skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve always thought we live in a magical world. On one level, I understand the physical working of many of the technologies that have been mainstream for most of the past century (television, radio, aeroplanes). On another level, I still find them to be magical and marvel at the achievements of human ingenuity, creativity and labour. This includes so many disparate human endeavours, e.g., the laying of the first trans-Atlantic cable, the speed at which a modern block of offices can be built, weaving technology, the development of a free open source OS (Linux), flying all the way to the moon. I suppose this feeling is a case of Clarke’s third law, Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

On a related note, when my younger (Christian) self read the Bible, I skipped Ecclesiastes and the Book of Psalms as they didn’t appeal to me. Thanks to Maciej’s excellent writing and apt quoting (even though I don’t agree that it was written by an atheist), I think my older (atheist) self might appreciate it better and get more out of it. There is plenty of food for thought in its opening verses: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ecclesiastes+1%...
We're expecting to follow roughly the same path that SPDY (eventually HTTP/2) took: iterate on some early versions in Chrome to get experience while the format goes through the standardization process, and eventually remove those in favor of the standardized version. You can follow the IETF part of the process at https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-yasskin-http-origin-signed....
In tabletop board games, I often give advice to the other players that genuinely helps them. Sometimes--not always--the advice is tweaked such that it also helps me or hurts one of my opponents. After a while, this can instill "Iocaine Powder" doubt whenever I advise someone to do something they were probably already considering. It's fun to watch when someone does something other than the clearly optimal move, just because I said it was clearly optimal. My sibling has adopted the counter-strategy of doing something gratuitously damaging to me, regardless of the strategic cost, whenever I try the manipulative-helpful gambit, but no one else has adopted that yet.

So I can't fault the strategy here. Clearly, Apple is always on its own side, even when it appears to be doing something great for its customers. Whether it did this or not, it would still be reaping 30% from the Apple App Store, where the "leave me alone" versus "pay me" arms race is markedly less obvious to the median user.

The same rationale Apple uses for patching the Web to be more usable could also be used by a jailbreaker who bypasses in-app purchases or advertisements. It should probably expect advertisers to fight back to protect their business just as fiercely as Apple guards its App Store revenue.
That's definitely one of the reasons to do it the way they have. But it's their choice. They chose to have a technical/security problem rather than a political/legal one. Or specifically they choose the customers to have a problem rather than themselves.
Revoking the driver's license permanently will reduce the chance of her killing another child do zero. It's not punishment, it's prevention. We should be telling drivers who injure people "don't worry, this horrible thing will never happen to you again, because driving is no longer a part of your role in society."
Personally, I've considered and rejected them. :)

"youse" falls into the bad pattern of also picking up "guys" or "all" as hangers on, in my opinion, defeating the purpose. ("youse guys" being the terrible patriarchic movie Mafioso cliché, and "youse all" a terrible Frankensteinian monster I've heard far too frequently.)

"yinz" to me looks and sounds more like a weird pharmaceutical than an English word, and y'all aren't going to convince me otherwise. ;)

But of course, my opinion is biased by geography and familiarity.
I am not rich and also cannot afford to pay everything I would like to have, neither everything that is free is worth my attention.
Oh good! They fixed the problem that didn’t used to exist by adding additional steps, all for their benefit.

And now they’re trying to get a new standard feature to let them lie about the URL to make it even easier!

You know what worked well? 20+ years of the URL bar showing me the site I was trying to read without bikinis messing with it.

Also, that was added later. Originally it wasn’t there at all.
I wonder if this could backfire by having neighborhoods in urban areas being opposed to transit improvements to avoid being labeled a 'transit rich' area.

SF does not have nearly the subway line coverage it needs to adequately serve the city (e.g. takes 40 minutes to take the bus to downtown from the marina).
The canaries in the coal mine keep dying and we still can’t collectively muster sufficient political will to change things top down. Change is slowly coming from the bottom up. Whether it will be sufficient to forestall the worst impacts is a pretty big gamble.
Unfortunately the web seems to be moving away from a progressive enhancement world.

Momentum seems to be with whatever is easiest. JavaScript frameworks, analytics companies, and ad companies would probably all have to make progressive enhancement the default way for that to change.
“The IRC that uses blockchain” should be a unicorn by next week.
Is this essentially this again?

https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/

They appear to have slowed down in the frequency of test rounds though.
The real-time scanning slows down processes that access a large number of files, like code compiles in general and importing node modules in particular.
There is a reason. Google gives it preferential treatment.

That’s not a reason that matters to me at all.
Just curious, considering that you seem to work there:

What does sf.net have to offer that github (or gitlab which is the "open source not-github github", or bitbucket) doesn't?
No struggle at all: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/09/26/4950747...
Trehalose is a natural sugar with two glucose, similar to maltose but with different linkage. Some people who have fructose metabolism issues like it for that reason. It doesn't seem to be too widely available on its own, but Swanson Vitamins sells it in small containers and it tastes great IMO. Rice syrup is mostly maltose.

