skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cars sounded like a terrifying future for stagecoach drivers.
Even worse (weirder), the Senate bans electronic devices on the floor. If a Senator wants info, they have to sprint out one of the doors to the lobby where they have an aide waiting with an iPad (usually).
I always think the future of journalism will be something like in Garth Ennis's 'Transmetropolitan' where there are camera (drones) everywhere, watching everything and an escalating tension (and maybe technical arms race) between those hiding / burying the signal and those trying to bring them to light.
Consider this a recommendation for anyone looking for a inspiring (though somewhat adult) tale of near-ish future sci-fi.
Whites are the only racial group that you are allowed to openly hate and make disparaging jokes and comments about in polite company.

Whites are even gaslit into not believing that such a group even exists ("whiteness is a social construct"). Imagine if they same were done to any other group.
2 Bed, 2 Bath with a combined kitchen and living room, all for the low, low price of $330k? For what is essentially a double-wide with fancy siding and big windows? Haha, nope. If I had land, I could easily build something twice the size or plop down a mobile home for 1/10 of the cost. But that is the true issue with housing these days: finding affordable, available land in a desirable area.
GitLab VPE here. We are starting to re-write performance intensive part of our application in Golang. E.g. our Gitaly project: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitaly
That makes less sense as Microsoft has done some excellent AMAs with the Excel team:

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/3rid26/we_are_the_mic...

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/777mb6/we_are_the_mic...
Aside from resolution, another reason suggested is to avoid slamming on the breaks in the middle of a highway for false-positives.

https://www.wired.com/story/tesla-autopilot-why-crash-radar/
>its a reasonable expectation. You don't need any data to understand that most people will care about certain things in a given situation.

I don't even know what that means; it's so vague and lacking in detail as to be useless. Of course "people care about things in situations". but we're talking about _what_ they care about, and that depends on the situation. For example: "are Nazi's bad?". I don't need to see hard numbers to believe that the answer from most people will be "yes". "Is MS buying GitHub bad"? That's a whole other story. The vocal minority often doesn't represent the majority in things like this.

I think it's pretty clear that most people in fact _don't_ care about the things the-dude cares about. Privacy, lock in, using services provided by "evil" companies... these are things a tiny fraction of people care about. You know how I know that? All of these companies you don't like are _insanely_ successful.
The House allows iPads on the floor, and reporters are allowed to bring laptops into the gallery. It's how we get our live votes transcribed! https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/08/insider/how-we-beat-the-h...
Actually its driven by the need for localized labor and unfortunately due to high housing costs, labor can't afford to live in downtown SF/LA and so a lot of time is wasted getting to the job site from the outer suburbs.
What happens in Vegas, stays in YouTube.
Github value comes from userbase not the platform which could copied pretty easily.
Facebook bug set 14M users' sharing settings to public
Keep in mind that a billion miles is a very small number in this context. People in the U.S. alone drive well over 3 trillion miles every year [1]. We simply don't have enough data yet to say that autonomous vehicles are safer.

[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/02/21/516512439...
Added some changes here: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-remoteonly-org/merge_reque... (username: hartator)
Well, yeah, and I'm questioning why OP would "think" that. Just because you have an opinion doesn't make it reasonable.
Yeah I really think people are trying to read way too much into things. The only true bellwether in my opinion, are influential open source projects leaving GitHub for something else, like self hosting with GitLab/Bitbucket/etc.

If nodejs, google, and other big names/organizations decides to leave, then I think it is time for Microsoft to worry.
I appreciate the legal docs a lot. LLC agreements are fascinating to me, and this one seems particularly interesting.
> There’s a huge positive-feedback-loop problem in technology right now that needs to be solved to make projects viable.

> Never received even one donation/rating/comment/etc.? Be prepared to wait approximately forever.

> Got a few, especially publicly-visible? Suddenly things trickle in faster.

That's not tech specific; there's a reason that places with tip jars preseed them with an initial stash of visible tips, and advertising (for consumer products, charity, and even B2B productos) features endorsers known to the target audience. Human social behavior is strongly based in imitation.
Spiral writing didn't mean a thing unless the consumer's drive could read it back.

The more important part about spiral writing was that it defeated the track-by-track copy of most Apple ][ copy programs, since there was no disk position synchronization available on the consumer drives. Note that the Applesauce device modifies the drive to allow for this.
Don't forget rule number 1: never get high on your own supply
I don't come from that era but couldn't agree more, every time one of my coworkers suggest using a library I tell them that is ok as long as they maintain it, I prefer to spend my time coding and like to understand as much of the codebase as I can, instead of having to learn and maintain tens of external libraries. Specially if we only need a couple of functions from that library.

