skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love that their definition of "portable" is software that runs exclusively on UNIX.
As with virtually every case of the use of "everyone" when I said everyone stopped I did not mean it literally.

And yes, families are far more likely to be broken today than in decades past. The elderly are more likely to be dumped in a home somewhere. Welfare has ravaged families. The single motherhood rate is 8x what it was in the 50s because we incentivize broken families. Over 50% of adults are single now. That's historically unprecedented, and it didn't start heading that direction until the 1950s when socialist programs started really taking hold in the US.
My view is that people shouldn't be putting too much of their resources into collaboration, charity and helping their neighbors (only). Rather if they want to "do good" they should spend time and effort making the government better, more transparent, more accountable, less corrupt. A better government can better help everybody.
Seignorage or negative interest rates might be a fun one too. Charge fees on stagnant cash.
The most famous line from the special interest groups, "sugar is a healthy and inexpensive source of energy."

It's laughable it's even debated or requires modern study. Humans have been force feeding animals grains since at least ancient Egypt for the purpose of fattening animals, but specifically their liver. After a few thousand years of perfecting the practice the most famous dish is goose liver or foie gras, literally French for fat liver, and after thousands of years of best practice what is used to fatten the goose liver...corn, the same thing we concentrate to sweeten softdrinks (and about everything else).

Still I'm happy to say it's just a contributing factor for obesity, but certainly there is also correlation between obesity and sedentary life style, and coming full circle to the article there is correlation between sedentary lifestyle and lack of testosterone production (in part created/released to repair muscle As a result of physical activity). But hey, even big tobacco is marketing there product as healthy in many parts of the world, as it used to be promoted in the US, it's just where we are with sugar, "it's a healthy and inexpensive source of energy."
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Of course, Selenium (WebDriver) still works. However, this might be the push for people to investigate other test frameworks. I found TestCafe by DevExpress (https://devexpress.github.io/testcafe/) is a great tool and is also completely open source (MIT!). It's a shame that the community is so small because it's so powerful. Maybe this might be the push that moves some more people over?
I think the world is going to shit
Exactly! And if the day came where this because an issue, for 1/10th the cost of actually retaining a lawyer and reasonably going after Facebook for a patent, you could rewrite your app in something else.
most of the top submissions to the last ImageNet comp. are tweaks on YOLO and Faster RCNN.

But why is this trending now?
If I understand that license correctly, it is not 'patents that cover react', it is 'any facebook patent, present or future'. Also as explained in the article, it is also about my patents if I have any, in case facebook tries violating them. Far wider than 'react patents'.
Less formality, yes. You don't need $60 plates to host a dinner party when a $2 plate will do just fine. Plus, you don't need to worry about accidentally breaking one.
As I explained in another comment (chemical plant pollution), Damore is totally wrong regardless of the merit of the couple of papers he (a layman with zero knowledge or interest in the field) picked. My problem with that medium post is that an actual scientist shouldn't argue with some random dude on the internet who's clearly not interested in learning about the subject, while using actual science (and the very careful, measured wording that is common in this very inexact science). After all, anyone who chooses to believe someone as uncredentialed as Damore, and his explicit non-research in the first place, is unlikely to be persuaded by actual scholarship. I also

I would rather we stop treating Damore as someone other than a dude who wrote some memo in an afternoon. He did no original research, no secondary research, and expresses not a single idea we have not read hundreds of times since at least the eighteenth century. Just last week I read a text from 1795 by a Scottish minister who translated some of Leonhard Euler's work, where he says that maybe it's time people would stop repeating the claim that women are naturally incapable of doing science and using that as an excuse to exclude them from learning it.

I also think it is misguided to debate the effect size of biological causes just because Damore happened to say something about that, while not starting the discussion with the much better established social causes. Like my pollution analogy, we know social causes exist, we want to fix them as they cause harm, and once we do we can scientifically debate whether nature has indeed decided to imbue women, blacks and Asians with such flawed intelligence, and why the Jews and the French are so smarter than everyone.
The weight shifts but the overall value stays relatively constant: Quebecers give less than most Americans to homeless people because there are lots more social programs in place. Overalk, those in need get roughly the same amount of support.
The problem is if you ever found facebook infringing on one of your patents, you could not sue them -- your react patent grant would be rescinded.

This is not a behavior of free software.
I don't have the upload bandwidth for offsite backups. But I do have my computer syncing to an external disk every 15 minutes, which I can grab and leave with at any time.
What are some good open source tools in the area of rapid development ofweb end-to-end tests?

