skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can recommend Lars Svendsen, A Philosophy of Loneliness, in which he examines loneliness and its positive companion, solitude, in detail.

Not a self-help book, but a view on loneliness from both an empirical and philosophical perspective.
SHCL – An unholy union of Posix shell and Common Lisp
Newer Android phones allow you to set an accessibility menu shortcut. If you only have one menu item selected, the shortcut just toggles that menu item. I press vol-up & power to toggle greyscale.
I feel like there should be more to right and left than pro- and anti-Israel.
It's obvious that this is a proof on concept thing.. It's like tesla selling cars months in advance based in a render..
I couldn't even get to the main content, there was too much vitriol to wade through first. I'd never even heard of David Brooks and don't have an opinion on him, but I can't take seriously the opinion of anybody who's this wrapped up in his own bitterness.
> Downside, I don't have $10,000+ to spend, and I doubt a high end shop would enjoy me running this experiment on their inventory.

One thought that comes to mind: ask them if they're ok with you writing an article on your results, and crediting the shop. Then you're giving something back to them. They might even tell you more, if they know you're interested in certain qualities or situations.
If you're trying to drink more tea, I might recommend at least getting Twinings or something. Lipton tea is one of those things I wouldn't really ever choose for myself.
Wouldn’t there be as many alien asteroids orbiting in the same direction as against it?

I imagine there should be a few alien asteroids amongst the current contingent.

I take it isotopic Analysis can only be done with a sample. There are energy level differences in isotopes though...
To respond to someone with a green username? I don't think so.
Cable companies have always sold a maximum speed. When you pay for "25 megabit" internet from a cable company, what you're really paying for is up to 25 megabits down. AFAIK, no cable company has ever guaranteed a minimum download speed of any kind.
"The night was sultry"
8 New Features Recently Announced by AWS That Help Reduce Spend
Welcome. There are transport/shipping costs, customs fees, taxes, storage fees, workers fees, retailer commission, packaging fees, advertising fees, banking fees, interest, VAT, etc...

That's why 3rd world prices are cheaper. They don't have most of that since they usually get the product directly from the producer.
Unless you have a lot more knowledge about someone than can be gleaned from one or two comments on HN, you lack the context to determine whether someone's use of a thing amounts to addiction.
I hope this petition can also leverage the right to repair movement.
"A Hacker Hero Has Been Banned From Cyber Conferences After Decades Of Inappropriate Behavior"

https://www.buzzfeed.com/kevincollier/hacker-hero-is-said-to...
Graham Barr did the world a huge service by creating and running search.cpan.org. I used it for many years, across many projects. Thank you Graham!

And it's nice that there exists a great replacement in metacpan.org
Benchmarking avro and fastavro using pytest-benchmark, tox and matplotlib
Is it okay to sell face recognition services to everyone except law enforcement? Are other customers somehow more trustworthy? Maybe it shouldn't be sold at all?

(And how about open source?)
Oh right, immutable data structures are good for exactly this situation. I've been in mutation land for a while now. :)

However, now I'm newly confused: Yes, I'm proposing that the diff then get applied directly to the state by the Redux infrastructure, and I don't understand why that would break any important assumptions provided by Redux. Is there an example you could give of how this might create a problem?
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I'm not disagreeing - and am speculating as well - but this lack of intimacy might not matter if we males were cooperating in groups a lot (other than by emessage), say on a hunt; but we just don't do that anymore. I think my grandfather's male friendships were shallow-but-substantive meaning not intimate and squishy, but based on hard cooperative tasks, often physical such as "branding parties" on farms. Even as a kid these seemed to me to be all-shop-talk relationships, often. But they did find them satisfying, they knew they could rely on these guys in a pinch. Whereas I'm not at all sure that the guys I share my squishy feelings with would be there for me in a pinch.
I apologize if I've misrepresented your concerns. I'm operating from a perspective of a decade and change of doing this dance over and over:

Engineer: "SQL is dumb and hard!"
DBA: "What part?"
Eng: describes problem
DBA: describes misunderstanding
Eng: "Oh! Oh, that's actually really simple! Thanks!"

It pretty much never goes the other way. So I'm probably a little over what read like dismissive, mis-premised, or under-informed criticisms. (And, yes, that probably colored the tone of my response. Again, apologies.)

> I believe that this is in large part because how it had to be worked into an existing, weirdly designed language in a backward compatible way.

Is sloppy shoe-horning the fault of the shoe, or the fault of the horn (assuming, for sake of discussion, that it's even sloppily done)? Recursively traversing parent-child (among other) relationships is not a wild, unforeseeable extension of set theory — and that's really all SQL is: a practical expression of set theory with a syntax that (admittedly) sometimes obscures that fact.

