skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is why I consider the GDPR to be unrealistically broad in its definition of PII; it denies even innocuous feature-mode-distinguishing headers intended to allow for bug-identification of massively-distributed software installs.

If I'm given a forced choice between "more privacy" and "better software quality" I'm going to lean towards "better software quality."
These ones:

> Iowa Democrats declined an offer from the Department of Homeland Security to test its new caucus app for cybersecurity flaws

And any others that fail to see what a debacle this is. Vote counting must be secure.
Quick observation: the vast majority of Democrats with the social connections to feel confident starting this kind of company will be affiliated with candidates who have won previous elections. This centralization is by design: the winner of presidential primary effectively becomes "head of party" and installs their own leadership at the national committee level.
Instant pot (best kitchen purchase I've ever made) and meal prep. There's entire subreddits dedicated to meal prep with a lot of good ideas.
Oh, but if we take that view - it's basically "rich and healthy is better than poor and sick". D'uh, of course I'd give up all the bad things if I could get more good things in return, who wouldn't?

I think the view that one president screwed you over is a bit myopic... It didn't happen in US, it happened all across the developed world. That shows it's a systemic thing - caused not by some policy, but by global forces. Those millions that came out of poverty did it pretty much at the expense of the western middle class (and yes, this was enabled & encouraged by the rich - who benefited from it; that much is true). It's not just a few people that got richer - many millions got richer. It's just that those millions are not in the developed world.

[edit]PS. I wonder if OP didn't add the "except" after my message... I don't remember seeing it initially (though it's entirely possible that I didn't pay close attention).
FCC proposes to fine racist troll $13M for robocalling spree
They aren't, they are contracting it from a firm called Shadow Inc, who also seem to have sold the same app to the Nevada Democratic Party.
Don't forget that just about any registration requires recaptcha these days
When starting from nothing, usually I commit broken code with blank messages to a develop branch, then squash all the commits into master with a better description latter.

Not committing anything and losing it all by accident because you're obsessing about micro-commits and a clean history that nobody is ever going to read is a much worse alternative.

Small commits and good descriptions become useful once you have some foundation that's not in a high state of flux and you need to track what change broke something. You don't need this at the draft stage.
I'm afraid you're wrong: there are many, MANY supply and demand denialists around, who think it doesn't apply to housing. Believe me, I've argued with them. They see that brand new housing is more expensive than the decades-old housing it replaced, and go, "See?? It didn't help the prices at all!"

> Zoning regulations aren't usually arbitrary

True, in many cases they were designed to keep out undesirables, like people who are poor, or non-white. That's not arbitrary, it's intentionally bigoted.

Nobody's suggesting dumping factories into residential areas, or relaxing basic safety standards. That type of zoning is absolutely fine.

The biggest reason is political, that people have NIMBY tendencies: yes there needs to be more housing somewhere, but put it somewhere else please. I don't want to have to worry about parking or see unsightly apartments on my block.

I don't dispute that infrastructure is a concern, but it's not a blocker. Cities growing quickly isn't some unfathomable phenomenon of the 21st century, the logistics can be handled if people want it politically.
I am quitting exclamation points
There is a compelling case to be made that manipulating the reporting of results (rather than the results themselves) would be more in line with your goals of public perception and deniability.
Who are willing to work more unpaid overtime, as well. No matter how much you pay American citizens, they obnoxiously demand work-life balance that foreign visa holders in fear of losing their work status don’t.
Does that change the fact that this is futuristic new technology?
Cracking 250 year old code uncovers secret society (2012)
> Who's going to raise this issue though?

I'm sure there is someone out there who takes these kind of things seriously. Not me. I use firefox for that matter.

> And what if they put this in the browser's T&C?

Then the rest of GDPR applies: a clear message about the browser sending this info has to be shown, explaining why, with who they'll share it, the time they will keep this info, plus no auto opt-ins, the possibility of asking Google (or whatever) all the info relative to this ID and the option to cancel all the data, etc.
Given the purpose of the x-client-data header, I'll be shocked if Mozilla doesn't have a similar header for feature-enable-identification to do its own tracking of bugs at scale.

... and if it doesn't, they're developing their browser with one hand tied behind their back on quality assurance relative to alternatives.
So, where does luck come in, in your opinion?

Are you saying every intelligent hard working Machiavelli will make it, or does luck still enter?
It's great to see this great franchise come back from the dead. Will they have a 737 MAX simulator?
The days of Firefox are over. Every site I work on has less than a few percent of Firefox users. We don't even test with Firefox, because fuck 'em - I never liked the way Mozilla did anything anyway and their painfully obviously false, preachy holier-than-thou brainwashing campaign that they're constantly running in order to keep getting daddy Google's money has always been annoying.

