skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's the first thought that came to my mind. I love hearing ted nelson explain it hhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gPM3GqjMR4
It is a good effort to bring that concept to life.

This video is better
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMKy52Intac
I suspect we're looking at the exceptions here, not the rule.

RAND--born at the beginning of the atomic era RAND was and still can be seen as an extension of the federal government that also does work for other clients. Project Air Force, RAND's first and still biggest component is the civilian counterpart to "tell the Air Force when they're plans are stupid".

Bell Labs-- incubated at AT&T which enjoyed a near century long state granted monopoly in exchange for defense work and building out the national telephone infrastructure
It's defined as the slope of the electric form factor at Q^2=0. Since that is not a very helpful definition, with some hand-waving, you can say it's the root-mean-square radius of the electric charge distribution. The proton has also a magnetic radius, defined via the magnetic form factor. And something called a Zemach radius, which is a combination if them both.
I am personally excited about DNS-over-HTTPS-over-TOR. No one can see what DNS you are requesting except for the TOR hidden DNS service which does not know who you are. Seems like the best possible mass-usage of TOR. Anyhow, that is my prediction where the next DNS war takes place.
Scammers are targeting Cash App users with fake FREE-money giveaway campaigns
If you write "read it to the latest version" code for every version, you need to write that for every past version - potentially a high burden. Writing "convert it to the next version" instead is much less work for humans, and probably usually the best call, but less efficient when you actually need to read that old data. There are hybrid approaches to consider, too.

Wherever you are on that spectrum, there is code. Exercising it may slow down your test suite. It might need to be touched when you update lint rules (at least to add annotations to shut off the new rules).

Code nearly always represents some amount of debt. Code to deal with history, more so.
HELOCs are so 2007; Americans aren't using homes as piggy banks anymore
So someone making £100k can afford it more than someone making £99.999k?

Means-tested only makes sense if you have a progression instead of a hard cut-off, otherwise it creates these pits of despair.

It's similar with welfare in Germany: if you have an extremely low-paying job, welfare will "top up" your income up to the same level as someone with no job. So until you break even, working an extra hour or taking a job that pays slightly more is economically pointless because it has no effect on your bottom line: every extra Euro you earn gets deducted from the welfare benefits. This encourages undeclared work, losing the government money via taxes.
How do you reconcile this with drone strikes that take out entire weddings just to get one individual?

Or the infamous “signature strikes” that target individuals based on metadata? [1]

1. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/how-...
My friend, you should have quit this company as soon as the remote work "trial" ended. The trial was great for you: you tried something new, learned new things about yourself (turns out, you prefer remote work - what a surprise!), and you discovered that your employer isn't the right one for you. The company is making you miserable; it really is time to move on. I hope you find a better place soon.
Iranians chant 'Death to America' to mark U.S. embassy seizure
That speaks to Bitcoin's price spikes, but it doesn't explain why almost all the other ones moved almost in exact lockstep, at least in terms of momentum up and down?
I'll accept that your points seem valid, but when stacked up against the awfulness of the daily commute psychologically, environmentally, and in terms of safety, I still think more remote work is a net benefit.
Ask HN: Do Cloud and Privacy Go Together?
Thoughts? How can we reconcile them both?
The science and neuroscience behind Bruce Lee's one-inch punch
> I bet CCP is also counting on the rising nationalism in the US as well, to drive Chinese engineers back home

OP even mentioned that moves restricting hiring in China from US will help their Chinese based company.

> CCP is bad and China is bad, so every Chinese is bad

This is a very unfair summarization of the parent comment. They never implied that conclusion. Yes, the CCP is bad; And they control China and the Chinese people. But that does not say anything about the people themselves other then they are subject to the communist rules. It is a resistance to the CCP privacy practices that brings this change.
You know, I originally read this title to be referring to the marine mammal, and it didn't really seem that discordant to me, given the absurdities in the cryptocurrency world.
In practice the functions just need to be piecewise differentiable. The RELU is the canonical example for deep learning. At kinks a subderivative is used.
The 1990s were only "booming" (in the US) towards the end of the decade. The early/middle part of the decade was a recession.
I wrote a lot of xml docbook in the early 2000s. I developed dozens editor macros and bindings to make it easier for myself, and I used xslt to generate other formats (mostly html). Seems like I haven't used anything but markdown, rst, and wiki for the last decade+.
>he question is, will our representatives actually give teeth to real data protection legislation

Cant you tell, the world is run by criminals!
Its been going on for thousands of years.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5dFo_2amCM
Tech Evangelism with Gabriel Gonzalez
Are you saying that on-site employees don't "scam" their employers? This is non-sense and is the exact reason why remote work is viewed so negatively. Remote workers (just like on-site) have goals and expectations. They are also likely on company chats, answering phone calls, video meetings, etc. If the expected quantity of work is not getting done, I think this is a problem with this employee and should be looked into. Don't cast a blanket statement over every remote working because this is not the norm.
No, History is not a circle, it never repeats itself because the variables always change. Context matters.