EDIT: Re: your edit. As one of my employer's DBAs, it's part of my job to reduce risk, including by passing on candidates I feel inadequately understand databases, or whose attitude evinces a lack of interest in improving that understanding. It's not about "attacking" a lack of competence, so much as avoiding the kind of incompetence that refuses to recognize itself.

If you've ever sat on the interviewer side of that table, you can't even pretend not to have seen entirely too much of that, and you'd pass on someone who didn't think they needed to understand the costs of various forms of, e.g., list traversal, just as quickly.
This is not news...
Intel anounces OpenVINO, a deep learning framework
Plenty of potential reasons. Stagnant growth, really poor executive team that got lucky, serving a dying industry, tapped out growth potential, poor unit economics, etc.
>I'm a bit perturbed that people on this board aren't more concerned about the many bad ways that this can be used for, especially since police oversight is notoriously bad, in virtually every country, including the west.

On the contrary, I share the concern, but I don't share the conclusion that police should be relegated to crunching data with nothing more complicated than an abacus (obvious hyperbole) because of abuse concerns.

I also believe in a level of consistency that states no, you do not have a right to privacy in public. Any such abuses should be dealt with on a case-by-case, abuse-by-abuse basis, rather than unreasonable blanket bans. And any such cases must be ruled based on existing law, rather than what amounts to bench legislation.
Hmm, but reducers are supposed to return references to new state objects, right? So clearly something more substantial than a pointer has to be created/duplicated.
I have an iPhone and didn't realize this. Thanks!
Yeah, population isn't the issue. As others have pointed out, we grow more than enough food to feed the world. And to address the other side of the equation - the growth side - it seems to be the case that when a country reaches a certain state of development, reproduction naturally levels out or starts falling.

The rate of baby production in most developed countries is near or below the replacement rate. The growth rate of these countries is almost entirely from migration. It seems to be the case that when you educate people (in particular, women), give them access to birth control, and opportunities to live interesting and fulfilling lives, enough people will choose to forgo children to make up for all the people who want children.

So population isn't the problem: equitable distribution of the resources we have is.

To put it most succinctly, if only we could just get out of our scarcity mindset and achieve a reasonably fair distribution of our resources -- then those resources are more than enough to sustain everyone, and population growth isn't an issue.
Ask HN: Which non-programming books are a beneficial read for programmers?
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Tell HN: Stackdriver is down
Not an oxymoron, but perhaps "moronic" to do for health reasons.
Viner is co-author of My Name Is Rachel Corrie, a 2005 play about the protestor killed during nonviolent resistance in the Gaza Strip by an IDF bulldozer.

Thirteen years is a long time; I know my values have changed a lot in that time. But that play doesn't seem like the output of someone committed to the mainstream narrative on Israel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Name_Is_Rachel_Corrie
Also put the phone outside of your sight, like inside your backpack. That way you do not pick it up unconsciously.
Mark Zuckerberg let off the hook by shambolic European Parliament grilling
I applaud Qualcomm for donating all trademarks and copyrights too, which means literally anyone can recompile it and still call it "Eudora".

Unfortunately Eudora is basically three completely different codebases (Windows, Mac, and a rebranded Thunderbird for Linux). I guess only the Windows one is likely to ever be revived.
Flipkart Makes 300 Sellers Millionaires in a Four-Day Sale
Your phone that is visible and accessible to every WiFi network is not what I would consider a secure device.

A small smart dongle on the other hand, an island unto itself, I do consider more secure.
You're still providing your cleartext credentials to Plaid, their product is coalescing this work behind a nice API.
> more income than just

If stated that way, it true of any nonzero income from these husks, for which it is still feasible to ship them.

What's questionable is whether it will continue to be valued above the bean.

It's certainly not more rare than the bean: each bean produces a husk.

It's artificially rare because the supply chain hasn't fully fired up.

Basically the situation is an impulse response blip at the boundary condition: sudden appearance of a demand without a supply mechanism.

It doesn't seem like it would take much for the coffee producers to save the husks, bag them, and ship them off the same way as beans. Once everyone is doing that, it's unlikely to remain valued above the bean.

Since fertilizer is necesasry, this stuff has to be worth more than whatever fertilizer has to be used to replace it. If not, then it is the fertilizer.
It could be more about MetaCPAN just being better. Or the maintainer looking to move on for other reasons. Not worth the maintenance for a variety of reasons other than that it is made out of Perl.

I’m assuming MetaCPAN is written in Perl, at least in part. But I’m on mobile and I don’t want to research right now; I could be wrong.

Edit: also, 2005 era Python or Ruby, for a website, would likely be unpleasant to maintain as well.

