skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Do we want the statistical average of us to create laws that stick around for years?

People are judged everyday by their "statistical average" with consequences that can stick around for many years (long jail terms) or be permanent (death sentences). While the criminal jury system is not perfect, it appears vastly more functional than Congress at present.

The article also mentions Aristotle, and he identified three dimensions of discourse: logos, ethos and pathos. While elected congressmen may be a little better at logic (it's not like they're all rocket scientists), they appear to be quite deficient in ethics and not similar enough to the average constituent to truly empathize. Losing a bit of logos for big increases in ethos and pathos seems like a pretty good deal to me.

> Also, this would put enormous power in the hands of lobbyists

Not really, their main weapon are campaign contributions.
These Search Results Show Why Europe Is Mad at Google
Nope, Smalltalk keyword syntax works for as many operands as you need.
If only the easter egg showcased one of his other roles such as cocknocker from Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back [0].

[0] http://m.imdb.com/name/nm0000434/filmotype/actor
Yeah, here in St Paul, we get only coffee paid for and we're quite healthy, I think. Not everywhere gets a smorgasbord of free food and snacks and I'm not convinced it's a worthwhile expense.
Simple answer: Any startup that isn't profitable isn't healthy.

More importantly, any company that has negative marginal profit, is definitely not healthy (i.e. Uber)
Not a biologist or neurologist, but my hypothesis for this is ease of blood flow to the brain while horizontal.
Hopefully the kind of thinking that brought "experts" to this conclusion would become obsolete.

It's eugenics with a nasty twist.

And its very ignorant of what humans are capable of. That's because these experts have been indoctrinated into a religion that views all existence as physical-mechanical, either resource or waste. Efficiency and highest current value are God, all else must be replaced, its "obsolete", toss it. Its a six creation story over and over again, in which The Creators must never be satisfied, in which the El never must say "it is good".

I don't doubt that computational entities could dominate humans in 120 years. There are many possible futures/ways this could play out, but its ridiculous to say that humans would be "obsolete". Evolution doesn't happen that way. It's not some dumb consumer capitalist marketing ploy, where new products make old ones "obsolete".

This kind of thinking has and will continue to result in bloody conflict. Many humans actually wish to impose obsolescence on humans. They believe in their own ineptitude. This has already happened in many work forces. People are coerced into unhealthy dependence on global power systems that don't recognize our ingenuity or creativity. As a result we don't even recognize it. Look at indigenous cultures. Deride them if you will, but their ecological participation has often been incredibly sophisticated. Then empire comes along and coerces them by force and reward into forgetting, into trauma and despair, into some form of money-worship. If you're reading this, its happened to you. We all come from this legacy. We all have ancestors that have been conquered by exploitative cultures. We all have exploiters in our ancestry too.
Very cool.

Two bug reports:

1. Do you have a way to receive bug reports other than HN? :)

2. After doing a search, the left category menu disappears, and stays disappeared even after clicking the HH "home" link at top left. This is true for FF and Chromium latest-ish on LinuxMint.

There are two possible bugs here:
a) do you actually want the left menu to disappear, and b) what your intent is for clicking the top left "HH".

- Go to HH.

- Search for something. Results appear as you type, nice. No indication from browser that a new page is loading; guessing no load by design. But left menu disappears.

- Manually erase search bar. Menu back.

- Type out a search again, menu disappears.

- Click "HH" at top left. Browser indicates a page is loading", but the search is not erased and (therefore?) the menu is still missing.

- Re-enter HH either by typing the URL into the browser location and clicking "make it so", or by clicking in from another site (like HN). Search field is empty, therefore the left menu is available.

EDIT: This was going to be a separate bug, but I think it's related to
above.

Scrollbar behavior is buggy.

- Clear site cookies. ("It's the only way to be sure.")

- Don't click anything, just move the mouse around and scroll, with
mousewheel or dragging scrollbar. Scrollbar intact, entire page
scrolls.