> proposing to solve the crisis in their borders by expanding their "living space"

When you are in a crisis mode you don't have to time to wait for elections, the most likely result of social unrest is civil war. There are ample examples in very recent History.
> its value in teaching the various ethics (I don't know what replaces that).

There’s no need to replace that. Teaching people about ethics doesn’t make them more ethical[1], and people who enjoyed discussing it continued through the end of their worlds multiple times, whether the Greeks, Romans (Augustine), Persians or anyone else who saw the world they believed in died.

YC isn’t in a zero sum game. They’ll certify anyone they think is awesome as awesome. Harvard will only certify a maximum number in the matriculating class, and they certainly won’t deliberately create competitors in that space like YC did with Pioneer. YC does its very best to disrupt itself. It does pay those it’s educating and there are technically competitors to it as an accelerator.

[1] https://aeon.co/essays/how-often-do-ethics-professors-call-t...

https://faculty.ucr.edu/~eschwitz/SchwitzPapers/EthicalEthic...
I mean, hopefully it's common knowledge now that it's impossible to combat climate change by working within markets.
Some sections of society might be subsidized (poor, inputs to fertilizer industry etc) but overall the price of gas is quite high (India: $4.18 per gallon, Brazil: $4.30). Its almost at same level as California and without any activism.

During the oil highs of 2011-2012, prices reached as high as $5.5 per gallon.
I think you're being a bit disingenuous. It seems you're almost implying Chinese and Russians are being randomly discriminated against for no reason, as if the kind of thing Gitlab is worried about has never happened before. Specifically with people loyal to those two countries. Yes, it is discrimination, whether it is baseless discrimination is much more debatable.
Nothing about what I wrote "underestimates the power of a meme". Don't forget to practice reading comprehension, lazy millenial.
The notion of crude oil becoming a stranded asset seems a little silly. It will be many decades before the transportation infrastructure transitions off fossil fuels. And even then there will be demand for oil as a feed stock for chemical manufacturing (plastics, fertilizers, etc). (I'm not claiming that this is a good thing, it's just the economic reality.)
Encrypt locally.
> none of them for storing value

That one is a plus. Money is a transactional tool, speculation and storing value do not add to its main value.

As an aside, everybody that I know that ever brought some crypto coin did it for speculation. The more likely explanation is that I'm looking at the wrong country, but if speculation suddenly stoped being a main use of BTC, I would start to seriously look at it.
Chicago citizens were on average murdered .0002 times in the last year
First off no one is saying "you look like fraud", they're saying details of your purchase looked suspicious. This is the first place where people need to pump the brakes, there is not some dire sinister plot, you went to make a purchase, it looked weird, we want to make sure it all checks out. This happens _all the time_ with credit card purchases, historically from the card issuer, but card issuers are actually encouraging retailers to be more vigilant in the face of massive increases in card fraud, so now it's distributed. Honestly, whenever I've had the minor inconvenience / world-concept-shattering experience of having a card transaction declined & needing to go through around 15 mins of rectification, I've actually appreciated that they are running systems to prevent rampant fraud, because it's an even bigger pain in the ass to clean up after that than it is to endure some extra information checks on rare occasion.
We are very far away from 40% renewables for primary energy consumption. Almost all countries are very far away even if you just look at electricity.
“AI causes unemployment nightmare.”
Secular Stagnation and the Decline in Real Interest Rates
Ethereum 2.0 Berlin Hard Fork Tentative in June 2020
You want my honest answer? No fucking clue. I'm focused on cement. I've given up on tech, IT and programming and went into the cement industry to work towards a smaller CO2 footprint in cement production. It's the second largest CO2 producer on the planet behind fossil fuels. I found making apps and backend software to be a waste of time in my own desires. There's a shit ton of science in cement and infrastructure to keep me interested.

Maybe I did give a partial answer? And I'll paraphrase Neil deGrasse Tyson on this one, "You can't save the world with an app." Get INTO the industry you want to fix and fucking fix it. Enough people do it, someone is bound to figure it out.
https://resources.sift.com/case-studies/
Here are the list of companies. I don’t really use these services often if at all. So, probably
can delete them.
The time for DevSecUXOps is now!
> I mean, if there was some viable insight into biology that required eschewing leftish ideology, why couldn't it be monetized with startups?

