skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see why someone with that history would necessarily do a poor job.
Is there anything we can do as a community to go after Rothschild Patent Imaging and put them out of business?
“It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of it.”
While basically all the omniviolence scenarios would induce the state to trust individuals less, which is kind of the thrust of the article, climate change can still induce more frequent heatwaves and make things difficult for more people. Whether it will reach the threshold of societal collapse is a more difficult question.
And, on that note, sounds like it would do effectively nothing to even address the problem in the first place.
Oh, I'm fully aware of that theme :) I just wanted to know _what_ the supporting arguments were.
For $1.67/mo, you can get unlimited 1Gbps here:

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Or if you don't trust "unlimited", Hetzner sells CX11 with 20TB/mo for 2.96 eur/mo

https://www.hetzner.com/cloud
> It's one more command, but I find it helps me visualize exactly what I want to happen

are you saying that git pull can produce some unwanted artifacts? (e.g. not do exactly what you want it to do?)
> Risk for the company isn't the same as risk for a mid level decision maker. Small fuckups carry the same penalty as huge fuckups. (you get fired) From my fake story, doing it in house has a relatively high chance of being a minor fuckup, and AWS has a relatively low chance of being a major fuckup. The manager is going to choose the low probability risk, even though the low impact risk is the company's best interest.

Insightful. Can you clarify what you mean by "low probability risk" and "low impact risk" ?
Yeah, played 2 characters to 60 at launch, then one more to 60 just after they killed the auction house. May have improved it since then, but I still felt like spirit of Diablo 2 was missing even after the auction house was killed and they revamped the loot system.
Docker Hub 2FA was launched today
> Can it keep growing forever?

Why not? Can people keep adding value to things? Only once there is no possible to add value to anything would an economy have to stop growing. I suppose in some heat death of the universe scenarios, this may happen, but we’ve got billions of years before even our local sun destroys earth, and I suspect mankind will have changed significantly if we make it that far.

Why do you imply economies cannot grow for the long term foreseeable future?
I know products like this are ubiquitous but I really like the response one gets. Kudos on launching!

The pricing, however, is a little confusing. A seemingly very-generous free-tier (though the "Up to 250,000 IP requests / mo" is a little confusing, what dictates whether one gets the full quota?) and the next tier-up at 250$/m is a bit too rich for my blood. Wouldn't it make more sense to have some in-between tier where you charge per 1000s of requests or something? I fear the jump will preclude people from going to the 'Pro' tier.
Augmented reality is a great example. Everyone knows that it will become a "Big Thing" in the future. Like why would smartphones be the final form factor of personal computing? Of course there will be something that will dethrone it.

But despite every big company throwing a couple billions at the problem for the last few years (Facebook's $2 billion acquisition of oculus, Google's $500 million investment into Magic Leap, Apple's acquisition of Metaio/ARkit, Microsoft Hololens), all we have are literal toys!

So now you can't talk about AR as a serious subject anymore. People all dismiss it, saying we are still too early. I imagine it's like that for every "toy to big thing" transition.
Thank goodness for GitHub, it’s pure creative bliss and it’s growing obscenely fast.
> In this scenario, the K/K ratio could be perhaps 3/1,000,000, assuming a 10-percent accuracy and only a single one-gram shaped charge per drone.

So you "only" need 10 million drones and 10 million grams of plastic explosive? An attack of that magnitude probably requires the resources of a nation-state, so I doubt it will happen. Targeted assassinations seem more plausible.
Working on Monoliths Means Working at Businesses That Have Had or Will Have Limited Success

Shill HARDER, microservices tooling company!
You guys are making me feel better about our private cloud.
It won the first prise of under 22 programming contest in Japan on Oct 21st, 2019, created from 2019 August in several weeks alone. Naoto Uehara, the developer was a Python user who started to use C++ and did not like C++ so he created Python like language to replace C++ by himself.
Australia and New Zealand have the same (except on the right turn arrow because we drive on the left).

