skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This doesn't appear to address the two main issues I encounter when choosing UK broadband, which are that (a) advertising of upload speeds seems entirely unregulated, so that some providers offer ridiculous deals (e.g. 38Mbps down, but 1Mbps up, with the latter figure hidden in small print on another page), and (b) unless I choose Virgin, I will have sporadic disconnections sometimes for hours at a time depending on the interaction of decades-old copper, weather conditions, and random chance.
> A virtual paper trail

Having been involved in such a thing, I can tell you that the people writing the paper trail, and the ones actually creating/using the information on the paper trail have little to do with one another.

Those who create the trail are just trying to meet the rules, and care little about what actually is done. Those using the information care little about the rules, and just want some information. If you are lucky they might email and ask a question or two.

It's 100% useless. It just makes it look like there is information, there's nothing real there.

eg: Rule: You must secure your server. Paper writer: we secure our server. Sysadmin: No one talked to me about this, and even if they did I don't understand what you want from me, go away.

You get what I mean? It's worthless work.
You seem to have selective memory -- those who are against these regulations and gov't welfare came out against the bank bailout back in 2008 and 2009 while those who are for regulation and gov't largess silently sat back and looked away.

I also found it quite ironic that the law that supposedly regulates the finance industry bears the names of two most corrupt politicians with close ties with banks (one with Fannie/Freddie and the other with AIG or the banking industry in general).
related video of a barrel organ playing "Smooth Criminal": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQ6aDLpWON8&t=107s
Can we edit the wiki?

Edit: it seems that it was written in delhi and they rewrote it in C#
I'd recommend learning a few, here's my 2 cents:

- Start with Python, it's a very common dynamic language in the wild.

- From Python it's easy to learn Go and you'll want some Go experience if you want to work on distributed systems in today's culture.

- Javascript is another extremely useful one to know that you'll find everywhere, start with the book "Javascript the good parts".

Adding these in addition to your Java base would make you very well rounded, IMO.

In my 5-6 years of professional experience (startups and enterprise, full stack to infrastructure) I've never encountered Kotlin/Elixir/Haskell/Swift.
Me too. Nobody uses it (for large values of nobody).
It's the same principle as vaccinations. Minor infections allow the immune system to develop antigen markers
eggs are super healthy and are a better thing to eat than other foods higher in sugars/saturated fats/salts/etc

Replace a deli sandwich with two eggs or replace a bowl of sugar cereal with two eggs or a slice of pizza with a nice omelette
The Starting Strength book is fantastic when it comes to showing a lift's mechanics
Shipping the Zephyr RTOS in Consumer Electronics Products
Doing what you describe and assuming an even distribution of merit throughout the world, limiting 1/3rd of the world population (India + China) to 10% of immigration slots by definition means lowering the average merit of immigrants.
I initially went in because my wrist was hurting when I coded all day, sometimes shooting up my forearm. At the first appointment, they had me put my thumb inside my fist, and try to move my hand down (Finkelstein's test) - I had no motion and lots of pain, so the diagnosis was easy - DeQuervain's syndrome... totally different than carpal tunnel, but still an RSI coders get. For most people, it heals easily, but not in all cases:

We went through the standard steps for this problem - rest, ergonomic changes, a cortisone shot, then physical therapy. Nothing worked, so I consulted a surgeon, who gave me an additional shot with more expertise in exactly where to give it. That actually helped for 6 months, but when I called back after the pain recurred, they said surgery is the last resort, but also the best option in my specific case, as it is a simple fix and almost always works. During the surgery, they found that my tendon sheaths were bisected, leaving less room than normal for movement through the wrist.

As far as the pain, it was very focused on the side of my wrist at the base of my thumb, in particular when moving the hand to the outside of the wrist.

All that being said, the bigger lesson I got from it all is that not all RSI pain is the same problem. Hand specialists know how to tell the difference between all the problems and can give you guidance on which treatment will help. At the same time, general practitioners do not have the same level of knowledge, and may waste your time running you through treatments that won't work. So if you are having problems... ask a hand/wrist specialist for help.
Rise in Number of Israeli Startups Slowing Down
Worth noting a good source of vitamin D is the Sun
Documented the economic activity? No, they documented deposits of particles that are claimed to be from the Roman Republic smelters and also which are only the particles that existing weather patterns happened to have lead to being deposited. Talk about derivative. Not even to mention that there is little that would imply that smelting for coin production would implicitly relate to economic activity. Run away inflation or corrupt rulers do not necessarily correlate to economic activity but could very well result in increased smelting just as well as technological advances that require more smelting or buildup of the military could.
...and arranging the necessary payments to Nigeria for me!
You have questions about sunscreen. We have answers
That's odd - the VA pretty much leads the way with compliance on this...

