skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That data needs to be in a filing cabinet in case law enforcement are investigating accusations of a crime, likely with a warrant. There's absolutely no reason to be keeping such incredibly sensitive information, which presents a severe risk to the person's livelihood and life, on a public facing server because no one - absolutely no one - has any reason to be querying it from the public internet.
It's very rare law enforcement requires (by law) a realtime, self-service access to information.

Companies just choose to give them realtime access because they charge an admin fee for data access, and if it's realtime, they'll earn more.
VB6 had a feature where if you typed a previously defined name with the incorrect case it would autocorrect it for you. I used to type my identifiers with purposely incorrect casing so that the autoformatter would confirm that I had selected the correct variable or method name. I really liked that feedback.

Not that I'm saying that was a great workflow. But I liked the subtle feedback as I typed. I've also used autocompleters in the fashion you describe. Syntax highlighting can also provide this kind of feedback and I feel like these tools could probably morph into a single, more cohesive tool that provides a smoother experience than the pop-up window.
Understandable, I will look into this.
I have made a phone call. It’s not clear the phone system could be restarted. For example the control plane (SS7) is simply transmitted over the links it controls. It was built incrementally as a continually running system for more than a century and certain bootstraps/incremental elements were long since optimized out. Note that this is unrelated to the fanatical backwards compatibility at the edge which you might think would imply that it is restartable.

The Internet, I think, is restartable as long as layer 0 were available. It’s not really clear what it would mean for the Internet to need to be restarted — perhaps some attack/failure of the BGP infrastructure?
I’ve found in most cases putting the phone into airplane mode before loading the game makes them playable.

Sometimes you miss out on hints and whatnot but overall it lets me play the game with my kids without worrying about inappropriate ads.
Ugh... just makes me think of selling junk for school "fundraisers". Just let me write a check!
This is the way they should do it: https://www.verygoodsecurity.com/

Keep the data encrypted and only allow KYC providers access to the decryption keys.
Depends on who did some renovation. Heating is usually routed trough the floor. Water sometimes in or against the wall, sometimes in the floor, and sometimes in sight, but never outside... In the past gas was routed out of sight as well, but that's not allowed anymore, so you see gas pipes usually in the corner of a ceiling. You can hide this with a facade.

Walls here are made from brick. The newer buildings are either normal or aerated concrete, and sometimes split up using drywall. This totally depends what the requirements are, and the past years, construction has been more and more drywall instead of brick etc. I've never seen a single layer of drywall, and I've lived in all type of housing in Amsterdam.
I smell another round of consulting fees!
LICEcap simple animated screen captures
There are sooooo many goodies coming from the development of Chez scheme (and from Dybvig's students in general).
You are right, that will be helpful. I will find some time and add this feature.
I have no experience in astronomy or satellites, but here's my naive idea. The article suggested erasing trails from the images using software. If SpaceX made an open API that detailed the precise location of every satellite at every point in time, could the imaging software use this to know that at this location in the image there is definitively a satellite that can be erased? I'm not sure what kind of sensors these telescopes use, and it probably wouldn't solve the issue of the bright spot messing up the exposure, but at least you could get rid of the trails?
We have a job running on the back end servers here that is expected to take two weeks in order to finish :) Hearing 55 months for your backend makes me more optimistic, haha.
Wrong is a bit harsh for a convention or semantics, more like imprecisely worded.
Paraphrasing L. Ron Hubbard, the creator of Scientology: “If you want to get rich, you come up with a new psychological theory”.
Sure. I've known people who work in advertising. They all are pretty swell. They want to feel good about who they are and what they do. That's universal.

Of course, I also once worked for what was basically a scam. As a teen, I answered an ad in the paper. We did telephone-based charity fundraising. Basically, telemarketing but "for good". Turns out the average amount passed on to charities was in the 10%-15% range. The rest, we kept. Those people also felt good about who they were and what they did.

And there's no bottom to this. Scroll down here to the photo of a bunch of happy women on a day trip and see what their job was. These look like people who were trying their best to do good work. Who feel good about what they do. But what did they do? https://www.theguardian.com/books/gallery/2016/nov/22/nazis-...

My point being that you can't evaluate the morality of of a group of people from inside the frame of that group. Humans can always find a way to justify whatever they're doing. Bad things aren't done mostly by bad people. They're done by good people in bad systems. And the harm is mostly seen as external to the system, perhaps even unrelated to it.

As the study shows, advertising is intrinsically harmful to its viewers. But even if it weren't, it's enormously wasteful. It's mainly an arms race; companies mostly advertise because their competitors advertise. If we just banned it in the US, we'd have circa an extra $500 billion a year. That's free college for everyone, forever. (And that's not counting billions extra people would have from not buying stuff they don't really need or want.)

