skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's go and work remotely for couple of weeks?
I'm living in Estonia and I really like it here. Except for the weather. Ok, we have some nice summers after every five years or so, but most of the time it's too cold for me.

I've been thinking to go and live somewhere else for a couple of months a year.

We could:

- find a nice place with some sun (> in Estonia)

- rent some places not too far from each other, so we can meet up sometimes

- work from coworking places

- organize small get-togethers to talk about what we're working on

Necker Island would be great for this... Richard you here?

Does it make sense? Let's go and work remotely? We could start with couple of weeks or so.
True. I wonder if that’s why the lgbt community has been fighting for “gay civil rights” since 1969...?
Regular users also use Norton, McAfee, and other vendor Internet security suites. Some of those will also use the hosts file.
That only prohibits discrimination based on "race, color, religion, sex or national origin."
Plus, since builds take forever, projects like this give you something interesting to read about while you wait 30-40 min for your code to make it into master. (Yes, seriously)
I think it's more of a "leak classified information and they'll find out how to kill all of us".
> Whatever happens to Gitlab, you have the option of hosting the open source edition yourself.

The whole _point_ of Github was that you didn't have to host anything yourself. Just create an account and, bam, off you go.

On top of that, even if you did want to host Gitlab yourself, it's "open core", not open source. You'd lose a ton of functionality.
That's just your opinion, and given you're not even a lawyer, it's worth about as much as the latest Ethereum ICO.
A lot of people that love Ruby and dislike Crystal seem to dislike Crystal for reasons like what you mentioned. I'm pretty sure that you can get a sorted list of methods in Crystal (not with the same syntax unfortunately) at compile time in macros. I'm not sure why you would ever want to dynamically get a sorted list of methods at runtime... unless you're adding methods at runtime.
GM settles self-driving legal action with California biker
now comes the time for the pricing
Sorry, but no. Commodore’s failure is almost entirely related to terrible business decisions, but machine wise, the C64 was more powerful by virtue of flexibility. (The built in basic is irrelevant and could be easily upgraded to SuperBasic if you wanted that)

Ask yourself why 4 decades later, there is still a huge demo scene around the C64 and Amiga, but not the Apple II?

The C64 could do things on stock hardware that would have blown your mind in the early 80s as having come from the future: look at the 11 minute mark at the Onslaught Demo https://youtu.be/FTtKHLZTbtA find me an Apple II demo on stock original hardware that comes even close. (Full screen video and digital audio streaming from floppy at 15fps) my school had Apple IIs, they did not inspire me to learn to program, my C64 did, and I learned 6502
Assembly, not basic, because the graphics I saw in demos and games were jaw dropping and inspiring unlike anything a kid saw on an Apple II.

And less 1 year after the Mac128, Commodore launches what was the iPhone of 1985, vertically integrated custom chips and software, for half the price that did all this: https://youtu.be/q7rKj0DU8Xs

The Mac128 was priced way outside a home users budget, had an almost unusable
Tiny amount of memory, non expandable, terrible graphics and sound. It was not a home brew system, or for kids,
Or for engineers.

For those reasons Commodore computers were way more popular with hackers and with kids, excellent games, and when you chose to explore, excellent hardware to learn to code on.

Apple’s success was mostly due to marketing, and don’t forget, Apple failed and almost went bankrupt too.

BTW, the total number of Apple IIs sold were less than six million, including 1.25 million IIgs as opposed to Five million Amigas and 12 million C64s. In Europe especially, the C64 dominated.
It's a good idea. Renting in general has proved to be too much trouble for me.

I actually bought my last car because it was too much a pain in the ass to rent a SUV!

I needed a new car anyway, so I figured it was a $1,500-$2k discount if I just bought one.

The Honda CRV has been fairly decent: I use it for what it is good for, too. Winter trips with multiple people.
I don't disagree with what you're saying, but I never got the impression that "I'm loving it" was anything less than a clear McDonalds/Timberlake tie-in. Was this really not obvious to parts of the world?
Your entire post boils down to, "just trust the billionaires!"

