skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How does the pipeline compare to state-of-the-art information extraction suites (e.g. Apache OpenNLP) on standard datasets?
Wow, okay, I think you've missed the points made by this article.

To summarise the article...

1. We learn valuable lessons from our mistakes.

2. Before the era of smartphones and social media, people could make mistakes and not have those mistakes follow them around for the rest of their lives.

3. By making mistakes more public we're creating a chilling effect on learning.

4. The freedom to make mistakes isn't one that should be limited to a select few. Aside from certain types of mistake that should be dealt with strongly by the legal system, the freedom to make mistakes and learn from them is a privilege that we should give to the majority of people.

Do you disagree with any of the points above?
It's the function type, data (->) a b. It is commonly written in infix notation though.
A few years ago there was an article posted on Slashdot about Russian and Japanese scientists cooperating on the attempt to clone a wooly mammoth.

About half the comments were about eating the mammoth and what it would taste like. :)
In places I've worked in before that needed to join concurrent changes across repositories, we would have the build system always build from a super-repo that had the other repositories tracked as submodules. Co-dependent changes were pulled in via a single commit in the super-repo.

This was kind of cumbersome to maintain TBH, and the fact that changes to different repos can be dependent on one another seems to strongly suggest that the code should be together in the same repo. Personally, I opt for mono-repos until I'm forced to change for whatever reason.
Sorry but non of this sounds very convenient or useable. It seems like you just really like btc so you're making concessions on usability.
The article is from NYT's On Campus column, which specifically focuses on colleges.

> Dispatches from college students, professors and administrators on higher education and university life.

Despite the title, I don't get the impression that the author specifically limits his suggestions to college students, nor does he specifically exclude other young people.
Hackintosh user for 4? years there. Stick to verified specs and you'll be fine. Haven't had any problems since setting everything up. Although I do keep hot backups just-in-case... But I'd do that using OEM iMac too, so not much of a disadvantage.
Thanks for posting the link, I don’t have the shutdown problem, but my serial number is on the list, so I’ll get my free new battery tomorrow!
I attended a talk by one of the Google Guava (Java collections library) authors and he told us how they didn't have to worry about maintaining backward compatibility at all. When they made a breaking change they could check out all of the impacted Java code across Google, refactor it, verify that the tests still passed, and then commit everything in one shot. It's easy to understand the productivity advantages.
Does Emacs violate the Unix philosophy of doing one thing very well?
That is one reason why HTTPS is must for all sites.
They can't, these solar panels are probably not much more than 20% efficient, so even an extra factor of five doesn't make a dent.
People would be so upset that they didn't have to charge their phone so often and that the completely sealed in battery lasted longer before making their phone appear to become obsolete?
To be honest, large chunk of this junk is also produced by China. So if you are appealing on fairness then this is not quite correct.
Demolishing sounds a bit strong. It is measurably better, but is likely also to be more expensive and competing against other future designs when finally released.
Meanwhile, Aurora on AWS has an explicit performance assessment guide

https://d0.awsstatic.com/product-marketing/Aurora/RDS_Aurora...

With Oracle going all in on cloud, this mindset of Larry surely doesn't bode well?
Kerberos: why the world moved on
> "But one can't get "being taken seriously" and "having the protection offered to children for not knowing better" at the same time."

Sure you can. You're thinking in a binary manner, in reality 'respect' and 'protection' are not binary.

To explain in simple terms, a student should be able to have both 'some' protection and 'some' respect. You don't have to protect someone like a child at the same time as respecting them as an adult.
Most interesting part was the reply from the Comcast employee.
There probably IS some sort of licensing agreement preventing that, else they would have.
This will help if you don't want to run a monorepo, but many in the industry consider a monorepo suitable for their organisation. The biggest blocker with Gitlab in my opinion is not being able to only run a job if some specific folder was modified (https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/19232).
Doug – smart contract artifact release manager
TLDR; Brands like Nike don't want to partner with 1000s of outlets that they typically did. Instead they will only work with 10s of partners who are willing to invest in creating brand specific unique experiences.

I am not sure if this is right approach. I think the whole era of "brand ambassador", "store experience" etc has ended. Previously brands carried promise of quality and uniqueness however these days this promise has been transferred to store itself that distributes those brands. Now these distributors are able to get similar quality from relatively unknown brands and sell at higher margin. This likely because most brands have centralized their manufacturing to places like China and there is usually same manufacturer there which produces same goods, one with brand label and other without. So as brands have outsourced their manufacturing, they have also outsourced their expertise.
I'm really not sure how that follows at all. If the battery life of a new device is 3 days, and the battery life of a 2-year-old device is 1 day, at no point is there battery power that is unused.
Net Neutrality's Technical Troubles (2015)
The gigantic image: https://i.imgur.com/kN2rMhK.jpg (source: http://comcastsupport.i.lithium.com/t5/image/serverpage/imag... - URL manually edited to display largest possible size)

I paged through the JS curiously, and found the URL bnpsa.g.comcast.net/images/mydevicealert/browser/. I wondered what would happen if I hit that from my ISP in Australia. I was surprised: I got an NXDOMAIN back.

