skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And that's basically the worst thing to happen in any bug report scenario: unable to reproduce. Obviously we all want our support issues to get resolved in a positive manner, but sometimes it's not possible. And it's not like we're paying for Twitter, so they have no obligation to help us beyond what they think might make their actual paying customers unhappy. You may disagree with their math on this one, but it's their math to make.
If we're still talking about toilets, this really depends on local conditions. In USA east of the Rockies, typical flush toilets aren't inherently problematic. In areas with less water, they are.
what in the absolute fuck does this product do?
You really think the cost for C and C++ are similar or comparable enough to lump both languages in the same category? Have you looked at or reviewed CompCert C compiler (and a handful of other C compiler projects, as opposed to practically zero such projects for C++ that I know of)?
Giant 'Mirror' Planets Found in First-Of-Its-Kind Experiment
Not in all places in the US, no. Bring kids into the mix and it gets harder.
Its possible that penpapersw did development for jailbroken iPhoneOS 1, or just rounded up to 10 years.
Shady TLD Research: .Mom and Our Q1 Wrap-Up
I'm the only one I know with 8.1. Metro is fine, from what I can tell. There are zero complaints about tiles in the start menu.

It's more "WTF is it doing in the background?" (usually ram, hd or isp issues, or maybe random candy crush / lock screen spam)

Next: "I can't rely on it working, since it stalls for seconds on end"

Followed by: "Can you turn all of the data collection / spam off?"

And finally: "I guess I'll just use my phone/tablet. That sucks"
I personally have disabled Windows Defender consciously since it tends to perceptibly affect system responsiveness.
That's what I liked about this as well; not like you'd actually use the font, but in the process, it walks through how ligatures work in modern font formats.
To be fair, thanks to the corruption of the drug testing and approval process, we don't know that information for any drug.
it absolutely does. Since the last rate cuts I rate lower for no tip. at 1.80/mile and 30c/ minute I felt I was paid
fairly. at 1.55/mile it was still okay. At .85/ mile. no, there should be a tip.
The guy lost me when linked home-cooked food with misogyny.
Chris Larsen of BlueCoat Security (now part of Symantec) has been profiling "Shady TLDs" for several years, with a particular focus on the proliferation of new TLDs.

Many of these are, to 2-3 nines, exclusively shady content. In the interest of keeping blocklists to a manageable size, and encouraging responsible management of TLDs, blocking these in their entirety is often recommended.
In that case what else is consciousness but the illusion?

If the only known example is my subjective experience then what I call conscious experience is identical to the simulation of conscious experience. IE there's no distinction.
Is it actually realistic, or would you just like it to be? Executives obviously resist downward motion on their salaries, and collectively they have a decent amount of clout: there are enough companies with crazy inflated CxO salaries that if your board doesn't offer what the candidate pool wants, you don't fill that position.

I would love to see CxO salaries drop across the board, but I don't see that happening any time soon.

And regardless, as other sibling posts point out, firing the CEO and distributing the salary to the rank-and-file wouldn't improve their situation by all that much.
If I try to compile a project to use and it has over 20 errors, I'm probably not going to be sticking around to use it
Night owls should start work later, research says
ubers customer service support has actually gotten better. not great but... Lyft's is horrible, on the drivers side anyway.
Aren't keto diets about making you more satiated and not about nutrition? I thought I've read that people have done a better job losing weight on such diets.
You'd probably freeze. ;-)

In all seriousness, I have citizenship in CAN and the US. You seem to do alright. I've never tried to open a business, but some of my relatives own businesses. They mostly complain about taxes, and not regulations.
Should also consider .top. It's along with .science as the biggest offenders for me.
> feedback loops

That's the basis of social-belonging and other mindset interventions.[1]

For example, when you encounters difficulty as a freshman in college, do you think "I don't belong here", or "everyone has difficulties - I can get help, work hard, and succeed, like I've done in the past". Students who feel like they belong, build stronger support networks, more readily get help, feel better, and so. Both narratives then do feedback, and outcomes diverge. So surprisingly small interventions, to nudge the initial interpretation, like an hour in high school, or an essay at the beginning of a course, can have a surprisingly large impact.