And in my view, the industry is irredeemably immoral, because manipulating people to fill your pockets is wrong. People in the industry don't think so, of course, because they either change their thinking or don't stay in the industry. You may not see Bernays as your role model, but I think his work was foundational to the modern advertising industry. And as much as I dislike what he did, I'll give him credit for at least being clear-eyed about it. The only advertising people I know who can talk honestly and clearly about what the work means are the ones who've left the industry.
Edge AI in a Smarter Chick-Fil-A
There is nothing to "believe".

If it is useful in expanding your comfort zone, it's useful, full stop. If it's useful in helping to get along with people who are different from you, it's useful, full stop.

If it's not useful to you, that does not mean it is not useful to anybody else.
Phil Plait of Bad Astronomy fame agrees with you:

https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/dont-panic-betelgeuse-is-almos...

This guy is consistently entertaining and I recommend his stuff, even if it is hosted on the somewhat obnoxious SyFy site (that name...)
No I didnt. That is so tricky about fake news. Giving it another spin by leaving out parts.
Without a biological mechanism this is just a correlation, no matter how much statistical correction they claimed to do.
This philosophy doesn't exactly work in this context; the devices are losing applications provided right now.
I'm not usually one to complain about the quality of an article, but this one seemed to be almost completely devoid of actual content. I was hoping for some actual analysis of why the projects mentioned failed, and instead didn't really get anything more than a brief explanation of what ERP and SAP are, and the fact they sometimes don't work out.
Just to make it clear that I'm not trying to kick anyone who's down: all of these jobs sound terrible. And when all your choices for work are terrible then the word "choice" is too generous. I wouldn't wish the stress or instability of unskilled labor on anyone I know. But I think people's frustration with inequality and how the economy isn't working for most people, is just finding the easiest target, which right now happens to be the gig economy.

McDonald's provides cheap food for everyone. Uber means no one will go back to phoning a taxi/waiting 45 minutes for one due to the artificial scarcity of medallions. They are here to stay. Things (unemployment as you mention) would be even worse without them.
Please don't argue with others about their experiences and feelings. I was there, and it was intensely bad. I think it's easy to forget how bad it was, even for those who went through it.

Starting mid-2006, I spent almost a year building a full-stack internal SPA for tracking manual and checklist testing at my company. I made the (then brave) decision to target Firefox instead of IE6, which everyone was using at the time - since FF was more standards-compliant.

It was a very good decision in retrospect. But I had to spend 4-5 weeks just getting the front-end to work in IE6. So many HTML/CSS hacks, trying to wrangle the layout engine to do my bidding. Check out the Wikipedia article on the Acid2 test, and the image at the bottom of IE6's rendering, to get an idea how far IE6's layout was from standards: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid2
My last job was probably more ant colony like than most. We had jobs, someone quoted them, someone measured them, someone put them in the schedule, several of us did the jobs, the finished jobs were delivered and installed. All without anyone really delegating. We just followed the schedule and the paperwork. Even the boss didn't always know the details of the schedule or what we did. It all flowed pretty smoothly most of the time. We all just kind of knew what to do. It kind of broke down a bit when things went wrong though, it was was hard to figure out sometimes where and when problems happened, and in that case someone usually made an authoritative decision, but it wasn't that often.
How would this differ from existing regulations for helicopters?
In addition, the Grand Parent comment didn't mention that in the article the BBC is saying that the person who filmed the video is SAFE, and that is taking the blame.

So Iran has arrested an innocent person in order to shift public anger onto them, for something that shouldn't have been a crime in the first place.
Man this would be awesome to observe. Hopefully it's not the 100,000 year estimate.
Right. We should all be using OpenTheory [0].

[0] http://www.gilith.com/opentheory/
> Can you think of any reasons we would want to slow down growth if it gets out of pace? Do you understand basic economics on the matter because it seems to me like growth isn’t being set via policy levers, it’s the job market which seems to thrive despite or at least orthogonally to local public policy choices. In fact that’s the real problem.

I'm assuming GP is referring to policy that affects population growth specifically - such as antiquated zoning restrictions that were made under postwar suburban growth mindset and a lack of expansion of high quality public transit. Superstar regions tend to be quite pro-growth with regards to jobs, almost by definition.

Can you imagine if starting a new business in the bay area was as onerous as starting a development on a new apartment building? Your entire seed round would go to hiring lawyers to appeal the zoning board for an exception, and your series A to fight off subsequent legal challenges by the community.
Maybe we are at cross purposes. My default shell is bash, but my default "sh" is dash. This is as it should be (and is default in Debian & Ubuntu I think).