I know about Robot Framework, which does not record and replay but instead uses an AppleScript type english-flavoured DSL. But still seems quicker than scripting Selenium.
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See Joel Spolski's floor design.
> By the end of my studies, this guide was only about 20 pages of bullet points.

Would love to see those 20 pages! On the other hand, maybe that defeats the point... Is there advice or resource you might want to pass along to someone considering walking the same path?
This is good background but modern architecture are significantly better:

Learning Transferable Architectures for Scalable Image Recognition

https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.07012
Yes, I even mention HackerNews Books in the `About` section as my main inspiration for this site! I wanted to try out Django and this seemed like a fun little project for starting.
What a moronic idea
We're going through this right now with my grand parents. They lived a life in the country, for decades in the home they built (or started building but never actually finished), buying and selling antiques and other... stuff. It's hard. They want to downsize to a small apartment, but telling my grandfather that it means we have to sell his dozen tractors, in various states of disrepair or disassembly, because none of their children or grandchildren want them, breaks his heart.
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This is why I'm disappointed with the current-era Republican party. There are so many things that could be solved with true market-based solutions - for example, carbon markets and other major externalities. But nearly everyone would rather ignore evidence-based solutions for ideologically correct ones.
I think it's pretty clear that Phthalates are a big piece of the puzzle. Here's the chain of evidence: I just picked one study for every link, but there are many for each.

People have significant levels of Phthalates in their blood:
http://www.ourstolenfuture.org/NewScience/oncompounds/phthal...

People who have higher levels of Phthalates in their blood tend to have lower testosterone:
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/830137

There are several pathways how Phthalates might cause this to happen in the human body, including: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26385792

Testosterone levels in Men have been dropping about 1% per year for at least the past 20 years, about the same rate as sperm counts: https://www.healio.com/endocrinology/hormone-therapy/news/pr...

Low Testosterone causes low sperm count: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6772497
Selenium IDE is a tremendous help for projects that want integration testing, and want to enable any team member to write ballpark tests.

Selenium IDE saved us hundreds or thousands of hours.

For example, my team took an existing web app with no tests, and had the project manager and junior business analysis go through the entire app with the Selenium IDE, writing tests.

This enabled our dev team to start coding fast, and refactoring fast.

In parallel our QA team then took those tests and used them as first-drafts to create even better tests that were generic, maintainable, randomizable, and so forth.
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Could you summarize how you handle this in redo? Also what about the case where a header file does exist but is out-of-date and because of that triggers an error (e.g., version compatibility check with #error) -- how do you handle that?
Law firms are relatively static sized, sign leases of epic duration, and can thus remodel. Startups need to move once a year because they're growing and they keep filling up their space. When you move once a year you're really looking for a sublet, probably already furnished, and choosing from what's on the market.

So at the core, the cause of open floor plans is too many open floor plans. And the more people that switch their space to offices, the more spaces will be available on the market for 1 year sublets. But that's not what's available now, anywhere.
This is what is going to happen to most extensions. Mozilla is bonkers, doing this. They're going to regret it.
hi, im helping build a fairly vanilla ecommerce site in either reactjs/vue.
I want it to be entirely server-side rendered with high SEO visibility. However.. (and this is the big point), have the same APIs exposed for mobile apps as well.

How do I do this ? Any templates to explore this pattern ? It is fairly straightforward to do this in rails, but in the world of react/vue, it seems that the whole community is geared towards rich client-side applications with low SEO.
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Can we eliminate or reduce the need for permissions altogether?

E.g. OSes have an `open()` system call, which can potentially access any part of the filesystem, and then they layer an ever growing permission system to restrict this.

Can we design a system where there is no `open()` call at all? Instead, the program declares "I accept an image and output an image", and when it is invoked, the OS asks the user for an image, making it clear which program is asking for it. Then the OS calls the program, passing in the selected file.

This model has other advantages such as introspection, composability, validation and isolation (e.g. a program that declares it takes an image an output an image has no access to the network anyway and cannot send you image over the network.)
I drive a lot of car KM's in Europe. Apple Maps is bad when it comes to guiding me over the best (read: moving traffic) roads compared to Google Maps.
As much as I enjoy particular instructions (specifically the indication of highway splits) from Apple Maps, Google Maps just keeps me moving and prevents stalls way better over here.
Short distances it matters less. That might be your 99.9%?
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Big Industry did the same thing with lead in gasoline, once upon a time, and they got away with it for quite a while.

