skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
MGM Resorts International sues 1,000 victims from Las Vegas mass shooting
They're "half-assed" guesses in the same sense that every scientific discipline has been proven inaccurate as understanding of it evolved. Give us a few hundred more years of digging in the sand and we'll have some better theories.
I don't really know about Microsoft Word but LibreOffice can produce fairly good PDFs including a table of contents if the original document is outlined properly AFAIK and it can even include the source document in the PDF so the user can open it for editing. Your commentary actually makes me curious what might be some problems of Word/LibreOffice-produced PDFs, can you name some?
Material Design is a political choice
Could you provide a short summary? I've never heard of it.
For the most part I've been reasonably happy with Linux touchpads (maybe I'm too accepting of less than a perfect experience?) except for one area: Palm rejection.

When you have a giant touchpad it's absolutely necessary to have good working palm rejection, and I've seen far too many laptops completely fail to have palm rejection in Ubuntu. Sometimes you can get it working again by twiddling the mouse driver (enable/disable xinput for example), but sometimes it just plain never works. I've been all over StackExchange and similar places but on some laptops none of the proposed solutions work. I've opened bug reports, but it's hard for developers to fix it when they can't replicate the problem. Sometimes you only get half functionality, like the cursor won't move but it will still click, moving your text cursor to random places when the palm lightly brushes the touchpad and it registers as a click.

On some laptops I just have to pack in a mouse and disable the touchpad entirely. That's not an acceptable solution. I'm really hoping that Ubuntu 18 avoids some of this nonsense.
There's a lot about Doyle that was atypical. Brilliant mind. But he believed in some pretty supernatural stuff as well. Faeries and the like.

Imagine what you believe in now that will seem fanciful in a century.
Why the MeerKAT telescope and astronomy matter
New EC2 Compute Instances for AWS Snowball Edge
So, in 2018, at peak JS, it's practically an easter egg that you can write Automator scripts in JavaScript.

I guess this is indicative of Apple's commitment to macOS automation...
The older versions (like in the earlier link) differ from the laptop counterparts. The recent ones are supposed to be much closer: https://www.thinkscopes.com/2015/08/10/thinkpad-compact-usb-...
> without any penalty

Except literally running at half capacity. That doesn't qualify as a "penalty" to you?

The point was that AMD advertised support for AVX in a context where you'd expect it to be performance-comparable, and what they shipped was "support" for AVX in the sense that the code wouldn't crash, but wouldn't provide any performance benefit over SSE either.
I find venmo part social network part p2p payment platform. My friends and I have good fun commenting/joking on each others transactions.
We already have D-Bus to cover sending events to applications, what's really missing is a standard way to enable scripting. I've had a similar idea myself but never got around to implementing it, but I think a standard D-Bus interface applications could implement to expose a scripting dictionary along with a Python/Ruby/Whatever library to implement a more OSA-like interaction would go a long way.
As a user / consumer, I definitely very much do not want any of this.
There is likely a balance here, somewhere.

Be careful equating money with free speech.

Citizens United in the US has had equally-troublesome consequences, based on the premises that corporations are people and money is their speech.

Conflict of interest plays a role here, and that's unfortunately something that has been under constant 'redefinition', especially in the last 20-40 years.
There's a lot of underhanded ways to fund terrorism that don't involve having your family kidnapped, like the US did with the Taliban by calling them freedom fighters or something against Russia - see also Rambo. It's easy for rich people or even a country to 'lose' money.
Stephen Pinker often talks about life in present day Papau New Guinea where tribal societies exist that are likely very similar to those that existed in all hunter-gatherer societies. Life mostly sucks and if you meet someone in a different tribe you spend most of your time deciding whether or not to kill that person.
So now you can run AMIs on Snowball Edge devices in your own DC, if you really want to...
Because laptop CPUs don't make any money, and gaming PCs are so small a market as to be irrelevant. The bulk of x86 revenue, and almost all the profit, is in the datacenter.
I second this, and I'll add that uMatrix allows you to block JS by default while giving you the versatility to manually whitelist domains.
I agree and I have the same issue as you. I'm on a ThinkPad T480 running Ubuntu and I only use the trackpad. Whenever I use trackpoint (the nipple/stick/whatever) I'm constantly overshooting, so it doesn't matter whether I can get to it quickly or not from the home row, because I waste more time trying to position the cursor over the tab or button I'm trying to click than I do on the trackpad. Also, on the trackpad I don't have to physically click a button with my thumb, I just have to lightly tap.

Now maybe I could get better at the precision piece for trackpoint overtime, but if you use trackpoint you also lose the ability to do multi-touch (two finger) scrolling, which I think is a huge time saver, b/c you can scroll without having to find the scroll bar and/or moving your hand over to the arrow/page keys.
I have only one to recommend:

Boagworld - https://boagworld.com/show/

They've been doing the web/design/ux thing for about 10 years now and it's still fun to listen too. More design, less tech.
You need to learn to use your calendar. I mean both the concept and the actual app like google calendar.

