skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suspect that to the elites, the world today is as scary and uncertain as it is for the rest of us. I always get a kick out of watching the Davos videos - this convention of world leaders reminds me of nothing so much as my small-town elementary school, what with all the fads, cliques, and isolation from the wider world. I'd be scared too.

I suspect for example that most of the Davos set truly believes in and is worried about climate change, but also knows that anything they try to do in response will be ineffectual within one election cycle. I imagine a scene where some respected member of their inner circle admonishes them that they need a populist of their own to sell their solutions, and they quietly agree but can't get along with anyone who would actually be popular.
Coding Stories: Me vs. the VNC Guy
London police to deploy facial recognition cameras
Is it worth moving to Scotland from Singapore for 40% less savings?
I am a senior developer working in Singapore for a decade. Now planning to explore opportunities to work in Europe.
I long said that "mini" reactors don't make sense when 1.7GW reactor and a mini one both have dramatic minimal cost for a single unit, initial startup cost, and operational costs.

Only if mini-reactor gets cheaper than the coal plant, can they get competitive.
If it wasn‘t for Bill Gates I‘d be much more sceptical about it, but he‘s a huge advertiser which gives hope.
So... When I finish my task I should just quietly sit there until the manager notices I'm not working and gives me something to do? This is just pure bullshit.
I also come at it from a technical standpoint. It's easier/cheaper to shut down all welfare buildings and government programs and just cut a check. That ends a lot of wasteful spending to pay for the thing. Also housing/food differs dramatically across the country. How do you manage that? Mailing multiple checks? Multiple EBT like cards? I mean it's really difficult to think of a method other than just writing a check that's big enough to cover most..

Who in America would not be better off with a guaranteed $36000/year income? If they have a spouse and two kids they'd make around $50k...and that's BEFORE they take up a full or part-time job.
because grim reality is that there is no other way around this. And the paywalled sites argument - even they are providing their content to google, it's just the user who gets paywall.
Another question is if this does even work - maybe for top 50 sites? Even here on HN where wealthy readers are flexing with their expensive cars, houses, earnings etc. at the same time when paywalled article appears it is circumvented by outline/archive link or criticized.
I know, right? It really makes me wonder why I said all that nonsense!

Oh wait, I didn't.
Can they? At what % are they taken out of cars and up to which remaining % is it safe to rely on them?
US Department of Justice Argues Assange Has No First Amendment Rights
Also like how they completely ignore Marx/philosophers who actually study societial inequality, with those who studied logic.

Also the whole Ubermensch thing is basically a solution to this, by essentially fixing the whole system with an ideal person.
What are people's favoured ways of managing secrets these days?

Does this look appealing?
First Time in a Remote Team
> GA is free and takes seconds to set up. Not everyone knows how to code, not everyone is a professional web dev or CS ninja, not everyone has piles of VC money to throw at such things.

Imagine if restaurants had this attitude about hygiene.

I mean not everybody is a professional cleaner ninja or has money to hire them. Just wiping the counter a little is all everybody sees anyway, and everybody can do it.

If you're simply not skilled to do it properly, does that mean you get to earn the profit of doing it over your customer's backs anyway?

Your attitude really reminds me of, say, street food carts in some places. Because some of people just didn't receive food hygiene training, and they only have to get out there with a cart and something that looks edible.
> What is the temperature of nuclear war?

You miss my point. A thermometer would be a better analogy than a clock, because a thermometer measures something that can go up and down, whereas a clock is expected to move inexorably towards midnight. And the temperature of a nuclear war is as arbitrary as using midnight as the time of a nuclear war.

> [...] an answer to the question, "How close are we to nuclear war?" The nuclear scientists could say "The midnight clock is set to 7 minutes."

...which is entirely meaningless, so it doesn't answer the question at all.

> people could understand what it meant if it moved forwards or backwards.

Clocks don't normally move backwards. Hence, thermometer.

> It was never about measurement. It was always a symbol.