All c. difficle can metabolize trehalose, but the two strains in question have different adaptations that allow them to metabolize it when present in lower quantities.

If this is confirmed, I'm guessing that the implication is less about avoiding trehalose normally but avoiding larger quantities when taking antibiotics. Maybe people on anbitiotics will also be given trehalase enzymes to take with meals. In general, taking a wide varity of digestive enzymes and avoiding prebiotics and excess sugar when on antibiotics might be a good idea to limit the energy available to resistant bacteria in the colon (or maybe not, it looks like there is some evidence that taking some forms of sugar with antibiotics improves the effectiveness of the antibiotics in some cases).

It is a seperate consideration if this is contributing to the overall increase of c. difficle or if it is just determining which strains are more common.

Expect to see a lot more "food X causes undesirable microbiome effect Y" research in the future as more of this kind of research takes place.
Yeah, the distinction between a symbiont and a parasite is mostly of degree, not kind, and AV software these days is increasingly being found on the blurry line between the two.
It was intended as a parody but it is as legit a cryptocoin as any other, right?
https://persuademepolitics.com/2016/03/23/now-the-most-peace...
I had never once used Slack until I started my current job in August 2017. I am now in a total of 3 Slack.. "organizations"? "Servers"?

Anyway, this is at least the 7th or 8th time Slack has been totally or partially down during working hours.

This is very, very far from "rare outages".
Happy to see patchwork and secure-scuttlebutt mentioned. These apps and the people behind them are, in my opinion, looking at decentralization in the most complete way from an application standpoint.

Now if we can combine these apps with routerless ad hoc or mesh networks, that would be a very good start towards an unstoppable communication platform.
I think the State is more concerned about rental prices than transportation at the moment.
Maybe I'm being too cynical, but I would suggest removing, or at least adding 'nofollow', to all the personal hyperlinks at the bottom of the letter to make it look less like SEO spam.

It devalues the letter, in my opinion, because I see them as people signing the letter for the sole purpose of promoting themselves.

But like I said...maybe I'm being too cynical.
The Stress of Remote Working
Wait, why should critical systems be self-hosted? Isn't this one of the problems "the cloud" solves for?
No clue, really. Maybe it's just me and my browsing preferences/patterns - but their stuff quite rarely shows up on uMatrix switchboard, and given that it has block-by-default policy I sort of visit its button quite frequently. On the contrary, I see Google domains a lot, like on every other resource (if not worse).

I really always thought it's monopoly - just Google. With some small or local vendors (e.g. Yandex ads are huge on Russian-language resources) here and there, but mostly just Google.
The timing is suspect? When we're suspicious a friend or relative was murdered, do not most people bring it up right away with the police? Are murder investigations not routinely started before the body is even moved?

Mourning is important, and I'm sorry if you and others knew James personally. I did not. But I maintain suspicion here is warranted, and personally, I think we do James and Aaron and any other front line activists in the current battle for our civil liberties a great disservice if we do not heed our suspicions in the events of their deaths.

As to the issues with mental health, yes, that is, indeed, a real issue and another possible explanation.

[As an aside, your choice of Alan Turing as an example of mental health issues is an extremely poor one. Turing was driven to suicide after being hounded by the government for decades -- and even forcibly sterilized against his will -- for his sexuality. In his case it wasn't conspiracy so much as open persecution. Although, he was deeply involved in a what was highly classified work at the time and it's possible there are events in his life that have yet to be declassified.]

Right now, we do not have much evidence to work from either way. So mental illness and conspiracy are equally possibilities. A combination of the two is also a possibility.

So it makes sense to keep an open mind and remain suspicious. If you need time to mourn, then take it. But do not denigrate those who would honor those fighting for all of us by making sure that there isn't more to the story.
Microsoft has always wanted to sell you software licenses (Windows, Office, et al) and now software subscriptions/leases (Office 365 and Azure), their business model maybe boring and old school but it's certainly not a mystery[1].

[1] Bing's also ran version of search advertising being a minor blip of an exception.
So if you edit the Kernel on your version of Ubuntu, then Canonical should be held responsible?

That seems like a crazy thought process. You're running software that modifies Window's internal functionality. The vendor knows it's unsupported. How can you blame the company who just made the platform you compromised?

Might as well set your root password to "password" and open it to the public then complain that the security is bad.
That sounds extremely dystopian. And since blockchain transactions are irreversible, it means the government can just permanently delete you.
Probably depends on the home. I don't think it would add $35k worth of value over the other installation to a home (especially for a typical $200k home). Also, who cares about property value? If you're selling anytime soon after installing either system, you're going to be taking a significant loss because I doubt you'll make it back in added property value. Especially for the Tesla system. Hard to justify to folks, "Yeah, my otherwise standard $200k home has a fancy $57k roof."

