skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the null hypothesis is more useful here; assume that NOWHERE builds tech skills until otherwise demonstrated.

What you see: a bunch of tech startups founded by ex-Google, ex-FB, ex-Amazon employees.

What you never see: hot tech startups founded by ex-government bureaucrats

At very best/worst, you get beltway contractors who have "skills" at extracting money from the government. Those contractor firms NEVER end up selling back to private industry, because they have nothing to offer.

I think that this is one of those cases where "citation needed" is a way to avoid the blindingly obvious truth of the statement. No, we haven't done a controlled experiment on the government vs private enterprise in skill creation. Sometimes you have to use common sense and obvious experience.
That's nice and all, but poverty in the Midlands and the north is on par with Eastern Europe.

Sure, the salaries are higher, but the expenses eat up most of it.

And people don't have the option of cheap countryside, living off their own land.

I love the UK, but it's got some serious problems.

But yeah, at least on the world stage, it's not completely irrelevant.
> They're funding new renewable energy projects all over the world, including in China [1].

Yep, to offset their supplier's usage. That's an offset.

And you're quoting is 75% of 70%, or 52.5%. I wouldn't call that a _vast_ majority.
Guidelines on Lithium-Ion Battery Use in Space Applications [pdf]
Microsoft teases its future Office UI: A bigger focus on simplicity and content
The military's role in this seems very much rooted in selfishness and adversity, to the extent that a more cooperative species (let's be honest it's not gonna be us) would find plenty of non-military motivation to do similar amounts of basic and applied research.
India recently blocked an environmental protection website called http://letindiabreathe.in without any reasoning or notice. The founders haven't got any reply from nixi India, now they are seeking an RTI to find out the reason for the blockade. I dont think India can be a good example of the global vision for the Internet.
> unidentified federal agents

That is demonstrably incorrect. In every photo I've seen, the police have a POLICE patch on their plate carriers and unit/agency patches on their sleeves. Further, many have unique callsign patches on their uniforms. Admittedly their colors are subdued, but that goes along with the camouflage.

There are multiple problems with what has been going on in Portland, but allegations that the police were unidentifiable isn't one of them. In terms of uniquely identifying officers, there's no law requiring that (it's up to individual agency policy), nor is there any rule to inform someone why they are being arrested. It's legally enough for them to say, perhaps in the van, "I'm a federal agent and you are under arrest."

Not that it matters, but I have issue with the police wearing military uniforms without clear and obvious need (e.g. police snipers/observers in a rural area). It should be very obvious whether a person is a police officer or a soldier, especially for those who don't speak good english or come from outside the United States.
We're invested in one. TrueMade Foods. Send me a note if you want to talk with them.

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I suppose I see where you are coming from but a testing platform was never involved in my journey, just google docs.
Im on the beta and it takes a lot to boot it gets semi-stuck on like 80% for almost a minute..

Need to backup and do a clean install I guess

what can it be?
Yes, religion tends to make lots of bad actors. That is why Jesus excoriated the religious in Matthew 23.
what does the Realtime mean?

I believe they are contrasting it with how something like https://github.com/scrapy/scrapyd#readme or the ubiquitous "run scrapy under crontab" setups normally function: you kick off the spider, then you go get coffee and wait for the ItemPipeline to deliver the results somewhere else

With scrapyrt, you submit a POST or GET, and that URL blocks until the one requested thing completes or times out, enabling (only conceptually, mind you) an archive.is replacement using an XHR
(TimescaleDB engineer) Really curious about finding out more about your reservations about the updated schema. All criticisms welcome.
I remember a story that Leland Stanford asked what is needed to found a university and the answer was 200 million dollars. What they didn't tell him, that it also takes 200 hundred years.

Universities are a longterm project, if a university is good or not, is something you don't really realise while you are there but when you are finished and try to use your knowledge.
This reminds me of a joke.

