skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's such a shame! I live in the UK and I love driving - but also have had a special commute that few get to experience.

In short, living an hour outside of London in a small village meant that the drive to the station (to take the train to London) involved rolling hills and long and twisted scenic roads. It was really enjoyable - usually my favourite time of the day - even more so if like me you are into your cars and bought yourself a nice car to enjoy it with.

On summer evenings after work I would find myself taking 1 to 2 hour detours discovering new roads and sceneries, usually until the sunset which at peak was somewhere between 9 and 10pm. It was the best thing I ever did for my mental health, but now I live in London it's not something I can do anymore. I walk to and from work through a very busy, stressful and polluted city.
> a central database can be manipulated to effectively rewrite history

That's true, and that's an important issue. But I might still ask, for each application, is there someone who's trusted to introduce records into the system but not to update them later?

(We can definitely envision applications where the answer might be "yes" -- often related to concerns about censorship -- but it doesn't seem like this is the case for every application.)
Not guaranteed to be current, but the “Controversy” section addresses it:

http://www.righto.com/2013/11/how-hacker-news-ranking-really...
How is it possible to have 380 Django apps in a single codebase? That sounds insane. Is that not absurdly complex to manage? I can't even imagine.
Josh Berkus, member of the OSI license review committee here.

License Zero was rejected because it's not open source. It is, in fact, a business model for a specific startup (and, I'd argue, not for the writers of the code either).

Kyle had some other interesting ideas for licensing that could have been approved as open source, but was uninterested in pursuing them if they didn't support License Zero the business.
He claimed that developers could become lazy and simply stop making specific Linux clients, he never claimed that this additional option could prevent developers from making specific clients.
Is BofA going to redline all of their staff? No. But absorbing a spike at a single department or branch is another story, and it wouldn't surprise me if having excess capacity already on hand is more efficient overall than trying to reassign individual workers on demand.

Besides, actually working on a team that's redlined is exhausting, and doing it for more than a few weeks is a recipe for burnout. There's real business value in high employee morale and a low turnover rate, and having some amount of built in slack at normal operating capacity seems like a relatively cheap and reliable mechanism to safeguard that value long term.
Some are seeing that corporations are the ones making all the money on the back of open source software. It's hard to want to contribute to something like open source infrastructure tooling, when it's use case is purely commercial, for example. I imagine some also feel that it's setting an unrealistic value on digital products, at least I do. Why would I want to build a tool for corporate infrastructure if they take it and make millions while I run support for free? They aren't about to Open Source my rent.

I would much rather an honest transactional relationship for commercial software. That also includes consumer commercial software, like phone apps and websites. If we had honest expectations about the cost of software we wouldn't see so much aggressive advertising and tracking.

There are fantastic use cases for the generosity of open source. Education software is something I whole heartedly agree should be driven by open source. But I feel open source has been taken advantage of in commercial settings.
It's a nylon (polyamide) mesh. It's not going to spew microfibers in the same way that a polyester fleece would. For reference, I found you some micrographs of the materials we're talking about:

poly fleece: https://www-tc.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/wp-content/uploads/201...
nylon mesh: https://assets.fishersci.com/TFS-Assets/CCG/product-images/F...
There was once this startup called Peeple, users exploded in rage because it had to do with rating people.
Lots of companies require enough content to need multiple full-time designers - some of them outsource it all to design agencies, some keep teams of in-house designers.
NASA scientists confirm presence of water on Moon
Yes, Social Network Use Leads to Violence
Even that seems to get periodically re-enabled on my Galaxy S7 without my permission. I reasonably expect that if I launch an app that requires location to get asked for it, but in my experience the system level software is collecting it anyway, perhaps traffic mapping?
CircleCI: Failed :(
It's not always possible, but commuting by bicycle is great. Burning extra calories and listening to audio books (continuous learning) make the commute a productive time for me.
OpTic / Infinite Gaming – RUNNING OUT OF MONEY
Not read, but it doesn't look a serious piece of work. I'm not naive. Of course Singer's people probably wants to win a lot of money and of course you have lobbyists trying to make fast money everywhere. But that's not the main problem we face.

The main problem is the lack of control to dictatorships. You can have a disastrous government like the one we had here or Trump's. But it is damage-controlled by a democratic system. Dictatorships on the other hand are unhinged, lasts forever, and flood the democratic World with their migrants.

