skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it’s a bit snide and snarky to just post a link like that.

And I don’t even think it’s applicable - in the community I’m in we decided we didn’t want an eternal log of everyone’s discussions. More formal discussions in PRs and emails are recorded, but we rather let conversations fade away after some time.
Awesome article, this HN thread should indicate it was originally published on HN in 2016. As mentioned on the front page "#1 on Hacker News on December 2, 2016"
At the Federal level? Highly unlikely IMO. The GS payscale is sub-par by my understanding of SFBA compensation. There are some lean/start-up influenced offices that are trying to change the culture and modernize things but I expect progress to be BRUTALLY slow, unless another tech bubble bursts and for some reason rock star coders are on USAJobs.gov trying to get positions that pay ~$50k-$60k (plus a substantial housing subsidy).
Did this software company come from a company with a three letter name? :)
Show HN: Simple command line note taking tool
Coalfire CEO admonishes handling of employees' arrests for courthouse break-ins
There literally isn't. Fossil fuels are CO2 which was removed millions of years ago, and took millions of years to sequester.

Any rate of active fossil fuel burning above the tiniest of baselines is going to be a net CO2 contributor.

But perhaps more importantly: why would fewer people, with the same amount of resources to share, not simply use more of them? Most efficiency improvements have been driven by rising prices due to rising demand, not awareness of climate change.

EDIT: Worth noting, this is also materially different to the extraction of fossil fuels for other purposes - like plastic.
Generally you talk to a realtor... Zillow is a good place to start though.
Ask what "evil" means in different parts of the world and you will come to vastly different definitions.
The most important thing I've learned from watching Cia and FBI shills being interviewed on CNBC is that in order to preserve our rights we must first be willing to surrender them.

Security and privacy are not diametrically opposed concepts. They are directly dependent on one another. You can't have one without the other.
> One of the biggest problems with IRC is that there is no immediately obvious way to jump into a channel and browse or search the history.

There are many solutions available to do this. Many channels publish chat logs publicly, which can be downloaded and searched using grep or your tool of choice. And there are web clients that can do this.

> Also, because there are so many IRC clients, and so many servers out there, one person's IRC experience can vastly differ from another's.

That’s rather the point of a protocol, no? IRC isn’t a platform, it’s a standardized way in which various clients and servers can communicate. Much like email, different clients support features useful for different users.

> IRC also doesn't have any of the modern amenities like emoji reactions or reaction gifs, comment threads, code snippets, plug-and-play third party integrations and web hooks, profile pictures, voice/video chat, screen sharing, or any number of a plethora of other features that BOTH Slack and Discord have.

I consider this a feature. I expect many others would. Constant reaction gifs / emojis / etc seem to be a distraction. I don’t believe I’ve seen these used in a way that had a positive impact on productivity, or effectiveness of communication.

> If you want people to use an open source alternative to Slack or Discord, then people need to build that alternative. IRC, unfortunately, is not it (at least not in its current aged state).

matrix.org / riot.im is what you want. The matrix protocol supports all of these features. Riot is an open source web client for it. I use it regularly and would recommend.
6 figures is nothing these days, especially when you have to go through flight school, accumulate debt for that, and the slog at a low end regional job for many years of $30-40k salaries.
It’ll be their only choice
If conditions were optimal, then we should be expecting rising inflation due to a tighter labor market. That hasn’t been the case.
For me it was the TMS320C64x+ There are newer versions of that chip out there with floating point support.

The glory instruction set reference is here:

https://www.ti.com/lit/ug/spru732j/spru732j.pdf
We Will Call It Pala: A Story for the Psychedelic Movement
You are missing the point. Minimum wage increases don’t harm all businesses, but they harm all employees. Businesses compensate for minimum wage increases by reducing hours or staff. This in turn increases labor supply and competition for the remaining available jobs.
As long as your (production) config files are not checked in with the code, then little difference. The challenge then is: where do you store them?

Environment variables had the early upside of being first class in any virtually any deployment strategy - from Bash wrappers, supervisord to Docker and Kubernetes - so it's pretty much plug and play. For example, Docker has config files, but they're mounted to a specific place in your container, so that means your application is now married to that location.
Well, I bought in British Columbia before the foreign buyers tax law. So if your not Canadian you would have to pay that now. I found a realtor and hired a notary public to do the paperwork. You can buy land in central BC for less than 500 USD per acre (not including realtor and notary fees, they will run you another 1500USD or so)
That's like saying you can just use `find . | grep ... | wc -l` and then learning the hard way that you can have newlines in filenames. While I agree you should learn lots of general tools, you should not stop there. If you have a particular need you should consult the manpage; it is one of the ways you become better. In the htop example it might be fine as a quick-and-dirty method, but when teaching others like through this particular blog post you should do so the right way.
I was always under the impression that microwave radiation, being non-ionizing, does not increase cancer-risk with exposure.
My impression is that Germany is like California. They love technology and certain aspects of high modernity but never want to catch so much as a glimpse of the industrial infrastructure that makes or powers it. They also have a similar paradoxical "volkisch" fetish for organic food and natural medicine along with their high tech cars and computers and phones and techno music.
We are being bled dry by extremely high power prices. Left wing government has replaced nuclear by coal and opposes our fusion research. But somehow right wing parties and Russia are the baddies, and any critic is being is being [dead]ed within seconds. Right.