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After years of training to be a monk, John left his monastery to travel the world and visit other places of worship. One day, he ended up at a monastery high up in the Himalayas. After exchanging pleasantries with his fellow monk brethren, they all gathered for their evening prayer followed by supper. Afterwards, the monks got to telling jokes to pass the time.

“Who would like to tell the first joke?” Said the lead monk.

“I would!” Replied brother Jacob. After some thought, brother Jacob said: “35!” Suddenly, all the monks began to laugh hysterically. John was confused as to why everyone found this so funny, so asked the monk next to him, who replied: “we monks have lived together for so long that we tell each other the same jakes over and over again, so we decided to number them to make things simpler.”

After a few more jokes, John was called upon to tell a joke. After thinking hard, John said: “126.” John then witnessed the monks laugh harder than he had ever seen before. John was both proud of himself and somewhat confused at the same time, so he asked the monk next to him “why is everyone laughing so hard at that joke?”

The monk turned to John and said: “because we’ve never heard that one before!”

---

Imagine in future arguments, a discourse that sounds like:

Person A: The sea levels are rising.
Person B: 4,512
Person A: but 125
Person B: Yes, and also 51.
> I don't think laptops should be designed to optimize relatively rare events like battery swaps over day-to-day use.

Is this reversing cause and effect? Battery swaps will indeed be rare if you have to disassemble the entire computer to do it.
If you looked at any of the pictures or watch the demo video you will see that the material is very stiff and thick. I wouldn't saw it is suitable for gloves.

But the general consensus is always not to wear gloves at all. The risk of it getting caught in the machine amplifies the risk much greater than just cutting yourself or losing a finger.
I'm a CharityVest user and the product has changed my approach to giving.

I now have a monthly total giving budget which goes into CharityVest that I can then disperse when a cause I'm passionate about comes around. I previously would mostly do one-off contributions (with a few non-profits that I regularly backed through their own tools) but it feels better to "budget" my total giving.

I'm glad to say that the product has increased my overall giving and has ensured that every dollar I've sent goes to the non-profit.
And the numerous rainbow bracket extensions for various editors, which color brackets and parentheses differently depending on nesting level.
https://archive.is/1owAX
Consider the case at hand, involving streaming charts and alerts. There will be zero perceptible difference in the streaming charts regardless of what database is used. Alerts won't trigger for whatever millisecond difference there may be, and I don't think that this matters to any developer or manager awaiting the 3am call.
I'm not religious but it makes sense to me:

"Don't condemn other people for making the mistake of saying racist things in their past if you have said racist things in YOUR past yourself"

It's very logical.
> At the end of the day, Europe is a country...

Europe is definitely not a country!
Anyone else interested it is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyLBGkS5ICk
No, it might indicate a lack of demand for that particular qualification.
Starting a Tiny Indoor Garden
These guys have so much money they can own both
And the return of investment for the change is low plus it's an extremely hard sell for management ("we'll work 2 years to get roughly where we are now and maybe get 3 minor features plus the promise of lower maintenance in the future").
I work in IT in local government. Even with the public records and ethics training our employees receive we still encounter plenty of times when we must advise other offices re: the public records-related concerns associated with their employees using personal phones, email, and third-party hosted services in the course of their job duties (let alone "sneaking").

I would assume that, at every level of government, significant numbers of public records are being lost to free third-party hosted services.
No, because school prestige is a positional good. This is like saying you can address the shortage of Olympic gold medals by just manufacturing tons of them.
The linked scripts are not part of the base installation yet TimescaleDB claims, for example, Prometheus support.

If you design your own schema and want to filter on such a dynamic tag field you have to replicate what they have implemented in these scripts. If you look at the code you'll see that this isn't exactly easy and other products do this out of the box.

