skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't want the NSA to perform domestic civilian law enforcement functions any more than I want the army to, for similar reasons.

The type of oversight applied to military and foreign intelligence action is fundamentally political. Whether and how to impose sanctions against, spy on, or invade another country are questions for congress and the president in the US and rarely involve the courts.

The type of oversight applied to law enforcement is fundamentally legal. Courts apply existing law to the set of facts in a given case. Congress and the president do not get involved directly and any attempt by political officials to influence the outcome is scandalous, if not criminal.

So should the NSA hack Iran's immigration database to see who's been going there? Perhaps. Should anything discovered that way be admissible in a criminal trial? Almost certainly not. Should the NSA tip off the FBI about domestic crimes? Mostly no, I think, but perhaps in a very limited fashion when the crimes involve national security or foreign policy. Gathering evidence that can be used in a criminal trial would still be the responsibility of the FBI.
I worked 20 hrs a week steadily while getting my degree and it was pretty difficult. Working full time would be super hard. You would also miss a lot of the other benefits of the school because you’d be at work all the time. If someone could work part time and graduate with a minor amount of debt, that would be far better IMO.
To save your family from having to deal with this please use a password manager.

Its super easy to write down the master password somewhere where they can easily find it.
I guess I should add "high stakes" to my list of requirements.
This is the problem. When ads are your primary revenue stream, you're up against facebook and google, who are both highly efficient at turning marketing dollars into conversions.

How would you complete with this? Why would anyone spend 10x on you to get the same conversions?
West Antarctic Ice Sheet – Potential Collapse
Either that or they're judging the career based on its lifetime potential remuneration and not the internal passion of the pursuer or the external social value it provides. Social workers, like teachers and janitors are vastly undervalued for what they provide (in optimal circumstances).
Here you go:

"Amendment IV: The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
The real question to ask is, what would they gain from revealing it?
For the US baking case, the decided case law is that religious businesses are free to discriminate against gay people. Also, for religious places of employment, it is already a Constitutional right to fire priests for homosexuality, or to expel homosexual students from a religious school.

It is also religiously critical for religious institutions to be able to engage in religious discrimination; lest we ask whether we may have a Jewish pope lead the Catholic church.

We can discuss what ought to be all day, but I don't see the winds shifting anytime soon. We mind as well also discuss whether the world should be united, or... it would be a better expenditure of energy to discuss the oughts which we can actually do something about.
No joke. I lived in the US for a while, but I am from Eastern Europe, and so are my parents. Back in high school about a decade ago, I decided that I want to do either an engineering degree or a CS degree. I got a reaction from my parents that was the opposite of what most of my US peers would have expected to get. For context, we have already been living in the US for quite a bit at that point.

Even my parents, who are neither doctors or lawyers themselves, considered engineering/CS to be a grunt and pretty much blue-collar work (not that there is anything wrong with blue collar work at all, but I was not going to pick that fight with my parents at the time when I lived with them). And even now, once they know how much software devs can actually get paid in the US, the only thing that's changed is that they stopped pestering me about it. But I definitely took a note of how when the conversations with their friends or other relatives go, my parents still try to avoid mentioning what I studied or what I do as my career (aside from namedropping the company names, because apparently big US corps carry some weight with those people). All while also letting me know every single time how awesome their friends' son or daughter is, because they are a doctor or a lawyer. /rantover

I cannot understate how good it feels to me in the US in this aspect, because it feels like most people here on average absolutely don't care which path you took and don't even question it. Sure, some are still judgemental, and some of them still assign weight to the outcomes you got. But I would rather get some weight assigned to the outcomes I got, as opposed to the same weight being assigned to some stupid bs like "oh, your degree isn't of the right class of respect, so no matter what you do, you ain't going to be as much of a respected person as a doctor/lawyer". Just the entire concept of "respectable" degrees makes me feel a certain kind of way that I absolutely hate. If you want to talk about degrees based on any measurable metric, you are welcome to. But "respectability" of a degree is not measurable, and is the most snotty bs that is way too commonplace outside of the US. I had some friends from SK (so not even the same continent as EU), and they echoed fairly similar sentiments in regards to the cultural sentiment about engineers/tech workers in their country.

And the thing is, I cannot even really blame my parents, because it isn't just them, it is pretty much what the majority there believes.
That's indeed unfortunate, I hope you reconsider.
> But may have private ads I the future

So, in the long run, how is your app not becoming Google?

Anyone who makes money with ads has rational incentives to not respect your user's time and privacy. That's even worse for search engines.

