skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it’s one of those things that’s difficult to understand until you actually have them. I don’t think I could have conceived of the joy and happiness I would experience having a child before actually having them.

I’ve got a 9 mo old, and planning to have a couple more. It’s a hard to explain feeling of fulfillment and completeness, except one where I didn’t realize something was missing until I actually had them. That said I look back to the time when it was just me and my wife and really enjoy those memories too, but those have their place, time and duration and when you have kids you realize that they are something with their own relish that you can enjoy too.

I’m also somewhat superstitious/quasi hippy so I believe kids bring their own karma and destiny into the worlds, which, when interacting with your own life can change it for the better or worse. Not necessarily a reason to have them per se but an observation nonetheless.

Overall it’s been an amazing experience. I love coming home to see my little guy, and make him smile which makes me smile in turn. They are amazing little AI machines. And you can’t help thinking And helping them become whatever they are meant to become in their fullest actualization.
Additionally, trying to do something like this and expecting the infamous stats geeks that follow baseball not to notice seems very short-sighted.
> Amazon's search is essentially saying this = Chromecast.

Are you familiar with Amazon's search? Most searches have items in the completely wrong category on the first page. It being wrong is expected, not evidence of fakery.
The argument of the net gain is flawed. A hallmark of modern, free societies is that it's exactly not one for all, but the right and freedom of the individuum.
To a very simple approximation, heating air expands it. If you control the shape of the space around it, you can expand it more in one direction than the other. That generates thrust. This is the idea behind ramjets.

Meanwhile, nuclear reactors are hot, and this can be used to heat up air.
Photosynthetic plants without roots.

Conscious Venus Flytraps that seek after other plants to enhance their vitamins.
I've noticed that a lot of the "all-in-one" tablets omit a rinse aid. Buying tablets that specifically include a rinse aid has helped tremendously.
US may have nearly 50 ground based interceptors now. How well they work against chinese ICBMs is anyone's guess. But if you have a design and manufacturing process taht works, it wouldn't take long to churn out 500.

Even 50 is a serious threat to China. If the US and China suddenly spiral into major direct war, China is vulnerable to a US first strike. A first strike against their ICBMs (but not cities) that is 50% successful would leave China with a fairly small second strike capability. Leaving China with the choice of trying to nuke the biggest 30 cities in America, knowing the US might shoot down half, or holding them in reserve. And if the try to nuke US cities the US would probably retaliate with 2,000 weapons.
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Whilst discussing this with friends there was a feeling that MI5 certainly need some sort of 'special powers'. I don't see why those special powers should not be in the Act itself and agreed before parliament. For instance the 'Snoopers Charter' grants amazing powers to the security services, but parliament did agree it.

When the executive still feel the need to break the law in order to operate, it gives one a clear picture of their attitude to the rule of law
Linux could really use a "It just works" solution for desktop apps.

I think its significantly holding back desktop and laptop adoption. Besides all the distros and multiple desktop environments, all these permutations seems like its holding back applications. I use a cluster compute environment but my client is a mac. If apple can make a "unix" that runs applications well, why can't linux. (I can't code it but I would buy it)

I don't want a separate vm or container for each app I run.
Sure, and if the private system in the US tells you to home because you're not covered, you're just as stuffed. e.g. https://www.snopes.com/shane-patrick-boyle-died-after-starti...

This is not to say that the NHS could not be better, but its problems would generally be made worse not better by introducing market or pseudo-market mechanisms. Unless universality can be guaranteed.
Out of all the responses here, you'd be first to market/go-live long before the others. Like you said, see what sticks, what people want, what they'll pay, and then decide what to build and how. I have no shame in using Wordpress + mySQL + a some quick jQuery.
The English translation of the french phrase seems fine to me. So there isn't a need to be able to learn to read French in order to express that thought, since it can be done in English. Or is the English translation missing something important?
Blogs are already convenient to access anywhere, anytime and in a timely manner. Its called RSS.

Not sure how $5/month would improve on that.
the strang lectures on LA, any decent calculus book (khan academy or something maybe too) and then i would jump into ISLR and the karpathy Stanford lectures on DL, the rest you learn as you go adhoc.
Yes, you could get a reasonable idea what people were plotting on our Benson(s) from the sound. Many yards of spectra we plotted, even before Versatec matrix plotters came along.

When we got an A4 flatbed plotter (early-ish 80s), I remember using it to produce the first computer-generated overhead slides anyone in the group had seen, but it was also useful in reverse for digitizing plots from papers by moving the pen and recording points.
Last week I looked at a couple of hosted data services whose free tier didn’t give access to a query log. This is pretty common for hobbyist projects.

This means this logging has to be implemented at the app layer.