You need to do you “light management” in prescheduled meetings that are on the calendar, and you need to fill the space around those meetings with tasks, so that other people don’t interrupt you during those times.

Tell everyone that if they want your time, they need to book an available slot on your calendar first.
I agree with you in general terms, but not on this particular issue. Things that rely on a network effect need to grow exponentially - at least at first, or they will die. The reason people use Facebook is because people use Facebook. The reason people do not use alternatives is because people do not use alternatives.

That said, Facebook at one time also had this problem and I think they solved it extremely well by making access feel like a privilege for you rather than patronage to them, by limiting it to exclusive universities. And then all universities. And then finally, to anybody. Google did the exact same thing with 'gmail beta' when invite codes were a sort of mechanism of making users feel like it was a privilege to get to use their software.

On the other hand, neither Facebook or Google was facing a competitor with billions of monthly active users approaching global market saturation.
I don't read a lot of books with invented languages, but a number that I've seen seem somewhat European. I don't remember very many Sinitic constructed languages. I think that would be nice, but the nature of the language conveys information about the culture and the society that speaks it. a reader would naturally see a Sinitic language and picture a culture that is Sinitic, even if the author did not intend it that way. so the style of the constructed language is restricted to history as it has evolved in our world, and not the fictional world the author builds.

to push even further, how would one imagine an alien language where the organisms do not speak through mouth-like organs? what if they made noises through all their pores in their skin? or non-auditory communication like colour coded messages in their eyes? what if aliens had no mouth or eyes in the first place? or skin? what if aliens spoke in methods that did not require passage of time... i.e. the entire message flash out in a single packet of information? I guess these methods of communication wouldn't allow a story to be told in a way that is familiar to typical human story telling and would thus be uninteresting. but would be nice to imagine regardless.
The real misunderstanding is how big an impact modern medicine has had. Public health efforts, better nutrition, ect have had a much bigger impact on lifespan than medicine.
BGP Optimal Route Reflection as an Alternative to BGP Add Path
With a team of 4 the CTO and the VPE roles are usually handled by one person.
Your job is now about making the team productive, rather than just yourself. Switching between coding and managing is only possible IMHO if you started out as an individual contributor, became expert in the codebase and environment, and then moved up to lead. If you're producing project plans for business and management stakeholders - and you should be - do not assign coding and troubleshooting tasks to yourself. Regard yourself as contingency resource, and pitch in at crunch time. You can scratch your coding itch in between meetings by working on POCs, futures & prototypes that are not on the critical path for client deliveries. If those POCs etc end up on the critical path hand them off to ICs.
I set my default privacy policy to private, problem solved.

In fact I just checked and venmo allows you to in one click set all your past transactions to private.

Either way, people ignoring the fact that their seemingly intimate conversations are public is true across social networks.
Your response is exactly why I phrased my response the way I did.

You ignored the part where I said that if a person has served their sentence, this represents the end of the social punishment. If you want to argue for a life long sentence than do so.

In order for someone to function, they need a job. A convicted and released child rapist needs to pay rent. How would you propose housing, clothing this person so they are not homeless in front of your office?
While the others are talking about that yes you can fool aircraft I must also add that in training Dead Reckoning (looking at the ground) is extremely enforced. There are definitely people that become lazy and just rely on their GPS, but routes are planed ahead and generally people will circle some objects along the way that they are suppose to see. The point is that you want redundancy. You're in a plane, you better know where you're going, how far you got left, and if you can make it to an airport (or your alt).

That's also how it was done before GPSs were available. That and different types of radio beacons.
Currently using bitcoin for payments changes nothing. Yes, the transfer of "currency" are decentralized, but to cash it out (to pay for food, rent, etc) you still need to use exchanges which are centralized.
FWIW, I downvoted the initial comment because it did not read as a honest inquiry, but more like "you're wrong, and I'm gonna ask a few dishonest questions to repeat how wrong you are".
oh, they are twisting words with the marketing about "no penalty" pretty bad!
There's a lot of marketing on here about honesty, fun, and being personal. That being said, none of these attributes are being applied to the social network part of the social network. In their current form, they're just buzzwords about the project.

For once, I'd like to see a project use these words in a meaningful way. Build a manifesto that isn't just "we are building a platform." Focus on actual social interactions and social behaviors that the platform should have. Build something that actually encourages honesty, openness, and fun posts over lying, fake personalities, and cynicism.