No, we won't. They are liars and cheaters, the lot of them, and we aren't going to trust them any more. They said in court "we didn't do that" so then you post it here that everything is okay, but I don't trust it. Not one bit. None of us do, or should, trust what those companies say.

Mark Zuckerberg is a liar. The whole concept of, "We're doing the right thing with your data, just trust us" is ridiculous. He already called you and I and every single one of us a literal "dumb fuck" for trusting Facebook with the data. Mark Zuckerberg would be banned from HN for vile language if he were here. Clearly, we are not meant to trust him or any of them at their word. They lie and they know it.

NO, zaroth, I do not believe a single part of any of the quotes you wrote. I don't believe them. We also know that Zuckerberg was intentionally misleading or lying in recent EU appearances.

> How else was the UI rendering your Facebook Feed?!

This kind of incredulous, "we must have Facebook on our phones, what else were we supposed to do?!" is silly. Facebook and these partners clearly overstepped their bounds.

> But the NYT apparently thinks this is nefarious in some way.

What? You then quoted the NYT listing a series of facts. Nowhere does the NYT say anything like nefarious or anything like that. You are making things up.

> ... fake controversy ...

Did you just call this whole thing fake? Like, the controversy itself? It's not fake..... This HN thread's existence proves the controversy is real. This stuff is not fake.
Does Sourcegraph not already have this feature? Do they plan to?
So security is the highest priority, the overriding concern that justifies taking away your right to control the equipment you bought?

Okay. Then stop messing with the operating system. Stop changing anything except as needed for security patches. If nothing changes except security improvements, the rate of updates and the probability of update breaking something will both dramatically decrease - which would be good not only for usability and reliability, but also security, because it would tilt the incentive much more in the direction of immediately accepting all updates.

No?

Okay. Now we've established that security is not in fact the highest priority after all. That, in short, the argument based on security being the highest priority was bullshit. So let's stop repeating it. If Microsoft behaves as though the highest priority were job security for individual Microsoft employees, then let's acknowledge that.
They are the second party -- the user.

Facebook never has any interaction with the human user, they only interact with the user agent.
Maybe something you're missing is the concept of "evolvability". You can see the book "Resolving Darwin's Dilemma" (review here: https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article/56/9/772/263015). An important concept in the evolution of novelty (creating new, advanced functions out of "random" mutations) is that all the living systems we observe today are highly evolvable. Evolvability is an emergent property of some evolving systems, and it enables surprising leaps in functionality.
There was a plot line in The Three Body Problem where aliens sabotaged particle physics experiments to limit human technological advancement while they were making the journey to earth.

Amazing series and even friends that don’t enjoy science function enjoyed reading them.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three-Body_Problem_(nove...
That's good to know. This only applies to what Microsoft calls "consumer non-gaming apps", however. Games and presumably what Microsoft considers professional apps are still subject to the existing fee structure.

For the time being, my comment stands.
Good link.

But I don't see how you can tolerate that contradiction. Either you agree with Oracle that the Java APIs were copyrighted and Google should not have been allowed to reconstruct them. Or you worry about fragmentation coming from an incompatible Java implementation. Doing both is nonsensical.
I don't get your point. GitLab has basic code reviews [1, 2] and LDAP support [3]. LDAP support is better in EE than in CE but that's expected. What is missing for you?

1: https://gitlab.com/help/user/project/merge_requests/merge_re...

2: https://docs.gitlab.com/ce/development/code_review.html

3: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/administration/auth/ldap-ee.html
According to the astronomer's later blog dated 27th Feb 2018, IMAGE went silent again.

https://skyriddles.wordpress.com/2018/02/27/space-strikes-ba...
I just tried logging out and I think you're right - HN was much faster. I'll keep this in mind in future - I usually stay logged in, but if it's making this much difference in load on the hN servers, I'll log out if I'm not commenting.
Google, Amazon step up to do business with Pentagon, CIA
Maybe the real outrage should be directed at ISPs charging by the megabyte.
Hi gritzko!