I always thought this was normal. If the right turn arrow is green you have right of way, if it's red you must stop, and if it's not illuminated you give way to oncoming traffic and turn when safe.
A more reasonable solution to a bunch of drones terrorizing humanity (at least more reasonable than "hey let's make those drones' lives easier by setting up a giant artificially-intelligent surveillance monstrosity! What could possibly go wrong?") would be to stock up on shotguns, birdshot, butterfly nets, and crowbars.
Maybe it can make sense for a small company trying to scale where time is a factor using aws.

But I would expect that a large established company would do better to create it's own reasonably priced reasonably managed infrastructure.

Sort of rent vs build/own.
Hey cool trick thank you.
Yep. you are right, "but when nothing is staged, staging == HEAD" is exactly what i had in mind
My title says "software engineer"... would that violate some engineer title law?
My impression is that programmer and IT salaries are SF>>NYC>>London, even if living costs aren’t similarly different.
Really?

I'm just waiting for some dumbass to take a cheap chinese drone, attach a blasting cap with a shape charge laced with sodium cyanide. Anybody nicked with fragments would die.

And it'd cost what, $80-$100 ?

It's the endgame of asymmetric warfare.
There's some misstatements in there. "IBM developed OS/2 2 on its own" is definitely not true. I was working with OS/2 1.x and receiving frequent drops of early development versions of OS/2 2.x all clearly from Microsoft on floppies with Microsoft OS/2 2.0 all over them. I even went to MS's Redmond campus for several weeks of OS/2 API programming. What is true is that MS was tasked with the OS/2 3.x effort while IBM carried on with the OS/2 2.x line.

At the time, the Windows 9x vs OS/2 2.x didn't have a clear expected winner. In the end the doom of OS/2 was due a lack of applications. There were other contributing factors like how IBM simultaneously launched the PS/2 line and the OS/2 1.x version were rarely run on non-IBM hardware (v1.3 ran like a dream on PC clones though.)
No. A public utility is permitted what would be anti-trust violations, and handed a monopoly, in exchange for acting in the public interest. When they abandon the public interest, they have violated their end of the bargain. The stockholders are responsible to prevent that; if they fail, they lose their investment.

The educational system has failed you if you never learned about this. Anticipating your next objection: no, public education is also not Communism.

Communism, by numerous well-attested examples, means exterminating millions of citizens for no offense but existing. I don't find anyone proposing that. Here.
Life is what you make it. I chose to remain independent for my career. Both 2000 and 2007 came and went and unless someone told me, I wouldn't know we were in a recession or stock market crash.

Perhaps I missed out on a few opportunities but I never really wanted to trade my freedom for the chance of money.

If you have a good network and do quality work, you will be in demand regardless of the market. There will never be a shortage of people that need good, quality work done and are willing to pay for it.
Elm Slack is cool, there are my heroes there who create some cool packages and share deep knowledge of Elm (blog etc.)

But Elm's development is really out of focus in the sense of fulfilling, fixing what people using it seriously encounter. I don't want to mention specific things where its solution is "use port".
Are drones still considered 'toys'? At least in photography, they have long ceased to be toys. Given that you have big companies working on them (like amazon for deliveries), I'm wondering if they are still in the 'toy' phase.

VR is. The incremental changes are not yet enough to make them practical for non-gaming use (and even gaming, they are amazing, but cumbersome). AR is firmly still in the toy camp.
That has to be the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever heard, since Enron paid their employees bonuses for unprofitable deals.
This is cool and really impressive, something just a few years ago I'd have hoped to have created as a 15 year old or someone in high school.

However, looking back I'm glad I was screwing around with friends at that age. Setting stuff on fire, doing stupid stuff like exploiting MegaUpload, building spud cannons and making pyrotechnic effects for my school's theater (commercial grade "flash" powder is awesome, especially when the school buys a pound of it and lets you keep what's leftover ;) ).

