skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is more an issue of who people think the site is for.

There's two big camps, those who feel that SO is for everyone, and those who think they're creating a reference encyclopedia. The encyclopedia crowd won the war, and those of us who just wanted SO as a place anyone and everyone could go and ask a question without getting bludgeoned to death by high karma users have moved on.

This has resulted in a lot of questions going unasked and SO is gradually getting stale, and a general toxic element gaining more and more power within the community. It used to be that you had to take part in SO to understand how unhealthy it was, now that is leaking onto Google results.

"No question is silly" on SO is "All questions are silly."
It is but memorizing facts by rote is still some work, right? When you get deep down to it many exams are just that - regurgitaging a set of facts and nothing else. The practical side is often omitted and the level of your understanding never fully checked.

Having said that I have come to the conclusion that AWS certs are compared to lot of other certs actually decent ones (or at least some). Even as a meter of your skill memorizing AWS facts. If you found Associate level too easy Pro cert is probably more suitable for your level. I think you're again downplaying it a bit maybe to give yourself a little egoboost.(not knowing your experience level of course) It might come as a surprise to you that not everyone think they are such easy tests.
Yes, this is something I think will be more likely; English might lose its grasp of area A to one language and lose area B to another language. I don't think we'll see one national language dominate again for a long time because this is a globalized post-industrial world, I don't think we'll see the rapid transformation of just one part of the world like the 19th and 20th century again.
Really depends on the computation.. what you say only make sense for some niches of computations.
Yeah, any side scroller...so dying is bad, but getting hit and shrinking or losing all your rings is not as bad, killing enemies is good, and collecting a power-up is good, but only when it matters.

Anything else?

Like BDD for AI.
So if it's shared over SMS, we should ban the mobile network?
When __would__ one exactly transition from Heroku to AWS? Any specific metrics to look at?
If you like the style of this project, be sure to check out Alan Yates' computer drum memory using this technique. https://youtu.be/izApC7P55po
> You’re implying their ML/AI interefered with Mark’/ dislike button?

I don't imply it, but given how many spam filters these days are realized as more-or-less-black boxes, it is a plausible theory.

In addition, at least for Twitter and FB, there has been suspicion for long time that reports/blocks have faster consequences when many people report/block, as automated filters take over before a human can look at it. I can imagine that there is a filter that gets triggered when a user gets N reports/blocks in M minutes, with e.g. N=100 and M=30, to automatically flag users as potential spammers, unsolicited nude senders or whatever. This had hit Zuckerbergs account, the spam filter blocked his account... and then someone was tasked with preventing this, by disabling the block function based upon certain criteria.

Also, the bug seems to have affected only users blocked by thousands of people. Not exactly your usual testcase, and I don't know if I'd have thought of this scenario when writing the test specifications.
It's not as simple as that. What's the k-anonymity on your datasets? I'd be mightily impressed if anyone at your company had ever calculated it, yet 'pseudonymisation' is meaningless without quantitative assessments of its results.

From what I've seen in research, when you get an 'anonymized' dataset from e.g. a government institute, hospital or school, someone will have replaced the names in the 'Name' column with 'Subject 1', 'Subject 2' and so on, and if you're lucky they'll have removed the DoB column. How many people are there in the average organization who are even qualified to have an opinion on whether a dataset is sufficiently anonymous for a certain purpose?

The first few years of GDPR lawsuits are going to be about obvious things, hopefully we'll get to see a few more interesting ones about stuff like this once that basic stuff is settled :)
I don’t think voxel engines need to work with only voxels. The environment could be, but animated models should probably still be polygons.

So the challenge is you don’t just need fast voxel rendering, you need fast 3D rasterization into an optimized data structure (like sparse voxel octrees).

I don’t think this will pay off until game engines do absolutely massive amounts of physics and lighting simulation. But I think it’s inevitable. You’re already seeing indirect lighting engines using low resolution sparse voxel representations of the world.
There was a nice approach described in the Pragmatic Programmer book if I'm not mistaken.

The idea was to construct development teams in a way similar to the surgery teams - one lead developer, one assistant developer (these two "adult" and very good), and a 3-4 other people who
's job is to make the life easier for the main devs - someone to manage documentation, someone else to do detailed testing, one average dev to do the simple and boring stuff, and so on.

That way, in a company of a 100 devs, you'd need 15-30 super-smart developers (who don't need methodologies and scaffoldings), and the remaining 75 just junior/average specialists doing specific tasks and fitting into the structures provided by seniors.
Try to eat 3000 calories of sugar or donuts one day then try to eat 3000 calories of steak.

If I have even 1800 calories of steak I won't need to eat the rest of the day.
I organized a crew to do this in the Santa Cruz mountains last year. I did it after losing two tires in the same car to the same pothole. That gets expensive.

