skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, I agree we can learn from other people's experiences using certain technology. Like, nobody believes Bitcoin is anonymous anymore, right? And certainly we learn something from watching people playing for higher stakes than us.

On the other hand, for criminals it's a little different since they rely entirely on technology. That's also an ideal for some people of a libertarian mindset who are not criminals, but it's not the only way to do things.

A combination of legal, political, and technical safeguards may work better than purely technical rules for most people? We don't have to live outside the law if we make the law work for us. Anyone who talks about legal rights is implicitly putting some faith in the legal system to put things right, as an ideal, anyway.
The opposition just recently took back Budapest and several cities. So the situation is changing.
> Imagine a country so hardcore capitalist, where one is expected to pay for parking at a private grocery store parking lot.

That's perfect. People who don't use cars don't have to indirectly subsidize those who do.
Then open up a short ;)

Keep in mind BTC is deflationary by nature and was the result of the last financial crisis/recession.
Consider yourself lucky if your co-workers could connect these two meetings/subjects...
I totally agree. Filesystem works only for the simplest of use cases. Besides what you mentioned, their requirement of "Multi-directional (incoming+outgoing) link" is essentially impossible to do well with file based approach:

- the only identifier of a file is the path, once you rename a file, all the links pointing to it are broken

- for incoming links you'd have to scan the rest of the notes for links (which will get slow at some point)

Typical way to mitigate this is to create some index files, name note files with UUIDs instead of their natural names, but this then creates a lot of other problems as well.

You might also find out that the limitations of filesystem (strict tree structure, strict split between directories and files) might not be a best fit for note structure ...
I thought the Nordic Counties, Canada, Australia and Austria generally topped the standard of living lists, not Switzerland. So a mix of Nordic Social Capitalism and Bog standard Capitalism.
That doesn't make it less gross.
Why not state that it is a fork of OpenSolaris on the homepage? Also the "next gen FS" is just ZFS, first released in 2005 (and they say software moves fast).

I think the homepage is mostly tageting techies, why not put a little more jargon in there and be transparent about the origins?
Anti-trust laws are there for economic reasons, ie, monopolies preventing competition leaving society worse-off as a whole than can be gained from efficiencies of a single organization. It also typically requires proof of anti-competitive behaviour, beyond just being the biggest in the market.

A lot of companies dominate their markets but don't engage in overt anti-competitive behaviour.

I don't think they've ever been enforced to serve some political end, like punishing companies for not serving some greater democratic purpose to appease the political parties.
I feel like there is literally no way for the average person to win this fight. I can't even avoid plastic and oil use in my day-to-day life because I live too far from the only farmers market in town, because its too expensive to live any closer. The only way I can see that I could "win" is by buying a large plot of land and essentially returning to living an 1800s style agricultural lifestyle, but even that would probably be too difficult because of the startup costs to buy the land, house, and equipment. I also don't feel that many politicians understand and are popular enough to combat these issues, what else are we supposed to do?
I define it the way the dictionary does: dishonest or fraudulent conduct by those in power in order to advance their own interests over those of others.

How would you define it?
> Does anybody have any recommended marketing firms for these campaigns, aside from Cat@Net mentioned in this article?

What products are you looking to market?
Also: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2019/10/28/tether-and-bitfinex/
I recently bought a set of clamps on Amazon to join two shipping containers together. Since then I've seen a bunch of related ads, such as for shipping container vents, shelving, etc. I clicked on a couple of those ads, and while I didn't buy anything, I did learn some useful information. I probably would have learned less, if anything, from untargeted ads in those same slots.
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> If it makes them looks .1% better and improve signups by the same amount they're golden

I have trouble imagining that any sort of measurement tying signups to the logo would have a margin of error smaller than that. I assume this is just a made-up number to signify how much they care about slight changes, but I think the general point that they realistically would have trouble getting any amount of useful signal from slight tweaks like that still stands.
Is this top on hackernews due to astro-turfing?
so how does one do this without creating a dangerous situation for solo female travellers?

just providing a tool to reveal a most probable place for solo female destination looks like the beginning of an evil process. i suppose if there was some number describing crimes against solo travellers, vs group travellers compared for gender, that might give some hypothetical correlate to increased vunerability to crime for the aforementioned groups.

lets reword the title and see what it looks like.

how to reach solo schoolkids walking home alone...
how to reach solo latchkey kids at home alone...

i hope these two ring some alarm, IMO just as the submission title should.
> she was given access to the company’s internal communications channels