- Click in search field, don't type anything.
Scrollbar disappears, mousewheel scrolling has no effect,
regardless of where the mouse hovers.
Entire page jumps slightly to right, appearing to "chase" the
disappeared scrollbar.

- Type something in search field that gets results.
Scrollbar returns, top of scrollbar is even with bottom of search
field, page does not jump back;
I'm guessing this is "your" scrollbar
rather than the browser's scrollbar. Mousewheel only has effect if
mouse is hovered below the search field,
in the area region where the scrollbar exists.

- Click on any non-active area outside the search field. Search field
jumps left very slightly.
Scrollbar is back to full length (browser's scrollbar?),
but there are now two separate scrolling areas:

- Hover mouse at or above search field level. The entire original
front page, including the missing menu and the default "Today" list of
sites, scrolls up into the area from viewport top to bottom level of
search field (which also scrolls up and away with the rest of the
page). Search results do not scroll.

- Hover mouse below the search field, mousewheel scrolls the search
results, phantom page at top of viewport does not scroll.

- Drag the scrollbar, the "top" scroll area scrolls.
Next time he need to put in Batman.
I don't care what the experts say. When does the AI think it will make humans obsolete? Work estimation is most accurate when done by those doing the work.
>I'd propose based on decades of observation that you model the behavior and personality of all of management as if it was one person.

The problem I see with this advice is that many technical people (e.g. presumably many HN readers) are not good at "reading people". It's very similar to socially-inept engineers asking "how can I tell if a girl would be ok with me asking her out on a date?" We then respond with more well-meaning advice, "if she smiles at you, that's a good sign." And then the engineer might ask, "well, how can I tell if her smile is genuine affection or just politeness?" ... and so on and so on ... into a sort of infinite recursion into the mysteries of "people behavior".

If the engineer is the kind of person that can read Ribbonfarm's Gervais Principle[1] and say to him/herself, "that was a waste of time because that's all obvious information", then yes, he can follow your advice. He/she can evaluate the managers as if they were chess pieces and figure out the health of the company.

If you're the type that's not "tuned in" into how people exhibit implicit behaviors, you'll need a Plan B. E.g. look at the financials or other strategy.

[1] https://www.ribbonfarm.com/the-gervais-principle/
The title ("AI will make human obsolete in 120 years, a large survey of experts says")
of this HN post does not match the article headline "Future milestones in AI predicted by experts".

Instead it is a corruption of the article's first sentence: "A large survey of experts in artificial intelligence suggests there is a 50% chance of AI outperforming humans in all tasks within 45 years and of automating all human jobs in 120 years".

And since the latter means "experts have no idea if or when AI will be able to automate all human jobs", I think this is a pretty bad choice of title.
There are ~23 empty homes for every homeless person in the US[1].

For those of us living in the US, have you ever wondered why we have "housing crises" and such high rents when we have such an absurdly high surplus of empty homes?

[1]https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/a/22336
You realize he was in a Star Wars movie last year, right? And he's made another one and will be shooting yet another later this year?
Linux Academy. Not free but has a very nice DevOps learning track.

https://linuxacademy.com
"There are no artists. We are businessmen. We're merchants. And there is no art." - Marlon Brando [1]

[1] http://m.imdb.com/title/tt4145178/quotes
A generative model for music track playlists
Tips to protect your files from the Petya ransomware  attack
The author Ernest Callenbach made a very detailed proposal for just this back in the 80's, called "A Citizen Legislature": https://www.well.com/~mp/citleg.html
So no lobbying from EFF or Natural Resources Defense Council?
I have a similar classification project and I used word2vec to build embeddings from 1GB+ of text, then I just do vector similarity between the article and the topics.

The vector of an article can be obtained by summing the vectors of its words (minus stop words). For a topic you just sum up 5-10 of the topic keywords. You don't need to exhaustively list all the topic keywords because word2vec automatically maps them in close vicinity.

This system has the advantage that you don't need a training dataset. It's unsupervised learning coupled with a small amount of supervised topic pointers.
Just skimmed one of the articles there, it looks like a really good site.
And I'd argue that those resources wouldn't be spent very effectively or worthwhile in that case.