Edit2: I know you’re not a Perl hater; I’m not an advocate; just playing the devil’s advocate.
Well, I'm thinking that Redux would apply the diffs to the state destructively, so I'm not sure why we would need to "constantly" reapply them in order to recreate the latest state... we would simply have the latest state on-hand already. But if we're in a context where a lot of rewinding and fast-forwarding of state is happening for some reason, or where these state diffs can't easily be reversed/inverted, then I can see why this would be inefficient.
It's more about easy, polemical attacks than accuracy.
Who's Afraid of Kaspersky?
I think his biggest decision might have been to go mobile first. I used to have a Nokia S40 series phone and Facebook worked really well on that both from the default web browser and from Opera Mini. Add that to the Instagram and WhatsApp acquisitions and he seems to be making really good business decisions. I do disagree with the overall fb direction today but I don't doubt he is a very capable business man.
Tech 'Nobel' awarded to Finnish physicist for small smart devices
I don't even get why it is important that it's 1kb. Give me a library with great API and easy to use. Nobody cares if library is 1kb or 100kb (minified).
Not necessarily. The cameras the roadmanager (rijkswaterstaat) use to view the busyness of traffic are still out of reach for law enforcement. They could use those cameras for a whole lot of more money if they were allowed.
Here's the actual Computer History Museum article and links to source: http://www.computerhistory.org/_static/atchm/the-eudora-emai...
My favorite principle for code quality
Twitter is killing off its apps for Xbox, Roku, and Android TV
What did I deduce from today’s hearing:
1. The weird question/answer format was probably a negotiated condition of Zuckerberg appearing.
2. This underlines the power of Zuckerberg: setting conditions for the EU Parliament is quite a show of force.
3. This condition was probably set because Zuckerberg is a very poor spokesperson. The end of the session was quite frankly bizarre when Zuckerberg refused to take questions.
4. There is quite clearly a mood for heavy regulation and anti-trust action to break-up the monopoly. Zuckerberg’s odd behavior will result in the sharpening of EU swords, not their scabbarding.
5. I have no idea what this type of activity will mean for EU/US relations. The US will be keen to protect homegrown global monopolies. The EU must break them before they break Europe.
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My guess at what it's telling us is that the OSS competitor will always win in the long term. I actually enjoy refactoring old Perl code into Modern Perl, but if I can't contribute, I can't help. Metacpan is has a larger community support because we can help out.
This discussion here is really on renting or owning your own modem. As far as I can tell, most rented modems now bundle a router/access point into the modem confusing the issue slightly, but you can (and should IMO) buy your own modem. I have refused to use any ISP supplied hardware for well over a decade precisely because of issues like the one described in the article.
It seems to me, that to some extent the cost of launch feeds into the cost of satellites. Spacecraft have to have reliability in the extreme because it's so expensive to put them in orbit, and they're very expensive to service if practical at all.
The hack is not inverse ray casting. Thing become hacky when the bouncing ray's bounce angle/amplitude etc. Determined by a mapping instead of real geometry/black body etc.
I've recently moved from Gmail to Fastmail (which also has a calendar), and to MicroG + Yalp instead of Google Apps on my phone. Both have worked very well for me as privacy-conscious alternatives, with minimal hassle after the initial setup. I'm still using Google search, YouTube, and Chrome on the desktop, for lack of alternatives I've gotten along with, but that's about it. I'm very happy how much less of my data that exposes to Google, but at the same time, it does still feel like a bit of a pyrrhic victory.
Huh, this makes me think, culture is like artificial selection. Some “organisms” have evolved to live off of the land, and others evolved to live off of other humans!
Simply put, raytracing is one of the most computationally expensive operations in real time graphics (games). Improving raytracing allows moving game graphics more from prebaked artistry towards physical simulations that still result in beautiful visuals.
Ok, but who gets to decide where to draw the line between harmful behaviors and nonharmful ones. One could argue that just about everything we do has some degree of risk, some more than others. As you say it's a continuum. Should we ban unhealthy foods? Should we ban contact sports? How about extramarital sex? The values of the person you ask will dictate whether any given thing is a vice or a pastime.

What right do you have to say whether the enjoyment someone finds in a vice is offset by the damage it does to their health or finances or social life? And for any given vice, usually the ill effects are a function of how heavily one uses the vice. So does a full ban to save the few who overindulge balance against depriving the rest of the option to make small trades against their own lives for some pleasure? Should we ban alcohol to save the alcoholics at the cost of everyone else being able to unwind with a beer? We tried that and it didn't go very well.

Evidence seems to point to education and access to treatment being far more effective than bans. And it's very difficult to get any kind of long term results by involuntarily treating someone, so I'm not sure there's much to be gained by criminalization with enforced treatment instead of just punishment.