UN institutions were designed for a PostWar scenario that doesn't exists anymore.
I've been thinking about building this for Tcl. Tcl has been available in the browser in various forms for decades, but one thing that makes Tcl uniquely suited to a web application style development is its threading model. In Tcl, you access a thread by sending messages to it, in which a Tcl interpreter inside its event loop processes. My plan was to have a client-side Tcl program in the browser that automatically instantiates a second thread, but the thread is a remote thread running on the server, so you would be able to access the server just as if it were another thread.

Something like (client-side):

thread::send $::tcl-web::server -async {
do stuff
} placeToStoreResult
...
vwait placeToStoreResult
do stuff with result $placeToStoreResult
I think it is more reasonable to compose it from mixture of big to small machines while keeping healthy margin for reserve.
It is very much unlikely to get 20 machines above limit and top up all available cores.
Also don't forget, that vCPUs most probably don't have any affinity to psychical cores
WASM plans on adding GC, polymorphic inline cache, direct DOM access, etc. That would allow for Python without having to download the whole runtime. Whenever that happens, it might become more mainstream. Similar for other languages.
Yes, but PyPy is usually compiled to machine code (and emits machine code), not to JS.
> This article compares "teachers, police officers, nurses, farmers" to "lawyers and bankers", claiming that the latter make much more money than the former.

> In general, that's not actually true.

Please do cursory searches for data to backup what you imagine to be true.

> Nurses make good money.

On average, no. There's the eventual objection about what "compensation" means versus "salary", but moving the bar introduces a number of other variables. Keep it simple, as per the article. Feel free to goole nursing salary - not counting the issue of registered nurses acting as sergeants for teams of nursing assistants who perform the vast majority of the care, they are arguably underpaid (and assistants are shamefully underpaid). This disturbing feudal system is mirrored across multiple industries.

> Comparing teachers and police officers to hedge fund guys is weird

Weird is a strange way of saying "accurate".

> Education or law enforcement consultant/vendor/leader

Whatever that means. Making some other unclear comparison serves what purpose? Law enforcement entry pay is less/parity with a teacher, but is less than a federal worker at the post office in salary and definitely in other benefits.

> the largest farming companies are just as powerful and profitable as the largest banks.

Google 'largest banks', and assume annual profit to be about 10-20% of their assets. Over 94% of farms in the US are family owned, so I don't know what you think you mean by farming companies. I don't need to guess, I know that there isn't a single farming-related company one that comes close to the banks in terms of profits, assets, or valuation.

The world isn't in the state you believe it is.
DNC calls FBI after detecting attempt to hack its voter database
> Therefore, the smartest pro team should study what the bot is doing and trust that on average it's a better idea to always focus on the ranged barracks first. After all, if it was a bad idea, they probably wouldn't do that.

This is exactly what is happening with Go right now. Many pros are emulating and learning from AlphaGo (Zero) and are starting to play moves that were always thought to be suboptimal until now.
I was under the impression that Tessa's product they sold to Australia was essentially a bunch of tesla vehicle batteries which are lithium ion which is the same as laptops and phones. Is there some distinction?

I have seen and old grid scale battery at fort Bragg. It was lead acid and the size of a city block and could power the whole base for three days, but it was for backup not regular cycles. I thought new grid scale batteries were different from this one.

Less agressive charge/discharge cycles means overprovisioning which means more cost.if you Want the battery to power the island overnight in 5 years then you have to get a battery that is 5x the MWH that you need. Which is a fine technical solution but makes the economics worse.
Sorry they referenced marketing laws generally, consumer protection is covered by a thing called “Australian Consumer Law” and it’s very hostile towards warranties etc.
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> Is this Open Source? No. The source is available for inspection and restricted use but, because of these restrictions, its licence is not Open Source per the Open Source Definition.

That's all that needs to be said. Your page reads as though the author is hiding something or that the author is ashamed of the answer. Just come out and say it.
Indie titles often use either a custom game engine that is easy to port or use something like Unity that has built-in Linux support. AAA titles are harder to port because they're more complex.
Have to check that out thanks
This is definitely true, and both journalists and individuals often glance over things like trading fees versus best execution without regard to investing style or intent.

If I'm a retail investor and I'm buying large-cap US stocks, window trading my 50 lot of AAPL at 11 AM for free when the market is $0.01 wide is significantly better than buying $5 commissions. If I have 10,000 shares to buy in a small cap company, these types of systems will usually dump the order off into the market since the system will have few crossing orders. This likely will be a lot more expensive than $5.
The Fallacy of Imposter Syndrome
> My girlfriend told me I seemed happier all day.