But I discovered that googling the above URL as a quoted string finds a bunch of copies of the JS scattered around the Internet. Might be useful.

So then I tried hitting bnp-service-alerts.gslb2.comcast.com/images/. This actually resolved, and Chrome hung at "Connecting...". After rechecking the URLs I noticed this one was referenced in the JS as HTTPS, so I added that, and promptly got 403 Forbidden.

Question to anyone on Comcast [edit: which has been answered]: does http://bnpsa.g.comcast.net/images/mydevicealert/browser/ resolve for you?
Because they are opposed to technology and ever increasing systemic stability/tyranny
Not really a remote worker (I am in a QE team that shares an office), but often we work in small, distributed subsets (i.e. small project containing QE crom Czech republic, OPS guy from Ireland, one eng from Spain and second from Germany).

1. Rocket chat - i.e. the self-hosted slack

2. Blue jeans - conference calls, integrated in our meeting-rooms, no idea how much we pay for it, but fairly reliable. Can record sessions, good for sharing among people :-)

3. Google-docs - mostly for sharing things that need to be discussed and meeting-minutes

4. Having a help-repo, containing internal guides and how-tos, that everybody can improve

5. having good ci/cd on all of your repositories, because sometimes there is no-one online yet and only one that will reply to you is your irc bot and Jenkins :-)
Specifically the last sentence!
Well I lived through the Raspberry Pi2C v1.1 and v1.2 debacle.

They switched from an 32 bit CPU to a 64bit CPU without changing the board nomenclature.
Couldn't they call it Raspberry Pi2-C to help programmers?
[0]https://www.cnx-software.com/2016/11/21/raspberry-pi-2-gets-...
Jurassic Park lied to me! Even though the link between dinosaurs and birds is mentioned explicitly. :(

Would be interesting to see a remake that used all of the current knowledge about dinosaurs, what they looked and behaved like.
Came here to post the same. While the book isn't super scientific and lacks certain depth if you already know some things about nature/biology/ecosystems/..., I found it extremely pleasant to read. And it also contains some real 'whaaaat? I had no clue' moments. It's now my go-to book recommendation for anyone who likes e.g. walking in nature but has not much further knowledge of it. And the few people I know who did read it all came back with the same sentiment: 'wow, I have been strolling around in forests half my life but I didn't know half of the things mentioned in this book'.
More, Apple has been fronting billions for factories and then reserving the output for a while. Crazy.
> "Personally, I wouldn't mind sacrificing some of my convenience to support people protesting an issue that is important."

Okay, but what if what is being protested is important to the protestors but not important to you? What if that protest interferes with your day-to-day life? Would you still be supportive of their right to protest?
> Question to anyone on Comcast: does http://bnpsa.g.comcast.net/images/mydevicealert/browser/ resolve for you?

Nope, it does not for me. Non-existent domain.
I think you completely missed my point. That aside,

> Python however does provide some immutable constructs as part of it’s core language (Tuples)

That doesn't really help when you're looking for persistent datastructures.

> It also has the ability to really take any object and attach states to it at whim, including immutability.

No, and if it did that would not be an advantage in this context.
I wonder if a website could sue Comcast for copyright violation.
Can you please expand how it's a seismic change? Also Bitcoin is a bad comparison as we havent seen that through to its conclusion. If you wanted to say something was seismic, iPhone would be a better comparison as there is clear indicators of how it changed the landscape.
Well, i don't know about specific disorders, but mental health declines rapidly with lower intelligence.

The most mentally unhealthy people are the ones that are on the lower end, but still within what we expect to function in society.

Source sadly not being verifiable since it is my psychologist wife that works with mental health in school with intelligence testing and extra resources to help those who need it.
Arsonists are simply agitators with incendiary ideas.
It’s never not worked for me if you’re referring to https://hangouts.google.com I use it daily as my primary IM and am primarily a Firefox user across all platforms. Never had an issue with Hangouts even after the Quantum update
Meanwhile, any individual can burn 100l of fossil fuel per day in his car without repercussions.

Or burn wood pellets, because they are sooo health friendly.