edit: took about two minutes
In fact there are such periods, although the precision in the geologic record doesn’t allow us to quantify just what timeframe “fast” operated over, except “within 20K years”.

Google PETM if you want to see more.
Why'd you change your Hacker News username?
I used to love this game and find it good even now for some lan parties!
GNOME is an example of a free software project that is actively hostile to suggestions, critiques and code to improve it from outside.
I actually don't think this is a short term action. I think of this as a non-action. If Github pulls the ICE contract they will just use a competitor (Gitlab has already gone on record saying they will not restrict customers based on moral viewpoints). And regardless of which cloud code collaboration tool ICE uses, they will still be locking kids in detention camps and trampling human rights. No behavior change will happen at all at ICE if they have to change their git cloud provider.

This is a non action move in my opinion. I see it as slacktivism, if Github pulls the contract, people will pat themselves on the back, and count it as a win. You could argue the exposure might have some effect, but given that ICE human rights abuses have been very well documented by the leading publications, I'm unsure if additional exposure will bring change. I do strongly believe that funding lobbyists is the a great short term thing we can do. From an exposure viewpoint, I think the best thing we can do is raise exposure and support in the blue areas of the country. However, these protests are not doing that.
Indeed. In another comment, someone suggests that it might be immoral, as someone in a position to exert some small influence on the situation, to impose their judgement on the rest of us who are not in a position to do anything at all.

That's... that's just some incredible mental yoga there.
I can see how that would be frustrating. What would be an alternative?
Part of due process requires the ability to know an action breaks the law before you do that action.

Meaning it has to be possible to understand what is legal/illegal for all american citizens, not just the ones rich enough to afford a lawyer.
Google Plans to Make Chrome's Non-Secure Site Warnings More Prominent – ExtremeT
The mass of the smallest-possible black hole is called the Planck Mass (~21 micrograms). Such a black hole would have a Schwarzschild radius of 1 planck length, and would evaporate in 1 planck time. The planck mass is also considered to be the largest-possible mass of an elementary particle.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck_mass
Maids for sale: How Silicon Valley enables online slave markets
IRC cloud is paid with a monthly subscription right?

Are you using weechat as a relay for the Android client or is it a standalone irc client? Cause to receive notifications a websocket will still have to be always connected.
https://alfio.netlify.com/ Looks and breaks fine on ipad — portrait and landscape.
saying is showing, showing is saying. You've got nothing to say?
Env vars are universally supported, globally available, and simple to manage. Files mean yet another deployment artifact that has to be stored somewhere, and now tied to a location.

Sometimes that location is communicated through an env var, and that point why not just set all config that way?
Indeed it has.

I wanted to put secrets as env vars for my ECS containers. There wasn't an easy to do that. I wound up writing an entrypoint inside the container that would download secrets from AWS SSM and expose them to application code via env vars.

Then AWS ECS released the feature to specify env vars as SSM values naively from the ECS agent.

It felt good knowing someone else saw this as the "right" way too.

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I will say that Factor 9 (Disposability) seems rarely followed in many applications, SIGTERM is not handled gracefully.
Primarily because instances are disposable. Getting more traffic to your Foo service than you expected? Spin up another Foo, and let the load balancer figure it out. Then, an hour later, when traffic goes back to normal, kill the new instance.

This is easier to do when your service is self-contained. It's certainly possible with an app server, but 12-factor apps tend to view the service as an atomic unit that can be started and stopped wholesale.
Why does there have to be some permanent solution to a problem? There is no permanent solution to crime, for example. You just have law enforcement because we as a society decided that crime is bad.

Similarly, if we decide that inequality in terms of being able to politically influence people is bad, and money exacerbates that inequality, then we can ban political ads. And if something else comes along that does the same thing, ban that too in a way that makes sense.

