skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Clojure being a lisp also has different enough syntax it is easier to jump back and forth because you're doing way more context switching. Lua looks enough like other c-style languages you can forget it is 1 based and make all sorts of nasty mistakes.

You can certainly argue it is unfair, but it is still something that increases the risk of mistakes.
I don't want to touch the flamebaity aspect of this but the word 'dick' was too harsh and not one I usually use in moderation comments. I changed it to the slightly more modulated 'jerk'.
Makefiles address that.

make html pdf

This one has many OSXisms & wants some homebrew bits, but may give you a starting point:

https://pastebin.com/raw/H43MKTCq

Referenced utility script:

https://pastebin.com/raw/J6quT7Mj
Because I have not settled yet, what feed/RSS reader do you use
Try implementing an xml parser sometime. The encoding and entity parsing alone is so complicated it’s brain melting. Compare that to the JSON spec and then ask why the world has decided JSON is the better format for casual object graph encoding. Not sure I could make the same argument about YAML though.
You might consider that Switzerland is probably the most democratic country on earth and "legitimate authority" quite directly means "the will of the people". If it wouldn't, they could easily change it as everybody can submit a law change suggestion (sorry, I don't know the correct term) and with enough inital support everyone can vote on the issue. They vote on far-ranging things several times a year, there can be no tyranny in this context.
You retain more when you read a book than listen to audio.
That explains some things. I always thought it was just some badly designed attempt to prevent comment spam where someone just posts a whole bunch of newlines.
In writing you call those "weasel words":

"words and phrases aimed at creating an impression that a specific or meaningful statement has been made"

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

Essentially, if you were being honest, you would just say on topic is whatever we decided it is, since the intentional ambiguity basically comes down to that.
> Hope it helps.

Not really, listing 50 books without any explanation is as good as listing none. A reader is none the wiser.
But what if technology has deliberately attempted to undermine your discipline?
That "Google products" link doesn't show a single Google product.
You can manipulate everything in blender via python.
> Olympics cater to the masses for support.

The London 2012 games cost £9.3 billion all-in. The sale of tickets to the masses raised £0.659 billion and TV rights another £0.350 billion.

I think at this point the Olympics are a media-corporate-government juggernaut that continues through its own momentum, not mass support.
LaTeX equation syntax is a gateway drug to heavier typesetting systems. I also started out at maths pastebins when wanting to explain things to others in a readable way.
You can read it. It compiles without so much as a warning. You can even run it right from the command line.

But what the hell does it do?
I worry more about measures that may be taken by platforms to prevent using pseudonyms (Facebook is a big enemy on this respect) in the mistaken belief that real names (or "authentic names", as Facebook calls it) would make people interact in ways that don't cause harm. Add to this making surveillance a de facto experience of having an online presence and humanity (as we know it) would be doomed.
> In a very real way, to lose old styles of reading is to lose a part of ourselves.
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But neat irony aside, I suppose he does have a point. My reading skills and general focusing is on the mend again after I ditched almost all social media and most of the general newsstream.
Can you please stop posting these tedious harangues? You've been doing it a lot, and it's off topic. Since you started doing it after we chided you for breaking the site guidelines, it also seems a bit petty.
I wonder when it's going to happen.
Well, I do agree, we are actually forgetting to read, especially in this age when you're getting a30sec video of any incidents.
Jason Gregory's "Game Engine Architecture" is very well written, and you can actually read it cover to cover. Highly recommended.

https://www.amazon.com/Engine-Architecture-Second-Jason-Greg...
Receiving a Telugu character causes CoreText to crash iOS
Overcoming screen addiction in children
The Swiss probably don't cook much live lobster or crayfish anyway, so chilling the live crustacean hasn't occured to the lawmakers. Yes, it's way easier than electrocuting, so thank you for sharing.
Rene Ritchie is very biased. He has to be as his livelihood depends on Apple.

No, he quoted Sinofsky because he’s one of the few people in the world who understands what it’s like trying to operate at this scale, since he was at Microsoft during it’s heyday.

Corner cases that affect only .01 percent of the installed bases aren’t a big deal when you’re operating at a few million; it’s entirely different when it’s more than a billion devices.
Consider that parody is part of intellectual curiosity.
> objectively, quite good journalism

Eh.. I dunno. I've watched, and will continue to watch, every episode of Last Week Tonight, however, I don't consider it "objectively good" journalism at all. I enjoy it as a silly, biased take on current events from a funny guy.

The "Amnesia effect" applies equally well to Oliver:

>“Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them.
In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.”
> Personally, I think refraining from consuming animals is the morally superior option—nothing to do with health.