Startups do this all the time by hiring mostly asian and white men instead of trying to match population levels. We can't say for sure if that strategy helped or hurt them, but I haven't seen any investor trying to force startups to diversify their workforce.
>In you response you take for granted what oughta be proved: that the paper would cause "public harm".

Yes, this is exactly my point: If for any paper we conclude that it would cause "public harm" then the burden of evidence should be increased. The above post does not argue that paper does or does not cause harm but that all criticism of publication is void because later papers would show the original to be incorrect. This is a very strong claim.
The problem with that reasoning is that the customer has a binary choice to make, to leave without food and have to repeat the process of finding an open restaurant and going through the process again. Add to that the fact that they already committed to a decision (the food they ordered), that they already waited for the food and it must be coming any minute now, and that it smells like food. Chances are most people would stay[0].

On the restaurant's side the decision is linear, they can judge how long they can make them wait.

I don't have data and you don't either, but I'm ready to bet no-one leaves for just waiting.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escalation_of_commitment
It's the most American American thing there is.
> He could have sent it 'traditionally' but he would have been harassed about why he was sending money abroad and wasted considerable time and effort going to a physical bank branch. Instead in under a minute he sent me some Ethereum and we both were able to confirm the transaction near immediately

Have you heard of options like TransferWise or OFX? They offer immediate transfers, lower transaction fees than ETH or BTC, etc. Using crypto in this manner is wholly unnecessary.

> I can take this money and start earning interest higher than any bank will give me within a few minutes

Earning interest? Are you talking about "HODLing"? ETH has dropped by nearly 90% since its peak less than 2 years ago. There's massive risk in holding ETH/BTC. You don't get to cherry-pick dates and claim that it's better than holding in a bank—it's not. BTC/ETH are 0-sum games, so on average nobody earns a dime of interest.
The carbon cycle includes geological processes, so your premise of a closed loop that only involves living things is wrong.
Leadership with Ben Horowitz [audio]
> they'll make their money from lithium and battery manufacturing

This isn't much of a problem though I think? It would be a problem if they bought mining rights then refused to mine causing shortages of raw materials needed for renewable tech.
Yeah, CSS selectors in JavaScript would probably be the main issue here, and figuring out if a selector path is used is a very difficult problem to solve.

I really wish we could just collectively move away from stupidly complex webpages and get back to JavaScript as optional for most pages. Once you eliminate JavaScript as a required component, you tend to design things more simply and page loads become lighter and faster.

IMO, JavaScript should only be required for applications (maps, games, perhaps video playback), with everything else using primarily HTML and CSS. That would kind of put me out of a job though, but I think it would make the internet better, and it would certainly help improve efforts to improve accessibility.
If the long distance trucking forums aren't peeping about this, maybe ask _them_ why?
I've seen 17 and even 16 year olds treated as adults in court, but 14 year olds?
You can send a stablecoin if you have a problem with volatility. There's even a native one called Dai which is outside the traditional banking system.
That doesn't sounds like a wasteful grant at all. Wasteful spending is spending on things like war and for profit insurance companies, things that suck the life out of the world.

Whereas circus arts and coconut production give life.
How to Select the Best ISPs for Your Small Business in 5 Easy Steps?
One thing that has always came true throughout my life is a phrase:
"If you don't know why, its money."

Why there is no national healthcare - money, someone makes a ton of it by preventing nationalization of healthcare system.

Everything that doesn't make sense, has better alternatives (somehow not adopted) always boils down to money :(
Google LIFE magazine photo archive
My focus was on them transferring it to third parties, regardless of any accompanying money flows, so sell vs share doesn't matter to me.

Since I didn't provide the relevant context in my last post, here's the quote from the article:

>As of this summer, though, Sift does have a file on you, which it can produce upon request. I got mine, and I found it shocking: More than 400 pages long, it contained all the messages I’d ever sent to hosts on Airbnb; years of Yelp delivery orders; a log of every time I’d opened the Coinbase app on my iPhone. Many entries included detailed information about the device I used to do these things, including my IP address at the time.
Computer Vision: Convolutions
We currently don't have technology that can sequester carbon at the scale required.
On the flip side; the client device is increasingly outside the control of the user (phones, smart speakers, TVs etc). So there's the question of how a user protects themselves against a device that may be actively or incidentally malicious.

> The network isn't (usually) under the user's control, and as a result any reasonable threat model for software running on client machines should assume the network is actively malicious.

Yes, but there is nothing about DoH that solves this in any way.
Uh I mean, not that I'm a cryptocurrency enthusiast by any means, but wouldn't prudent estate planning include a prepared will or some sort of next-of-kin document that includes a mechanism for access to your accounts/passwords/passphrases?
> Aren't the credit reporting laws pretty strictly scoped to making decisions about loans?

Absolutely not. The Fair Credit Reporting Act is one of the laws governing background checks for hiring (in addition to credit reporting), for example.

