skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a fine idea, but ISTR that if you do this too often to what they consider validly killed comments then they just tune your vouching value to zero. You have no way to know this, so it's really hellvouching.
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Gas pumps stop working too when utility power is out. Can charge your electric car at home from solar if you have it (and in California, solar is mandatory on new residential roofs of new construction starting in January of next year).
this article is placed in the public view right AFTER well-publicized, large-scale enforcement efforts. The cynical view is that this article names a long-term problem in the public venue as a pre-cursor to yet another budget "ask".. and the budgets are already very, very large.. a working tech person would be shocked at the stability of money flowing to a small'ish group of uniformed people and their contractors.
With interviewing I think it's a bit different. At least in my mind it is. As someone who has interviewed people over the years, I don't give feedback because of the way nearly all human beings operate. Specifically, if I were to tell someone, for example, that they came off as abrasive or based on the things they said in the interview it sounded like they were a bit too controlling or possibly micromanaged previous employees and projects, most people will take that feedback and simply try to mask that in an interview rather than actually trying to change their core personality. Meaning the changes are just for the sake of appearance and then you get a nasty surprise when they start working for you and only then do you find out who you actually hired. I'd much rather not give feedback for this reason.

Some of the biggest surprises and worst hires I've seen is people who are extremely slick in interviews. My mother has similar stories from working for a major financial institution for 35 years. She had consistently told me growing up over the years that half the time the best educated folks were all super slick in interviews and stellar on paper and then lazy as hell on the job.
* It's not like he's buying up copyrights to sue or anything.*

Effectively, he is. Whether it's buying, licensing or taking an option (what he actually is doing)... he's basically acquired the right to sue for money and keep the earnings. The troll business model is the same whether he's formally representing clients for a (presumably large) cut or buying up portfolios.
More regulation is good for big established players (who have money to spend on lobbying) and it is bad for small/new businesses.
Having unstructured text reliably be in log files is far better than having a broken log daemon forced upon you.
I've started to see _engagement_ as a mal-feature. One thing I prefer about Mastodon is that its much less engaging than twitter, which is psychotically optimized to keep my eyeballs on it.
It's the same thing with speaking submissions for conferences, for example. Sure, sometimes submittals get flatout rejected because the abstract is incoherent, it's not an appropriate topic for the event, or it reads like a sales pitch. But far more aren't rejected so much as they're not accepted for any of a host of reasons.

That said, providing explanations also invites arguments and hard feelings if they don't agree with your reasons or just think you're unfairly favoring someone else.
BTDT. But I've also spent time thinking "uh, is this someone who warrants a polite explanation, or will that be a mistake?" It's not easy. Spammers will try to exploit anything you do, anything at all.
That's true, but these polyfills weren't necessarily perfect. E.g., IE7 or 8 (I forget exactly which version - it's a long time ago) not supporting rounded corners on buttons.
I used to be a news photographer and had this happen to me before. My “deal” with the publication: pay me my normal rate for the photo and hire me for a future assignment. Turned out I had a pretty good relationship when them after that. A win-win for everyone. But just going for the jugular is counter productive: you lose out on a future customer by attempting to destroy them in court over a $220 photo.
I just came across this site. Its a fascinating read, clearly a labor of love watching a loyal community, customer base and fan base betrayed repeatedly by false promises.
The article cites this leak which is in English
https://bbackdoors.wordpress.com/2019/10/08/us-hands-against...
North Carolina held out against having a state lottery for a very long time. The corrupt pols eventually won. The money supposedly goes to education. In reality, it goes into the general fund. That is of note because unlike other states where I have lived, North Carolina seems to rake in a lot of money and little to no overt signs of where the money goes. I live in a different state now and I think I can tell that the tax dollars here aren't being stolen to such a high degree. NC had all kinds of taxes but I had a tough time seeing where any of that money actually went.

Living in NY, you knew it was all corrupt unions and such, so you never had to wonder.
My first deep dive into the open source contribution community was Open Indiana in 2017. I really love how welcoming this community is to newcomers, and how well the communication is between members.
I'm guilty of that sort of thing as well (doing something complex without enough training to properly code it).

Story time to drive home my points: I started 7 years ago, fresh out of uni with a diploma, but not enough experience, and did something overly complex, with a lot of frankly bad code. Then, 5 years ago, we expanded the team (which means I was no longer the sole developer, but we were now 2).

At first, I was not satisfied with the other developer (fresh out of uni as well). Instead of trying to fire him, I bit the bullet and answered every question, took a lot of time to explain things to him. Yes it slowed me a lot. It also forced me to up my game to make our codebase readable (not MY code, our codebase), add comments etc...