I get that. I'm just saying is a really poorly thought out symbol.
But how can you be sure there's no additional code being run on their server?
"[...] has yet figured out how to construct a moral theory that allows us to say both of those things."

Oh, but Nietzsche has. This is what master morality vs. slave morality is about.
What does that mean. A contractor is paid more per hour than an employee. I don’t understand what a per hour project manager would be paid compared to an salaried employee, I’m pretty sure to be on an hourly rate you would be a contractor. I’m sure there are jobs that have an hourly rate like plumbing
Hashicorp vault is basically industry standard I believe. But there are various cloud APIs too, which have varying degrees of integration with kubernetes.
I agree with some points, especially with the time frame. Sometimes traditional A/B tests take too long. Global design changes, new product launches, brand refreshing, or new information architecture are more important.

On the other hand, doing A/B tests for small changes can also have a significant impact on your overall results. I think doing A/B tests is better than not doing them at all.
Not sure where you are, but Aldi Süd in Germany is pretty nice. It's not the place to go shopping for specialty foods, of course, but for everyday items, their products are well-priced for decent quality in my experience. In some areas it's even better than that, their cheese selection puts quite a few non-discount supermarkets to shame.

In the US, I really liked Trader Joe's, which seems like an up-market version of Aldi. Which makes sense, seeing as it's owned by Aldi Nord.
Yes! It's a triple whammy: you get to stress out because you're running late, be late anyway and feel guilty about it.
On the other hand the huge projects like Hinkley Point C are so big they might never come to fruition.

If Rolls Royce can get good at building these ractors they could be making them quickly and cheaply enough to make a big difference.
Testable theory suggests information has mass
Your comment is inaccurate in the extreme. You don't understand the basics of the diagnosis, so please don't attempt to apply them across the internet.
We Wasted $50K on Google Ads So You Don't Have To (2019)
A few years from now, cameras and vision software will be advanced enough to recognize a person just by analyzing the small differences in colors of the clothes, how s/he walks or mapping micro scratches on his/her car without any need to take pictures of either the plate or the face.
I'm also pretty sure we could already build a model of a walking person or animal just by having it walk or run on a weight sensors equipped mat, so that after due training recording when someone walks in or out of a place would be doable without cameras.

The ban should be on the final purpose, that is, pervasive generic surveillance. Otherwise it keeps being a moving target in which the most powerful party is constantly one or more steps ahead.
> Their UI was quite nice and the overall UX was too.

No their UI sucked. One third of the page was occupied by a stupid header you couldn't even reduce or remove with a CSS hack. I hated it. Fortunately now, most websites doing that tend to disappear.

Also, the content of the page itself was 1/3 wide, which is ridiculous when one is trying to read a long blog post.

The Google+ was a disaster UI wise, I would not be surprised it highly contributed to its demise.
It's really good that we have people like this writing blog posts and getting notoriety for their views. That way, people might stand a chance of avoiding actually having to work with them.

Do you want to hear the kicker? His start up is a chatbot that he thinks replaces a project manager.
The trade in status - what this article calls “the importance game” and “the leveling game” - are a core part of what makes conversation hard. If you want to learn more - or are having trouble getting the feel for examples of why this is so important in practice and how to use it - a book recommendation:

A previous gig gave us Keith Johnstone’s book for theater actors and writers _Impro_ as part of our onboarding. Chapter 2, “Status”, is entirely on this concept, and how status exchanges are a key part of what makes scenes interesting and relatable for viewers. At the time it felt like an odd choice for an engineering role, but after reading the detailed examples of status exchanges and how they work, they became impossible to unsee.

And that was great, because I gotta tell you, HN: applying this skill has made me a much more effective technical leader.

Wishing for status exchanges not to happen isn’t helpful - they’re happening whether you see and intend them or not, so learning how to spot and use (or avoid them) effectively made it, maybe paradoxically, much easier to have difficult, important, multi-layered conversations with people - other engineers, other departments, customers - about hard problems and get them to a good resolution.