How many apps are so niche and specific that there won't be a replacement? I'd guess that rarely happens.
I assume the comment you are responding to was about the init-system and in extension to the much more straight forward design and implementation of the overall system.

FreeBSD is, like all(?) other Unices written in C, as is most of the userland.

> userspace must match kernel

Just as far as it is true for Linux. If the interfaces don't change, the userspace tools will happily talk with any kernel. In now 19 years of FreeBSD usage on all my servers and on my laptop I ran into problems caused by a mismatch kernel<->userspace maybe 3 times. OTOH, the comparison is unfair with BSD-boxes reaching uptimes > 1 year easily.
Top Leading Poker Game Development Company – Mobzway
The first thing to realize is that DevOps is an ambiguous term (at least partly by design, it seems).

My belief—shaped by many at the forefront of the DevOps movement—is that it is a cultural focus rather than a technical one. In many ways, it's an extension of agile philosophies, with a focus on fast feedback, transparency, heightened interactions between teams, etc. There is also a heavy focus on automation (CICD), but the automation is there to serve the cultural goals. Just because you do CICD doesn't mean you're necessarily doing DevOps, and you can adopt a lot of DevOps principles without doing full CICD.

Books:

* The Phoenix Project— introduces a lot of concepts (such as lean principles) that are foundational to the movement

* Effective DevOps (Oreilly)

* The DevOps Handbook

Podcasts:

* Arrested DevOps

* DevOps Cafe

Blogs:

* IT Revolution

Events:

* DevOpsDays conferences

* Local meetups

* Velocity conferences

* DevOps Enterprise Summit

Having a good grasp of both development and operations skills is helpful. But it's far from complete. If you solely focus on the technical aspects without examining the cultural, you're missing the foundation of the movement.
Also, if you care about mechanical stability (an engine, not a bomb), you either cool the reactor down to temperatures of its containment material (all attainable solid materials are limited to a few thousand K), or use something like magnetic containment, which is not always an option (you need everything inside electrically charged, and a low neutron flux).
Yeah. But all those devices are what I qualify as "assembled" / "consumer" electronics, and I avoid sourcing those from random Chinese suppliers, for exactly the reasons you mentioned. I will trust a pack of SMD LEDs, but I won't trust their assembled form.

(One exception from my "components only" rule are USB cables. I bought a bunch when I was in Shenzhen, and I actually tested them physically before buying; I discovered that if you pick a random USB cable there, there's like 70% chance it won't be able to give you more than ~750mA from a 2A charger...)
For those who don't know, it's made by id Software : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Id_Software#Commander_Keen
The difference being that the justice system generally affects one person at a time. What Congress does affects 300 million to 7 billion.
Ronan Cronin is the original source [0]. Lots of news outlets picked up the story at the time. The data comes from httparchive, you can grab a breakdown here. [1]

Videos and JPGs are the worst offenders, but PNG and JS nearly tie for third in page weight. Though I think it isn't measuring gzip, but raw bytes, which changes it up a little.

[0] https://mobiforge.com/research-analysis/the-web-is-doom

[1] http://www.httparchive.org/interesting.php?a=All&l=Apr%201%2...
The only thing I'd add is be sure to do it manually first - you'll need the solid foundation of understanding how it works (and how it fails) in order to automate it. Note the key word - understanding - and how that means that just googling the steps won't help you in the long run.

Set up & configure Jenkins to pull and build. Set up and configure nginx, MySQL/PostgreSQL, init files for your app, iptables to firewall off unnecessary ports, DNS, and LetsEncrypt SSL certs (and the associated nginx configs). Make sure nothing that doesn't need to be is running as root. Make sure that what is running needs to be running, and nothing else.

Then, start automating it. Toss in cloud features like ELBs, RDS instances, cloudformation (or terraform, etc), autoscaling groups, autoscaling container services, etc.

