skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The worst is Bloomberg.com, which has a ten-article paywall and counts articles you scroll into. It does this so eagerly that you lose an article even if you were only scrolling down to click the link for the comments.
Yes it is certainly not fair that the network they spend one page explaining and probably weeks training and researching can be hardwired in 30 lines of python. This is very unfair. But this is the reality, and so the post states.

Also the idea to add coordinate as a feature has been used in the past without giving even much thought.

Toy examples are great. As long as they are not trivial. Some guy, presumably smart, once said that "things should be as simple as possible but not simpler". The toy example they play with is just too simple.
I really like Sandi Metz as a speaker, and am pretty sure she has thought about these problems much deeper than I have. However, I often find myself wondering if most of the problems she is trying to solve would go away if programmers spent more time thinking about their code.

The case filled code that she is describing seems to be a result of the programmers not fully grasping the purpose of the code, and being unable to tell if the current abstraction is fitting. I understand that deadlines and the sunk cost fallacy play a factor, but, at least for me, finding the right abstractions / architecture is most satisfying part of coding! Shouldn’t that be what these programmers are focusing on in the first place?
Ok I should have said was loved, because that was certainly the case for me. They loved explaining entity objects, factories and others in Java. But I think you are right as far as Python taking over.

I don't understand the downvotes for the comment though, jesus, it's like I insulted somebody's kid by giving my opinion.
I'm not sure how to interpret these pictures. They don't suggest anything to me. And certainly don't suggest anything about the quality of representations. And BTW how do you measure quality of representations?
The Mac OSX v1.5 (Aqua) skin is its own share of nostalgia.
In my lifetime there have already been 3+ major platform shifts where the dominant player lost control. I'm in good health so I expect to live through a couple more.
How does one "study assembler"? I know several (dozen) machine languages by hearth (3E02 == MVI A,2). And I wish I dont, because it is useless knowledge. Maybe worth studying is some advanced macro assembler, but I doubt it. You could learn to use unix m4 for the same effect.
"Cuba, renting a car, sleeping in a hotel, diving or buying in a store has one thing in common: the companies that provide these services belong to the Grupo Empresarial Empresarial S.A. (GAESA) led by the Revolutionary Armed Forces, reported dpa news.

GAESA is the largest Cuban holding company and includes a conglomerate of more than 50 companies, all directed under the laws of the market and chaired by brigadier General Luis Alberto Rodríguez " [1]

"American tourists strolling the ample squares and narrow streets of colonial Havana may not know it, (...) , they are probably patronizing businesses owned by Cuba’s military."

"Today GAESA boasts dozens of companies that control anywhere from 40 percent to 60 percent of the Caribbean island’s foreign exchange earnings, " [2]

The list goes on.

[1] https://www.havanatimes.org/?p=125750

[2] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-cuba-military/cuban-m...
By skin do you mean purely colors or also positioning of items? I have a really hard time imagining now that would work for iOS/Android apps in terms of implementation. Colors are easy because you just pull then from a styles file but you'd need a really good abstraction for custom views
I started playing with OpenBSD 6.3 as a desktop (actually laptop) OS a couple of months ago. Installation was very straightforward. In my case I used the whole disk, no dual boot.

Here's a tribute/introduction written by Derek Sivers:

https://sivers.org/openbsd

As for my own experience, I don't know if I'm ready to give up Debian as my primary desktop OS, but I really like OpenBSD on my coding-or-surfing-on-the-couch laptop.

On the server side, I also use both (as VPS) for personal projects.
See my note above. The hotels are owned by GAESA which is a wing of the military.
All that is just an excuse. Russia now has no use for Assange. He is being kicked out. Simple.
Even Linux requires this be done in kernel space, it's a requirement set by the architecture that the instructions that access them are run as part of the kernel. This is just like OSX, no different at all.
Lyft scrambling to reinforce background checks after driver rapes 4 women in SF
You could get a tattoo of a lymph node, so your lymph node could have a rad lymph node tattoo.
I took finasteride for about 4 years. I didn’t experience any immediate side effects but gradually I lost interest in sex and got sexual side effects. Things did not go back to normal after discontinuing the drug. This was in my late 20s.

It’s a tricky subject because I can’t know for certain if the drug caused the side effects, but I was an otherwise healthy young man. Many men apparently take finasteride for years without significant side effects, but on the other hand, I don’t know how many men who have been affected are willing to discuss it openly.
Messed up serotonin pathways. What does that even mean? The chemical imbalance theory of depression has zero proof behind it and is just something told to patients to alleviate their concerns and sell them on these drugs that many will eventually become dependent on (1). No one knows what the mechanism of depression is or how to treat it. It's just a guess as to why and how these chemicals work or don't. Cure my ass. They don't even know how it works or what is wrong with the patient and you're taking about cures.

