skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's pretty safe for the buyer when they mined their own coins, or bought them from a friend who did, using cash irl.

The real concern IMHO is the seller's opsec. When you're sending them pgp-encrypted orders containing your shipping address for receiving contraband. Are they sticking your address in an addressbook? Keeping the messages around long-term? If they get busted, will law enforcement be able to access all their encrypted messages?

If the communications aren't immediately destroyed, it's very likely a busted dealer will cooperate with law enforcement for a reduced sentence, which will almost certainly include granting access to all their encrypted communications.
>>Which is great, right up until you work with people that aren't straight cis white men.

My company has a "no drama" policy. Our team could be a poster for diversity and inclusion from all across the spectrum and it works really really well. We all appreciate each other.
Why do titles have to be sanitized for this audience? I can't remember of too many other sites whereby the admins have to essentially scrub the original titles. That makes me question the userbase more than it does the writers of said article.
They will run clean, but if carbon is taxed appropriately I'm doubtful they will be cheap enough for the average person to own one since the manufacturing will be far from clean. Most likely people will summon a shared vehicle with an app.
Maybe they needed to delay it to keep the show going and take down the whale doing this aka "playing the long game."
Name reminds me of a big adult novelties brand and company.
(not an expert)

I think that's exactly wrong. Microservices might end up winning because there will be no infra to set up. Microservices communication and scaling is a pretty generic problem: it is automated and cloud providers offer managed solutions (eg Serverless). In the end, you just deploy code.

At the other side of the room, monoliths always need some custom provisioning and deployment. If it has to evolve into more than a monolith (queue, workers...), it's that much more infra to setup and maintain.

I don't think people talking about microservices for POCs and MVPs are talking about maintaining your own cluster and handling scaling yourself. You go for managed solutions that allow you to focus on delivering value.
The only reason why people are obsessed with bentos is because they are pretty.

Okay, go on. :-) Agree or disagree, "presentation" is a thing. Sky is blue, people like pretty boxes of food.

On the flip side, boxes that look like someone just threw them together look sad, like no one cared.
Cisco veterans, backed by $278M, aim to disrupt Amazon's cloud dominance
really like this idea - I'll look into it, maybe with a progress bar or something
Yes yes, english doesn't follow this noun-verb order but that's not what I'm actually talking about.

Usually the languages either encourage cards.shuffle().deal(4) or deal(shuffle(cards),4).

In the 'noun-verb'/OOP version the sequence of modifications follows the english reading order where basically I only have to keep information about the last result in my head. The functional verb-noun version I have to pop in and out of layers: 'ok we're dealing what?, something shuffled, what are we shuffling?, the cards object/variable, ok we're dealing shuffled cards how many are we dealing? 4.'

In general the noun-verb follows the sequence of operations applied by the computer so it's easier to read.
> Technical professions are generally hold responsible for what they enable. Biology: researchers can't do anything they want on plants, animals or humans. Medicine: doctors are expected to follow strict guidelines with their patients. Even engineering: implementing a cheating system for diesel tests will (rightfully) get engineers into trouble.

Biology researchers are held responsible for what they do. Not usually what they enable. The examples you gave are biology researchers themselves doing something. The relevant analogy would be if we held the inventors of CRISPR responsible for some future super-virus engineered using it.
I have yet to see a no-politics policy interpreted as such.
What if you bought btc with cash from a stranger on localbitcoins and put it into an empty wallet. How would anyone link those btc back to you?

Unless the localbitcoin guy is an FBI agent or something...
Tesla's Risky Gamble and the Future of Lithium-Ion Batteries
You’re assuming that the bitcoin was obtained anonymously, and that no “identifyable purchases” were made using the same wallet.
sorry is this real ? It read as satire
You're totally right, I went a little overboard there, sorry.

Well met! :-)
The company entity is headquartered in San Francisco, even if its only a PO box that is its "address".
Where we seem to find ourselves today is in a position where if you have very progressive politics, you can say whatever you like - no matter how radical - whereas if you have conservative politics you can't even admit that without any specifics without being thought of as evil.

This is how we can get away with saying it's "encouraged" while really making sure any meaningful counter-argument is "forbidden" at the same time.
I've found that I need the humor more when I'm doing less/less well.

When I'm doing/doing well, I don't need the humor as the crushing weight of of existential dread and absurdity is drowned out by my involvement in life.
Assuming you are not poor.
I hate to say this but I found the same when I studied this issue in my business ethics class in grad school (MBA). I wrote my end of term paper on this exact issue.

What it boils down to is that, on average, white collar criminals can expect to go home to $1 million per year of time actually served behind bars.

It made me wonder what the expected outcome of the class was.
"We're on the left, but we looooove tax havens."
Certainly. What they believe and support as a private person is interesting and maybe a topic for conversation, but not determinant of whether I want to work for them.