Having such a small number of people wield such huge political influence is a shame, but what is even worse is when people accept that as inevitable and perpetuates that myth.
Is this not true? or is there some flaw with this point?
Why do people disagree?
Twelve factor is one of the few methodologies where, when I drift away from its suggestions, I always stop and ask myself why, because there's a good chance I'm making a mistake.
> What is called "Acetaminophen" in North America is called "Paracetamol" in Europe

Not just in Europe, actually in most of the world. The international standard name (International Nonproprietary Name or INN approved by the WHO) is paracetamol. For some drugs, instead of using the international standard name, the United States uses its own alternate naming system, the United States Adopted Name (USAN). A handful of other countries (most notably Canada and Japan) follow the US naming convention and call it acetaminophen too; the vast majority of the planet follows the WHO standard and calls it paracetamol.
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Why is everything in scientific notation? This is about as sensible as the concept of picodollars.
I had dogshit slip that bordered insomnia for a while. I forced myself into a habit that triggered a sleep response.

For the past 4 or 5 years, I shower in the dark and walk to my room and pass out. I avoid "turning on" after that shower. No phones, no lights, no anything

Your body needs to know when its time to sleep. Texting, reading, and computer time in bed counters that.
If I am to be surveilled anyway, perhaps they can ensure my protection from threats to my privacy?

After all I assume they're doing all this for our protection, not to generate crimes?
> Slack provides an IRC bridge that lets you connect to Slack with an IRC client.

Which doesn't exist anymore: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16539857. As far as I'm aware, there is no way to connect to Slack anymore without their official client, unless you use something that is either their website in an app wrapper or probably violating their ToS.
These supposed "undocumented immigrants" are not generally undocumented. Nearly all of them have documents. Of course, those documents might use your social security number.

This being the case, the situation is generally one of fraud. Some states consider all cases of identity theft to be felonies, while other states can charge the crime either way.
Depends on where you live. In much of the midwest six figures can let you live like a South American druglord. Of course a pilot may never be home.
'We Can Fact Check Your Ass,' but Not When It Comes to Political Ads
Agreed. at the same time, Building stream execution pipeline is not rocket science. I am not saying modern distributed SQL Databases are exact replacement or clones of Spark. I am saying with little more help from the application server they are much more capable than Spark.

You can use the following options individually or in combination.

Option 1 : Pipeline DB extension (PostgreSQL)

Option 2 : Service broker in commercial SQL databases or building PUSH/PULL queue if not supported. There are many libraries in each programming language which tries to do that. Also see option 4.

Option 3 : Using CDC or Replication for synchronous or asynchronous streamed computation on single or multi node cluster

Option 4 : Transducers. For example, you can compose many sql functions or procedures to act on a single chunk of data instead of always doing async streamed computation after each stage of transformation.
This seems to be one of the ancillary benefits of Neuralink, although I could be wrong, I'm not super familiar with their entire road-map.
I see you assume too much. :)
One of the concepts twelve factor pushes is that you should be able to release your source code right now without compromising any credentials.

Basically, you'd have a git repo for code, and a separate git repo for environment scripts. I've seen organizations use a whole separate infrastructure for config, but that always seemed like overkill to me.
Agreed. And neither use Discord! Matrix is more appropriate. It's quite annoying Rust project went with Discord and didn't pick open options.
"I have done nothing wrong" => "I have nothing to hide" iff everyone is good and always will be good in the future and never punish me unless I do something wrong.
If 6 years had passed with limited sensory input, and you were pretty sure you remembered all of it, how would you know if that's true?

How much detail do we really remember of our own last 6 years of fully awake, conscious existence not spent in such a state?

I feel like once you get to such a length of time you can't trust your own memory of it. Obviously he could know enough to say "I was conscious during some point of that time window" but measuring it would be hard.
MLM calculators – The need for a simulator and its necessity
I wondered the same thing. In Massachusetts there were protests that help scuttle the cape wind project.. Wealthy opponents (Koch/kenedey et al) litigated it to failure, after raising 40 million to “protect Nantucket sound”

Plus Massachusetts. (generally has trouble getting anything done.)

[1]https://www.windpowermonthly.com/article/1462962/cape-wind-r...
> All of these bad actors can be weeded out. The possibilities actually excite me.

Sure, right up until someone in power decides that you are the "bad actor" and weeds you out.
I have a practical kind of question about this kind of research. How do you put a sleeping person in to an MRI machine without waking him/her up?
They are putting ML inference on the Pixel phones.
Yes those features help and all of the distributed SQL databases have data and query cache.
Life must be sustained, once it is lost, it seems that there is a bell that cannot be un-rung.

However, our understanding of how much energy it takes to sustain life at a minimum seems to keep decreasing, like higher efficiency RAM in low-power mode.
If you have something like k8s it becomes trivial to use files vs end vars.
I should start calling myself a ML expert? I'm 32 year old and most of these "ML algorithms" are called statistics for me. Maybe I'm missing something, where is the LEARNING on k-means? Numerical solutions seems to be on rise now.

