skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wasn't just talking about water guns or toys. Plenty of actual firearms were not designed to kill people, and would do a pretty poor job of it if you tried.

Realistically, a pair of golf clubs would be more dangerous in trained hands than whole swaths of competition and small varmint guns.

This is the problem with society at large - rather than seek to understand gun culture, you dismiss it as being all about killing people, and that couldn't be farther from the truth.
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A completely non-radiating mass — that’s smaller than any black hole we’ve seen — in a binary orbit with a radiating star.

Doesn’t this fit the general criteria of a Dyson Sphere or Swarm?

Not to be all tin foil hat, just neat to think about.
> Instead of assuming you could lock down your internet pipe. Use a RPi as a security appliance with strong whitelisted firewall policy. At least have some insight into what traffic is going to and from your LAN.

Not only would a Raspberry Pi be severely under-powered for routing even a small home network, in no way does monitoring that "goes to and from your LAN" defend against an adversary Snowden warns about.

> Could also put in an entirely passive NIDS on a physical layer in-line with your network’s service entrance. Very difficult for anyone to defeat, when done right.

Again, I'm not sure what threat model you think this defends against, but certainly not a three letter agency intent on either tailored exploitation nor passive monitoring of your inbound and outbound network traffic by the same actor.
I didn't actually use the words 'white nationalism' and tried to make a different point about decency without blaming any one group other than maybe those that oppose immigration. There are other options besides putting people in cages, we could make it easier and much quicker to accept them legally for example. To me, its not so much about white people, its about how we choose to handle immigration. Current immigration rates are far from unprecedented, https://www.history.com/news/immigrants-ellis-island-short-p....

We could choose to do things differently and treat people with the dignity and respect that we all deserve as humans. No matter the color of our skin.
“Just-in-time code generation” the coolest language feature you never heard of
A person close to me had a driver fail to end the ride, and drove around several miles racking up charges. When she noticed this and complained to Uber, they rejected her claim. When she disputed Uber's fraudulent charge on her credit card, they blacklisted her account.
> What the rest of the world hears Spain saying is, Catalonia cannot separate and even asking the question and discussing the matter is a criminal offence

This is false, absurd, and most definitely not what the rest of the world is hearing. Please we're adults here.
GraphQL and the Rise of Universal Data Access
I mostly agree. Twitter is a private company and is free to do what they want. What I don’t agree is the CEO making the argument that he is protecting democracy. He is protecting his business.

I strongly agree that adding more information to the system (like making ads metadata open) is good for the society as a whole and might lead to better decisions, as in decisions supported by better data.

I don’t agree with the regulator idea, though. How do we make this regulator strong enough to resist corruption? It’s a tough job.
+1 for Sqitch. If you include a full deploy -> verify -> revert -> deploy flow in your automated testing suite you can pretty safely introduce changes that can be rolled back without issue. This has served my team well on several complicated databases over the past two years.
I printed this out and put it on the wall by my desk a while back because of the number of questions people were asking me about various clustering algorithms.
You're confusing what is legally acceptable versus what is morally acceptable.
lol, you're here too. This sort of reminds me of people at bars complaining about the type of people they meet at bars. :)

What does "HN-type people" mean to you?
What risks are these? When was the last serious food shortage in North America?
Don't sweat it, Medium has really ramped up some tricky dialogue prompts to get authors to paywall without their knowledge
Measles wipes out immune system's memory, study finds
I agree with your last paragraph. However, I assert that the virtues you name there are in fact more for meeting organizational needs than programmer needs.

And that's fine. As a software system gets bigger, the organizational issues come to outweigh the programming ones.
It sounds like you are overly risk-averse (I'm guessing you are not a founder?).

AirBnB is rewards versus risks, as the article author implies right at the end.

I have used a wide variety of accommodation: AirBnB, hotels, staying with friends, short term rentals, campervans, cars, outdoors, staying with randoms I have met.

They all have benefits, and they all have risks.

AirBnB has given me a huge range of different benefits, and I super appreciate that it exists.
Hotel taxes are usually high. AirBnB at its core is just a way to run a hotel without paying those.
Because if you haven't noticed, there is a general sense among the younger generations that the many, many ills of yesteryear are actually bad, not just "business as usual" and instead of tolerating them we should start to fight back.

The people who are carrying the torch of this mentality were teenagers and twenty-something during the Obama administration. Now they are all grown ups.

The better question is, why were Boomers so willing to go along with these policies (and far worse) for decade after decade?
How else do you expect them to conduct illegal activities?
Dyson spheres/swarms do radiate heat (infrared).
I believe the point being made is that those points are effective at reaching people who need little to no convincing and who are already politically supportive. The same points about historical wrongs done to other people unlike them are more likely to alienate the readers who are not currently politically supportive.