Did she publicize logs from these channels?
Most web browsers allow you to override everything he's complaining about.
Matters because if at least two engines are equally popular (in terms of market share) or close to that, then no one entity will be able to disregard or exert undue influence over the standardisation process of web technologies. They will be forced to work together and presumably if one entity tries to do something evil the other will resist and since they have roughly equal market share, the evil proposal will be dead in water. Diversity of implementations is important as a means of checks and balances.
Google de-facto controls the development of Blink, so it goes where Google would like to take it regardless of how “forkable” it is. Having a significant fraction of the web browser market share come from a single engine encourages website developers to program for the monoculture and not to the standard; we’re already seeing this today to some extent and it increases the control of a single company on the web.
My site is back up. (1:13 EST)

EDIT: intermittent issues now. Sometimes nothing loads, sometimes everything, sometimes SSL issue, sometimes HTML but no CSS or JS load. (1:22 EST)
Have you ever heard of APL? You should read this paper "Notation as a tool of thought" http://www.eecg.toronto.edu/~jzhu/csc326/readings/iverson.pd... - it will probably change the way you think of code.
What can I learn in one minute that will be useful for the rest of my life?
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21440549, which was posted earlier and has the URL that this article copies from.
I'm pretty sure everybody knows Fortnite by its BR mode, so this only applies to you and a handful of other people.
Basing it on the peak means they get punished in proportion to how much they pumped it, which makes sense to me. The drawdown/damage they caused includes both the dump and the pump.
Would you be able to raise the issue of adding an optional dedicated search bar to the new Edge, a la Firefox? The lack of container support is one thing, but using a dedicated search bar with DuckDuckGo bangs is something I just can't give up. It's also a good privacy point, not doing any prefetching.

I've submitted this feedback but I think it's extremely low priority (understandable), and likely outright dismissed as that "old fashioned, useless search bar".

To preemptively answer why I don't just use Firefox, I do, but Firefox on iOS is horrible and I'm fed up, it's a critical feature that the mobile partner works well.
This is an apples to oranges comparison.

The ticket raised on gitlab is specifically about Chinese and Russian nationals, but this would also apply to Australians (they can be compelled, legally, to build backdoors upon request of the government). If I were in charge of a non-trivial company I certainly would not hire an australian national.

This same exact argument would apply for a white person from China who has family or other assets in China, and thus has leverage that can be used against them by the current totalitarian regime.

If the US government enacted a law similar to Australia where we could be compelled to build secret backdoors, then foreign companies probably wouldn't hire an American either.

This really has little to do with race, and everything to do with risk and governments. We would still be discussing a ban on hiring Chinese nationals even if China -weren't- almost completely homogeneous in race; it's basically irrelevant.
What is it the author said that makes you think he didn't know how to do TDD? Or write unit tests?
At any sort of scale (which I have to imagine netlify is running at), this will be a software issue since hosts are designed to fail.

Serving static content is crazy easy for computers, my guess is a bad configuration got pushed out.
I've always imagined that Switzerland is what the United States would have been if the Articles of Confederation had worked. Or even if Ante-Bellum status quo had been able to deal with slavery.
I wonder if this new brand will help their employees forget about how they helped foster a genocide against the Rohingya ( https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/apr/03/revealed-faceb... ) or enable slave markets on Instagram?( https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-50228549 )
Seems like some good twitch opportunity
According to their overall status page, they already do run two separate CDNs for normal and enterprise customers: https://www.netlifystatus.com/
I'm sorry you're being down voted despite making some very cogent points.
The idea that people in the developing world won't benefit from fossil fuels is a horrible lie. All of the claims you made (regarding flooding, wars, etc) are unfalsifiable, two-points-make-a-line gibberish.

Carbon emissions may very well be a valid concern, but that concern is not obviously more valid than people dying of privation, a condition that we know for sure is solved by economic development (which, to date, requires fossil fuels).

The idea of someone typing on some website about how people in the developing world shouldn't burn fossil fuels to lift themselves out of poverty is appalling. "How dare you" -- or something.
Microsoft backed AI company is helping Israel surveil Palestinians
Ostensibly they do seem to have that.

> Our non-enterprise CDN is failing a small number of page loads, usually with SSL errors; Enterprise CDN is not affected.

But looks like there's room for improvement, because the enterprise CDN ended up failing as well.

> We are still working to mitigate the effects of these problems and do see some page load failures on the enterprise CDN as well.
How bad leadership culture can ruin a business
See is the only one that piques my interest. How would you rate it as a sci-fi on its own merit? (without bringing Apple vs. The World into it or giving away any spoilers)
It makes me think of signing inescapable contracts with demons, which seem convenient but ultimately doom you for eternity.
If your a company you can buy the data. Just need name and address.
>Well, isn't that just like evaluating the difference between whether or not you're a self-taught programmer?