As the industry does some soul-searching about the way power is perceived and used differently by different groups, understanding this topic should be seen as core to leveling up.
These two consoles may be pretty close to EOL. If the next consoles have vulkan it would absolutely make sense to use vulkan more.
How does this differ from the KMS product ?
Open source semiconductors is such a broad area, and sadly only a tiny spec of it is open source: The HDL code that describes the digital circuit.

Everything else is very experimental at best. These days the FOSS FPGA tools are finally getting some traction, with Yosys and Nextpnr. But AsicOne tried to make an ASIC with open source, and faced endless troubles.

For ASIC there is basically QFlow, which is quite old, but used successfully to tape out a chip in the past, and there is OpenRoads, which is very new, experimental and ambitious. There are still major gaps in these tools, so in the end you inevitably have to sign an NDA and use proprietary tools and libraries.

And that's just talking about DIGITAL semiconductors where you compile HDL to pretty much generate the transistors from foundry cell libraries. So you have to sign an NDA to get the cell library, but you can at least release your code.

For analog chips, you can't do anything. An analog design highly depends on the parameters of the transistors you use, so before you even BEGIN designing, you have to sign an NDA to get the transistor models and you can NEVER open source an analog design.

The small dot of light at the end of the tunnel are projects like Minimal Fab, who make more accessible fabrication lines with open transistor models.

The crazy thing is that back in the days there were lambda rules, which were open rules anyone could use to design and model with. But with sub-micron devices, these scalable rules no longer scale, so fabs started producing secret models for their specific process.

I'm hopeful that after FPGA, and digital ASIC, analog will be next to be revolutionized.
Lost art...? Ummm, try having kids.

I used to be horrible at reading aloud. My brain couldn’t simultaneously read aloud and comprehend the content so I never actually absorb the contents
. Secondly, I didn’t like reading aloud because I couldn’t anticipate the meter/cadence do it always sounded like I was an illiterate idiot. As a result, even though I read silently a ton as a kid, I hated reading aloud growing up.

Fast forward to now after kids, and I am light years ahead! My pace and cadence is smooth, natural and fast. More importantly, I actually comprehend what I’m reading now. Like everything else, it just takes practice.
I disagree - the current RPG trend is away from simulating a world and towards crafting a narrative.

> The automation should not be rolling to find out whether something is behind the door.. it should simply be checking if the simulated creature has wandered there.

The better example is the GM deciding if there's anything interesting that could be behind the door. If yes, then you're rolling to find out the terms of the engagement. If no, if it's not interesting, then you're done. There's nothing behind the door.

To automate that, an AI would need to be able to gauge how "narratively interesting or emotionally meaningful" something is. I think we're a little way off from that.
> I'm not holding a gun to their head and telling them to visit my site.

And I'm not threatening to skin you alive if you don't stop it.

How are threats of violence okay again?
Why the sarcasm? Here in Ireland a major bank was down for several days because contractor of bank located in India screwed up a production deployment or something, resulting in hundreds of thousands of transactions having to be manually reconciled.

In that time people had no access to their money, no tap and pay, chip and pin etc, nothing.

That was quite a lesson in importance of cash, another lesson was about a dozen years ago when all the banks here went to the wall and had to be nationalised in order prevent bank runs.
Lumen – Elixir and Erlang in the Browser
Unfortunately Vault doesn't have a plugin yet for Docker Swarm still :(
At one point I worked at what had been Tandberg; and there were a couple of teams there with remote workers who were represented by a desk with Tandberg terminal on it with a always on session running all day.
Or just sideload Kodi and have the best of everything
I miss Inbox, so I hacked Gmail with a little CSS magic (2019)
If wind, solar and storage have made these plants obsolete in ten years then that's fine. Nobody will lose any sleep over that.

Most likely though it won't, then we are stuck relying on a couple of unproven large reactors.
The math of brewing a better espresso: use less coffee
Having worked in the industry, I like seeing companies pledging to get involved with nuclear power.

However, there is a dearth of people experienced with the design and development of new reactor technology. The development pathway of building up the supply lines, understanding the complexities of the various systems, etc. is long.