Normal users don't see benefits in switching away from Facebook to an equivalent platform with more honest caretakers. That's the sad reality of it. But if a social network pledged to only allow posts that are positive about things, or actively banned people for spreading lies, that would be totally different. It's an execution thing -- people would need to see policy in action -- but if pulled off, it would result in a fundamentally different and easily comparable platform to Facebook.
This new Chrome feature could help your browse the web faster
The only thing I see in movies that go with a scenario like that is everyone getting stuck on the highways on the way out. The current infrastructure doesn't support a mass evacuation. Even buildings are struggling with it, especially skyscrapers (see also 9/11, where hundreds of people died simply because they couldn't get out).

This system claims 5 hours warning time. I guess that would be more than enough to at least get people out of skyscrapers and into the underground parking garages, but it's a scenario that you'd need to train for. Plus that's (I think?) the first detection - after first detection, smart people first need to do a risk assessment before they raise the alarms - if it's a false alarm they'd risk panic and huge financial damage, like with the Hawaiian missile alert a while ago.
They want me as a reader but they also want money. Since I don’t browse news articles with a fist full of e-credits this is the best choice of their options. NYT absolutely will not let you read without paying, I suppose you’d prefer that.
The article is not about How To Invent a Language, but rather about the book that guy wrote.
"plantbased diets are associated with double digit reduction"

How about a source.
Yes. Envy is a core human trait as well. Some people envy their neighbor's car. Stealing it is still forbidden by law.

Likewise, disallowing envy (or selfishness) by itself is not possible, but making illegal the actions that result from those feelings can (and sometimes should) be outlawed.
“Tu” is also "you" in Hindi.
__local is meant to describe memory shared across the whole workgroup meaning each operation is visible to all SIMD lanes. Uniform are variables that have are only visible to one lane but can be proven to have the same value for all SIMD lanes.

In general it is up to the compiler to decide what variables are uniform as it is pretty easy for user to get it wrong. Metal shader language as a uniform marker:
uniform<int> i = …;

Metal spec: https://developer.apple.com/metal/Metal-Shading-Language-Spe...
The concept that photons are massless entities is founded in obsolete information. It has long since been determined that photons do in fact carry mass.

When photons were initially conceptualized, the capacity to estimate their mass was too small to measure and thus prove to experimentalists. Theorists, therefore, focused on other concepts and problems.

Taking a look at the link you've provided actually reaffirms this fact. Mote that it is a question from a novice, and the very first answer refutes the idea that photons lack mass.

In other words, a photon does have
relativistic mass proportional to its
momentum.

And here we have it: photons have 'mass'
inversely proportional to their wavelength!
Then simply by Newton's theory of gravity,
they have gravitational influence.

Keep in mind that the top google results for stack overflow style Q & A forums aren't always going to line up in favor of your search queries.

You should read the top answer, since it's more likely to contain reliable facts, and not presume that the ideas expressed by the question are essentially correct.
In it's current state it's not really functional, is it?
This is something I didn't know I cared about until I followed Blender's PeerTube instance account from a Mastodon instance. Pixelfed is working on it, and Plume, and...

It's something I've come to expect. If your hot new app doesn't federate, I don't care about it.
I think the optical stream fits more of an error correction/secondary data stream in this case.

The difficulty may be down to you trying to use other senses and overcompensating on the data (e.g. air pressure, which tells you something is near-ish you but not if it's about to contact you so you react)
>The unemployment rate in Japan right now is 2.5 percent.

Any idea how that compares to the US rate that while low also has a lot of underemployment?
> where you could see polarizing filters made out of a book with metal foil interspersed

A tangent. In case you missed the amazing documentary "Magic, Art, and Scanimation", it is all about the iterative process of "making" magic through hard work, creativity, and insight.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17271786

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLfLSjbm4s8
It lays out many of the basic principles by which the FBI negotiates with kidnappers. The author writes that the book is meant to first lay out the foundations, and then build on them to give the reader a toolbox (arsenal?) of negotiation strategies. An argument in the book is that these strategies work in business as well - I find this argument compelling. The title of the book is in reference to the fact that you can't split humans. The job of a hostage negotiator isn't to get half a human back by compromising. The negotiator has to get 100% of what they want, or the mission is failed.
No sane team is running on Windows, so probably not.
Funding new drugs endemic to Afrika
Very interesting that their main reason for rejecting ActivityPub is GDPR. Basically, you can't delete information after its been federated out.

This seems to go to far. Give the users control over their data in your system AND give them control over how their data is sent to other systems.

Edit: In the linked issue, OpenBook CEO said that you can't delete mastodon accounts, but Mastodon got that feature a couple weeks after his post:

https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/pull/3728
3 billion combined? Because that's what the parent comment was implying. Your point hardly seems like a fair comparison.
The linked post can't be referring to web-dl as that wouldn't involve them doing any encoding, just removal of DRM.

