skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is exactly what laws & regulations are for. So corporations can't do whatever they want, because they 'care' only about profits, and will do anything for profit within allowed framework.

Note, that 'care' in in quotes. It is because corporations are not humans, or even alive. They are not greedy, good, bad, evil etc. Do not anthropomorphize entity created to maximize profits, led by top people hired to do just that.
I've seen a boot on a Lamborghini somewhere in my neighborhood. It was one of the very few cases I ever saw a Lamborghini around; most cars in my neighborhood are way less expensive.
> today its “there should be no borders” which is the opposite of self determination of nations.

It is not. To quote Zach Weinersmith

"Every time I talk about immigration, someone says 'but the US has the right to control borders.' Sure! Yes!

The US also has the right to create a branch of the military containing only monkeys wearing tiny hats. That has no bearing on whether it's good policy or not!"
Survival by Degrees: 389 Bird Species on the Brink
You’re asking for my source of Spanish speaking radio listener immigration status statistics?
> You just described something that costs thousands of dollars to set up and thousands of dollars of added rent

The cost of projectors and surround-sound speakers has dropped so significantly in the last decade (and you can use a Raspberry Pi as your media center) that I suspect it is within a lot of people’s means here and that this audience has splurged on other high-end electronics from time to time. I mean, I live in Eastern Europe on a local middle-class salary, and my setup was still achievable after a few months’ saving up.

Definitely, the real limitation to this setup is whether one can rent or own a standalone home. As the other person mentions, this is not an easy option for that portion of the HN readership who has moved to NY or SF. But for cinephiles elsewhere, they ought to think about such a setup and see whether they could make it happen.
Because anyone who disagrees with my pov must either be fake or a paid-off shrill.
Thank you for the feedback, I'll update the README

EDIT: Updated
Actually if this is faceit this is a reduced community in general so the kid gloves are off elsewhere.
I'm the author. Thanks to Ludwig for posting this here.

I've been doing all of my database work like this for 5+ years now, and love it. Many more examples here:

https://code.sivers.org/db-api/

It works great when you want to write simple shell scripts, too. They look as simple as this:

https://github.com/sivers/store/blob/master/getdb-example.rb...

People have been asking how I do unit testing. The main thing is to have a fixtures.sql file, which is a dump of data to test against: https://github.com/sivers/store/blob/master/store/fixtures.s...

Then in the setup before each unit test, just drop the database schema, and reload it:

https://github.com/sivers/store/blob/master/test_tools.rb?ts...

Examples of my API unit tests here:

https://github.com/sivers/store/blob/master/store/test-api.r...

And also testing things like database triggers, and private functions:

https://github.com/sivers/store/blob/master/store/test-db.rb...

Feel free to ask me anything here, or email me: https://sivers.org/contact

— Derek
The proposal here is to make a new law.

When people argue both that laws are bad, and we need a new law to improve society, I wonder if they're really thought things through.
>That every random person should be able to use publicly paid infrastructure that they haven't paid for?

Did you pay for the country's infrastructure upon your birth, or did you freeload for at least 18 years before contributing anything back to it in taxes?
Even on the scale of general toxicity CS:GO is so stifled that you don't even interact with your opponents that much anyway. The only thing I hope this AI takes care of is the YouTube preacher bots. You usually get the grief from mistakes/uncooperative teammates.
Absolutely. And sometimes it’s not just street parking - it’s free street parking.
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Yes. 90% of people are going to render Hello without changing text.
What is the git web server you're using? The UI is very clean and the underlying markup and CSS is also quite minimal.
DevOps: Tools Can Lead the Culture Change
Audio Processing for Dummies
Could we use space mirrors to illuminate solar farms at night?
Effort is the cost I was referring to.
> In this view he disagreed with and distinguished himself from those existentialists who held that life was meaningless.

I don’t think of a disagreement in this regard, because even if there’s objectively no meaning in life, it doesn’t mean that there’s also no subjective meaning.