I tried to work with the county to make it official, the idea was to form a group of trained, careful people that would be to public works what the volunteer fire department is to Cal-Fire. Then we could be insured, etc.

The county wanted no part of it even though their budget, at the time, was about $1M/year for 600 miles of roads (that's pathetic and the roads show it. The road I'm on hasn't been paved or screened for decades and it's falling apart, just like many others).

I was hoping we could pioneer a model that other states/counties could emulate. Still am but don't know how to get there. We can bring way more people to the table than the county can. For example, they fill potholes with 2 people, one guy driving a pickup, one guy on the back shoveling patch. We did that (as you'll see below) with 7 people and two trucks (my flatbed and my 1/2 ton). Our protocol on busy roads was to park the flatbed facing into traffic, lights on, flashers on, safety LED flashers up high on, then cone off a buffer behind and in front, put two people with slow/stop signs just inside each cone zone, a person at the middle that directs traffic (everyone had radios on them), a driver for the flatbed (used to tamp in the patch) and shoveler. That's 7 people where the county had 2. We were dramatically safer. We could do that because we all volunteered.

That's a lot of man power for free, it's less risky, it still blows my mind that the county can't get behind that. Someone decided it made them look bad. Personally, I think not using that man power makes them look bad but what do I know?

https://www.mercurynews.com/2017/03/17/mountain-vigilantes-t...
Running it locally. Looking forward to switching our K8s cluster to 18.03.

Contact me if you want to work with NixOS and K8s in Denmark/Copenhagen. Mail on profile page.
When I shop for guitars I will look at Japanese sites for Ibanez models not offered in the US. The amount of English on their websites is surprising.

Japanese Example: http://www.ibanez.co.jp/index.html

Chinese Example: http://www.ibanez.com/cn/
It's like you didn't even read what I said. The world isn't a moral vacuum. You abdicating power does not mean that nobody has it. It means someone else does. If all of the 'good' people say "weapons and war are immoral", guess who is in control of all the weapons and war? It's really pretty easy to think through, and it's really pretty naive to bury your head in the sand.
The buddy would owe taxes on receiving the money like receiving any kind of money (is it a gift etc?). Beyond that they owe capital gains or can take a cap gains loss due to changes in btc price if they hold onto the btc. If they receive it and immediately cash it out the additional potential capital gains taxes would be extremely minimal. I don't really see what the issue is here?

People send and receive money and owe taxes on it, whether it is using bitcoin or dollars or whatever... The difference here are the reasons the parent post said they enjoyed sending the money via btc.
This has been an exact summary of my experience with SO. Extremely useful when searching for things. Difficult to get started contributing to.
> The software company said it discovered and fixed the breach in October.

Disgusting, how was this buried for 6 months?

> The Atlanta-based airline said that it wasn’t sure whether customers’ information was actually compromised by malware that it believes was in software used by (24)7.ai, which provided the airline with online chat services for customers, for about two weeks.

Your website, your liability. This is Delta's fault. By letting third-party Javascript execute on your webpage, that's basically a remote code execution right there. That's like giving an outside company root on your database, or domain controller. Maybe this will serve as a wake-up call for web devs, instead of piling more and more terrible JS onto a page.
what I'm saying is that anybody who gives somebody five dollars is technically supposed to pay taxes on that, but when's the last time you did that? "Tax fraud" is rampant if you're going strictly by the book, it's not just limited to crypto-currencies. (But the fact that you attempted to make that point isn't surprising considering Hacker News in general seems to be very cynical towards crypto-currency)
Questions should never be closed on a site that has a voting system. Completely defeats the purpose of both options. There is nothing wrong with asking a similar question to another or posting answers that are similar to others. People learn in different manners, sometimes it might take a person to read the same question (but a little different) a few different times before they can grasp the concept. It's meant to be a forum to help people, not rewrite the manual on a programming language. If there was only one way people should literally just RTM.
I've had mixed results. 75% of the time I get good responses, 25% I get berated. I really, really try to form good, formatted questions though.

But the site has been flooded by newbies and ESL people who just will not or cannot format and state their posts correctly. Or people that really shouldn't be programming in the first place, or at least--should learn how to use other documentation first. So there's a lot of chaff, in their defense.
I rented one yesterday (s), it was my first time in a Tesla. There are a lot of things I didn't like - the interior is ugly and the giant ipad console is stupid and hard to use while driving without any tactile switches. But it IS the future. And WHAT a car. Just f'n brilliant as a package.

BUT...I feel like autopilot should only be for traffic jams on highways. It's downright dangerous the way it forces the driver to disengage. The adaptive cruise control is much better as at least you still have to pay attention but the car manages the throttle and following distances efficiently.
Yes, I understand that problem and you are correct. However, I still believe they are on balance a good thing. Let me be absolutely precise though: I would prefer a world without complex weapons. However, that world isn't on the menu. Given that someone is going to develop these things, I want it to be the entity I distrust least. On the world stage at the moment, that is the USG.
So, like the traffic every day along US-101?

