skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The template idea sounds promising, but the same could be achieved by just communicating the fact that you need more information when handed an issue you haven't been involved in discussing beforehand. Make this clear to whoever is your point of contact.

Explain to them (and this isn't a trick to get things to go your way) that this is a necessary step the team needs to take to both assist any future remote collaborators, to help with onboarding of ANY new people in the future (what-was-this-code-written-in-response-to kind of questions get answered much more easily this way) and generally promotes a culture of accountability, which is always good to have in a collaborative setting.

Then simply annoy whoever could give you information by mailing them or leaving them a couple of messages. This will over time make them more likely to provide all the required information.

Arrange your work so that you always have a backlog so that you don't have to work on that specific things every day, and you don't end up really blocked.
Well in this case why Github, GitLab, etc.. do not allow you to "star" a repo more than once?

I'm fine with stars not being significant, but it's still not good if a malicious actor can suddenly spoof hundreds of accounts and spam stars, comments and what-not.
No, it’s not better to give the money to elected officials - they have no incentive at all to spend the money wisely. When you’re spending other people’s money, the incentive to do what’s best for the money disappears.

Further, when discussing politics, giving money to politicians leads to corruption, kickbacks, and other waste.

Finally, politicians have shown time and again they are awful businessmen. Boston’s Big Dig, Seattle’s tunnel under the city, California’s high speed rail, and I could go on and on and on.
Day-0 DLC has arrived to technical literature. John really is ahead of the curve.
That's true, I'll get around to patching t2b today or tomorrow to get in the fixes that everyone's suggested.

This tool was hacked together quickly, and you can tell by using it that it's not close to perfect yet.
Also, neither seems to understand the difference between being a shareholder and having an employment agreement.

If you own part of the company AND you intend to draw a salary (not just get dividends) then you need both, otherwise you end up in this mess.
Taking responsibility for your health is discouraging in America. You have to go through great lengths to avoid added sugars, companies hide or obscure the amount of sugar they're putting in their product. I'm tired of feeling like I have to defend myself from the people trying to sell me things, it's difficult trying to make decisions that are best for me when multi-billion dollar companies are doing everything they can to manipulate me into consuming their products.
When I have days like this, I try to work on bugs. That way I don't have start anything, it's already been written. I just have to fix it. For me it's pretty easy to get motivated to fix a bug because I can just step lazily through the debugger until my momentum catches up.

If I don't have bugs, I'll usually work on a Kata for 15 min or so. Something I've written hundreds of times and can do from memory. This helps my momentum get caught up, too.

I prefer working on bugs, though. I feel more productive.
Switch is efficient on pretty much any platform I can think of (well, except some 8-bit uC compilers...).

That statement about switch inefficiency is simply not true, except for sparse case values.

But since one can generally choose those values (and they're often a running enum anyways), it's really a non-issue.

For sparse case, it's better to use a hash table. Perhaps a build phase to generate a perfect hash (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_hash_function) to map each possible input value to continuous range of integer values.
IMO a platform like this has a lot of potential, especially for education. Wikipedia is often far too dense to really learn from if you're not already a subject matter expert.

One thing that concerns me slightly is the presentation of opinion as fact, which to some extent is inevitable in a public wiki that has no citation requirement. There also seem to be articles with a wide variety of intents - there are informative articles like the keto diet instructions and the hierarchy of evidence, but also laundry lists like "no brainers" and "scientific study requests". I don't know if there is an intended purpose for the contents of the site, but having this mix creates some ambiguity in my eyes.

Overall, I'm keen to see where this goes - especially if it can help me to learn new useful ideas and practices (as opposed to edutainment-style wikipedia browsing).
The real problem is the incentives the tax creates. It's per head, which means every time you hire someone, your taxes go up, and every time you fire someone, your tax bill goes down. It's a tax incentive for destroying jobs, specifically low wage jobs held by the most vulnerable people, since the tax is a drop in the bucket for executives, but much more significant percentage wise when hiring low skilled workers.

