skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Stylus, as mentioned in the article:

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/styl-us/
That's always a great read. Thank you.
Bravery is over-rated. It's a poor substitute for skill, experience and professionalism. I say this not to diminish the efforts of these divers, but to praise them fully.

Rock climbers drag themselves up a rock face with their bare hands, using a rope to catch them if they fall. Cavers drag themselves up a rope, because avoiding a fall is better than arresting a fall. That's the fundamental difference in culture and attitude between cavers and participants in "extreme sports".

Cavers go into a hazardous environment, but they mitigate those hazards through meticulous planning and preparation. They don't see their activities as inherently dangerous, but technically demanding. If you're taking risks in a cave, you're foolish rather than brave - you're working beyond the limits of your skill and experience.
> Isn't one of the main caveats of the first amendment that you can't say "Fire" or "Bomb" in a crowded theater?

It's a complicated and, IMO, interesting topic.[0][1]

[0] - https://www.popehat.com/2012/09/19/three-generations-of-a-ha...

[1] - https://legaltalknetwork.com/podcasts/make-no-law/2018/06/fi...
Basically, the laws say that your vehicle must be licensed to be used on a road unless it’s a bicycle/pedal assist bike/a few other categories, and there’s no mechanism for licensing some of the newer transport options. The laws also say that a vehicle can’t be used on the pavement at all, so there’s no way they can be used on a public road at all.

And have you ever seen a picture of most British cities - there’s barely enough room for cars and pedestrians sometimes, never mind a whole separate lane for cyclists/etc.
The thing Ice Posidean has going for him is an almost cult like following. Unfortunately the way that plays out is often quite negative who people who aren't a part of the community. I wonder if building a community with this level of dedication is even possible without victimizing people or causing mayhem.
Cool, it doesn't persist after you close the browser, which is fine. Anyone can copy/paste.

But one killer feature would be to sync it with Google Docs. Or make it a feature of Drive.
Newspaper headlines sound like taken from a Black Mirror episode by the day.
Shows what a deep thinker the typical Californian is. I am being sarcastic. The checks are welfare checks. Not unemployment checks. Most Californians seem to use their heads as navigation ornaments. Nothing more.
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In light of [0], there is both theoretical and experimental reason to believe that CNNs are mostly picking up fourier decomposition.

[0] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1711.11561.pdf
They can stop you from having business in EU.

A EU court can just order a whole-EU dns block for your site and any related urls and you would be incapable of serving any person from EU. If you have a big share of profits from them you will lose everything. Maybe for you it's ok, but for many business it would be a total disaster with a fine on top of it (if they want to get back the right of serving eu users) very big considering your "malicious intentions" would be evident
There are countries that use the metric system and countries that have been to the moon. :-)
the pre-order link leads to a dead indiegogo project: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/ghost-best-affordable-aug...

do you have other examples or references to news about the ghost project?
I actually gave up on Banks’s The Player of Games a couple of days ago. Maybe I didn’t give it enough of a chance, but I just couldn’t get interested.
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How much bigger would be China's economy with an open web?
They still executed in their environment and leveraged all they had built.
Same joke here, I tell people I'm trending to card table in the parking lot.

Like my job and company alot, hate the open office. Literally have standing conversations start right behind my chair multiple times a day.
I said they’re struggling to diversify. RHEL is certainly in every F500 business, and remains a large and profitable operation. But there’s no growth left in RHEL, so they need to diversify. They’ve been trying for years, and don’t have much to show for it.
The fact that noise cancelling headphones cause me pain made me question that. I wonder if the wave interference does indeed sum to zero, or to a constant DC offset. Obviously there's no such thing as a constant pressure in acoustics, but something's happening...
I actually wasn't thinking about Microsoft in particular when I wrote this.

Git for Windows, Audacity, Python are all good examples where people have put in a lot of work.