This will take you a very long time (and you will probably have enough skills to be hired as a "DevOps" engineer well before you're done), especially if you strive for understanding. But it's really the only way to get where you want to get and be good at it.
Show HN: My VR horror/RPG hits 15 hr play-time as dedicated VR experience
* Late payments to employees (checks, expense reports etc)

* Banker-looking people coming by

* Drawn out fund raising periods with promises every month that next month something will be announced.

* Churn in the C-suite or at VP level.

* Plants being carted away
It's an interesting idea but has the same flaw as term limits: the power would shift from the Congressperson to the staffers who are unknown, unaccountable, and sometimes even worse people.

When I worked for various agencies in DC, one of the first things I learned was who the power players and key people were in each of our Senators' & Congresspersons' offices. It is quite often not the Senator but the scheduler. Yes, the person who runs the Senator's calendar and determines who gets on it and who doesn't.

We found pretty quickly that this scheduler was - almost without exception - a single woman in her mid 20's. Therefore, whenever we knew that we would need access, we would do little things like bring flowers or chocolates "for the office" but make sure to leave them with her. When we found out about new restaurants or a show she'd like, we'd pass her the info. By the time we needed that meeting and gave her a call, we would get it every single time.. often the same day.

And yes, we worked with both parties and names you'd recognize.

* Am I proud about any of that? Nope but that is how the Hill works. And giving those people more powerful is an awful idea.
With Liam Neeson, I'd try a different tack. I'd make the opponent Joey Rosselini.
While I think that the OP is correct - I also agree with this. Working in the mid-west I've never seen stuff like this first hand :(
Is Reddit down?
getting "Maximum threads for service reached" error
But value only exists in the minds of humans. With them gone ai would be obsolete.
America has a not so great history with written tests used as anti-democratic weapons.
CNN is down?
Ember.js Real Estate Website
Check out Anton's book:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00LAMQYF2/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_dp_T2_...
What? He's the lead role in the next Star Wars film. I can't tell if your being sarcastic or not...
Just released the latest update which, I think, may make Left-Hand Path the longest single-player dedicated VR experience out there.
WebAssembly modules can import from other modules:

https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/Modules.md...

By itself that’s the equivalent of dynamic linking; I don’t know if anyone’s written a static linker yet, but it’s an obvious next step.

However, just like with native code, there will be problems with different languages having different representations of strings, arrays, etc., and C and its sparse type system being the least common denominator.
and absence of burnt palapas
Why not have random jurors like we do in the UK?
I really want to switch away from Mac, but there doesn't seem to be anything that fits in the intersection of "easy to use UNIX GUI" and "well built hardware." With the new Windows Ubuntu subsystem, I've been really tempted to get a Surface.

Also, I'd be interested to see how this changes when we look at businesses. Windows has thrived historically by being the default for the enterprise, and I doubt that Mac has the same level of penetration there.
China’s WTO entry benefits US consumers
I think we can get more benefit just by making all lobbying communications public.
Same, I'm getting the error for other sites as well. cnn.com as one example.
Reddit.com is down
Depends. Do you trust Google?
Its called 'contracting' and its a standard practice for engineers. But a fireman tries it - and its wrong?
Pretty sure things like this can happen for other reasons as well though, like when a company is going for it's next financing round.
It gives poor people more money by a) "increasing the earned income tax credit" - a direct benefit from the government. b) Lower minimum wage makes it cheaper to hire people than to automate. C) More money flowing through the economy increases demand. Where there is demand, people find a way to start business to increase supply.

You'll notice that's just the opposite of "supply side economics".
Yeah. https//isitdownrightnow.com too
If I could down vote this twice I would. I can't tell you how much I've been on the phone with MS support to try and do basic things with their software but can't because a.) the only existing documentation is wrong or b.) there's no documentation. My company pays MS a lot of money to not be able to do basic things with its software.
The back door to a new arms race
What is the common factor for Reddit and CNN.com?
1B Logs per day: Harry Logger and the Metric’s Stone
Tell us more. How do you (deep) meditate?

