skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you were hoping for an insightful piece written by someone with an archeological background on the subject, or even avocational interest in the subject of rock art, you'll want to keep looking. This piece is borderline ignorant, wildly factually inaccurate, and full of strange conclusions and opinion. Pass.
There's down time in virtually every job. If your employer discourages you from using down time to get better at your job, then get a new job. I did it even back in college working at a chain pizza store. I learned some management tasks, how to proof dough properly, etc. I'm sure there's some jobs out there where it's not an option, but I feel like you guys are really stretching it to find ways to say people are incapable of self improvement at work.
Last time I checked you still needed a fitbit account to use the device though.

What are the alternatives ? MS band ? Apple watch ? xiaomi ?
Probably the easiest way of going about it is just to operate "Plumber Bob's Plumbing" and "Plumber Bob Jr's Plumbing" as separate entities for a bit, and start referring business to the son's firm.
So is the story that the coaching was more ambitious than she could take or was it just misguided in general?
> Using this programming style requires a rather powerful type system, if you want to go past the simple examples the author shows and encode more complex validity conditions.

You need a strong type system if you want to encode complex constraints at compile time, but you can still encode a surprising number of conditions in weaker type systems. And if you can't enforce a constraint you care about at compile time, capturing that constraint in an ADT using sum types and runtime assertions can still provide a lot of value to anyone reading or maintaining your code.

This sort of style requires a lot more diligence and verbosity than the same code in Haskell would, but I think dynamically typed programs can make a lot more use of their type system than they usually do.

At the very least, humans can try to pick up the slack where a compiler is insufficient, and while designing your data model in Ruby as if it were in Haskell may not help the interpreter at all, it can give the programmer a lot more context about how the code is intended to work, and what assumptions it is making about its data.
Agreed, and I never mentioned repossession. I was taking about ideal notions of entitlement, not practical measures for realizing that entitlement.
After 10 years, you will definately notice a huge difference in reliability between a BMW and a Toyota.
Leveraging synergies - let's put chopped up people right back into the food chain!

And Kalanick is just the person to make that happen.
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I guess I’ll believe it when I see private flights banned or airlines banned from running SFO-JFK direct flights.

I don’t expect to see that in my lifetime (next 40 years).
Ok there’s Voter ID, as in a special card that you must get in order to vote, and voter ID, which is just a collection of various forms of identification that the government respects for the purposes of voting.

I was referring to the latter - you’re allowed to show up to vote in Canada with your passport, for example.
Not sure about the utility of an airliner flying forever unless you've got passenger pods attached to the flying batteries :D
I wonder if regardless of the design of the platform, if simply having this be the idea behind the network will attract the right people, and build the right community to make it work.
So, the coaches of an athletics program underfed an athlete to the point where she "lost her period for three years and broke five bones". Sounds terrible. The article claims:

> A big part of this problem is that women and girls are being forced to meet athletic standards that are based on how men and boys develop. If you try to make a girl fit a boy’s development timeline, her body is at risk of breaking down. That is what happened to Cain.

I wish they would expand on this a little more - are the coaches broadly incompetent or do they have a specific misconception about how to train women? What do they belive that is causing them to underfeed their athletes?
wrong-headed, it reads like.
I am not a Google employee, but from working with ex and subsequent Googlers and from interviewing Googlers, Google has some blind spots (perhaps intentional). It places more weight on algorithms (which can be gamed with study) and less weight on architecture, design, and coding.

This sometimes results in candidates who can’t code well or engineers who badly overengineer.

That said, some of the best candidates have been from Google. Perhaps getting those best people was worth a certain percentage of what I consider borderline false positives.

Also, their ahole filter is imperfect. Just as with algorithms, you have people gaming the not an ahole filter.
If you're measuring in MJ/kg, hydrogen is 141MJ/kg. Hydrogen, in terms of weight, is absolutely better than jet fuel, not worse. It's not very dense (kwh/l) though, and that could be a problem.
The crux of the issue is that the verification only tells you if the barcode is valid. However, there are no strong relationships between the barcode and the rest of the visual content (photo, numbers, dates, etc). Therefore, one can overlay malicious data around the barcode.

The fix would be to allow the verifier to independently retrieve the license details after scanning the barcode, instead of just seeing a valid/invalid message.
The citation of langsec is directly mentioned in the comment :)
> I believe our society would be healthier if there were only three or four orders of magnitude between the wealth of the richest and poorest households in our nation. Thus taxing billionaires is a Good Thing (TM) regardless of what the money is spent on.