Nice write for someone starting, more details about details of algorithm steps would greatly attract more readers.
Can you please elaborate? This describes what I have suffered from consistently for years but I haven’t been able to identify
If I have learn anything about politics is that very well documented facts don't always have more importance in the public eyes than the noise made about a subject, the full political campaign of Trump had practically 0% of any truth whatsoever, just rambling insults and other easily-repeated slogans void of any truth but emotional appeals to a big chunk of the voting population; and he won with millions of votes. So no, I think stuff like this does a bit more than "some effect".
Proof of stake solves a problem with energy and attack incentives, but it still doesn’t solve an inequality of resources within the system. A large number of validator nodes doesn’t run counter to that statement because just because anyone with 32 ether can be a validator doesn’t mean they will.
"Give me six lines written by the most honest man in the world, and I will find enough in them to hang him."
I don’t think they were only using microwaves.
I know. But at the same time, 1.0 is pretty much capable. Give it a try and you will realize it.
This was going to be my advice. But honestly if you can find a position you are more of a natural in you will feel a lot better about anything without changing anything else.
Or just sleep on your side like other primates
Sure 90% of Americans now, but if society is changing, that could include a change out of the hegemon superpower position, and a change in perceptions and attitudes of things current average Americans would say is communism.

It seems to my limited perspective that America is moving more left, and that Trumpism is a reaction against that.
One of the points about demographics that's been really haunting me lately is the nonsubstitutableness of births. In other words births of human beings is not a commodity that you can "catch up on" in any generational sense. Generational cohorts are made in fixed time, and when made late will lag with an offset that can never be backfilled later on. We can only produce infants, never the 8 year old who was never born to fill the gap of missing 8 year olds from folks who couldn't be bothered or weren't ready to have children 8 years ago. Likewise for the absent 20 year olds and so on and so forth. We cannot correct after the fact to rebalance our population pyramids from being so top heavy.

There is a huge commitment either way, and that commitment/choice is irreversible. One commits to new life or for voids of life, both are not without consequence.

One other interesting thing to this is to watch the shifting median ages of populations.

> China's median age was 22 in 1980. By 2018, it was 40. That will rise to 46 in 2030 and 56 in 2050. In the US, the median age was 30 in 1980 and 38 in 2018. In 2030, it will be 40, and 44 in 2050. India, by comparison, had a median age of 20 in 1980 and 28 in 2018.
https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/asia/article/21...

That's always been fascinating to me to think of an entire graying population and of all those civilizations of past eras who are no more. You can get a distinct taste of that gravity by thinking of an entire genetic pool shrinking in our lifetimes.
Texas Instruments’ Speak and Spell
Same in the US. 165 meters tall, loud, and built very close to residential. And, it’s pretty much just the rural poor (< $8000 / year income) who suffer, and they see receive economic benefits.
How would you detect something like that? A primordial black hole the mass of a small asteroid with a tiny absolute magnitude?

If such a thing existed, there would likely be more than 1. How long would it take such an object to consume a star like our sun if it grazed or hit the star, vs a harmless hyperbolic flyby?
Cool! Are you referring to the phantom types technique? I am interested in how you implement this in typescript. Do you have a blog post about it you can refer me to? Or even just a gist?
I think you're looking at this from the wrong angle.

CRUD is to development what a hammer is to a carpenter or someone framing a house. It's just a tool you use to get the job done, not the part of the job you find rewarding (building the product).

If you want some unsolicited advice, stop looking at CRUD jobs or jobs that mention it extensively. Go out and find an industry that interests you and look for engineering roles at companies in that industry you'd like to work at. It may involve CRUD, it may not. Regardless, it's weird to focus on that part of the gig exclusively.

Personally, all my jobs have been independent of the tech stack or what they use to solve the problem. I've done backend stuff, embedded, a bit of GUI design, desktop apps... all of it was motivated by the industries that the companies were focused on and the products they made. Not the tech they used to build them.
Again subjective, but here's one study.

https://academic.oup.com/scan/article/11/9/1345/2224135
Tylenol, as well as many over the counter cold and flu medicines.
Serenity OS Update (October 2019)
Please don't take HN threads further into ideological flamewar. Such discussions are repetitive and predictable and deteriorate as they go along. That makes them off topic here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
You must not be very creative if you can't think of any. Off the top of my head:

1. Credible threat of ceaseless torture as an alternative.

2. Credible threat death to your offspring.

3. Credible threat of death and injury to many other people.

All of these are reasons people are frequently documented to willfully cause their own demise.