skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This explains more or less everything about how MOOCs went.

> When the web started to shake up higher education a decade or more ago, it was widely expected that the Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) it spawned would disrupt universities in the same way that digital media undermined newspapers and music firms. But that assumption rested on a misunderstanding of what students are paying for. They are not buying education for its own sake, but rather a certificate from a respected institution.
Tooling is required for coordinating configuration management on multiple repositories too.

Also, why isn't such tooling available as open source? I'm trying to do my bit, but we could do with more effort being put into this, somehow.
> Most monohull sailboats don't even have keels let alone weights.

That's factually incorrect. Smaller monohulls that focus on racing performance often do not have weights, though they will certainly have a keel to reduce drift when sailing upwind. The exceptions are certain classes of tiny sports vessels.

Larger monohulls that are designed to be lived on are generally categorised under "class A" according to Europe's CE certification, but are probably sold with equal safety standards around the world. Class A means that they are impossible to fully capsize and will not sink with even a reasonable amount of water in them (well, de facto at least, de jure they only need to survive certain wind and sea conditions). For example, a class A yacht may roll over 90° onto its side and fill up with water, but will not sink. To pull this off, these yachts have heavy weights on the end of their keels to counterbalance the force of the wind pushing them into the water.

However, given enough water in them, even class A yachts will begin to sink.
It's actually exactly the other way around - All digital scales are inaccurate to the point where it's better not to measure at all. The only reasonably accurate method for measuring body fat at home is using calipers at different parts of your body
> As far as I'm aware, Canada and England work very similarly with pleas reducing sentencing, the vast majority of cases not going to trial, and a cash bail system.

Quite the opposite (in terms of pleas and cash bail). See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bail and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plea_bargain.

For example in England plea bargains are based on timing of plea only and are limited to one third off the sentence only. Bail is given by default and a cash bond is not required.

> Which country would you say does it right?

I'm not sure I'm qualified to say that some country does it right, but England for example is quite the opposite of the US in terms of "presumption of innocence" really having a meaning. The system hasn't ground to a halt, yet innocent people don't rot in jail awaiting trial just because they're poor, and don't have to plead guilty for fear of getting a 10x sentence.
They still cannot explained gravity, and the standard model is unsatisfactory.

They know exactly what they are searching for, read the paper. Esp. in QCD there's a lot still missing. Sea quarks, gluons.
I have not done this, but I have considered it. It is certainly appealing but I'd have to be sure I'd be putting the time to good use. i.e. Not playing video games all day.

What I recently discovered is that in Germany you have a right to change your employment from full-time to part-time. So long as you've worked at the employer more than 6 months and the employer employs more than 15 people. The Employer can still turn you down under some conditions but sounds like it would be hard for them to justify.

https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/tzbfg/__8.html - The applicable law for anyone interested.
Given that science has a pretty good (but not perfect) track record of improving the human condition, yes, trust them or spend the effort to become a recognized expert.
Same here on latest desktop Chrome on OSX.
The web’s transition from nomadism to feudalism
Low pricing businesses. Here is rule no 1 to stay profitable – SlickAccount Blog
We have shared components between some of our projects, I'm not sure how monorepo will fit in here. For integration there are a lot of available build tools and repo management apps. For us it solves the problem of having no dependency between versions of the same library used between multiple products.
I have slightly ambivalent feelings about an institution like Y-Combinator getting into the business of promoting those sorts of books. -- Making a reading list on books teaching you programming or statistics or business skills like accounting is one thing.

But when you're talking about reading materials that promote a certain world view, certain values, a certain political position, or instill in an individual a certain kind of "cognitive programming" (for lack of a better word), like psychological self-help books and the like, that's a whole different story.

This is one thing that I distinctly remember as a negative about the young entrepreneurs' scene back at university, that so much of it bordered on brainwashing.
Cambridge University Will Establish a “DeepMind Chair” of Machine Learning
I'm using the same combination. Daily and with zero issues.

Of course I'd wish Reeder was more actively developed, but thinking about it there simply isn't anything missing. And if OP is dissatisfied with the available RSS clients there's always Feedbin's web interface.
I think they're on to something with the intermittent fasting but starting early in the day is not a convincing argument for a night owl like me. I'd like to see them compare the early starting six or eight hour intermittent fasting group to a later one to see if there is a difference and include morning larks in the first one and night owls in the second. My hypothesis is that the groups would fare similarly but without the study we won't know.
The context would have helped immensely. Instead I had to read the first half of the article again after I finished.

The author captures the essence of the vapid absurdism permeating social media, and our culture more broadly.
You can get a pretty good estimate with something like this ($6): https://www.amazon.com/AccuFitness-AM99-Accu-Measure-Body-Ca...
Do you plan to release the endpoint code as on premise? What's your SLA?