I wonder if the future will look back our current lack of mental hygiene interventions, the way we now look back at the 1800's lack of physical hygiene interventions. Something like, well, it took a couple of decades, but NYC finally stopped politically-connected brewers from killing hundreds of children with adulterated milk from sick cows.[2]

[1] http://gregorywalton-stanford.weebly.com/papers.html
[2] https://www.google.com/#q=swill+milk
Highest resolution map ever made of the Gulf of Mexico
Hard to say... it was a comparatively darker time for information availability. Other odd, awkward, over-puffed products like ATG Dyanmo, Plumtree, Interwoven, etc., were killing it in the market too.

I was really green in enterprise software then, and Websphere's suggestion of useful clustering, configuration management, managed pooling, etc., seemed tantalizing. (Look how long it takes to start up--it must be doing useful and complicated stuff!) That said, it didn't take all that long for Tomcat, JBoss, and others to eat its lunch on projects not rolling along on enormous sunk costs into IBM tech.

I never actually dug into EJBs or wacky things like container-managed Javamail. Some colleagues did. They spent a lot of time struggling with the tooling.

And now I'm just remembering VisualAge for Java. /shudder/
The game teaches you that people with unclear gender expression are de facto suspicious, should be invasively searched, and the authorities should be called to carry them off to the gulag. That counts as extreme in my book.

My moral standards are independent of US govt policy. They are neither a paragon of privacy rights nor of trans rights.
How does this qualify as an article on Inc.? It's a few paragraphs with a bunch of links to other Inc. pages and a few other sites, but there is absolutely no value added to the raw quote.
I wonder if these are uniformly offset from the printed image, and if so, whether printers incorporate any protection to prevent the user from printing yellow dots near enough to them to mask the signature. (If so, it should be easy to make an extension to add such confounding dots to all printed material…)
Anyone have an opinion on the best option these days to do the reverse (speech to text)?
Building an open source version of Alexa sounds like a fun project.
They're using very low quality sample rates, 8 bit, not pretty. Until it can do 32 hit samples it's going to sound horrible.
Another central concept that says "Everything is Maya", hints at the idea that there is no absolute reality, and is very close to the simulation hypothesis..

Another one is the concept of 'Omkaaram' which is supposed to be a primordal "sound" or sensation from which all the universe was created, which can be thought of as saying that all reality emerges from consciousness..[1]

The stuff in Vedas and how it got written are really really intriguing.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0ztlIAYTCU
Been using this for a while in it's various incarnations - this one is definitely the best so far.

Very useful tool for UI prototyping.
Haha I see, interesting, okay thanks :)
Sadly it seems like the youngsters are going in the opposite direction these days. It's the old fogies who have to keep saying, I've got a functor, I've got a monoid, I've got a monoid functor = monad.
most games marketed to young adults or teens are a power fantasy - after all, they are what sells well because everyone has power fantasies, and those games fulfill them.

But occasionally, a good game comes out which makes you think about the world, and evoke other kinds of emotions like papers please.
Could have written this in the 00s about computer synths, the 90s about rap, tha 80s about hardware synths, the 70s, well, the 70s were goid to guitars, but the 60s the organ was king, in the 50s, the electric guitar was new. Its always been an ebb and flow of popular music.
Which databases are those and what are the relevant features? Are you talking about FILESTREAM? https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb933993(v=sql.1...
Being a jackass on airplanes is quite contagious / Reality of social contagion
That's on Bluecoat's list.

