skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Perhaps it's describing a change that occurred during evolution to (or within) homo sapiens, a change that caused us to be more self-aware (in a bad way?), self-reliant, conscious of good and evil. Just speculation here.

This is something I think about sometimes. We now know that anatomically modern humans shared a timeline and even bred with Neanderthals and Denisovans, probably others. So there was a period when anatomically modern humans, probably cognitively modern (thus capable of language) or close to it, were interacting with these other archaic homo sapiens and probably became aware of their cognitive differences. Maybe these ancient stories reflect an early rationalisation of how human-neanderthal or human-denisovan physical and cultural practices differed. Of course the stories would have to be transmitted for thousands of generations...

Bonus armchair biblical hermeneutics: the Nephilim [1] are the biblical reflex of older stories about one or more archaic homo sapiens.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nephilim
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How about the government giving access to its huge computing power or commandeering free resources at large providers for the common good?
>Is that true? Maybe, but I guess it hinges on your definition of "exploit". I think you can make money (in theory, of any amount) without exploiting people

There would be no excess for the founder if you distribute all the money that a company operation makes evenly to all employees and owners.

That's what they mean when they summon the world "exploit".

Roman slaves weren't exploited in the ways some layman might imagine.
I wonder if the simplicity/analog nature works in its favour here (even if cost is marginally more). "How did the ball _possibly_ get there if you didn't mishandle it?" vs. "I dunno, I guess your sensor must be broken".
Yeah, I realized that after typing everything up, lol

One point of comparison would be the sheer number of "earth diver" myths (believed to have originated in East Asia, then spread across modern day Russia/Finland and North America), in which some being (often a bird) dives into that primordial ocean and pulls up the land.
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I don't think it's left vs. right in this case.

Without going into specifics, and considering the description of the process as was mentioned by the one of the commentators, the example I'm referring to was specifically a link to the academic paper from which a certain quote was paraphrased ...

I first tried to add a direct quote from the writer's paper, which was removed, and then a link to her paper, which was removed.

What they were trying to achieve is to minimize the importance of that source, by qualifying it as "some researchers claim" sort of qualifier.

It's really not about the content, but equal and balance representation of authentic and reliable sources. ie. a research paper which was already referenced. Not every "opinion" and slant is important, but preferring a paraphrase to direct quote is obviously an attempt to minimize the source.
TexMex was imported to Prague as CzechMex, which was then exported back to Texas, or course:

>“Excellent Czech-Mex in Prague”

https://www.think.cz/people/1190-think-innerview-federico-sa...

http://londoncosmopolitan.blogspot.com/2009/02/praha-czech-r...

>Overall, Prague is a must if you’re going to be in Europe, just be aware of the time of year you go. We had a surprisingly decent Mexican meal at a place called CzechMex. We also ate a ton of goulash which was a tasty, hearty way to stay comfortable in Prague’s blistering, windy February cold. Prague Castle and the Charles Bridge are the main sites and you can easily complete the whole trip in no more than two days. -- Keenan

https://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowUserReviews-g274707-d694824-...

>Think Innerview: Federico Salas, Mexican Ambassador to the Czech Republic

>THINK: So, where do you go for Mexican cuisine in Prague?

>SALAS: My House. It’s the best place to have Mexican food. I don’t cook but fortunately enough, there is a person who has been cooking at the residence for 15 years now. She cooks Czech very well, but she also knows how to cook Mexican. So we’re developing a new style of cuisine which I’m calling CzechMex.

>THINK: Have you tried some of the Mexican restaurants here?

>Yes, but the places in Prague are more in the nature of TexMex, less traditional. Good Mexican food is not just about the spices, it’s also the nature of knowing how to mix the ingredients. The one thing that does surprise me is that Mexican Food is really popular – authentic or not. And it seems that people are drinking more and more tequila...which is a good thing.

http://czechmexbakery.com/

>Czech-Mex Bakery & Cafe is famous for it's amazing breakfast and brunch menu with Texas and Czech tastes. We're kind of a big deal at lunch time in Corpus Christi. Come see what the fuss is about!

>Best Kolaches in Texas. We've been accused of that title. And Texas is a big place. Our delicious kolaches are what made us a Corpus Christi favorite! They bring out the Czech-Mex in all of us!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolach
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BeyondCorp is the effort/program name, ÜP is one of the software that enables it to be implemented. ÜP is just a fancy Envoy/nginx reverse proxy.
> Compile time generic programming is not a replacement for runtime reflection.