For some companies/developers (including myself), using centralized cloud services is a red flag, especially for security and for downtime.
Economics is the study of what governments should do. Like all opinions, some are more true than others.
> you’ve just lost your ability to easily make breaking changes to the common code

It should be hard to make breaking changes in common code. Even 'trivial' breaking changes seem to have a way of breaking things even when they shouldn't. If you need to make a breaking change to common code, the proper way to do it is add the new functionality separately, deprecate the old functionality (i.e. with javadoc so it gets called out explicitly by the IDE), and incorporate it 1-by-1 into consumers until none are using the deprecated version anymore.
Rocky and Bullwinkle did the X or Y style thing years before Dr. Strangelove. Everybody loves moose and squirrel?
Last I heard, the police are doing this in Australia now.

Lauren Southern receives $68,000 bill from Victoria Police

https://www.heraldsun.com.au/blogs/andrew-bolt/lauren-southe...
Nice work, but I would put more effort in supporting Firefox rather than Chrome.
You clearly have no sense of humor.
Yes. I have no skin in this game personally but I feel bad when Google or one of the other behemoth's of tech decide to offer a service that small players are already thriving in. Google can compete with a scale of development that can easily drive the small guys out of business. What's worse is that they then get bored with the product at some point, or a pointy haired boss looks sadly at a revenue chart and the thing suddenly disappears with no recourse and the small players are gone.
Oh. I had no clue.

What's the advantage vs IPMI or POP?
Is it just me, or are a lot of people here conflating source control management and dependency management? The two don't have to be combined. For example, if you have Python Project X that depends on Python Project Y, you can either have them A) in different scm repos, with a requirements.txt link to a server that hosts the wheel artifact, B) have them in the same repo and refer to each other from source, or C) have them in the same repository, but still have Project X list its dependency of project Y in a requirements.txt file at a particular version. With the last option, you get the benefit of mono-repo tooling (easier search, versioning, etc) but you can control your own dependencies if you want.

edit: I do have one question though, does googles internal tool handle permissions on a granular basis?
>>Instead we see the same old strategy: sanctions in the hope of pro-democratic regime change, that only hurt the very people themselves.

Not a US citizen, but the US foreign policy is a relic of the past. Its really like peak Henry Kissinger 'Our way, or the highway' attitude, where everybody is supposed to fall in line or face invasion.

China offers a far more novel and attractive option to let people live as they like, as long as they can have peaceful coexistence based on mutual interests.

Empires and super powers often fall into this trap of trying to do everything and bullying everyone into submission. It might work for a while while you are at your peak. The issue is its impossible to sustain this forever.
You know, thats a good course to reference.

Giving it a second think, a lot of CBT is skills-based, so I think I’d like to agree. Though, I suspect that such a mooc for anxiety does not yet exist
We have about 400 repos in a team of about 20 developers. We do have extensive tooling to help coordinate all of these, but configuration management is still by far the biggest engineering challenge that we face.

I don't recall having such issues when I was working with Subversion and Perforce.

On the other hand, not everything was rosy in the 'good old days': MS Source Safe was (by far) the worst VCS experience that I have ever had.
The simplest way to think about memory is as a place where one executed instruction might write a value into a slot, and the next be able to read it.

In practice, things are more complicated. The next instruction might be from a different process, executing on a different (hyper)core. Or the next instruction executed might not be the next instruction in the program, because the CPU may be performing out-of-order execution. The CPU will have several layers of cache as well, and cache coherency protocols aren't always engaged.

In a language like C, you can declare a variable to be volatile. When the program is compiled, this causes the compiler to emit memory barrier instructions - these barriers force the CPU to do the work to ensure some semblance of sequential memory access is restored across the two sides of the barrier. These may be implicit, in the memory semantics of the language itself, or explicit operations in the language.

However, it's not easy to be sure that the barriers that end up in compiled and executed code actually provide the memory semantics that the language specified. This is exacerbated by the different semantics of different hardware architectures, and the overall complexity of the problem space.

The paper provides a way to address this problem by introducing an intermediate memory model, which is amenable to formal verification of compiler outcomes. They map this model to a handful of popular architectures, showing that the mappings are correct (more or less, that for all possible execution flows, the observable behaviour is the same). They also map from RC++ (repaired C++11, fixing an unsound semantics in concurrent memory access) and Promise ("the promising model") to the IMM.

Assuming the proofs are correct (a non-trivial assumption in this field, unfortunately) this offers a step forward in the process of formally verifying that the output of compilers actually behaves in the way that the program should, according to the programming language's semantics. There aren't many formally verified compilers around, and those that do exist are for subsets of languages we might use, limiting their applicability.
So have the actual discontinuations
How many levels of irony are you on, my dude?
Package list with dependency graph @smallrepo.com

https://smallrepo.com/repos/github.com/google/go-cloud
The article cited higher interest rates. I've talked to other people who say we are in the tenth year of an average 8 year real estate cycle. I think the market is peaking now and will downturn in the near future. But, I think it will be short and shallow consistent with national economic growth.
It works fine with a carbohydrate diet too, provided by "carbohydrates" we mean healthy, complex carbs and not sugary junk. Professor Valter Longo has been getting a lot of buzz lately for this kind of intermittent fasting diet.