My set (dnsmasq format):

# Shady TLDs (see BlueCoat)
address=/.accountant/0.0.0.0
address=/.christmas/0.0.0.0
address=/.click/0.0.0.0
address=/.country/0.0.0.0
address=/.cricket/0.0.0.0
address=/.date/0.0.0.0
address=/.download/0.0.0.0
address=/.faith/0.0.0.0
address=/.gdn/0.0.0.0
address=/.gq/0.0.0.0
address=/.kim/0.0.0.0
address=/.link/0.0.0.0
address=/.loan/0.0.0.0
address=/.mom/0.0.0.0
address=/.ninja/0.0.0.0
address=/.online/0.0.0.0
address=/.racing/0.0.0.0
address=/.rocks/0.0.0.0
address=/.science/0.0.0.0
address=/.space/0.0.0.0
address=/.stream/0.0.0.0
address=/.top/0.0.0.0
address=/.win/0.0.0.0
address=/.work/0.0.0.0
address=/.xin/0.0.0.0
address=/.xyz/0.0.0.0
address=/.zip/0.0.0.0

Checking:

$ host i.am.the.top
i.am.the.top has address 0.0.0.0
"Sugar is good, even though it's high in calories yet doesn't make you feel any fuller, because you need calories to live" seems like an odd claim too, given that we don't live in a society where most people are suffering from insufficient caloric intake.
That's a social issue/argument. Does it make his scientific claims invalid?
Show HN: Using 3D Convolutional Neural Networks for Speaker Verification
This site was absolute garbage on my smartphone. Want to share the main quote?
An argument against building A.I. because the simplest solution to that is to eliminate humans from the equation.
I'm not sure that's an apt description either. Haxl's features include auto batching of IO through parallelism and a temporal cache...for error logging when failures occur. It's spelled out in the first minute he talks about it. In the IO batching code (the boilerplate) you specify how and what to output in your logging. Haxl can be used without performing optimization (write an inefficient batcher) or doing data retrieval (the I/O is fire and forget and never cache anything). Maybe I am misunderstanding the basic usage.
It boils down to this: Excel is the de facto standard for translators and localizers I've worked with, and so tooling that works with that is a smarter bet than well-actuallying them about how trash that standard tool is at my favorite niche case. It's about people, not your code.

Beyond that, hand-editing a CSV file (because eventually you have to do that) with those special characters in it is a huge pain. It remains better than JSON, etc., because being record-based is automatically better than not for this stuff, but it's not a good option. I'm well aware that CSV is theoretically standardized; I have written standard-compliant parsers and writers. (It is awful.) And then, once I had painstakingly written that writer to spec, the next guy's--no, not Excel--trashed my data because CSV has a spec that nobody cares about.
Depiction != Endorsement. Are we going to require all future fictional portrayals of the Salem witch trials to feature token minority characters too because we need to hold people in another reality to the same standard of the ones we are in?
Your translator/localizer, if you have one, probably uses Excel already. I personally prefer to have fewer moving parts in my stack, so I don't really think it makes much sense to make their life harder just to have something else.
People were saying that back in the 1960s, and that within 20 years, we'd be facing worldwide famine, where billions die.

Those predictions never came to pass.

Also, peak oil supply was supposed to hit us in the year 2000.

The peak oil people were correct, in the wrong way though.

We aren't going to hit peak oil supply. We are going to hit peak oil DEMAND. As in, our other technological solutions are going to overtake oil, because it will be cheaper and better before we come even close to running out of our non-renewable resources.

By looking at all of the recent developments in solar energy (which is currently following freaking "solar moores law". Within a decade, at current improvement rates it will be cheaper than coal in most locations. It already IS cheaper in high energy cost places like hawaii), and other technology progress, humans are easily easily on track to solving all of the supposed problems of overpopulation before come close to being an issue.

What the overpopulation people never figured out is that our rate of technological progress is faster than the rate that we use up resources, and it is faster by a long shot.
Regarding Steam, I imagine changes to DirectX (even small one)s, and games that update with requirements to use the new version (because why not try to make your users be less likely to complain to you about that bug?), will lead to some small but growing percentage of Steam titles over time not working, or trying to force a DirectX upgrade.