If you are talking about interactive use, of course bash is the one to use, but for writing shell scripts, it is a 10X interactivity overhead" over dash.
Although it wouldn't be surprising to have two (or more) laws contradict each other.
The UK mentalist Derren Brown has a brilliant example passage of this in his 2007 book "Tricks of the Mind". It was all about what you felt like as a child and your relationship to your parents. Very clever. I remember showing it to a friend at university who became extremely emotional and couldn't believe it wasn't tailored to them.
It's not for show. It's design 101. You spend the most time in the livingroom, diningroom or kitchen, so it makes sense to use the most space for that.
There's only so much space you can divide up.
I was considered a gifted child from a young age. In third grade, because of my "giftedness", I was told I could just read instead of participating in the class skit of the planets of the solar system. I used that time to complete the entire Chronicles of Narnia (good books btw - skip The Magician's Nephew and The Last Battle though). I've wondered what would happen if we scrapped the most useless 30% of my state's school curriculum and instead replaced it with reading time.

I know sports generally have a metric of "Wins above Replacement" where players are measured in how many wins they are expected to add to their team over a hypothetical average player for their position. I've wondered if you could similarly measure "Learning above reading" where your curriculum is measured in how much the student learns in comparison to if they had just sat down and read a book of their choosing for the same amount of time.
And this doesn't even begin to address to subsidies that Tesla-owners' neighbor are forced to pay to upgrade the infrastructure for their home chargers. (Solar makes this even worse, actually...)
The law requires the identity records to be kept with copies of each work containing explicit depictions sufficient to match the performer to the identification. If you do online real-time live streaming of depictions, how do you do that if they aren't on the same system?
How Your Personal Finances Affect Your Career Satisfaction
He also points out that the theory has no evidence behind it, that it appears to be based on an older theory, also completely unevidenced, and that that older theory draws on discredited Jungian archetypes.

To read this purely as an attack on someone's credentials out of jealousy is to have missed the meat of the criticism.
What about NYC or any other densly populated area?
Microsoft aims to be carbon negative by 2030 across its entire supply chain
I don't think GDPR covers people who have an actual written and signed financial contract with the service in question. How could any business function without the information needed on who to pay?
You are thinking in the realm of theory.

None of that works in the realm of reality.

Creating a fake ID = super illegal.

Credit cards: prepaid can be detected and blocked, same as the privacy.com ones - especially when the credit card is being used to validate something. Look at any major fraud prevention software, these things are trivial.

In the real world, if you want to make money, you need to show and prove ID with matching banking details. Any inconsistencies and you don't get paid. This isn't something you can outsmart. People smarter than you and I have been thinking very long and hard about these points, much more so than the two minutes you took to think up your post. The idea is like those videos of 'primitive underground dwellings with a swimming hole on top'. Cute, creative, but terribly impractical and useless in any real world situation.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22062708.
The problem is that anyone can claim they take security seriously (and I'm sure this site did as well), but as a user there's no way to tell whether it's actually true. There's also the risk that the data being secure now becomes less secure later on when the company decides to cut costs.
Almost Everything in “Dr. Strangelove” Was True (2014)
I'd imagine "hold onto it" can mean "printed copies in a vault" instead of "readily accessible online", though.
Reminds me of this Vernor Vinge novel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Deepness_in_the_Sky

Set around a star that alternates between bright and dim, with a species that hibernates during the dim periods.
Microsoft’s Commitment to Sustainability
Without the marathon, you might not have made an unsolicited donation (of that same amount) to that particular charity.

The marathon’s cut is a marketing expense. It may be better to get one slice of a bigger pie than all of a tiny/non-existent dessert.
A couple years ago I moved near Lowell Observatory and our city, Flagstaff, has a number of Dark Sky ordinances, which are great. I've seen so many more stars than ever in my life. We just bought our kids a Newtonian reflector telescope.

Most things have trade-offs. Hopefully, the reduced cost of access to space will allow launching of more space-based telescopes, which don't have problems with atmosphere. Any astronomers here that care to explain what only ground-based observatories can do?
Thanks! If I remember correctly, that tweet was probably nearer the end, though my threshold for building something after complaining about it is rather low these days
Has anyone stopped to look and see if any of his advice worked though? Pragmatic psuedoscience is more valuable than true science that can’t find a repeatable answer.
NIST Releases Version 1.0 of Privacy Framework
Grandparent said this is not a challenging position. That’s the comment I responded to.
In Lisp usually all non-nil values mean true.