It should have been a tax based on revenue, so that it targeted the financial footprint of the company, rather than punishing companies for employing lots of people.
Many times my glasses have prevented debris from hitting me in the eye. I wear them for the safety aspect alone!

Lasik always seemed risky to me--it's not reversible and if better technology comes along I would be out of luck. I also don't mind being nearsighted that much. It's a handicap at times, but not that big of a deal.
I don't know enough to reason about it myself, but there are plenty of people that claim it has negative effects. And when pressed most people I've encountered that say that any negative effects are negligible reveal that their source have been marketing from the manufacturer.

https://www.reddit.com/r/GalaxyS8/comments/7fg4sk/should_i_s...

I'm not saying the link above is supposed to be more credible than your post. But it is an alternative view point that resonates with most of what I've read.

For the same reason Tesla recommends you to not over-use supercharging (though this obviously is a sensitive subject), since it puts a toll on batteries - and Tesla unlike most other battery peripherals actually have good and active cooling.
Cool subtitle :) lighthearted, and gives good overview of author's position: "Good news: I know what to do. Bad news: I have no clue how to Rust"
KDE Plasma 5.13 released
I'm well aware of the concept of estimation, and I own a food scale. Even when you make things yourself you know that an egg is ~70 calories, 100g of flour is ~400 calories, etc. It isn't exactly rocket science.

Knowing how much of what to eat isn't the problem. It has never been the problem. The problem is actually sticking to that diet when your body is screaming at you to eat more, when the part of your mind that evolved to keep you from starving --which is what losing weight is, since your body literally has to eat itself-- starts playing tricks on you and conveniently forgetting that you ate earlier, and when your metabolism, which has been unavoidably and permanently damaged by the mere act of losing weight at all, requires that you eat substantially less than the daily average.

I'm really sick of people assuming I'm a moron because losing weight is difficult. Do you know what it is like to only eat one meal a day? To have to avoid all social functions at which free food might be present? To ensure that there is only ever enough food in your house for exactly one week of your caloric allotment of 1600/day?

Trust me, whatever parroted advice you're thinking of offering next, I've heard about it and tried it.
How to Apply Deep Learning to Drone Imagery
Validation is backwards: https://stackingthebricks.com/validation-is-backwards/
Do you think it's possible for a web app to utilize caching?

We may be in a position right now where WebGL is new-ish but this is changing and 5-10 years from now the difference between a native and webapp likely won't be much. It seems silly to argue that users should go through an extra step / give large amounts of trust to an application if they don't need to.
The numbers seem completely improbable. No one would trade on 15-second-old market data:
"And perhaps this means 15,625,200 us of latency as measured at t MD 3 at the telco gear interface to the building’s fibre (generously)."

Secondly, you cannot reason about network latency based solely on bandwidth. This matter is more complicated and depends among other things on the type of the medium and signal modulation techniques. One can have low-bandwidth ultra low-latency link.

Also, most players in the game use kernel bypass so processing packets is a matter of nano-, not microseconds.

Otherwise, a very interesting read.
I think I came to this conclusion the other day: GraphQL truly shines when the variation of ways that you want to access data is significantly more complex than the complexity of the stored data. In other words, if you want to look at 10 tables in a twenty or forty or more different views (counting the times when a view is composed into another), then I believe using GraphQL will begin to show order of magnitude efficiency rewards.

If the number of views is only slightly more than the number of tables then the rewards are more a matter of taste. It will give you a nice typed interface to your data and an interactive query GUI. But other tools provide that as well.
Yes of course, I agree that a custom domain should exist for each app. And the main focus of that domain is informing users of the service.

And yes the credibility of a one-man show is always something to worry about. This could be mitigated with a company though. I can imagine going to; https://sideproject.com/about and reading:

- "Sideproject is brought to you by The Umbrella Company"

Hopefully that would instil more confidence in the product and the people behind it.