Personally, I can see zero moral difference between killing an animal for food, and killing a plant for food. If one is unacceptable, then so should be the other.
I would certainly like a world where the ease of producing a Debian package approaches that of publishing a library in one of the high-level interpreted languages. How likely is that to happen, and what's the best way to package stuff for Debian right now?
My counterpoint to this comment is that progressive candidates will hold a majority in the Senate and possibly the House in 2018 midterms, and you will see a progressive president elected in 2020.

I agree apathy and corruption contributed heavily to a Trump presidency, but I’m confident politics will swing back over the next 3-4 years.

Trump is phenomenal for the progressive movement, far better than Clinton would’ve been. People are less apathetic now, and they will outvote conservatives (IMHO).
"The error we are talking about presents an Indian character that, if received or simply pasted in a text field, can lead to crashes of applications or the entire operating system.

To be precise it is a character of the Telugu language , a Central-Southern Dravidian language spoken in India by about 70 million people."

" the Telugu text bomb when sent to an Apple device causes a malfunction in the CoreText, which is a library of software routines to help apps display text on screens.

The malfunction then causes CoreText to access memory that is invalid, which forces the operating system to force shut down any affected application or even the SpringBoard – a core part of the iOS – if the character finds its way to the notifications screen."

"When converting the Telugu character to HTML entities, it is broken up into 5 different unicode characters.

However, one of those characters is &#8204: a zero-width non-joiner. This is the cause of the crash."

Telugu Script :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telugu_script
What makes you think there is anything there to appreciate?

As best as I can tell it's just random sounds and words. It was probably fun to write, but there's no reason to try to read it.

You've never heard kids making sound just for fun? To hear the sound of their own voice? It's lots of fun to do, and even join in, but there's nothing there to actually try to study.

I read those laudatory praises people have for it, and it's very obvious they are just trying to make themselves seem important and "in the know", when actually it's just nonsense. The Emperor has no clothes. Have we learned nothing from that fable?
> "then it dies within seconds,” he said.

Perhaps worth keeping in mind that smaller animals tend to run at a faster "clock speed". Seconds might feel rather longer to them. (E.g. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/small-animals-liv... though that's about vertebrates.)
Thanks for the explanation. My misunderstanding.
I've taken a macro course and am more or less using those formulas (and translating them into basic examples in the grandparent). Present value only does so much lifting though, as my scope is a lot wider. Life is more complicated than that. You can't forget about different taxation treatment when comparing Roth/Traditional savings, savings outside of retirement accounts when applicable, etc.

Excel also acts as a wrapper to allow for me to change my annual budget easily, my expected salary over time, expected inflation, etc and see the results. I'm not reinventing the wheel here, just making my own instance of the wheel. But the point remains: it's a heck of a lot more complex than this calculator.

One of my "ideas to do if I had time" it to take that and make it into a "simpler" service that could actually be useful to people. I know most retirement helper companies try to do this but wow are they bad in my experience. The problem they are fighting of course is balancing the simplicity with the customization though, which I suspect is the crux. Still, to whoever finds that solution first, a pot of gold will follow.
Windows 200AD :)
That's why. Because animals like yours suffer as adult cats when they're poorly socialised as kittens.
It doesn't stop everyone but it does stop me and most of my friends
I hope your prediction comes true. my point, though, was that arguing that Clinton lost because she was too conservative runs counter to the fact that someone way more conservative beat her.

Really, I think this counters the "Trump won because people are suffering economically" narrative, too. If you are suffering economically, it doesn't make sense to vote for someone who is out to tear down what safety nets we have.
>Assuming you could stand Wave’s interface, it’d still be useless unless the people you wanted to communicate and collaborate with were also using it. Wave was intended to completely replace existing systems like email and chat, so it had no provisions for interoperating with those systems. To succeed, Wave required a revolution, a critical mass of people switching to the new way and dragging the rest of the world with them—and those haven’t worked out very often.

Back in the day, when I realized there was no backward-interop with email, I was afraid it wasn't going to go very far... network effect is hard to tame.
GreenMail – Email Test Framework in Java
Okay, so vote against this if someone proposes it where you live. I don't really see why anyone needs to read your unjustified personal philosophy in this comment section. You just state these things as views without justifying them. Why is it unjustified? What set of principles justifies state action? Why is that set of principles the right set of principles to use?

