skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I've been told by the WASM folks is that WASM won over asm.js because WASM allows you to do things that weren't possible in asm.js. I'm not a low level programmer - my WASM usage comes from Unreal Engine development - hence recommending you seek more knowledgable advice!
This is a free download until August 23. It's a sequel to their 2016 book, Site Reliability Engineering, which is free to read online at the same landing page: https://landing.google.com/sre/book.html
The previous book was more about principles than practice; this one is more about practice. The foreword noted that while few companies are at Google's current scale, many more are as large as Google was when they started practicing SRE ideas.
I create a new Google account per device, no real name.
Using deep learning to extract features from aerial imagery using Robosat
Dunno about China, but in Japan your bank name is supposed to match your government name (for foreigners, this means your passport) for money laundering regulatory reasons, although this isn’t always enforced.
Another victory for the bag lunch.
Uh, ain't no ambiguity here: a black hole is a thing with an event horizon.
Is Zulip embeddable? I’d like to add a messaging/commenting feature to our web app and this looks quite good.
I don't know the process of laser ablation. How would you use it in the context of this mission?
Mastercard's prepaid debit cards are quite popular with fintech startups.
I have work email notifications off when I don't work. If they don't pay me to be available anytime then of course I won't check my work email after work.

So this is not a reason not to have a smartphone it's only a matter of setting up the phone properly, so notifications reach me only when they should be checked.
Exactly. The article went off point very quickly, in my humble opinion.
Not from behind the event horizon they don't, the light comes from outside.
In all fairness, it doesn't look like MIP is getting widely deployed any time soon. There is a currently active IETF group working on improvements, who knows, maybe it will get traction at some point: https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/dmm/about/
> This is absurd. Of course companies need to enforce some form of morality among its employees, for instance by having an anti-murder policy or by firing employees who shout racist epitaphs at quarterly meetings. The question is just where to draw the line.

Those things aren't the responsibility of the employer. They are illegal.

I don't actually think my argument was the slippery slope. It was my attempt to show that other things could equally be considered immoral that perhaps don't align quite as neatly with your militant vegetarianism.

Anyway, I doubt anyone else is actually reading this 2 week old thread so I'll leave it at that. Have a good weekend.
Well, keeping a small team is a choice, and the technology decision follows. What works for you guys works.

I am not debating whether it is a good one or bad one.
I was curious and googled a bit. Some British people on netmums.com report that they successfully put these names on birth certificates: Éilis, Zoë. I would guess that "Michèle" would also be allowed. I've never heard of an official set of allowed characters, but everything relating to names of people seems to be unregulated in the UK.

One argument people mentioned (though I have no idea whether it has any validity) is that if you have the diacritic on the birth certificate then it's easy to drop it later, or not use it in practice, but the other direction would be harder to justify.
Speech by the Vice President of Nigeria at the Google for Nigeria Event
Thanks for answering questions.

Our company wants to migrate from Skype for Business to either Zulip, Mattermost or Hipchat. As todays news hit, we removed Hipchat from out list.

Our questions are:
1. Does the Zulip desktop app for Linux store messages for offline reading?
2. Do you use it on-prem or cloud based? (if on-prem did you by the enterprise support?
3. Do you have any video or screen sharing software in use with Zulip? We are looking into the recommended on-prem Jitsi. Also is doesn't offer much group/channel management beyond moderators and guests.
> I've never heard of anyone leaving a job due to job training.

I've seen lots of people quit because a company is too stuffy/sterile/formal.
Firefox Nightly just got time travel debugging
You did read the part about outsourcing companies faking all of these credentials, right ? To the point of having "senior c++ developers" that don't know what a compiler is.

But even if not faked, how would you compare people from wildly different institutions and countries ?
Who did this without thinking about an exfiltration tool instead?
And apparently I'm not the only one having this problem [1], but I can't find software tools explicitly dedicated to solve this problem at the user layer (though I suppose there will be plenty in IDEs and programming languages).