On the Microsoft side, whoever's porting OpenSSH is pretty awesome, too.
Haskell still uses head:tail linked lists a lot. However, a lot of effort has been spent in optimizing away the data creation entirely. For example `sum [1..100]` will not actually allocate the list in memory.
I made a mistake in the question, it should have been:

if (match := re.match(r1, s)):
o = match.group(1)
# plus some code here
elif (match := re.match(r2, s)):
o = match.group(2)
# plus some other code here

In this case only your first solution works, I think. Leaving aside that having those deeply nested ifs is incredibly ugly, I find it hard to accept that something which completely changes the possible structure of the code is just "syntactic sugar".
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Certainly the UI is unobtrusive - which is a good thing. But what seems missing is how to go back to view files that were saved...unless I'm missing something. Also, aren't there other tools for distraction-free writing, such as Windows' notepad, or the open source nano (on *nix), or something along those lines? Again, kudos for the base UI, but i think it might need a tad little more as far as next steps (e.g. retrieving already saved text files, etc.).
> have a policy to keep the space as quiet as possible

I work in a similar dystopian open office panopticon, and I'm shocked, every day, that this isn't something that everybody is intrinsically aware of. But where I work, there are some Important People who have offices with doors - who leave the doors wide open, put their phones on speaker, and shout into conference calls all day, every day. The inconsiderateness of some people is really mind boggling.
Anyone have any suggestions for pfSense? I played around with the traffic shaper, setting the scheduler type to CODELQ and limiting bandwidth to 95%, but it doesn't seem to do much from what I can tell while testing with the speedtest on dslreports.
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Ah crap, I wonder if I've done the wrong thing going with a switch + Security Gateway instead of an EdgeRouter.
I fundamentally agree with where you are going, but like another responder, I think that we have different understandings of the word "bravery." Hollywood's idea of "bravery" is really recklessness. And that is absolutely incompatible with cave diving, as it is with racing automobiles, fast and light alpine climbing, and other activities where training and judgment keep you alive.

But as this is not a Hollywood movie, we can use the proper definition:

> Courage (also called bravery or valour) is the choice and willingness
> to confront agony, pain, danger, uncertainty, or intimidation.
> Physical courage is bravery in the face of physical pain, hardship,
> death or threat of death, while moral courage is the ability to act
> rightly in the face of popular opposition, shame, scandal,
> discouragement, or personal loss.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courage

Cave divers are absolutely courageous. And brave. They just aren't reckless. Or foolhardy. To borrow a phrase from mountaineering:

"There are old cave divers. And bold cave divers. But no old and bold cave divers."
I love jog dials, too. They are fast, precise, and tactile. They should be used much more than they are.
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At the risk of comparing the homeless to wildlife, perhaps the apparent increase is because of the homeless being driven out of former lower-profile "habitats" by development.
Where are you working that everyones a grown up?
Just looked up the terms Chick-fil-A and QCon and found the talk you are referring to. For those who are curious why a restaurant chain would engineer solutions such as this, perhaps this will be interesting.

https://www.infoq.com/news/2017/07/iot-edge-compute-chick-fi...
I see the EC responded to Jimmy's tweet: https://twitter.com/EU_Commission/status/1014131021137285127
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So now bureaucrats can pass out political favors through selective enforcement.
"Oh, but it wasn't us, it was that terrible EU just forcing us to do this!"

(Please don't think about it too hard, or look at who introduced the legislation to the EU, or anything else, because it really was us pushing it hard...)

Yeah it irritates me. I'm a bit in-between on the whole Brexit question, I've enjoyed the political chaos that ensues, and things like this just show up the brokenness of the current situation. The EU is very flawed. I voted to remain, but I was under no illusion that we'd get sensible reform to the way the countries engage and participate in the whole thing.
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I think "like" is a strong word, but cube farms are still better than the high-school cafeteria environment most of us are stuck trying to work in these days.
Actually part of italian media industry is asking to pass this new directive considering the position of the government (which is against it) "extremely wrong and misguided"

eg (note this is an italian article, you need to google translate it): https://www.agi.it/blog-italia/digitale/copyright_link_tax_d...
That's really not so. Cave diving has well established protocols for safe navigation, gas reserves, entanglement management, and so on. There's no way they'd have gone significantly outside those protocols. Those brits are highly experienced expedition cave divers, and undoubtedly pushed it further than a weekend warrior like me would do. But they really wouldn't have been dicing with death, as it were.
I’m angered that this trend saves the company money by creating new costs that employees are now more likely to pay. Eg. Headphones.
> The old advice is to ignore performance because it’s not important.

