skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
10000kg of explosives. Or 22,000lb for us Americans.

11 tons of high explosive.

Good luck with that.
Unfortunately, Dell’s private cloud solution exists today, and it’s an 18 layer shit sandwich of all the disparate companies that Michael Dell has stitched together into his holding empire.
I don't think that's correct, but even if it were, it sounds like it'd be a good thing as it'd raise salaries for most developers. Surely we don't all think we're the exceptional ones, right? That's simply not possible.
I've lived in Alberta for a few days less than 29 years, and I'm aware that people have elected conservatives for the majority of that time. Perhaps it was due to the respite offered by the NDP gov, but I honestly feel that the stupid has gotten way worse than it was before we had the brief NDP intermission.
Um, no.

Visit Bogleheads.org, where many wealthy people hang out and discuss finances.

You'll find that for a great many wealthy people, the secret is simply living below your means, saving and investing for decades, and keeping costs low. That's it. Not lucky. Not necessarily smarter. Just disciplined, and having the basic knowledge of the simple steps described.
It was a rough point in time. In the dot com boom, people who could rub two lines of visual basic (for applications) were getting jobs. If you did not like your job, you could make a phone call and have a few offers waiting for you by the end of the day. Glorious stock options at promising startups after fleecing larger companies in panics about y2k and missing the boom. The parties and travel...

We were joking about the pets.com of the world - buying pet food, selling it at a loss, and trying to make up for it in volume. At least we had a business model that made money, a foosball table, and actual personal offices for each developer. When the stock market tanked... everything just shut down. People stopped buying or investing - and anything that assumed growth, for the most part, died. Starbucks with long, long queue lanes were empty.

As some companies died, there were opportunistic shops that were looking for solid talent. As they sold off our little shop of ten people, I ended up getting an offer and then being one of the folks left behind to turn the server room lights off. I had negotiated a start date a few months into the future, and very thankfully, they honored the offer. Things got worse. There were several more bits of belt tightening - we had a 25% round of layoffs later as the impacts of a bad economy really hit home. I did well/got lucky - but while the first round cleared out a lot of 'charlatans', I saw many solid people go on that black Friday

Salaries dropped - or at least stopped growing for most senior people. The rise of off-shore came and the realities of global economies eventually settled in. Large swaths of people turned their back on development... and here we are today, where it can be tricky to find solid folks again. The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again.
Not all totalitarianism is fascism.
9/11 happened in the middle of the recession. It wasn't the cause.
I'm confused as to what you think is mail fraud? Amazon is just fulfillment in these cases. It's clearly marked in the same place on every page, and as such, avoidable. It's purely a profit motive for Amazon, but I don't see how it's mail fraud.
That's distressingly close to rejecting people because they sound rude for speaking AAVE instead of Received Pronunciation.
You can be an engineer without an engineering license. Safety-critical jobs usually require a professional engineering license, but there are a lot of engineering work which is not safety-critical.
Absolute power doesn't mean that you can act with impunity.

Mohammad bin Salman must retain the support of the heads of the army, secret police, and such or he will be replaced.

The Dictator's Handbook[0] discusses this topic in detail.

The Rules for Rulers[1] is an 18 minute video that summarizes some of the principles of the book.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dictator%27s_Handbook

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rStL7niR7gs
content is not valuable just because someone clicked it, you cant know its valuable until after having read it. otherwise its all about the headline, which is a bit of a reality of modern day news, but this would just make that situation worse.

secondly just because you dont want to comment doesn't mean its not valuable.

so basically this just seems like a plainly terrible idea.
Hi, I'm a Alexa paying end user and I'm surveilled anyway. I've paid for my smatrtv and I'm being aurveilled. I've paid for cable and they told me there where be less ass and more quality shows. Well I'm maybe wrong but people not paying are looking smarter than me
Buying on ebay is a significantly better experience, because you are buying from a specific vendor so you can see the reviews for that specific vendor. You can usually also tell if the vendor is selling fake counterfeit crap based on looking at the rest of their listings and make your decision appropriately.

I canceled my prime membership about 18 months ago and do my online shopping mostly through ebay or occasionally direct from the manufacture or approved reseller if it is an obscure item or something that is likely to be counterfeit (flash storage, batteries, etc). It has come out significantly cheaper (although there is no more 2 day shipping, so value that at what you will) and generally been a much more pleasant experience.
>its

Yeah and people who buy Patagonia fleece expect it to be made from recycled water bottles
> golden age of espresso machine reviews

Probably when the first search result was a hobby page maintained by an espresso machine enthusiast. Those days ended early, but I remember the pre-commercial Web and it was a very different place.
There are African-born self-made billionaires.

