skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the 1608.01541 (2016) paper you linked:

"We hope that our theoretical prediction about decreasing
acceleration of the Universe can be verified by observations."

But the observations actually see the opposite, the increasing acceleration, verified enough that five years before that paper, the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics was for that discovery of the increasing acceleration, based on the measurements of Ia supernovae:

https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/20...

"What will be the final destiny of the Universe? Probably it will end in ice, if we are to believe this year's Nobel Laureates in Physics. They have studied several dozen exploding stars, called supernovae, and discovered that the Universe is expanding at an ever-accelerating rate. The discovery came as a complete surprise even to the Laureates themselves."
It sounds like your child components should be fetching their own data via their own graphql queries rather than consuming it as props from the parent that's rendering them.

That way the parent can just render whatever components it wants without having to worry about what data they require.
Link to said popehat blog article, https://www.popehat.com/2017/10/24/in-which-my-identity-is-s...

Speculated reasoning in the comments on the article was that it then gives an admissible account of who owns the twitter name. Otherwise the assertions about who owns it are inadmissable hearsay. That said it's still really weird that the accounts were subpeonaed

EDIT: fixed link. Just noticed it went to an old article. Apparently the new one is up but not listed on the homepage? (Similar topics so I didn't notice right away)
TXR Lisp Awk macro: http://www.nongnu.org/txr/txr-manpage.html#N-000264BC

Has analogs for all salient POSIX Awk features and most GNU Awk extensions. (Of course, not semantic cruft like the weak type system, or uninitialized variables serving as zero in arithmetic.)

Plus:

* You can embed (awk ...) expressions anywhere, including other (awk ...) expressions.

* You can capture a delimited continuation (awk ...) and yield out of there.

* It supports richer range expressions than Awk. Range expressions combine with other range expressions unlike in Awk, so that you can express a range which spans from one range to another. Also, there are variations of the operator to exclude either endpoint of the range: rng, -rng, rng- and -rng-.

* You can "awk" over a list of strings, possibly an infinitely lazy one.

1> (awk (:inputs '("a" "b") '("c" "d"))
(t (prn nr fnr rec)))
1 1 a
2 2 b
3 1 c
4 2 d
nil

* It has a return value: whatever the last :end returns, or else nil:

1> (awk (:end 42) (:end 43))
[Ctrl-D]
43

Build a list from the first fields of /etc/passwd:

1> (build
(awk (:inputs "/etc/passwd")
(:set fs ":")
(t (add [f 0]))))
("root" "daemon" "bin" "sys" "sync" "games" "man" "lp" "mail"
"news" "uucp" "proxy" "www-data" "backup" "list" "irc" "gnats"
"nobody" "libuuid" "syslog" "messagebus" "avahi-autoipd" "avahi"
"usbmux" "gdm" "speech-dispatcher" "kernoops" "pulse" "rtkit"
"hplip" "saned" "kaz" "vboxadd" "sshd" "oprofile" "ntp" "lightdm"
"colord~" "whoopsie" "postfix")

Type conversion of fields (which are just strings) is achieved by an elegant operator fconv which takes a condensed notation such as (fconv i : r : xz) which means convert the first field to integer as a decimal integer, the last field as a hexadecimal integer and the fields in between as reals. The xz means that if the last field is invalid, it gets converted to zero rather than nil. These letters are just the names of lexical functions available in the awk scope, rather than built-in fconv behaviors.
Outlawing something that large portions of the population already do can be a pretty worrying thing. It's the perfect breeding ground for selective enforcement.
Or whatever.

Exactly - it's the "whatever" part I'm having trouble working with.

I'm seeing the basic point about population samples you're making. But even so, both logically and numbers-wise, the original commenter's argument was just extremely handwavy. Which is, how to put this nicely... strange, coming from someone dissing an entire class of people (Podunk U graduates) as not just lacking rigor... but 99% likely to be, in their words, "completely incompetent".
We're daily SH users, and the voice chat still feels leaps and bounds ahead of anything else (Slack, Zoom, Chime, etc). Inevitable sunsetting, but sad.
A less mentioned reason for pollution curb is that China wants to attract their top talents back home, as well as global up-and-comers who wish for more accommodative research funding. Most top Chinese students who studied abroad are currently residing in the US, working in major tech companies and academia.

They created the Thousand Talents program for promising and distinguished researchers, Chinese or otherwise, to work and stay in the country with salary comparable to the West, in nominal terms, and many extra privileges. [1]

Pollution is a major concern among those who are interested and this gives additional urgency to the government.