Since when is it controversial for the state to compel people to act in a moral manner?
I comment about smartphones all the time, including at the top of this thread. :)
In fact, the opposite might be more true - kids growing up these days with worse attention spans than the previous generation
Given that Mesoamerica lacked draft animals, tropical soils tend to be poor quality, and the various cultures were probably at or around the carrying capacity of the environment, human poop was likely too valuable as fertilizer to be wasted on your drinking supply.
I'm not sure... I think you raise a good point, and I would have the same thing as you before I started writing
in Org and exporting to LaTeX, instead of a) writing in LaTeX directly, or b) drafting/outlining in Org and rewriting the final copy in LaTeX. Now I think exporting from Org is so much easier.
I wonder if heavy use of XML stunted it.
Udemy’s copyright usage terms and reporting requirements are in compliance with DMCA safe harbor provisions (specifically Section 512, including “notice and takedown” procedures) thereby limiting their liability to copyright claims.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/512

Disclaimer: Not a lawyer. Not your lawyer.
I agree that we should pay more attention to people that are suffering.

But I think the rationale of such laws is somewhat valid. Can you imagine a person who is totally emotionless when torturing an animal but is also very compassionate towards human beings?

I think in some ways human ethics and animal ethics are connected.

Though if you ask me whether Switzerland has gone too far, I'm still hesitant about yes/no.
If you notice people doing that you should flag the comments. How to do this is in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html.
Please link to the benchmarks that show safari to be slower than Firefox. If an app developer choos s to stop supporting older iOS, that is something Apple has no control over.
You are fundamentally at odds with what Apple provides. You have the freedom to choose android and lineagos and maintain all that yourself. If that works better, Good for you and no need to depend on Apple.
I love LetsEncrypt - the only problem I've hit is the rate limits (in particular 20 new certificates per registered domain per week, when moving domains). I guess I could have avoided this by combining names into a single certificate, but I wonder why there's not an option to pay/donate to bump the limit temporarily: when I hit the limit I would gladly pay $50 or $100 instead of going through the manual process with a legacy CA. Even though wildcard certs will make this better, the fear of accidentally hitting a limit and being unable to renew certificates remains a concern for me.
Ace is fantastic. Every Ace comes with an ambiguously old guy who knows everything about whatever project you're doing and can advise you about the tools you'll need, potential pitfalls,etc.

I always go to Ace first because of that guy. It's one trip to Ace vs the two+ trips to Lowe's when I'm doing something new.

Amazon can sell the parts cheaper, but the knowhow they can't provide is invaluable.
Correct. Since we all share one planet it's worthless for half of us to be carbon neutral.
No. Our intelligence and capacity for empathy obliges us to rise above the level of primitive instincts.

Seeing as rape and incest exists in the natural world, by your argument should it also be considered fair game for humans?
Right, if we can kill it within 30 seconds, that eliminates a lot of unnecessary torture compared to a natural death. But then if 30 seconds is the new normal, then it becomes outrageous again, and killing it in 10 seconds is now eliminating unnecessary torture, right? But then that becomes the new norm and we shave another second off? Do we end up disputing the transmission of pulses down their nervous systems and interrupting them before they're perceived, just to prepare food that's already acceptable to eat?
It is the literary equivalent of nerd sniping with a grid array of infinite resistors. Take it as such, and it can be enjoyable to dip your toes in here and there. Expect a train of thought longer than a few cars long and you will be disappointed. But individual elements occasionally delight.
I've occasionally sent emails to a friend of mine who passed... despite getting bounce backs.
Google Docs has chat on the side and version history, along with live editing. What is it missing that you'd want?
> So we recoil at killing animals, because pets are like family, and most of our experience with animals are with pets. Thus, we see animals as much more human than our ancestors.

This also heavily depends on how human-like we perceive the animals, both in their behaviors and appearance. Most people would be horrified at seeing a dog slaughtered, but have no problem genociding away the fleas, ticks, and worms living with it.
What you're missing from this observation is that exercise doesn't extend one's lifetime that much, but just improves the general quality of life, meaning that 80-year olds that are/were active in moderation now enjoy a bit better QOL [1].

[1] https://academic.oup.com/biomedgerontology/article/56/suppl_...
This is really awesome. I'm learning German, and I can see a real use-case for this for me. I'll give it a try and come back with feedback!
Also, nobody is harder on Apple than the people who know the company best. He’d lose credibility if he pretended everything was all rainbows and unicorns when they clearly are not. He clearly cites how unacceptable some of these bugs are—that’s not being biased.

Like Ritchie, I go back to the days of when the Macintosh Operating System shipped on floppies and didn’t have pre-emptive multitasking or memory protection—everything ran in the same memory space. The entire system would crash pretty regularly due to INIT (system extensions) conflicts, for example.