I’m openly Libertarian; I have people on my team who are openly pro-Trump. Being in MA and in tech, there are obviously many pro-left employees.

If you can only work for and with people with whom you agree politically, you might have (or be) a problem. “Not talking politics at work” is a bandaid over this problem, at best.
thanks for the heads up! should be fixed
I tend to think of everything in life as political in some way. After all, politics is the fundamental question of how power is distributed in the world. However, even if you don't subscribe to this view, I would argue that work and the workplace are one of the more political spaces.

I agree that it isn't easy to be political in the workplace, and it is often better to keep your head down. But think about all the posts here on HN about workplace issues: compensation, toxic bosses, dubious or unethical product and design choices...and so on. All of these things are political because they involve people exercising their power on others, and other people organizing to take that power back.
In what possible way could you have read pfranz's comment to think they don't need to save for retirement or buy food?
I personally think this is awesome. I don't wan't some git hosting startup to be the arbiter of morality for society. The engineers, designers, and PMs shouldn't have an outsized voice in society because they have a specialized useful skillset and ended up on a successful product.

If these users are breaking laws, then put them out of business via the courts and sieze the assets (the repos in this case) via legal means. Otherwise why would I wan't gitlab to have anything to do with this process?

The tech unicorns screwed themselves over BIG TIME, the second they stopped claiming they were just infrastructure and platforms and got into content moderation. They will now forever be a pawn of whoever has some power and has some agenda. It's an obviously unwinnable game for everyone involved besides maybe some politicians.

I don't want this to become a Joe Rogan debate but Naval Ravikant got this exactly right on his Rogan Interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qHkcs3kG44&t=3661
As someone familiar with the Python C extension API, I somewhat doubt that it'll make 3.9 either.
Disclaimer: I'm only familiar with CPython as a user of the extension API; I have no idea on how the Python team plans to address the challenges I'm mentioning here, and what their current progress is.

The current extension module API encourages global state, e.g. types (and objects too) are allocated statically in a global C variable.
For example, there is a global C variable `_Py_NoneStruct` that is the Python `None` value, and extension modules are accessing this variable directly.

Every use of this object needs to adjust its reference count, and that reference count is directly stored within the C global variable.

`_Py_NoneStruct` is currently even exposed in the PEP 384 stable ABI. Existing extension module binaries are commonly directly touching `_Py_NoneStruct.ob_refcnt` without any synchronization. Breaking the PEP 384 compatibility promise is fundamentally unavoidable here.

One of two things must happen:
Alternative one: All refcount operations must be made atomic for thread-safety. These are really really common in the Python interpreter, but atomic operations are expensive on modern CPUs (especially if there's contention). But multiple threads using the value `None` would be quite common in Python code, so I doubt you'd gain any speed even at today's core counts -- in fact I'd expect the constant inter-CPU-communication for the refcounts to make everything slower than just using a single core with today's Python!

So alternative two, ensure no Python objects are shared between the subinterpreters. That's the plan.
But that also means it's a breaking change for extension modules. And it's not just an ABI change (which would be handled by merely recompiling against the new headers). Any extension modules that do not yet support PEP 489 are already incompatible with subinterpreters, so that will take quite a bit of work until the ecosystem is upgraded.
But there will probably also be some other breaking API changes. I think type objects are currently shared across subinterpreters, and those are frequently defined as a `Py_TypeObject` global variable in extension module code. Also, if every subinterpreter has its own GIL, extension modules calling `PyGILState_Ensure()` will have to specify which subinterpreter they will be using, so that the appropriate lock can be acquired.

My prediction: 3.9 may have the basic functionality, but it still won't be able to run on multiple cores concurrently.
That will take a bunch of more work and breaking changes, and will likely be released as Python 4.0.

There will be another slow upgrade process ("my dependencies must upgrade before I can") until the Python ecosystem is multi-subinterpreter-compatible. But at least this one only affects extension modules.
In that spirit, Levine ends his comment as follows: ‘Do you think maybe Satoshi Nakamoto works for the FBI, and invented Bitcoin as a way to get criminals to make a convenient permanent record of their transactions?’
Good, this makes me glad to be using Gitlab. Gives me confidence that I can rely on them even if I ever get into hot water politically. I also think that it's good to assert that yes, it's fine for a git host to just host people's repositories and not have to be in charge of making moral judgements. We have other tools for judging morality; things so immoral that society shouldn't allow them should be handled by the law, and things that individuals do not morally agree with should be boycotted by those individuals.
That's an odd thing for Linus to say. I read a lot of Peanuts comic books in my youth, and it seemed to me that Linus could never stop blabbing relentlessly about the Great Pumpkin.
The higher altitude satellites are better for serving cities because the total bitrate gets averaged over more area - so you can have a hotspot of users in the city as long as there aren't many users in the surrounding ~600km circle.