As someone who has in the past run CentOS for my main work desktop, there are benefits and detriments to a stable platform like that for a desktop. Right after it comes out it's fairly heavily weighted on the benefits side. A couple years down the line? Not so much (and CentOS 6 took a long time to release).
My anecdotal experience is that I have lost ~15 pounds since I started keto a month ago, with no change to exercise habits.

He may have a strong opinion, but I am not sure how based in science it is.
If you're not relying on your translators to produce production assets, then you will be converting them from a format they are comfortable with (which tends towards Excel, if not a web app of some flavor) into whatever you're using. Unless you have a particularly rough memory budget, you will almost certainly be saving yourself time and effort by cutting out a step.
I wonder at what point the complexity of interacting security systems hits dimishing returns? Not trying to be negative, I'm a fan of how much power AWS gives you. But seeing how many systems have interacting security implications laid out in a graph like that makes me curious how far you can take it before it becomes difficult to reason about. Maybe the systems are sufficiently isolated and well defined that it's not even an issue.
As a Christian dude, I try to "...love your neighbor as you'd love yourself" far more than attaining popularity/power/etc; varying degrees of grief, but also much joy have resulted from this struggle.

Totally understand that many think religions, in general, are BS/fake/etc. Have you considered reaching out to counseling services or a local support group (can be friends/family) to work thru stuff?

My bible study group meets weekly to study/discuss/act on some of the more obvious positive stuff from the Bible. We also support each other thru life in general. I think having a positive group that regularly meets to support each other is super conducive to life improvement as well as helping you thru darker times.

Hope things get better for you
I've only been as close as Nepal. I've never been to India. Is the chai similar? I have no clue how they made it, sorry.
I think you are taking at face value what is actually quite a subversive game.

I don't know if you played it but I took away the opposite message (that states which act this way are evil).
Nice, though I'm still highly partial to GNU Units. In large part as it allows specifying output units, and not just for conversions.

Note: if you're on MacOS and are using the supplied 'units' utility, that is BSD, not GNU units. You're going to want to install gunits from Homebrew.

https://www.gnu.org/software/units/
Do you really think people have control over it?

I've been using computer for 20 years, programming for the better part of that, and I feel completely powerless. I googled, I spent more time than I cared to, and I know that I could probably prevent this behaviour if I spend more time and do more research and so on but the point is, what on earth is a random guy who doesn't carry the experience of the average HN user going to do?

Put yourself in these peoples' skins. You're paying a pretty penny for devices that don't obey you.
I am very pleased that you find joy with the piano. This and carpentry are in my opinion for your age the best pursuits, better even than school. Because those are things which fit a young person such as you very well. Mainly play the things on the piano which please you, even if the teacher does not assign those. That is the way to learn the most, that when you are doing something with such enjoyment that you don't notice that the time passes. I am sometimes so wrapped up in my work that I forget about the noon meal. . . .

-- Albert Einstein

Enjoy!
Nothing to see here. It is a naive or rather primitive concept based on assumption that there are more than one "future" (while actually there is none).

The traditional example is that if I cross the street everything will be different. Parallel universes is related to this nonsensical multiple-parallel-futures assumption.

For those who are interesting in seeing things as they are instead of piling up nonsense upon nonsense, consider a process of evolution. There is no multiple versions of the same species because they might turn the other way. Everything happen as it happen (everything is the way it is because it got that way). It is an unfolding of a single process.

There is no future(s). It is an "organic" growth (like growing of a tree). Future is a concept of the mind. A meme. So are parallel universes. There is nothing parallel to what is. At least outside of one's head.
One of the cool proofs that comes with sel4 IIRC is that it doesn't invoke undefined behavior. And since it does end to end validation, the proof would fail if the generated binary doesn't perform stuff like null checks when they are specified by the abstract specification written along side the kernel itself.