The developer has to pay for log retention, which doesn’t come for free with several of the hobbyist-level hosting services that I’m familiar with.

I agree with your general point that there’s no significant technical challenges, at least for even a minimal dev team or a practitioner with time to put into this.

Maybe hobbyists shouldn’t be handling this data in the first place, or maybe this is an opportunity for GDPR-complaint SaaS to help them do so safely.
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Yes, that's basically it — they couldn't get reliable cast support to receive on the FireTV, and they couldn't reliably send from the Kindles due to Google's protocol changes.

And that was already after Google's anticompetitive actions against the Kindle Fire devices.
There are some new methods of linux software distribution comming out, such as Snap packages and AppImages which fix the problem of library incompatibility.
I use AFL (American Fuzzy Lop) on TXR from time to time.

And, guess what, there was also a problem with nested backquotes. Backquote is spelled ^ (caret) in TXR Lisp, so the cases that were triggering the degenerate behavior had ^^^^^^^ rather than ```````...

http://www.kylheku.com/cgit/txr/commit/?id=ab98634ea89927220...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rc9gwPB78lk
To summarize the article: you must eat, sleep, and shit code, and tell the whole world about it all the time in order to prove that you're "passionate" about programming.

Yeah, you can do that, if you legitimately want to. Or you can have a life away from the computer and go outside once in a while. So here's some different advice.

DO:
Be good at your craft. Be able to go into an interview and discuss architecture or algorithms or whatever it is that you're interviewing for with the people you're going to be working with. Be able to talk about your thought process, so that even if maybe you don't remember the exact syntax of some API call or command-line utility, you can explain to the interviewer what you're thinking and why.

DON'T:
Don't for a minute believe that you must be "passionate" about programming in order to enjoy it or to be good at it. Don't forget that you and your employer are engaged in a business relationship, and nothing more. Don't romanticize your job or define your self-worth by the fact that you work for FaceAppleGoogSnapZonFlix (or that you don't).

And don't work your ass to the bone chasing someone else's big idea.
> I don't think it really makes sense to call the way side effects happen in Haskell "lazy".

I didn't actually say this. I was suggesting a lazy chain of IO actions for such problems. For example, ListT a IO, instead of a regular lazy list with hidden side-effects. The Haskell types help make the distinction clear.

> Instead, your program returns a pure structure which describes how side effects should be executed

Yes exactly, the pure structure can still be computed lazily on demand, providing IO actions.

My favourite Hackage streaming library for Haskell is "streaming" and it can work exactly this way.
Just open the link in a private browsing tab (called different things in different browsers).
Google's CardDAV server isn't standards compliant (2014) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16412730

I'm not surprised.
I suspect, subconsciously, it’s the closest thing we have to immortality. If I have kids and foster a good relationship, I might be remembered after my demise.
I disagree. The major nuclear powers won't instigate nuclear war of that sort unless their territorial integrity is threatened. That will remain the pull-back point no matter the conflict.

The technological leap that I'd expect, will begin to accelerate as the tension between large nations builds over the next decade. It's clear there will be a big competition between the powers in the form of an AI race for example (already underway), and it won't stop there. There's a very large gap between Cold War style conflicts coming back into commonality, or even moving a bit beyond that, and everybody deciding to commit nuclear suicide and kill each other.
Well some breakage is the unfortunate inevitable consequence of progress.
I suppose the TV license system is very close to an independent body with "tax" raising powers (including the ability to jail people for non-payment). No longer quite so popular.
I haven't had children yet.

I want to because some of my greatest memories were with my dad. I want to enable someone to experience those feelings, and experience the other side of them as well.
Thank you for emphasizing that last part. I think you might be right.
My mother died to Alzheimer's, and my father to a stroke (which induced a dementia). I know how you feel, and empathize.
Federation makes a lot of sense for a micro blogging service, as no community is the same. Allowing for different rules and styles of moderation without trapping users in silos / walled gardens, is exactly what we need in the social media space, in my opinion.
If Linus adopts a saner approach, without all this mindless ranting, to managing the Linux kernel, I seriously believe that would the results be much better.
If he was running a company in a similar manner, would it work?
Haskell does have lazy side effects(unsafeInterleaveIO and its derivatives), which is a major source of complaints about the haskell standard library(lazy IO). There is a huge library ecosystem(conduit, pipes, streaming, machines, what have you) to solve this problem.

For example, this code will fail because the file handle is closed prematurely by withFile as hGetContents returns immediately without actually reading the file, deferring that part until the data is forced.

main = do
contents <- withFile "foo.txt" ReadMode hGetContents
putStrLn $ length contents
Probably good for linux, but with Windows you have to be careful during update time or you can easily soft-brick your machine with a power outage.
>A decade ago, all the smart money was on high “OBP” (on-base percentage) players over boom-or-bust power hitters.