It’s always about dragging down instead of pulling up
The "instantaneous violations" link is dead -- I was hoping to learn what that means!
ArXiv Down for 4 Hours
https://twitter.com/arxiv/status/1192508633092898816

Not the first time that it happens, but what's new is that there are almost no mirrors around anymore. Last year this worked: https://lanl.arxiv.org/ . Now? Empty folder.

I'm wondering what has been the reason for the sunsetting of arXiv mirrors. Google seems to hate mirrors to some extent, but how much should arXiv care about it? Traffic can't be that bad; even in the heydays of mirrors, no single mirror was all that popular (and the files arXiv serves are rarely >5MB in size). Are universities getting that stingy about their bandwidth?
Not to nitpick but it's almost a half a billion dollars.
Visual Studio can also help automate running EF Migrations scripts, you just provide a Connection String under EF Migrations settings in the Publish settings.

What it does under the hood is also relatively easy to script or automate in other places. It builds a script artifact using:

dotnet ef migrations script --idempotent

That gives you a "run anywhere" SQL Server T-SQL Script (I don't think it supports other databases) that will run any migrations that don't exist in the target database (and is safe if the target database is already up to date).

Then it's just a matter of running that script on the right database.
They're pot and kettle. I don't think it matters much in the long run who the soot lands on.
Is there a high profile, competitive environment where children perform that has not resulted in a lot of damaged children?

Examples from music (Jackson Five), TV and Movie child actors, this example, and the USA gymnastics all come to mind.
That's what I get for not reading the whole comment :^)
I feel like a truly ethical recruiter would never say say "I'm sure you're going to get the offer"; either the offer is ready to be given, in which case the recruiter should just give it, or it hasn't been decided yet, and there's no guarantee that an offer will end up being given.

Of course, there may not be a lot of demand for recruiters who would not be willing to tell a candidate that they're sure they'll get the offer beforehand...
Just tried the same and then entered my email again from another browser shortly after, as you suggested. The first sign in link expired but if your email client displays threaded messages you could very easily click the second and think nothing of it.

That would allow the attacker in straight away, while also allowing your original browser in with a bit of faff. There's an active session list, but presumably most users wouldn't be looking at that.

Certainly made me more sceptical as I was otherwise quite interested!
It could just be as bad as Microsoft's AI that was racist
Not true: https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/i...

None of this is relevant to my original point: future pandemics.
There are people rich enough in this world that they could probably buy a chip fab 'money down' from their own finances. If that is somehow exaggerated, there are certainly people rich enough that they could buy, say, a shoe factory, or a brewery. The point still stands.

Also, even if you involve a bank: the rich daughter can get credit to buy a factory, while the worker in the factory certainly could not.
I'm a lot less worried now, actually. Google's model doesn't include the outright sale of data. The way Fitbit was going, I thought they'd lose control of it somewhere.
Labor regulations (an example would be increasing the minimum wage, $15 an hour gets thrown around and would provide workers with a living wage). Universal healthcare, preventing destitution from medical expenses and increasing worker mobility. Subsidized education preventing the need to go tens of thousands of dollars into debt for a degree employers can require at no cost to themselves. Big fan of a Green New Deal; the country needs a massive infrastructure overhaul, and it'd provide quality jobs to participants.

You squeeze more from capital (who has been raking labor over the coals for the last 40 years) for labor. What's capital going to do, leave the country? We'll tax it on the way out, and we still get to keep the market if you want access to it from the outside.

Disclaimer: My politics are firmly in the democratic socialist camp. Allow success, but not too much, and make failure cheaper and less painful.
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When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

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near-infinite virtual memory, yes, but there's practical limits to what the hardware can support.

After exhausting actual RAM, and swap - there's nowhere else to put things... so you'll crash anyway.
They're used in Smartphones too in the form of S.A.W. filters.
Hi y'all, I'm a founder and engineer at Pipedream, and I wanted to share this workflow I wrote to automate a personal problem I had and show off our tool.

Spotify no longer notifies you when a playlist you follow adds new music, so I wrote a little Node.js code to list all the playlists in my library owned by others, and checks them for new tracks once an hour.

The code for diffing tracks is a little complex, but Pipedream makes it easy to connect my Spotify account and run Node code that uses the OAuth Bearer token tied to my OAuth grant. It hosts the code and runs the job on a schedule, giving me inline observability, emails me on errors, built-in state via the this.$checkpoint variable, etc.

Would love feedback on the workflow and the product. Pipedream is still a young product, so we'd love to know what we can improve. Thanks!
> In the context of a mindfulness meditation retreat, though, yes, it's counterproductive to get high while meditating.

Counterproductive to what, and in what way?