I hadn't seen RON It looks really interesting - I'll definitely take some time to play with it sometime soon. It's so great how much work is happening in this space right now.

> 1-3 is generally true for ORDTs (in archagon's terms).

That makes sense to me except for calculating diffs efficiently. Are you saying that can be done in time proportional to the _diff_? (as opposed to the number of changes?)

> P.S. I think, I will elaborate. So, imagine a real-time collaborative editor. Assuming every edit (1 char) is also a git-like commit, you have to mention its hash and its parent hashes. noms trims hashes to 20 bytes, that's reasonable, so we have at least 40 bytes of metadata, incompressible by definition. That means 1:40 data-to-metadata ratio or 1:200 if we count compression in. That is more or less the reason we did not use hashes in one our project some time ago.
> What is your perspective on that?

We don't actually transmit the hash of a chunk if we transmit the chunk itself since that's duplicate information. So the overhead would be half your calculation.

My perspective is that this frequently an entirely acceptable tradeoff. Your calculation is the absolute worst case, and there are many applications for which that worst case occurs infrequently. Today's collaborative text editors, for example, usually damp the liveness on purpose for ux reasons. It's cool to see someone type live, until you are that person, and realize that the other side is watching you misspell in realtime :).

The minimum size of an update in Noms is currently one "chunk". Chunks are set to average 4kb in the code currently, though that is tunable (the cost is that cost of access and write locally will go up).

If you wanted to reduce the size of updates in Noms further, you could do that transmitting patches to know chunks rather than new chunks.

It looks like the identifiers in RON are 16 bytes, so I think if you continue to push this direction in Noms you end up with wire formats that cost about the same. It just hasn't been something we've worked on yet.

In exchange for this tradeoff, what you get in Noms is:

- No need to ever accumulate a history of changes in order to know the current state. Each snapshot directly and efficiently represents the current state. It looks like in RON you can transmit a state, but it's not clear to me when nodes would choose to do that vs a patch.

- Local storage properties comparable to a traditional database. Store large amounts of data with efficient queries, sorted scans, mutations, etc.

I'm not sure how this all compares to RON, I'm looking forward to digging into it.
Where and how would you find a private jeweler?
There is training, but basically all of if surrounds not being an idiot with strangers. Aside from people accepting bribes, most of these stings involve the target trying to impress someone. They brag. They think this new person might help them land a job in the future. Or: That pretty girl you met online ... she isn't in to you.

The military deals with this issue through other means, mainly by trying to prevent employees becoming vulnerable in the first place. Living in secure housing with stable costs of living. Retirement planning / pensions. Not allowing people to fall into stupid dept (payday loans etc). And making sure employees feel valued enough that they want to stay with the company. An employee who feels secure in their position, who sees a clear road to advancement within the organization, doesn't feel the need to brag to strangers. Corporations would do well to consider these tactics.
Easy. As an exchange almost all your volume is “off chain” transactions between two traders. And since you aren’t audited or beholden to any financial regulation there is nothing stopping you from having one side of the trade be your own bot. All that bot does is sell newly created fake bitcoin and keeps the dirty USD fiat for the exchange owner. Again since the system isn’t audited, the exchange can have massively more “bitcoin” in its database than it actually has on the blockchain. The system (Er, scam) can work just fine until a bunch of folks start withdrawing bitcoin.

Since virtually all of the exchanges are unaudited, sketchy “businesses” I wouldn’t be surprised if they all run this way. It might come to pass the almost all of the exchange volume consists of trading fake bitcoin that is backed by almost no real bitcoin.
The baker offered to create the couple cakes for even things like a wedding shower, or to create various goodies for them. And of course they could also buy anything that was already baked in the shop including things that could be used as their wedding cake. The one thing he would not do is create a cake specifically for a same sex marriage as he felt it was endorsement of something he felt was unethical. He also had a long list of other things he would not create products to endorse, including Halloween.