I hope one day we can stop this ongoing crisis after crisis caused by special interests in its tracks.
You should rotate that disk every week or so, and keep the rotated one somewhere else.
I own a Sony radio that is probably 15 years old... It's been around for greater than 60% of my life. My laptop is three years old. My TV is 5 years old (and I have no plans on replacing it anytime soon). The reason I don't have much stuff is because I'm diligent to get rid of things I don't use anymore like old books, charging adapters, electronics etc. Some millennials may be buying cheap novel stuff, but many of us are opting to only have a few quality things we use frequently.
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The way User Stories (may) strangle the Design
Just want to add one comment on this one. Is true, but most often web agencies owners are not willing to invest in PHP dev's education.
California most certainly does not have, and has not had for over 100 years, common law marriage. Many people think they’re fine, then are in for a horrible, rude awakening when their long term partner is either sick or dies as the title holder to assets.

Spread the word!

https://apeopleschoice.com/common-law-marriage-in-california...
There is a distinct difference between a big ol empty place in the middle of nowhere and a place suitable to raise kids. Even those who want to buy and start a family would do so closer in than in the middle of nowhere. That wasn't the case 30-40 years ago.
Read “The Blank Slate”.

Read/watch the Pinker/Spelke debate.

Etc.

The science here is pretty unambiguous, yes, just not in the direction you think.
Seems to me like it's rather tangential to the true source of political division in America, in which both sides now tie ideas/facts to one of two "teams" / political parties, and actively reject discussion about something that appears to hurt their team or benefit the other. See: Republicans and global warming, Democrats and national debt, either party and any bad decision by a President of their party.

Doesn't help that when one side is wrong, the other makes sure to kick some dirt in the face and rub it in as long as possible.
I have been conceptualizing what it would take to abstract away the actual physical workstation into a back-end processing system and multiple UI modules physically scattered throughout my home (I work from home) and grounds.

For example, as in shift my workspace from my upstairs office to my downstairs work area just by signing in on the different console setup downstairs. All of my in-process work comes right back up. Right now I do this (kind of) using VMs, but they are limited when addressing hardware, and now I am multiplying that hardware.

Same thing with my streams - Switch my audio or video to the next room/zone where I want to move myself to. Start researching how to correctly adjust my weed whip's carburetor, then go out to the garage and pull up my console there where my work bench is and the dismantled tool.

Eventually my system would track my whereabouts, with the ability (optionally turned on) to automatically shift that IO to the closest hardware setup to me as I move around the structure/property.

And do something like this for each person? So my wife has her streams? Separate back end instance, same mobility to front-end UI hardware?

Can this new Desktop Operating System be designed with that hardware abstraction in mind?
> If all giants agreed to open source under the “BSD + patents” scheme, cross-adoption would grind to a halt. Why? If Google released Project X under “BSD + Patents”, and Amazon really liked it, rather than adopting it and losing their right to ever sue Google for patents, they would go off and build it on their own.

This seems like a reasonable argument, but it doesn't seem to have deterred several big name companies from using React. Airbnb, netflix, and dropbox for example.
Just a theory with strong anecdotal evidence from my experience: web devs may often be hired for their UI design skills even if their programming abilities are low (they're simply "coders") and then given tasks that don't fit their skillset like code the interaction in a website.
Easy workaround: Install Preact. No code changes required, at least not for me last year.
It's worth noting this "you can't sue us for violating your patents if you use our non-free open source software" is working as designed.

Facebook claims that if every company adopted a React-like license, that software patents as we know it would basically die. It's worth noting that both Google and Facebook's patent lawyers are generally of the opinion that software patents are net bad, but differ in their opinions of how to express that intent without exposing their companies to additional risk from patent trolls.

If you want to be acquired, then this is the opposite of what you want. You file patents for every part of the product you can; you audit your dependencies to avoid copyleft (AGPL and GPL) and React-like licenses, so your software can be folded into a 100% closed source product or shut down or whatever your acquirer wants.

If you run a start-up, and you're worried about the React license, you should be speaking to your own legal counsel about the best way forward.
This is cool but outdated, there're other better papers now.
The novel the movie was based upon used male infertility. Movie switched that and pinned the infertility on females.

That said, infertility on the man or woman doesn't matter much in a "we want to make babies scenario." The end result is the same: a world like that in The Children of Men.
When you have to lie about what your opponent is saying in order to score your points, you’re rarely in the right.

In fact, you may be missing that you are actually in agreement.
that sounds magical.
This is not "modern" though, the paper is quite old. He has improved it significantly since then: https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.08242. Best paper honorable mention at CVPR2017.
I think it will depend on where you are at in the 'programmer' journey. For me, while it was still an exciting hobby decades ago, I used to collect PCs and consoles, keyboards and peripherals etc. just to tinker with them and experiment.