To put it another way, preaching to the choir doesn't win you more votes.
not yet. Just PDF. But we'll be working on getting it into print eventually.
The Risk of Dying Doing What We Love
I get most of those but I am confused by lack of proper nutrition? That is a new one to me. Sure it is calorie dense and processed but I thought they had all of the vitamins - although infamously insufficient fiber.

Also I didn't know training ammo used it - I thought it was mostly used just as an armor piercing metal.
I'm in a similar boat. I have a bachelors in computer science, 13 years in industry, and I'm fascinated by biology.

The other comments are very good, so I'll add things I didn't see mentioned:

* In my opinion, you have to get beyond the wow factor and figure out what you want to work on and why, rather than the how (e.g. CRISPR). I spent half a year researching this and my result was an interest in heart disease [1].

* Credentialism in biology is high, as mentioned. I'm currently in an M.S. in General Biology program. I was able to get my work to shift me to part time (20 hours/week) and I found a non-thesis M.S. program which is geared towards part time professionals (a rare program format) which is perfect for me. However, another comment mentioned biochemistry rather than general biology and there is some merit to that point, although I've appreciated the broader perspective of a general program.

* If you take the Biology credential path of M.S. or PhD, unless you go the Bioinformatics route, you'll likely need to take the GRE Biology specialty test, which was quite difficult for me with almost no biology background. It took me about 6 months to teach myself [2]. I liked the textbook "Campbell Biology" by Urry et al. as well as others, although I find the lack of citations in textbooks really annoying for the way I learn (following rabbit holes).

* Personally, I'm trying to avoid the bioinformatics route because I don't want to just be a tool of some other scientist, but I want to be a scientist myself. This is a hard path and there is some merit to others' comments about joining a biotech startup as a programmer and then transitioning to deeper biology.

* In my networking, I see a lot of people going the other way: from biology to computer/data science. Anecdotally, this seems to be largely due to points others raised: lower salary, a glut of PhDs, slow growth and conservatism of the field due to regulation, etc.

I don't know where I'll end up exactly, but I've thoroughly enjoyed the ride and I think you should scratch your itch if you can. Feel free to email me (email in profile) with questions.

[1] https://github.com/freeradical13/ValueBasedPrioritization/ra...

[2] https://freeradical13.github.io/
That was a pretty common sentiment and even law for quite some time. A bunch of people died and/or devoted their lives to changing that.
>...Though the most successful founders are usually good people, they tend to have a piratical gleam in their eye. ...They delight in breaking rules, but not rules that matter. This quality may be redundant though; it may be implied by imagination.

>...we asked [Sam] what question we could put on the Y Combinator application that would help us discover more people like him. He said to ask about a time when they'd hacked something to their advantage—hacked in the sense of beating the system, not breaking into computers.

That's what you meant?! I can't see which other part you might mean - it's only 750 words. Describing it as "an essay about how he and Sam Altman prefer to invest in companies that run scams" seems as misleading as the worst of the deceptive AirBnB descriptions written about on this page. Maybe you meant to link to a different essay.
I'm having a hard time understanding if you were downvoted for correctly pointing out that "nationalism" and "white nationalism" are two very different things, or because you described both as objectionable.
There’s always been someone angry at FB. There’s no evidence they’ve ever been relevant to the business.
After the decades learning that targeted advertising to sell goods and services comes with a dramatic tracking and data gathering overreach, I'd like to ban the lot. It's still targeted manipulation. Better to have no tracking and no targeting.

Allow opt-in targeting by allowing classified ads, old-school newspaper and Computer Shopper style. Otherwise I think it is now pretty clear the cost is too high.
> Every programming job I’ve ever had in the U.S. was for a company that was staffed by at least 90% foreigners.

Where the hell are you working? I'm going to call bullshit, because it's really not that easy to get a work visa in the US. You're saying 90% of your colleagues weren't US citizens?
Haven't done any comparisons against TokuDB, so can't give a deep answer there. [Edit: removed incorrect bit about tuning algorithm]. We do not offer tuning yet, but this is the initial implementation, so we'll definitely be looking at what knobs we can offer in the future.
They are similar to Kotlin's sealed classes, except there's no concept in Kotlin of an object "consuming" itself, which is necessary for maintaining safety in the API.

For example, in Kotlin, if a method on state A returns state B, there's no way to invalidate all existing references to state A. Normally this invariant would be enforced on the caller's side, or perhaps by throwing an IllegalStateException if state A is called after producing state B.
And to clarify: that also applies for PhD salaries in France, as well as "housing tax" (taxe d'habitation) both of which will be paid during the studies, so even if you just arrive for the studies and leave straight after.
But if preaching to the non-choir loses you votes, doesn't that just mean we should stop preaching 'it' altogether?
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Thank you for writing and sharing - I especially like the feature for a call for papers.