> The only yardstick of teaching that means anything is to look at what people go and do with what you taught them.

> I spent a big chunk of my early career doing performance analysis work in a language stereotyped as being slow.

Something doesn't compute with those statements. Can you profile what it might be?
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I’m probably in the minority here, but I prefer open offices. I prefer open spaces in general and try to work outdoors as often as possible when the weather permits. So to me, an open office is the ideal work environment with the minor concession that I need to share it with 4-6 others.
It doesn't seem like canvas defender replaces HTMLCanvasElement.prototype.getImageData anyway, so one could simply use that to generate a hash.

Hiding the fact that the function in non-native requires replacing Function.prototype.toString with something that will return a fake result if the function being tested is one of the modified ones. If an userscript replaces that toString prototype before you can grab it, I'm unaware of any other way to test if a function is native.
> Denmark hasn't experienced a war since 1945 and hasn't had a home front war since ~1860.

Yes

> They don't generate refugees, and by and large neither do their neighbors.

Not since the war, no.

> This is not magic. This is not a product of colonialism, or racism, or slavery.

.. no. The refugees fleeing the Levant absolutely are doing so as a result of colonialism, and the more modern phenomenon of "spheres of influence". The Syrian civil war wouldn't be happening without the colonialism of the 21st century, including Russia trying to preserve its Mediterranean naval base.

Certainly Libya wasn't sending any refugees to the West until the West bombed it.

> Denmark, or any country, that attempts to transfer culture through enforced education (as opposed to child rearing, intermarriage, social pressure, or the quite effective but completely contemptible method of attempted genocide) is doomed to fail.

Enforced culture transfer may not work, but voluntary culture transfer works extremely well. That's why American culture is so prevalent across the world to the extent that some countries have minimum "native content percentage" media laws.
With only a very tenous grasp on the basics of fluid mechanics and thermodynamics, I'd suspect it is simply a lot more cost effective to drive a significantly larger volume of water through a significantly shallower (hence, lower temperature - but cheaper to drill, maintain and force water through) well to reap the same amount of energy.

Assuming reasonable heat exchange efficiencies, you'd do as well with 1000m^3/hour at a 20 degree differential as you would with 100m^3/hour at a 200 degree differential.

Or am I missing something?
Phew, well at least they did switch back. We're probably going to see more of that where it makes sense, now that having a touchscreen isn't a big deal anymore.
How are EU startups going to compete if this proposed law is passed? If the proposed law is intended as a trade barrier, it needs to favor EU startups.
Porsche is still using a low of switches to maintain this aspect of UX.
> They can stop you from having business in EU. ... Maybe for you it's ok, but for many business it would be a total disaster

I already covered that in my post. I very clearly said that you should only comply if you have business interests in the EU. A Canadian recipe site is unlikely to have to be concerned with such a thing; that's similarly true for the majority of all sites on the planet. They can freely disregard EU laws, so long as they have no business interests in the EU.

The majority of all sites will never comply with GDPR, they will never concern themselves with it at all: because it does not apply to them if they're strictly operating outside of the EU.

If 18 US states decide to implement their own unique privacy laws, you know what isn't going to happen? Every site on earth outside of the US is not going to rush out and try to comply with every aspect of those 18 unique privacy laws. Because that would be insane.

> A EU court can just order a whole-EU dns block for your site and any related urls and you would be incapable of serving any person from EU.

I also covered that in my post. The sole means for the EU to practically enforce its policies globally, is to put up a Chinese firewall and very aggressively censor everything that people in the EU can see. If the people of the EU want to live like that, that's their problem. If you're a big service, of course they can specifically target you for DNS blocking, and that still only matters if you're doing business in the EU.
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If you expect people to do the right thing, you are going to live in a world of disappointment.