[1] https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/1871...
We do something similar when we say “hello Cousin” at a family event or address our parents (dad and mom).

If your community is small enough (100 people) it could easily be applied to every type of relationship, at the exclusion of individual name.

Also note that in many languages there is or used to be a dedicated word for very specific relationship to someone, with different word if the relationship is via the mother, the father, etc.
The New FREE Peer-To-Peer CleanTech Marketplace
> But, it would also suck if Palo Alto, Mountain View, and Sunnyvale became full of offices and private cafeterias and lost all essence of a "downtown". I mean Palo Alto is already full of Palantir buildings.

As an outsider who never lived in the US, I think they are already well beyond saving. At least this isn't my idea of a "downtown". It's not like you can somehow rekindle social diversity in those cities at this point. Outside of tech workers, almost nobody can afford living there. I believe most of these restaurant employees wouldn't mind working at a private cafeteria instead.
One step closer to Genera. :)
Another German state plans switch back from Linux to Windows
> Erlang! The whole Networking world depends on it on one way or another. It is literally some of the most important pieces of technology.

Erlang is not popular in the FAANG companies, not used in their CDN devices and LBs, and not used by CDN vendors (e.g. Arista).

Mainly because the OTP does not solve most classes of problems you encounter at a large scale.
iPhone X Suica ( NFC ) Problem Q&A
While we are in an agreement on optimal solution, I don't see why we need to wait. We still have NBL running, and the average hight for men there is about 1 foot (30cm) more. Similar, there were a study rather recently that looked at winter OS winners and found that about 80% of them had blood levels that represented (if I get the zeros right) 1/1000000 chance of naturally occurring. OS is not being put on hold.

Those problems have remained for a very long time and yet we have done very little to remove those clear unfair advantages. What should we do until we fix them? I prefer common solution to similar issues so what ever fix that is deemed acceptable should be usable for all form of genetic advantages, and it would likely resolve a bunch of doping problems at the same time.
I don't like the sentence and I'm not even sure what it means to introduce difference into time. But to me the idea of malleable time is the bigger, more surprising concept compared to mere discontinuity which is commonplace.
I've tried Pop OS, but it seems little more than a GNOME theme to me.

I also don't understand why they didn't pick (or better yet fork) elementary OS, which is the only good-looking Linux distro that has a different enough vision to justify the duplicate effort to create another distro.

Personally, I think that GNOME is completely unusable. Pop OS is too close to GNOME. elementary looks great but its minimalism is similar to that of recent Apple--where so many features are removed that the app stops being useful, and huge compromises are made just so the thing looks good, ignoring that it has a purpose.

I'm using an heavily-modified Xfce install and I can actually manage to be productive.
Most modern trailers are just a sampling of all scenes from start to finish, so they absolutely summarize the movie. Frequently they even show the twist or enough of the post-twist to imply the twist, though that isn't necessary to be a bad trailer.

An outline kills a movie because you can anticipate scenes. Oh, here's this guy. I remember a fight scene from the trailer where Tom Cruise jumps him. I wonder when that happens. The movie clearly introduces him as a good guy. I wonder when you're supposed to find out he's one of the goons.

If it wasn't such a major issue, you wouldn't have people like me and many I know who avoid trailers entirely.

If the movie is good, then the trailer does nothing but dampen the experience.
Focus follows mouse breaks if you need to move the mouse away from the window over other windows to the top bar.

Focus follows mouse is an extremely useful feature which allows you to move focus without changing the relative arrangement of windows to each other (whereas Alt+Tab or relatives would bring the selected window to the front).

Additionally, a top-level menu bar is always there and requires a horizontal layout (I think?). In a window, each application can decide to hide the menu bar at will with only a vertical panel being visible at all time in all apps.
If only it was an actual graphical-mode Lisp machine.