Cities are spaced ~1200km apart in much of the world.
If you’re talking about owners holding out for huge sums of money then honestly good for them. They clearly know the value of the land to the developer and ought to have every right to squeeze.
Save you a click:

>The radar uses a 60GHz frequency band to attain the advertised accuracy, and that’s exactly where the problem lies. India has reserved this mmWave band only for military and government use for now and it needs to un-license this frequency before allowing civilian use for applications like Soli.

>The report adds that Google did consider disabling the radar for the units sold in India, but it still wouldn’t have guaranteed a sales permit, and removing the hardware wasn’t an option.
A really smart person robs the tax payer, using a bank.
That's not what the First Amendment is about - it's about preventing the government from making laws that infringe free speech. But this isn't a law, and GitLab isn't the government, so the First Amendment does not apply.

> It is a common misconception that the First Amendment prohibits anyone from limiting free speech, including private, non-governmental entities. It is applicable only to state actors. (Wikipedia)
'“Whatever you decide to sell doesn’t matter as long as you meet Amazon’s requirements,” he said.'

That's about all you need to know about Amazon these days.
Fun fact: googling "apache attack helicopter pronoun" turns up a few things, and it may not be immediately obvious to all good-faith searchers that it's bogus.

https://www.google.com/search?q=apache+attack+helicopter+pro...
> 4) some portion of these men (due to natural variation), in being drawn to the paedomorphic features of women, actually are "steered too low" in preferential age genetically and are thus born having to deal with this unfortunate proclivity.

You’re suggesting someone is born a pedophile?
At first blush it might seem that simplifying the interface loses this element. But really as you allude to having "fun finding out what you can do" is just a design goal that can be accomplished even with a simpler interface.

For example crafting systems or other forms of modifiers. I combine water with my sticks and get wet sticks then use those to make a camp fire which makes it extra smokey. Which leads to more introducing more systemic interactions and the beauty of those is that systems that interact have great potential for emergent behavior.

Simplifying Nethack's interface may well make it a worse game but it's not the case that a simpler interface in another game implies losing out on the fun of discovery.
Hasidic communities are extremely insular...
dang has called me out for degrading a conversation in the past. dang was correct then, and the comment replied to IS degrading the conversation as described. You don't have to be wrong to be expressing it poorly or unconstructively.
Australia has the same problems as America regarding sprawl and autocentrism.

I now live in Berlin, which is incredibly walkable, prioritises bicycles over cars (except on the autobahns), and has I think four different train systems (u-banh, s-banh, trams and intercity), plus a great bus service. Oh, and now about half a dozen scooter and bike hire apps, plus Uber (and clones), and at least 3 short-term car hire apps.

I lived in Perth for ~10 years without a car, and it was painful. The contrast is incredible.

Given that Berlin was completely rebuilt in the same timescale that Perth was built, it's got nothing to do with history. It's about attitude. Everyone has to expect to live in an apartment (or townhouse), without a car, near their work, and demand adequate public transport (and use it when it arrives).

It is the Holy Grail, but it's not some mythical artifact unobtainable by a rational set of people working towards the common good.
>America has sanctions. If the public wants corporations to not interact with certain countries, they can ask their legislators to fascilitate passing of sanctions (like we have today against Syria, making it illegal to provide services to them).

This is a very confusing position to me. It is a bad thing to pick and choose your customers based on moral agreement, unless that morality is defined by the government in which case it's good?
Atomontage raises $1.95M for microvoxel-based 3D graphics
$ python3 -m pip3 install --user simple_gpu_scheduler
/usr/bin/python3: No module named pip3
$ python3 -m pip install --user simple_gpu_scheduler
ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement simple_gpu_scheduler (from versions: none)
ERROR: No matching distribution found for simple_gpu_scheduler
$ python3 --version
Python 3.5.2
$ python3 -m pip --version
pip 19.3 from /usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/pip (python 3.5)

If it requires Python 3.6, then it's not compatible with Ubuntu 16.04 LTS out of the box which uses 3.5
Many political issues are so heated and have become so divisive that they can create barriers to team cohesion (and societal cohesion for that matter), and occasionally turn into outright intolerance.

Unless you work directly in politics, why are you talking about it at work anyway?
It was in the TV show. Probably right after Lucy called him a blockhead.
In practice, "don't discuss politics" policies imply "don't discuss it (below a certain pay-grade)."

Corporations are political entities (even the decision to do business with people regardless of their politics is a political position), so someone at every corporation is considering that angle. Or the corporation is adrift on seas of change without attempting to navigate them.
>a little 'shroom tea can be great fun.