I'm adding Frab to a list of Meetup alternatives and related meeting software:

https://github.com/joelparkerhenderson/social_network_plan/b...
I don't think there is evidence to back that up, especially once you dig in to the actions of the federal government in the 60's, 70's and 80's.

But people, mostly young people, are clearly more vocal about pushing back when abuses come to light.
Democratic lawmakers call on Barr to stop opposing encryption – TheHill
Someone writes a paper using the terminology, others refer to it, and it sticks.
Time to do League of Legends next. I wonder how they would model teammates behavior?
I’m curious what kind of inducements would get you to consent to the meat grinder without duplication?
I think we've reached some singularity with regard to the obviousness of the futility of large scale content moderation on social media.
RE 1: Several languages (including Rust!) have annotations to force you to test the result code. However, they generally leave my_file in scope even in the error path, which makes bugs easier to write, and which means the File type is forced to handle all the complexity of handling the case where the file wasn't successfully loaded for it's entire API surface.

RE 2: Rust takes the C++ approach of allowing types to define their own cleanup which gets auto-invoked when the object goes out of scope, instead of forcing the calling code to worry about it. Specifically, Rust types can implement the auto-invoked "Drop" trait, basically equivalent to C++'s destructors. You only need to call close if you want to close a file early (e.g. before the end of the scope), in Rust, which is fairly rare.

I vastly prefer this approach, but it admittedly doesn't play nicely with the... less deterministic lifetimes of objects in a garbage collected system, so I can understand why Python, C#, etc. have more explicit scope syntax for cleanup.
Huh? A monad isn't a sealed class, it's a generic type equipped with the functions bind and return...
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Hate speech doesn't exist in the US, and I hope it never does. We don't need more laws deciding what an individual is allowed to say.

To your point, how is there no way to police threatening messages advertised on facebook? It seems quite easy to figure out who paid for the ad if they are indeed breaking the law with threats.
Interesting - makes me wonder if this scam is what was being pulled in my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21410039

Though in this case, the difference in price is about 50%.
In my view, at the very least, a person needs to find out whether they have any hope of functioning in a lab environment. Have you ever fixed a bicycle, or a toilet? I've worked with some really bright people from a variety of fields, and many of them would be downright dangerous to themselves and others if allowed into a lab.

Even if you end up managing a lab rather than working in one, you need to develop a sense for how a lab works and what it's like to do an experiment.
I'm surprised to see dbt make that list of yours - I don't think I've ever seen them spam the online communities I visit.
Actually, I think they're being cautious. You may be fine for now, using AGPL code, but if it's modified at some point in the future, then the viral issues kick in. That's probably what the lawyers are worried about. You can't assume that everything will stay the same.
There might be other insights that can be gathered from the data that a CGM provides though. Even for healthy individuals.
But professorTuring did not say a cause, he said "Catalonian cause".

You are right in that promoting criminal activities can help a cause in very specific cases, but I don't think is relevant here. Gandhi, MLK, etc had legitimate reasons to break the law. Unless the Catalan independentist movement can convince the international community that they also have a legitimate reason, taking the law in their hands will not help them with their objective.

By the way, the ruling government has never called the independence movement criminal. It's perfectly legal to support independence, demonstrate, create, fund and promote independentist political parties, try to change laws to achieve self-determination... All that is perfectly legal in Spain. Disobeying court orders or mishandling public funds, however, it is not legal in Spain or any other country I know.

You ask for a different approach to make a case against Catalonian independence, but I do not think this is fair. The burden of proof is not on those who think they should not break the law, but in those who think they should. If you want to form an opinion by yourself I suggest you to try to find the reasons they have to want independence, from their own sources, but crosschecking any "historical facts" you find. If after that you think they have a legitimate reason to break the law, I'd like to hear it.
Some in a snowmobile race in Alaska refused to talk to police. They found some excuse to arrest him. ACLU is suing for violation of first amendment:

https://www.aclu.org/cases/nieves-v-bartlett-17-1174

A guy setup a clothing brand called FUCT. Trademark denied because Brunetti’s application was refused on the ground that FUCT is “scandalous.” In reaching that conclusion the Board also noted that Brunetti’s website and blog contained “anti-social imagery,” was “lacking in taste,” and contained themes of “misogyny” and “extreme nihilism.”

https://www.aclu.org/cases/iancu-v-brunetti
> Cruise missiles have had similar technology for a long time.

Until GPS guidance came into use they were relatively crude terrain followers requiring a preloaded flight plan over a known terrain profile with sufficient bumpiness to protect against IMU drift. Nothing at all like this technology.
You're not considering the entire history of the labor movement in the United States, then. There were massive protests, literal battles, and many died, all to bring about better working conditions, shorter workweeks, higher pay, etc., not just for those inside those companies but across the entire economy.