I'd rather use MS Edge. It's actually even faster and lighter than Chrome. So, I've already started using it on my Windows and Mac machines and I'm just waiting for it to be released on Linux so I can use it on my main workstations.

I bet Edge exceeds Firefox market share any day now. Maybe Google should start giving Microsoft money too! But even if Edge market share doesn't grow I'll be quite comfortable since it's the WebKit/Chrome/Blink lineage and compatibility that I care about.

Fuck that piece of shit Gecko. I'm tired of hearing about it from the extremely tiny but loud minority of Mozillatroids. Now do your duty and fade my comment in your petty attempt at censoring my words. You can't change the truth.
I'm going to start donating to Mozilla every month.
> “Yeah rigging the primary worked wonders for the Democrats last time,” Donald Trump Jr. tweeted, invoking his father’s frequent claims in 2016 that the Democratic nominating process was rigged against Bernie Sanders.

Are we.... are we still pretending it wasn't rigged? Debbie Wasserman Schultz literally was forced to resign as DNC chair over the rigging scandal. I don't think the DNC rigging their 2016 primary is controversial or in dispute is it?

If so, framing it as "[President Trump]'s frequent claims" rather than an undisputed fact is disingenuous at best here.
Where "best" = "cheapest", true.
Exactly, and it seems so unnecessary. These problems were solved on PCs in the 90s and the cell phone manufacturers are absolutely refusing to use the solutions. I can only imagine how many man-years of effort have been wasted because they're so insistent on keeping everything siloed up. It is madness.
Lots of people use Vim in a desktop environment. At Facebook I would guess that something like 20% of software engineers use it on a daily basis. It’s still an incredibly powerful editor with lots of practical application and it’s constantly being updated. If you have the right plugins it can be an order of magnitude more productive than an IDE.
The DNC doesn't run the individual state primaries.
To be nitpicky, $5 is too high of an estimate:
https://ballotpedia.org/Milk_prices_by_state,_2018
Well... the two common issues I see are:

1. Hunching your back. This can cause slipped discs and some muscle issues.

2. Trying to controlled-lower the bar to the ground. Contrary to the policies of a lot of gyms, you should get to the top of your deadlift and basically drop: you might keep your hands on it to keep it from rolling away after it reaches the ground, but you definitely don't want to try to slow it down as you lower. If this is too loud for you, use bumper plates or a deadlift platform. This is pretty much guaranteed to cause you severe soreness and tightness as you go up in weight, which will likely clue you in that you are doing something wrong, but if you persist or jump right up to too high a weight, you can tear muscles or ligaments.

Both of these can cause pretty serious long-term injuries. But they're also both pretty easy to fix.
Photons do not get a special "laser" tag added to them by physics. If it's all in the visual wavelengths and at intensities below what we experience every day (sunlight is really bright, our eyes hide from us the number of orders of magnitude difference between even normal night-time artificial light and sunlight), there's no issue.

(However... since I often see this sorta misinterpreted in the wild on the internet, note that is an if-then statement. If the antecedent is false, I make no claim.)

The primary safety concern I have would be met by designing the lasers such that if they are overdriven for any reason, they will physically burn out before outputting enough light to be dangerous. Per the classic Therac-25 [1] case study though, that is one safety feature I absolutely want in hardware. There is no amount of software I would accept to implement that.

I would also additionally stick some fuses into the system, tuned below the threshold where the power will burn out the laser, along with of course building the whole battery system to not be able to deliver enough power to power the lasers to a dangerous level. However, I really want excess power to physically burn out the lasers. (I wouldn't want to find out the hard way that an EMP of some sort can overdrive the lasers.)

For all that I'm laying out safety systems here, I am quite confident that it could be done safely. We trust our lives to much more dangerous systems all the time. I will say that I can't explain to you how you'd audit that safety, though.

[1]: https://www.bowdoin.edu/~allen/courses/cs260/readings/therac...
Do you feel like they'd rig the app and risk the company over that?
Is C++ the New Fortran?
I like learning a new programming language, that is useful mostly for numerical computation in academia.

I am thinking of leaving Python for C++. This has some advantages: learn better programming principles, faster code, apparently more in demand in production code, etc.

I have some questions:

1. Is C++ a dying language and a bad investment in 2020? If yes, what's a good replacement?

I see a lot of suggestions for Rust and Scala. But these each might turn out to be just another language! (think of Rubby etc).

I need a library like Numpy or Eigen. I don't need a whole lot of libraries, though as the first language, it wont hurt to have more libraries?

I don't want to spend a lot of time learning libraries, STL, features, but then the language becomes gradually obsolete.

Julia is nice but its not really a GPL (although the team wont agree with me).

2. I have written a few programs in C and C++. Can I be as productive as Python/Numpy once I learn the tools and libraries (Eigen, MKL, etc)? I can limit to a subset needed for HPC.