1: http://www.afterpsychotherapy.com/chemical-imbalance-in-your...
The next equipment we should ban:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tMJ8U-2ZMU
That's why I qualified it by mentioning a huge commercial product which uses it extensively.
Any Python function may use ctypes, any Haskell function may use unsafePerformIO, ..., so all bets are off all the time.

I don't think that's a particularly useful point, as is.
Looks like TiO2 is going to get a lot more focus in the decades ahead:

"Possible link found between diabetes and common white pigment"

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/06/180620125907.h...
There are no archives of walled gardens.
Steam and dota.
I have another, more useful way to say it.

Only morons let people steal their labor.

Only morons steal labor.

Labor stealing requires morons.

Society has a long history of being moronic. It is what it is. Moronic.
Reminded me of Bourne's last line of the trilogy ... "Look at us. Look at what they make you give."
Intel's own marketing talks about it being used by these kinds of people https://newsroom.intel.com/news/intel-core-i9-processor-come...
In a properly structured Scrum team, the Scrum Master is a peer of the other team members and not a resource manager. The Product Manager sets the priorities and can insist that the team tackle boring or challenging user stories if that's what delivers the most customer value.

Once you go beyond a single Scrum team most organizations do need dedicated architects who provide guidance and maintain conceptual integrity across multiple teams.
https://www.scaledagileframework.com/system-and-solution-arc...
I'm not from the Bay Area so I'm not aware, how is it dying?
I like where this is headed
> That may be true but has nothing to do with my original point, which I perhaps didn't make clear enough originally, is that the lack of discussion around ease and cost of IDs tends to result in the tacit assumption that the only suitable IDs would be existing, state-issued ones, whereas easier, cheaper options could be mandated.

This wasn't clear thanks for clarifying. But I have little faith that a new form of ID would be any easier to obtain than current options. Ideally we'd just make the current state IDs easier to obtain but even then they still shouldn't be necessary for voting if we truely want to count the opinion of as many citizens as possible.
>The drug is illegal,

Only in certain contexts (ie. some instances of interstate commerce).
What's likely to happen once Assange is handed over to the UK?

Probably they'll either put him in jail for violating his bail terms earlier, and/or extradite him to the US where he will be imprisoned on some bullshit charges.

Either way, this probably doesn't end well for Assange. Which is tragic, given everything he has done for the world.
There’s a difference between satire and mock-being-a-terrible-person. Although it gets a bit too salty for me at times, I “get” the Onion’s humor and think it’s frequently rather funny.

Has satire merely run out of new things to deconstruct that folks are turning to absurdist humor now?
reddit is leaking.
Naturally, Musk lost it.

No, it's not natural for a grown-ass adult to lose it. Many people can face loss, disappointment, or criticism without losing it. Elon doesn't need to lose it and neither Tesla, Space X, The Boring Company, nor the Thai cave rescue effort were aided in any way by Elon's self-centered histrionics.

We don't need to pretend that his drive to be a visionary entrepreneur also requires him to lash out when he feels personally wounded, nor should we support attempts to rationalize this behavior.

Imagine how much more effective Elon would be in his professional life if he had a bit more self-control.
Unfortunately no one is on those 'premium' alternatives cos most people know this is a possible route to an opportunity- not the only one or the best one.
I would love to see that list. Have a link?
You should almost never make a decision that affects the rest of your life. If you say "marriage", well, NOT getting married to that person might affect the rest of your life more than marrying them ( regret is bigger than marriage ). Therefore marriage would affect the rest of your life less than not marrying them.

Are there any decisions that affect the rest of your life ( by consequence ) that are advisable? Even going into the military only affects 4 years, but tattoos are longer ( assuming you don't remove ).

Kids too, they should only be had if regret would outweigh the kid, in terms of life change.

How many people regret NOT getting a tattoo, vs the many that regret tattoos? If you regret not having a tattoo, you can always get the tat later, but not the other way around.
Excellent read, thanks for posting.
The Bart commute from Pittsburgh to Pleasanton isn’t a short hop.
I worked at a vary traditional company that had a "peer recognition" system you could use to send bonuses for colleagues to reward them for going above and beyond.

Sounds good on paper, and execs love to brag about how this brings people together to recognize excellence and talent and blah blah blah, but what really happens is that people start to condition their work to your likeness to recognize them. If you are known to send bonuses often, your requests are magically fulfilled. If you are not into it, prepare to have support tickets forgotten for months.

In the end, you can't expect much from increasingly large groups of people. Eventually interests will diverge and self interest will prevail, politics will emerge and abuses will happen. Some kind of governance is required to counterbalance that, even if it usually fails catastrophically.
Can you expand on this a little bit? I'm not sure if I have the right impression but I thought Salesforce was intended as a sales and accounting tool for businesses. Is this an intended use case, or is this a creative repurposing of the tool?
Personally I think that "minor" objects like asteroids should be up for grabs. Homestead it, process it into resources, whatever.