> The vast majority of people who are trying to "find themselves" or heal or figure out "the meaning of it all" or whatever, should stick to prayer and/or meditation with an experienced teacher and leave drugs alone.

Why is that?

> You mean formal scientific studies? No, but then I've never looked. Science hasn't had a good track record for studying the inner world.

So all of the advice you're handing out is simply your opinion?

> It's hardly a secret that responsible teachers of meditation are united in decrying the use of drugs, eh?

I haven't heard many opinions, but even if they are, so what? Upon what is their opinion on the matter based, their own opinions?

>> Simple muscular relaxation is about 90% of the profundity most folk experience with meditation.

> Is this based on studies of some kind?

And you proceed to tell me more "facts".

Where do you pick up all of these ideas?
Then when you read James Madison defined the Senate as protector of the rich, a legacy fed to our Senators since childhood, you realize wealth accumulation has nothing to do with organic economic trade, and everything to do with political power brokering.

That it’s somehow dictated by physics is another example of people with emotional minds filled by godheaded supervisors that social hierarchy is preordained, not the uglier truth: the elite and their sycophants get violent when it’s pointed out they aren’t gods owed political deference
Maybe not but I can count on one hand the number of times I've truly needed that property. Compare to a try-lock or a timed lock for example.
"Eschew flamebait. Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents."

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Please see also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21477839.
In the short term, maybe. In the long term, the monarchs lost their power for a reason.
State being anyone who can get a court order, including another company or individual with legal grounds to peruse you.
She thought she was joining Nike to be an athlete, but she was really joining to sell shoes. Can’t have a thick muscular woman as a poster girl, that won’t sell shoes!

Edit: It’s sarcasm. Clearly Nike doesn’t actually care about athletic ability if the only goal of their coaching was to get their female athletes to lose weight.
The barber pole was originally an advertisement for surgery and more.

If I recall, Red meant bloodletting, White meant teeth, Blue meant haircuts.

The Joe Rogan interview with Lindsey Fitzharris was a lot of fun. (also the interviews with elon musk, john carmack)
He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation.” - Mark 16:15

Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age. - Matthew 28:19-20

Give praise to the Lord, proclaim his name; make known among the nations what he has done. - Psalm 105:1

For this is what the Lord has commanded us: “I have made you a light for the Gentiles,that you may bring salvation to the ends of the earth.” - Acts 13:47

Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect. - 1 Peter 3:15

There's plenty more than these if you need them. Sharing the good news of what God has done has historically been one of the greatest goals of Jesus followers.
"n our latest study, we found more than half of some 100,000 tweets about two female Muslim congressional candidates in the 2018 midterms (both of whom would eventually win historic victories) involved outright hate speech. What's more, the bulk of the harassment and provocation came from a small cohort of troll-like accounts. These amplifiers didn’t simply retweet news stories and spam links. Content wasn't necessarily their primary weapon; connectivity was."

The problem is that we don't really know who runs these troll accounts. White males from the US get the blame for these troll accounts, but the reality is probably much different.

I would also like to see the definition of 'hate speech'. This category is so broad now that I find its labeling useless.
You must realize game developers have the majority of the responsibility, since they are the ones making these notorious business models. When I was a kid, you used to buy a game once, and then play it for as long as you would. I still love some of the games released for DOS.

Interestingly enough, even old DOS games are much better than the crap released and mass produced through the Internet. People are stupid for buying into it. I used to be one of them, but I never paid for in-game stuff, and eventually I simply lost interest because it actually ruined the gameplay completely.

The article is clearly blowing things out of proportion, framing it as if Facebook was responsible, when in fact there is much more to the story. It's really unfurtunate, because the credibility of journalism is under attack already, and releasing biased junk like this will not help. Start-ups are never perfect, and if you dig hard enough, especially in big companies, you will find some dirt.

Then again, some things also just happen by accident, not necessarily because it was a conscious decision to do bad things, which is also clearly not the case here, unlike what the article falsely claim.
I disagreed with your interpretation of what I wrote. I don't think it's worthwhile for me to have an opinion on what you're implying.
I'm teaching myself the law and have assertively put a bully attorney in his place.

Like all people bullies go after easy targets. Don't be one.