Not quite. Self-taught programmers can get high salaries too. Notice what the OP said about how having a MBA did not correlate with company performance, however it DID correlate with increased compensation. Basically, if you want to get paid extremely well, you need the MBA, even if it has nothing to do with how the company performs.
See also "What Bodies Think About: Bioelectric Computation Outside the Nervous System" (youtube.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18736698

Michael Levin's lab are uncovering the physical scientific basis for what a lot of people have always known: life thinks.

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Now then,

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

> Buber's main proposition is that we may address existence in two ways:

> 1. The attitude of the "I" towards an "It", towards an object that is separate in itself, which we either use or experience.

> 2. The attitude of the "I" towards "Thou", in a relationship in which the other is not separated by discrete bounds.

We need to learn to relate to Nature as I-Thou (not I-It.) The vast majority of our problem right now is our divorce from Nature and our attempt to relate to Her as I-It.

The good news is that it's fun and easy to return to Nature (and, as Geoff Lawton says, "You can solve all the world's problems in a garden.)

I recommend Toby Hemenway's (RIP) videos: http://tobyhemenway.com/videos/ esp. "How Permaculture Can Save Humanity and the Planet – But Not Civilization" and "Redesigning Civilization with Permaculture".
This reminds me about SmartOS[1].

[1]: https://www.joyent.com/smartos
I would argue that power comes from fear and necessity rather than trust. In other words, people know their manager will fire them if they don't go along, so they don't resist them. Often they go along despite being convinced numerous times that they should not trust their manager.
It's important to note that in Argentina there is a black market for dollars -- You can buy dollars at "blue" price, which is more expensive. This means that the government is subsidizing the difference.

After the primaries, the price of dollars started ballooning and the government (which was clearly set to lose in the national elections), set a price for purchasing USD and a USD 10,000 per month limit.

So what the Argentinian people did was as follows: get paid in ARS, buy as many USD as you can afford at the official (lower) price, then go to the black market and sell at a higher price, which netted them more ARS than they had at first. Repeat until you reach the USD10000 limit.

They call this "hacer puré" (make mashed potatoes), and caused the unofficial price to go even further up. This scheme is basically "free money" for the people at the cost of the federal reserves, but it's nothing new for the Argentinian economy (the 90s were crazy). After the national elections, the government cut back on the limit down to USD 200 per month, rendering the scheme unusable (for now).

Source: I live next to Argentina
It's not about runtime objects, its about static code that should be closed for modification. Plugin architectures are most representable thing for this I can think of: You don't need to change any code. You just write new code and extend the capability of the existing code. In this case you don't even need to recompile anything.
Of course plugin architectures are the extreme.
...And of those that are, they're under constant pressure to be profitable (as they should be). Need I remind how the latest round of aggressive, systemic, years long cost cutting at SBB left the infrastructure in need of revision and killed a conductor, while the federal government just booked 2.2 billion CHF ($2.23 billion USD) net profit?

And the Swiss national bank, sitting on nearly 900 billion CHF in foreign currency, desperately trying to keep the value of the Swiss franc from skyrocketing into stratosphere?
I've even imagined the United States looking more like Switzerland today if the Seventeenth Amendment had never been ratified.
This is actually the most plausible reason. Macs for example got the ability to play your purchased 4K content long after tvOS.
Mmh Switzerland has one of the best public transport system in the world, and it is heavily subsidized (https://www.voev.ch/de/Service/Downloadsindex.php?section=do...). How does this fit with your ultra-capitalism-one-pays-for-everything description?
I continue to fail to understand.

Is it not the case that if the popularity of Edge Chromium becomes close to that of Google Chrome, then your argument will apply just as well, i.e., if either Google or Microsoft tries to do something evil the other will resist?

Why is whether the 2 project descend from the same codebase the decisive factor? I would've thought that the decisive factor is whether the second project is willing to deploy developer (and managerial) resources to the same extent as Google is willing to, i.e., many hundreds of full-time developers, each earning over 100,000 usd per year (and sufficiently competent managers).
Walk them through the history of Propaganda.
> kids from poorer parents on average stay poorer themselves

It's possible for that to be true and for there to be differences between generations. They're not mutually exclusive.