Although it seems some people would prefer a simpler more authentic experience of linking directly to the developer... still not sure which way to go.
I think you could achieve something like that with a macro.

macro tlv_string s
begin
i32 (get CONSTANT_STRING_TAG_FOO)
i32 (len s)
str s
u8 0
endmacro

By the way, there's no `len` command at this point, so that's something I'll have to add in eventually to get something like TLV to work.
Could you elaborate please? Why do you think would it make sense?
I do not consider plumbers low-paid.
We barely had FB and Sonar, to just get yet another example of how badly to name projects.

http://gluonhq.com/
What are you talking about? That graph is the transaction fee in USD.
With pjax you choose a selector that is updated. This is usually a <div> in your layout that houses the main page content.

spfjs lets you target multiple containers with a single update, e.g. in YouTube the video area and the sidebar with related content.
And you’re actually implying that these people, who have not done anything even remotely successful in terms of business, elected by roughly 4% of the population of Seattle, who meet once a week for a few hours, who have split incentives to both “help the city” and get continually re-elected, who need to fundraise for elections from entities they could potentially benefit with the money...these are the people you trust more with money than one of the 5 most successful businessmen in the last 100 years?
If you are working for somebody else, you can't exactly make any extra money by working extra hours. At least in a programmers case.

The only real thing to gain in this case is convenience.
Could it also be the case that the sharper focus due to LASIK itself causes increased sensitivity? Is there a general inverse correlation between bad eyesight and light sensitivity?
Would Elixir be able to support this? If yes, then it could be a huge deal (atleast for me). Imagine writing a POS system's code in Elixir. That'd be very nice, although I understand at this point this is just wishful thinking.
Realtime Interactive Visualization of Convolutional Neural Networks in Unity
I think it is valuable, I’m just bad at organising and prioritising my spare time!
You know some families have more than one kid, right?
Are you in any way related to Uber? This image looks like very similar to the Uber app: https://static.staging.flyteleport.com/8ae11ce9af919542b4055....
I've always wondered, if these rovers' biggest problem is the dust, why do they not try to add a fan to blow it away. I know that the martian atmosphere is sparse, but it could still work.
There was an episode of the show Daria that explored this phenomenon.
Actually, in the article it's written, that it's supposed to run elixir amongst others.
Exaggerated example: in a high wage/rent area, I'd rather have a boat than an extra bedroom. In a low wage/rent area, I'd rather have an extra bedroom than a slightly bigger TV.
I hate that movie. If you eat more than your resting metabolic rate and calories burned through activity you gain weight. Surprise!

I personally have lost 55 lbs since January 25th of this year and McDonalds hamburgers and fudge sundaes have been a meal frequently.
I also work remote from a small northern Greece town and I would also totally recommend Crete. It is an island but it is pretty big and the weather is the best you can get in Greece.
If you enjoy crowded places then you should look on Thessaloniki that has 1 million population and has the best night life in my opinion. There are also often flights to other parts of Greece and decent connection to most European cities. Also Chalkidiki is like 1 hour away by car and you can get the best beaches in Greece.
Small drone regs should get pushed back to the states.

Away from airports

under 500 ft.

under so much weight

Everything else should be pushed back to the states
It is being discovered that obesity in kids also lowers their IQs. Obesity is one of the reasons US healthcare is so expensive as well. There are some things we can do to put a dent in this that should appeal to both left and right leaning Americans - like ending subsides on foods used to make sugar (corn). If there are any influential people in the thread, I can't imagine why we can't make this happen, this is a crisis.
Agree, and another meta-comment would be to move to "MB" or "MiB", instead of using "Mb" to mean "mega byte", which is very confusing.
I personally strongly believe so: http://artsy.github.io/blog/2018/05/08/is-graphql-the-future...