Sometimes I'm glad I wasn't too focused or smart in high school because it means I have a few good friends and a childhood to look back on. Granted, I still enjoyed competing and placing nationally in the Intel ISEF and Siemens Competition in HS.
If you actually watch the original video the drones aren't intended to survive.
Or when that bus or truck in front of you is on its 5th gear change and still only halfway through the intersection when the light starts changing.
> It's said to be a time of crisis

The news will always tell you there is a Major Crisis, and things are Going To Hell.

That's what sells, and as long as you understand that, consuming news can be informative. But be careful to not base your worldview on the news.
The scale may be exaggerated and the particulars may be wrong, but there definitely will be new problems that arise from cheap and effective remote/autonomous weapons being available. In addition to cheap IED drones which are already becoming available, what happens when you can pop a vision system + grasper arm securely around a rifle and effectively toss it up on a ridge somewhere? It's probably been technically possible for a while, but soon it'll be (relatively) cheap, and probably hard to monitor.
When it comes to defending one's citizens, the attitude of "that'll probably never happen, it'll be fine" doesn't exactly sound like a solid foundation. And I doubt any government around the world, worth its salt, has that attitude.

True, it all sounds like scaremongering, but the question is: what's stopping people from actually doing this?

Crime and violence already exist. And if we look at history, it is clear that it has changed with the times. What logical sense is there in thinking they will not follow the changes in technology today?

The events described are but a possibility. Yet, I do feel we should not dismiss it, simply because we don't like it.
Someone should get patent on patent trolling and go nuts suing them all.
Ones I use frequently are

!g google

!maps google maps

!yt youtube

!mwt merriam-webster thesaurus

!images ddg images

Even though I only regularly use these few I find them very useful.
How Will IoT Affect the Healthcare Industry in the Time to Come?
>It's good that you say this because most people see my comment and just flag it. I'm simply saying the obvious, and probably the majority of people in the West feel the way I do.

Right, I agree.

Can I ask though: do you seriously value the pleasure you get from playing WoW more than sending a (tiny) message that you support human rights?

That idea is actually pretty disgusting to me, and I'd have a hard time carrying on a conversation with someone face-to-face if we went down that road, but I am genuinely curious if you can expand on that more.
Well, this is exactly why I can't truly support "common sense" worker's rights like a higher minimum wage or whatever - I might be that less productive worker, or at least be assumed to be.
Might be because of No more exec from data folder on targetAPI >= Android Q https://github.com/termux/termux-app/issues/1072
The article drums up a hypothetical scenario ("a semi-trailer full of autonomous drones carrying small shaped charges could kill a million New Yorkers, just for instance!") and then suggests we could counteract the Omniviolence that The World Is Not Ready for by submitting to a Panopticon society or making an AI our Philosopher King.

This is not serious minded analysis, but it's not fun either. It's just bad clickbait.

No system can stop every dedicated attacker to begin with. Technology gives people leverage in all their activities, including doing violence to one another. Writing an article in Nautilus that amounts to idle musing about a comic book villain's murderbot scheme and then trying to burnish it as Very Serious at the end with name dropping and the author's academic credentials is so lame.
I'll see your $25 and raise you $50
No worries. Transparency is important to us so we're always happy to answer questions.
It just makes me sad to see thousands of young people putting in 12+ hour days making less than minimum wage on the hopes they'll someday 'make it big' and will be able to support themselves playing video games.

Very few streamers make a good living from just playing games - many of the profitable channels grew through deceptive marketing dark patterns, allowing their audience to gamble, or being porn-lite.

Streaming does have some value, but it seems like there is disproportionately large amount of wasted productivity being put towards it in the last decade.
Try Warp from Cloudflare. Does the same thing but easier to trust versus some outfit like NordVPN
I read it as:

- the “spider” being metonymic for Amazon’s web, i.e. the big, apparently tangled, globe-covering supply chain that Amazon has built

- the “big table” to be the proverbial “grown-ups’ table” that Amazon is sitting at, in contrast to the suppliers at the kids’ table

- the rest is clear. You can’t blame the assimilated (suppliers); blame the assimilating Borg (Amazon) and so on
> are you saying that git pull can produce some unwanted artifacts? (e.g. not do exactly what you want it to do?)