Edit: as I suspected, they are reencoding from other groups. At least they make it clear I suppose:

"Preacher.S03E04.The.Tombs.1080p.WEBRip.6CH.x265.HEVC-PSA 447mb.

Source: Preacher.S03E04.The.Tombs.1080p.AMZN.WEBRip.DDP5.1.x264-NTG | 2.38 GB"

No way that could look as good as the x264 and the video has been encoded three times, amazon->NTG->PSA.
While the type of person unavoidably makes some difference, it’s exaggeration to say it’s the only thing which matters. The structure of a government can require consensus. To use a named rather than implied current example, this is why the UK government spent the last two years paralysed over which Brexit to choose, either “hard” or “soft” — no consensus; and also why the process started at all despite the lack of specificity — 498/114 supermajority consensus in favour of some form of Brexit.
There are lots of other apps in this space. I'm surprised anyone would use the one that airs their dirty laundry in public.

When I am asked to use Venmo, I get to see how much my friends pay in rent, who they're dating, etc. It's super creepy.
Apple's latest laptops mostly require dongles now...
There is an escape, but you lose some ports and cores with it.
Is that weird? Tons of brilliant people through history have believed in God, spirits, and other supernatural stuff.
Where do you work that you have room to use a mouse?

Coffee shops, planes, trains, passenger seat in a car, literally on my lap in waiting rooms or transit terminals, etc. This is where I use my laptop, and I don't have room for a mouse in these places.
> That's something quite difficult to set up and scale.

Especially if the admins lock themselves out of the kind of data you need for fraud prevention.
Destroying other people’s property is usually illegal. I don’t think it becomes allowed just because it’s somewhere you own.
Are SUVs Ruining Retirement Savings?
Right. But threadripper isn’t AMD’s server processor, and EPYC is eating Intel’s lunch.
Electronic stickers to streamline large-scale 'internet of things'
>about $23,000 to about $85,000

That range is kinda terrible to pretty good. Hard to know with a range like that what they really going to pay.

I'm looking for work and when I see ranges like that I'm not sure what to think. I get entry level vs senior.... but that low end is kinda extra low....
I said this in a previous thread, but I'm surprised that Microsoft haven't jumped on the developer bandwagon after the MBP fallout.

I'd put the Surface Book as ahead of current gen MBP's. The trackpad isn't as good, but that's probably because it's a bit smaller and I like the large track pad. In terms of responsiveness, it's just as good.

The only thing missing is native Linux support, which is why a lot of people on here seem to support the WSL on Windows as an option over just installing Linux on the Surface Book. If Microsoft were to come out and say "Here's the new Surface Book, available in Windows 10 and Linux flavours" I could see a huge shift away from the MBP as the de-facto developer device.

Of course, given how fragmented Microsoft are as a company, I can't see their product team coming together to make this a reality, but a developer can dream.
Contract workers (USA): how do you calculate how many $$ to put away for taxes?
For people doing contract work in the USA who are working on a corp to corp basis, how are you calculating how many $$$ per month to put away for taxes for next tax season, and what is your preferred way of "parking" that $$$ so it earns some good interest?
Warning for anyone who's squeamish: there are some fairly gruesome photos of an injury in the article.
EURJPY: Eyes Further Bullishness in the Short Term
My 20+ year career has been programming for Linux. You won't find a mouse on my desk, because I bought Thinkpad USB keyboards. I have a full-size one with numeric keypad in my office at work, not because I use the keypad but because it makes the whole thing slightly more stable on my desk.

I don't really use the touchpad part though---I use the "track-point" pointing stick embedded in the center of the keyboard. Without that, I feel like I was transported back in time and placed in front of a VT220 terminal or some dusty old Sun workstation. I am concerned that these seem discontinued, but I also have
spare travel-sized units which may last for the rest of my career...
Imagining Sex Redistribution
Andreessen Horowitz, Dell Back Israeli All-Star Cybersecurity Team
Tokyo Wants People to Go to Work Earlier to Ease Train Crush
CUBA: Interprocedural Context-UnBounded Analysis of Concurrent Programs
I think this is a sensible advice and the one I personally follow. I manage around 10 people and as much as I love to write code and be involved in everyday engineering, the real success measure for me is to see everyone succeeding in the team. This requires a personal sacrifice and picking left overs which aren't in the critical path. Initially, I tried to over compensate by putting more stricter requirements on writing code equal to doing people management but when I got more people, it just turned out exponentially harder. If you aren't able to make this sacrifice in a few months time, you should reevaluate and maybe take a different role. You'd do yourself and your team injustice if you focused more on yourself than the team.
Almost everyone knows it's public. They just accept it.
Sorry if this is a stupid question, but do we need new Linux drivers for MacBook touch pads? Mine is working fine on my 2015 MackBook with Linux Mint. Am I missing something obvious?