XEmacs did better there, but it seems to have faded away.
Guido van Rossum (Computer History Museum Interview)
Even governments are willing to use SSO if it's SSO using entities both they and their customers trust with their money, e.g. major banks. (At least, that's how it is here in Canada with https://securekeyconcierge.com.)

Given that Telegram is already a payment processor (i.e. something people trust with their money), it could serve a similar role, no?
What kinds of documents are these? Because while sometimes I don't have the right fonts installed, never in my life have I seen a foreign web page fail to decode. The only mojibake I've seen is text that was corrupted during posting, not even showing up right to the author. Documents that people make have always worked as intended.
There's much more you can do, like disabling all Google apps (you usually can't uninstall them), and deleting their data (frees up a tiny bit of space). At least that works on Fairphone OS for FP2, based on Android 6.

I use a combination of F-Droid (most apps) and Yalp (for downloading a small number of free apps from the Google Play Store from parties I mostly trust).
EU official used colorful, simplified cue cards in trade meeting with Trump
I would go on a limb an say you have never been to India?

I'll let someone else play hobby-anthropologist as to the reasons why, but complete disregard to the plights of the poor is rampant among the middle and higher class Indians.
Can you maybe explain to me how that could be applicable here?

I’d like to know of a vaguely plausible thought process that would result in this implementation.
Show HN: Howdoi Web GUI
> I'm amazed how the Common Lisp development environment with Slime and Quicklisp is so much better than anything else out there.

Now imagine the commercial ones.

https://franz.com/products/allegro-common-lisp/acl_ide.lhtml

http://basalgangster.macgui.com/RetroMacComputing/The_Long_V...
Remembering Evi Nemeth, the “Matriarch of System Administration”
Hi all,

So I built a web GUI for the awesome howdoi commandline tool! The commandline tool itself was NOT built by me, but by Benjamin Gleitzman and other open source contributors: [https://github.com/gleitz/howdoi](https://github.com/gleitz/...

I hope for anyone who prefers GUIs over command line that this tool can improve your workflow!

Open issues:

- there's an issue with the colorize option and any code responses with html -- when colorize is active, the howdoi response needs to be parsed directly as html to the color classes work... but if the response itself includes html in the actual answer... well then weird things happen --> though this should only happen if colorizing is set to ON

- Upgrading the server (my 'server' is an old 2010 Dell laptop), not sure how many child python processes (i.e `howdoi.py`) a node instance can serve up before it explodes, so if this post gets any traffic, it may simply not work, or have really slow response times

Ideas:

- side bar with top 'most common' searches, ranked 1-10 --> will need to build out a backend for this

- Linking the code of each response to stackoverflow / wherever it came from (though this may be annoying, maybe a button is better)

- monetizing it... would anyone pay $0.99, for example, after 10 'free' queries? this way i could also build a login and your favorites would be stored forever, not just in browser storage
That's a "win-win" if you just take these particular employees and their company into account. It's a net loss for the state and the rest of its citizens however.
> If two things require different versions of a package, those seem like separate projects to me.

You may be thinking of packages on the scale of frameworks. For example, if you have a Ruby on Rails app that mixes packages from Rails 3 and Rails 5, well sure, then you're in for some serious trouble.

But a lot of packages are much more narrow in scope. Rust has a lot of small crates for basic data structures that have their APIs change betweeen versions. So you could end up with your logging package internally depending on some_data_structure=1.2, while your RabbitMQ client library internally depends on some_data_structure=2.3. As long as they do not expose some_data_structure in their API, you will never even notice (except maybe through increased binary size).
There's a reason this is standard operating procedure among gyms. They know their target user is only going to actively use their product for a limited time, and the subscription model is sticky enough to monetize it for much longer.

The friction of admitting to oneself that it was a bad decision to join a gym one doesn't make time to actually use is what keeps people from cancelling on their anniversary date, and it's what keeps most gyms in business.