My relationships take a nosedive when I have a long commute. It’s not that I become a jerk or anything. In both cases, my GFs commented that I was clearly much happier when the commutes ended. The quality of the time we spend together improves so much that during a recent job hunt I kept my search limited to a 10-15 minute radius from my home and didn’t even consider lucrative positions outside that range.
Monument Valley is becoming a movie
What I find interesting is all of the comments saying

"Well, I was going to use RedisLabs.. but because of this, i'll use AWS/elasticache"

Which is just such a weird statement. So instead of supporting the OSS creators and main contributors, who want a way to monetize their "value add" modules, while still giving the core software freely; you rather support a huge corporation that gives almost zero back to OSS ( AWS has a history of extend and embrace, make it a service/black box, with open source, that would make Microsoft of the 90s/00s proud!)
What Are Bitcoin ETFs and Why Are They Controversial?
But there seems to be some disagreement in the nutritional community on whether saturated fats are good for you or not.
There are people in Kerala, India. Who pretty much cook all food in coconut oil. How are they able to survive >100 years, if it is pure poison?.
Try going without comfortable sleep for a time. I can guarantee you that even a short period will massively affect all your daytime performance; lack of food even worse. It's one of the things that seem boring until you no longer have them.
You're better off running it on the original version of PyPy, which already uses a JIT.
Thanks for being receptive. I wouldn’t call it a “good point” if it was a mistake that was corrected.
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Tangentially related to this article is Simon Winchester's latest book "The perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World".

One of the chapters in this book is about the differences between the hand-built cars of Rolls Royce (and their origin story which I never knew) and Henry Ford's production line that required interchangeable precision parts.
Not everyone who lives in a city lives in one that is massively over populated relative to its transportation infrastructure.
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If it means devs go back and tweak the one or two minor issues that prevent their game from working on Wine then I can't complain that much.
You need a slightly different mental map of your keyboard. I think I use the edges/shifts as a reference (Model F doesn’t have the bumps at J/F at all), but that’s just a guess.
Or maybe it just makes you more aware that you're about to eat something, and instead of mindlessly swallowing that snack you engage the decision-making part of the brain, which leads to actually making the eating a decision, rather than an impulse.
I read through part of the "Learn you a Haskell" book that was posted here yesterday, and started getting really excited to use this beautiful language.

And then I started looking into ways to use it for making games and was... disappointed. Maybe I've been spoiled by the vibrancy of JavaScript's ecosystem, but I hoped to find a library for simply rendering existing meshes with existing materials and the closest I found was a library of base OpenGL hooks. Add onto that the lack of half-decent UI libraries (on the web you can use Elm, which is similar but different) and it feels like the only thing Haskell is practical for is headless data-processing, which is a shame.
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I know this is late but you are right. For some reason I thought info was only fore coreutils, but it seems I was wrong. I only ever used it for coreutils, but hey, thats good news to me!
> One challenge is the name "Commons" is very misleading. It's not creating a commons

“Commons” isn't the thing the clause creates, it's the problem it aims to solve. Naming contract or license clauses after the problem they address is not uncommon.
> conference attendee information is widely sold and shared as a matter of course

Is that something people get warned when buying a ticket?

edit: https://www.blackhat.com/us-18/registration-terms.html#priva... links to https://legal.us.ubm.com/privacy-policy/#Choices which someone smarter than me should interpret.
When I started my IT career in South Africa the internet situation was pretty horrendous. ADSL/Broadband speeds were 384kbps and you had hard bandwidth caps of ~$7 per gigabyte of traffic on top of your line rental.

Companies and universities could, however, cough up for expensive alternatives, such as a diginet line which the ISP I worked for at the time offered. These guaranteed uptime (which was very appealing as ADSL outages were very common) but you paid a hell of a lot of money per 64kbps of uncapped bandwidth. You were looking at something like $400-$500 a month per 64k for the cheapest support package. And we weren't even the most expensive. There was a law firm that was paying something like $30k a month for their pimped out 2048kbps line.

Thank God things have improved dramatically there in the last decade (at least in terms of internet speeds).
That's an interesting focus on his schlubbiness but in a way it makes it even more curious that, over the long term he was more (and more fundamentally) influential than most of his much more politically and socially savvy colleagues. Even if you just take the start and end points - set the gears that led to the Manhattan project in motion, convinced the leaders of the two nuclear superpowers to install a hotline, it's not half bad, for a Martian.
What is PWA
Couldn’t the lock-in be the Network of riders?
Towards Virtual Reality Infinite Walking: Dynamic Saccadic Redirection
So, you don't have any evidence that Wireguard is "a mess" (the claim that you are supporting).
An interesting old software package that 'revolutionized TV graphics production'. BBC produced a show with some famous artists using it, which they called "painting on a TV":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-JpI4egl2o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhTXX3qBUh0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxfj7BNVfKk
Addenda (relevant to community musings today):

Be aware that as a small and very distributed community, the Haskell world has less power to eject bad actors than more centrally managed and resourced projects have (e.g., Golang and Rust have much more structural power to moderate). Awful and abusive people exist in the community, and it's best to just start blocking and ignoring folks who disrespect you.