Not in the sense that git pull has unpredictable behavior, but I like being able to view the remote history and manually diff against my local branch if there are changes that have been made.
I did twice before my comment was made. I'm cool with nice error messages.
Many times software engineers fall under the 'industrial exemption' for most states' professional practices acts. That's how many folks without a PE are able to be engineers - as long as they're not selling engineering services to the general public, but only to their employer.

Things get trickier with software as well - with many engineering disciplines, the public can be placed in harm's way by the malpractice of engineering - that's why many civil firms require PE's. In other areas, it's less desirable - for defense contractors, many purposely avoid PE's due to our ethical obligations around harming the public.

Surrounding software, I think a major part of it is just that the laws haven't caught up with the times. NCEES now has a Software PE available but no clue about the contents of the exam. It seems like a tricky one to test for.
Backdrop: I was inspired by games and went to CS undergrad with the hopes of becoming a videogame developer and ultimately a designer/director. I started college just as BBS distribution gave way to the World Wide Web; I had to learn HTML in order to distribute my shareware games.

Moonshots: I dropped out of school with only a year left to graduate because the Web development startup I launched with two of my friends was getting out of control. We were charging over $100/hr in the 90s and still having to turn down clients. We worked on amazing projects I can barely remember and made a pile of cash. But we were kids and couldn't get along so we split. I joined another startup that got bought out and put more cash in my pocket which led to me following leadership to yet another startup... that died pretty hard in the Fall of 2001.

Aftermath: Money, parties, travel, and then boom... it was over. Although I had been an irresponsible child with my earnings, I had the good fortune of having some saved some before I was laid off - and I could collect unemployment benefits.

Like everyone else, I couldn't find work anywhere. There was a flash cartoon back then called "Laid off: a day in the life". Good times, good times. I went back to school to finish earning my BS in CS. While in school I tried desperately to get a job in the service industry. I couldn't even land a job waiting tables. Managers told me that they had plenty of people that could work at any time and they didn't want to fuss with people who had school schedules. One manager told me he had over 1,500 applicants at his new restaurant. After having held a Director title in 2001, I ended up starting over again with a fresh degree and a job as a Jr Videogame Programmer in 2003. At least I was working on videogames instead of web! (spoiler, I'm back in web, but that's another story)

I still don't think I've fully come to terms with the unrealistic expectations I developed early in my career. I rose to success quickly because I had a head start in web tech just as the industry around it was taking off. After the crash I had to work hard for things like everyone else which means coming to terms with the realization that I am not as special as I thought I was.
IIRC, It was the perfect storm. Y2K bug projects were complete, Microsoft had been found guilty of monopolistic practices, the euro conversion projects were winding down or complete. I think Greenspan was raising the fed rates, and taxes were due, so people were selling to pay those. Then 9/11 happened and that was the final nail in the coffin.

This was the first, "learn to code," era that I recall, so there were a lot of not-necessarily computer savvy people in the industry, and they were getting hired. Once things started to slide, companies just stopped hiring as a sort-term strategy, many held layoffs too. Many people were pushed out of the industry for good. I was stuck as a contractor and in-between contracts out of blind luck. I was 4-5 years into a promising career and I couldn't find work for 6 months. I felt absolutely worthless.

Fortunately I knew a guy who was a partner at my previous contracting firm. He just pulled a CIO position in a city 2 hours away and they needed someone to take over their engine (software shop). I had to pick-up and move, but I got a job that paid a lot less than my previous ones.

I survived, partly because I worked hard, like I was scared to lose my job. I still work that way. People take notice and will call you when they switch companies and need to fill a position. Because of this, I haven't had to do a formal / cold interview since the dot bomb.
MUTCD says this:

> In rural areas, the Junction assembly should be installed at least 400 feet in advance of the intersection.
In rural areas, the minimum distance between a Junction assembly and either a Destination sign or an Advance
Route Turn assembly should be 200 feet.

