skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why would it not survive? Facebook is a huge advertsing platform. Only thing that changes is that they can’t target iOS users as well as before, but that’s it. People will still pay fb to show ads.
Too bad you had to ruin an otherwise good post with

>now it's used primarily by laggards and poorly-educated demographics

I dislike Facebook too (and don't use it) but the above statement is a clear lie. Normal people are who use Facebook, like it or not.
Using an underscore for a variable name is perfectly fine when defining callback functions, where the underscore merely fills the void for the 1st parameter name, and you only need the 2nd parameter.
Very cool. Runs on repl.it nicely: https://repl.it/@amasad/terminal-present
Ongoing shittiness is predictable and easy to understand. We've survived so far, surely we can survive if it gets just a little worse. Big disasters are unpredictable and hard to understand. One of those could end the world at any time. AFAICT that's the whole reason people are more afraid of them.
I always saw it as "JSON was the new XML". And JSON Schema was the new XSD. And then they went ahead and also re-invented SOAP using "Swagger" / OpenAPI.

Luckily, JSON/YAML is mostly interchangeable these days as it's just a nested hierarchy of a few basic types. Heck, I mostly treat XML the same way as well.
If all the designs were the same you could start prefabbing components, that will do just fine for construction costs.
Worth noting that this power plant was run by an arm of the United States government.
> nuclear accidents can make a place uninhabitable for thousands of years.

Ignoring the fact that meltdown is not even possible in modern designs, even in a Fukushima total power loss scenario, note that the Bikini atoll is safe to visit at this point and it was the site of repeated nuclear testing. It's hard to see how nuclear power plants, which are designed to avoid any possibility of having a critical mass, could do worse than what was done to the atoll. So becoming uninhabitable for "thousands of years" would pretty difficult, even if someone were trying to do that intentionally.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bikini_Atoll#Current_habitable...

> peak uranium...

And what of peak oil then? Didn't that happen already?

Also, what's the alternative? We stop using energy to make ammonium, let agriculture scale down to nothing, and leave people starving as food production plummets?

There's only so much of a solar energy budget for the planet, then we have to get it from off world (with transport costs) or use up consumable sources already on the planet like coal, nuclear, etc. The universe loses the fight with entropy eventually no matter what we do, the only question is how long we last.
No-one talks about it because it isn't relevant. The fact that a 1970s plant didn't get every safety upgrade over the course of 40 years is possible.

But if you do a cost-benifit analysis of nuclear power and just add Fukushima to the cost column it is still an absurdly good idea to go nuclear. The status quo we currently enjoy is comparable to the worst-case in nuclear. If we applied nuclear safety standards I suspect coal fired power plants would have an exclusion zone too; they cause a lot of pollution and the health impacts around them are detectable.
A popular one is comparing the violence in cities by their raw numbers instead of per-capita.
agreed. I've always thought this. And I figure that the ether (medium in which light is a wave) is very dense and is the sum of all matter at smaller scales. Perhaps forces are fractal also, eg gravity at our scale may be the electricity of scale n+1. Similarly time, which is not a thing, but merely a measure of motion. So an electron "planet" buzzes around its proton "star" so fast that to us it is just a probability blur. Just as our Earthly orbit would be a blur to a being at n+1.

Check out this comparison of the various probability states of the hydrogen atom side-by-side with planetary nebula Pretty amazing/cool. https://rloldershaw.people.amherst.edu/stars2/

There is also this:
http://www.gpofr.com/fractal-scaling-cosmology/
Evangelicals are looking for answers online. They’re finding QAnon instead
What Facebook (and adtech writ large) does is sniff your farts trying to figure out what you had for breakfast. If you shoo them away, they sniff your friends' farts to indirectly infer that.

I'm sure the folks who work on this are proud of their accomplishments.
Many years ago I was part of a SaaS startup for which local governments were one of our target markets. During our beta we quickly gained interest from the relevant department of the city and were then led on by them for the better part of a year before we went under. This behavior seems consistent with a lot of the comments that have already been posted.