(and if it comes out that the reports referenced in the article were used by someone somewhere to reach a hiring decision, I expect lawsuits will quickly follow)
This demand whimper thing is inflaming politics very poorly in Canada. There is a very vocal and strong wing of right wing politics centred out of Alberta that blames central Canadian liberalism for its economic woes (for not building pipeline capacity and enacting carbon taxes).

Or at least that's their public line to inflame the masses while they know full well that their oil is expensive low quality oil and the world wide price of oil has been sagging for a half decade because of global macroeconomic forces that the rest of Canada has no control over.

It's becoming quite toxic, and is an example (along with Trump's nonsense coal jobs rhetoric) of the kind of thing that we are going to have to deal with as the economic and political realities of climate change become more visible.

(That, and xenophobic hostility to refugees which will inevitably increase as climate change further damages the global south.)
I'm not sure if it's clear from your comments above, but was the one year "trial" set up as an experiment, with controls and measurements? In other words, "in 2017, we were not remote, and we measured xx results. in 2018, we were fully remote and we measured yy results." Or literally, let's "pow wow" the upper management and ask them about their feelings?

I think I know the answer. I know that this is the ongoing core problem - measuring "results" is really hard. Running a business means "experiments" are expensive, and really difficult to control in a way that you can get some kind of scientific learning out of them.

I think about the Jim Collins books which were written based on decades-long studies. Certainly imperfect and vulnerable to survivorship-bias and various other issues, but still perhaps better information than any single company is able to come up with for themselves on what tactics would benefit their company more or less than others. (i.e. they may use successful tactics and profit, without knowing what the opportunity cost may be.)
I cannot recommend it enough. It's incredibly greasy, so be warned if your gut isn't used to that kind of abuse, but it's just good food
Right, it's not a score, it's just a thing you have to argue with them to change. Not a score though.
>steel rods that give the concrete strength, expand and contract at exactly the same rate as concrete.

How cool, didn't know that. Makes so much sense.
'Homeless people' are in the context of homelessness policy are not a 'shared identity' but an accurate identification of the (mutable) attribute the policy should target. It is the exact opposite of the (immutable) identity politics approach.
> BBC is slightly more reliable

You mean in general or only in the context of this article? because the BBC is certainly not a channel devoid of bias (just check this: https://www.quora.com/Why-is-BBC-called-British-Bullshit-Cor...)
Good Bye Lua
First of all YOU are the one cherry picking dates (conveniently picking the all-time high price which only lasted for a small timeframe). And now, I'm talking about DeFi (decentralized finance) where you can earn interest on top of your principal.

Also the ETH transaction fee is literally a few cents.
>Earning interest

He's talking about "DeFi" ("distributed finance") - the current craze in the Ethereum world. Various groups are offering significant interest rates for loaning out your Eth. It's hard to see how it's not another speculation bubble waiting to burst.
That graph is dramatic. I see what you mean, we are talking about economic productivity, which is fair enough.
Generation Voice
> All 7 companies were process driven companies, with discipline. The processes were not overly complicated, nor bureaucratic in nature, but they were followed religiously. If the process wasn't working everyone still followed it, but the issues were raised and addressed quickly. Which meant everything worked and made sense.

That sounds like a strict requirement for remote work to work, and intuitively so. In your experience, how was the training done for less experienced IC ?
Categorization into groups that you will or will not do business with is scoring. Pedantically explaining what sort of scoring it is doesn't change that.
Managing Servers with GNU Guix: A Tutorial
Against Empathy: It is narrow and cognitively biased
That's an interesting way to think about it. When you say "no one is trading the fundamentals", is that because of some sort of market flaw? E.g., hard to trade that way? Or because there really are no fundamentals to Bitcoin?

By the latter I mean that most tradeable instruments are based in some sort of value external to the trading. Stocks have income streams and assets. Commodities have use value. Currencies have national economies (plus central banks who will defend the price). But I'm having trouble thinking of what a Bitcoin fundamental could be.

One might say it's the collective belief its fans, I guess. But given that Coinbase now supports 30 instruments, it seems like the supply of digital currencies is potentially infinite. Which suggests the fundamental value will tend toward zero.
https://github.com/996icu/996.ICU

"The name 996.ICU refers to "Work by '996', sick in ICU", an ironic saying among Chinese developers, which means that by following the "996" work schedule, you are risking yourself getting into the ICU (Intensive Care Unit)."
Solving memory bump while migrating from D1 to D2 using array stomping
Love this. For those of us with existing colors, plugins etc in our config, any chance you plan on allowing import of existing configs? Even if just for the colors in the beginning
The best time to start interviewing was when they forced you back on site. The second best time is today.