At the end, you pretty much have to let people make their own informed decisions. Anything else sounds like a step toward an authoritarian state dictating everything you do.
It's a good find and will probably be a continuing controversy, but I fear transparency cannot win from adequately funded disinformation campaigns. All this controversy does is prove a point (structural disinformation campaigns exist) and give a usefull hint to such campaigns: never use a single persona as your cover. Those personas should resemble real live persons with interests and lives, not 9h * 7d continuous ops. Point made, enemy strengthened.
Good info! Horrible experience.
Understood. I'll refrain from such comments in the future.
I think that makes some sense in analogy to patents -- to be eligible for patent protection, you have to fully disclose the invention publicly. You can choose to keep the invention a secret instead, but if so you don't get legal patent protection.

I have a somewhat related dream that (major?) works requesting copyright protection should be submitted to, say, the library of Congress, and made freely available to the public after their term is up. Of course in this dream the length of copyright is 20 years or so.
Amazon India Is Worth the Amount Walmart Is Investing in Flipkart – $16 Bn
Wikipedia is a fantastic resource for math and science, less so for the lives of contemporary figures. Whatever you use it for, remember to check sources, and treat it as a starting point for further research only.
Minimal Newton Solvers for Deep Learning
It’s clear that the equator would be the playgrounds of the rich, where grass is always green and the lighting always perfect. Properties facing the sunset would fetch a premium over those facing the dark empty sky.

Going away from the center, properties would get cheaper due to harsher conditions, the poorest of people living in increasingly hotter and colder conditions. But they would also live closer to the factories that lie toward the poles of the planet, making for faster commutes.

Somewhere in the very hottest and coldest extremes, would be a good place to keep prisons.
MH370: Australian official rejects theory that pilot ditched aircraft
Indeed, it's though all the false starts that one gathers subject knowledge. All the people who build "untestable models" for their PhDs have at least learned something about atmospheric modelling, what numerical approaches work and what approaches work less well.
Probably the first option in fact.
Palantir's margin is Bezos' opportunity.
I would say that your assumption about the nature of humans is a construct of the society you have grown up in and the institutions which have shaped the behavior of your fellow-citizens.
> Educated people are naturally more skeptical of their media and what the sources are.

I have not found that to be the case and I think you should scrutinize that assumption very carefully.

Perhaps a majority of intellectuals in the West thought the Soviet Union was a step forward - again and again it's the 'smart' people who get the big things wrong.
There's even been research into switching a lightbulb + camera setup for a scanning light source + a photodiode. http://graphics.stanford.edu/papers/dual_photography/ (Note there's a video at the bottom of the page that walks through the various techniques.)
Sweden sends out leaflets on how to prepare for war
To be fair, almost all non-maintained source codes becomes a problem, no matter the language, apply security fixes, update dependencies, handle all deprecated stuff, etc. isn't fun!
Now this is you how EOL a beloved product. By working with an OSS replacement such that the transition is transparent.

Super thanks to the team for the CPAN search (it was a lifesaver many times for me in the past!) as well as for their awesome transition plan.
My Experience Updating an App for Android and iOS with Qt
Mark Zuckerberg appears before European parliament (live updates)
How can the EU break up foreign monopolies?
I wrote about this elsewhere in the thread. You can make this pout about strategizing in future lotteries, but this doesn’t seem to be what happened at all in this specific instance. A more reasonable decision then would have been to allow the exchange, even if just this one time.

You should also consider that if we got each others’ best preference, this is a sign of a broken system, because we could have clearly been assigned to our first choices in the first place. So in my view, the exchange should be allowed, and then the system fixed so that such situations are not possible.

> People who don't engage in strategic ranking will on average be worse off than they were before.

How? They will be in the same school regardless of other students switching or not. And even if you didn’t strategize, you might receive an offer for an exchange, so you could even end up just as well as someone who did strategize.

I don’t get where this idea that globally the students will be better off if exchanging places is forbidden. Some people will be better off by exchanging, others will be in the same position as they were before. It’s clear that globally the system will have gained from more people being at their preferred schools.

Your tax example doesn’t apply, because obviously if I stop paying taxes there will be less government resources available to get things done (although we could discuss whether giving money to the government is actually a good way to get things done). Switching schools is different because it only affects the two people involved.
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Or exactly the opposite - it may be their primary motivation, with the negatives ending up being caused by others co-opting the system.
It was frustrating to not get any answers. But actually that tells us everything we need to know.
Democracy's flaws have been studied for thousands of years. You can find a very detailed critique from Plato for example. All of his arguments are still true today. The problem is that there really isn't a better alternative when it comes to letting people self-govern on a big scale. Plato's solution was a government of the ones who had the complete truth, but he himself was doubtful whether such an administration would be realistic and flawless.
It seems the power claim of holding a charge for 1 year is because the camera is in standby mode. I suppose if there is enough activity it will drain the power much quicker.

> EverCam having the power to run for 365 days (or 3 years in Standby Mode)

I'm a recent customer of the Wyze Camera. Absolutely love it. What an incredible little camera and all for $20. It requires a power source but otherwise does everything this Wirefree Camera does and maybe more.

https://www.wyzecam.com/