed only below everything the user might currently be looking at.
To convert boiling water to ice involves a net removal of energy. Inputting energy would keep heating the water.

Note the article describes a way of moving the heat from one container to another - basically a heat pump just like any airconditioner produces 'cool'. (on one side of the system only, the side of course gets hotter.)
I'd recommend Dell XPS as well. They sell refurbished units here https://outlet.us.dell.com/ARBOnlineSales/Online/InventorySe...
Also it's open source, which Tableau is not.
Hey, I agree with you. I'm not a fan of economic sanctions (especially as an American living in Russia).

Also, I'm not suggesting Trump get the Nobel Peace Prize, just a little credit for showing constraint.
Building Your Memory Palace Collection
> ... doing legacy work at a non-tech company will not look very good on your resume to a tech company...

This, more or less. Maintenance also tends to be a very low-visibility activity at most companies as well. Promotions go to folks who can make a name for themselves working on the company's hot new project.

It took a while to find a job using modern tech when I had a resume full of things like Solaris 8, Ada95, ClearCase, and Oracle. I finally found a company to give me a chance doing new development using modern tech (well, Java, at least) back in 2012 (in my early thirties). My career has been doing much better since, but I feel like I'm far behind where I should be for someone my age (not in skill, mind you, but in pay, role, status, etc).
Easy Ways to Expand Your Vocabulary
It's really apples and hamburgers. Hong Kong is being controlled by a brutal dictatorship which killed 30 million of it's own people over the past century.

Catalonia is the rich part of Spain not liking the poorer part of spain. That's it. Catalonians are the embodiment of the western view of the French. The French, it turns out, are mostly not elitist jerks.

Catalonians, no matter what you ask them about Spain, instantly respond with "Oh that's spanish, not Catalan, I don't know anything about that". It's absurd posturing, and nothing more. Just like BRexiters, Catalonians have the erroneous notion that their wealth comes to them without any influence by the rest of their society, it's essentially cultural objectivism.
They are.

This is where English gets the term "pecking order".
I'm in a very similar situation right now: my daughter is 2.5 months old and my wife breastfeeds. And while the first month was rough for both of us; ironically, I feel like I've been sleeping better than I have in years during the last month. Probably because I know that I need to sleep to perform my best when I work so I can provide for my family.
DNS round robin has the disadvantage of not guaranteeing that the traffic will be equally distributed. This can be a problem if there's a lot of automated traffic.

But, with that said, in term of price, it's unbeatable.
It also means that if you have a building, and you put a sofa in the lobby, and carpets, and energy efficient light bulbs, and a pressure washer in the utility closet, and you hire someone to do security and maintenance (or contract it out to a third party service), and you set up some deal with Amazon to put lockers in the lobby — then you can sell all that stuff just by selling the LLC, and maintain all the contracts as you wish. Or, you can sell 10% stakes in the LLC to 8 different investors (keeping 20% for yourself), and not worry about eight 10% stakes in the building's pressure-washer.

Corporations are basically containerization technology for ownership, and "a building" is a decent place to set a container boundary.
With this sort of thing, you tend to block networks, not individual IPs. Regardless of how many IPv6 addresses you can use, they're going to be groupable, most likely.
Stupid Unix Tricks
This is a pretty neat package, and it's suprising how much it contains.

Reminds me of the Vega project [1] which never really got as much popularity as it should have.

1. https://vega.github.io/
Some quick points as a very early adopter of Vault:

- Absolutely take an incremental approach, there is a learning curve

- Use a high availability backend. I started out with just consul, but have since went with consul for HA, and cockroachdb as the data store.

- Practice your disaster recovery a many times before you go all in

- use a combo of paper plus offline digital storage for the unseal keys and root tokens

- be diligent about roles/policies

- rely on tokens more than any other auth method(username/pass, certs)

- don’t be afraid to use many vault instances that can talk to a core instance for things like transit auto unseal

All that said, I absolutely think it’s worth the investment if you have the infrastructure to back it(aka a cluster without a SPOF)

The PKI backend is phenomenal, and it makes a great sidecar for any app that needs auth, secrets, or general crypto stuff using the transit backend.

I really want to create a user friendly Password Manager/TOTP front end backed by vault. Someday…
I think this assumes there’s some inner core of WeWork that is worth saving. I mean, maybe Softbank will fall for a sunk cost fallacy and pursue it irrationally, but I don’t see why that would be useful instead of just founding a different company to do that small kernel of an idea at much lower scale.

It’s actually a big if to me whether there even is a kernel of a business idea. Even if there is, can it (assuming massive rehabilitation) generate profits of a sufficient level for Softbank to care?
Biased algorithms is a thing. We are often blind to that realization because we are often blind to our own biases.
> China, which operates the world’s largest overseas fishing fleet...

Is that why we keep hearing about the Japanese whaling industry in the news? To deflect ire from China?
I wonder if they're ever going to bring the web version anywhere close to feature parity with the apps, or update the UWP app that's been abandoned for years.
Fair enough. But he's still started fewer hot wars than Obama.
"OK, Got It" and "Disable Protection" is pretty accurate.

It's inconvenient, but it turns out the "open, anonymous" web has huge trust issues that bad actors use to exploit and attack the unknowing. Some of that is most readily solved by nudging users to trusted third-parties.

You can have issue with whether that third party should be trusted, but the larger issue is that the user has to trust some third party for DNS to work at all, and most don't even think twice about that question.

> since those of us who don't have shady ISPs don't want all our DNS queries centralized

If you don't hae a shady ISP, disable protection. You're already protected by your ISP not being shady, right? ;) The average user has no idea if they should trust their ISP's DNS.
HN: takes any Hong Kong news story at face value

Also HN: whoa whoa whoa, let's hear Facebook's side of things
Loran-C is interesting (thanks for sharing, I hadn't heard of that before), but it sure doesn't look global. As of 1992, it extended to: USA, Greenland and the Mediterranean[1].

SR systems that had vocabularies of low double digit words don't seem particularly comparable to modern systems. Also, I think you might be out-of-date on what modern systems look like - your description does not match my experience with production SR system whatsoever.

I never dismissed antibiotics. They absolutely changed the world, I am in no way disagreeing with that. I took issue with your claim that they "effectively ended infectious disease as a public health problem". My entire family works in epidemiology/public health for infectious diseases and that statement is just pure crap. You would be hard-pressed to find a single person in the entire field who would agree with you.

[1] https://www.loran.org/otherarchives/1992%20Loran-C%20User%20.... Appendix B, coverage diagrams
Reading scientific papers uses less time than complaining about them?

Is there a study to back that up? :)
I don't think most people are doing the thing you're implying they're doing. Nobody is trying to shut down the conversation. Most studies do an incredibly poor job of controlling for exogenous variables.
You have to scroll past the first post.
No, my point was that if there was a state whose founding cause was white supremacy, they would be much more likely to align with Nazi Germany's idea of Aryan Supremacy.

And regardless of whether that is true or not, my even greater point is that the USA and CSA would likely have found themselves on opposite sides of the conflict and fought a war on the North American continent that would have not only caused much greater loss of life, but also prevented either state from helping an isolated Britain in Europe, greatly improving chances of a Nazi triumph there.