The only way to avoid this is to have the chance (e.g financial and social opportunity) and to use the chance (e.g by working and choosing) to set yourself in the right environment for you. Wanting the environment you are in to change does not work.

Just like you don't get more money by negotiating with your current boss, but by negotiating with bosses in other companies.

You can, and my, decide it's your mission to change your environment. It's possible. But you usually can only one mission in life, so choose carefully.
>Denino often lands at the top of a message board called LivestreamFails

This is no longer true. His stream has been banned on that subreddit for producing scripted content. https://www.reddit.com/r/LivestreamFail/comments/8p7sib/ice_...
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I'm in the midst of writing my first picture book.

I needed a release from the general stress of dealing with the cybersecurity challenges, and something for children sounded great.

The world of my book is devoid of computers or complex machinery. Instead, magic exists and just as in real life with computers, people approach it in different ways. Some use it help them prepare better looking and tasting food. Some use it to help others get around more quickly. Some use it to make music or play with pets. Some sometimes let it get in the way of the time with their children.

The core lesson that the book tries to incept is that magic (i.e., computers) should aid in our humanity, not detract from it. The protagonist is a little girl with a blind brother. At first, she resents having to help him with tasks, but throughout the story she learns the importance of helping other people. She has a natural knack for controlling mushrooms, so the book ends with her helping her brother by conjuring mushroom stairs and the like, and he has a secret power of his own that he confides in her. He can get small rodents, like mice and chipmunks, to do simple things for him. Armed with this fact if you reread the story you'll see them in the background helping him out.

I've been researching how to write for children and the biggest area of disagreement seems to be over how complex words can be. For example, most books say to stick to simple "said" words ("she said", "he sung", etc) but they seem to disagree over whether complex words are allowed. I'm willing to do whatever it takes to make the book good, but I'd love to be able to imbue the book with words like "portabello", "oyster", "shiitake" because of how important their role is in the story. I also think it could be a touching way for families to talk about food later at the dinner table and would make kids more friendly to mushrooms; a healthy, sustainable food choice.

Has anyone here made a picture book for 4-6 year olds that can comment?
"So, my ( probably naive ) suggestion would be to allow drugs and alcohol in the shelters"

There'd probably have to be shelters specific to users of a given substance who want to continue using.

At least then non-using homeless would be less likely to suffer from proximity to agitated drunk/high individuals.

And homeless recovering addicts wouldn't be living with actively using addicts.
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I loved Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton when I first read it as a teenager.

Recognizing how far my taste has developed since then, I recently re-read it... and found it to be a shrill anti-science screed wrapped in an action movie script.
While it's true that animals, including humans have a long list of tricks built into their bodies to increase their chances of a correct grasp, to enable force application in the first place, and in some cases to deliberately damage whatever they're grasping (thus wounding and/or killing prey), I think you'll find that the dexterity required to jump a cat body at all is very, very hard.

Moving a cat body, at 130 kph, on an angle that will take the front claw (they always use the same one) across the throat of a wildly jumping around animal (with enough force to allow the claw to rip it open) while keeping that same cat body away from any hooves (one hit from even deer hooves will at the very least end the hunt of any puma, and can do damage up to killing it) is ... it's not just ridiculously hard. It's almost absurd what sort of control you'd need.

I'm also not very sure how tactile sensors help, even if they could not just register contacts but air speeds as well, that does not seem like it would make the problem much easier.

Plus cats are a very "general" body. The number of ways it can move, because it lacks a fully connected inner bone structure (so almost any cat joint can move remarkably far in almost any direction). I'm pretty sure this adds insult to injury and makes it a lot harder yet again.
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> how it could possibly be useful

1 create a GPU friendly cryptocurrency where the payload includes a two dimensional data set (or image) that is processed with a standardized neural network model

2 let programmers pay a mining fee to expedite execution

3 instead of GPUs doing nothing but redundant calculations and getting replaced by ASICs, mining GPUs can dual purpose mine and execute arbitrary code

Will it be efficient, probably not. It does kill two birds with one stone
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