This is why the case was fundamentally a freedom of speech case. The creation of a cake was seen as an expression of endorsement by the baker, and the state cannot compel individuals to endorse things they find offensive. To avoid copy pasting stuff, I wrote more details along with some background on 'speech' as well as state compulsion here [1].

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17229172
>It is important to understand that a negotiation is not the same as a trade. You don't always have to give something tangible to get something back. Very often, negotiations proceed on points of emotion, or morality, alone. An appeal to justice, mercy, friendship etc, is often just as effective.

No. It was not effective in the past and it would not be effective in the future. In fact the last 7 years of Greece's relationship to the Troika served as ample example of just how ineffective it was.

>In any case, one does not go to the negotiating table after having systematically disparaged the other side as villains

Well, when 7 years of treating them as friends achieves nothing... why not try something new, right? PASOK got annihilated in the polls for a reason and that reason is that they tried it your way and failed.
That's twisting some assumptions of the comparison. The comparison was to casinos, which do not bet decades of profits on a single day's gambling. The equivalent would be investing in your index every payday for decades, not suddenly moving it all at once. That's where the mathematical near inevitability comes from. You aren't betting on one day, one spin of the wheel, you're betting on a general trend across ten thousand spins/days.
In the most general sense an XML document can reference schema(s) not locally available; a client wishing to validate against those schemas has to download them.

For most use cases, this isn't relevant, because the application expects a document of schema X and will provide said schema as well.
It was not toggle-able. You could only opt out of an ill-defined subset of an ill defined set of collected data, including, but not limited to all user inputs performed on that system. You would know as much if you had read the material published by MS on this. Only with the recent update do they offer a tool with which to inspect at least part of the actual data sent to MS. There is however no proof that the data shown in that tool is complete (even though I believe that they truely intend to show everything - despite their traditionally pushy methods, they are not Facebook).
HAProxy can scale horizontally. No need to get sniffy just because you forgot HAProxy works on layer 4.
GitHub license was changed a year or so ago, allowing an unlimited license to use. I took down my personal repos when they announced (quietly) that. I saw the HN post about it. Lot of people just didn't seem to care much.

I'm no lawyer, but wouldn't that mean now Microsoft has an unlimited license of all code uploaded to GitHub? That doesn't seem, ehh, good?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13597340
While I have my share of horror stories with WinX malware (if it installs even despite an explicit refusal, it doesn't deserve a more charitable title), running critical systems (literal life support?!) on a desktop OS is irresponsible bordering on criminal, IMNSHO. Even MSFT has embedded and server OS lines for that.
>but I don't think I've ever met someone who accurately articulated real problems with Monsanto as opposed to hysteria and conspiracy theory, so this is probably the best move over all.

True, I guess part of the reason is people here don't have the domain knowledge. Us programmers are only experts in our narrow fields. I take most comments here on agriculture/politics/patents/etc with a bit of humor. :^)
It's definitely not a legacy framework, it's very actively developed and improved.

A lot of very useful statistical models can't benefit from the GPU, and for them I think Stan is the better tool. There's a reason it's basically the default choice for people who want to use probabilistic programming for Bayesian statistics.

It's probably not the best tool for AI/ML type models. But for statisticians who want to use Bayesian methods it's close to perfect.
Maybe I don't know something, but what I see is liking VSCode while hating Microsoft and it looks somehow funny to me.
What's that have to do with Monsanto?
As Sweden eliminates cash, criminals turn to stealing property, including owls
I do need to mix up the verbiage more.