His diet is low in protein and fat; he gets furious when he sees doctors advocating the opposite, a trendy practice he believes speeds aging.

https://www.statnews.com/2017/06/13/fasting-diet-valter-long...
> It's not ignorance, but knowledge

"I don't understand" is clearly a statement of ignorance and not knowledge. The ignorance you expressed was about why people make an issue of something. That ignorance could be dispelled if you actually read and attempted to understand their points, but that requires qualities like humility and intellectual honesty.

As a top class programmer who wrote his first ASM program in 1967, was on the C Standards committee, and has programmed at every other level, I will simply smh at the naivety and point missing of your comments, and avoid engaging you further. Ta ta.
Can it or has it been used for UX testing? Having a way to "reset" people for interface testing would be useful. Preferably without side effects, of course.
Would any of the 3 points you mentioned have been different had MSFT not acquired GitHub?
Looks like https://www.mendeley.com
I think sciences should really be classified on degree of complexity of the phenomena they're dealing with.

Physics is a simple science. It studies the most basic of phenomena, and can isolate them pretty well for experiments. Chemistry is a more difficult science, biology even more so - at each step the phenomena get an order of magnitude more complex (in computational sense), and thus more difficult to study. Then there's psychology, social sciences and economics - all of which are even more complex, as they no longer deal with lots of simple machines, but results of sentient minds interacting in the complex world.

Point being, the "softer" a science is, the more difficult it is. That the "hard" sciences spawn so clear predictions and mathematical models is a consequence of their simplicity. The proper approach here is humility - economics and social sciences are so difficult that we barely begun to figure anything out. That's also why there's so much bullshit in "soft" sciences - they're so difficult that you can plausibly say almost anything, and it's hard to tell if you're wrong, or how much.
Whether you like what he says or not, he's got freedom of speech and shouldn't be bullied into silence.

I think the standard response here is "the cure for bad speech is more speech", yes?
"Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should."

--Dr Jeff Goldblum
The US has a 2.5B-pound surplus of meat. Let’s try to visualize that
The tempting question: would you have shot Hitler at the height of WW2?
>>Does this mean the general sentiment and overall strategy is changing at long last?

Times change. 70 years back there were only 2 major powers. Europe was recovering from the world wars, although bulk of their human capital was intact, lets face it, Europe more or less lost the leadership of the world.

Also at the same time, many big geographical areas and ancient cultures got their freedom from European colonial powers.

So it was in US's interest to prevent new competition from coming up on all fronts- Military, Economy, Education, Human resources etc etc. So they had to keep everyone in check. This works as long you keep producing top notch human capital forever. You can't do that, as its quite literally impossible. Then when you lose things one bit at a time, you also have to face the grim reality that you are better off minding your own business.

Its not easy to stop the whole worlds progress, to preserve your own. At least not forever.
"You just proved my point."

This is the least intelligent and least intellectually honest hackneyed phrase on the internet. In this case it's a complete non sequitur. It would tell me a lot about you if you hadn't already made it evident. Over and out, forever.
Can I use this completely isolated and offline, or does it require you to use it online or is otherwise severely limited if you don't? And it is easy to get it in this mode in a clear way? Their website doesn't make this clear if this is possible.
Even digital is not accurate - it’s difficult to find two bodyfat scales that actually agree.

In most cases any measurement instrument will do, you just want a number to track even if it’s grossly inaccurate.
Likewise, I normally don't eat until late afternoon or evening, and I'm usually not hungry until then. But if I eat breakfast, I then want to keep eating all day!
Chrome 68: All HTTP Sites to Be Marked ‘Not Secure’ from Today
Show HN: I had a bot read Games of Thrones' transcripts and crypto whitepapers
I'm just going to ask which company you've been at that a) needed a big rewrite and b) had a "very good test suite". In my experience there's not much overlap here, especially because one of the reasons why a) is necessary is often that there's so little modularization that b) is not possible to exist.
What is N.B fasting?

I do 16/8 I.F fasting on a HCLF diet and have never experienced any of those issues.

There is plenty of evidence showing the benefits of ketosis on the body, and benefits from people switching from SAD to Keto reversing diabetes and the likes - but that's more down to calorie restriction. With regular keto you're raising your risk long-term for diabetes, heart-disease, cancer and stroke due to increased meat/dairy/egg consumption.

https://nutritionfacts.org/video/what-causes-insulin-resista...