Yes, it is, especially since the former can be used to implement the latter.
A good dashboard in HK https://wars.vote4.hk/en/

Wish they listed the total number of people tested so far though. Since I think that's a statistic that is important to properly interpret the number of cases.
It's a waste of time to check most errors. Usually they don't have enough context to diagnose a problem, and they can generate a lot of unnecessary noise. Catching exceptions is one thing, but just saying 'error!' or having specific logic for each and every potential failure just leads to spaghetti code that doesn't really help your overall system.

Instead, you should measure the overall "golden signals" of application/service/system health, and if you find a problem with those, you can start tracing calls, which will show you the erroring system calls. Cross-referenced with other metrics, you find the root cause.

This is for when your application is part of a larger system, anyway. If you're writing a monolithic application where the entire system is your application and it can never go down, then checking and handling every error is more useful, but then your monolith starts to internally resemble a complex system and you're back to too much noise.
Sometimes, but a lot of devs fetishise complex stuff. I disagree wit a lot of my tech leads decisions because he always wants to do the "most correct" way, whereas I want to keep things as simple as possible with the aim of keeping our code maintainable. For example, he wants to a add a graph database to the tech stack, while I realise that its one more thing to manage and potentially break and mongodb (that we already have) will be probably be good enough.
Office language is german - unsure if there are exceptions from the rule. You could send an email to jobs (at) qaware (dot) de and ask :)
This really screams of someone who wants a crash because they were on the sidelines during this bull market. Many if not most of the companies are international in nature and gdp is just a single data point for judging them. Many if not most companies have little to do with strip malls and our built environment. What on earth does Google or Microsoft have to do with car centric development? People use google all around the world.
Transparency is the key take away. Official government whatsapp notifications helped curb fake news. The information was readily available. Ministers and other senior health officials was on the news, providing accurate information.

The contact tracing and isolation was near perfect. Strict measures were taken for people who disobeyed orders and put people in danger.
I believe this is discussed and decided quite early on: https://docs.google.com/document/d/19kfhro7-CnBdFqFk7l4_Hmwa...

>According to the Import Compatiability Rule for versioned Go, this implies that the new proto package must have a new import path. Since "github.com/protobuf/proto/v2" will incur great confusion with the proto2 syntax, we may take this time to use an import path like "google.golang.org/proto" (similar to how gRPC lives at "google.golang.org/grpc").
> I believe, we'll have a huge wake-up-call in the next 2 weeks here in Europe.

I would have thought the situation in Italy qualifies as a wake up call.
Can't you just flip the box on its side, so that the label is horizontal, then use static friction and tap it with little inclination like you would do with those maze-ball children games.

To prevent this attack you could use two labels on two vertical orthogonal faces.
I am pretty sure the complaint above was about keyboard navigation, i.e. the possibility to navigate a page and its components with the tab, enter, space and arrow keys.
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That's all good if your company is making money.
IMO it's also pretty far fetched to compare modern mass manipulation tools like facebook marketing to a fictional object made up by a Schizophrenic, the big difference being that facebook is real and is working for so many other instances of swaying peoples minds.
Experienced Clojure developers want a job where they can "do Clojure"

This seems like a common problem with functional languages in general. I've heard the same thing about Haskell, repeatedly. Such devs search out a place where a Haskeller/Clojurist got into a tech lead position and then all pile in, before you know it the team is spending half its time writing DSL compilers instead of adding features to the product.

I look forward to functional methods becoming mainstream (again?)

Has it ever been mainstream? AFAIK it's always been this basically strange offshoot of the family tree that split off a long time in the past.

The core problems you highlight don't have any obvious solution, unfortunately. Learning materials can be improved but ultimately Lisp is very old and very unlike more modern languages. Libraries not getting to 1.0 is a symptom of a small community that derives more satisfaction from an intellectual exploration than having lots of users, combined with lack of commercially driven outcomes. Startup time I guess can be solved with technical solutions (and is being solved, as a side-effect of other projects elsewhere in the JVM ecosystem).
I'm fairly confident one can write an Alfred plug-in for most of these tasks.
young company, cover a large amount of users with a simple and quick solution

using google/microsoft account is easier than setting up a user service that is comparable in security and ease of use
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There are a few. https://github.com/tink-ab/login-service is one I wrote and open sourced when I worked at the associated company. Adding something like https://github.com/dhtech/authservice + https://github.com/dhtech/prodaccess would give you client certificate provisioning and handling.