I think that was the whole point of Frankl, how you can find and develop this subjective meaning.
for now I changed the peg color to blue and also changed the highlight color. I thought about drag and drop initially and decided to do it when I get more time. But any way I am super excited to see people's feedback
Advocate for dedicated commercial loading zones. They're not even doing that bare minimum.

But it's crucial to point out this simple fact, and I don't think you've quite internalized it yet: Parking illegally in safety infrastructure KILLS PEOPLE. Like, multiple people are dead every year in NYC solely because a vehicle was parked illegally. So regardless of anything else, they should not be doing that. If deliveries take longer, so be it. It's not acceptable to take other people's lives like this just to deliver some packages more quickly. The problem is as bad as it is because drivers break the law and aren't sufficiently punished for it; if they actually had to be compliant with the law, then we'd see how badly things are creaking and be forced to change things, by adding more safe loading zones.
> It's nice to have hidden mathematical knowledge but is it actually providing benefits or is it just arcana?

It depends on the context. Plenty of areas of econometrics have substantial mathurbation, as do all quantitative fields. But the toolkit is not without use.

(1) One common critique (which you leverage here) says that econometrics isn't useful because it doesn't predict business cycles. Macroeconomics divorced from microeconomic foundations[0] is a difficult domain to apply reasonable econometrics -- insufficient data to describe the system completely.

(2) Individuals often present as irrational but populations tend to behave rationally -- meaning that descriptive information or predictive information can be ascertained.[1] This is the central point of ML/predictive analytics applied to human systems (e.g. marketing), which is where the value-add of ML can come from.

(3) Remember the utility of econometrics is to measure economics -- that might be something like a value impact assessment, describing the output of a randomized control trial (for which the Nobel prize[2] was just awarded[3]), and similar. Economics is much bigger than only the macroeconomy.

Notes:

[0] The Lucas critique: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucas_critique, Theory before business-cycle measurement: http://faculty.wcas.northwestern.edu/~lchrist/papers/qr1042....

[1] To describe or predict: https://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~aldous/157/Papers/shmueli.pdf

[2] I am aware the prize is not a real Nobel, the name is The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel

[3] List of Economics Nobel Prize winners: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_Memorial_Prize_l...
>If wishes (moral and otherwise) were horses, we'd drown in horse shit.

If everybody thought like this, we'd still be in the stone age. You don't achieve change by deciding it's impossible and giving up.
I have never been to a theater that would not swiftly eject anyone disturbing the movie in the united states. Where exactly do you see films? Are you not reporting it and expecting things to magically be resolved?
FF should work unless it's not updated for long time
I think the legal and to an extent the root of moral outrage at issue, Thom, is the inherent fraud of the deceptive claims facilitated by diverting profit to corporations/agencies intended to poison-the-well of public discourse, combined with active suppression of any type of release of in-house research that provided evidence that the fossil fuel industry could have been contributing to climate change.

It rubs some people (me at least) the wrong way when we try to say our policymaking is based on reasoned science, but not everyone is bringing all their chips to the table in good faith, and some are outright fabricating lies to keep the gravy train going, and keep the public guessing.

I've actually enjoyed your posts mind, and find quite a bit to agree with in them. However, I don't necessarily think you're making a successful counterargument in the sense no one is condemning the oil/petrochem industry for doing what it's doing; it seems to be aimed more at bad behavior in terms of burying inconvenient science, and funding disinformation campaigns.

That, at least, strikes me as worthy of its day in court, so at a minimum the public interest can be served by discovery. After all, they don't need to be found guilty for good to come of it.
Is this foresight a function of the CEO themselves or more of being in that position (ceo of a technology company). In other words, being in that role you have time and resources to think about "what is next?" also this is somewhat expected from the board and investors.

How much of their insight comes from others (eg. senior staff, acquisition targets, etc.) and how much from their own noggin so to speak?