It's literally the only agency listed with over 15 sites that is greater than 99% compliance.

https://pulse.cio.gov/https/agencies/
What does this have to do with helping all sentient beings to awaken in this lifetime?

Consider a name change.
Everyone has an opinion about which language is better or worse. It didn't actually matter, they all suck in some way or another.

https://wiki.theory.org/index.php/YourLanguageSucks

You'll find something you like over the others. But it's all just syntax at the end of the day.

The real mastery is programming paradigms. Some languages lend themselves to particular methods and some just can't, or can't do some easily, but just knowing that is important too.

I believe there was a HN about this a while ago but I can't find it.
Bloomberg Reporters the Latest Tools of Crypto Scammers – But Not the Last
I’ve read lots of RSI stories and seeing a doctor never seems to solve the problem.

https://github.com/melling/ErgonomicNotes

One example is John Ousterhout, the creator of Tcl/Tk, has had RSI for decades:

https://web.stanford.edu/~ouster/cgi-bin/wrist.php
Perhaps this could has been in the first paragraph, as an easy comparison (1m/s looks too small). And then add the details of the variation of the Earth gravity with the distance and then the part about the gravity of the Moon, and then in the third paragraph get to the complete technical explanation.

Anyway, sending a question to "What If?" is like sending a question to Mythbusters. You never get an easy answer, but an overthinked answer that involves some destruction and explosions.
In the UK, the central network is fibre but the "last mile" from the exchange to home is always copper. The "last mile" can turn into 2+ miles if you're unlucky.

UK ISPs sell various different speeds including 'fibre' at the high end. However it's never true fibre and you'll have copper cable no matter the package you pick.

I had Plusnet 17MPS but in actual fact it was ~6MPS download and 0.5MPS upload. The bad part was if I did an upload of say ~20MB it would throttle my download speed thereby slowing everything to a halt.

I tethered my phone to my laptop and got 16MPS upload speeds....
From a post higher up:

TL;DR: After extensive investigation, case review and working with a variety of internal teams, we’ve have not found any supporting evidence to corroborate these claims.

Greetings. This is Alex Diacre again from Google’s G Suite Support team with a followup. In order to protect the privacy of all our customers and users, it is our policy not to disclose information relating to specific customer accounts in public forums. But given the amount of attention this post received, I’d like to offer some insight on the results of our investigation on this matter:

-The original poster on Reddit (OP) did not identify him/herself or the customer account. We have made several attempts to reach out to the OP through PM, but have yet to receive a response. (If the OP or someone from his/her company is reading this, please get in touch with me).

- We have tried to identify the customer based on the information in the original post, including an extensive review of recent support cases, but have not found any cases resembling the description.

To note, Technical Support is available to G Suite customers 24/7 via chat, phone and email. We’re happy to work with the OP to investigate this matter further; until then, we have not found any supporting evidence to corroborate these claims. Technical Support can be accessed at https://gsuite.google.com/support/*
The previous discussion is about the version dated November 4th, 2014. The book referenced here is dated January 4th, 2018. From looking at the TOCs, most chapters contain a few additional sections and there is an entirely new chapter. This might warrant a second discussion.
From discussions with Europeans, salaries for many white collar workers, not just tech, are like 2x higher in the US.
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People are asking for citations to actual literature that support your claim that a pair of fertile people can't reproduce. I think what you're actually saying is that you can't bootstrap a viable population from a pair of people (which is definitely true from a population bottleneck point of view), but I think you're massively overstating your case. It would really help if you could point to some modern well-accepted textbook or paper that supports your claim.
Agree, and the BT monopoly is exactly what slowed down DSL deployment and speed in he UK 15 years ago.
JS and bash here
My newsboat setup[0] renders RTL incorrectly. Appears to convert both headlines and content into LTR :(

[0] newsboat 2.11.1, Mac, iTerm2 reporting as "xterm-256color", UTF-8.
I've never had RSI severe enough to have to stop working because of it, but the minor issues I once had were completely cured by taking up indoor rock climbing.

Of course I don't know exactly why it worked, but my guess is that a) it massively increases blood flow into your forearms and hands, and b) it strengthens all the small muscles and tendons in your forearms and hands so much that typing and other movements don't even register as "strain" anymore.

If you start climbing, start slow and easy and build very slowly, especially if you are an athletic person who is used to improving fast and pushing yourself. The tendons in your fingers get stronger much more slowly than you expect.
I think the approach to learning that new language is not correct.

Master Java. What I mean is, learn how OO can be used to solve a problem. Learn why immutable classes were advertised as a best practice. Don't learn Java-isms. Learn why this language has certain features, and learn how to use those features. You'll be a master when you can take that knowledge and learn another modern OO language in a week, easy. For example, Python and Ruby should be easy to learn after that.

Learn a functional language afterwards - clojure, F#, Ocaml, Haskell. You'll feel naked w/o the OO backing. Master one of them.

