skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The news media aren't helping decipher the actual state of reality. Much like the US elections, Indian media fuels the polarized population with provocative news stories, and "alt-media" outlets publish opinions and fake news as facts. Many accuse major media houses of unfairly favouring the right-wing govt (much like Fox News in the US) due to connections of the govt with business houses that run them.

Is this really true? The mainstream media houses are all helmed by pseudo-liberals that have in the past been very biased towards the Congress Party.
> It must have required considerable effort on your part to filter out any awareness of labor movements through history and related demands for economic security, regardless of whether individual policies were well- or ill-founded.

Trust me, I've read more Marx than 95% of the Marxists out there: I've read his "Capital I" (Capital II+III are on a bookshelf which right now stands behind me), his German Ideology and other works from his younger years. I genuinely think of him as one of the most brilliant minds of the 19th century and one of history's best when it comes to human sciences, it's just that when it came to economics he was so very wrong. You don't have to trust me on this, you don't have to trust your logic or anything else of that matter (which would suffice were you to read a writer like Say in parallel with Marx, let's say) you just have to look at the economic history of the last 150 years or so. Marx's view on economics proved to be utterly wrong.

> Market forces can be massively disruptive to people's lives and when people's lives are disrupted by forces beyond their control (whether by natural or economic disasters) people generally petition their government to Do Something About It. I'm having a hard time believing that you're ignorant of really basic historical trends like governments losing legitimacy and being overthrown due to famine or similar adverse economic conditions.

And suppose a famine is around, what should a Government do? Invent food out of thin air, like in Star Trek? No, it can't do that, because we live in real life not in science fiction. The matter of fact is that looking back at history the most effective ways of dealing against famine involved less Government meddling, meaning less taxes on transport, less taxes on sales/purchases of food. That's one of the first signs telling you when a Government has started losing the grip on its constituents, i.e. when it starts lowering taxes on food because of its own volition (for a recent example look at Sisi's Egypt).
As opposed to Apple which feels the need to be hyper-focused despite having huge margins and hoarding way too much cash.
FWIW, I have a Samsung A6 at work that I almost never use. It lasts 5-7 days on one charge; but this only works when display and network are off 99.5% of the time.
A Visual Explanation of SQL Joins
somewhat related, saw this today at bed bath and beyond (wtf, truly beyond!) for $39... with wireless controllers. 101 built in games!

https://www.bedbathandbeyond.com/store/product/atari-reg-fla...
WTF? Would anybody actually pay a MONTHLY SUBSCRIPTION for solitaire?
Trump says he talked to Apple's CEO
Cool story. I do hope you didn't go all nuclear on them in that 0.5 hours, and you left only a kitten photo there.
Better title: "Trump DepSecDef Prospect Declares War On Turing Machines And Software"
What a great guy. I know immediately when I see with his name on a Stackoverflow answer that it's authoritative and can be trusted (which is a lot for Stackoverflow, especially when you've exhausted the manual and the source code).
And while I too believe that fire is material, our observations don't prove it, they just demonstrate that how phlogiston gets released by combustion can be influenced by the material world.
It may be imprecise, but "deceptive" is a bit harsh.
I am largely impartial to which backend to support. All though MongoDB seems ideal considering that ZangoDB supports it's document based language. Would you, based on your experience and preferences, say that Couchbase should have a higher precedence than Mongo?
Windows XP 64 Bit Edition was 64-bit only and ran on Intel Itanium processors. Windows XP Professional 64 Bit Edition ran on AMD64 architecture and included 32-bit compatibility with x86 Windows, but not 16-bit compatibility with DOS. It provided a preview of the broken drivers that were part of the Vista rollout.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_XP_editions#64-bit_edi...
How Spark, Scala, and Functional Programming Made Hard Problems Easy at Barclays
Organ transplants: the gifts that keep on living (2015)
I had PRK because my cornea was too thin to get LASIK. Yeah, the healing wasn't fun (for me, it was really bad for about 3 days).

A few very minor vision artifacts, but by far the most annoying side effect has been dry eyes. I don't know how PRK caused this, but it started right afterwards. If I don't drink a lot of water before bed, I will wake up with dry and highly irritated eyes.

Even so, I still consider it worth it. I lost/broke my glasses frequently, and contacts are not very versatile.
I don't know about ironic. It's actually fairly supportive of his point: it's a technical solution to a technical problem with a narrow scope, but which has evolved into a useful tool for social change.
Bring back Pinball!