Basically, they understand very well that top talents are essential for developing advanced technologies they need, and they are pushing very hard to develop native talents and attract promising ones from other countries. This is the Singapore playbook that has propelled their two universities into major institutions in engineering and other fields within a few decades. (Engineering programs in both Singaporean universities are now ranked in the top 10 or 20 in the world. Also, both Tsinghua and Beijing are ranked in the world's top 10 in AI publications recently, but they plan for more universities to move up in more fields.)

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thousand_Talents_Program_(Ch...
Las Vegas shooter's laptop missing its hard drive
That's extremely far off base.

The US has seen its CO2 emissions consistently falling for years, while generating ever greater economic output from its falling CO2 emissions output, a trend that is set to continue regardless of what the White House does.

The US is presently a leader at reducing its CO2 output and CO2 output per unit of economic growth. Its CO2 emissions from energy production is at a 26 year low, a time when the economy was half its present size in real terms.

Per capita CO2 emissions in the US have declined by nearly 30% since their peak, per the Department of Energy. They're back to where they were in 1960. The trend-line is persistently down.

Several major economies of Europe are seeing similar aggressive trends in general CO2 emissions and per capita emissions.

China's CO2 emissions are still rapidly increasingly by contrast. They have no plans to actually reduce CO2 emissions, their plan is to maybe slow the increase in the next two decades. They also have no plans to reduce their extreme consumption of coal, rather they plan to try to have more renewable energy as a share. Currently China is producing at least 2x the CO2 output of the US with growing CO2 emissions, while the US has an economy 60% larger with a trend of falling CO2 emissions (set to continue as natural gas & renewables replace coal).

It's often said that the blame should be on the developed world because they're outsourcing pollution to China. At this point that's blatantly incorrect. China has made a choice about how it manufactures, to keep its costs artificially low so as to remain competitive. The US has doubled its substantial manufacturing output in roughly 30 years, without any corresponding output spike in CO2. China is cutting environmental corners, because if they don't the cost of their manufacturing would go up significantly.
What is the nix collection?
Did you read the article at all? It says the Kinect sensor lives on in multiple products, including HoloLens and Windows Hello, which is pretty similar to FaceID.
Make the cops prove it with video evidence?
Pyra-Phone
Agreed. Unfortunately we find ourselves in an era of legislative stagnation. Obscure and popular policy alike have been unable to move through the legislative process for almost seven years. Compounding the problem is the rapid pace of change we live with. The legislature, unable to resolve many of the issues of the 20th century is building a heap of 21st century ones. And the growth rate of that heap is increasing, accelerating its increase in mass.

If history is any indicator, in political systems this broken, other institutions collect power and either that power is sustained and relieves legal pressure or that power is revoked and the pressure builds until the system comes apart.
So I suppose that means Screenhero won't be available outside of Slack anymore? I always found it useful as a stand-alone app when you wanted to let somebody control your screen that is not on Slack. Anyone have good alternatives for that?
You can even tell ZFS to do the same thing with user data with the ditto blocks feature.
Seems like Google and DxO work well together...
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How dare you try to introduce subtlety and nuance to our inflexible, ideological worldviews!
Create a 1 Layer Feed Forward Neural Network in TensorFlow with ReLU Activation
I wish something was done about drivers playing with their phones. I live in a city in the US, where cars are the main mode of transportation. I, however live relatively close to work and walk every day (I am European ;). Number of drivers using their phone is just ridiculous (looks like ~30-40% of them during afternoon rush hours). I have been in life-threatening situations many times (2-3 per month on average). All because of phone use and driver friendly (aka pedestrian unfriendly) design and polices.

I just wanted to say that use of phones by pedestrians in certain situations is unsafe and problematic. However, use of phones by drivers is a much bigger problem that has much more serious consequences and is not addressed in any way.
Given the quality of most of their publications, "sophisticated" is not a word I would use to describe their work.
If you haven't been to a college campus in awhile you would be shocked at the recent gap between 'general' liberal beliefs (legalize pot, gay marriage, increased welfare) and 'post-modern' liberal beliefs, which boil down to increasingly abstract accusations of structural racism/sexism/transism/other isms.

That you don't recognize the phrase 'cissexual heteropatriarchy' seems to suggest this, because that's a term that many college administrations recognize, accept, and dole out punishments on, and even questioning that logic will put your education in jeopardy. Basically it's cultural extortion.
This law violates the constitution by restricting a basic liberty (In this case walking across the street while viewing your phone) this action does not directly hurt or harm anyone other than potentially yourself. Under the constitution we have a right to our life. This law violates that principle
Have you ever tested S3's eventual consistency? Just curious.
It's because this is a moral panic from people who think they're immune to moral panics.
Doesn't help against it being selectively enforced, only against it being used for false accusations.
How a Sega glitch created stunning images [video]
It sort-of depends on what you mean by "low level". You can play very sophisticated games with C and present a high-level interface to functionality.
I dropped out of my physics phd program so take it with a grain of salt but I have never been a fan of dark matter or really any of the new theories that attempt to explain the expansion of the universe or propose things far outside the standard model (like string theory). These measurements are super interesting as they can falsify so many crazy ideas.
Introduction to Network Monitoring Tools
this? https://youtu.be/uUE_DaM8ymk?t=19s
The postmodern ones