After that, all the programming languages become roughly the same, all with their own -isms.

Distributed systems and data Engineering are not programming language specific - they are concepts that can be implemented in any language.
You can now watch your dreams
I also buy kitty litter on Amazon. It's cheaper.
> plpgsql is somewhat gnarly

I agree it doesn't look like Python or whatever, but it does look a lot like SQL. So if you're familiar with SQL, PL/pgSQL is easy to learn. To me it's just SQL with if-statements and loops.
US Employee in China Suffers Brain Injury in Case Recalling Cuba Sound 'Attack'
Top Trends in Mobile Design in 2018
Completely agree on the upload speeds...I had Plusnet 17MPS but in actual fact it was ~6MPS download and 0.5MPS upload. The bad part was if I did an upload of say ~20MB it would throttle my download speed thereby slowing everything to a halt.
Lots of possibilities. What npm version are we talking about?
Survey: “State of Asterisk Call Centres in 2018” Now Open
Facebook Joins the Online Dating Arms Race
The #1 thing that has always worked for me, and I've been addressing this for years .. since 1983 .. has been to switch things up.. Change my keyboard at least twice a year.

You know that whole vim vs. emacs debate? Actually, thats really healthy for you. If you don't wanna have sore knuckles every week, use both.

It really helps to switch it up.

In 1984, I was mostly a user of 8-bit style keyboard systems. Had MSX, had British-8bit, had a bit of American..

In the 90's I had a lot of American. I mean, who hasn't had a bit of IBM or Cherry or two, amirightkids?

All through this period, there were periphery effects where I could observe my hands saying, enough is enough. Please do something else for a while so pathways can be repaired.

So, I did it. I've pushed all kinds of switches in response. Turns out, this is good for all kinds of other reasons too (pollygots ftw) and so on.

But every year I think to myself, how well are my hands behaving? And the answer always comes back to, did I upgrade my main machine this year?

(Disclaimer: ready to ditch Apple and go with someone else, unibody..)
I think using all-caps is ugly-as-hell:

(DEFUN hello-world ()
(FORMAT T "Hello, world!~%"))
Ever heard of bears? I don't believe any of them have something that could be called a tribe (unless you redefine any form of family to be one). They simply don't have a source of food that could sustain any nontrivial population in small territory.
Even living alone most of there lives wouldn't stop them from finding a mate and having an offspring.
Government Spending
I once Amazon Now'd a 12 pack of coke. What? I was thirsty.
Should AI Always Identify Itself? It’s more complicated than you might think
Maybe that would suffice to give the machine a distinctive look. I remember the way the BeBox advertised the fact it had two CPUs by having two prominent LED bars indicating processor usage or how (now talking about supercomputing) the Connection Machines used LED matrixes to show activity.
You are thinking of ADSL, which is limited to 24mpbs. BT does sell VDSL as fibre, but usually the distance of copper connection is only out to the street.
That figure for medieval peasants is for a very short period of time after the plague when labor was in short supply. Not at all indicative of the quality of life you could expect as a peasant.
I think there's a crucial component missing from a lot of the good advice here: pick a couple of languages to learn deeply enough to get into the language specification. To really appreciate the interplay between code and execution, you need to dig into some of the differences between how languages are actually implemented and distributed. This will teach you surprising things about the language's execution semantics and what it means to avoid undefined behavior.

Even interpreted languages like Python and Java have tremendous depth in their runtimes and design, such as JITs, memory management, and more.

Set a goal to learn as much about at least a couple of languages as you can, and you'll be able debug and understand programs much better. It will also ease your learning of new languages, because many of their features will fit into things you know already.
You could create something similar with a pad of cheap industrial memory foam (can buy pre-cut on the web dirt cheap), double-sided tape, and some 68mm downpiping, but it wouldn't be adjustable to the same degree.
Other studies show that having kids makes people more satisfied long term.

And yet other studies show that a high level of satisfaction with ones life is more highly correlated with mental health than a high level of short term happiness.
Never heard of him before this news..I imagine he wrote good things
Kubernetes etcd
Regular exercise and getting enough sleep are both really great (for lots of reasons, but definitely a boost to your immune system). And of course nutrition is important, and it's show to be helpful even if you only make small changes. Ditto on the healing powers of vitamin D - especially when it comes from the sun.
A good place to start an article about the fifth century CE is definitely the first century BCE. I was just writing an article about Trump which starts with 1527.
You can't master one language without learning others. If you learn several, mastering them will become easier, in proportion to the number you have already mastered.
As you can see here: https://imgur.com/a/Ikff2LX Newsboat handles Hebrew as it's supposed to. That is fetching the article and sending the output to the terminal. It is after all a terminal program and therefore only displays text trough the terminal. You can set the text width though. So I suspect newsboat supports the Hebrew, Arabic, Chinese and other non latin scripts which are of a decent size. The rest is all dependant on how you configure your terminal/ the font you use.
Playing devil's advocate here: Language has a use beyond matter-of-fact descriptions. Sometimes, creative writing techniques are employed in journalism, though rarely in hard news.