That is not an entirely accurate characterization, in fact most of the time the moneyball teams valued those boom and bust players more than traditional teams. The actual equation they were using was something close to 3*OBP+Slugging so slugging is good, and they tend to get walks a lot along with their strikeouts so OBP is usually good too.
Something that is specially dangerous is mixing laziness and dynamic vars. If you bind a dynamic var to then return a lazy seq, and the dynamic var is used to generate the seq's elements (e.g. `binding` over `map`, and use the bound var inside the map's `fn`), you may get different results depending on when the seq is evaluated (which is not determined)

This made me waste a whole afternoon once. I was even ready to submit a compiler bug!
>FastText [0] in particular is quite impressive. It is essentially a variant of Word2Vec that also supports n-grams,

To clarify: fasttext does not support n-grams of words, but instead considers n-grams of characters within words.
If one of the reasons is, "it doesn't work", I'd call that a success, wouldn't you?

Not everything is a money-driven conspiracy. (Though, not everything isn't, either.)
In case you didn't already know, kottke does already have a membership model: https://kottke.org/members/
They make more money being a platform and logics company thank they do being a retailer.
> For some, it's considered disrespectful to not spend huge amounts of money on it

Then one should go the extra mile on purpose to make them feel disrespected.
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On the galactic scale, my hunch is that the sorting dynamic would be very strong, and you would basically have g+ and g- galaxies. Which would be very interesting, but doesn't solve the dark matter issue.

I think that this would also create a lot of other complex behavior that we don't see. For example, I think we would expect to see many cases of two galaxies or even two galaxy clusters pushing away from each other, because one is g+ and the other g-.
Preventing abuse is a legimitate interest to keep data even if deletion is requested.

For the same reason users can't request you delete all copies of bills and receipts on them.
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This isn't very dissimilar to being an undercover detective.

If there were very clear rules spelled out in law about what you can and cannot do, then criminals could use these to develop a robust litmus test for undercover operatives.

While I agree its unsettling that government agents could be committing crimes legally, I can also see the argument for leniency if it helps them penetrate further into criminal enterprises and bring them down more effectively.
This is probably true. If I were in this situation, I would probably only make suggestions and not force compliance.
Best choice I ever made.

There is more to life than success, money, and personal ambition (make a difference).

Being a father is the highest form of true selflessness. It's like you transcend even your own desires.
"even Linus can't distribute consistently runnable and stable binary software without completely bypassing all the distro stupidity"

Incorrect. AppImage is used to distribute Linus's Subsurface in distro-agnostic manner, by packaging all needed libraries with the binary.

Even Linus gives his endorsement, "This is just very cool." so that means a lot.

https://appimage.org
See the second half of https://rescue1130.blogspot.com/2018/02/built-battery-for-ro... for the start of this story.

I considered posting this yesterday but figured the title would be corrected and just be confusing. Carl is not the most organized blogger and really seems to mostly use his blog as a project journal.
It's a tactic, but it isn't used exclusively, and when it has been used regularly, it tends not to be more effective than conventional warfare.

The premise that because hyperspace ramming works, it should render all other forms of warfare in the Star Wars universe obsolete seems like nitpicking to me. Of course it works. It seems to be consistent with physics in the Star Wars universe - ships do travel through and interact with physical space while entering and exiting hyperspace, and collisions with realspace objects do occur (see Han Solo mentioning the dangers of flying "right through a star" in ANH.)

So if the tactic works in universe, but why isn't it used all the time? Because throwing starships at each other and risking the loss of your own personnel and equipment is a desperate and potentially suicidal tactic and not doing that is almost always a better idea. Far more things can possibly go wrong than can go right.

Plus, once it becomes a regular tactic, countermeasures will get developed to take it into account - the enemy will disperse their command and control capabilities into multiple smaller ships or attempt to engage from a greater distance or whatever. So despite being wasteful, it's also short-sighted.

Notwithstanding the real answer being that it wouldn't be as interesting to watch ships just kamikaze one another at lightspeed.
A small drone won't be able to go fast/far enough.
Hey! Great questions, thanks! Well, so far:

1) Focus on the community, then the content. I thought the content would be some sort of mish-mash of opinion and really more long form stuff, but people prefer compact, quick takes, in 3-4 paragraphs. Makes sense, but hard to see as a maker!

2) Additional features is a great question! I plan a few different things:

- Community integration with the newsletter

- Integration with 'real-time chat services' like Discord, as I do think they serve a purpose

- Web push for notifying of "big" news outside of the band of the slow newsletters for those that want it

- Alternate delivery mechanisms for the newsletters (perhaps as simple, short FB Messenger pieces)

- Calendar subscription for events in the industry

- A bunch more I've forgotten already :).