I do meditation here and there and mostly follow this:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4928060
Maybe sending the whole bulb is cheaper than the labor and packaging to send separate cloves?
The standard process is to reach out to your customers and ask permission. Don't think about legislation here: think about your customers. How do you think they'd feel when they find out you plastered their logo to sell your website, advertising them as a customer, without asking them first?
JS is not being completely replaced if i understand correctly but the performance critical parts can be sped up. (Kinda like Cython and C extensions in Python).
Reminds me of Asimov's "The Last Question"
If your job is to create laws, then you must be an expert in that field. So the pool of candidates should be meritocratic in its nature, like a Law School degree and at least 10 years of experience plus 2 in public domains.

Then you can randomize.

Most countries in the world allow any bus driver to be a congressman and we know how great their understanding of laws and human rights are, none.
Assuming you took out student loans, are you factoring in the interest accumulated into your total costs? There's no interest in the "17% over 3 years" model.

I had about $25k of student loan debt when I graduated, but by the time I've paid it off I think I will have paid closer to $35k-40k, factoring in interest over several years.
Prestigious training in Trump University would close that gap forever!!!
There should hopefully be a significant difference in scope and quality between the material offered at a coding school and a community college's CS program.
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hmm, the same here for cnn.com,
We have a weekly all-hands where major issues (good or bad) would be mentioned, and where we get an overview of all core metrics. We have a monthly all-hands where we go into detail on all the metrics and how each team's metrics build up to the overall company performance. We know how much we're targeting/getting in funding rounds. We can ask questions about any of this in one-to-ones with managers that happen fortnightly.

Basically we're pretty good at transparency, so most people just know all of this. It's a nice environment to work in!
S3 outage again?
this is terrible, they really ruined a good product
No. They start at $29/month
Frankly, I prefer the ability to install and, almost more importantly, uninstall apps via drag and drop. I understand, it depends on the software, but installers that have the potential to install all kinds of services and files in other places just feel less...clean. It often feels like an unnecessary deep intervention.
There's a great article on this topic from Steve Blank:

https://steveblank.com/2009/12/21/the-elves-leave-middle-ear...

He argues that a leading indicator is when free food/drinks are removed, as it's a sign that the company is moving from a growth, "we're all in it together" mentality to a cost-cutting one.

I, personally, focus on who's getting promoted and who's leaving. If a company is promoting internally and retaining people, then it's typically in a good place; if a lot of people are getting hired above others, and new employees aren't staying long, then it's in poor health.
maybe using the same cloud services
It's also similar to the Slashdot moderation system.
Also https://www.nytimes.com/
Looks like a major internet catastrophe. CNN, Reddit, Github.io...
Private Vs.Public Vs.Hybrid Cloud–When to Choose What?
Yes, and that's the odd part, right? That this prefix notation is considered "natural" when there is lots of evidence that it isn't.

pow() is a good example, as it was used a lot as an example for operator overloading in, for example, Swift. So instead of

pow(2,x)

you can write

2 ** x

For many people, the latter seems to be more natural, and feels more "built in" on the one hand, but on the other hand having lots of weird combinations of special characters is somewhat unreadable.

If you extend infix syntax to named methods, the problem goes away:

2 raisedTo:x

So why is prefix function notation so popular? The only reason I can think of is that it mimics the function notation we learned in school: f(x). And I guess something can be said for separating the function from its arguments.

So in a sense I agree with you that the difference is not huge for some expressions, but for me that doesn't solve the mystery, but only shifts it.
I hate to point out that LOTS of Linux Distros did not and do not have Red Hats finances. People have been contributing to it for nearly 20 years just fine.

Not sure how you could even think that people need Red Hats finances to create something in linux that actually functions, and is worthwhile.
Did you try looking? LLVM has a WebAssembly backend, so things that can be compiled with LLVM (from your list, at least C++ and Rust) can be compiled to WebAssembly as well. See a guide here: https://gist.github.com/yurydelendik/4eeff8248aeb14ce763e

I haven't tried it; let us know how it went! Not sure how many hoops you have to jump through to compile the languages' standard libraries.