I use TimescaleDB and have suffered from this, otherwise I wouldn't be talking here. Another problem is that these scripts are not compatible with all versions of TimescaleDB so you have to be careful when updating either one.
And why is that bad? I don't care if the software I'm using is coming from the US and if there are going to be globally dominant European internet companies. The only thing that counts to me is getting a good product, which privacy regulations are critical for, and getting taxes, which also requires more regulation not less.
I'm not surprised. If you grow up as a computer nerd all your life with few recognizable achievements, and suddenly a Big Tech company dangles in front of you $100k or more, very few people can say no, especially if you also grew up from a relatively poor background.
> Silicone Valley mostly provides the last 5%

Typo? Or are we finally acknowledging the contributions of the porn industry? :)
Depending on the launch trajectory, these fairings come down between 40 km and 1400km offshore. So you either need a helicopter with incredible range and dwell time, or a boat with a helicopter pad AND a place to put the fairing if you catch it.

Say you catch the fairing. Great, now you have a giant composite/plastic sail, the size of school bus, bouncing around in your rotor downdraft. Not exactly the safest thing, and you're over water so you can't just put down anywhere.

So, it's complicated, and SpaceX decided to go with a boat rather than a helicopter-and-a-boat.

https://www.teslarati.com/spacex-mr-steven-renamed-falcon-he...

https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/8/21213917/rocket-lab-rocket...

Rocketlab first stage catch demo; they've got a heavy stage to catch (with heavy engines at the bottom to act as a counterweight) and it's not nearly as big as the Falcon 9 booster.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3CWGDhkmbs&feature=emb_titl...
Few Understand That Bitcoin Is Money, Not Just Another Technology
> Without the new opt-in capability content from multiple origins -- some of them hostile -- are mixed into a process, and so the shared memory capabilities must be disabled.

That's an arbitrary requirement on the part of Firefox developers, and it's a security issue in its own right. Any of the numerous exploits that regularly show up in Firefox could take advantage of this, not just Spectre.

Chrome has site-isolation enabled by default, at least on Desktop, I don't see why Firefox shouldn't follow suit.
The US has botched regulation of telecoms compared to the UK/Europe
That’s why I think they should donate (ie buy) an existing university and transform it. I’d go for Pepperdine, right in Malibu, near the beach, perfect weather, great architecture.
Emerging CSS Frameworks in 2020
Top 5 CSS frameworks which can be used in 2020 instead of Bootstrap or Materialize CSS or Foundation
I did read the article, but I don't see anywhere it states that there will clearly be one material on the outside and then a block of proteus underneath. What they are grinding is clearly two different materials, and it stops when it gets to the second one. The x-rays and the example don't seem to have a metal outside welded on, which is my confusion - it looks like someone welded a plate onto the miracle material, when in that little image in the corner of the x-ray it looks entirely homogeneous.

Because we can't directly see the miracle material, the video feels disingenuous.
I live in Austin, and there are plenty of rotting decks here too. But its mostly from three things, that incredibly shitty water based stain sealer which is 100% useless, the use of 1" deck boards, and/or the use of soft cedar.

I replaced 2" rotten cedar which was resting on 20+ year old pressure treated (and sunk in concrete footers) decking where the structure looked like it was good for another 20+ years with 2x6 pressure treated structural lumber+yearly pressure wash+oil seal/stain put down at a gallon or so every 100 sqft with a roller. The wood is checked, but none of the checking has gone more than a 1/4 the way through and 15 years in (on the oldest version of this ive done), it looks about the same as it did at year 2. I don't see any indications it won't last another 15 years, there isn't a drop of rot anywhere.

Its probably toxic as all get out, but I don't eat off it and outside of a week or two before the sun burns all the VOCs off I can't imagine its really out-gassing much.

The biggest problem was that oil based stain/sealers were getting really hard to acquire for a few years, but even the big box places have it again if you look.

Untreated pine (along with harder teak/mahogany/etc) was used in sailing ships for hundreds of years, in some of the worst enviroments. If you pay attention, a wood deck shouldn't really be any worse than wood siding on a house.