One of the biggest hurdles for us besides the timeline, which I haven't seen mentioned yet, was compliance. The city had a very antiquated security checklist they wanted us to satisfy which was written exclusively for their existing on-prem software deployments in a MS ecosystem, and thus impossible to meet as a SaaS provider. I suspect many smaller municipalities will present you with the same nonsense. In our case, this was not what ultimately killed us, but based on this experience I would advise you to avoid putting all your eggs in one basket and perhaps avoid altogether working a government that is not ready for SaaS once you find out that is the case.
Seems like they have to overcompensate for the PR to appear as the good guys after all the PR damage they took lately. Nothing more, nothing less. Perfunctory privacy efforts.
> Look at Fukushima for example

Yes, and what about it?
If you want to do anything nontrivial, yes, probably. This hacked-together YAML syntax seems very irritating to write more complex programs in. And it probably needs sandboxing of its own to some extent, as it looks like it can do infinite loops.
Russia Declassifies Video from 1961 of Largest Hydrogen Bomb Ever Detonated
"An herb", good god.

But completely agree. For anyone who hasn't followed what's happening to Gawker's corpse, this is worth a read:

https://theconcourse.deadspin.com/the-adults-in-the-room-183...
I got in the field motivated by a specific problem that I wanted to build a solution for. I needed to learn programming to do that. Keeping the problem in mind has led me to study and increase my capabilities in a variety of areas, and currently I do ML research. I'd highly recommend this approach if you have a problem that is particularly motivating or interesting to you, as it can consistently point you useful directions to explore independently of any one job or piece of technology.

For the first job, mine was at a startup. Founders may be more willing to take a bet on someone who demonstrates passion and an ability to hack on stuff and get it to work, whereas big company hiring seems to be more conservative.

Performing superbly on technical interviews will always get you hired, regardless of your background. If you have a buddy also interviewing, pair up and give each other as many whiteboard interviews as you can (I did 2-3 weeks of 5-6 problems per day). You'll feel much more confident.

Lastly, work on projects you are actually excited about, and interview at places doing stuff you're excited about. That sort of excitement really shines through in an interview. Additionally, it will pay off in quality of life.

Good luck!
I don’t think Epic are asking to be able to add their own APIs to iOS so I doubt it, unless Apple’s implementation of these permission requests is tied to the App Store for some reason and disappears if the app is distributed some other way.
That's why risk analysis looks at defense in depth. It's for people who believe there's no such thing as luck and every close call is a near disaster that needs to be accounted for in the plan.
I bet they're talking about how the heck they can own their own platform/browser.

Facebook is too big to be under the thumb of the operating system and browser vendors, who are possibly hostile towards Facebook's way of doing things.

Not an easy problem to solve.
We charge about 10x for enterprise customers.
The only difference between what they get and what a normal customer get is that we deploy the enterprise customers on their own servers/network.

Considering how long end exhausting the sales process are with enterprise customers I think the price is fair, even though the extra cost to operate that kind of customer is negligible.
You call every city that might need the thing you are proposing, you talk to the receptionist and ask her who you should talk to about $SUBJECT. She will give you multiple names, extension numbers, and email addresses.
I doubt there’s anyone pouring their charitable money into suing Apple, so there will probably always be a profit motive.
The Celera 500L, a curious bullet-shaped plane that consume less fuel
Ideally setting the tenant context happens early during request authorization, is a required to get access to a database connection, and is configured outside the scope of any request business logic.
I want the opposite. I don't really want to control a plane - I want "dream flight" - just basically a 6-axis controller that lets me move however I want - but in the gorgeous FS2020 world.

I think MS should make that available on the web as part of Bing Maps.
I wonder who is the person doing the voice over in the built-in tutorial. She sounds like the same person who provided the voice of Delilah in Firewatch.
Some people refer to the rotating structure as “the sprinkler”, but at any rate the question has some merit.

