skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't Watergate far more consequential?

It's problematic that the FBI targets groups for poor reasons, but it doesn't result in much change to the country, it just unfairly harasses members of those powerless groups.
Thing is capital gains literally never have to be realized. You can borrow against your equity position on margin (currently 0.75% for large withdrawals) and pay off the interest with dividends.

Source: i do this.
I have enough privilege that I don’t need to work 2 jobs so for me, time and health are two finite resources that I will never trade for. Even the wealthiest trillionaire can only buy so much of either.
biggest risk with cloud services is more that randomly some fraud prevention etc system decides it doesn't want you to be a customer and kills your account, wiping all the data. (although bugs with data-loss happen to them too)

The same rules as for all other backups apply: have backups in multiple, independent places.

EDIT: Also, if it's just a synchronization of the photos from your phone and not an explicit backup, a mistake or fault could also delete the photos on your phone and then it would dutifully sync that deletion to the cloud. sync services != backup for many purposes
Presumably the entire building and its contents did not melt. There were probably many kicking around in the rubble.
It's extremely unlikely the phenomena "can't be explained" and far more likely that it "hasn't been explained."

Science is like that. It's why discoveries are fun.
I have been working mostly from home over the past 5 years and with enough flexibility that I've usually done chores during the weekdays (working earlier, later, or more on some other days to make up when that's necessary to perform at the same level) and I realized during my brief stint back into an office routine this year that this was a huge luxury and something I value enormously. In addition, my family is in Europe (I'm in the US) and being able to call them during the workday spontaneously instead of making it a planned thing to do over the weekend has been a huge perk as well. I think the 4-day workweek sounds great for people who can't have the same day to day flexibility but would like the convenience the article mentions
Doing harmful things is what's punishable and regulated. Having the means to do them is not. e.g. I would be punished for chopping down a bird sanctuary, but not required to get a license to own an axe.
A job is just another income stream, hopefully one of the many one can hope to build during their life. Why kill yourself everyday over it?

Edit: Downvotes? In a forum supposedly filled with “entrepreneurial” minded individuals? Whatever... at least explain yourselves.
I don't understand, can't they bring them into focus to guess their distance? How can't they know if they are in or out of the galaxy?
Ting can do it. It's one checkbox in my device settings panel. Here's the whole list of things I can tweak:

> Can use call forwarding
> Can use call forwarding on busy/no answer
> Can use call forwarding at any time
> Can use call waiting
> Can use hold
> Can use three-way calling
> Can use visual voicemail
> Can make/receive calls
> Can use voicemail
> Can use Wi-Fi calling
> Allow international long distance calls
> Allow international roaming
> Allow international roaming data
> Can send/receive text messages
> Block picture, video, and group messages
> Can use data
> Can use tethering
Will Shopify Scare Amazon into Another Webstore Fail?
I appreciate you jumping into a thread like this and it's great to hear that effort is being invested to speed up Jira Cloud.

However:

> we've been able to load about 100 issues in ~1-2 seconds.

I'm sure there are a ton of things that go into speeding things up and I don't mean to diminish the amount of work involved, but might I suggest raising the performance bar even higher?

Is there a world where loading 100 issues takes 300ms for example? Anything over that typically tends to give users the impression of things being slow.
> Natural immunity is more effective than the vaccine at preventing COVID

You have no evidence of this and at least weak evidence to the contrary--both for COVID and other viral diseases.

The human immune system seems to be capable of clearing COVID with with the innate, non-specific immune response--especially in younger people. This will not necessarily provoke the antibody response that gives long term immunity.

A vaccine, on the other hand, is engineered to provoke a long-term response from the antibody system.
> Your quote chopped off the asterisk after HTML

No, there was (and still is) no asterisk in the title of this post.
Jira is just fine.

But if you find a company where they want to create their own ticket tracker in house, run. It means they're pennywise pound foolish
18F pre-dates the U.S. Digital Service by 6 months.

Coding It Forward is a civil society initiative, not a government one, and is analogous to thinking that a weak diplomatic corps can be fixed by sponsoring more high school Model U.N. chapters. There is no lack of viable and willing candidates _outside_ of the system, the issue is getting them _inside_ and letting them inform it.
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The picture feels especially surprising because of the fuzzy contours and transparency that do not fit the sharp stars. Keep in mind that the image is a superposition of an image in some radiowave frequency range (fuzzy either because of different sensor/tech/frequency range), superimposed to a normal image in visible spectrum with very different actual resolution.