If you decide to instead only ask for monthly renewals, you make the work of retention 12x harder, with very few actual instances where you deter paying customers. When people check their card purchases over the course of the year and you show up 12x vs. 1x, even if it's the same amount of money it will be perceived as more expensive.
Lightbulbs that last longer can't burn as bright, will use more electricity and do cost more. Nothing stops any company from creating long-lasting lightbulbs and they do in fact exist, but the consumer demand for them isn't necessarily higher because of it.

>> How many iPhones have you bought?

Three. Got a 6S right now, still running well and I'm not looking to upgrade. If I cared about it becoming obsolete, I could get a Shift phone instead.

The reality is that most consumers don't mind swapping phones on a regular basis, they want to go with the technological progress. On the other hand, smartphones aren't getting that much better anymore and consumers are delaying upgrades. If they truly valued long-lasting phones with replaceable parts, those phones would be successful. They're not, they are a small niche.
I didn't know a 6310 could read and send email, thank you. I stopped having Nokia phones after the 3310i (which I did love dearly).

There are numerous first world countries that have unreliable public transport. This is the US and also in the EU, I can't imagine you've never encountered what I mean unless you don't travel very much (there is nothing wrong with that, but then why do you discuss it like this). Sure in the situations that you talk about a smartphone would not matter, but in the ones I talk about (and that I actually meant originally) a smartphone will tell you why there is a delay (suddenly, generally) and what you can do to mitigate it. Something no PA system will tell you with any amount of reliability.
I understand that those are Roundworms, not tardigrades. If they start to feed inmediately I understand also that aren't a parasitic species. There are a lot of species living freely in the soil.

Why the article was published just now (the samples were taken in 2015) is a most interesting question. Probably related with the current rush to explore the martian ice pole to find life. The siberian experts would add a invaluable experience in how to attack this drill problem avoiding contamination of the sample, and taking a undisturbed core-layers of ice to date it and understand the past climate of mars.
Good on you! Wouldn't guarantee they wouldn't call you on your wedding day? What a bunch of clowns. & More positively forward looking: congratulations
Depends how far back "ancient" is. But most sicknesses only infect closely related species, and homo sapiens is here for maybe 100 000 years, so I wouldn't be too worried.

On the other hand I'm very afraid what will happen when people can download, tweak, and 3d-print viruses as a hobby.
The book is a decent read. Like you said, it linearly presents the companies and people involved, mostly ARPA and BBN. Not a technical book, so don't expect anything in-depth on protocols, more like analogies laypeople can understand.

Excerpt:

To avoid sounding too declarative, he labeled the note “Request for Comments” and sent it out on April 7, 1969. Titled “Host Software,” the note was distributed to the other sites the way all the first Requests for Comments (RFCs) were distributed: in an envelope with the lick of a stamp. RFC Number 1 described in technical terms the basic “handshake” between two computers—how the most elemental connections would be handled. “Request for Comments,” it turned out, was a perfect choice of titles. It sounded at once solicitous and serious. And it stuck.

“When you read RFC 1, you walked away from it with a sense of, ‘Oh, this is a club that I can play in too,’” recalled Brian Reid, later a graduate student at Carnegie-Mellon. “It has rules, but it welcomes other members as long as the members are aware of those rules.” The language of the RFC was warm and welcoming. The idea was to promote cooperation, not ego. The fact that Crocker kept his ego out of the first RFC set the style and inspired others to follow suit in the hundreds of friendly and cooperative RFCs that followed. “It is impossible to underestimate the importance of that,” Reid asserted. “I did not feel excluded by a little core of protocol kings. I felt included by a friendly group of people who recognized that the purpose of networking was to bring everybody in.” For years afterward (and to this day) RFCs have been the principal means of open expression in the computer networking community, the accepted way of recommending, reviewing, and adopting new technical standards.