In the end you'd easily get e.g. daily U2F with monthly cert rotation. Or whatever you end up wanting.

Open source have had this convered for years, but you'll have to look for it.

Disclosure: I'm the main author of all those three projects.
You mention burnout in another comment thread here. With that often comes a feeling of powerlessness and apathy.

"Escaping webdev" is the easy part --- you just need to quit. But doing so is only a transition away from something. We need to find what you should transition toward, instead.

What are your skills that you still feel at least somewhat passionate about? And how can we turn that into a future career?
You can make some toy robots do things. See https://gym.openai.com/envs/#classic_control

The networks and data required to solve some of these is really small. I’m sure you can find some simple RL code out there to poke around in.
I really like the network graph showing relationships between clusters and patients
Swiss government files criminal complaint over Crypto AG scandal involving CIA
Yes, fantastic article! Should be submitted as such.
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Taiwan also has been rather efficient and transparent in how they handled the situation. And the results speak for themselves for a country with so many economic ties to China...
The research institutes I've worked at have all had copious amounts of compute resources usually freely available to reserarchers. I'm not in this field, but I really don't think compute power is the limiting factor in stopping this outbreak.
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Another one from Singapore. I agree that the official reaction seems well handled!

(Not that there wasn't a slight panic and crazy hoarding stories and there certainly are flaws in company/building management policies, but .. that's not to blame on the government)
It's the same storey with all products. Of course I'd prefer just buying DRM free games, avoiding single player games that require connecting to services that can be down (looking at you Origin) etc. But the price and the product itself (the game, move, tv-series or whatever) is the deciding factor. There is never going to be enough people choosing services based on technical reaosns and not only content+price.
Thank you! Eventhough I've removed Messenger from my habits, I checked it out, and it's really snappy and super fast with starting up.
Interesting and concerning find. I think it would be useful to have a 3rd-party service that reliably alerts when canary conditions aren't fulfilled, along with a diff history.
I first saw it on usenet way back in the 90's and I am sure its much older than that
> - HIBP is not really worth the amount that could retire a family

What do you think that amount is?

I mean, Australia's median household income is US$44,000 which you could achieve with US$1.1 million and an investment paying 4% above inflation.

I can easily imagine HIBP being valued that much by the right buyer - such as a company with an anti-credential-stuffing product.

Of course, someone hoping to retire and live a life of luxury would be a different matter.
Do you know whether they fixed oneof with APIv2?
You can always suggest it on their GitHub issues. They also accept PRs.
https://github.com/nandiheath/warsinhk
> Well before Cambridge Analytica appeared on the scene, fears once relegated to paranoia were coming true. Consider that believing that the ads on your TV or radio were directed specifically at you would have been an unequivocal symptom of a delusional state twenty years ago. Today, the same belief about the ads on your smartphone is a recognition of fact.

I don't see what is far fetched about this claim. And I don't know about you, but being pointed out that something that was exclusively in the domain of the paranoid delusional only two decades ago is now the normalized experience for everyone without an ad-blocker does make me consider that we should pause to think more about what that situation means.
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You can also use sklearn’s OneHotEncoder to do this
Hetzner Cloud rents out static IPs to use with any instance for €1 per month. Less than a third of AWS but obviously not very useful if you don't use Hetzner Cloud otherwise.
Very good article. Please also preach this article to those who praise Kubernetes right and left (remember, Kubernetes it's the new blockchain hype; and just like blockchain you don't really need it unless you're a cryptocurrency; which 99% of companies who use Kubernetes aren't).
Forgetting Smalltalk here?

Mesa/Cedar, Oberon System were also like that by the way.

Java and .NET also share a bit of it, after all Java is half-way to Lisp (as per Guy Steele), and .NET follows up on it.
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What about Erlang, it provides tools for real time debugging iirc.
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It can still be a useful product even if it often engages a remote driver.
How does not being funded by a few investors etc make it more expensive to be funded by others?

Remember, these projects are inherently very profitable because coal is cheap and easy (and dirty, but dirty isn't a cost). If a big name won't invest for a 5% return, I'm sure 1001 small names will...
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It's similar to optimization in that it follows a U-curve. Up to a point, simpler things have more performance, and simpler things have less downtime.