Or a better way to ask this might be, how would one go about replicating this insight if one is not a CEO of a tech company? What resources would I need to pull in, who should I be talking with?
I think a major issue is the lack of distinction between individual works and derivative works. I don’t have a great answer, but I think derivative works need to have a policy closer to trademark (indefinite but very narrow and bounded by continuous use) while copyright should retain its current core properties and but be shorter (I’d say 20 years, but renewable for up to 60 or 80 with registration and escalating fees.)

I find out entirely reasonable for Disney to retain control of Mickey Mouse or DC to retain control of Batman as they’ve been continuously using and improving those ideas for almost 100 years. Otherwise unused aspects of culture need to be allowed to emerge (if after 30 years no one has put Mara Jade on film someone should be allowed to do it.)

Of course the Berne convention makes all this way more difficult than even normal law making, but c’est la vie
Is It Time to Get over Design Patterns?
I get a lot of smaller packages delivered to work for a similar reason. I'd rather get a notification and go pick it up than have it randomly dropped either in front of my door or in the apartment's common lobby, and wonder if it's going to grow feet and walk off before I get home.
I am pretty sure if you asked the creators of these films, they’d want them still shown. We’re talking about the actions of Disney, which wasn’t even the studio for the Fox films.
Here's an alternate perspective:

Let's say Exxon did suppress information about climate change and their role in it. Thus, compared to a world of perfect transparency and information, Exxon was able to earn more profit, because the market lacked the information to price their products correctly and transition away from fossil fuels decades ago.

Had Massachusetts access to Exxon's suppressed information decades ago, taxes could have been enacted on their products and the money used to transition to different power sources.

In this case, maybe it's correct for the state to sue, to claw back some of the money they would've had to make the transition by now.

Also, if Norway has based their entire economy on fossil fuels then that's their own kind of short-sightedness, because even in a non-climate-change world most experts agree the fossil fuels will run out eventually.
Right. AFAIK fake CE marks are extremely rare, by the way. Goods ordered directly from China may just not have CE marks, most everything officially imported has legit ones.
And, absent government regulation, market participants with the influence and wealth required will provide their own.
Do small margins necessarily mean there is no chance for disruption? I think structural engineering and architecture both have voids that tech can fill. Alot of the work is tedious, repetitive, and begging to be automated.
>Since property, both private and public, is a fundamental human right.

If property is a fundamental right, then shouldn't it be the right of a landlord to rent his property to whomever he wants?
What do you consider "putting in the work"?

What could an activist possibly do to convince you?

Plenty of climate activists have obstructed pipelines with direct action, have blockaded roads and blocked oil derricks; they have sacrificed time, money and in some cases their freedom when arrested. Meanwhile, you and others of your ilk sniff about "antagonism" and go about your day feeling smug that you're not a hypocrite because you "fully accept the costs of [your] actions" (whatever the hell that's supposed to mean).

You say you "accept" the cost of your actions, but you leave it up to the rest of us to make sure you pay those costs.
> I don't know but it feels like functional databases could be a thing.

This is how datomic ions work, i think.

https://docs.datomic.com/cloud/ions/ions.html
The issue is PHP-FPM (FastCGI) only and it's vulnerable from outside only with nginx.

The vast majority of PHP 7.0 installations don't use FastGCI and don't use nginx but Apache simply because people used 'apt install php' (or 'yum install php') to install it.

So imho, the impact is very limited.
Electricity and heat generation is a lot but still just 25% of emissions. It's probably the easiest part to fix and it's still hard.

The harder part of the pie would be agriculture and industry.
If I understand the grandparent's point, we have to accept it as an axiom.
A perfectly-marked-up HTML document only solves the problem for text expressed in HTML. It doesn’t solve any other format that people publish (even today we have links to PDF and Word and Excel, etc.). And of course there is meaningful information in formats that are not documents at all, like images. Some of those images are pictures of text that we might want to read.