Workers fighting for the rights of themselves and others isn't a new thing. Hell, it even happened in the era of medieval serfdom following the Black Death; there was suddenly a serious shortage of labor, and the serfs realized they could push for reform because the landed gentry now needed them more than they needed the gentry.
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Had a similar situation and ended up having to book someone a $2000 a night hotel room. It’s no joke being out of a room in a place where hotels are 100% sold out, or non existent. This is one of the reasons I refuse to use Airbnb in most normal situations. It’s a wild card.
What does this Members Library entail? Is it separate from the normal ebook library in some way? Is this basically saying they are getting rid of all their ebooks?
The problem is, because some misguided prejudiced people made up the bogus concept of "race" and used it to justify various forms of discrimination, we're no longer allowed to criticize the very real concept of "culture."

The people with the greatest influence over our language have succeeded in merging the two concepts, walling them both off from polite discourse for reasons known only to themselves.
There's actually a huge range in private planes. This M600 plane does about 7 mpg, 250 knots at 45 gph. A typical light jet might do 400 knots at 125 gph (3 mpg). But a light jet cannot not fly nonstop to a different continent. For these trips, a large business jet might do 450 knots at 300 gph (1.5 mpg), but only the very super rich can actually afford these. Even most celebrities will be flying the airlines for long international trips.
put yourself in their shoes. you're in the games industry, so your pay isn't fantastic but you're doing what you love.

say this is the issue that makes you want to walk out. you'd have to accept that this might mean losing not only your dream job, but a job full-stop - games is a very competitive industry and you might have a long period of unemployment.

this would have to be a "I would give up my career in the games industry for this" issue. it is for some. it's not for others.
Check out the recent Catalonia thread on HN, and tell me if mainlander rhetoric differs all that much from that of a couple of the Spanish posters in it.

I don't accuse said posters of being members of a 50 peso army. I assume that their (nationalistic) opinions are just that.

You should extend these same assumptions to China.
This system is regularly used by the German CCC to organize their conferences.
If you have any health issues, tend to those. Anxiety can be a side effect of things like blood sugar issues. Being physically healthier can help reduce the incidence of anxiety attacks.

It's generally useful to wonder what other people want or need. Most people spend a lot of their time in social settings worried about being judged by others, hurt in some way, etc.

If you are focused on putting others at ease, things will go smoother and then this success will help calm your nervousness and can lead to a positive feedback loop that goes good places.

I can be a ball of nerves, but other people have told me I don't look it. I have been told that's surprising news because I seem so calm.

That's probably in large part because I'm aware that my subjective experience of the thing and my performance aren't necessarily directly related and the important piece is performance.

(This comment is not comprehensive. I'm just hoping to add new thoughts not already covered by other comments.)
> No one has said anything about harassing Blizzard employees. What on Earth are you talking about?

"Employees said they have fielded venomous backlash on social media and in emails and been confronted by passersby while wearing company apparel off Blizzard’s campus."

From the article in question.
Which software? Body control module? Engine control module? Entertainment module? Any of the other stuff I'm not thinking of?

And once we decide which firmware in what CPU is being modified, now we get into what exactly the changes are.

In short, usually it's fine. In some extreme cases it's not.
Encryption System Could Thwart Spies and Expose Hoaxes
DuckDuckGo works perfectly without JavaScript; just use https://duckduckgo.com/html or https://duckduckgo.com/lite.
It really feels as though someone has done career JVM professionals a huge favor, sending all the upcomers to Python and PHP and Golang. Let them learn in their sandboxes, right?

Newcomers don't need connectors anyway, they need the room to experiment with syntax and such, get their head around ASCII symbols. It's great, good luck.

In my teens I wrote Snake and Dig-Dug and Chinese Checkers and whatnot. I was learning to write anything at all. But twenty years on, distributed systems are applications. Writing Golang as though it changes the paradigm is fucking silly. But learn however you want to learn.
Yeah, the first thing they'd do is upgrade guests. So now the hotel is giving you the $250 room for your $150 per night. Then they look at nearby hotels they have an arrangement with, and send you to one of those. If there are no nearby hotels with inventory they'll refund you. In many hundreds of hotel stays I've never seen this happen even to another guest.

Also most hotels do a lot of corporate business. This mutual five star crap from the "sharing economy" doesn't fly in that world. Somebody's PA has a bad experience at your hotel? No more bookings from that whole company. So shady nonsense just becomes bad business anyway.
It's even better. If it's just making stuff, you don't even need `BubbleMachine` if you have the `Bubbles` base class. You can add creation method on the class side of `Bubbles` like so:

`Bubbles class >> #newGum`
^ GumBubbles new

`Bubbles class >> #newSoap`
^ SoapBubbles new

The difference here is that the base class still serves as a true base: it will have all the common functionality for various kinds of bubbles