Generally the middle of the structure has small sprayers evenly spaced, and the end of the structure has what looks like a regular sprinkler on steroids. The large throw increases the effective diameter.

It’s a fair question, but the net would be that you use a slightly longer structure and get a rounded rectangle, where the rounded rectangle is just a truncated circle of the area the same sprinkler could cover in theory. Weigh that against the yield and extra maintenance costs.

I haven’t seen this many times, but the Wikipedia article points out there are linear systems that irrigate rectangular areas. They use a canal on one end and pumps on the rig. That explains an unanswered question about irrigation practices I’ve seen in Eastern Washington.
That wouldn’t fly in the EU because if the GDPR. https://ec.europa.eu/newsroom/article29/document.cfm?action=...:

“If consent is bundled up as a non-negotiable part of terms and conditions it is presumed not to have been freely given.“
My experience has been otherwise, it's been extremely friction-inducing and I had to go out of my way to split up diffs into smaller ones in order to make it clear what was going on. A language like Java or C# would have just had a single line difference (`-private +public`) and be done.
interesting. so the average lifetime dosage was on the low end of a CT scan. ~10mSv where a CT scan will be 10-30mSv. and three mile island let off even less to the people in a 10mile radius... ~80µSv.
> There's an entire industry (pc gaming) that is still a pretty piss poor experience on other platforms. This has been true for 25 years and isn't showing any signs of changing.

I would disagree there. Valve is still pushing Linux fairly successfully, despite the fact that "Steam Machine's" never took off.
Welp, don't hold your breath. Facebook has 1.79B people on the side daily, 2.7B on monthly, and $18B in revenue in the last 3 months alone. It's going to be a while before that momentum slows down and/or collapses.
Amazon's New Fresh Grocery Banner
Not the US Navy, but there was this incident:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chalk_River_Laboratories#1952_...

you may have heard of the US Navy officer in charge of the cleanup. His name was Jimmy Carter.

Also, the US Navy's record at Hunter's Point in San Francisco is abysmal.
> I’m continuously baffled by those that claim that nuclear power is safe. Look at Fukushima for example.

A 49 year old plant with a 53 years old design. Are you serious, did you follow the SOTA?
He did it all in 6 days though. That's less than a full sprint.
For most cities, YES.
If they can pay for X with a credit card, and it`s cheaper than 1k$ a month, they will.

The only problem is, are you willing to take up to 3 meetings for ~8 hours with 4/5 different people in person in a small city hours away from where you live for 2k$ a year in revenue?

And if your answer is yes, please shoot me an email.
Do you have proof or is this just your opinion?
I agree that relevant ads are better than completely random ones for everyone involved. But there is a significant middle ground between “show this user a random ad” and “show this user an ad based on data collected through tracking”. There’s also “show this user an ad similar to what they’re currently looking at”, like the search ads on DuckDuckGo. I find that these kinds of ads are just as relevant as targeted ads. The big disadvantage compared to using tracking is the inability for advertisers to select demographics directly (instead, they would have to choose pages or search terms to appear near).
That's good to know. Still, with tens of thousands of satellites planned (that's just SpaceX) and the need for them to de-orbit and then redeploy, I think there is going to be quite a few of these things visible at any given time.
The problem with case sensitivity is UX. Sure, one can explain to someone that “A” and “a” are different to a computer, but will they understand?
Interestingly, Lebanon today could fall into similar anarchy.

People's money is currently locked up in banks after years of exorbitant returns (15%+ interest) from what the central bank had called "financial engineering".
Where "Google Maps style" 3D buildings and terrain are available, it's used in MSFS. It's just that there are many places without it, where the game only has a 2D satellite map to work with (plus some extra data that's available like number of floors in the buildings). In those cases it uses the AI generation.
And TikTok is banned in India
And the suddenly widespread availability rather than a select few building. There's something to say for either approach.
I don't think you're going to find anything that glues together auth and billing like you want.

I'd look at Auth0, Firebase, and adjacent products for the auth part.