Make it cost them more than it's worth to fight you.
I can't wait for the time when users fear for their privacy when they buy a non-free hardware with non-free software installed on it.
If by "organize people," you mean induce people to work for them then, no, that is not work. That is using the coercive nature of capitalism (work or starve/be homeless/die) against workers.
It's
1) theoretically possible in generalized fashion (although the language could make things easier)
2) it does exist in loose sense if you consider actor models (like someone else was mentioning)
It’s impossible for 99% of people to save enough money to buy the kind of care your children would provide you. Not even considering how well someone would tend to wiping your butt, but the emotional benefits of being surrounded by family are probably not able to be replicated.
The most amazing thing about the Mona Lisa to me was the rest of the room. It also wasn't that crowded (2009ish).
We've asked you many times to stop taking HN threads further into flamewar. If you keep doing it we will ban you.

Religious flamewar is particularly unwelcome. You've done a lot of that on HN in the past. No more please.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Ask HN: How can a platform engineer become an app developer?
I've started my career in tech (following a coding bootcamp) with two years as a platform engineer, and have moderately good skills doing that - automating the deployment, maintenance and upgrade of platforms that run other people's apps in the cloud.

How can I become an application developer?

I have very limited skills in regular programming - actually writing applications. I can script a bit in ruby, am alright with linux, bash and infrastructurey stuff, and write a good pipeline. But I barely know how to write a basic 'hello world' web app. I feel like it would take years of my free time skilling up if I tried to get to the point where I could be hired at anything other than entry-level (like a candidate fresh out of university).

Do I just have to suck it up and apply for entry-level positions, and accept that I have to take a big pay cut?
You don't need to sync your data. Delete your account and just write down your daily stats with a pencil if you like. The device will automatically discard old data when it fills up.
I agree, these things should not be banned but they also should not be for the super rich only, this should be standard options on a child.
It's pretty well known that increased policing doesn't decrease crime. These are the same tactics in new clothes used to target PoC. Even if the ML is _working properly_ the biased nature of the existing justice system is going to cause it to target PoC disproportionately.
> That’s why small business use them for ‘selling household items or organizing ride sharing’

Not organised by small businesses, it has nothing to do with any company. Just some dude(s) (or gal(s)) that run(s) a group called "ride shares between Cologne and Koblenz" where people post when they'll be driving, or "fleamarket Cologne" where people post their stuff (not sure how this isn't just a bad/limited replacement for ebay, but that's what I see Facebook being used for).

As for replacements for the other parts of Facebook/Instagram, I don't know because I didn't switch away from using Facebook or Instagram: I've never used it. If you mention what you use it for, I can tell you how I achieve those goals instead. If it's keeping up with people, it's by meeting and chatting. Or if they don't have chat, then email and meeting. Or if you mean how to share pictures, I guess that would again be email or chat.
Four seater aircraft have been around since the first decade of flight, and I'm not sure batteries are going to solve the cost and logistics issues of using them as taxis, except in edge cases where there's a mountain in the way.

Flying anywhere near as far as from Birmingham, Alabama to Fort Collins, Colorado is also an exceptionally hard problem for electric aircraft.
Please provide your reasoning.
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Due to the inequality of the world, it is unlikely we would rid ourselves of something entirely before we realise we need it.
Exactly. Very hard to argue in court that this constitutes a fraudulent conveyance.
If you mean "what externalities would come from using fuel made using an air-to-fuel process, rather than from oil", then perhaps none.

If you mean "what externalities would come from turning CO2 into fuel and then burning it again to fly an aeroplane, rather than not flying that aeroplane", then that is a complicated and somewhat open question:

https://www.carbonbrief.org/explainer-challenge-tackling-avi...
> It's bad assumptions all the way down.

It always is. The moment you can shine light between your model of what the code does and what it actually does you have at least a bug and maybe much worse.
What are you talking about? everything in this country is privately made

Every storefront, vehicle, food item, article of clothing, the device you are reading this on, is all made and funded privately

Government is a net cost on society
That's actually a good point. Even if the tesla app reverts to its default state when the phone is locked, one might pocket their unlocked phone while "come to me" is shown.
>Can’t have a thick muscular woman as a poster girl, that won’t sell shoes!

Serena Williams would beg to differ.

Instead of shrinking from her body shape or her age or her motherhood, she has embraced them and she and her brand are stronger for it. Of course, not everyone has the ability and confidence of Serena Williams.
New York Fed Adds $115.14B in Short-Term Liquidity to Markets
They scrape email for cross selling already, I could totally imagine seeing them use heart rate data to segment their audiences by happiness. Then they can show you ads when you are more likely to convert when you are happy/awake/resting etc. Slimy but not without precedent.
> This society is full of awful things. It seems strange to me that people single-out Facebook in comparison to whatever other forces exist out there.

So... you live in a cave?

The piles of lies and bullshit which comes from Facebook management is mountainous, about the only companies which I feel have bent the bullshit meter as far are oil companies and perhaps Comcast and they are despised as well.