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1
Space Travel calculator for anyone wanting to work out the time dilation stuff

http://nathangeffen.webfactional.com/spacetravel/spacetravel...
Basic physic concepts, like gravity, friction, velocity or optics.
If you were already familar with these concepts then training/experimenting would be a better description than learning.
Afaik there were even schools using this game in classes.
On a good day, I work about 5 hours a day. That's non stop, from about 10.30 until about 4pm, or from about 3pm to 8pm.

If I stop for lunch, I stop, and don't get back into it.

So I eat lunch at my desk. It's not bad for me. 10 hour days to accomplish half the work is bad.
> Surveillance is an ancient urgency among certain influential thinkers; it was a central prescription set down by Calvin in the Institutes, by Plato in the Republic, by Hobbes, by Comte, by Francis Bacon

Made me think of Calvin and Hobbes - but there's conflicting evidence if this was the main inspiration behind the names [0]

[0]: https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-significance-behind-the-na...
As far as I'm concerned 'explicit' just means that the behaviour under discussion is caused by some piece of source that talks about that behaviour and not something else.

Whether the bit of source is a single character or a paragraph of prose is about verbosity rather than explicitness as long as the behaviour under discussion is caused by a piece of source with precisely that purpose.
has a pre-trailer to the trailer

If you're wondering why this is done, it's because when the trailer is shown on Youtube as a pre-roll ad, users have the ability to "skip" the ad after 5 seconds. Thus, the trailer needs to "hook" the viewer in the first 5 seconds to entice them to keep watching the whole thing, and deliver a title card right before the 5 second mark so that they can increase brand awareness even if the user does choose to skip the ad after the 5 second timer is up. This leads to the first 5 seconds of the trailer being used as a trailer for the actual trailer.

Here's several examples:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBezc1S1BAQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UL29y0ah92w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUDV0CUzG0k
Laser ablation would create debris, wouldn’t it?
Reality Check: Why some African countries don't want charity clothes
Still.

But given this, can you say it will be for long?
It's yet another. It still repackages debian unstable, kinks and all. At best it adds value through maketing while piggybacking on Debian's work.
I have a phone for practical reasons (I rarely need to use a phone). But I can clearly see that most of these are solvable by the internet or by old-fashioned solutions.

Getting in touch with a GP? I can use the internet.
Bank fraud? Same, or just go to a branch.

As far as accidents and emergencies are concerned, these are no different than the solutions pre-smart phone or when your phone has broken, out of power, or if you forgot it elsewhere. You go to the nearest house. Landlines wouldn't call 911 for you if you dind't have phone service. Besides, folks can keep a cheap non-smartphone with no service in their house which allows you to call 911 in an emergency. Everything else can be worked around.

All it would really take is a knock on the neighbor's door and ask them to call the cops for you. The vast majority of folks won't turn you down. If all else fails, go to the nearest gas station or fast food establishment. Chances are they'll happily call for you.
Nice, ask for the definition of a event horizon in a paper from before it was defined and then use the absence as proof there are no event horizons in the universe (◔_◔)
Have something actually worth investing in, and pitched well, with a capable team ready to execute.
SISCOG, a Portuguese company, uses Common Lisp on their planning software.

http://www.siscog.eu/

http://www.siscog.eu/upload/GESTAO-DE-LISTAS/News/PDF/eclm-2...

If you feel like enjoying Lisbon or Porto's weather, they are hiring.
Better than Allegro or LispWorks?
Yeah, keeping a fork of it does the trick, but it means you have to watch your back from React's unstable APIs, changing too fast
Anonymization doesn't work in practice (people are bad at it and don't understand how to do it), and it definitely doesn't work on DNA. So in order of claims: You shouldn't trust it was done well and if someone claims that they did this for your DNA they are lying. Why wouldn't you want to opt-out from having some of your most sensitive information used by someone who is willing to lie to get access to it?

The alternative to "they are lying" is "they are too incompetent to make the claim" and I'm honestly not sure which is more worrying. You can take your pick, they're both more or less equally terrifying.
An awesome book is Where wizards stay up late: the origins of the internet.