Maybe for the bay area where homes are often over $2mm and the desire for such a roof is plausibly high.
I think the worst part of any depressive phase is that it makes you feel you are the only one deep down this hole. Everyone around you has a perfect life. Every stranger on the bus seems to be happy.

But the truth is you are not looking hard enough. There is more depression (medical or not) than we think and like to admit. Most likely all the people around you have a reason to be depressed one way or the other. You are not the only one who fell into a hole. Some people have financial trouble, others have sick parents. Look hard enough and you will see you are not the only one.

But you might still think that all these people look happy! You need to remember that you only see another person but you can't feel their feelings and read their thoughts. If you met yourself would you really be able to tell that you are depressed? I doubt it. We learned to cover it up.

So my tip to you and everyone is to understand that being in a hole is ok and you are not as alone as you might think.
Weird, my parent comment too (at the moment). What point are the down voters trying to make?
What about solar panels on the roof of a 30 foot RV?

To power computer microwave and water heater only.
A sunrise provision, where new transit doesn’t cause a community to be deemed “transit rich” for N years would be smart, however. We don’t want to grind transit construction to a halt statewide in order to solve our housing problem.
> This sounds a lot like ripple:

It's way more like Certificate Transparency than Ripple. Chronicle has nothing to do with payments or currency. It's just a ledger.
Nebraska Proposes to Reinstate Net Neutrality
This is not an argument really. Why then not to ask for free data packages and free smartphones? People can afford an iPhone/Android smartphone which are required t use those services but not the service itself?

That sounds strange for me, it like buying a Bentley and complaining that insurance is too expensive.
I agree with you and admit I like seeing the arguments behind why a product or corporate entity may appear safer... how much of that decision is a byproduct of advertising and/or brand loyalty?
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As the article says, the bill, as is, is too radical to pass. But I'd wager that's intentional. Knowing that negotiation will have to happen in order to get the bill passed, he proposed something extreme, so it would still be close to what he actually wanted when all was said and done.

Or maybe I'm reading into it too much.
What is crystal? And where are Java & C++? Also, who the hell writes web frameworks in Objective-C?

Also... does anyone notice that this test shows that the web framework hosted under the same github account is the fastest.

edit: re: "What is crystal?"

https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal ... I will say, I'm intrigued. I do love ruby, but unfortunately also hate dynamic typing. Crystal seems interesting.
> Developers need to rely on trusted third party data providers, called oracles

It's ironic that they mention Augur by name in the article, but are apparently unaware its main innovation is the decentralized oracle that just so happens to have a prediction market built on top of it.

> I feel like this is more of a feature than a bug.

That is indeed 100% by design. All smart contract code in Ethereum has to be deterministic to guarantee computational consensus, and of course this can only be done by having a closed EVM.
You aren't honoring them. You're using them to create an exciting narrative to break up the monotony of your day. The fact that you don't have enough information to distinguish between possibilities doesn't mean the family doesn't. You aren't entitled to that information and may never get it.
If inhabitants of non-transit areas refuse transit improvements (and transit money), then the transit improvements and associated state money will go to the already labeled transit areas. Everybody's happy.

Why try to convince people to take money if they don't want it?

Edit: People usually ask for everything: landlords of non-transit areas may ask for transit improvements, as well as to keep zoning regulations, as well as to keep their property price at current levels. Hopefully they won't get all three!
Why? I looked at the code, it doesn't really do anything with the request, shouldn't be blocking any threads or anything.
Starting February 1st they'll be blocking AMP doorway pages.

https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2017/11/engaging-users-thr...
To me "trust" is an absolute thing; it comes in degrees, but the anchor is absolute, and in you. "rather trust" in contrast is relative and something entirely different. Yeah, sometimes we have to bite bullets or choose poisons, but I'd still set apart from things I really like and want to see prosper in the world.

For me, not collecting data warrants trust, not whatever mental gymnastics involving "collecting data, but". If that data is vital for companies or applications beyond a certain scale, then I don't trust companies or applications beyond a certain scale, and would prefer to see them all pruned by consumers using their brains to vote with their wallets. Some behemoths so desperately want a world in which they're vital, to me that's a world doomed to die in important ways. That's not aimed at Apple, but among tech companies, they don't even make my list of considerations for top N thousand I like or trust. Not to mention companies and organizations in general.

But more importantly it's not like I have to chose whom of a bunch of shady fucks I trust most. If I don't trust any of them, that's fine with me, too.