I would gladly pay for search engines that have community curated content, I want business that have incentives aligned with me as a customer, free stuff with ads is horse shit.
Are people actually seeing higher wages on the whole? Some cities have raised minimum wages like a few dollars more an hour but minimum wages have not been keeping pace with inflation as it was. Has median wage gone up in this time? My understanding has been that wages have been pretty flat for middle income earners for years despite cost of living increases rising over these same years.
I will add that it’s also useful to have as much text as possible so you can see the flow, the context and the “context of the context.”

But I find this insight more or less convincing so I guess the ideal writing screen is thin and tall.

Sadly, that’s the opposite of what horizontal monitors encourage. This might be another benefit of physical notebooks.
For me it was Gameboy
That's right. It's tough competing with a 2tr$ monopoly :)
Glad you like it. Join our slack group if you want to give more feedback :)

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If you open it up in Chrome, then first off the main search bar in the middle of the screen turns into a button to install the extension.

There remains a search bar in the upper left hand corner of the screen, but if you actually search, no search results are given. Instead the result page is replaced by a link to install the Chrome extension. So effectively, as far as I can tell, on a normal Chrome browsing session there is no way to actually use the search functionality without installing the extension.

This does not seem to happen on other browsers or in incognito mode.
Engineers and marketers are all steered into that direction by C-level visionaries who bet on a very high-risk / high-reward idea. This idea dials up all kinds of biases in people.

For example, the article which started this thread criticizes Apple for moving into AR. This is despite AR being very feasible next step in having actual working tech applicable in real-life situations. Feasible and down to earth idea is being compared to a distant wild guess which has a high risk of never happening, yet somehow it loses this comparison.

There is a certain irony people call this Web 3.0 all over again. Web 3.0 was originally envisioned by influencers as heavily relying on semantic web and anthologies[1]. Despite all the visions, 14 years ago few of these things actually happened.

Could it be that people are just very bad at predicting the future? Could it be that we mis-invest into wild visions based on their popularity, instead of solving boring down to earth problems?

“Ah shit, here we go again.”

[1] http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/10/web-30-semantic-we...
Maybe! Rewriting PAM is usually only done when messing with packages but can be called manually if you drop files in there with your config management.

“Wow this could be really useful” you might think. “Where “is it documented?”

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PAMConfigFrameworkSpec

“But where is the reference, how do I know what directives are even available?”

…
i like this post, both style and content. only thing missing would perhaps be a small reference to nis, nis+ and netinfo which were early attempts to build distributed and centrally controlled databases for /etc stuff and ye old faithful which i always preferred for production systems which was to rsync flatfiles out for maximum reliability.

not sure if i totally agree with the immutability argument for /etc, but i suppose that's more about protecting against errant devs abusing sudo privs to do weird things rather than securing things against malicious actors.
Thank you for the clarification - I had heard from a few sources that the block allocator algorithm actually changes at higher utilization, but was previously unable to find anything concrete in the documentation. This helped clear up a longstanding curiosity for me.
Why would I work for 36k? This discussion is about remote work. I'm not worried about making 3x that.

As I mentioned, I've lived in Mountain View and Santa Clara. Sunnyvale is in the middle. I'm a cyclist and loved to climb up the various two lane grades and over the top to the coast and back. I visited MV and San Jose last spring. And SF. It was much more interesting in the '90s. Now the South Bay is just another dead US suburb.

I wouldn't live there again for $500k/year.

We haven't even discussed why most families move to the suburbs: children. We have done the two commute raising a child in the Bay Area. We evacuated when the school logistics became visible, and in hindsight, rightly so.
> Publishers angling for retweets to get nickels from twitter's algorithm is anathema to professional journalism.

Wouldn't payment integration with Twitter (if executed well) just make it easier for Twitter users to convert to paying the publisher after seeing the publisher's tweet? I don't see how it would increase the incentive for a publisher to post clickbait tweets, except perhaps for publishers whose in-house payment flow is very poorly implemented or nonexistent.
1. if a real effort is put in, 10 years or so

2. Solved problem. Spent fuel is not really an issue, we have solutions and areas to put it in both Europe and the USA. Only green Luddites hold it back. Storage really does not take up a lot of space.

3. Next to none if the right type of fuel stock and reactor is chosen. Obviously security comes in, but that is also a solved issue

4. Lots of modern designs literally cannot go critical, I suggest we use those, instead of old designs just because they're "a known known".

5. don't build reactors that can go critical near known tsunami shorlines.