I normally lose those debates though, and the thing reaches a point where the complexity of the code makes it impenetrable.
Nothing to do with the opiod epidemic or mass subscription of psychotic drugs?
The Apple II drives have this capability, which is why they can follow the data. The track-to-track motion is carried out by a stepper motor which is controlled with some memory mapped registers. To move from one track to another, the motor is stepped through four phases corresponding to "quarter track" increments. Some copy-protected software was written on using partial tracks, with quarter track increments. The software's loading routines knew how to follow that.
I don't know why the downvotes. What you say is true.
WASM might help make them a lot more performant, and I think online editors could be a place where it really shines.
There is a running joke that all geographical heat maps are palette swapped demographic maps.
MySQL on Docker:Running a MariaDB Galera Cluster Without Container Orchestration
Yeah strawmen suck
AI at Google: our principles
I wish more websites looked like this. And weighed 5kb of HTML.
Reasonable cost of living and good jobs.
It's important to remember that $1000 in 1984 went a lot further than it does now, especially when there was a fair amount more opportunity back then. Statistically speaking the United States is among the lowest in social mobility.

This is why pointing to these people is futile because not only did they have large advantages that many others did not, but they are also largely the exception to the norm. It's the survivorship bias in action.
The flip side is nothing stops a lot of users from starring something and that's it. The implied popularity of a library only comes from how active the project is, not how many stars it has.

A recent example: I saw an advertisement on the freeway for some tire brand I've never heard of, with the quote "The most liked tire page on Facebook." What does liking (or in the case of staring something) have to do with the quality of the project, especially when liking/staring takes so little effort?
I usually like to use Google Calendar to sort out my activities for the day and figure out any blocks I have for the tasks I want to complete. I just wish there were a way for the calendar to automatically "reflow" around my tasks/events in case I miss something, and I want to reschedule it later. Better yet, why not have a calendar that auto-schedules my tasks for me? Is anyone working on this problem, or just generally a better calendar?
Hi! I'm Jeremy, one of the developers.

We'll probably work on something like this for the next version. One reason it's harder than you think: We would have to buy / own rights to the photographs before we could use them to train -- most of those photos are owned by Getty or the AP. And our own photographs are perfectly lit and square, which made them awful for training face recognition.

The other hangup (which I didn't get to in the article) is having to add / remove people. New members are constantly being added and that's a maintenance burden for us. Amazon usually has the new member within a day or two. (Our team is very small and we have a lot of other responsibilities!)

But good points, definitely.
I agree completely, and to build on that idea, it is extremely valuable to be able to take an idea from your head and write it down in a way that fully explains the idea, but is as concise as possible. I see this go wrong a lot in Slack. Some people will not take the time to completely form a thought and will instead just type everything that is in there head as quickly as they can. Then others react because they have misunderstood the original point. If you have a few people trying to communicate with this method it quickly becomes chaos. The process of untangling some of those types of conversations can take far longer than the original conversation did.
GitLab VPE here. We're working on Dockerized version that will run in a Kubernetes cluster, which should make this easier, assuming you've already made that investment in your infrastructure.

More pertinent to your concern about cost: It should make it easier for PaaS' who are k8s-based to run it for you and perhaps provide a lower price point.
So you think it's more reasonable to assume most of the migrating projects didn't mirror, but deleted themselves from Github with only a few days warning? That (IMHO) would point even more to it mainly being small, mostly 1-person projects where there's no community to consider.
The graph is only showing changes in suicide rates. Perhaps Nevada's was already high?
do a search on thingiverse.com and then scroll down. if you search a big enough topic every 20 or 30 seconds as your scrolling it jumps up and you lose your place.. i'm not sure how to avoid this feature, but it is truly annoying
VS Code is the primary project now, but Monaco came first.[1]

[1] https://changelog.com/podcast/277
First, one would establish that there is actually a correlation.

If so, then is there a causation? (eg, does being in a red state make one suicidal, or does being suicidal affect one's political views) That seems a bit of a stretch. But if a causation CAN be established, then is there anything that can be done to help people?
Granted, I am not an expert in RL. It sounds like you have more experience than me so maybe I will change my mind as I learn more.
Merely anecdotal but: many people interested in machine learning start with Python; many people wanting to do "serverless" things choose Python; many younger devs find Python a nice place to run away to from Java; and all this together means it's pretty easy to find devs who either know Python or are quite happy to learn it; and that in turn makes it a "safe" language choice when you aren't otherwise committed to the features of any particular language. (And running in Lambda can be a pretty big deal.)