As for business, I like the people at my local bakery. I trust them with bread, I guess, and I know when they smile they mean it. Those people have stature to me, and the bigger a company is, the more pervasive marketing is in it, the more it resembles a lot of tiny people playing big person. I don't trust that, and I laugh when those then put out marketing to make themselves seem 0.1% as cool as random individual people are to me, to whom the thought of being cool doesn't even occur. True, Apple might be less of a POS than its direct siblings, but that's still a rounding error in the grand scheme of things. I'd say we'll outright settle for one or several of them and the precedents they set at our own peril.

Sorry for the rant, please don't take this as some sort of violent disagreement with you, I was really just ranting. But it does sicken me how far we fell.
I can think of one scenario where being public and 100.0% reliable has meaning.

The scenario where accountants and human intervention are the thing you want to be rid of.

Financial transactions. Before someone just points out those are just more tokens and that we're all betting on their value, etc., etc., I'm deliberately skipping the meta-argument.

The point is that finance systems do exist, already, and adding a trusted distributed transaction ledger does add value.
Is the term "framework" really the best descriptor for this type of chunks of code?
in my opinion, no, there are a lot of perfectly usable GUI IRC clients. technical teams can use irssi from the command line.
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I can't speak for SF, but in my area, I believe that availability of transit raises property values. So being opposed to transit improvements in your neighborhood means being opposed to increasing the value of your property. That's not a position likely to attract a majority of property owners.
To be fair, the post is not clear in whether Dell is supplying the storage as well. NOAA may be adding SAN storage from a place like DDN.
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How the DDOS problem is solved there?
There's MS Excel (and office) for Mac and Wine supports Office 2013. The situation is getting better every year.
Why Towering Cranes Are Dallas’ Most Beautiful Sight
Bingo. Most cryptocurrencies/contracts/anything in the field/realm -- they don't attack the problem of "person" vs address/wallet/account. ChainLink might think they are clever but like you said..when accounts in your network are free, then don't expect any kind of consensus to work. Accounts or rather, more abstractly, entry into your network -- needs to cost something that can't be easily done to gain majority. Another way to attack the issue is to do antes..so accounts dont cost anything unless the account holder is caught doing something bad -- ie. every entry requires a refundable collateral.
There's a penalty payment that each node puts up into escrow for each assignment of data, and if the data is not accurate in relation to all the other providers of that same data, the node will lose the payment.

There will also likely be a small amount fo LINK required to start a node with enough reputation to gain assignments which would also increase the cost of a Sybil attack.
They're taken from this clickbaity thing: https://www.celebritynetworth.com/articles/entertainment-art...
it's a drop in replacement for stympy/faker, but not joke2k faker

joke2k/faker is python and the data is stored in code (all or most of the random values are in .py files around the codebase), perhaps leading to its slowness.

stympy/faker is ruby and its random values are in yaml files, with some fields defined as ruby functions (those are not supported by plait.py).

can use 'plait -l' and 'plait -ll name' and 'plait -ll name.name' (more info in the README) to get a list of fake fields available.
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> Nobody forced you to use it

Javascript is one of the very few languages that people are actually forced to use.
Julian Assange's stay in London embassy untenable, says Ecuador
Wanted to chime in and say the same thing, so thank you. It really irks me when people with little to no theological or historical background pretend to understand religious texts.
> 2. Don't post pictures of your kid all the time on social media. No one really cares. Sorry. Send those pictures to your parents or friends directly.

For many people, social media is how you send things to parents and friends. It's more straightforward than managing an email list, and needn't be any less real a connection.

I don't deny that ubiquitous social media is deforming our interactions, but I think a lot of people don't understand why Facebook et al got so popular in the first place. It's not just email for idiots. It's a tremendously useful tool for maintaining connections with a large and changing group.
Are There More Mass Shootings Than Ever Before?
Thing is, those awful, intrusive ads pay more money than AMP pages do. So I wouldn't assume that other publishers will appear, or that authors will be able to make enough to continue writing.

How many publications do you subscribe to?
> I don't know what you think a Disney story is, but all of Disney's major works are based on existing folk stories and other works already in the public domain.

False. Here's some of their animated features based on copyrighted works (as best as I can tell):

Dumbo

Bambi

Peter Pan

Lady and the Tramp

One Hundred and One Dalmatians

The Sword in the Stone

The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

The Rescuers

The Fox and the Hound

The Black Cauldron

The Great Mouse Detective

Treasure Planet (partially based on the 1987 TV miniseries Treasure Island in Outer Space)

Meet the Robinsons

The Princess and the Frog

Big Hero 6

(I'm using the list in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Walt_Disney_Animation_..., and picking out the “based on” or ”inspired by” credits that look recent enough.)
I'm pretty sure they'd just eminent domain it at that point, and then the whole plan backfires.