The moon being very sentimental for mankind, needs to be subject to more regulations of who can do what. There needs to be a lot of thought put into coming up with a solution that the major countries (at least) see as fair.
Because I think that people have a right not to be secretly filmed let alone being published on the Internet. For me it seems a natural thing that doesn't need explanation.

> a violation of reasonable expectation to privacy

Probably. The customers expected that they just take a ride and are not being filmed. They don't expect that their face will be published on the Internet so that anyone can find their social network page and learn who they are.

> if someone can legally record video, it's their copyright, and they can distribute it however they want to.

It should not be this way. Wikipedia says that in some countries there are laws against this [1]. Of course, some laws could be written before Internet become popular so they need adaptation.

This article [2] also mentions that surveillance can be regulated by laws.

Finally, there are personality rights [3] although they are related to commercial activity.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_photography

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveillance

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personality_rights
As a retired (read: old school) IT Exec the "flat" management concept has always intrigued (and terrified) me.

Clearly a military like hierarchy doesn't work well in systems development. Most aspects of systems development are fundamentally creative processes that are somewhat diametrically opposed to being micromanaged. At least this is what I have found in my experience.

As jofreeman.com notes there are fundamental constructs of organizational structure that are critical. Ie: one of the most important (IMHO) is the top down delegation of duties. A good leader ensures critical things like cross training and staff development are achieved.

Bottom line: every organization has the same human dynamic - no matter how it's organized - if you get face time with the leaders, you wield power through association.
I'd rather hope it's something more like moksha.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_%28Huxley_novel%29
There is a difference between trying to do new things and needing to use the latest and hottest webscale technology to try said new things...
> A slow-acting virus, like that of scrapie in sheep, is introduced into the human body via the
tattooing needle and makes its way to the brain, where within a few years it causes the afflicted to
steal cars, burgle houses, and assault people.
I first formulated my viral theory of criminality when I noticed that at least nine of ten white English
prisoners are tattooed, more than three or four times the proportion in the general population. The
statistical association of crime with tattooing is stronger, I feel certain, than between crime and any
other single factor, with the possible exception of smoking.

Thank you for this.

The guy is a British psychiatrist.
Isn't it also naive to think China and Russia weren't fully aware of the NSA's capabilities? If anything the only effect it had on intelligence agencies is it accelerated the smaller countries towards this type of mass surveillance, they learned thoroughly what was possible - beyond what you can buy at miltech trade shows. And now we see many awful countries mimicking this type of stuff now, like in Ethiopia.

But otherwise for 99% of it the only one it was new and valuable to was the public.

As good as the FBI/IC is at counter-intelligence if Snowden can do this stuff I'm sure a highly trained spy recruited by any top tier agency could get similar access.

Also notably Snowden did not leak the really sensitive TAO stuff, which was well compartmentalized. He mostly leaked spreadsheets for the 'middle management' in NSA. I'm sure he only revealed a small portion of their top-teir capabilities. And the stuff he did leak was almost always very vague, often just a few bullet points in a spreadsheet was all we had to work with...
I ran OS/2 on a 486. One of the issues that held back adoption was it’s system requirements - you needed a minimum of 8MB of RAM for it to run smoothly, but most systems being sold at that time had 2-4MB.
I had an acid trip with an agonizing comedown that made me really rethink my life and priorities. As a result of that day I began the path to go to medical school, despite everyone including my parents telling me it was unrealistic. I'm just finishing specialist training in anaesthesiology and my life is great and I pretty much thank LSD for the whole thing.
I've been using Slackware as my main desktop OS for a few years now (on my main personal and work laptops, plus my primary desktop; most of my other machines run OpenBSD, with the notable exceptions of one running Haiku and one currently running 9front). So far I've been overwhelmingly happy with it.
> the server room literally caught on fire

...is not what I would have imagined popping up in this comments section.
Is it weird I like the ego stroking linkedIn provides?
I have the start of arthritis in my hands. I just spent $50 on a topical salve with hemp-derived CBD oil after reading a lot of reviews about how effective it is.

The next day I checked if there was any research on its efficacy. Due to the volume of pages touting the benefits of CBD, finding the actual research was difficult. Most of the search results were either vendors or medical mj boosters.

The best I found was this:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4851925/

Sure enough, CBD did help reduce inflammation and increased joint mobility in arthritic rats ... at a dose of 6.2mg/day. Considering that I'm hundreds of times more massive than a rat, and that my 2oz jar contains 150mg of CBD oil total, I'm probably getting 2mg of CBD oil per application.