> The ghostly ORC1 (blue/green fuzz) on a backdrop of the galaxies at optical wavelengths.
Thank you all for the year! I love HN and many times don't even visit the linked site as the discussion gives me so much information and insight. Thank you for the high quality place this still is.
Unless your user is using a iPhone.
MFA was standard in industry leaders 10 years ago.
2020, digital revolution and remote work
I’m pretty sure EF-S focal lengths are 35mm equivalent. They just project a smaller image circle and the rear element is closer to the sensor (so will likely crash the mirror on a full frame camera).
Autonetics is a company name, a division of Rockwell. I don't think it means anything other than sounding high-tech, like cybernetics.
This all sounds very much like there is some reaaally simple solution and nothing fancy going on.

Expecially the "always circular" part threw me off. It looks like the blend effects you get when you make photos against the sun. There might be something similar with radio waves as well.
Whoops, missed the comment window on all the replies to me except for this one!

I clearly completely failed to communicate what I meant about "diagramming" a programming language, as evidenced by all the people pointing out that syntax tree diagrams work fine on natural languages, and indeed were originally created for natural languages, which is totally missing the point.

What I meant was that the semantics of programming languages are so limited and constrained that they could easily be translated into an "executable diagram", such as a control-flow graph for imperative code, or a dataflow graph for functional code. The syntax of natural languages is indeed more-or-less similarly constrained as programming languages, but the semantics of natural languages seems completely nebulous and ill-defined to me.

To use the board game analogy from earlier, you could conceivably learn to play chess entirely in terms of chess notation ("1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6"), without ever learning about the 8x8 chessboard or the 16 pieces. Chess notation shares no syntactic structure whatsoever with the "syntax"/diagram drawing rules of a chessboard and pieces, yet their semantics are exactly equivalent.

In the same way, the "syntax"/diagram drawing rules of control-flow graphs has no syntactic structure in common with imperative code, yet exactly equivalent semantics. Could you imagine a diagram system that has no syntactic structure in common with natural language, yet completely captures the semantics?

I cannot begin to imagine that. The semantics of natural language defy description.
Just a heads up, that summary does not even begin to address the shocking weirdness of the book. I found it really interesting but, well, consider yourself warned...
Just the other day I brought up that many countries use things like memes to modify public perception. Topic was about China but I brought up that everyone else does it too (US, Russia, Israel, Germany, etc) and people thought it was insane and a conspiracy theory(specifically that anyone would want to influence Reddit because it is "a small website"). It honestly feels like we're gaslighting ourselves because this topic has been so openly discussed over the last 50 years that it is hard to say that this isn't happening. Though maybe because I suggested agencies use memes now instead of more well known sock puppets.

Even on HN news I've been downvoted for this. I guess people don't think memes are being weaponized, even when they are explicitly referred to as such by those in the military[0] and other agencies. Actually one thing I've liked about The Boys (on Prime) is how it shows the viral marketing of Stormfront and how it is manipulating people (and how people didn't even notice the not even remotely subtle naming of the character). I guess that just shows how effective of a tool all this is.

[0] https://youtu.be/qOTYgcdNrXE?t=1287
A big problem with hiring is just USG pay scales. Even the top pay grades come in at less than what an average (or even less than average) developer can make in industry. Much less if you also consider equity comp.

Sure, there are some people who will see working for USDS or 18F as a call to serve their country, and will accept a pay cut in order to do that, but I imagine that's a pretty small slice of the pie.

Beyond that, it's the bureaucracy. I would honestly consider said pay cut in order to help make dealing with government computing systems better, but what I will not deal with is layers upon layers upon layers of bureaucracy. I've watched the 50-person startup I started at 9 years ago evolve into a 3500-person public company, and even here I find the bureaucracy and hierarchy stifling at times. At a government job I imagine it'll be orders of magnitude worse. I wouldn't even last half a year in that environment.

Yes, Play #4 in their list in theory suggests that they'll try to cut through all that, but I don't believe for a second that will go well.
Not only is what I’m suggesting not insane, it’s inevitable. As we gain more and more technological control over deadly machines like cars the insane thing will be not to install the tech that makes them far less deadly.

Geofencing a car on public roads doesn’t eliminate any legal uses of the car. It doesn’t violate any rights or freedoms. It doesn’t involve any interesting tradeoffs or compromises. It’s a commonsense banality.

This claim shocks people, but that’s just because we used to live in a world where you’d have to do something objectionable to achieve these kinds of goals. But that’s increasingly not true; our intuitions just haven’t caught up to this new reality.

(Obviously, by the way, that’s why your examples aren’t equivalent. I don’t want to chip your brain or your computer, because that would entail an objectionable limitation. Preventing you from speeding in your car on a public right-of-way does not require any objectionable limitation. It only seems like it might, because we’re used to thinking there’s no way you could prevent these kinds of things without doing something objectionable.)
My favorite books of 2020 are :
- Lolita by Nabokov, delightfully written and disturbing
- the Foundation series by Asimov, a classic. Great plot
No one pays minimum wage as it is. In my state it's $7.25 and no one pays that. They're all in the $11-$15 range. If your theory was correct, all entry level positions would be paying $7.25.
I also don't particularly like Jira. The problems you have, however, seem to be with the very idea of tracking what needs to be done, has been done, or really having any kind of process at all by which a team coordinates their efforts.