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20121218-00/?p=...
While a government that's "monolithic and controlling but keeps the trains running on time" is clearly a bad thing, it's not clear that the same holds for computers -- particularly for your average user. I'm not too concerned about Apple locking down my machine as long as I can get what I want to get done done -- and that doesn't involve making my tool conform to some ideology. I have more important things to worry about -- even more important infringements on personal freedom -- and I'd rather have my tool work adequately with as little pain as possible.
PR based self-marketing article is just that. "Be Very Afraid" hyperbole AFAICS.
While WebVR scenes can be viewed in a browser, their intended target is the vr headset, where the "dragging" is not at issue, and you are turning the view by turning your head. I think it would make more sense to keep the reverse dragging and change the mouse icon here. The intended experience is not "here is a scene that you can drag around" but "here is a virtual scene you are standing in and you can look left and right". So the intended context is that, headset or not, you are controlling the viewers head.
I was a strong proponent of the "write some code for us" interview approach for years. We used a variation, slightly unusual - we would pay interviewees for some hours of work so they did not feel we were trying to get them to work for free as an interview.

But looking back at the results over a period of years, some hires never reached the level of quality/productivity they had shown in the interview homework. I don't know why this is, one possibility is that some interviewees "cheat" by getting someone else to do the project for them. I don't know if that happened to us, but whatever did happen, the net result is that the interview homework approach is not ultimately all that great.

Now we do something different. As part of the interview process, the interviewee sets and codes with a couple of our developers for a couple of hours. This has its own downsides (some otherwise excellent people have trouble with the stress of being "in the hot seat"), but so far we're much happier with it.

Also, spend a few hours trying to write code with someone, and you have a pretty good sense of the oh-so-desired "cultural fit" without having to ever actually look for such a vague thing.
The weather and the economy. Right after college, so many of has visited California, North Carolina, Florida or Colorado and stayed with people we went to high school or college with. In that mix is also NYC. So cities like Buffalo, Syracuse and Rochester all experience a "brain drain", and possibly ironically, as well as people leaving to go out of state, a number also go to NYC.
Internal server error after the payment appeared to be accepted. I wonder if I was actually charged or not...
Watch out, we've got a joker here.
I've always preferred microframeworks for exactly this reason. As you build, you tailor things to what you actually need instead of building features that match the framework. I've got one project that's built on flask + sqlalchemy, but I've been slowly hacking sqlalchemy out of the fast paths because it is just too slow and I'd rather improve my grasp of SQL than spend my time learning SQLAlchemy.
I think part of the issue is that the results of DeepMind, while enormously impactful, do not have the sort of tangible quantity that the Manhattan Project or the Apollo Program did. It's easy for critics to dismiss them when the most relatable thing to the layperson is "This thing plays Go". It's a common lament in the scientific community, especially in the theoretical space. I don't see an easy answer for it, other than "Wait for it."

To me, the more apt comparison isn't say, DeepMind to the Manhattan Project, it's DeepMind to the early physics experiments, or Chicago Pile 1. You can imagine in the future, a letter being written much like Einstein's to FDR, pointing to an early and modest project saying "because of this, we can now create <X>".

(I'm ignoring the wartime necessities and issues surrounding that letter in this example as they're outside of the discussion.)
for better sharing and groups - I prefer lastpass.
I think at some point the whole purpose of the project was completely lost:

1. What is offered in the ESP32 is completely different to what Open-V can bring to the table. ESP32 is not a microcontroller, is a platform for Wi-Fi and bluetooth applications, aim to be used in IoT apps. Does it have a microcontroller? Yes. Can you see what is inside? No. Do you have access to schematics and RTL code? No. Is it cheaper? Yes; and of course it is! Right now it is impossible to compete with big vendors at price levels. They have the triumph card when mass production is taken into account.

2. But wait, maybe you are thinking: what can I do with all this open information?. Do I really care to know how things work? Think about open-source software at its early beginnings; now think how open-source software has ushered in the last two decades of software innovation; the people that believe in this kind of projects, believes that open source silicon will unleash, as its software counterpart, a flood of innovation, hardware-wise. Imagine what could we do in a future, where small IC design startups could have access to any kind of RTL code or open silicon analog circuitry to build their own projects, to being able to use the Open-V code as a core, and add accelerators, peripherals, or whatever is needed. ENDLESS possibilities, but we have to start somewhere, and that's Open-V.

I know I may have been too aggressive, but I'm just too passionate about this :)
Most likely explanation : one of Palantir's existing investors wanted to increase stake by $20M.
Obama-era techies weigh staying under Trump
Would love to hear from people using NATS about their experiences.
After I had a similar issue, I decided to offer all clients a 10% discount for paying upfront, monthly. It has the added advantage of no notice period: if they are fed up with our work they can just stop paying and we stop doing any more work.