That seems to confirm that the self-reported benefits of topical CBD oil is mostly placebo effect.
For the record, I don't have any tattoos and don't plan on getting any. I just thought the article was a bit low on details and a bit on the side of "potential risk" scaremongering.
"They probably already know about it" seems like a weird standard to use for answering the question of if making a particular state secret public harms the National interest.
dang!! what a blast from the past. I miss winamp.
This is a really insightful and intelligent comment, I have nothing great to add to your comment but wanted to pass along my praise.
One example of undefined behavior is dereferencing a free'd pointer. How should that be defined?
Every single decision anyone ever makes affects the rest of their lives no matter what.

You can make the same argument you’re making about marriage about any other decision. NOT getting that tattoo affects your life exactly the same amount as getting it and vice versa, same with everything.
I’ve gone back and forth mentally on the “every bit of work needs a card” concept. Recently we’ve been trialing the on-call person taking those issues if they’re under a time-estimate threshold (30min) and budgeting the time for that person accordingly. Other issues go up the chain, to avoid the issue of the on-call person getting overwhelmed with unrelated feature requests and such (especially by those they relate to better than others).

So far it’s been really positive when the rotation is 6+ persons, when I drops below that it gets a bit more wearing with on call being a bit heavy feeling.
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"...I'm assuming you must be a pro-Castro cuban or something..."

???

Guy? What? I'm just a farm boy from small town Wisconsin. But I have been to Cuba. A lot. And not only recently now that everything is different, I was there during the special period even. I'm only relating what I saw.

Crippling poverty. Everywhere.

"Militarily Industrialized". Give me a break. What "industry"? Don't get me wrong. No one starves in Cuba. (Even during the Special Period.) But people were hungry, and I don't think anyone would go to Cuba and conclude that they have loads of industry under the control of their army. (In fact, you'd have been hard pressed to show "loads of industry" at all.)

Again, yeah, yeah, all of this is changing. Constitution reforms, North Cuba Basin, Yada yada yada. But that place has been poverty personified for a very long time. And there was no "industry" to be found.

And what is it with you and this phantom army of yours? The Cuban Army is a joke. The only thing the Cuban military has is smart guys. That's it. They're not gonna be out repelling any invasions anytime soon. The cops on their streets are what you should really be worried about. (Don't commit a crime, because the Castros run things down there. That's free advice.)

Finally, you're the one on here talking like some propaganda minister for who knows who. Not me.

Oh yeah... also... living on 12 dollars a month SUCKS. So if I sound a little angry, it's because seeing so many good people living that experience still gets under my skin.
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Miss it? I still run it. You can have my WinAmp when you pry it from my cold, dead hard drive.
"Once your profile is in decent shape, you can start connecting with strangers. Unfortunately, LinkedIn limits users to only 30,000 connections, and 3,000 connection requests, so use some discretion." l o l

Is it weird I was thinking of making a mastering linkedIn course yesterday? I think people would be interested.
>That extends to the leadership of the company. It seems structureless, or "democratic" organizations can only work if the will/resolve/capacity of the lowest common denominator is good enough, and there's a large pool of commonly-minded individuals.

It’s a chicken or the egg problem kind of problem. For all its talk about its love “freedom,” America is a deeply authoritarian and putative society.

The institutions that define much of our default “social scripts” (e.g. school, and later, work) are run like little dictatorships and their hierarchy and despotic bent come to define and permeate broader culture. Surrendering your “fundamental rights” (like freedom of speech and assembly), the moment you cross the threshold of your workplace leads to cognitive dissonance and a diminished belief in the truth of their “inalienable” status, both at work and in society at large.

The democratic participation of working class people in labor unions used to act as a check against this orientation, but as businesses interests have succeeded at undermining and destroying unions, businesses have filled the resulting power vacuum with even more authoritarianism, both in the workplace and in the outside politics they fund and support.

To change things, you’d have to do something like what Valve is attempting, but from the bottom up and at a more baseline level of culture and social arrangement.
By the way an adequate response would be to publish driver's full name, photo and address and tell the story on the local news. So that everyone around knows who he is and he can better understand how victims felt.
LOL, we can't very well have a conversation about Valve without mentioning HL3!

Where the hell is it Gabe?!?
Which is why we need to tax land, not labour.
Uber/Lyft driver live streams passengers using Missouri's one-party consent law
Are you objecting to the UB in the specific named cases (aliasing and signed overflow) or UB in general?
The MilkDrop port is a separate project which we’ve work together to integrate into Webamp. Check it out here: https://github.com/jberg/butterchurn
>WikiLeaks sat on...

Source for them "sitting on" time sensitive material?
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Could you please elaborate on how driving a car deposits nanoparticles?
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> the person that is most agressive will win

Ah... The Lord of the Flies management structure!

For instance, in any organization structure a guy like Steve Ballmer is going to bully his way into a leadership role.