This self-driving car craze would be in a very different place if Silicon Valley had halfway decent mass transit...
yeah I guess. That buggy code doesn't drive people into walls or give people the feeling they can read the newspaper while doing one of most dangerous things they do in their day.
I used to change my user agent to be that of a Google Bot
Designers Just Fixed Facebook. Your Move, Zuckerberg
We used an augmented reality app to take pictures and locations of parking signs along the curb for 7k curbs in SF. We then transcribed and projected this info onto the curb geometry. Check out our work here.
I wonder how much of this is due to a significant understanding of the underlying principles, that simply weren't present at the time? Today, especially in this community, we have an almost intuitive understanding of layers and parallax etc. My first thought on seeing the title was "uhh, mechanical parallax, neat!" and I was actually a bit disappointed that the machine could be "programmed" to move the planes automatically. This device can not have felt obvious to many people, at all, in 1957.
Yes, in my world, it would be pretty close to that. Maybe not completely worthless - but when you consider how much you pay for, say, an episode of your favorite show on netflix (which involved many writers, actors, directors, decorators, etc -- all of which may rightfully be considered "artists") you get closer to a more realistic perspective.

Btw, in that same world of mine, no actor would receive gazillion dollar compensation for a single movie, either, no matter how famous they were.
Antarctic Glaciers Lost Stunning Amount of Ground in Recent Years
Sound and ergonomic specialization for Rust
I'm not suggesting anything. All I'm going off is the screenshots you provided which you described as "Screenshots of Facebook staff forcefully resetting the account names".

I don't know what you're suggesting either... that Henley picked up phone to Instagram and said "I want @Mat, give it to me"?? Maybe ask Henley directly, send him a message and ask for your name back. If I were you I'd be pissed off and wouldn't let it slide.
Is art created by an AI is Art?
The last sentence is nothing but hope.

But the company was definitely billed for consultancy.

This pattern of snake oil keeps repeating, all to sell you the ability to force developers to follow Order by PM.

This goalpost moving is evil.
Happened to me last week. Music stopped playing, said it was playing on some iphone, and now all of my recently playeds are bands I've never heard of. I changed password and it hasn't happened since. Something fishy is going on.
Yeah there can be other bugs in my car, or other people that do something stupid, but I feel like I am more in control. It is unlikely I die from my engine blowing a gasket or my ECU completely dying. It might be a slight danger to those around me while I coast to the shoulder. But at least it's not going 60 mph into the shoulder...
Actually, it's more likely that the issue is we're not eating a mostly whole foods, plant-based diet. It's not carbs that are the problem, but refined carbs certainly are a problem. They're not what our bodies evolved to thrive on. I highly recommend watching Dr. Greger's talk at Google[0] on the subject, or reading his book[1].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rNY7xKyGCQ
[1] https://nutritionfacts.org/book/
There is a `/bin/sh` and `/usr/bin/env` provided - so you can use `/usr/bin/env bash`.

There is also this function which may be necessary for certain software: https://nixos.org/nixpkgs/manual/#sec-fhs-environments

You can compile some software manually in place using, for example, `nix-shell -p libssh2 -p zlib` without having to write a derivation. However, without writing a derivation, it may cease to function after a garbage collection or an upgrade.

Writing a derivation isn't too bad, here's one for one of my repos: https://github.com/jbboehr/handlebars.c/blob/master/derivati...
In a moral vacuum, I agree. If I could flip a switch and permanently erase nuclear weapons from the world, I think i'd probably flip that switch. However, we don't exist in a world with switches like that. Any weapon the US doesn't develop out of some moral sensibility, another state like Russian or China will. Ceding military strength is not virtuous, it's naive. The choice isn't between "should these weapons exist or not", it's "who should have them?". And the answer to that choice is: the entity you distrust least. For me that's the USG. I distrust them, just less than I do the other candidates.

And this is an extremely critical moral choice, because it's the only real one. Any other choice is just burying your head in the sand and saying the world doesn't exist.
I'm amazed that this is even being permitted. And in almost all territories; practically no-one has banned this practice. It seems absurdly risky, especially once someone finds a security flaw in the Tesla software updater.
Having a page that describes the freemium vs pro features would be great. Maybe a simple table with checkboxes
http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/11/08/twinkie.diet.professor/...

This guy lost 27 pounds eating your "weaponized carbohydrates." The thing is you have fallen hook, line, and sinker for people and groups that make money off of selling you books and info about "weaponized carbohydrates."