3) Technically the system is custom built, I guess I'm referring to how it feels to have done that myself. I tried to hack it all together via existing stuff at first, but it was clearly not going to work, so I built a deep Craft CMS integration with my app to get where we are now. It's a great way to work because it's all built on top of relational content!
Usually UFO sighting clusters are correlated with USAF testing.

The 80s for example were mostly cruise missile and stealth fighters. In my area of upstate NY, there were a lot of sightings of tomahawk missiles operating out of Plattsburgh and Rome AFB testing the tercom navigation system. In the 90s, there was some sort of hovering drone and hypersonic aircraft.

It’s a reasonable assumption that the military planted or ginned up the aliens narrative to bury the story in plain sight. My first assumption is that this is the same thing.
Dreamweaver is still very much usable:

1. Get a copy of Dreamweaver 8, or 9[1].

2. Switch it to 'code' view only.

3. Install the HTML5 intellisense updates.

4. Create a new 'HTML template' that has HTML5 header tags.

5. Enjoy!

One perfectly good and usable HTML/JS/CSS editor, with what I feel is still the best intellisense for CSS around.

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[1] '8' is better, as it's before Adobe took over, added bugs and renumbered it '9'. Seriously... they are functionally the same product.
I recently came back from paternity leave. I talked to all of the hiring managers about my baby, because I'm one of those new parents who really likes talking about their baby. :)

Most of the managers really liked talking about their kids. One even just got back from maternity leave. But another one didn't even pretend to care my baby. That one didn't give me an offer, but that's okay because I wanted to work on a family friendly team.
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It seems likely this will lead to increased centralization and/or standardization as many website owners decide it is too complicated and risky to write custom software managing their own user accounts.

This might be similar to how merchants often sell through larger websites like Amazon, or mobile developers sell through app stores.

Or, much like many startups begin with Bootstrap for their CSS and Django provides a built-in admin user interface, perhaps there will be open source skeleton web apps that have all the data models and UI needed for GDPR?

It sounds like there will be lots of business opportunities here.
Excellent. "ordinary" matter would be a 70%/30% mix of gravitational types, with dark matter being a 99%/1% mix (figures obviously pulled from nowhere) - but then one would see effects at the local scale, where an observable percentage of helium atoms would exhibit "anti-gravitational" effects. Surely, that would have been previously noticed, thus the model is refuted.
This is wildly unrealistic speculation. If any country nuclearly bombed any other country, it better be prepared to face the rest of the world for it.
I think the main criticism of Linus's rants is not that he is incorrect, but rather his tone (primarily his use of explitives and ad-hominens). I think he could communicate more efficiently with a civil yet blunt criticism by simply removing the explicitives and ad-hominems.
you already provide docker image in github, how do you make money ? by running the customer's script in your infrastructure?
I completely agree with you in principle, yet I still find myself working on a personal website with stuff to show off how I think and work.

In any industry, you need to capture people's attention one way or another. You can craft your personal brand through a website, and your projects and your articles --

Or you can craft your personal brand in person, by schmoozing and networking and making sure people know who you are and what you can do.

I'm not the best people person, but I am a truly excellent software engineer and businessman. I haven't had much success maintaining a loyal network of people who will connect me with opportunities, but I do have an excellent track record of building great software.

The problem is, how do I convince people of that? Most of my code is proprietary and cannot be shared with prospective clients or companies.
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I'm afraid this just isn't reality, voting down won't change that. SA is backward but it's not that backward. It has e-commerce, you can buy things online. It's had the web since the mid 90s. Eg first search attempt, incredible.co.za . It just isn't difficult. SA has poverty, as extreme as poverty can be, it's horrible, it's heartbreaking, but it's not all like that. This is a bugbear, ABC, BBC, crap media outlet of choice more interested in creating a story than accurate representation. I wouldn't trust them with my coffee.
GDPR will go into effect this month.

EDIT: My mistake, in May
I'm confused. This article says it's about a dark matter map, but it spends most of its time talking about accelerated expansion, the cause of which is labeled dark energy, not dark matter. Dark matter (I am given to understand -- IANACosmologist) acts on a much smaller scale to hold galaxies together which would come apart under the gravitational influence of visible matter alone. What am I missing?
How is Amazon a bully in this scenario?
Worth noting: the above was written by Daniel Vetter, not Linus. https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/2/24/176
I don't think that quote justifies your love of jQuery. The keywords are "some" and "sprinkled in". In my experience jQuery always trends towards a huge mess the more it is used.

Sure, it could be used but it really shouldn't.

Interacting with the DOM in a procedural way, and storing state on the DOM is always going to be harder to manage than using a reactive pattern when you trend towards more complexity.
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