It's a virtuous/vicious circle, depending on what you think of Python. But I think "Python is for ML" is the unofficial motivation behind a lot of it, because if you're starting to build your career and Python is an option then for sure you're going to mess around with scikit-learn and put that on your CV.

[edit]: Oh and boto3 probably accounts for a fair amount of Python use these days. I actually prefer the AWS support in golang but boto3 usually "just works" despite some very weird quirks.
Whether regulation is insufficient or excessive should be determined on a case-by-case basis. Anybody making blanket statements about all regulation as a whole is an ideologue who probably should not be taken seriously.
Why do you think they're a solid move?

I'm genuinely interested in hearing your reasoning.
Not for 24 hours it isn't.
I quit tobacco about 4 years ago after using for 7 years. I agree that quitting caffeine is more difficult, but I think part of that is social. I can enjoy sharing a cup of coffee with my SO just about anywhere without any dirty looks.
Often true, but this is a percentage increase so presumably it is fairly independent from raw population size.
It's a business opportunity that someone should tackle anytime soon (like patreon). A company to be the umbrella for these important projects that no one care but use. Companies and people using some of these projects donate to this main company and it distributes to its "incubated" projects.

Does something like this already exist?
Can you clarify the "fundamental aspect of who [people] are"?
See this AMA: https://www.reddit.com/r/LosAngeles/comments/6lvwh4/im_an_ar...
You could always hold the industry ransom. Proprietary everything, strict paid licensing, unions/guilds, etc. See how much people are willing to pay once the things they take for granted are gone
What's I think people are missing the most about difference between Atom and VS Code is the UI.

I think it's the main difference between them. Atom was about creating a Sublime text with web technology, it's just a text editor, you open it and you can write code, it's very easy to use.

VSCode was more about creating a IDE with web technology, so the UI is a lot different and a lot harder to use for someone just starting to write code.

Performance wise Atom improve a lot during the last year and I don't see any difference in performance between them on linux.
Without encouraging or condoning this type of behavior, I really wish people had a chance to conduct an exit interview from life. Only after the decision was solidified and all other methods of outreach had failed.

The data would be remarkable and might save many lives.

World: We're sorry to see you go. Please let us know why you are leaving, and what we could to do make this a better place to live in the future. Thank you for giving us a chance to know you.
I agree with your conclusion, but this isn't sound logic. This assumes food is never supply-limited. If it is, then it could be advantageous to lie dormant for a period to allow supply to regenerate. Imagine a farmer who plants food (ideally low maintenance food) and then hibernates until it is fully grown.
I don't read Breitbart, nor do I particularly care what they do. I'm not sure what was done by the company that was illegal?
Counter-argument: two-finger gestures are unergonomic for single-handed use. Sometimes that’s an unreasonable trade off; sometimes not.
A Tesla-Apple merger is not a far-fetched idea
It's in the post...
What if I’d rather have the $20k?
I dislike when actions that are typically built into a web browser or OS are re-implemented by individual sites in javascript. It creates an inconsistent experience. I don't want a scrolling behaviour that is unique to your site, even if it's cool. I want all pages to scroll the same way. If I "pull" on your site, I am trying to scroll up a little bit. That is what a "pull" means on every other site when viewed in my browser, so that is what I expect to happen, not a refresh. If I wanted to refresh, I would have used my browser's built-in refresh button.
Just an interesting observation: People with known mental health conditions are twice as likely to poison themselves in a suicide than those without known mental health conditions.
Of those that switched, how many were backup mirrors vs actually switching to the Gitlab platform?

We can only guesstimate with the data we have.
Direct GPU/FPGA communication via PCI express [pdf]
The Plattenbau were mostly composed of system built concrete panels and frames assembled into rooms onsite, with only the small bathrooms being delivered to site as complete units.

These appear to be structures composed entirely of stacked full-size room unit completed before site delivery and winched into place; but that technique's been around (especially in the hotel industry) for a good while too, although it's only in the last 20 years people have started to build structures of over 10 storeys that way

Nothing's ever truly new. The Romans used prefabricated elements to speed up fort construction in the first century AD.
I feel like I am missing context.
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Oh man I'm so happy that exists. As a teen I absolutely would not call and talk with a stranger. Found help online. Would have loved to text.
Did they correct for any confounding variables? Old people are more likely to kill themselves and US has an aging population.