In other words, the headline is not meant to be taken literally.
Actually that is not true. They talk like it is a full incremental backup, but it is not. Apple will maintain a list of the apps you have installed. If that app is no longer available in the app store then you are out of luck. Sure pictures contacts and downloads are available, but settings within apps not so much. The move to iCloud over PC backups is great for Apple (the got my money for the 2TB plan, but only sorta good for consumers.
I think most languages could get close - see e.g. https://www.teamten.com/lawrence/writings/java-for-everythin... . Of course if you want to actually execute code in the browser then you need to compile to javascript, but I'm not convinced that's required as often as people think it is (Wicket offers a very interesting AJAX model where you re-render UI fragments on the server in response to changes - all the code that runs is Java, but the behaviour ends up very similar to if you had client-side javascript making a server call to fetch data). "Data science" means many things to many people; you wouldn't want to write actual linear algebra in Java (or any language without operator overloading), but again the cases where you can't reuse a prebuilt model from your language of choice are rarer than one might think.

Scala was explicitly designed as a "scalable language" with both the strong safety guarantees that you need for large-scale development and the lightweight syntax that you need for throwaway scripts. But a lot of modern language design is converging on the same set of features (e.g. static typing for safety but type inference for convenience, pattern matching for the safety of the visitor pattern but the convenience of an if/else) and would have the same abilities. E.g. in a Reddit post about Rust a couple of days ago people were talking about writing web services in Rust, and part of the rationale there is that while Rust may not be the perfect web service language, it's good enough that if you already have Rust in your stack you might well write web services in Rust rather than bringing in a new language. I haven't seen anyone doing data science in Rust yet, but I see no fundamental reason why the language couldn't be adapted for it.
That's certainly the real problem here, the point is you might expect the webserver to prevent indexing but this file can act as an index.
While I find that the article is true for most these days, I still prefer to have the hardware in-house.
FBI Used Fake Statistics to Sell Its Need for Encryption Backdoors
While individual jobs in tech may not last, the tech industry is much less risky than the rest of the economy. There is a perpetual and widening gap between supply and demand of talent. It’s been one hell of a ride and it ain’t ending anytime soon.
said the user known as CyberDildonics.
So long as they allow them to speak while not under oath, this will continue. Like Clapper. oh, I was thinking of something else when I answered incorrectly. Yeah, right.
The unnecessary tone of this blog spam "article" rubs me the wrong way. Also, the source might be a better basis for discussion: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs13524-015-0413-...
> As long as the measured outcome (which I recommend keeping track of) remains constant, invested hours don't matter that much.

I don't think most employers would agree with that. If I'm a "normal" full-time, salaried employee, I'm expected to work 5 days a week, usually for at least 8 hours a day. If I'm able to become more efficient or automate parts of my job away, my employer would expect me to take on more work or responsibility, not work fewer hours a day. (You're free to argue that this isn't fair, but I'm just talking about reality here.)

If I were to work a reduced schedule of 3 or 4 days a week, the same thing would apply.

Of course, if the negotiation resulted in more of a contracting role, as in being paid for milestones and project delivery, then time-spent-in-chair shouldn't matter.

The grandparent post seemed to be talking of a sort of a hybrid of FTE/salaried and consulting, so perhaps your advice might apply to that sort of thing, but I don't think what you're saying would apply to a traditional salaried position, even after negotiating a reduced work-week.
The Guardian: Readers’ memories and tributes

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/may/23/at-each-book-i...
weird that you're getting downvoted. The only explanation I can come up with is that some people's gut reaction to testimony against wheat is a result of addiction.
Cyber Intelligence Best Practices: ODNI Study and Early Findings
Interesting. I had a Unix PC - the 7300.

When the mother board went bad AT&T sent a technician to my house to diagnose and replace it. For free.

Those were the old days of the lingering legacy of the way Bell did things.
Pro games are often played at 2K@240 now; it never ends
Bit of an absurd nit, but... Doesn't the "click correct images as they appear" captcha style make this impossible?
We're on node 6.9, NPM 3.10

The FE guy seems to think that upgrading Npm wouldn't fix it, because "Some kind of caching mechanism kicks in, and the only way to really resolve it is by nuking everything and starting from scratch. This is because we use git tags (github release tags)."

Does that make sense?
Giant Predatory Worms Quietly Invaded France, and Biologists Are Shocked
I'm fairly sure there have been repeated initiatives, over decades, to improve speeds where the government has thrown money at Openreach and they've achieved next to nothing.

e.g. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-40481561