// Still on the backs of “labor”.
r/The_Donald is "quarantined" by Reddit, which means you get a gateway page if you visit for the first time, asking if you really want to visit it (try an incognito window). In the HTML, you'll see that there's a "noindex" metatag that Reddit is instructing Google not to index it.

Also, np.reddit.com seems to be excluded from all search engines: https://np.reddit.com/robots.txt.

I'm not sure why Bing is ignoring both the robots.txt and the "noindex" metatag.
Sorry that is just plain wrong. As of 2019 support services are mostly outsourced to India/Philippines or other places. US call center jobs lost to chatbots vs India is negligible at this point.

Redfin has a tiny fraction of real estate sales, and hasn’t broken into it anywhere locally, or is showing any real signs that it will. Turns out it’s a little harder to self serve a home purchase vs a cab or vacation rental.
I started using git two years ago, and when I first asked all our senior engineers about it (after reading an article or two on HN about best practices) - the advice I was given was, "Never rebase." Among the more Jr. Engineers there was this feeling that it was a dangerous command that should be steered clear of, and the typical approach, of branching off of remote master, making changes, pushing to your branch, testing your code in the CI/CD environment (with appropriate unit/integration tests), and then issuing a PR to be reviewed and merged into master was the appropriate use of git.

I don't think I've ever seen anybody (except very advanced git users) ever use "rebase" - so, no, I don't think I would consider it a basic command. Despite using git dozens of times every day, I don't believe I've ever rebased outside of a test-environment to see how it worked.
> Likely because there's a part of the iCloud stack that was set up by code that's not in Mojave

That's my point - if it's a software requirement then it can in theory be added to say Mojave 10.14.7.

> that was never advertised as a feature of Mojave so I fail to see why there would be any expectation that this would be added to Mojave

This is software, so I highly doubt that the real reason is technical (why can't the code be added to Mojave?) just that Apple feels they may suffer long term if they reward people for not updating to major releases, or it's too costly to maintain so many forks of macOS.

I wouldn't care nearly as much if Catalina didn't drop support for 32-bit apps.
You can get a professional engineering license as a software engineer... a software engineer is an 'actual engineer'.
I think you lack compassion in your wording. We have evolved as social creatures, and we care for each other.

We depend on each other in millions of ways, in millions of varieties. I would bet you too would die, or have died, without some care at key points in your life. It takes a village to raise a child. I argue it takes one to keep a human alive and healthy too. One piece of content in favor of my point: https://youtu.be/n3Xv_g3g-mA

There's no need for people to be able to survive without care. And yes my society values individualism, but we should be able to critique it, and ask where that emerges from.
Are they doing this in hard mode? If they are doing something like flying opioids, I think things will go wrong.
I graduated from college right amidst the bubble bursting, and it was brutal. Fresh college grads and junior developers were competing with displaced veterans for entry-level positions. ~1 year prior I had been offered $120k/yr to drop out of school and move to Pittsburgh to take a job. I decided to stay in school to finish my degree instead, and by the time I did the bottom of the market had fallen out and I was unemployed for 7 months and finally landed my first professional software development job in Washington State for less than half the salary of the job I'd previously declined.

I thankfully had my CAD/CAM background & contracting to fallback on while hunting for those 7 months, but it was enormously demotivating & disenfranchising. I was within a couple weeks of just abandoning a career in software entirely and going back to what I knew permanently.

I expect it all worked out in the end, as I'm now CEO of a startup doing a thing I'm really interested in and have successfully raised money to fund it along side our early revenue. But, it was still immensely crappy at the time and shocking to see just how extreme the pendulum can swing in terms of available jobs, pay scales, etc.
> so you wind up buying several redundant copies of your system

This is one of those gotcha's that company's hit. They see the public pricing page and think "wow that is much cheaper than one my internal IT department charges for X", and then when they go to actually implement they find that "best practice" says they basically have to more than double or even triple the cost to get a reliable system (more because not only do you have to duplicate all the infrastructure into a second AZ, you are getting charged for the replication traffic between them).
Given how little money Pivotal was making from Cloud Foundry and how expensive each license was, I’d bet a large sum that the answer is no.

(Some context: My last employer had an AWS bill of about $3m/year that was mostly EC2. Running PCF on top of that would have been another $2m/year in licensing. And that was after the volume discount.)
I went from being a hotshot who had multiple offers all the time with sign up bonuses to somebody who could send out 100 resumes and not get a single response and once I got a response I was offered much less than I was used to. It was very depressing but also educational. It took me quite a while (probably too long) to accept this new reality. I feel the same may happen to a lot of Startup guys who make big money in their 20s now.