3. Anyone having experience with C++ for computation and maybe ML?

Suggestions are welcome.
While it is painful to move, the frequency for repeat customers will doom most disruptors. An established company with a massive network like U-Haul could do it except for the fact that moving things is a skill that people consider to be "just manual labor" and avoid paying accordingly.

For apartments though, I could see a "house concierge moving" as-a-service being a possible disruption of established moving companies. E.g. they move you for "free" for appropriately long and priced lease. The "hostage holding" of your goods is a non-event here since the goal is to have a happy tenant.
Do you have any recommendations on how to learn RDBMS/SQL? I'm currently using NoSQL at my day job (and agree with your points on it), but have struggled to find a good side project to really dig into RDBMS/SQL. I have used SQL briefly in the past (side projects/class projects) but I'm looking to really cement the skill in my mind.
Riseup is absolutely with Mozilla's mission statement, though, and all things considered pretty good:

"Riseup provides online communication tools for people and groups working on liberatory social change. We are a project to create democratic alternatives and practice self-determination by controlling our own secure means of communications."
SF has it's "the coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco" days in the summer and its share of grey and damp in the winter. On the other hand, it doesn't really get the heat that the valleys can get so it's a tradeoff.

I live in a northern snow state and, other than the relative lack of seasons, SF city weather seems pretty nice to me and not even obviously worse than the South Bay.
My gas pump feeds me ads while I pump gas that I paid for.

T-mobile sends me ads over SMS that I paid for.

JetBlue serves ads to paying passengers on the seat-back displays.

I hear Windows has ads now, but I got off that ship a while back.

Being the customer is no longer sufficient; companies have figured out that they can make more money by charging you and serving you ads.
firefor / tor also read this file
Obviously! What else to expect from Google! In the user personalization...
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I'm sure we'll develop sensitive clothing, body feedback and other forms of haptic interfaces - a tap on the side of the glasses might not be necessary if you can train your AR to respond to say, snapping fingers or tapping feet.
I work for Mozilla?

Huh. I should ask for a pay rise...
Is that what happened?
Finally, someone who acknowledges that the Democratic establishment isn't trying to suppress Bernie and that there were simply technical difficulties. This whole conspiracy narrative builds distrust and helps no one but the Trump campaign.
Why do people always try to separate certain qualities or behaviors as being "human only"?
Does asciidoc have equation typesetting support? I don't really care what I use to write my words, everything is equally good (except for LaTeX which is abnormally good at typesetting), but I care a lot about the user experience for equations, which varies widely between programs.
Roadmap to zero-carbon for UK aviation [pdf]
And this is a legal thing to do?
We built a lot of things with Vanilla JS. You can find them all here:

https://github.com/Qbix/Platform/blob/master/platform/plugin...

And the documentation:

https://qbix.com/platform/guide/javascript

It's open source so feel free to rip the code from there, or just use the full Q.js !

For loading code, a long time ago we just implemented two methods:

Q.exports(a, b, c)
Q.require(src, callback)

Following node but just async. It’s simple and it works. We were able to know the name of the latest loaded js file in exports() by a trick of throwing an exception and catching it to see what script was on the top of the stack. All browsers seem to support this.

Since it worked back then, we didn’t need anything else. It is super simple to just keep using those things and replace the middleware underneath to whatever is the standard du jour.

It's super short and simple, you can implement similar things in your projects:

https://github.com/Qbix/Platform/blob/master/platform/plugin...

https://github.com/Qbix/Platform/blob/master/platform/plugin...
ieee.org tends to be like that. Still has interesting articles from time to time though
New Job Site Aims to Match Jobseekers to Right Jobs
We Owe IT All to the Hippies (1995)
Green cards are a joke. For some countries they are effectively impossible to get in your lifetime. That's why we have this H1B nonsense in the first place.
Show HN: I built an open-source, vegetarian recipe site with Elm
There's a distinction to be made here between the national party organization (i.e. the DNC) and the various state party organizations. Even if the national party gets its act together 100%, the state parties have a fair degree of independence, and the national party has a limited number of levers to force them to do things the way it would like.

In this case, the tech firm was contracting directly with the Iowa Democratic Party, not with the national DNC. So the question here wouldn't be the tech competence of the national party, but of the specific state party that let the contract.
Also: "After making a minor nuisance of myself, Bosch agreed to give me a private demo"

I mean it's possible they paid for him (and others) and still didn't allow him to get a demo... but it's unlikely. Also, I feel like IEEE can afford to pay the attendance costs for a reporter.