I can count on one hand the number of times my Mac has kernel panicked over the last few years and I regularly run beta versions of macOS.
I ran OS X under vmware for some time.
It worked well on my box.

However, I failed to find any Mac applications that were sufficiently compelling.

So I ended up deleting the OS X disk image.
It was far better in the UK before the massive deregulation of gambling. It has gone much too far.

Our poorest areas have high streets with 4 or 5 betting shops in spitting distance of each other. Addiction and problem gambling has snowballed out of hand. The self exclusion scheme is widely abused by bookmakers. The levy on betting shops pays lip service to the damage done. Fixed odds betting machines are a licence to addict the public whilst printing money.

I don't wish to abolish gambling, but I sure wish the regulations simply returned to those of the 80s or early 90s (i.e. before Tony Blair broke it).
You're misunderstanding this. The issue is with regard to what constitutes legitimate authority. It's because the government has a monopoly on violence. The time to leash that is when it oversteps its legitimate authority. Not wait until something awful happens when they're locking up communists, reading your email, or killing minorities.
It's something that has been done to death in painting and music composition. It was inevitable that someone would attempt it with literature, and that someone else would praise it.
It’s not about not being able to port it; it’s not the right tool for the job. ZFS is a file system designed for servers; the Apple Watch, Apple TV and the iPhone and iPad aren’t servers.
Was Lua ever in competition with Python? Lua was for embedded systems and integrated as a scripting platform for other products. That's a vastly different market and design purpose than a general-purpose scripting language like Python. What has Python actual won over Lua that any other language hasn't won?

I'm actually surprised JavaScript hasn't surpassed Lua for the kind of things Lua is designed for -- but Lua seems to hold on and people aren't generally embedding JavaScript as the scripting language for other programs.
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>They released sample implementations under open source licenses, encouraged others to run their own Wave servers independent of Google infrastructure, and defined a federation protocol (on top of Jabber/XMPP) so that people on different servers could still talk with each other.

With the caveat that this was of course several years ago, I seem to recall the reference implementation missing several major features. Private replies were notably absent.

It was all properly specced out, but the only available server software was incomplete - at least, it was when I tried running it.
That's your perspective, but consider what was also said about the Women's rights movement in Victorian times: "Give them the right to own property? What next? The right to vote?!".

Some considered those laws equally absurd.
All modern hardware has this feature and I am unaware of apple hardware being significantly safer in this respect.

It was notable that this design decision because other modern fs refs,btrfs,zfs do feature additional integrity checks.

I guess the question would be if you suspect that Apple which is famous for marketing and ui are just smarter than the man centuries Microsoft, Oracle, Sun, have poured into filesystem research or if perhaps this is just a bad design decision.
Python and NodeJS both beat Lua because they were scripting languages involved with web servers and web clients, and the massive influence of the web on the job market meant that everybody was going to want to learn Python (and Javascript) and then try to apply it blindly to everything.

It doesn't matter if either language might not be competitive with Lua or any other language in terms of design / features.
"Convict food" in penal Australia.
Is this true? I have never heard of any limb falling asleep. They may sleep, but the falling into sounds strange to my ears.

My native Danish is possibly fooling my perception. My leg can sleep ('sove'), but no way it could falde i søvn (the exact same construct as fall asleep).

The sleep part refers to the sensation of numbness. The tingling wake-up part seems to be associated with ants in large parts of the world. But not here. That would simply be tingling or prickling or some such thing.
They weren't flying in a remote area. It was a small island with a big residential development.
This is Switzerland, if we Swiss had a problem with these laws or considered them "totalitarian" we could overturn them via a referendum.
You're not holding much water to be honest. Pick one:
a) animals are incapable of suffering
b) we shouldn't care if animals suffer
c) we should care and pass laws
I also use arch.
That reminds me, pandoc offers compilation of latex fragments inside markdown source when exporting to pdf, which is how I typeset almost all of my math.

This is of course not even close to the same thing as official support would be, but it's good to have in a pinch, so you can typeset some math without having to bust out a latex toolchain you might not have used for a long time.

PS: pandoc offers a command-line flag to set the latex engine, which means you can use XeTeX or LuaTeX for better unicode support.
As a practical matter, you should hesitate to kill spiders (unless you live somewhere they are poisonous)

Households spiders eat all manner of pests! I leave mine alive, and almost never have insect trouble.
What about security updates to your dependencies in your containers?
Persona's (MySQL/DB related) occasionally.