I laughed at first many years ago when I saw some new reactor designs taking 10years but it turns out in a lot of cases that's optimistic.

It's a shame, because development in the mid 20th century was a LOT faster. And the people involved moved from one new reactor design to the next, bringing valuable experience.

Much of the work force entering this industry are entirely green and need an understanding of existing reactor technologies and why some designs were made a certain way before trying to reinvent them. Looking at the development in Russia and India could be very helpful.
Stars are fusion reactors, not fission. They're mostly made of hydrogen and helium, which account for 98% of its mass: http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/Tables/suncomp.ht.... You're going to have a hard time building a fission reactor running on hydrogen and helium.
> Am I wrong?

They didn’t just measure being able to read. They also focused on verbal ability using the EVT-2 and CTOPP-2 Rapid Object Naming tests. From what I can find, neither of those tests involve reading.

According to its documentation, “The EVT–2 measures expressive vocabulary and word retrieval of the spoken word in standard American English and thus assesses vocabulary acquisition.”

The details of the CTOPP-2 Rapid Object Naming test are harder to find, but it is a part of the test that is considered to not rely on reading. From the docs “ Rapid Non-Symbolic Naming Composite Score (RNNCS) comprises the standard scores of two subtests-Rapid Color Naming and Rapid Object Naming and offers an alternative for young children, ages 4 through 6 year olds, not familiar with letters and numbers. The RNNCS measures the examinee's ability to include efficient retrieval of phonological information from long-term or permanent memory and executing a sequence of operations quickly and repeatedly using objects and colors.“

[0] https://images.pearsonclinical.com/images/Products/EVT-II/ev...

[1] https://www.proedinc.com/Products/13080/ctopp2-comprehensive...
Clever:

for(let i=0;i<100;)console.log((++i%3?'':'fizz')+(i%5?'':'buzz')||i)

Readable:

for (let i = 1; i <= 100; i++) {
if (i % 3 == 0 && i % 5 == 0) {
console.log("FizzBuzz");
} else if (i % 3 == 0) {
console.log("Fizz");
} else if (i % 5 == 0) {
console.log("Buzz");
} else {
console.log(i);
}
}
LOL, I'd say gos com fuig has a greyish thing to it
Solar is fusion and not fission [1]. If you can't even get that right, why should anyone take these weird pro-fission arguments seriously in 2020?

The solution is to keep using existing nuclear power and develop renewables for replacement. Nuclear fission plants take at the very least 10 years (!!) to go online from the day construction begins. And that leaves out years of planning and dealing with contracts.

It's too expensive, dangerous and redundant in the face of emerging renewable tech which is becoming cheaper and more efficient by the month.

[1] https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/fission-and-fusion-what-d...
Hint they won't, even on Switch it hardly gets used, Unity, Unreal and NVN based engines get the biggest piece of the pie.
Setting aside quality assurance and risk assessment/mitigation, I'm seriously impressed with the speed in which they construct complex infrastructure.

The are some good reasons we don't quite go at this pace, but there are lots of good lessons about expediency to be gleaned as well.
OP thinks only luddites use cash.

PS OP, in the 1700s you'd probably issue a writ of payment and the shopkeeper would add the purchase to your tab, which you'd pay off in full at a later date.

Unless you were a total stranger to that establishment, then you'd probably be paying at the time of purchase.

Let's get our jokes historical accurate.
What’s the benefit of having the AirPlay software integrated into the amp?

Much lower latency so it can sync with video. Much higher audio quality because analog rca and crappy dac is not involved. You can power up to six Sonos in ceiling, in wall or outdoor speakers on one amp
IIRC that's because Snap's are stored compressed and have to be uncompressed when you first run them after boot.

I think that's because Snap is also meant to be used in IOT where disk space is limited but it definitely should be optional on work machines with lots of disk space.
I don’t know why they would have told you this, this isn’t really anything to do with the first amendment. virtually identical laws exist in many countries.