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

"...postmodernism is typically defined by an attitude of skepticism, irony or rejection toward grand narratives, ideologies and various tenets of universalism, including objective notions of reason, human nature, social progress, moral universalism, absolute truth, and objective reality. Instead, it asserts to varying degrees that claims to knowledge and truth are products of social, historical or political discourses or interpretations, and are therefore contextual or socially constructed."
Oh great, nonstop video surveillance of pedestrians. I don't like that either.
last time i powered it on was a few months ago when i found out there was a Sam&Max point'n click game for it!
hiQ Launches Crowd-Funding Campaign in Support of LinkedIn Lawsuit
This book (which I haven't read, so cannot comment as to its arguments' validity) claims to list a large number of examples: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fashionable_Nonsense
(Disclaimer: I am CTO of hiQ) in relation to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15012883 -- LinkedIn is appealing the ruling that allows us to collect public profiles from LinkedIn.

This is serious business. Microsoft/LinkedIn's position would allow them to be the sole arbiter of who can view, search, and analyze their customer's supposedly public-facing data. This case has major implications for how much power social media companies like LinkedIn and Facebook can accumulate without a feasible way for any new company to innovate and compete.

There is also the aspect of serious misuse of the CFAA and DMCA to bully startups off the playing field before they can gain any traction.
> As journalist Violet Blue noted, “We are barred from Facebook, Instagram, Paypal, MailChimp, WordPress.org, Squarespace, Square, Kickstarter, Chase, Snapchat, AdWords.. Add that Tumblr and other sites make us unfindable.”

Which is how Congress and various AG want it. There's a two pronged attack which is designed to appeal to a small, vocal, minority:

- Banks and credit card companies get threatened with some regulation (limitation on interest rates or fees, for example). They negotiate and say "how about we crack down on those damned pornographers / terrorists/other out group and you leave us alone?"

- Newspapers, web sites, etc get threatened with some regulation (profits, speech, loss of section 230 protection for example). They negotiate and say "how about we crack down on those damned pornographers / terrorists/other out group and you leave us alone?"

And while this sounds like tit-for-tat, the level of threat even a large company like Facebook faces is existential. Look at what happened to Qwest CEO Joe Nacchio (in his case it wasn't a so-called "morals" issue: he refused to allow his company to participate in a government illegal surveillance scheme and was sent to jail on trumped-up charges).

This works very well for all concerned: Congress/AG can rely on the votes and quiet of small block the so-called "moral" extremists; companies can continue to exist and a different, not quite as small block of typically underprivileged people gets screwed.

Oh yeah, not so good for that last group. This all sounds cynical, but you can see from the real world that it's not: By going after these so-called "moral" cases, we make things a lot worse:

- those who really are being exploited are hard to find (police used to use Backpage to find human trafficking -- oops, sorry no more)

- Those who are not being exploitative are shut out by regulation, which is economically and socially destructive to providers, consumers and the rest of the community.

As with the "war on drugs", there is no effort to address actual problems; it's use of the taxpayer's dollar to secure votes.

(AG = Attornies General)
Shouldn't we be treating the root cause of the danger, and not an ancillary factor? Cars are the cause of the injuries that motivated this law. Cars can be built to reduce pedestrian injuries, and are required to be in some countries (not the US). Distracted Drivers are the most common cause of cars hitting pedestrians. Yet the article barely addressed what laws currently address this in Hawaii, if any.
Last released Google version does not work on macOS Sierra (tried and failed). If they fix nothing else but support for all recent versions it will be a step forward.
How does fining people for looking at their phone while crossing the street not effectively curb that behavior? Regardless of whether it's addictive or not.

Smoking bans, seat belt laws, etc. all seem to work pretty well despite the fact that many people really don't like these things.
I think there is a huge portion of trips taken with Lyft/Uber that would not be taken at all with a taxi. I would never take a taxi except in the most dire circumstances due to my experience of them being dirty and smoke smelling and questionable drivers, but with Uber/Lyft, I use them all the time now instead of asking family or friends for drop off/pickup at airport, or getting around the city, etc.
Indeed. Calling 3.6% a "mass firing" to me looks like pushing a narrative.
(Founder of ReadMe here!)