Is sugar overconsumption bad? Of course. That doesn't mean that we have to begin breaking the laws of physics concerning calorie intake to justify it.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Unexpected
I noticed directly after posting, decided to keep it.
I am not belabouring anything - that was the metaphor the methodology merchants chose. To sprint then sprint then go on sprinting until you are exhausted.

Also, a scrum is a violent battle for control between opposing teams... that one fit better than they thought too
If you change the compiler version (to e.g. gcc7) your blurb compiles in C++14.
let me guess, ULA filed a complaint?
"Is [Huge pile of recently promoted buzzwords] not the silver bullet you expected? We've got the answer: [A new pile of buzzwords]!"

Does your team produce products on-schedule 100% of the time, receive positive reviews from customers, and consistently generate more and more revenue for the company? In my experience, a big part of what a team works on is making these things happen consistently, and then maintaining that consistency as you add members.

Your reaction suggests to me you haven't spent a lot of time thinking about how engineering teams work and scale.

Sure, software engineering is easy given a couple constraints:

- Everyone on your team is on the same skill level, and everyone communicates well naturally

- The problems you're solving are small, the system you're building is not complicated, and in general there isn't tons of work to do

But if those things aren't true, it's harder to scale a team, and the type of stuff in this article is really useful.

There are teammates who are weak in certain skills and stronger in others. Bottlenecks arise. There are people in the company who want to take control of the product and drive it in an unproductive direction. There are departments who provide a constant flow of small/medium requests, and departments who once-per-quarter request a large feature. There are valuable customers who don't quite fit into the model your product supports.

Agility helps you react to all of these things and fix them quickly.

I think this article stands apart from the rest in that it emphasizes team learning. There is only one diagram, and it's about things you can get good at, not steps you should follow.

Nobody is blindly reading this and following the steps (because there aren't really steps, if you read it). It exists to help build a common language and encourage thinking about how you can learn and get better. What's wrong with that?
Very few modern cars actually decouple the steering wheel from the power steering mechanism fully, like a fly by wire jet airplane no longer has cable linkages from control stick to control surfaces.
> the result of having HN filled with these Facebook non-stories is that I'm going to stop taking an interest in them.

> the public at large do feel that they are surprising and shocking.

Not OP, but I don't think the point is that its a non-story to the public at large, I think the point is that its a non-story to anyone reading HN, which is decidedly not the public at large.

I get where they're coming from. If I go to reddit or local news and see a bunch of Facebook non-stories I would tend to discount that as the public finally waking up to this. When I come here and see a Facebook article I immediately assume it is important and I need to pay attention because the audience here is so different than reddit/local news. If I can't trust HN to filter for only truly important stories then I'll start to treat it like Reddit and look for a better source for truly important news, which would be a shame.
This seems like FB expects to get hit with a discovery process and injunction against deleting anything. It's housecleaning before they're forced to open the curtains.
Reproducibility.

In a nutshell, it's a purely functional Linux distribution. That means all changes you make to your system are non-destructive. For example, you can always roll back to a previous OS state, which is represented by a hash computed from all packages installed, and all options you've set. In turn, package hashes are computed from the package sources and all inputs (buildtime and runtime package dependencies).
The project itself is really cool. It would be nice if the page wasn't wider than my screen, though.
I was tempting to install NixOS on my PC but found out their installation method is fully involved of dozens of manual steps [1]. And I feel exhausted just reading their guide, so I don't want to try at all.

1 - https://nixos.org/nixos/manual/index.html#sec-installation
That would require you to bind on star, and doesnt solve the bind on all ports problem
> Portuguese and Spanish are "sibling languages"

When I was visiting Portugal I stayed with two people, one from Portugal and the other from Spain. They had been living together for months before I joined them, and speaking to each other in their native languages.

I was a unilingual Anglophone, and to accommodate me, they both spoke English in my presence. It was only through the medium of English that they discovered that they had misunderstood each other for months about various things.

The fact that Spanish and Portuguese were similar lulled them in to a false sense of comprehension, when in fact there are many false friends (cognates) and divergent nuances.

I'm told this happens a lot among Scandinavians too, and Danish is known to be especially difficult for Norwegians and Swedes to comprehend completely, so many fall back on English to avoid misunderstandings.
I love the plain-spoken poetry of her writing. She had an amazing gift for immersively describing the natural world and the day-to-day business of living. It makes her stories feel more real to me than the majority of "fantasy" literature.

A few favorite passages in here:

https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/1322014-the-farthest-s...

https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/215093-the-other-wind
You would be quite surprised actually. Try it and see how often you decide to use it over a graphical browser.
But, we find new, better steels with some regularity. the challenge in all of this is cost/benefit. Cutlery could get a lot better, but there is no desire to improve it at current costs. Moving that invention boundary takes time and effort.