6. At worst we'll surely have fusion by the end of the century and can then retire the nuclear plants. Solar and wind without a 100x improvement in battery storage tech do not make sense right now as the sole producer of energy like a lot of unrealistic "environmental" groups claim.
My two cents:

Most ML solutions in most businesses have either questionable business value or debatable ROI. This lends itself to many products which are shipped quickly and then semi abandoned. In many cases the ML that's shipped barely outperforms the heuristic solution if at all.

Further, most of the teams tasked with maintaining or improving these systems have little practical interest in the production service - it's much easier and rewarding to bemoan a slower portion of the business while publishing research than improve the production service. It's not uncommon to encounter ML teams who claim multiple year's worth of innovations are backlogged against engineering. I once encountered a 20 person team who owned the core bidding algorithm for a large ad-tech startup which hadn't made a change in 3 years. The business believed that they were making regular releases.

What this all says is that we’re in a strange valley of ML maturity where enough people know about it to try it out, but few are able to navigate how to make a sustainable investment.
You are missing a '0' at the end of your first link.

It should be: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29153740
Blindly join them in what, exactly?
Renewables and storage are already cheaper than nuclear. Base load is a dead concept.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffmcmahon/2019/07/01/new-sola...

https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2019/06/28/los-angeles-seeks-rec...

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.365.6449.108

https://e360.yale.edu/features/in-boost-for-renewables-grid-...

https://www.nrdc.org/experts/kevin-steinberger/debunking-thr...
Compliance benchmarks like the other user suggests are probably best. eg: CIS

They're updated fairly regularly. However, take them with a grain of salt.

They'll worry about things like TCPWrappers, but that's how we did firewalls before they existed. Needless in the days of iptables, ebtables, nftables, etc.

Blogs tend to be recycled/dated recommendations with none/very little third party testing.
Yeah but then they'd find out what I'm...in to
> The rabbit hole begins with controversial scientific topics and "edit wars", which rage since forever and no sensible solution was ever proposed...

Yeah, table stakes for editing Wikipedia on anything even remotely controversial is an obsessive personality, limitless time, and patience for an huge amount of toxicity.

> ...instead wikimedia arbitrarily blocking and banning editors, even on the pages about themselfes, trying to rectify information.

IMHO, it's quite sensible to not allow people to edit pages about themselves, because people tend to have a strong-well understood biases on that topic.
Which ones are right wing nuts?
Like fusion power has been "20 years away" for the last 60 years, NASA returning men to the Moon will be "4 years away" indefinitely.

The US no longer has the money available for such an expensive undertaking. Nor does it have the underlying manufacturing skills that would be necessary.

The only country in the world at the moment that has the necessary cash and manufacturing skills is China. They will reach the Moon before NASA does.
> Irrelevant. Gov wants data, Gov gets a narrowly targeted warrant first. Beyond this lies 4A violations.

No? What are you basing this off of?
REvil makes the malware, they sell it to criminals, and the criminals infect systems and take the payments for themselves.
Thank you! We really don't know how to track people. That's a whole 'nother discipline that we're really not interested in.
> Europeans want to live in high COL European cities as much as Americans want to live in high COL American cities.

Makes sense. There is a reason that its high COL
I never said "just" - other companies have had proprietary software, though most of it has been more about customization and scaling then the refinement that sells most commercial graphics software.

Some software like Nuke had good internals and had a lot of development put into a polished interface, which then payed off in a big way. I'm not skeptical that weta has some good internal technology, I'm skeptical that it is worth 1.6 billion dollars, especially to Unity.
Your designer did a great job. It's beautiful.
There's an interactive version on that same website if the image isn't engaging enough for you.
Possibly the best analysis of this I have yet seen is the video Why our generals were most successful in World War II that in Korea, Vietnam or Iraq/Afghanistan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxZWxxZ2JGE

Essentially, the answer is the hiring methodology. If someone seemed like a best fit for a job then they were hired. They then had two weeks to demonstrate basic functional capacity and six weeks to make significant progress. If at any point things did not work out then they were immediately dismissed and replaced with someone else. The high rate of this process meant that there were always open opportunities even for those who had been dismissed from other positions, so things worked out for both employers and employees.
Westinghouse is bankrupt many times over, if I was a shareholder I would be busted.

EPR was designed by followers of Amory Lovins that wanted to make a reactor which is unconstructable at any cost and schedule.

They tried building an EPR in Finland and it is a decade behind schedule and nobody cares because the people working on it have the best paying job they ever had.

They did get an EPR running in China but had fuel damage right away.