In practical terms, people respond much better to having their egos stroked than they do to being told they're wrong. Evidence and logic work much better when someone doesn't feel like their ego is at stake. Telling someone they're right before pointing out that they could be more right is one way to do this. Telling people that they're wrong is more likely to provoke a defensive reaction and a closed mind than it is genuine thoughtfulness and consideration. We've all seen people refuse logic, reason, and evidence because they feel personally attacked, I suspect.

This is a lesson I gleaned from the (in)famous "How To Make Friends And Influence People". It's not wrong, it's just cynical.

So of course it's insincere. Human interaction is greased with little insincerities. It's how we deal with egos.
Not affiliated with the team, but I feel compelled to plug https://gitea.io/en-US/ here ... such a lean alternative to GitLab, I was really happy to find it. Runs just fine for a couple of dozen users on a rather whimpy virtual server.
The cited studies seem to be 2011 and 2016, hardly "news", even the one described as "2017" is actually 2016.
Would the GUI bits be useful on a non-Windows platform?
> Central banking helps prevent things like double-spends and creating currency out of thin air.

Actually you mean central banking enables these things. The whole point of central banking is double spending and money creation.
Awesome! This is great news for women everywhere.
Choose your app’s payment provider: Stripe VS SagePay VS PayPal
What's behind the quiet rise of homelessness in the countryside?
> Car emissions are getting cleaner, leading to cleaner air. That would be one example.

Is it enough? Aren't these changes being more than offset by increased emissions elsewhere?

> Deindustrialization of the West led to improvements in ecology as well, I imagine.

It seems doubtful, since production didn't stop but simply moved to other places, often with much looser regulatory regimes.
If you're storing tons of numbers you might consider scientific formats like HDF5, ROOT or FITS.
They do, but I imagine there are quite a few (all?) cake shops that would refuse to make cakes with particular messages. What if, for example, a gay owned bakery was asked by a Muslim Imam to make a cake with the message "Thank Allah for the Pulse nightclub shooting"? Would the bakery be in violation of the CRA as they are discriminating on the basis of religion?

The question in this case was not whether the baker would sell a cake to a gay person (he was willing to do so), it was whether the baker had to make a cake with a particular message that he felt violated his personal and deeply held beliefs.
They can now gain access to competitors' code or block open source innovations before they can be fully realized.
Very nice. Maybe you should include stars and last commit date in the search results, or even as filters.
Great project!

My podcast search engine project Listen Notes ( https://www.listennotes.com/ ) does
transcription as well.

It's not as accurate as Podscripter, but good enough for in-audio search. Example: https://www.listennotes.com/e/1dae4f4c2c0d4202a1180bd9c9f17d...

Website visitors can request to transcribe episodes on Listen Notes websites.
Magic 8 ball says: Sorry, try again.
Not on GitHub, according to GitHub's own metrics. Microsoft-affiliated accounts contributed more than Google's multiple organization accounts combined, in commit-count, number of projects/repositories contributed to, number of lines contributed. Admittedly, such quantity metrics are not great for apples-to-apples comparisons of code quality and "patronage", but metrics are still the closest approximation we have to actions over marketing spin.
Yes, steam is coming out of our single-core process in disconcerting places.

We've got some duct-tape measures we can take, but there's also some huge work we've been doing to overhaul performance that should come online pretty soon. Unfortunately it may be a bumpy ride until then. And if that doesn't work...well it better work.
I get it that you are channeling Stallman and that you think your device is spying on you. And by all means lets fight that fight and write those stories.

But that’s not the story that the NYT has published here.

I’m incredulous that programmers and hackers would feign surprise that a UI rendering a Facebook feed would necessarily use an API which returned a data structure with... your fucking Facebook feed.

If device manufactures or OS developers (Apple, Microsoft, Samsung, Amazon, Google, etc.) are exfiltrating personal data off of your device — and BTW my Facebook feed would be the least of my concerns in that case — prove it, and the point your pitchforks at them.
I really would love something like this: to transcribe chinese podcasts into pinyin and characters. this would really help me learn the language better, as listening skills are the hardest to learn when learning a foreign language.