INDOT conveniently doesn't comply with this paragraph. You often only get a sign at the intersection itself with no advance. You're left guessing where the intersection actually is and when to slow down and signal.
It's certainly interesting to use! However, it's type checker still have a lot of work to go, since you can easily segfault due to using a nil reference.
I don't think you technically need to absorb the recoil.

Check out the EFP:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explosively_formed_penetrator

EFPs were what turned out Humvees to swiss-cheese in Iraq before we switched over the MRAPs.
If resolving the same conflicts over and over again in many commits gets onerous enough to make it worthwhile investing a little time learning another part of git, you can check out git-rerere (Reuse recorded resolution): https://git-scm.com/docs/git-rerere
"the workers whose work makes Google's billions in revenue possible while getting pennies on every dollar of value they provide."

Well, you assume that revenue represents value. How do you even know that? Maybe they are making the world worse on net. In which case, should the workers or investors be liable? I generally feel like it's a nice and fundamental feature of society that they aren't.
1000%. If the Tylenol tainting scandal happened in 2019, would it have been sold through Amazon’s supply chain?
Yeah, the 3/1000000 case is kind of a pointless extrapolation. 3/1000 is way more threatening if those 1000 are local political/business leaders - you could cripple an entire city (or with careful timing, an entire state).
Came to say exactly this...

Not quite sure how the author went from "Technology is, in other words, enabling criminals to target anyone anywhere and, due to democratization, increasingly at scale" to "One strategy could be a superintelligent machine—essentially, an extremely powerful algorithm—that’s specifically designed to govern fairly".
i don't get the ptr problem. My internal sites already have ptr records. My dns server sits facing the internet. Ptr records too.

But yes. If u have a domain that is supposed to resolve different depending on the source ip that'd be..interesting... Now u need a website that displays different content depending on source ip or something like that...
I can’t use Rift S, and neither can you.
If you are spending $2B per year on cloud infrastructure, you should own the entire internet.
I recreationally troll the wumao "50 cent army" on social media, and his statement sounds eerily similar to the arguments I often see from them on the subject of Hong Kong: both in content and language choice.
OK, drones are cheap. How about that projectile firing apparatus?
Don’t you need to multiply that 22B by 30, or did you get all of those references but you don’t understand the difference between profit and valuation...
I think his point is an insider can't see the forest through the trees, and you need a fresh perspective to understand what's really happening. Basically that hiring an insider just perpetuates the echo chamber.
What about the 30x earnings multiple? Shouldn't it be $22B*30?

So WeWork "only" needs to capture ~3% of the US market to be worth $20B
Consumer grade drones are already being used in combat in the middle east: https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2017/01/11/...

(All the better sources for these stories are paywalled, so have fun reading them)
I scan them and save them on some kind of digital format. And things like my kids artwork I save in a box in the closet :-)
Embedded discrepancy operators in reduced models of interacting species
It might just be that programs will have to be written slightly differently.

Sort of how drivers that have to deal with sleep/wake have to be tweaked.

Whem machines got sleep/wake it was a definite step forward for usability (and other things like machine efficiency)
They're disposable. They don't need to take anything.
Obviously - but why did Softbank think it was worth so much more? They were an investor - they knew that the company was a financial black hole.
Hope you've got a bunch of nets and a bunch of ammo cause drones are pretty cheap and there's nothing stopping someone from sending 5 or 10 your way.
16-Inch MacBook Pro to Launch by End of Month with Scissor Keyboard
What's the Scarab and LX6+? The closest I'm finding is an ESP32 beetle which has a Tensilica LX6 processor.
If you want to see someone who has skin in the game in the NBA, look at Enes Kanter. The things he says about the Turkish government are putting his life and his family's lives in actual danger. Makes the "sacrifices" your Kaepernick and LeBron types have made seem pretty tame in comparison (aka not really sacrificing anything)