> Some stand to benefit from fueling these narratives

...and some stand to benefit from suppressing them. Attribution of motive - to unspecified people, even - is a non argument.
That's because its use is banned. Until 1972, sperm oil was a very common additive in auto transmissions without an equivalent replacement. After the ban of its use, reliability of transmissions dropped by an order of magnitude: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sperm_oil#Applications

It took banning whaling and putting the sperm whale on the endangered species list and banning the sale of sperm oil to stop its usage. I have a feeling fossil fuels will be the same. Even if many countries no longer use coal for primary electricity production, fossil fuel use will continue at far-too-high rates until there's effectively a global ban on net CO2 emissions.
It is an Alpha, according to the site text ("Alpha Micro Eagle 300"), just not a DEC Alpha processor. Seems like it's probably a 68000?
Congress used to have an office which would inform them of how things work, but unsurprisingly, proceeded to dismantle it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Technology_Assessmen...
Well, it does in some ways. It makes it easier to pay employees in stock, which could be seen as an operating expense. A company could issue equity for financing at high prices like Shopify and Twilio did recently. Debt to equity is also used as a leverage characteristic.
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You betcha. Capitalism implemented correctly.
The best thing we can do is bombard them with requests of data disclosure. The bureaucracy ensuing might put them out of business.
The mere existence of an observed phenomena doesn't imply that some other set of phenomena doesn't occur. It's about determining what can be observed. It's making sure that we don't see patterns where there are none. It's also about making the case of whether the observation is a problem at all, or whether it is just a point of interest and that are goals might be to determine what sort of set of problems we are trying to solve.

In my estimation, the most powerful argument for career obstacles is about competency, pay, opportunity. You need to be educated in order to do anything. You need to get paid so that you can survive, and you need the opportunity of a position in order to get paid. The obstacles from this follow the ordering:

I need to survive, I need something to do, I need to live a life that is not full of suffering (so much that I can even control that), and to do that I need to take on responsibility and work so that there is both something to do, something to reduce suffering, something to get paid for, so that I can survive. I need to be competent because the market pays people based on this notion that you should be educated so that you can actually get any job. Otherwise why be educated at all.

Given this, I would think that the goal of a university would be to reduce the price/performance ratio of a tuition at all possible efforts so that the level of competency can be obtained through quality education at a reduced cost while balancing the incentives such that the resources funnel to the right places where problems can be best solved. In my estimation, this is not even close to what is happening and it's where I would hope things start moving forward - since in large part it appears to the largest possible obstacle for people.
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Voldemort:

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Building Meltano in Public: October 2019 in Review
I am wondering if this question puts the cart before the horse. Can we first ask: why is intelligence the thing that makes a living being valuable and worthy of respect? What about being a part of something bigger than itself? Being consistent, strong, rooted, and durable? Being non-judgmental or generous? Happy to exist in stillness right where it is?

From the Tao Te Ching to Chris Arnade's "Dignity" I really have found many reasons to become disillusioned with "intelligence" as a virtue.
I tried to adjust the time on my alarm clock
I've done that over my entire career. It's always been a requirement. To say you can't find time for it is the same as saying that you can't find time to complete development.
I think where it loses me is that they are basing it on the nominal "market capitalization" of cryptocurrencies, which as is usually brought up on HN, are sketchy as hell.

I'm not sure what a better way to compute the "volume" of the manipulation would be, however.
By your very logic it is equally fair to say that people who want a big city can go move to one, though.
AFAIK, nothing else has a concept quite like Zones. Jails are a subset. Containers in the Linux sense are made from pieces that are small subsets.
The social benefit to storing value is de-risking against the future (2). I keep some money in my bank account so that if I need to buy food for a month with no source of income I can(1). If the money in my bank account buys a third as much food tomorrow because it lacks stable value as a store, that's bad for society, because if I'm going to starve to death, I might as well use the remaining energy I have to burn some stuff down or eat the rich.

(1) Ideally, I of course live in a society that doesn't consider it acceptable to let people starve to death and has a secondary system for routing food from supply to necessity without demanding I exchange stored value for that food, lest I die because I have no measurable stored value. I'm using a simple model here, and we can probably move the particulars around to find something that a society doesn't provide which is considered valuable enough that people store up private wealth to acquire it (and lacking the ability to do so, would resort to burning the system down).

(2) There is probably an interesting question in whether such privatized de-risking against the future is actually a societal benefit (because of the risk that it becomes simple hoarding). Is that risk why you have discounted value-store as a societal benefit?
I never figured out why the cobalt has to come from the Congo. There are cobalt mines in North America that are sitting idle. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobalt,_Ontario