In the end, he is now a valuable team member (we are still only 2 devs, with the occasional intern) who knows most of the codebase as well, if not better, than me. It has been the case since about 3 years (it took him 6 months to have a decent development speed, and about 2 year to develop at about the same speed as me). Neither of us consider himself a "rockstar" developer and that's fine. We work as a team, and as a result our code is better, faster, more readable and as less bugs. I couldn't achieve that level alone no matter how much I tried.

To sum up: train them relentlessly, without loosing patience, and use that as an opportunity to make the codebase more readable.

You didn't mention how much time those engineers have been working with you though. Common knowledge is that it takes at least about 3 months to be proficient with a codebase you are new to. More if you are not experienced.
Weird, it’s almost like the cabal of secret liberal propagandists is a lie to protect a political bent that is constantly at odds with the facts.
Producing water vapor is irrelevant. The water will just condense and come back out in one form or another. Produce all you want, humidity is naturally limited.

As your linked article puts it: "water vapor does not control the Earth’s temperature, but is instead controlled by the temperature".
Threw in $50 as well.
My impression is that only part of the ownership has changed, and that's part of the reason for this lawsuit. David Mikkelson owns 50%, while Barbara Mikkelson sold her 50% to the shareholders of the company that handled Snopes' advertising. Those people have since been in a legal battle with David and/or Snopes, and now acquired Salon, which apparently they're now using to continue their legal battle? It's not really clear what Salon has to do with the whole thing, other than that it got acquired by the people suing David Mikkelson/Snopes.
Last time I went around the local church, they still had a lot of gold on the building
If your company cannot train junior engineers, perhaps you shouldn’t hire them. Doing does a disservice to all involved.
Personally I’m fond of gcc
Soldiers with top secret clearance forced to use potentially insecure app
My users and I both already paid an eyewatering price to get our Macs. Why should I have to pay to distribute my non malware app, which might even be free and open source, because my users want to defend against other people's malware?

Why is Apple blackmailing the industry over malware protection instead of making it a core part of the OS experience? I'd rather have malware protection than losing my Esc key or redoing the app window background textures yet again.
Snopes fact-checking the satire site Babylon Bee suggests to me that their days of being a valuable resource are over. Any reasonable people at Snopes apparently no longer have any influence.
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Since Snopes has already won an "anti-SLAPP" legal motion against Proper Media's defamation case against Snopes, I'd say that's evidence that Proper Media is abusing the system in a way that's subject to anti-SLAPP statutes.

https://www.snopes.com/uploads/2019/06/anti-slapp.pdf

Snopes Prevails in Anti-SLAPP Motion.
Truth is "an absolute defense to any libel action."
SNOPES STAFF, PUBLISHED 16 AUGUST 2019.

https://www.snopes.com/snopes-anti-slapp-motion/

>Snopes filed an anti-SLAPP motion against Proper Media, Schoentrup, and Richmond, and as expected, the Snopes fact-checkers prevailed. The court held that the statements in question were true, were not defamatory, and/or were published outside the one-year statute of limitations, and therefore struck down the claims brought against Snopes based on those allegedly defamatory statements.

Ironically, here's a Salon article about SLAPP lawsuits:

Real free speech threat isn't on campus: Rich use courts to silence foes.
How the wealthy use frivolous lawsuits to silence activists, journalists and even victims of sexual violence.
AMANDA MARCOTTE.
SEPTEMBER 12, 2018.

https://www.salon.com/2018/09/12/real-free-speech-threat-isn...
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It could even be simpler than that.

We simply require each outbound phone call deposit $1 in escrow. After 60 days, if there’s no claims the money is returned.

Whenever someone gets a spam call, they can *69 it to mark as spam. That escrow dólar is then split between the consumer and the carrier.

Consumers who are heavily spammed are incentivized to report it.

We just need to make spam calling unprofitable to solve the issue.
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It could be a self fulfilling thing, if the CTR increases on a search listing (because it appears newer to the user) that listing generally moves up because of higher CTR.
I had always assumed Thanks Giving was similar to the Harvest Festival celebrated in (at least) England (and assumed other parts of UK).

Just being thankful for a good harvest.
I'll bite... what are we titrating in the arctic and deep sea?
> If instead, the search algorithm loops through data in a cached index server, that's no longer "search in a distributed way" that the gp was originally wondering about.

So DNS isn't distributed because my computer caches queries?

I think this is arguing semantics rather than practicalities.
Centralization isn't binary -- it's a continuum, and we care about it because of the benefits it provides, not because we think it's an end in and of itself. What we care about is the ability to aggregate search results from multiple places, to bypass search if we have a specific video URL that's being shared, and to build our own search engines without running into copyright problems.