But as long as we have the "improved" "2-year lifetime" "energy saving" light bulbs that were foisted upon the consumer by the light bulb industry, our planet is saved.
It's the boring stuff: IRC, email.
You are talking as if not talking to the police is by itself a moral abomination, but there's a lot of points you're not considering.

a) Odds of getting into that situation are a million to one, against.

b) Odds of your information helping to find said baby are a million to one, against (and even that is very optimistic I would say)

c) Odds of a police officer asking you that question because they want to have someone to blame for the crime are low, but significantly higher than 1/1e12

So I think that both on moral grounds, and on legal grounds, you should say something evasive first, and if the officer doesn't go away at that point you definitely should say the "any question you can send to my lawyer, and we will do our best to answer as soon as possible" line.

And, by the way, your lawyer will be angry if you do anything else.

More generally I would encourage you to think about the role of the police in a society. Not in the "the state is right and absolutely moral" way you seem to be stuck in. A state is fundamentally unjust. No matter how democratic, no matter how well it's going economically. I have worked as a consultant at a ton of "high" state organisations and I guarantee you, a month at any of them is enough to cure anyone of the notions you have.

At best, states are a necessary evil. They make some necessary things happen that would otherwise not happen. The police are their enforcers. Like any other power structure, they give ego-satisfying perks and social status to their enforcers, and so you can imagine the kind of person and motivation that a police officer generally is. And if there's one thing that can be absolutely guaranteed, it's that there is no just way to use violence to resolve situations (but a few good looks at the law will quickly absolve you of the notion that they're just, or even intended to be just). The state is not your friend. And especially the police is not your friend.

And I realize this point is contentious, but have you ever thought about how arrogant it is to assume there is a single "just" system at all ? There's many models of morality, from natural morality, to utilitarianism, to the various religions, to ... Important to remember is that they're all different, conflicting and self-contradictory.
> Interesting that this effect may be a byproduct of automatic scaling the CPU frequency based on remaining battery capacity, rather than the newer OS versions being purposefully poorly optimized (like most people assume)

1. If such a common complaint has such a simple fix, why isn't Apple shouting this information from the rooftops? Why do we need anecdotal information posted on Reddit to figure this one out ten years after the launch of the first iPhone?

2. Being a byproduct of automatic scaling or the commonly cited flash degradation doesn't explain the abrupt spikes in the search for "iPhone slow" around the release of a new iPhone (Google Trends: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=iphone%2...). Could it be a purely subjective, psychological effect? Does anyone have actual benchmark data on this?
I thought iPhone batteries are not replaceable. How do you go about replacing it? Is the replaced battery authentic OEM or some third party?
For a 50 people startup, a Git repository will be usually enough. At my previous company we managed to do the monorepo approach easily with similar amount of people and GitHub.
Yet, when Oracle prohibits publishing benchmarks you can find benchmarks about MySQL, Mongodb etc on the web

You can find all the benchmarks you want here http://www.tpc.org/default.asp including Oracle.

The thing is, a skilled DBA, given two databases and told which one should be the winner, can easily construct a benchmark that seems perfectly plausible, but favours one over the other. The MongoDB guys did it very blatantly e.g. by comparing Postgres writing to disk with them writing to memory, but that's because they don't know anything about databases and lacked the skill to do it subtly, e.g. by finding pathological edge cases in query optimizers. That's what the commercial vendors are most worried about.
Not true, I’m a work from home consultant and use slack calls vie Firefox several times a day without a problem even after the Quantum update
Yeah it made it soooo much quicker. I was about to throw it in the bin. Now set for another year of retro phone. Mine was being really shitty though, it took a massive speed nose dive after ios11. If that’s what happened to you defo worth trying.
You'd have the same problems with any other centralized versioning system the way companies use it these days (ie. with CI, and code review).
Just try a full back up and reset and see what happens. It made mine back to normal
Gemeenten niet klaar voor toestroom ggz-cliënten
You say it’s not the but it is my exact experience of them. Happens every time. Tried it a few times to be sure it’s that. Using a Belkin dock and an Anker charger. Both decent enough brands.
Tangential question, any tips about using orgmode with a team? Right now I use it for notes at meetings (pretty much all meetings) and translating those notes into tasks with dates etc, but I haven't been able to figure out a good way to get a team to use it...
> I'm asking because i wouldn't know how to setup a mono repository at my 50 people Startup even if we deemed this to be necessary.

Sorry if this is a really dumb question. If you only have 50 people I'm assuming your codebase isn't that big, so why can't you just make a repo, make a folder for each of your existing repos, and put the code for those existing repos into the new repo?

I imagine there's a way to do it so that your history remains intact as well.
>Multiply this across N integration tests,

But in theory with enough servers all the integration tests could be run in parallel. So it would only take as long as the longest single test.
Comcast's Web Notification System Design
Yeah, I don't think PG had "optimized Q&A" in mind but it fulfills the condition of being something hackers can use effectively to search documentation.