AP1000 is running in China for real and will be running at Vogtle in Georgia USA next year. There have been so many ownership changes that I would have said AP1000 was a Japanese design 10 years ago, now it is effectively a Chinese design.
I've seen reddit fulfill the function of a "federated support forum" for quite a few things.
Unfortunately, this isn't really the Fed's buying their way around the 4th amendment as the article states: it's people selling away their 4th amendment rights by giving their personal data & right to resell it to companies that will sell to anyone with the cash to buy it.
Transformers Can Do Bayesian Inference
What mode is that?

Also, the traffic still goes to a Tor node.

Finally, the Tor Project works very hard, but they are outgunned. Security is significantly a matter of resources. Tor's small team has a hard time competing with well-funded state security actors (who can also buy exploits).
I agree with poor choices with a big caveat on regulating super shady behavior and marketing.

We should make students sign a single page summary (or warning in many cases) just like when getting a mortgage.

Our company makes __ profit, future graduate income average/mean, % of graduates who get a coding job within 1, 5 years. Etc

And I think restrictions on marketing bs for-profit 'trade schools' and 'coding bootcamps' to ensure a minimum curriculum and education. Make bait and switching more difficult.

Especially with for profit schools. Plus it seems many Universities will contract out a 'bootcamp' using the schools built up brand and it's not even connected to he actual school.
"Pie in the Sky"

Too expensive at the moment for anybody in the world to do.
Whistleblowing is arbitrary. If you are doing the approved "whistleblowing" you will be handsomely rewarded. If you are doing true whistleblowing plan on packing your bags and leaving everything behind. You will be enemy of the state. The only two countries you can hope for "safe" sanctuary is Russia and perhaps China. It does not matter how big the crimes you expose are or whether they are illegal and unconstitutional. In fact the corporate media and their corporate journalist state mouthpieces will slander you as well.

For lives ruined from whistleblowing look at tortured and imprisoned Julian Assange and Edward Snowden who had to flee the autocratic Obama.
I'd personally recommend pgBackRest as a wal-g replacement. We (Covalent) started with wal-g ourselves, but pgBackRest does full backup and restore so much faster. Besides the parallelism (which is great), pgBackRest's backups are manifests, symbolically mapping to the individual objects in storage that may have come from previous backups. Which means that a differential or incremental backup doesn't need to be "replayed after" a full backup, but instead is just like a git commit, pointing to some newer and some older objects.

Also, auto-expiry of no-longer-needed WAL segments (that we use due to our reliance on async hot standbys) along with previous backups is pretty great.

And we haven't even started taking advantage of pgBackRest's ability to do incremental restore — i.e. to converge a dataset already on disk, that may have fallen out of sync, with as few updates as possible. We're thinking we could use this to allow data science use-cases that would involve writing to a replica, by promoting the replica, allowing the writes, and then converging it back to an up-to-date replica after the fact.
I always point at this when my American "environmental" friends yell at me as a proponent of a Manhattan style project in nuclear tech here in the USA as the solution to climate change.
Core hypothesis: "Thinner columns help you read faster. Writing speed is dominated by reading speed. If you read faster, you write faster."
Ah, it requires iOS 15.
Will try again after I get a chance to upgrade.
I was involved in building a DRM-free MP3 download service called Datz many years back. The bulk of music is owned by 4 record labels, and they all wanted vast fees just for access to the catalogue, never mind subscription revenue.
Isn’t that what logistic activation functions are all about?
I'm not really seeing it.

Competent developers at this point are already working directly or indirectly for US companies that pay well. I don't know anyone who wants this kind of work who doesn't have it already.
Regulation could easily reverse the flow of data
They say "Injustice anywhere is injustice everywhere" and it shows as true time and again. First she called rural Americans as vile and refused to hire them. Now this.

Hate doesn't have boundaries. One reason why we should never let hate for anyone fill up the void in our life.
> intermittency

What's the uptime for fission plants? I recall that our "local" nuclear power plant (Trojan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_Nuclear_Power_Plant ) being down more often than it was up. Maybe it's because it was an old design or something, but it went online in 1975 which doesn't seem that old. It operated from 1975 to 1992.
All modern software has "undo" functionality. Except package managers ...
Yeah it's not perfect but any means but I felt it was good enough to prove my point.
>I think the gist of the video is that hypocrisy is largely limited to "those in power".

They like to say the same thing about racism too.
>>Every damage to the lung coming in shape of an infection produces fibrous material within the soft and spongy lungs

Most COVID cases are mild and could not possibly explain the incidence of 'abnormal breathing' symptoms.
I think instead we need people to not give away their personal information.
Sorry Etheryte. Thanks for pointing it out. Here is the link https://stack.promo/demo/waitlist/index.html