If all of those goals can be accomplished with a caching server, then does anyone actually care if it's technically decentralized?

> So, the index server with the "good experience" as perceived by users will be the one that also includes the actual videos -- basically acts as a CDN -- and this emergent behavior of user preferences defeats the decentralized ideals of p2p video.

My reading of this argument is I might as well just host my blog on Medium, because Google search is just another point of centralization. And after all, for speed reasons users will prefer to use a search engine that hosts both the blog and the search results -- so eventually Google search is definitely going to lose to Medium anyway.

But of course Medium isn't going to unseat Google, because in the real world speed improvements are relative, and at a certain point users stop caring, or at least other concerns like range of accessible content and network effects begin to matter a lot more.
Also relevant: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/03/us/snopes-babylon-bee.htm...
I don't recall that being mentioned in Bernal Diaz del Castillo's "The Conquest of New Spain". I've also read "The Broken Spears", an Aztec account of the conquest which was recorded once surviving members of the Conquest or their descendants had learned written language. In both accounts, it appeared that there had been forewarning of "Gods" from the east who would conquer the Aztecs from the priestly / ruling caste of the Aztecs. The whole story is really quite interesting, but wearisome on ones soul, I would highly recommend both books if you have the constitution for it. Werner Herzog recommends reading "The Conquest of New Spain" to "... understand the hearts of men."
It's the same pathos vs logos argument that has been well documented over the last 3000+ years. Emotion and logic have always been at odds.
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You are right, I didn't mean to imply that. But I did feel that in that moment on the phone, he regretted giving me a chance to speak (but I have no way of knowing that... maybe he knew exactly what he was doing). I genuinely didn't expect him to change his mind but I didn't want to make the same mistake, whatever it was, in my next interview.

In the end, it worked out for everyone. I spent 11 years there, finally leaving after we sold the company, and still keep in touch with many of them.
There's a styling engine[1], but appartently it's still in beta[2]

[1] http://plantuml.com/en/skinparam

[2] http://plantuml.com/es/style-evolution
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Thanks, I'm having a great time reading about Anachronox!

If you play on Windows, it's $5.39 in GOG: https://www.gog.com/game/anachronox
TikTok Revamps Lobbying as Washington Targets Chinese Ownership
I think it's simply that the intrinsic act of telling someone why they failed to get a job is likely to be unpleasant for the person doing it and that person has absolutely no incentive to do it.

Why would they do an unpleasant task they don't really need to do?
> ... Direct electrolysis of seawater rather than freshwater is highly significant, especially for the arid zones, since this technology not only stores clean energy, but also produces fresh drinking water from seawater. ...

There seems to be a step missing from that statement, specifically, oxidation of the electrolytically-generated H2 through combustion or in a fuel cell. Assuming that step, the water is pure, and there's no need for reverse osmosis which is itself quite energy-intensive.

This might be a key point to consider with industrial hydrogen generation rather than, say direct capture of solar energy in a battery. Direct capture yields energy only, whereas electrolysis of seawater yields potable drinking water and energy.
Here's the relevant FAQ entry for that: https://joinpeertube.org/faq#what-is-peertube-s-remuneration...
Seriously why the downvotes? Because I said to stop contributing? Or because you have confirmation bias with op and are angry at dissenters? It makes no sense. I was proving how commenters comment was inaccurate. You can say one thing at the beginning and convey a totally different attitude at the end. I don’t understand the downvots.
People are surprisingly heavy too
First home brain-zap device for depression launched
All the software I use on a daily basis is pretty much good enough. I'd be thrilled if everybody decided to freeze development of new features and instead dedicate all their resources to fixing bugs for a few years.
pipx looks nice. Is there any way to persuade it to install 'wheel' before it installs the desired package?

That way 'pipx install foo' can download and install wheels rather than downloading source distributions and building/installing them...
Personal bias: Snopes is a legitimate fact-checker. That said, for a so-called fact-checker, "pretty impartial" is not acceptable.
It improves the payload fraction of total mass. That is generally better. But you might have to factor the expected total mass into the design. If you want to transport the payload mass of a 747 in lead bars, the smallest plane that can fit the volume will certainly not work. But a plane designed for that lead load would be far more efficient than a 747 (or modern equivalent) that is flying almost empty by volume.
The Java Black Book was my favorite a long time ago - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Java-Black-Book-Steven-Holzner/dp/1...

I learned React using Stephen Grider online courses.
> if we simply run out of new things to discover that make a difference for us as a species, what then?