There's some other good concepts in there. But the gist of what he's saying is interesting. It's not about things that look great, but rather things that are repulsive to us because they question how we view the world.

By that line of thought, Bitcoin would definitely qualify.
"Comcast's Web Notification System Design"
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6108
Google replaced piper with mercurial

https://opensource.googleblog.com/2017/03/dispatches-from-la...
Weapons research and weapons manufacturing are different. If a country is just manufacturing weapons to defend themselves then fine (aside from nuclear, chemical and biological weapons, the spread of those weapons should be held back, they're too dangerous) but weapons research is unnecessarily extending the misery of war. Don't we have enough ways to kill each other? Why do we need any more?
Yes and I can exclusively reveal what that is, so you can benefit from it as well. Just add the following setting to your initSID.ora

make_db_run_faster=true
WaveFunctionCollapse Is Constraint Solving in the Wild [pdf]
Ah, the "Greater fool theory".

That's not sustainable though when you have perfect replacements readily available.
It's this hard to say what a single organism is, and many people still believe there is a simple definition of what a species is.
For those that haven't seen it:

Customer: "Comcast has my phone office number, my cell for texts, my email, and my home address, yet they choose to molest my requested web pages by injecting hundreds of lines of code."

Comcast Response: "The notice is typically sent after a customer ignores several emails. Perhaps some of those ended up in your spam folder?"

To me this sounds like a crazy ex-lover. "You didn't respond to my texts so I came to your house." No, Comcast, don't do that. They ignore your emails because you're trying to sell them something they don't want.

Here is the Twitter of the Comcast rep for anybody interested: https://twitter.com/jlivingood
This little-known Monopoly rule completely changes how you play
You’re denying the people of their right to be treated as an intellectual equal.

If they don’t understand it is their loss. You can bet against them in the capitalist system. Sell them houses near coastlines. If they’re truly ignorant and you are in fact backed by science and facts, then you can profit off of them.

But if you can justify doing this for people you consider not worthy of the facts because they probably can’t understand it, then you can justify it with anyone.

This is the same rationale for why the FBI or law enforcement want more power. People don’t understand that thy are the GOOD guys and they won’t abuse their power.

If the good guys—the people backed by science in this case—lose their accountability to actual science by being good at propoganda and manipulation, why even bother with science? They’ll become bad guys soon enough when they finally realize the facts never mattered.

When propoganda is spewed from both sides the only way to tell is to have facts based on reality that people can independently verify. That’s the whole point of backed by science. If you deny people the option to independently verify then you deny them the ability to find out who’s right and who’s wrong. At that point are you any different from the bad guys?
Discussing Poverty and Privilege – An Interview with a Privileged Indian Woman
That's some hugh quality snark right there. Thank you good sir.
Yes, indeed it was. It's a fairly standard, unsurprising response for this situation; doesn't try to be defensive, doesn't try to provoke. [Edit: I'm horribly under-perceptive, after reading other comments I see I'm a bit off.]

But... this bit.

> ... [JL] This is our web notification system, documented in RFC 6108 https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6108, which has been in place for many years now. ...

Oh, interesting, what Internet technology are they using?

> "RFC 6108: Comcast's Web Notification System Design"

> February 2011

Cue jawdrop. My instinctive response was to WAT and think "this is not what RFCs were for..."

But then I read this part,

> Status of This Memo

> This document is not an Internet Standards Track specification; it is published for informational purposes.

> This is a contribution to the RFC Series, independently of any other RFC stream. The RFC Editor has chosen to publish this document at its discretion and makes no statement about its value for implementation or deployment. Documents approved for publication by the RFC Editor are not a candidate for any level of Internet Standard; ...

Hmm.

Reading through, this outlines a way to avoid using deep packet inspection by using Squid and Tomcat instead.

Initially when I read this my brain was sort of going in the direction of "this kind of thing is where the net neutrality repeal thing started..." but now I've spent a bit of time reading it I don't actually think my snap response was particularly on point.

This is a bit of a stream-of-consciousness but I wanted to draw attention to that RFC.
The thing that's so irritating about large telco's is not just that they're evil, but the casual stupidity of their actions, including their evil actions.

I mean, look at the code. Look at the function of this code. Look at the business purpose of this code. Look at the security aspects of using this code. Look at the legal ramifications (why the hell is that LGPL thing up top there ?). Look at their internal communication. Look at how easy it is to see exactly what they're doing ...

All of it screams "no double digit IQs anywhere near this thing".

And yes, I mean, I know that's not true. Their people are not this stupid (though some must be). But they do this anyway. The organisation does business analysis at the level of a 5 year old, codes like a 10 year old, obviously this has not passed legal review, ...

How can an organisation that executes this badly become this big ? I mean, I know the answer is "government" and government making them a monopoly, but still. WTF.