The amount of stress that has gone from my life was totally worth the 10% discount.
There's a lot of conceptual similarity to Nizza architecture that's explained thoroughly in this paper:

https://os.inf.tu-dresden.de/papers_ps/nizza.pdf

From there, Genode is a different take on the same concept even using some of the same components (eg Nitpicker GUI). In both, there are various components integrated that might be used in other projects. A specific set of components together makes up a desktop. A different set might make an appliance. A different set a TV box. Much like how you build your Linux distros with packages and source files but these components can run on the microkernel communicating with each other and operating within their resource-management scheme. That scheme is hierarchical where each process spawns others with control of their memory or resources. Includes ways to let them communicate in such a way that your attack surface is mostly restricted to that composition.

Feske, the designer, gives specifics here:

http://www.slideshare.net/sartakov/genode-os-framework

Nitpicker by itself is worth looking at if you're unfamiliar with trusted paths. Too few systems have a good one.

https://os.inf.tu-dresden.de/papers_ps/feske-nitpicker.pdf
bash actually has a pretty good man page, too. Not quite OpenBSD quality, but far superior to most GNU man pages ("The actual documentation is maintained as a TeXinfo manual. If the `info` command is properly installed, as it should be on any installation of the GNU operating system (of which Linux is only a very small and insignificant part), then the real documentation is available via the following command: `info`. Otherwise, you're stuck with this sorry excuse of a man page.").

I pretty much learned bash from the man page (and OpenBSD's ksh(1), which has enough overlap with bash to be mostly applicable), enough to get by, at first, and getting more and more advanced by checking man recurrently as I encountered problems that demanded solutions beyond my skills.
Sometimes, yes, it would be as effective to solo. But we're reluctant to break pairs because it means the same fan-in/fan-out problem reappears.

So for repetitive stuff we often wind up throwing together something to do it for us.

Additionally, in Pivotal Labs, one goal is to teach the practice of pairing. It works best by total immersion.

By analogy, French teachers try to make the class speak French at all times, even if sometimes it's easier to speak a mix of English and French.
Because the initial move to take the denominations out of the currency pool was to fight transactions and earnings which were not being taxed correctly. So unless you're willing to claim that being able to better apply taxes to individuals is a nefarious purpose, it's just not really true.
Otherwise known as; a lack of common sense/understanding
Shall we say we have left-leaning and right-leaning news channels, and depending on your personal inclination (read: echochamber), you could be accusing the liberals on left-wing newsmedia as "pseudo-liberals" (often accused of being anti-national too!), and disagreeable newsmedia as favouring the govt?
"if Google were to support (1) Android apps running on Chrome for Windows and Mac"

Check out the ARC Welder extension (also works on Linux). It's obviously a developer tool, but showcases the technology:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/arc-welder/emfinbm...
> > EDIT: I'll just note, I did say "separate filesystem" (i.e. non-bind), but I guess it might have been easy to miss.
> I was hoping that you could read between the lines also :) I mentioned my WIP distribution. I have mounted:

Oooh, burn! :) I honestly didn't see any relevant mention of the WIP-distro you're talking about... but now that you mention it I had a look back. "I am working on Linux distribution" (etc.).

> I have mounted:[snip]

So... separate file systems.
>> Just making up the LASIK recovery period would take a long time.

LASIK recovery is just 2 days or so - PRK can be 2 weeks
I also know of such an organization. David Fahrenthold did some good reporting on it in the last several months. The bad press doesn't seem to have done it any harm.
It's more that many many frameworks imitate Handlebars, or accept that Handlebars is good enough and it's not worth inventing new syntax.

If it's your opinion, as it is mine, that HTML frameworks should deal with HTML, instead of abstracting it away, then this isn't a bad thing.
Level 6: You can exclude the protocol entirely (eg: "//news.ycombinator.com")

This will ensure the browser uses the "current protocol" as in if your website is browseable from http all request //www...com will be http and if your page is fetched using https, all resources starting with //www.hn.com will be loaded using https

if your website was reachable from protocol xyz://mydomain.com, all resources starting with // would be fetched using the xyz:// protocol
I would personally recommend a trial for sleep-in contacts. I did so through my optometrist, firstly wearing them as dailies for a week. Then, after an optometrist inspection, leaving them in for one night, followed by another inspection. Finally, I was to sleep in them for a week (or perhaps five days, I forget) followed by another inspection. This final inspection showed that I had developed an eye ulcer during the final phase of the trial, which I had experienced as a very mild irritation. Luckily, there have been no longer lasting side effects.
How do you know that we don't know enough about the Sun to predict the energy output?

Because we actually do know. There's solar magnetohydrodynamics and simple measurements, and measurements of other stars' energy output. And stars are pretty well behaved.