Edit: Also, old people in the USA are more likely to be white.
Thanks for your reply. I'm relatively new to HN, so please excuse my ignorance if I'm misunderstanding how the site works, but it seems like currently there is significant feature overlap between downvoting and flagging, and in addition downvoting requires karma. This seems to incentivize flagging of submissions even if they are not "spam or off-topic" as described in the site guidelines.

I don't believe this was some kind of Microsoft-coordinated operation to censor criticism on HN, but I am surprised by how a few flags can silence such a popular submission.

I also do not consider the submission an "indignation post" or a "fanatic and paranoid dramatization" as it was referred to in a comment. I shared the link with the intent to make people aware of the removal of the repository from Trending, no more than that. I believe that GitHub is well within its rights to remove content from Trending, and I did not at any point complain or attempt to incite a flame war against Microsoft. My intention was simply to make people aware to allow them to make their own decisions about whether or not to continue using GitHub.

Regarding "over-promotion" of the story, I posted the original link shortly after I noticed the repository disappearing from Trending. I don't think anyone else posted it before, but if they did, I likely didn't see it because it was also flagged.
I love how we are slapping sanctions on our allies and letting our adversaries in the backdoor. All the while complaining about IP theft from China. Sad!
If true, that is interesting. My observation posted elsewhere here is that it seems to me that higher suicide states seem to be more Republican party states. Not a perfect correlation, but comparing the two maps seems to indicate more than a casual relationship.
There's a non-moralistic reason to be concerned with adultery in the case of politicians and public servants, which is that knowledge of it can be used for extortion.
Beleve somone in this article ?
http://everydayhappy7.com/2017/06/15/genius-one-husband-13-w...
My architecture wife said houses today are designed (in the US) to last at least 50 years. However I seriously have my doubts that a house could make it that long without some major renovations/overhauls along the way, given that they're essentially built as plywood sheets, stapled to wood planks, protected by plastic siding, and covered with a tar sheet roof down here where I live. I wish the developers invested more into the longevity of a house instead of pinching every penny they can.
I couldn't agree with you more. The pattern-matching in Haxe has really helped keep my code more readable.
Sounds kind of like Apache. Or less similarly, but more successfully, Mozilla.
One statement doesn't exclude the other
No, actually. That used a batshit crazy definition of "because of medical debt."
I was kind of reminded of Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics while going through the Principles, especially the 7th one.
I dug up some stats and Nevada is pretty high on the list.
Yes you can definitely do that. The /validate endpoint accepts the parameters application (for the application uuid) and the key (for licence key). You can program your way around that, but the one line solution then does not hold up.
The U-2 Spy Plane Is Still Flying Combat Missions 60 Years After Its Debut
NTSB's report on Tesla's crash
Basically one kid (eg, the "bully") says to another kid (eg, the "victim") that the victim's mere existence is deeply offensive to the bully. Hope that helps.
old but good !
http://everydayhappy7.com/2016/11/25/amazing-discovered-2-li...
I agree. Increasing the visibility of help and reducing the friction to get that help is part of reducing the stigma around mental illness, depression, and suicide.

Sure, it's awkward to offer a phone number to a stranger or even a friend in crisis, but imagine how things could be if that wasn't the case.
Preferably with a bit less green.
Why does being a Delaware C corp inhibit your ability to raise VC money?
The only modification of the drive is the installation of a sync sensor that Woz removed (among all the other smarts in the drive to begin with).
You are creating a ridiculous straw man. He didn't claim the media is a bunch of liars. The media can't dig into the details and verify every detail of every press release. If a company claims contracts are frozen or canceled there is no way for the media to check whether the projects would happen at all.

The "personal anecdotes" are a series of observations about contracts that are publicly reported combined with an understanding of how companies are incentivized to report contracts. If you don't believe him or find him very credible you don't need to take his word for it, he's just some random guy on the internet whose credibility can't be independently established.

On the other hand, you can undercut his argument by providing evidence that companies always report contracts in an evenhanded way. Of course, they don't thats just PR 101.
The slippery slope of senseless censorship...
I wonder how many people/organisations own those 250k projects, I assume it is far less than 250k.
Right, but I doubt it'll continue at such a rate. This kind of stuff happens a lot (netflix making it harder to use VPNs, the recent facebook stuff, etc), "mass of people leave" but in reality it's a very small group, who are rather loud. Plus, mirroring isn't the same as leaving (IMO). To me it's more of a precaution.
Im not too sure what your arguing. He is doing ALL things that are good for the Republicans. Maybe your just upset he has been successful? Trump has the MOST conservative cabinet in more than a quarter-century. Do your homework and stop ranting...