Stripe really does the heavy lifting with subscriptions, shouldn't be much work to implement.
I've been using Shortcat for this and Amethyst for tiling. Glad to see another project. Anyone know Windows OS equivalents?
>Crypto is hard because you don't get quick feedback on whether you are doing well.

Well said.

If you are to implement a sorting algorithm, you'll know immediately whether it works or is fast enough. Crypto doesn't provide this feedback. It's important to get help from others, if you can't tell yourself whether your code works.
One of my favorite meals, ever, was like this, at 'House of Nanking' in SF. The host asked if the six of us had ever eaten there before, and when we said 'No', he said he'd take care of everything. Half a dozen dishes later (+/- 1 or 2, it was 20 years ago), we were amazed, happy, and full. 10/10.
> You don’t have to be anti-science to be against building new nuclear power plants

That needs a bit more justification. It certainly hasn't been true for the last 40 odd years and by extension most of the anti-nuclear types probably are also anti-science.

Generally they're the sort of people who'll hold global warming up as a real problem and then argue that Fukushima is an unacceptable risk. It is hard to hold both those positions and be heavy on the science. On the scale that global warming is a risk the risk from a nuclear plant can't even be detected. I've lived next to a coal fired power plant; the science is very, very clear I'd have better life outcomes if I'd lived near a nuclear one.
LIUP: The first Mexican LED mask that can be controlled with your smartphone
One of these projects is LIUP , which claims to be the first mask with RGB (colored) LED lights, customizable and reusable with which you can express your own style. The project seeks funding through Kickstarter which is the most popular platform to support new ideas and turn them into reality.
Source:-https://gadgetcrutches.com/gadgets/liup-meet-the-first-mexican-led-mask-that-can-be-controlled-with-your-smartphone/
What's the appropriate amount of notice to give?

I think what they're doing here is objectively a Good Thing, and don't really follow your argument otherwise, though I agree that it's bad if Apple simply takes it over.
Or I wouldn't be opposed to a printed manual. I remember the first flight sim I bought, one of the Jane's series, had a huge binded manual with it that I used to read during study hall at school. Just reading it and learning about the basics and physics of flight I found more interesting than the game itself. I miss those huge manuals from big box PC games.
Such jobs are not as numerous as they used to be. But, basically you chat up owners/managers of local businesses with computers.
>Separate Apps & Separate Databases

> Suitability:
This is the best way to begin your SAAS platform, for product-market fitment until stability and growth.

Uh what? How is this even feasible when you get to 1000s of clients?
When you go off defined path, everything becomes highly context dependent. Know people or interview well, preferably both. Apply anywhere & everywhere. View your first few years as a paid internship, ie don't care too much about pay
I thought having enough healthy food with as small of environmental impact as possible is good for human progress /s
Ah, yeah that's a different story if you want to stay long term.
Aren't they free to make their app not work at all without this setting? If so, then they must still find enough in letting you use facebook without it, even if less than they would like.
> I don’t think they want FS to become the sort of “game” where you install it, and then you have to also install hundreds of mods to get the proper experience from it

This has been the case for Flight Simulator scenery since at least Flight Simulator 4 (1989), so although it's nice to have good scenery out of the box, it's not really anything new. You don't really need "hundreds" though because you just get scenery for the areas you want to fly.
Wouldn’t that mean you’re holding lots of non reusable connections?

I have recently been using row level security with a transaction middleware where I set the tenant ID.

Nice article regarding it - https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/multi-tenant-data-isol...
Short-Notice Schedules Are Hurting Your Business and Your Employees
The whole interview (multiple hours) is fascinating, like a good episode of "On the Metal". Heavy recommend for people interested in CS history and Innovation.
Any hints on getting the browser makers to enable us to disable it?

I gave up on Chrome because it was preventing my mac from sleeping because "webRTC has active peer connections". Before de mistifying its inner workings, you may want to address why we'd want it and why it messes with power management.
Then those people should be anti-pesticide / anti-monoculture not anti-GMO.