Yup! Companies definitely invest time and money into docs, especially at big companies. And smaller, cooler companies like Stripe and Twilio are showing them how important it is.

To answer the original question, technical writing contractors are very common! To get started, I'd highly recommend getting involved with Write The Docs. They have two big conferences each year, a Slack channel, and almost every city has a meetup: http://www.writethedocs.org/
The trial images are not for you to use other people's software, they are for you to test your own software, especially for testing website compatibility with Internet Explorer. If your job requires testing more often than the trial image makes convenient, you should make your client pay for the Windows license. And if you're just using the OS, I really think you have a responsibility to pay for it.

And all that other stuff can be turned off.
"Free Speech" has become in the current vernacular as merely being right wing hate speech.
Sounds like the perfect place to use a cryptocurrency as a distributed query ledger.
Perhaps you’re right. But, even if they don’t spend time reading and debating Derrida it sounds plausible to me that they’d react negatively to the consequences of Postmodernism - whether they know that’s what it is doesn’t matter.
Get out of here with your facts and perspective. China finally did one good thing, so they are better than the US.
Indeed, we've been planning to screen in our front porch for a while just so we have some security when opening the front door while the cats are on that side of the house.

It would also provide some security by obscurity for any packages we get; according to UPS, right now I've got three packages totaling about $500 of equipment sitting on my front porch in plain view to anyone going past the house. Thankfully the house sits nearly half an acre off the main road, with no sidewalk and in a semi-rural area. Still, Murphy's law dictates that today will be the first time I have a package stolen. I'll find out when I get home in a few hours, I guess.

(My regular UPS guy normally doesn't deliver to me until after 6pm, he knows my schedule and it lines up well with his driving route most of the time. I'm guessing this is a new driver, or else a really light day for my regular guy.)
Self editing a (French) novel with free and open source software
The standards for acceptable conduct in the 18th Century were quite different in this regard than they are today.
I've considered that, but it's extremely annoying (and still not really possible with Relay or Apollo). Not only would I be relying on Apollo's query batching/merging in order to not make 100 different queries over the network, but each child component would need to duplicate the base query and variables, meaning they'd need the props that correspond to query variables passed all the way down the component tree to them.

Consider the Artist.Name and Artist.Disambiguation components in my GitHub example. Notice how they don't need the `mbid` prop that the ancestor component provides. I want a component like that for every single field in my Artist schema. If every one of those components duplicated the artist query, they'd all need to be passed the `mbid`, because that's how it determines what artist to retrieve. It's possible to do some tricks with `context` like I'm doing now, but I don't really trust that it's a better solution than having one query execution point with an extendable query.
A company selling an arguably better service than the existing solutions might be more valuable than a company selling ads to a dwindling user base?

I'm shocked, utterly shocked.
This is my concern with VR not taking off with the mainstream. Many gamers (myself included) want to plop down on the couch and not move around much. Many of the VR experiences coming out require movement, not to mention the initial effort to put on the headset.

I'm a huge proponent of VR (backer #238 of the Rift on Kickstarter), but I worry VR headsets will end up in the dustbin with the Kinect for this very reason...
Any regulations that would prevent the development of nuclear rocketry on Mars, after a base was established?
Wow, this looks fantastic. Thanks for the rec
Where do you get your data? How reliable is it?
160k LOC ? Sounds a lot...

Great news anyway. Can't wait to see this in FFmpeg !
I think you are right. There is nothing "transparent" about pricing in the various clouds. I am of the mind that one should test for min. 30 days to get a good feel for what it will cost. There are just too many variables and little minefields (ingress, egress, network activity, etc.)
No one is pretending that it couldn't meet the bar. It doesn't in my opinion, but that's not the point. The point is that Ken et. al. were not harassing anyone.
I don't think google docs drawing interface is ... HORRIBLE. But it's not the best. I have used it multiple times though, can't really beat the ease of access when working on a google doc that needs a simple diagram.
NLRB still exists? I honestly thought the new administration got rid of that.
Japan has national housing policy and it works quite well. The problem with local control is that it's often easier for special interests to undermine democracy.
How about some concrete examples of all of that? If it’s that common you should be able to reference them like crazy. Show me evidence of this growing pattern.

Edit: downvote away, but show me the evidence.
Ptkak, can you try to stop me getting shot plz.?
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When is videocalling and screensharing coming to Linux?
It does in fact endanger other people. You are creating a dangerous situation. A pedestrian in the street who is oblivious to their surroundings is a hazard to all drivers.
I like the look of those:

http://www.nathanielbranden.com/sentence-completion-i
Not to mention that awk takes filename arguments, so this is an egregiously useless use of cat.
Other FSs can shrink partitions without losing data; ZFS can't. The fact that XFS can't doesn't make my statement false.