CL-USER 13 > (let ((a 1) (b 2))
(cond ((> a b) 'foo)
(:hello :there)))
:THERE

In some early Lisp dialects not all objects (other than lists and symbols) would be self-evaluating, so one would have to quote them.
"the use of technology in schools actually lowers test scores in reading, math, and science, damages long-term memory, and induces addiction" - citation needed.
And guys. And others.
Amazing law.
If you're interested in language runtime work (in C++) e-mail arseny at roblox.com
> They boast 66 million registered members on their webcam chat arena, ImLive, alone.

Let's say each registered user pays $1 a month for access to this one site they run. That's $66 million/month in revenue. Enough to secure data and comply with privacy laws.
Much of current psychology is also pseudo-science. We should be equally skeptical of credentialed psychobabble.
Ditto for all the dozens or maybe even hundreds of new charities that are formed each week (at least in the United States).

It seems like instead of having a hundred thousand micro-charities, it would be better if the money were just sent directly to a large charity that already operates at scale and can use the money more efficiently.

Sending $100 to Doctors Without Borders is far more effective than giving $100 to The Dr. Steffy McStethoscope Memorial Fund For People Who Want To Make Themselves Feel Good.

It's like "raising awareness." It doesn't help anyone but the people trying to make themselves feel better about themselves.
A file-cabinet next to the server?
The only reason Guile still exists is the stubbornes of GNU project to accept better alternative solutions over the course of time and push their own as the only true.
Chrome or Firefox for Developers?
http://www.ala.org/tools/research/librariesmatter/reading-fu...
What about fintech KYC APIs? Are those sufficiently compliant?
Yes, just look at Venus. Probably atmosphere composition and density matters more than distance from the sun.
How do we know we can attribute the fires to climate change?

It seems like every natural disaster gets attributed to climate change, since 'climate change is happening', and, in turn, all these natural disasters are given as evidence that 'climate change is happening'.

Seems very circular logic.
Wow throwback, loved that game.
Show HN: Spotlight Search for Actions
A Different Way to Solve Quadratic Equations (2019)
I was going to say exactly this but have to admit being put off by the potential for downvotes.

Hell, I grew up in central Alberta, 1970s and 80s. Latitude 53. Winter time temperatures drop to the -30C range all the time. And yet even there you could not rely on consistent snow cover at the little hills around. Many Christmases well above zero with the lake unfrozen followed by a January of -25C.

Back then the little hills around there were also all closing because people were now able to drive or fly further and go to Jasper and Banff etc. to ski instead of hitting their local hills. And I also remember many days skiing on solid ice in Jasper, which is pretty damned cold, high elevation.

Most of North America is a continental climate. It has always been highly variable. It is getting more so.

Climate change is real and is impacting this industry, but I feel like the really bad effects are still coming. But even when it comes it's not like the winters will be universally _warm_ -- they will be highly volatile, with intense blizzards one day followed by rain later. That's the pattern this year already.

I'm off to Revelstoke to ski in a week and a half. Absolute craploads of snow there this year, while here in the east it has been awful. But last year it wasn't that great out there but was pretty good in the east, considering.
AR contact lenses that give your eyes superpowers
Having been through a few ERP projects (on the buying side) I'd say the scale runs from 'painful' to 'disastrous'.

One large ERP project I worked on barely made it past the kick off meeting.... a number of us escalated that we were not happy with the implementation partner so our boss (bravely) recommended that the entire project get canned - which it did.
I'll save you some time: Yes.

When? Nobody knows. Might have already happened.
The actress had to fly from Spain to the United States to testify all because an “expert” said she appeared to be a minor in the material in question, iirc.
> I would like to build an app that's a series of games, that are all related. I want to use the freemium model, with a one-time payment. No ads, no subscriptions; once you pay, you own the entire game.

That sounds a lot like old-school shareware. The free version was a full copy of the game that only included the first few minutes/hours of the missions/worlds/characters. Paying got you the whole thing.
Why and when SQA needs humans
> I want to use the freemium model, with a one-time payment. No ads, no subscriptions; once you pay, you own the entire game.

Well, in 90s, this was called shareware. The limited version (i.e. first level/episode) was legal to copy/share between users and who paid got full version.
That solution does not work for frontend encrypted data. It also does not work for short strings, such as days, months, years, street numbers.
How much of the leading edge of astronomy is ground based, vs space based? Are they complementary or is space based going to eventually assume any and all roles ground based could?
> it is among the most benign forms of business bullshit I've experienced

I'd argue the opposite actually - it's insidious, because any objection is liable to get you labelled a racist etc., and it's dangerous, because it's effectively telling you that no matter how hard you try you cannot escape being a racist (etc.). The latter is pretty much a textbook definition of gaslighting. I don't want my employer gaslighting me.