That's a very different kind of problem. Unless you spend your career work on projects where you're the sole engineer and the PM/PO doesn't know what they're doing, I think that you're probably going to have a difficult time if you can't reconcile yourself to the utility of this sort of process.
Something bizarre in that URL
Demis Hassabis AI will unlock secrets of how life works
In this thread:

>If they were doing this then, imagine what they're doing now!

>[link to snowden wikipedia article]

>I think all of them are breaking the law, despite the fact that I don't know how the law works.
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Also it doesn't matter how well we sterilize our rockets before launch if other countries dont
> I think the evidence is that it cannot.

Only if you if you intentionally ignore reality. Spain decimated it's spread rate during the first lockdown, running down their 800 daily deaths down to zero in amout a month of lockdown.

Every single time a restrictive lockdown was imposed for over 3 weeks, spread and death rates dropped to a fraction of their initial rate.

> I'm not sure what more could be done.

The US is renowned for doing barely anything.

Politically the US even rejects the use of facial masks. That's telling.
That seems like a much fairer and easier loophole to fix than trying to tax unprofitable corporations to penalize them for reinvesting in themselves.
And counted from year 0
Kind of cool.. There is something funny happening when using the Dark Reader chrome extension.. imgbox.com/y62Z4gVm
Ironically enough, the css goes a bit mad.

I love those css felx's though this is cool
Many thanks to dang are in order, for a year of dedication to thoughtful discussions.
> I've skimmed a couple of books written by Fetullah gulen and what he preaches peace, love and cooperation amongst all.

He's a lovely fellow indeed: https://twitter.com/kyleworton/status/1086084532393136128
Not yet. I'm happy enough with my setup.
18F is definitely a good start. I would also try Code for America[1], although they might only work at more of a local level.

1. https://www.codeforamerica.org/
That does not happen, even with the beta grade Linux version on Arch (as I run it)

You may have a rubbish internet connection. If you are using a VPN with a slow internet connection, investigate a split tunnel. Teams traffic involves only three IP ranges so it is easy to split out and route direct to shave a fair bit of latency.

Other issues will require more investigation but they are local to you.
Another example where we would all be better off if we just ignore shout'y crazy people on twitter.

It's a cesspool of lunatics.
> They were expecting a big break of evidence that Trump was a Manchurian candidate installed by the master Svengali Putin

"It couldn't be proved to be bad as some people said" is not the same thing as "farce". The stuff that was proven was bad and illegal.

The Mueller report concluded that there was some evidence of coordination between the Trump campaign and Russia.[1] The investigation achieved multiple convictions and indictments.

> "Trump's election can't be a symptom of any real institutional rot in America, it's just a result of dirty foreign tricks that will be exposed and easily rectified by removing Trump.

It's not an either-or. Trump was only ever a competitive candidate due to real, deep problems and widespread disillusionment with the establishment. But it's also possible that Russian social media campaigns, the DNC email hacks, and the Comey letter tipped the scales (80k votes in 3 states) in his favor in 2016. We'll never really know.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mueller_report#Redacted_report...
> FarmVille was dope

And it tried to recruit all of its players as pushers.

The terrible thing is that I almost think Farmville is a more respectable business for Facebook to be in because it's an actual game that you pay for that doesn't require intrusive tracking and privacy violation for advertising purposes. Instead it just addicts people via social pressure and various freemium-style psychological tricks.
I think that's the generic solution to Electron apps issues :-))
Eve Online's Players Started a War That's Cost $700K
"Life doesn't violate the 2nd law of thermodynamics" sounds similar to "magnetism does no work". Yet we know that magnetism creates macroscopic effects: a magnet can lift an iron nail, despite it does no work. The way it's explained is that magnetism somehow redirects other forces that do the work. My point is that something can do work without doing work "on paper" because all the work is done by others.
> That is a very simple take on the quite complex situation that still differs in different states of the EU.

How complicated did you expect me to get in a HN comment?

But I believe it's fact - medical software that measures or calculates on an iPhone gives you a medical device, and a medical device needs to be regulated in the UK, EU, and most other places. I was on the team that did among the first work on regulating this properly.
Surely it's an admission of failure if one has to resort to Docker just to get a scripting language to function on a local machine? It's only a matter of time before someone finds a use for Kubernetes on a local machine.
I have the same when running Dark Reader, are you using any extensions that modify the css statically ?
You'd make more money taking the $15 job than the $12 job. Your W-2 says how many hours you worked (and how much overtime, if any). The federal government has access to those W-2s, and can determine the subsidy amount using it.
The point you make (e.g. societal concerns vs. individualism) IMO is valid. However, if the intent of your comment is to change minds it will fail because the way you have phrased it inherently puts people on the defensive.