Don't get me wrong, some aspects of today's GraphQL are still a little rough around the edges, but I think it's a strong pointer towards the future of service integration.
Not sure why that article has made anywhere on HN. The writer shows a lot of contempt for "feeling miserable", and foster the illusion that people are actually in total control of their feeling and emotions.
Exact same here. Greasy rectangles they called pizza, nachos, chocolate milk, soda, fries were all regular if not daily meals. What do you expect from 300lb adults who think their weight is the norm.
‘Organic’ (brown) sugar and honey are mostly sugar with a little extra stuff.
You actually need to worry, because ids are personal data.

Eve you abandon all these social media platforms and use emails for login, email addresses are still personal data, and you are still processing it.
Watch Kodi on Amazon Fire TV? You're About to Be Hacked
You are missing one important factor:
prices of locally rendered services will factor in the high housing costs of the service provider workers, and of service establishments. I.e., all the services will be significantly more expensive just as well.

And even goods' prices will reflect the high rent costs, given that stocking & sale of good requires[1] employment of local workers, and purchase/rental of local commercial space.

--
[1] even the automated, self-service stores require certain amount of human work as of now.
Mobile user here… It's even worse (I imagine), and unfixable from mobile Safari.
Apple slaps a ban on cryptocurrency mining apps
the sugar is the same in any case, but fiber may reduce how harmful it is, or at least slow down how fast you shove it in your face.
Yes, haha. I was tired. There's a PR open to fix that, I'll merge it in.
https://github.com/KDE/gluon
Thank you for the review! We will surely correct these mistakes before submitting for final publication.

The memory requirements of DNC is quite high. We used GTX 1060 for training. Increasing the context window anything more than 3 increases the sequence length by a huge amount, causing memory problems. However, we also found that DNC works quite well even on small batch size. We used a batch size of 16 for all our experiments. The training time for a batch size of 16, context window of size 3 and 200k steps is 48h on a GTX 1060 system.
Additionally..

1. Give yourself permission to just try, for a little while

2. use fear-setting for really tough moments

A technique that I've found helpful when dealing with anxious thoughts is I become mindful of the anxious feeling, realize what I'm feeling anxious about, and then give myself permission to just try, regardless of the outcome. I'll explicitly granting myself permission to "just try" and even throw in "just for a little while, see how things go". This at times has turned into a productive, multi-hour session.

Tim Ferriss talks about a technique use to confront fears, called "fear setting" [1]. Essentially, I put together a 3-column table and think through the worst that can possibly happen. It helps me think about risks and realize what I can handle. This helps to manage worry.

[1] https://tim.blog/2017/05/15/fear-setting/
Indeed : https://gluon.mxnet.io/
Fan would use power.
Vietnam’s new cyber security law draws concern for restricting free speech
I've used Active Admin a few times [1].
I can't really comment on Wallaby, but AA does the job, although documentation is a bit a problem. I had to dig into the code more than a handful times to figure out the correct way to customize a certain form input. Also AA_addons[2] contains some useful custom input fields.

[1] https://github.com/activeadmin/activeadmin
[2] https://github.com/platanus/activeadmin_addons
Assuming you live in the US, the US doesn't export much coal. It's going to remaining coal plants, probably. But these will eventually be decommissioned, and it's highly unlikely that new ones will be built.
What Are User Stories and Why Write Them?
Gas can also be produced from biological and even synthetic processes. There's been a great deal of research in producing CH4 from CO2 and H2O using surplus electric power from wind, solar, and off-peak nuclear. That means someday all our gas turbines could double as battery discharge machines for a giant chemical battery and the existing gas transport and storage infrastructure could store and transport renewable energy. That's pretty nice from a recovery of sunk cost perspective.

Coal and oil can pretty much only be economically obtained from fossil sources.
Just run the footage through a DNN and put whatever face you want on it.
The Python Way (1991)
The main power draw during the day are in the morning and at the end of the day, not in the middle of the day when the solar is most efficient. That's why it's called a duck curve.
I usually link to this 2006 column by Bruce Schneier – it is both lucid and succinct:

The Eternal Value of Privacy

https://www.wired.com/2006/05/the-eternal-value-of-privacy/
Useless to those that didn't understood how to take advantage of them.