Then, as programming became more and more of a 'day job' and not a fun side project, I found myself getting rid of the clutter of obsolete equipment around the place. 35 years later, I am happy with just a basic iMac as my main development machine, and a Lenovo laptop as my Windows/backup development machine. That is it. No more multi screen setups or fancy keyboards & mice even - just stock standard stuff to get the job done so I can spend energy on my passion projects.
Which part about it do you dislike? I have a feeling it is some association you have with cubicles, and not the cubicles themselves.
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Humans are creatures of habit.
> It seems to me like any SoA-AoS transformation is going to have pretty much the same effect on locality

Not at all. In a SoA system you want to operate on each attribute individually but on an AoS system you operates across structs. Besides improved cache locality it keeps loops small so they operate out of the iop loop/stream cache among other things like better packing off data etc.

If you haven't worked on a system little this sometimes it can be difficult to see how different things can be. It's literally APL vs C.
I don't really see this mentioned by anyone, but mobility is also a big factor. There are a lot of people who no longer live anywhere near where they grew up or where their parents or extended family live now. Great solid furniture (or anything 2+ states away from your home) is expensive to move. My parents may have a great desk that I'd love to have someday - but probably not if it means I have to arrange to ship it from Arizona to Chicago and wonder if it's still going to be so great after the stresses of moving. I still have some of the things they left behind when they moved like the head and foot boards for my childhood bed - taking up space in the garage, maybe to be useful if having kids had been part of my lot in life. As it is, they'll end up in the trash when I get around to cleaning the garage or move.

A lot of the place in the world for family heirlooms went the way of the family homestead.
I found out about Testcafe a few weeks ago. It's such a great product but too less people even know about it.
> His response was: "that feeling is a luxury of having grown up with a plentitude of stuff".

This is definitely untrue. That may be the case for _some_ people, but to reduce that feeling to only growing up with plenty is overly reductive. I didn't grow up in a family with much money, and I make a very comfortable living now. My early 20s definitely had a bit of a hoarder tendency from my childhood, but much more importantly, I never got in the habit of _acquiring_ things the way my friends seem to have. I've managed to get over the instinct to keep things unnecessarily and I'm a more comfortable selling/donating (or rarely, disposing of) things I don't need anymore.

It's far easier to believe that there's a generational cultural difference regarding attitudes towards decluttering than it is to make the facile assumption that wanting less stuff is a consequence of living in abundance.
>teenagers are handed an electronic doll to care for for a day or two

Not surprised this had the opposite effect. It completely misses what is, in my opinion, one of the most dramatic aspects of being a parent. It doesn't end until you die.

Many parents have a baby that destroys the parent's sleep schedule for so long that it feels like it will never end. Then there is worrying about your child reaching important feeling development milestones, worrying about your child's ability to make friends and to survive bullies, where will they go to school? "how can those shoes be too small? We just bought them!" etc etc. A child is a never ending stream of things to worry about.

Any bozo who has been provided with the most basic baby care instruction can take care of a baby for 48 hours. Simply knowing that there is a fixed period in time at which it is over makes it manageable.
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> If you have a strong opinion on some subject which is based on things said by people who you know are not expert and have not researched it -- namely, your opinion is knowingly based on ignorance of the issue -- yet you can't be bothered to look up what the experts say on the matter, then I have no desire to educate those who don't wish to be educated. Either you care about this subject or you don't.

Two can play that game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Hb3oe7-PJ8
Another problem is that if you ban BPA you have to replace it with something else that makes plastics less brittle. It's completely unclear whether the replacement chemical will be better or worse. Almost all chemicals we use industrially are untested.
Back when I was using it (about 4 years ago), we used it mostly as a debugging aid to understand what actually should go into some expressions.

Also some people from QA, without coding skills, would use it.
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Gilbert Gottfried has a podcast where he interviews older Hollywood types and Jerry comes up quite a bit. I'm sure they will do a memorial episode soon if anyone wants to hear firsthand stories.
This is overgeneralizing par excellence. For a counterexample, I grew up with not very much money and now make good money, and I'm far _less_ into getting and having stuff than all of my born-rich friends. My slight tendency to hoard is more than balanced out by the fact that I don't feel nearly the need to or comfort with acquiring unnecessary things that all my friends do.
I don't understand why he holds on to books? I have a couple of books that I hold on for frequent references, but the rest I just donate when I'm done. I'm sure my house makes it look like I don't care about books, but I would rather my shelves are a TODO list of things to read, not a dust gathering collection of things I've read in the past.
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> since the start of the year, there are only 11 people who have made more than 10 commits, with two people accounting for more than half of those. Since 2016, only one person has been maintaining the IDE.

Apparently they are not.