Something I often hear at work about me that is valid here is "People rarely disagree with what you say but they disagree strongly with HOW you say it".

We both may wish people didn't care about the "how" if the "what" is correct but that's not the world we live in.
>there would be some very valuable blueprints of autofactories and other goods, operating systems and other software with centuries of real-world proofing, and other stuff you’d like to get without doing all the trial and error yourself

Trial and error might actually be faster depending on how long a round trip takes. Imagine waiting fifty years for the blueprints to arrive only to learn some packets got dropped along the way.
That works OK, even on Linux (anecdotally)
Thank you for signing. It’s very encouraging to hear a mature liberal voice acknowledge the problem.
This was one of the things that made me look into lean manufacturing (book recommendation: The Machine That Changed the World) and lean product development (book recommendation: The Principles of Product Development Flow). The latter is more relevant for software systems, but the former was very good to have read first to see where software is different.

These areas can teach us a lot about the dangers of queues and how to handle them carefully.
Figured as much. Seems they mostly worked on military flight control, Boeing acquired them and they a have a mini history here: http://bos.ocgov.com/legacy3/newsletters/pdf/Honoring_the_Le...

Update: Found an oral history reference. The name was coined under the Eisenhower administration, along with it's etymological sibling Rocketdyne. Bad ass. https://airandspace.si.edu/research/projects/oral-histories/... Their inventions apparently include fundamentals to the field such as automated inertial navigation for flight control (1950), automated celestial navigation, and redundant flight control computers. They initially used memory based on the deferred transit of audio through crystal.
I get what you're saying, but have you never experienced a clock set to the wrong time? Is such a thing really no longer deserving of the title? What about clocks in different locales, are they not clocks for you but clocks for others? Is this demo a clock twice a day? You're the one claiming to be a pedant here.
> It got cold out is the more obvious explanation.

Right. Because if Trump won the cold would have curtailed rioting. Totally believable.
Thanks for the link to OPAQUE. It looks indeed much better than SCRAM-SHA, I like how the draft underlines that "clients never disclose their password to the server, even during registration."

Do you know if/when it is considered for implementing in the major browsers? Given that even SHA256 digest implementation is missing and that OPAQUE seems much harder to implement, I wouldn't be surprised if it takes another decade.

Regarding not using passwords at all, unfortunately this is not something I can use as a web user with 100s of logins.
They'll extinguish desktop Linux any day now!
Just to explain the downvotes a bit, in case you're unaware, it's kind of a social faux-pas to say "I acknowledge that this is a joke" and then poison the mood with a semi-related tangent rant about something you find annoying or bad or repulsive.
There were not mainstream US media claims that the Russians hacked the 2016 elections. On the other hand, there were lots of stories about Russian influence operations.
2021 will be one of the hottest years on record. Wildfires will rampage across the western US in the last half of the year. Oil prices will decline to $30/barrel. The Dow Jones industrial average will break 40K. Interest rates will remain low. Employment levels will be very slow to recover to pre-COVID levels. Tensions between China and USA will increase, but will decrease between USA and Russia.
Well, no, there's a bit more to it than that:

<html>
<head>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="pure_css_digital_clock.css">
</head>
<body></body>
</html>

Indeed the the CSS defines styles for the <body> element. So this whole thing would not be possible there was no HTML (or some structured document representation). See, the part about lack of HTML in the title is completely unnecessary.
You're not going to be doing screen captures from a "webcam" and unless you're recording very fine line drawing MJPEG recording will look just fine.

If you're doing screen captures you're better off either capturing natively on the device. But if you absolutely need to use an HDMI dongle and need good quality screen recording you're better off getting a higher end dongle.

For less than $20 getting 1080p MJPEG at 30fps from an HDMI source is pretty good. The camera itself is likely recording video to MJPEG at its best quality settings and h.264 otherwise.
If you could make an axe or a match that couldn’t hurt people, then obviously, yes, you’d do that.

We haven’t before now had the technology to do that in a way that wouldn’t violate other rights, but the technology is shifting in such a way that there are domains where we will have that ability and of course we should do it.

The only reason anybody objects to this is because, again, we used to live in a world where you’d have to do something objectionable to achieve these goals, but as that becomes less true the objections will seem increasingly absurd.

Our intuitions in this space lag reality.
I think using their dev tools is a solid choice. Using their OS or their DB... not so much, primarily due to licensing.
Gesundes neues Jahr, HN! I'm pretty sure the next year will be great but then again, that was my prediction 12 months ago, so what do I know... ;)