But after a certain point, it's no longer enough to make it simpler. You have to get a lot more involved again, and this time the complexity has to be intelligently focused around the end goal (be it performance or uptime).
It so happens that, because of the recent political situation, mainland China suspended individual trips (not groups) to Taiwan last year.

Probably quite a silver lining there.

Edit: Got it the wrong way round: individuals, not groups.
Bleurgh. I don't like the conflation of unsupported-by-evidence talk of telepathy and that kind of "mind control" with the heavily-funded and somewhat evidenced effect of targeted political advertising. It acts to discredit conversation about the latter by conflating it with the former. They even manage to quote Foucault on the process of labelling people as delusional in order to exclude them from politics.

I hate to bring the big hammer of logical positivism down on someone who is having fun with a literature review, but the difference between delusional and non-delusional thinking is important because figuring out the truth and maintaining the ability to operate as a rational society making decisions based on evidence is important.

> Under present conditions, is “paranoia” — a term Sconce deploys frequently but does not interrogate at length — still a recognizably distinct phenomenon? Or has it become mostly indistinguishable from the average person’s worldview?

Could do with considering https://harpers.org/archive/1964/11/the-paranoid-style-in-am... (note date)
It sounds cool, but it also extends the amount of components that have to be made resilient to failure and attack. Your HA vault+consul clusters, HTTPS & OAuth2, key generation, and automation pieces (inc. message passing & load balancing) all need to be working correctly. Compare that to a single stateless server which spits out an OAuth2 login url to a client, receives a token once the client is authed, and opens a connection with that user's specific network authorization.
same as https://www.websequencediagrams.com/ ?
Additionally, advice between peers, advice that doesn't come from the master to the student, and I think this is the most common sort of advice, life-advice, or "how to live" advice, is always patronizing. There's an implicit assumption (and lie) that the other person knows better, taken to its extreme, it means the other person can think, you can't think; the other person knows what's good, you don't know what's good; the other person has the motivation, you don't have the motivation. Sure, the advice giver "means well" so they can't be faulted, the receiver has to appreciate the advice no matter how useless and the advice giver never has any responsibility, certainly not the responsibility of any consequences of their advice, that's always the receiver's responsibility.
Looker isn't no-code. A lot of people consider Looker a slightly more robust Tableau, but the visualization aspect is almost inconsequential. It's the data modeling part, the "this is exactly what structure my data takes and we define that in code", that matters. Otherwise what you get is "Here's my Tableau workbook with an unholy pile of hand-written untested SQL as custom data sources"

Incidentally I'm all ears if there's a good open-source LookML style project out there.
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Pandemic - my daughter and I love playing this, because it's collaborative, you all win, or you all lose.
I gotta say Singapore is killing it with all his tech when it comes to corona. Majulah!
> So any management position is exploitation? Being the boss of any manufacturing business is exploitation?

In many peoples opinion (including mine), yes. This can all be considered wage slavery.

Of course the magnitude and severity varies. A worker in the Gigafactory (probably) has a higher standard of living than the one in the Foxconn factory, who in turn probably has a better standard of living than the worker in the Nike sweatshop. But it’s all the same thing.
> Only one post per company.
CDC stopped posting test counts, but now shows a states affected count
I agree. In reproducing Antonio García Martínez's claim without other solid research -- that "most ad insiders express skepticism about Cambridge Analytica’s claims of having influenced the election, and stress the real-world difficulty of changing anyone’s mind about anything with mere Facebook ads" [...] -- the author himself seems to be insufficiently critical regarding the fact that public opinion can be heavily influenced and how much propaganda, public relations and advertisment can be used in that respect.

Edwards Bernays' (the father of PR) techniques to persuade the public (or "engineer consent") were so successful that Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi minister of propaganda, displayed a copy of his book "Propaganda" in his library.[1]

[1] https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1981/11/25/releasing-the-...

Other reading:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4318333/

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/02/12/the-fixer

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2003/jul/27/marketingandpr...

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it is not absurd. cooking would have helped ease the evolutionary transition to being able to digest meat. aside from that we are still very poor at digesting meat.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/red-meat-processe...
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I know, that sentence was meant to be ironic :)
Fascinating... What are the odds against finding this particular type of antagonist protein?
Fixed it - thanks for flagging