Edit: I just realized that you said prosecutors told you this. My guess is they lied so that you’d do it again when they were watching.
The whole problem is that there are circumstances which you cannot absorb. So, each trust of that level is a gamble.

Startups and (chemically driven) romance are gambles, the difference is stakes.

So do not gamble that which you cannot lose.
Looking into it more, it seems that reality is even worse than I thought. Surveillance not only fails to decrease crime, but actually lead to an increase (article in German):

https://www.bz-berlin.de/berlin/umland/straftaten-in-branden...

Interesting. "Crime in Brandenburg increased ONLY in video-surveiled regions".
> you're coming across a bit hand-wavy in your arguments. I'd prefer to see concrete solutions

It is an order-of-magnitude argument; a bit like arguing whether $1 billion or $1 million is more dollars. The difference between the two figures is almost exactly a billion dollars because there really is no comparison between orders of magnitude. Uranium is something like 6 orders of magnitude more energy dense than fossil fuels (so more of a trillion to a million) - the waste is a lot worse too, but it is nowhere near 6 orders of magnitude more dangerous, because that would suggest it is killing more people than the population of the earth already. Which it is not ^.

You can say you want something solved, but the problem you want solved is several orders of magnitude smaller than the problems everyone currently shrugs off as totally normal. The orders of magnitude are so different they do not need to be solved and can be handwaved. The nuclear waste problem is incomparably small compared to the fossil fuel problem which has proven to be tolerable despite 20+ years of resistance by Green groups.

It is also probably going to turn out to be smaller than the waste problem fabricating renewable will have by the same order of magnitude issue.

^ The evidence suggests it is actually not that much worse because it is so easy to isolate. It is practically achievable for nuclear waste to do less actual harm unit-to-unit than coal.
KMS manages encryption keys. A secrets manager gives you an API for storing and referencing arbitrary named secret values with audit logs, etc. for them, which are encrypted using KMS.

For example, this might be something like “store a secret ‘my app remote API key’ encrypted with a regularly rotated key and allow ‘my app container’ to retrieve the value”.
Funny isn't it how these stores don't close when their POS system goes down but are more than happy to take cash.
I believe that I don't have any beliefs.

You might recognise the above as a manifestation of the Liar's paradox.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liar_paradox

Depending on your predisposition, that's either a contradiction or infinite regress.

Either way - you can't decide the truth (or falsity) value of the sentence.

That's where the Religion of Logic/Truth usually leads to - undecidability.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undecidable_problem
There really isn’t anything in the market that does everything you listed well except Sonos.
Game consoles come and go, e.g. Saturn, Jaguar.

I did saw Sony drop the almost unused GL ES support on the PS 2.
> Businesses that still want cashless transactions can provide a machine that exchanges cash for a gift card, but must accept cash if the machine breaks down, according to the new law.

This would be a huge issue to me. I will admit that I don't live in NYC, but if I was to travel there on business and a random restaurant made me trade in $20 for a gift card to pay for a $8 meal in a place that I will probably never go back to, that's $12 out of my pocket that I paid in "cash is inconvenient" tax to that restaurant.

Even worse, if I go to a store all the time (e.g. it's the only grocery store within walking distance and I don't have a car) but I'm underbanked, then I have to continually keep money in their "bank".

> "Your total comes out to $20 but you only have $8 in store-bucks! Don't have exactly $12 in cash? That's a shame. I guess you'll have to come back to spend the rest!"

Later you find out that the gift cards expire. Oops.
> a chatbot that he thinks replaces a project manager.

That would be very welcome.
As someone who in the past year has only used cash to pay for illicit substances, I was quite surprised by the title. Why punish business owners for choosing a more efficient and safe payment method? But having read the article, well, I see it differently. I did not know that cash still played such an indispensable role in the lives of many vulnerable groups in the U.S..

Does anyone have more info on what is meant by "alternative financial services"? I'm guessing they're not referring to bitcoin...
They could disapear as quickly as they arrived.

Let’s hope so anyway.
About “rel=noopener” web app security implications