IMO taking the compiler out of the trusted computing base is the way to go.
It seems that you're letting the behavior of a particular application and OS negatively affect your opinion of a technology which works really well on different platforms.
Back in the early 2000s I worked for a telco. Telecom was having a pretty rough time following the dot com crash. They replaced the previous CTO with a CTO that had a financial background (would have been suitable for as a CFO). This blew my mind at the time. The explanation was simply he's going to be less persuaded by seniors managers arguing for projects on technical merit and more persuaded by the dollars and cents. Rightly or wrongly, it worked, they got out of trouble early and when the economy turned around he was swiftly replaced by a hacker CTO.
There are side effects.

https://i.redditmedia.com/4FDIQLPJFtaOSXIDOlj6I9lCpVYdz8O06Y...
The same quote without having to scroll endlessly (with the text faded and the scrollbar shown on top of the text):

I am very pleased that you find joy with the piano. This and carpentry are in my opinion for your age the best pursuits, better even than school. Because those are things which fit a young person such as you very well. Mainly play the things on the piano which please you, even if the teacher does not assign those. That is the way to learn the most, that when you are doing something with such enjoyment that you don't notice that the time passes. I am sometimes so wrapped up in my work that I forget about the noon meal. . . .
I recall using this for some prototype work around fall 2011. Apple's claim to the word was moot before this application existed.
Look up the documentary "thin red line" on YouTube
That's very much the BSD version, which is far more limited in capabilities.

GNU Units is available under homebrew (as "gunits" IIRC).
It's not about you, though. Or me. It's about what the people working with you are most comfortable with. I can go blurf out JSON or XML or potfiles by hand, whatever. But normal people are going to go "er, no?" and even if you win that argument you've lost social capital on something that didn't really matter.
Really great to know that I'm not the only one struggling with this--thanks for sharing!
If you think the game is about teaching you what you should do, then you played a very different game than me.

There are times when letting people learn why something is bad through experience (even watered down as much as through a video game) is much more effective than just telling them it's bad, for many reasons.
There is a whole body of mathematics which takes these things seriously (constructive math, intuitionistic foundations) and it's, if anything, even more heavily formalized. I think the author has some technical points, but his desire for "make math more like science" is outmoded in many areas. Mathematicians went toward formalism for good reasons. They might not have made all the right decisions, but that doesn't mean that upending the table and starting fresh makes sense.
Devs might be better than average at discovering and counteracting pwnage, but they're also much higher value targets. They often are the Bank.

As a criminal, what credentials do you want - some teen's facebook login? or some dev's admin credentials which you can use to compromise entire databases? What about software signing keys for your malware? Access to someone's software update distribution channels?

Some companies strictly separate devs from these things, but not all of them by a long shot - and even when they are, admins aren't going to necessarily be code auditing every single release. One slip is all it takes.

Debian builds has been breached. Sourceforge has been breached. Unhacked package managers and credentials already make me nervous. Up your paranoia, and have enough self esteem as to realize you're worth targeting - and know that all the Karate in the world won't protect you from being shot in the back from behind. They won't stake out the Dojo either - it'll be your home or favorite bar.
> CSV is perfectly fine for editing in any functioning spreadsheet software

This smacks of the Linux user who adjusts his pince-nez and talks about "legacy operating systems". Excel is functioning spreadsheet software by near-universal acclaim (to the point where there's a pretty decent argument that everything that isn't 100% Excel compatible isn't, it practically defines the medium when speaking to nontrivial spreadsheet users!), no matter how much you want to well-actually about it. And it's the one that pretty much everyone in this space uses.

You might not like that, and I'm not a big fan of it either, but reality is notable for not really caring about whether we like it.
Show HN: Remote support to website visitors without plugins
It only seems like a small problem because these compilers have been bug-free so far. The bugs you mention only affect certain applications. A buggy C++ compiler would affect almost every application ever created. JavaScript VMs are written in C++. This argument seems kinda like "no we don't need a tsunami warning system because no tsunami has hit us yet".