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

The number of sunspots in the past have also been reconstructed, seems crazy, but it's calculable from Carbon-14 dating. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_cycle#/media/File:Sunspo... )

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Solar_cycle&oldid... see the "ACRIM gap" problem, which is about 0.045% difference ( http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2009/05/acrim-... ) in estimating the long term trend in solar energy output.

Oh, well, of course Earth is not a closed system, since the Sun is constantly feeding us with energy, but from a simple modeling point of view those are constants. From a CO2 aspect it's closed. (As CO2 does not leave to space, it's too heavy for that.) Just as the mass of Earth, length of a day, and year, and so on are pretty well understood, the variations in orbital position (the already mentioned Sun-Earth cycles).

A really bad and big volcano throwing ash in the air is a single event, we can model those too. And those short term (<5 year, after that the particulate matter - aerosol - settles) effects can be simulated.

"The screamer is legitimately afraid" - yes, that complicates human matters a bit. Everyone is a stakeholder, yet with slightly different preferences, fears and views.

Yes, indeed, carbon quota/tax/etc is the right incentive to make the right decisions. If we'd provide cheap loans to help the transformation, we would be borrowing against our own future, and we can decide to pay those back in a 100 years, so it's not like we lack the resources and capacity to deal with major producers (power plants, electricity, 30% https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/sources-greenhouse-gas-emis... ).
I can propose a quite straightforward solution for this mess: do not connect things into the Internet.

Your thermostat maybe wants to talk with your alarm clock. I can get that. But it does not have to happen over the Internet. Let them talk locally.
For Python you can just read the tutorial and skim standard library docs, they're pretty good.

For Git: https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2 - chapter 10 in particular covers internals.
>> I reckon laser eye surgery is probably an option for me, maybe in five to ten years.

Do it now. When you're older (40 or so) you're going to need glasses for driving/reading anyway
On Fiji, ants have learned to grow plants to house their massive colonies
This site's ssl is broken.
For pedestrians: In my city I have yet to find a bogus one. They are there to control traffic flow. You press it, you get a green light. You don't, you can die waiting.

It's there to allow the priority traffic to be interrupted only if necessary.

I believe I heard something like "press a button for a faster signal", but that doesn't make any sense at all.

Municipalities want to control the traffic in the most efficient way. Not to give any troll a button to break things.

However there are several places where there are e.g. sensors to allow for a favourable signal for drivers. But then again that is mostly in places where they would wait for a green light for a long time.

The theory and practice in the transportation field is quite interesting.
The comment you're replying to is a reference to the song "Sunglasses at Night" by Corey Hart.
It's actually P(data|null-hypothesis).
"Change the world," they say. As if changing the world implies that change will be better for everyone. Some would love to change the world and bring slavery back. How about we focus on changing ourselves to adapt to the world we have? I'm glad this essay touches upon this since nobody else seems to be talking about it.
Ad absurdum? This article is so deeply steeped in hateful sexism I can't even read it to the end.
I'd question how much of a necessity it is to refute the need for a "Manhattan Project" for various things is. But having heard the same call myself, I'll add my two cents to what I think is a rather good essay.

There's a perception among those calls I gather that the Manhattan Project was pulled together as this massive undertaking at the stroke of a pen. The reality however, was that it started off as overlooked, modest, and aimless at times. Overtime, as the goals and necessities became more clear, it grew and matured into the massive, focused effort we all know. But it was because of the direction and need that developed that resulted in the Project, not the other way around. And I think that's a very important distinction.

I think great projects tend to owe a good amount of their growth to organic factors. The reason why we haven't seen a "Manhattan Project" to solve a societal issue is because the conditions are not necessary right for one, and perhaps more importantly, the "project" needed to tackle one might not necessarily be recognizable to us as such.
So, can you edit your original post to be politically correct (read: non-echochamber)? Instead of just mentioning a certain inclination that you may not agree with, you can just say left-wing/communist media hasn't been in favour whereas right-wing media is in favour of this move?
The t-test assumes a normal distribution which, is rarely true, especially when the number of runs is under 100. A better test is the Mann-Whitney U test which is applicable for a wider category of distributions.
Isn't this solving the problem of short-sighted freelancers, rather than non-payment?

I see posts here that reinforce my expectation: Have a contract, and it can be enforced by law. What does this bill enable a citizen to do, that they couldn't legally do on their own before?
The novel Blindsight by Peter Watts is great for exploring the relationships between consciousness and intelligence. The characters theorize that consciousness could be an important/easy stepping stone for the evolution of intelligence, but that it may be necessary to keep, and that consciousness could be evolved away from, relegated away like a vestigial organ.
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In five years we should have the bandwidth (both computational and network) to make this application reachable on the consumer level.

So makes sense to start working on the engineering now, considering much of it is novel, right?

I'd already start thinking about product and services soonish if one thinks there will actually be consumer demand for this tech.