They can be used as indexes, range validation, access control in variant records to simulate sum types.

Enumerations are so useless that majority of modern languages have direct support for them.

Yes, it did allow your contrived example, which seldom occurred in practice because proficient Pascal programmers only used pointers when other type safe alternatives weren't possible.
That particular sentence in the article sounds very odd, as it suggests the baseline was a set of single-sex workplaces. I'm not sure where they found those. Perhaps the Catholic church?
Hey guys, we are building https://nanonets.com/drone
We were working with a customer from South Africa to monitor construction progress using drone imagery and wanted to share case study based on our experience here. Hope it helps!
Tech Startups Are Trying to Make Bank Accounts Cool
Seems like a pretty disingenuous argument anyway. If ISPs didn't engage in the practices, then where's the strong argument for repealing the prohibition?
This thing is nothing short of marvellous. It survived the harsh Martian environment for 15 years with an expected mission span of 90 days (!).

Whenever Opportunity takes its last Ampere, it will do so after accomplishing several magnitudes more than it was designed for.

Would not wonder one bit if this tank of a rover keeps going another couple of years.
Rust looks promising, but it is not ready yet. I use it on iMX6, which is relatively powerful system, but on NRF52 we still use C. Maybe I will use it on NRF52 when support for bare hardware metal will be in stable (working group[1] is working on that).

[1]: https://github.com/rust-lang-nursery/embedded-wg
Alternative to antibiotics could help in fight against superbugs
Wouldn’t a company’s taxes/costs go up with each new hire whether there’s a head tax or not though? Social security for example is half paid for by employers.
I know of a company who implemented a POS in Elixir in Phoenix running in web kiosk mode. I don’t know any further details and probably couldn’t share them if I did but this scenarios has been done with BEAM.
It's also a mostly obsolete problem now as current rovers use RTGs instead.
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I wrote my dissertation on Internet privacy back in 2003. It's sad how much of what I talked about has come true. People at the time thought I was pretty far out there, called me a "privacy Cassandra" and other not-flattering things.

My whole research topic was threatened by 9/11 because after that incident, nobody cared about privacy at all. Up to that point, privacy was gaining ground as an important area of study and a lot of work was being done. Bush II and his junta put an end to all of it for almost 20 years! I can't describe to you what a gut punch 9/11 was for my research and I don't mean to sound selfish, but god damnit, we have lost so much ground because of statism and security theater while giving away our lives to this technological terror.

Worse, companies like Google will happily baseline on the typical Chinese "citizen's" level of privacy, which is less than none! Google doesn't care, they would prefer to have the same policies worldwide and if that policy is baselined at the level of "people have no rights" then that is just fine with them.
Just use Restbed and you have as much of Apache's abilities as you want. I've been using Restbed for a few years now, for a communications application that scales from enterprise to embeds inside devices, and Restbed handles it all. https://github.com/corvusoft/restbed
Seems like this will make it into Nerves fairly quickly.
This law calls for companies like Google and Facebook to store data in Vietnam for Vietnamese people. Presumably the Vietnamese government would then have free access to it.

Would I be right in thinking that Facebook and Google wouldn't comply with this new law, and get blocked instead, like in China?

And how would it be determined who is a Vietnamese user? If I've never been to Vietnam but talk to Vietnamese people on Facebook, could the Vietnamese government get access to my data in the event that Facebook complies with these laws?
That makes more sense.

Maybe better to change the article because it states the opposite:

"I found myself at a point where I got so desperate that I was close to taking all of my stuff offline. But in the end I didn’t. I decided for the middle way: For some projects it’s worth the hustle and for others not. One project I ditched was datenschutzhelden.org."

That reads as: GDPR compliance was such a hassle you almost closed all your projects, in the end you only closed some of them and replaced them with WBM.