It requires some investment to come up with tools for analyzing files. I’m wondering if the tools would have been as sophisticated if documents had lowered their barriers. For example, how do you justify developing a machine-learning model to look for more, if it seems all your documents are already semantically tagged with the details that were important to somebody?
I agree with all of this, additionally, if a manager reads HN this is a great question to poison the well.

"Look manager, HN thinks that the bad (by fiat from the OP) team lead should be removed."

I personally know people playing such games.
If you interfere in a romance, their partner may break your nose. If you interfere with the healthy operation of your team, your boss may dismiss you.

If you cannot muster empathy for others, at least muster an awareness of the consequences of your actions.
In my experience there is quite a bit of confusion about the terminology of pollutant, emissions, and greenhouse gasses in the general public. Emissions and Pollutant are words than usually don't include CO2 in their regulatory or industry definitions.

There are many Hondas out there running around with chrome plastic ULEV labels riveted to the car. ULEV is Ultra-Low Emissions Vehicle, and in this circumstance "Emissions" refers to NMOG or "Non-Methane Organic Gas" which does not include CO2. I have anecdotally encountered many people who assume ULEV means "Doesn't Pollute As Much", and that is true.

In my state, when you get a smog-check or emissions inspection, the gasses the state measures to issue the sticker are known as "Emission Gasses" in the regulatory literature used in the state DOT approved inspection technician licensing training. CO2 (along with oxygen) is classified as a "Diagnostic Gas" and is not considered for this purpose as a tailpipe emission.

Many customers of the DOT inspections wrongly assume the emissions reduce CO2 or "Global Warming" when its really just reducing smog, cancer, asthma, acid rain, etc

Of course the tested emissions gasses such as oxides of nitrogen are quite harmful, and anyone affected by them will be unhappy, no effort at all has been expended to educate the public wrt CO2.

Most people assume their cars cause less "Bad Stuff" from the tailpipe laws and ULEV standards and catalytic converters and advanced chemicals. Their idea of that Bad Stuff usually includes CO2, but this is not the case. Hydrocarbons neccesarilly oxidize into CO2, H20, and other byproducts.
Hadn't heard that before.

Why do you prefer it? Performance? Features? Ease-of-use?
Running a SwiftNIO Server in an iOS App
> You can tell by the comments here that people want Exxon punished, they don't care much about the means by which this occurs.

Welcome to our latest age of populism. As usual in these cases, there are no rules, there is no law, there are no inalienable rights. There is only your chosen tribe, versus the other guys: enemies at worst, targets of opportunity at best. (If you criticize overreach and abuse on your side, breaking solidarity with the tribe, you get to be a particularly hated enemy.)
Isn't that part even more concerning? Exxon said some true things about its efforts to help the environment, and Massachusetts agrees they were "technically true". But saying these true things was still deceptive according to the state, because saying Exxon is good is like saying that fossil fuels are good and the state thinks they're actually bad.
Carbon – Create and share images of your source code
Probably a good idea to auto install security updates. At least that’s what I do on my servers.
In theory you can use cryptography to give a signature confirming you belong to a group, without saying who you are in the group (ring signature, or more specifically for our case, traceable ring signature or linkable ring signatures).

But we don't have the infrastructure to do such things atm, so which other option do you have to prove the validity of a petition?
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AFAIK Motorola does (did?) too.
> Which, logistically, would be relatively trivial to implement -- just painted lines and signs. Street parking needs to be reprioritized for the needs of 2019, not 1950.

It's funny you picked that year, because the summer of 1950 is when over night on-street parking came into existence at all. Before that, all street parking was temporary. https://www.nytimes.com/1996/03/17/realestate/streetscapes-c...
Attributing something to human nature is about as much an argument as attributing it to God's plan.
How to Avoid Leaving Tracks Around the Internet
Using copyright for control and censorship, instead of remuneration.
Long running branches – Why are we still doing this?
It's irrelevant whether or not alternatives exist, the accusation is that Exxon lied about its knowledge and actions to its own investors and consumers.
I think you mean Banksy doesn’t want anybody but himself profiting off his work. Agreed, that’s his right through copyright. But he refuses to use it. That’s the whole point of the article.