You go out of your way to say you're not against drugs per se, but based on this statement and I can say that your attitude towards psychedelics is probably antithetical to their therapeutic potential. Having used mushrooms only once (admittedly in a larger-than-probably-responsible dose), I can say that viewing the trip as a recreational experience is misguided at best and damaging or dangerous at worst.
Mid to late spring is my favorite time of the year. Perfect temperature and lots too explore. Plus the waterfalls outside of town are at their peak.
From what I can say from experience - Psychedelics make you aware of the internal sensation of the body a lot. So smoking actually gives you a negative feeling as opposed to the usual feeling. This negative reinforcement is really useful for kicking the habit.

Same with alcohol or even meat products in particular. You can feel becoming stupid eating those. I think microdosing for 30 days is an effective way of kicking off habits or forming new healthy habits.
I think you've almost got it...

Literally anything that can affect someone's life is political.
It's hard to define what is and isn't political right? It can get ontological .. (i.e. if everything is political than nothing is political and if nothing is political than everything is political).

It seems like in this case Gitlab is trying to avoid some of the Google/Amazon blowback for taking questionable contracts. In those cases .. tech people are in high demand. It's not that difficult for us to find work elsewhere.

That being said .. it's almost impossible to be moral in customers. Everyone company does questionable stuff, has questionable clients, mixes normal with military contracts, etc. Should Gitlab not allow projects from churches who create tools to help minister to homosexuals (in trying to convert them away from homosexuality)? Is being intolerant of the intolerant .. tolerant?

There are really complex questions here.
Didn't students ask about health affects? If not, consider me as a student and ask what affects it have on hand health with prolonged exposure at a closer proximity in your shirt or pant pocket.
Sorry, I should have said, "mandated" instead of "supposed to". Women aren't commanded to serve missions, but they can.

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/2013/01/you...

Spencer W. Kimball said,
"Every boy and many girls and couples should serve missions. Every prospective missionary should prepare morally, spiritually, mentally, and financially all of his life in order to serve faithfully, efficiently, and well in the great program of missionary work” (“Advice to a Young Man: Now Is the Time to Prepare,” New Era, June 1973, 9; italics added)."
There is a high correlation between squatting and property damage. People simply don’t respect what isn’t theirs, and anyways, the lack of formal infrastructure (plumbing, septic, ...) doesn’t give them a lot of options.
If Congress passed a law banning discussion of politics at work, yes that would be a First Ammendment issue.

Congress shall make no law ....

All the amendment does is specify what Congress can't do.
Netflix soars after beating on earnings, despite miss on subscribers
Nah, they've taken down many others using different methods. Besides there's several competing organizations trying to take stuff down from different countries.
> Have you considered just not doing domain mail, and just keeping a relatively small website that lists the board's emails, and just use personal/individual/free accounts? It makes sharing a bit more of a pain, and group lists not nearly as good, but it may be easier.

That's actually how it's run right now. And it's a bit of a clusterfuck.

We lack a budget for this right now, which is why I was going after the gratis solutions. But I'll definitely look into Owncloud and Cloudron for the next fiscal year. Thank you.
I think anyone that would and more importantly can switch to better internet for a free to play game already have.

In many places in the US people already have the best internet that can be provided to their home, and it's not good enough.
Trace btc to the localbitcoin guy, find intersection of his location data from cellphone service company with location data of others around the time of transaction.
I'm not talking about undergraduate university attendance, but the number of people employed in research. When we focus on higher institutions of research, it's what the author of the article was talking about, too.

The number of people in that category was miniscule before 1700, and has exploded in the past 300 years.

Yes, there were (a comparatively small number of) universities before this time, doing qualitatively different things. But capitalism paid the bills to transform them into institutions driving scientific advancement.
It’s so amazing that I can always look to HN for interesting material for learning. Just today, I made a conscious choice to “get into” Linear Programming. Coming to find this article is simply magic.
Someone at GitLab just made a suggestion to change the wording of the policy that I merged https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/merge_requests/...
"I think it's fair to call women in tech initiatives nonpolitical"

I don't actually know if this is true? James Damore has largely been considered a political act, and James Damore was stating being skeptical of the needs of women in tech initiatives. So, if being skeptical of the initiative is a political act, wouldn't going through with the initiative (being nonskeptical) also political?

(Personally I am for women in tech initiatives, FTR, I just don't know if they're not considered political.)
During a recent company outing, I talked about politics with like four other people. Sure, it can be a bit awkward and you kind of have to think about what you're saying, but it wasn't exactly unusual.

It probably helps that we, like many other European countries, have more parties than just two, so you're not always in an us vs. them situation like in the US of A.
I like you analogy if in your story, the inventors of CRISPR can exert some sort of power or control over the actors who are engineering a super-virus and thus make a moral decision to do so or not
The argument "if you don't engage in politics then you might be part of the problem", is itself a political argument, therefore it is irrelevant in the context of a no-politics rule.