You're far better just eating a varied diet with as little animal produce as possible and doing I.F which releases 5x the amount of ketones than the keto diet.
Author of xmpp-echo-bot here.

> echoz.sh also uses cut, base64, stdbuf, tr, mkfifo, tee and sort.

tee can be eliminated if needed be, the others should probably be added to the list of dependencies, thanks.

> echoz.sh does not seem to have any "bashisms" so perhaps one does not actually need bash and other sh will suffice.

Indeed, there is a PR which I have to review which fixes that.

> The uses of cut to isolate substrings and tr to replace characters can also be acomplished using sed.

I would be interested how you would do especially the tr part in sed, given that sed, even unbufferedly, operates on "lines". I use tr to replace '>' (XML delimiter) with a line ending recognized by sed to be able to operate on individual XML elements.

The uses of cut could be replaced by sed in the script indeed, although it can’t be moved into the main sed script. I made an issue for that: https://github.com/horazont/xmpp-echo-bot/issues/6

<spoiler>

> "All you have is openssl, bash, dig, stdbuf and sed?"

I hope it is clear that this entire thing is ironic and the long list of dependencies -- especially given that bash could reasonably be used to replace sed here -- is supposed to underline that. I’ll gladly add more :).

</spoiler>
I trained a Markov chain on Games of Thrones' transcripts and crypto whitepapers.
I publish the best newly-generated sentences via a Twitter bot on https://twitter.com/crypto_thrones.
I know what the post is trying to say and all the examples are fine and learning C(++) you should be aware of this and everything, but I think the conclusion of saying that this shows pointers aren't integers is an odd choice. They still are in memory. It's all about the interpretation of these integers, and the shortcuts compilers can take because the standard allows them to do so, as the author points out. If you turn off all optimizations or go ahead and write a really simple compiler yourself, you probably end up getting exactly the results you'd "expect" from those examples, at least on any platform that is not totally exotic. Also uninitialized bytes are still ordinary bytes, you just get a free rand() run. :)

Yeah maybe it's just me being weird.
I really like how Epic is handling Unreal Engine 4. The source is available, and the standard license is revenue share. It's not necessarily open source, but it reaped so many benefits from public contributions. You can modify it and extend it for your own use. The revenue share means they are actively interested in your success.

Of course video games are highly public consumer products. So you can't actually abuse their model because if your game is successful it will be well known.
Not sure that's true, I haven't read about it (live in AUS). A lot of the campaigns by the opposition in the upcoming state elections are heavily focused on being "tough on crime".
Ret2spec: Speculative Execution Using Return Stack Buffers [pdf]
That's along the lines of what I was thinking. The www.mywebsite.com foundation, worth a whopping 10k, invests it's 300$ annual interest in updating the hosting for www.mywebsite.com.
rebootthesystem seems to be a chatbot that specializes in shouting cliches and non sequiturs. His responses to me indicate a complete failure to understand what I wrote. smh
> his constant Apple hating

I guess that's normal for someone fixing Apple stuff as his day job and thus always only seeing apples bad side. Especially with seemingly Apple not wanting such repairs to happen.
It is completely isolated, if for example you want to include references in word. However some functions like adding references quickly with DOIs will fail without an internet connection.
Need permission to fish. Need permission to play music. Don't need permission to have a baby.

Seems like the biggest loophole ever in a democratic world.
Musk does seem to be exhibiting increasingly insecure, threatening, and chaotic behavior (e.g. Thailand).

Admittedly I know nothing about the conduct or credibility of the blogger, but to me, “a guy on the Internet” is more credible than EM at the moment.
Any way to read this from EU without getting GDPR wall?
Sure, on Firefox adblocking works pretty much solid, removing all kind of ads thanks to uBlock origin.

On Chrome, I get sometimes still ads across videos, plus Chrome is Google's Browser: obviously they test YouTube extensively with it and they just make it "work" for other vendors.
Depends on the system. When I used to manage SVN we would branch independent projects and then releases would be a snapshot of each into the server section of the repo. Those were then pulled down to their respective machines.

In SVN a branch is simply a convention. You copy (almost zero cost) things around into your branches directory
fyi running the query in https://bit.ly/2NL89GA gives

{
"data": {
"youTubeVideo": null
}
}

right now. did a limit bust?
Lost in Space FUI – HUDS+GUIS
What about crime rates going down and teen pregnancy going down?
As Mojave is in beta right now, I don't think Apple feels obligated to rush out a Supplemental update like they did for their production OS. Also not sure how they would have already patched in Mojave if they hadn't had it fixed in HS when the hardware was released.

I expect the next Mojave beta release to resolve this, but don't expect the next release to come faster due to this bug.
Once, the place I was staying in was so cold that I put my laptop onto a CPU intensive task and stuck it in between the covers as a sort of hi-tech hot water bottle.