Not all success is your own making. Often you are just riding a wave that takes you up but will also take you down if you are not careful.
I guess I was an 'average dev' at that time. I was developing applications for a company that sold software to banks. Around 2000 I was into client/server computing, working with VB, C++ and Tuxedo for a transaction monitor.

I never really felt the bubble burst. Maybe raises were slower for a while, but I don't remember it. Mostly a non-event.
A person with that severity of autism will never be able to consent anyway; parents or guardians should not feel an ethical concern over consenting on their behalf for something like this.

On the other end of the spectrum you have people like my child: he's got social deficits and grapples with emotions, but is in public school and (with ~$25k in therapy a year) is able to function. Under no circumstances should it be anybody's decision but his whether to have such a treatment, in my opinion.
Sure there are guarantees. Stores usually use actual distributors or order direct from OEMs.

When I worked with a big box store long ago, some manufacturers even audited our inventory when they bought end-caps, etc. Stuff like ink cartridges would be checked by vendor reps.
"Not healthy way" - this is interesting. I think that the industry is in a business of making money. They do not give rat's a$$ about what is best for customer. What they do instead is they try to "educate" said customer to swallow their hook, line and sinker. Apple is very successful in this business.
Yeah. I'm hoping the Librem 5 works out well enough for Purism, that they do the same thing for tablets. :)
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Good point. I think people don't realize just how much git is capable of doing. Pretty much any strategy can be made to work with git, and it's super extensible if you need it to be.

I generally follow your strategy myself as long as it's something small, but I think there's this meme out there that having merge commits in your branch is somehow shameful, when in reality it should celebrated as an accurate history.
“A very, very small quadcopter, one inch in diameter can carry a one-or two-gram shaped charge,” he says. “You can order them from a drone manufacturer in China. You can program the code...

Or you could start a meme about sneaking up on people and punching them in the head to try to knock them out, styling it as some sort of game.

Guess which one I'm more worried about.
Agree with all that, but when it comes to synbio, the article is 100% right to raise alarms.
This is a huge step backward from gray goo alarm-ism. Disappointing.
Thank you, I took a look at my shell man page and this is very helpful.
That page even has a pair of bullet lists showing that the plastic imitation is inferior to the real thing!

I do make a lot of winter trips like the one in the photograph (long winter backpacking trips) and am an instructor and I only use wool for my socks and other undergarments, and jackets. Down for sleeping in. Synthetic underpants though!
It’s not low-margin, it aids their financial engineering by eliminating inventory.
Death by obesity! Oh wait...
Oh yeah you can use the yield curve to discount future flows, and then demand something extra on top of that (Graham's margin of safety).
Was the unionization for Google employees or for their contractors? In the case of contractors Google doesn't have direct control over their compensation or perks (except that they must be excluded from some perks to still be legally considered contractors).

The whole contractors vs employee distinction is rather sketchy and I think this is yet another symptom of that problem. Google wants contractors instead of employees (because reasons). They hire a contracting company to get workers. The contracting company treats the workers badly, but Google is legally and contractually bound in how it can interfere with workings of the contracting company. If Google just fires the contracting company, I'm not sure anyone would be better off.

Reminds me of a government job I had. We were required to have contractors for some portion of the workforce. The contracting company some co-workers worked for went bust and they had to shop around to find a new agency to work through. They ended up in a good bargaining position since they effectively already had placement. They ended up better off than the direct employees (stupid government pay grade scale).

They probably could have done better if they were allowed to create their own contacting agency, but they couldn't because it wouldn't have been on the government's whitelist.
Leave it to the right wing to require that doing the right thing be as profitable as externalizing the costs of doing the wrong thing.

The externalized costs of doing what we've been doing need to be forcibly returned to the people doing them, just like any time society has improved itself. From slavery to the environment and everything in between, externalizing costs will always be cheaper and therefore will always be the business friendly, right wing approved course of action.
If you have physical access twice, full disk encryption usually doesn't help really at all. IPMI seems about as powerful as physical access.
I'm not in favor of managing information flow to the general public so they "trust" the source. What if a member of the public reads this, and learns more about the topic. Is that a bad outcome?
For clarity, that's a mirror of the first link I posted.
#2 #3 #4 are common at big companies that employ all genders.
First you program the 1,000,000 drones to mine for the raw materials. It's genius!
Bitcoin fits all of your criteria perfectly
This thread is scaring me.

Question on exercising and such. I have all exercised options, but not all vested, been here about 2 years, so half vested. Didn't pay taxes at exercise because there was no difference between exercise price and market price.