So, this is really just promoted content/an ad.
Which is fine and it's even fine to wait until the end to tell us I think but not if the article body tries to paint a different, organic picture. This wasn't at all necessary for the content but simply there to detract from the paid promo nature of the piece.
Amazon's internal principles explicitly demand expressing disagreement until a decision is made. While I'm seven levels below Jeff, in five years at Amazon, I have never seen any hint of people being reluctant to express disagreement with leadership. I have seen people at my level contradict VPs in company forums, and be thanked for it. Unwarranted generalized cynicism does not advance our understanding.
Learn to feel your emotions.

Holotropic Breathwork

Learn how to hold space for someone.

Non violent communication

Tribal Leadership

How to grow magic mushrooms

How to have a challenging conversation
The clouds kinda looks fake.. too consistently feathery.
Doesn't the Docs frontend have a hard limit at 50 concurrent editors?
I never successfully made it through LFS, maybe this is the year :)
Nah, I've seen people write things that horrible long before they had tools to deal with it. People used to write BASIC that looked like this: https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/BASIC...

Readability is nice, but it's a luxury, and a subjective one.
On my machine with sha extensions, blake3 is about 15% faster (single threaded in both cases) than sha256.
I use Restic Backup to backup to a supported object storage and now setting up another provider (or VPS which will be slightly tricky) via Borg Backup (for the same data). The most important of that (~1GB) gets backed up to Tarsnap too. And once copy gets backed up to my local hard disk.

Once a while if I have to share any photos with some friends I send them an iCloud link and then remove the photos once they have either downloaded or seen.

I know there's a risk of losing the data if I forget/misplace the key(s) and my hard disk dies (at the same time) but then I could forget my Google credentials too, or worse still (with a higher probability) I could get locked out of my Google A/c and I don't know any Googler, neither do I have too many Twitter followers.

It's been worth it and once setup it's been running smoothly for over a year (across 2 laptop changes/data migration).
Hiya! I've been working on building an open-source web-app to catalogue and document vegetarian/vegan recipes. I chose Elm to have some fun with the parser and because I enjoy the language. Hope you like it! Would love feedback. Happy to answer questions, too.

The source for the site is available here:
https://github.com/theiceshelf/arisgarden
A meteorologist colleague informed me of https://www.yr.no/ and it has a version in English. It is what I usually use along with weather.gov. Their short and long-term World-Wide ECMWF forecasts are really nice as are the meteorograms. Yeah dump weather.com.

Edit: Ohh and one more: Jeff Masters and his crew at Weather Underground (wunderground.com). For example another nice meteorogram: https://www.wunderground.com/forecast/us/co/boulder/KCOBOULD...
Imagine removing the camera layer and drive yourself using those lines and boxes, without perceiving the "actual" world at all. Which is what the AI is doing. It seems completely terrifying to me :)
But this display does use photons, it shoots lasers into your eyes.

The glasses in Virtual Light "got these little EMP drivers around the lenses, work your optic nerves direct".
That's 10% total --over 40 years-- not 10% annualized. In 1979, the median real weekly earnings was $335. Today, it is $362. The actual calculation, 362-335/335 = 8.05%. Over 40 years, 8.05% is 0.2% annualized growth.

Let's compare to the S&P 500 index. From Jan 1979 to Dec 2019, the S&P has returned 746% (2,401% including dividend reinvestment) -- both figures adjusted for inflation (as is the FRED data). Annualized, these figures are 5.35% and 8.16%. https://dqydj.com/sp-500-return-calculator/

For bonds, that's 262% and 3.19%, respectively. https://dqydj.com/treasury-return-calculator/

10% over 40 years is absolutely something to sneeze at. That cannot be characterized as meaningful growth.
I should add/clarify that if you're talking about dynamic grains (active discussions, wikis, etc, as opposed to mere statically published sites), it is also already possible to share those publicly. They're just at weird looking URLs. Hence the interest in a "well-known subdomain" feature to improve that.
I really hope they're just connected to a smartphone as a display.

Who thought it was a good idea to put a whole computer in glasses or smartwatches?
I know, I want to put these in ski goggles and wire up Google's maps for ski resorts, the ski resort's lift line times data, and apres ski events info, and the current and upcoming weather conditions.
The thing I hate about this trend is that we seem to love to forego a vital part of interfaces in the process: visibility. I don't know why designers seem to hate buttons, but it's really annoying.

EDIT: where "visibility" also includes haptic feedback and all of that other good stuff. See http://worrydream.com/ABriefRantOnTheFutureOfInteractionDesi...
Tesla will be the Apple of cars.
Thank you very much, I also hope it will succeed :D
It doesn't works with pixels, it looks like it uses a galvanometer to guide a laser, it also says here [0] that it has a 60Hz frame rate.

[0] https://www.bosch-sensortec.com/products/optical-microsystem...
read more philosophy in general
"Politicians in the United States are more similar to actors than to statesmen"

If there is voting involved, I suspect that is always the case.

Historically speaking you'll find that line of thinking pretty much constant.
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