Nothing left to do but live a good life and to try to make sure everyone is fed, happy, and treats the earth and everything else in it as well as they can.
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I'd like to hear HN's take on ShareLock. I think the service is ingenious; my only issues after using it for so long:

1) The 500 character limit

2) If you enter someone's Gmail, and it's actually one of their aliases, then they can't decrypt the message when they sign in.
Maybe not but if the state doesn't have them, they will play underground ones. The state ones are guaranteed to pay with low likelihood of fraud. The underground ones have no such promise. I understand that you wish poor people wouldn't gamble but they tend to so given that they will, what is the better solution? State run or underground?
I don’t use any of them.

Every one I know is being bombarded by their paid speech though.

So even non-users have a legit argument to regulation.

I can politically assert my right to a world that isn’t bent towards paid speech.

The most important bias we don’t discuss in our algorithms: they’re all designed by paid workers. They’re designing to improve their pay.

I don’t owe Facebook, Zuckerberg, or anyone on this forum my deference to the economic ideas of dead men next November :shrug:
Sounds like the kind of story a tour guide would tell tourists who skew more blond-and-blue-eyed than the typical Spanish conquistador. Evidence of Norse settlements in America is pretty much limited to Canada; so even legends about them as far south as Mexico would be a big deal.
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China has been building nuclear plants for decades. They have a huge body of practical experience. I don't think "same level of nuclear technology" is the issue, because plants tend to be built with proven tech, not raw research.

Cost is a huge issue for nuclear power. It could sort-of compete with coal, but not with cheaper modern sources. This is a bitter pill for nuclear proponents to swallow. It's easier to blame irrational environmentalists and their unnecessary regulations than to accept that a fetish technology is not actually economically viable.
Then you probably don't have the strict consistency and durability requirements that I mentioned. That is probably true for many use cases, but certainly not for all.

Yes, after skimming your referenced article, this is exactly the type of issue that prevents a "simple" failover when databases are involved.

Depending on your application, even returning stale data on one AZ in a split brain scenario might not be acceptable (this is a stronger requirement than not allowing non-reconcilable conflicting writes).
I had to shorten the title due to HN's size limit.
This is just another attack on the open & free internet. Why so? Since Google defines per their own metrics fast vs slow, they will imprint that impression upon the user, making an otherwise good willed user a starting bad impression on your site.

As people pointed out, this will make AMP even more attractive, driving more traffic away to Google...

Also, it may impact sites hosted on cheap far datacenters, like my user being in Brazil, and my server being in Virginia. Suddenly, my site is considered slow by Chrome, while my rich competitor who hosts in São Paulo gets the "fast" badge...

I think this kind of classification creates extra confusion and impact at no tangible benefit to everyone that isn't Google.
Anyone can start an instance and post whatever they want. Just because it has "peertube" in the URL doesn't mean it's an "official" instance or anything like that.
Everything at Google is ad related and the output from these analysis will eventually become part of Googles ad algorithm.
Isn’t that the idea with the hardware “camera is on” light on laptops? That it shouldn’t be possible to override with software? Maybe phones should have something similar.
So your belief is the lawyers in a case need to have significant non-legal business in order to not be trolling?
Why should everything get the same respect and treatment? A half broken personal blog that has no accessibility features is a worse website for a considerable portion of the population.

I'd like to see things move more in this direction. Websites that ask for notification permissions or interrupt me to tell me to sign up for their newsletter are frustrating and awful and I'd love for the systems I use to nudge me away from them.
Yes. Don't hate the player, hate the game. If the visibility of your work is determined by it's "freshness", then freshening up makes sense. If everyone does this, then Google et al will have to find a better criterion to rank by.
I wish Mozilla tools had opportunity to gain more traction, but it would seem the general population of the internet is blind to the fact that Mozilla is not only Firefox and Thunderbird. In fact many people I serviced (personal) computers for called the browser itself Mozilla.
On the other hand Firefox is great in that it doesn't push unnecessary widgets on its users. Not even on default Firefox new tab. I guess it's up to users who love Mozilla to promote it.
When trying to create a new drawing, if I select the "not in my root folder" option, it a) tries to log me in despite my already being logged in, and b) fails anyway.
I've only looked at web components casually, but the examples I saw seemed a greater mess than this. Interact DOM components, CSS, slots, JS, private DOM, ... AND plan for late-loading code and resources. ?!
I'm not even sure it's possible to acquire hardware on which to compile and test a demanding game and not have a 64 bit Dev toolchain, without going to
extra effort just to avoid 64bit for what purpose? A trivial performance improvement for an app that is resource intensive while also not needing 4gb Memory?