The other point is that Banksy is lying about this small business and what they are doing. This is an objective fact. He claims they sued him. They didn’t. He claims they are a big corporation. They aren’t.
Here's the classic Hixie write-up, from 2002: https://www.hixie.ch/advocacy/xhtml
Are they sourcing these tools from Kali? Previously this site was claiming to be "next generation" just because it's on the web (most of the tools already are already implemented in web versions, so the "next generation" fluff was pretty much clickbait). I'm wondering if they are riding Kali's popularity, or if they are really using Kali or some other affiliation with Kali. Or is it clickbait, too?

I'm not knocking the site - it looks swell and has a number of useful tools on it. But the marketing seems a little underhanded.

I can't imagine any security policy allowing for the use of this site for testing purposes, since you are essentially sharing security data with at least one disconnected third party, so I imagine it is more for personal site use.
The more accurate question is do you want to live with whatever goods can currently be bought with USD 17k in the US today?
There were two or three backup sites within 15 miles of Dinorwig that were being evaluated prior to it being built. There in case the main site proved impractical or too expensive for some reason.

I'd posit there are ample disused quarry sites that could serve a similar purpose scattered around the UK, US and much of the developed world.
> (I also know my response will be downvoted and I will be told so, which is another case of virtue signaling. As I stated earlier, I don't write for the HN brownie points).

You've just labeled all future downvotes you recieve on this post as virtue signalling, which assumes that people have no other reasonable basis for downvoting your post. Try to have an open mind instead of assuming one unified motive exists for everybody who disagrees with you.

Edit: Also, how are anonymous downvotes virtue signalling? Do you think downvoters are signalling their virtue to the NSA?
Is anyone saying we need to immediately pull the plug on 100% of oil and fossil fuel use? I haven't seen any serious climate change plans that propose that.

Also, this lawsuit seems to be about deceptive business practices (misleading statements, lies), so I'm not sure how your comment is relevant. It's perfectly possible to run a business while also being honest about its deleterious effects.
Lowest-cost bidding among companies is going to do better? Security is often the first thing to go when your company’s survival depends on tiny margins
Those of us who live in the city and don't own cars are paying those exact same taxes, except we don't get free parking in return for them.

It's absolutely being given away. You pay those taxes regardless of whether or not you have a car. And it's not unreasonable to expect that if people want to have a car they should pay the actual cost of doing so. Why should the rest of us subsidize those people?
In your automation story, is there the same amount of goods that produced right now (but with less labor) or more goods?
Returning JSON to a client is relatively recent. The standard for web apps was to get data from the db and generate HTML on the server. A JSON layer would be a useless overhead.

Furthermore about everybody knows how to use an ORM. Not many people can write store procedures. Maybe the question is why is that so. I heard "I
know [language], I don't know SQL, so I write queries in [language] " so many times even from people I would have expected to have a much broader knowledge. (That also applies to networking technology, they know HTTP and nothing more.)

By the way the code doesn't address authentication and authorization, those go in the layer between the client and the database.
It was always my understanding that some of the hardware would not be open, but that hardware would be sufficiently isolated from the core of the device.
Git repository summary on your terminal
Any Code Style You Like as Long It's Black
I was already using the beta of Microsoft Active Server Pages when this presentation was given. ASP 1.0 was released in December 1996 and changed my web development career.
Not all sell FLAC, and some music can be only available for rent, not for buying.
Investors are overpaid

The fair wage would be what the customer is charged minus other expenses
What about self driving vehicles? Many "big time CEOs" saw it comming.

They not always "see" it right. It is tough to forecast future in tech.
Change your steam icon to a Russian or Brazilian flag with a matching name and you'll see loads of it.