Personally I think a large part of the problem has been those water based deck sealers/stains which despite claims of wood penetration are just thin coats on the top of the wood which don't flex/swell with the wood and quickly are doing absolutely nothing but creating a layer between the wood and the sealer for moisture/rot to form. Put another way, i've yet to see a case where the stuff won't peel off after a couple years. Its basically really bad exterior paint. OTOH, the oil based sealers are linseed/etc and soak in and bind with previous layers, so you can switch from a stain to a clear after a couple years to maintain a particular color.
The User-Agent string for Big Sur's Safari running on Apple Silicon (ARM) still says "Mac OS X 10_16" and, curiously, claims to be "Intel":

"Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_16) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/14.0 Safari/605.1.15"
Do you think ancient Rome could have landed someone on the moon had they not fell?
The author's view of the evolving internet landscape. Real world geopolitical alliances and divides are increasingly being represented on the internet. Author Ben Thompson writes that the internet is dividing into 4 increasingly separate zones. Each zone dominated by a major power (United States, China, European Union, and India). Thompson outlines his views of vision behind the American, Chinese, and Indian zones while lamenting the lack of vision in the European zone.
Black Mirror today become real in Ukraine
Longer than those of us who oppose printing money would like. The US economy has many different parts that stand well on the world stage and so it can get away with things.

Agriculture in the US is something that the middle east cannot duplicate. They could duplicate some other industry, though some of it has historical roots that will be hard to overcome starting from scratch.
Someone beat the cannonball record (NY to LA) during the confinement with only one fuel stop...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvQFDtJUdHw
The usual reasons monopolies are bad. Jio in particular is known for being highhanded in blocking websites. A couple weeks ago duckduckgo was unavailable on their network across India. [0] Last week, the government of India proposed some changes to the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) process which would make it easier for corporations to cause ecological damage without repercussions. A couple organizations published articles condemning these changes and explained the procedure to oppose this process, their websites were promptly blocked. [1]

[0] https://twitter.com/DuckDuckGo/status/1278288303532302336

[1] https://thenextweb.com/in/2020/07/14/india-reportedly-blocks...
Got to admit - that's a simple yet clever solution.
So explain:

1. The cutting of research into a vaccine for the original sars coronavirus. I think a lot of us would be happier if we had that basic research done right now. Clear failure of market-based solutions / forward thinking. Same vein: lack of real change on global warming.

2. Social media companies optimizing their algorithms to make people unhappy, so they spend more time on the site.

Basically, no I do not accept your original premise.
Is there a name for the sensation of being born the wrong species?
I think it's actually something unique about Americans. When I started my company, I wanted our slogan to be "Helping each other, together". I very quickly realized that no one in the US actually responds to a saying like that. The vast majority simply doesn't "get" it.
Do you have full drive encryption on? On my MacBook 12 2016 that seems like it gets stuck on initially.
> municipalities were building out their own ISP

Municipalities were trying to build out their own last mile infrastructure. Some of them wanted to add ISP functionality on to that, but not all. In other words, they were already trying to do exactly what a "1 wire rule" would have mandated.

> They were left to try to come up with their own solution

In other words, municipalities were trying to do what was best for them. They did not need the Federal government to tell them that 1-wire last mile was a good idea. They already knew it.

> and their own funding.

Yes, and funding was never an issue. Many municipalities were trying to build, or had already started building, last-mile 1-wire infrastructure with their own funding that would have required ISPs to compete for access at aggregation points, exactly as you describe. What stopped them, as I said, was regulations and lawsuits.

> The ISPs even being allowed to sue municipalities was because of

Regulatory capture and a broken US legal system that allows large corporations with deep pockets to make frivolous lawsuits against municipalities that they know can't afford to defend themselves. If we forced plaintiffs to pay all legal costs for the defendants if they lose their lawsuit, those frivolous lawsuits would go away.