What happens taxwise if my company goes under? Don't I only owe taxes if I sell vested options?
I don't think git can surprise though... git GUIs on the other hand can be a mystery.
Why don't you try to get more high paying work?
Helm 2.15.0 was released. It's the final feature release for Helm 2
I that is the SEC for you. At one if the firms I worked at we had an algorithmic trader who did hundreds of thousands of naked shorts (selling short a stock he didn’t own). He always canceled the order, bought shares, or swapped internally but was still a no-no, and he would do this thousands of times a day. He got caught and we put together a report of his activity that required a hand truck to deliver. The SEC took one look at that and made the firm promise to increase their internal oversight and that was it. They didn’t even open any of the boxes.
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I'm not confusing energy with intensity, but in a silly moment I got the word "photoionization" with photodissociation/photolysis. Yes, you need hard UV to actually eject an electron from its atom, but you need far far less energy to break bonds and damage DNA. Photosynthesis is all about redox driven by blue and red photons.

These are more than just bond rotations (with only slim exceptions, bond rotations have the same energy state) from photostimulation. You can flip cis/trans bonds (main mechanism of retinal), ring closing in vit D, and cause all kinds of increased free radical activity [1]. In particular, blue light interacting with certain chemophores, such as catechins, are relatively prone to photoactivation [2].

Ever seen polycarbonate that's been around blue LED light sources (not sunlight) for a very long time? It yellows. That's not "just adding heat", that's chemical bonds breaking.

Transparent just means the entirety of the body can be bathed in light.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15797866

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29973539
I'm actually quite a bit more worried about some dumbass tossing things off the overpass at my car. Rocks are free.
Ocean State Job Lot is specifically a jobber — it’s in the name. You can find junk and amazing stuff.
Not to mention that the fucking things will fall from the sky after ten minutes, because of our battery tech...
I agree that's the real question! And its answer is informed by the original question.

I don't and can't know what the right answer is. But I hope that if you are faced with this decision or any similar decision, you try to get perspectives of the adults who have lived with whatever diagnosis is at play, like the commentors here. Medical professionals are familiar with only a slice of these things. And the media and the "common" understanding also has only limited or distorted information.
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As the cost of offensive technology decreases, so does the cost of defensive technology. The 10 million drones could be countered by a larger number or AI-powered defensive drones.

The real threat of technology comes from the power it gives to governments. Bad actors can do more damage through the political process than any other.
If your best idea is to refashion the world as a giant prison camp, that's pretty fascist whether or not one likes to think of oneself that way; if Bostrom thinks it's a necessity but doesn't believe it to be fascist because he personally does not wish to wield power over people then that's just idiotically fascist. (There's a viable side argument here about the difference between totalitarianism and fascism as one kind of totalitarianism, so if you prefer just use the latter term).

Now that I recall, Bostrom is the guy who came up with the 'simulation hypothesis' that was so in vogue a decade or so ago, and basically argued against the reality of the world on the theory that the possibility of sufficiently advanced simulations made the probability and ubiquity of such inevitable to the point that we were statistically more likely to be living in one. This struck me as a warmed-over version of the literary conceit that we're all just characters in a particularly elaborate-seeming novel or stage play. So now he's gone from reanimating a literary corpse to reanimating the economic corpse of Jeremy Bentham.

To be frank, I think we should stop listening to this guy. He's terribly clever but also deeply neurotic, like a pessimistic Ray Kurzweil (whose prediction record is rather better than he gets credit for, but similarly dwells a little too much in his own imagination). Utilitarianism aspires to be a benign philosophy but its proponents tend to overestimate their capacity for foresight and moral reasoning and end up creating deeply inhumane systems which are arguably worse than the problems they set out to solve.
Developers who work on adtech nonsense, GDPR popups, etc, should take a hard look in the mirror.

Yeah, you might make a bit of money, and yeah, maybe your colleagues, in your sick system, give you a bit of respect.

One day, I think you're going to wake up and realise that you wasted your talents. Like a war veteran who thought what they were doing was right, that the ends justified the means, until suddenly one day it all came crashing down around them.

You have the choice, here and now. You're sitting in front of a general purpose computer. You can make fun and interesting tools - you can make stuff to break down barriers - the pathways you can take your craft are unlimited.

Choose wisely.
It's I'm worried what sort of society we end up with when people like Larry Ellison are terrified of the above.

I would like to subscribe to your newsletter. Do you by chance have a manifesto I could peruse?
It's just a matter of time until the "marketers" catch on. Maybe they already know and just haven't found a way to prove the business case because there's no easy way to measure how much some locked Reddit thread from a few years ago influences buying decisions.

I'm curious to see what kind of innuendo they invent for "astroturfing Reddit reviews".
> It was very depressing but also educational.

Indeed. When 2008 hit, it was reminiscent of what ~2002 felt like, except instead of tech it was basically happening to everyone. In that way I felt more prepared to deal with the new crisis because I'd learned from the old one.