That's like being anti-steel because weapons are being made out of steel.
My degree was in music, but I dabbled in tech courses too - calculus, discrete math, logical circuits, just because I liked those classes. I took a workshop on C but hated it. I didn't like programming until the internet became a thing. I learned some perl as a student, on my own from reading the book and trying things out. My first job out of college was as a network administrator. Hated it. Second job involved some programming. I learned php and database programming on my own. I later learned java, scala, akka, node, and react on the job (all on projects transitioning away from php). After the first job or two, no one asks or cares about school education level. I'm a principle software architect now, the job is fine. Bullshit and politics are low, and it's always fun to solve a problem.

Fall in love with an uber-ambitious technical side project that you'll never turn into a business but that will make you learn every tech you'd ever be interested in. Then you can tinker on it for life and it'll keep you employable.
The fact that if one has two files, say “test{invalid bytes}.txt” and test{other invalid bytes}.txt”, both have replacement characters inserted at the same spot and would decode to the same codepoints.
x0xo is perfectly right. I did not own a car, so it costed me 4k$ just in car/hotel/food/printing for my first client.

PRINT EVERYTHING. Buy a nice presentation template online, print it on glossy paper, and you will always have a meeting in person or at least, a phone call.
Are you a colleague? We're working on that. We preferred making the notebooks asynchronous first to ship the feature since that's the "natural habitat" where users spend the most time, then adding that functionality to the AppBook.

Great question!
That's the key feature. That's why they're using the product.

I opt-in to using my car to drive, and I opt-in to using my laptop to write code.

I don't opt-in for tracking, advertising, or other negative externalities.
"Eat the Rich" has always struck me as an odd slogan to use given that it was literally true in Cambodia. The Khmer Rouge had a thing for murdering people and eating their livers.
Ladies and Gentlemen of the class of '97 – [Baz Luhrmann]
Agreed in general.

However, people who use windows/office have a tendency to try to force you to use windows as well. Even today.
Possibly the first+N complete skeleton ever found. The first was over 160 years ago.
Quite a bit "dark-washed". Aurelius was likely from the Balkans/Dacia, maybe even descended from Roman settlers, Carus was probably from southern Gaul.

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

Vespasian and Domitian were Italian nobles. Tacitus (who was Italian too) and Florianus were half-brothers, so they should be similar.

Marcus Aurelius family comes from Spain, and his mother was a noble Roman woman...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domitia_Calvilla
...and his father's mother was a Roman woman too.

It is all just speculation but compare it to this artistic rendition:

https://i.redd.it/92np45xeap521.jpg

Actually what irks me is his son Commodus: This is not how blonde people, even with a tan, even black haired Italians with a tan and narcistically coloring their hair with gold glitter, look like.
Hah! OK, now that is cool. Props!
- The Matrix impressed me when I was child. I said to myself “I’m going to build a good world, a good system, my own heaven.” after some time, I found myself reading articles about programming and my adventure has started right there. It was a huge exploration for me. I started to focus on learning a programing language. It was C.

- Taking care the system, developing new features. Yes, It is.

- I built a course system for my school, worked free about 6 months. Learnt a lot of things and this experience gave my first job.

- Make real your every absract notion by coding and drink coffee madly.
>That makes connection pooling difficult and presents its own security issues on limiting the tenant to only their DB user.

Can you use SET LOCAL ROLE <user> on each transaction ?
I would love to have a discussion with the person who doesn't browse the web with uBlock Origin (or similar).
On the off chance that anyone here isn't familiar with 'cryptbe, he broke the Flickr URL signing scheme, he and Juliano Rizzo discovered and worked out the BEAST TLS attack (which, to hear Kenny Paterson describe it, more or less set the template for the next 10 years of applied TLS attack research), and then discovered CRIME, which is the first in a line of compression oracle attacks. He works on Daniel Bleichenbacher's team now doing Tink and and Wycheproof.