> You could have literally no law in place around burying fiber in the ground and an ISP like Comcast would sue a city for the simple sake of slowing down build-out and draining municipal funds.

Yes, indeed; see above. But why should we allow them to get away with frivolous lawsuits? Why not do the obvious thing to fix that particular problem, as described above?

> Regulation is 100% not the reason we have the mess we do in the US.

Stupid regulation that benefits large corporations and their political cronies instead of the people is 100% the reason we have the mess we do in the US.

Smart regulation that was targeted at obvious abuses, like the lawsuits mentioned above, would greatly improve the situation, without having to have the government try to impose one-size-fits-all policies on everyone.
I completely agree. Just the headline I didn't agree with. Universities for teaching, social work, fbi profilers will never be as prestigious as those where you can get trained to earn millions.
Definitely a lot! But, sometimes one question feels more right to ask, so better to inspire than limit sometimes! :)
The US army also employs hundreds of thousands. Does that mean it's good to pump so much money into it and keep it that strong?
To date me, I learned about the Ghostscript model from Michael Tiemann in late 1996, when it used a delayed release model - GNU Ghostscript versions were released approximately a year after the corresponding Aladdin Ghostscript version.

That model influenced my early thinking for chemfp. I thought there would be enough commercial interest to pay to develop the leading edge (and get a copy under an open source license), with a, say, 2-year delay for the no-cost open source version. There wasn't.

But unlike the Ghostscript of 30 years ago, I wanted chemfp to be a fully open source project. That is, checking now, https://web.archive.org/web/20070614092626/http://pages.cs.w... says "[Artifex Software Inc. is] the only entity legally authorized to distribute Ghostscript per se on any terms other than the GNU or Aladdin" - that doesn't sound like an OEM could re-sell the source code under the same terms as received by the OEM, since only Artifex was authorized to allow that distribution.

"Is there a particular reason .."

My general support for FOSS? My willingness to try an experiment, see how it turns out, and report the results, in order to further the discussion about open source software in my field and how to fund it? My understanding that my pharma clients, almost as a rule, don't do software releases? My expectation that I can always fall back to consulting? My annoyance that published papers on fast similarity search almost invariably showed an amazing performance boost compared to a slow reference baseline, so even if there was a buyout this way, it would still result in reaching my main goals of promoting my FPS format and setting a more honest baseline?

So no, no particular reason, but rather many reasons.
A few examples which benefit citizens:

* Websites are required to clearly present what information they store and track. They are also required to provide an option of functionality without ad tracking technology. The UX problems have been discussed ad nauseam, but from a pure requirement, this is a net win for citizen's data privacy and data tracking transparency.

* Internet companies are required to report and delete all citizen's data on request. This is a huge win for citizen's control over their own data. While companies like Google had already started to become more transparent on the data they collect from their users even before GDPR, this specific law spurred a huge increase in functionality in order to meet the full requirements.

* The fact that it has forced major international companies to provide these data transparency and deletion features to all users is a net win for all, including non-European citizens.

* Companies (and government institutions) are required to publicly notify any breach of data within 72 hours.
Reading the article from the top, at the title, down to the last paragraph, felt a lot like Charlie Brown, Lucy, and the football. 18 paragraphs of meandering prose just to end with, "Welp, who knows?"
> There's a ton of awareness that needs to be raised to email senders what spam is.

Someone should create something like Grammarly or Medium's community-editor feature, for email campaigns. "Before you hit send, get a first impression on your campaign from 10 random beta readers from our community." Then give the beta-readers a prominent "this looks like spam" button to press.

Probably it wouldn't give any different of a response than a regular spam filter; but I imagine that most ad people will think of "it went into the spam filter" as a technical problem, rather than a problem with their messaging. Whereas, if real humans tell them the campaign looks like spam, maybe they'd listen.
Ohio House Speaker and 4 others arrested in $60M bribery case