The amazing thing about the Haskell community is that knowledge is very well distributed throughout the community these days. The culture, influenced by academia, strongly values writing and publishing ideas rather than sharing them orally or in the workplace. This means that if you're interested in learning, there are a ton of places and ways to do it.

If you're looking for good initial connections to folks who are respectful, well informed, and unlikely to expose you to some of the frustrating cabals in the community, I've got a few recommendations

1. Gabriel Gonzales (this is his blog, and he's @GabrielG439 on twitter)

2. Chris Martin of TypeClasses. I'd also list his partner in crime Julie Moronuki, but her social media interaction is reduced these days. These two focus on helping programmers get up to speed with haskell from a variety of starting points, and they care more about functional programming than haskell specifics.

3. Patrick Thompson of Github (@importantshock on Twitter). A fantastically skilled person who will link you to a network of amazing Haskell folks who do stuff in a positively next-generational way.

Two people who are adjacent to the Haskell community and incredibly interesting, but probably can't answer direct questions for you. Worth a follow.

1. Dr. Edwin Brady, creator of the Idris language. He's widely respected, humble, and has a beautiful vision for how humans and computers should interact to write programs.

2. Dr. Bodil Stokke (@bodil on twitter). Bodil is not so much a Haskell person these days, but she's got a phenomenal breadth of knowledge and always has interesting things to talk about in the FP space. Worth a follow if you're on that platform.

I suppose you can ask me for help too, but I'm certainly not as competent as these folks.
Elaidic acid (major transfat) has a melting point of 113F. And now I see that coconut oil is primarily lauric acid, with a melting point of 110F. They both look bad from the assessment of melting point greater than body temperature.

Have any papers that specifically discredit “liquid at temperature” health implications?

It seems like transfat was only exposed as a problem through long term evaluation, and the studies likely couldn’t determine if it was just transfat with melting points over a certain temp which caused the effects.
Yeah, I remember back when the Linux kernel was written by some Finnish nerd in university and given away for free. Thank goodness Google hired him back in 1995 to develop it or it would have died in infancy.
Except the article is saying that employee morale in these places is in the toilet, so apparently it's not all that effective.
We definitely have gotten plenty of hype for bread over the years. Especially "whole grains". Just look at the food pyramid with 11 freaking recommended servings a day of grains... Provided of course by the US department of agriculture.

I believe the pyramid has been modified now, but I have no doubt it contributed to the obesity epidemic. Bread, even whole grains, contain a lot of sugar.
The level of our AI capabilities today means for me that

- we must not give it any decision making abilities because they will fail terribly on some mundane task

- SkyNet is not for yommorox, or the day after
The self-driving car that will never arrive
I love Python but js is close to an order of magnitude faster
It's amazing the number of things you can find by simply enumerating through a sequential series of integers, in what is basically a "gimme data" request to some public facing data endpoint.
>>> print "hello"

hello

>>>import json

>>>

Dope, everything I need.
What "bad behavior"? Was anybody doing anything that was prohibited by the terms of the previous license(s)? If not, then the real "problem" is that somebody made a bad choice w/r/t licensing. The solution is to switch to an existing license which has the desired terms, OR - as an absolute last resort - create a new license. Preferably the former, as the latter adds to license proliferation, creates confusion, contributes to FUD around open source, etc.

And if one is going to create a new license, they should just create a complete license, in it's entirety. Creating an "add-on" that can be tacked on the the ALv2 or other licenses, which goes completely against the nature of Open Source, is absurd.
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If you don't have a fear of flying and want to acquire it, reading NTSB reports of aviation accidents is a good start. In this case, https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Reports/...
I have skimmed all the famous books so far on haskell. But the best learning resource to me so far has been the UPenn course [0] because of the quick coding and feedback loop in the browser. Also, the beginning assignments involve visualizations, which is always good to check if you are doing things right or wrong.

0. https://www.seas.upenn.edu/~cis194/fall16/
Yes, It does seem that in Kerala where most foods are made with coconut oil, life expectancy is higher than most other Indian states. May be cause of the unpolished riced used there as well.
The FAQ is not a sufficient corrective for all the deceptive top-level messaging around "Commons Clause". (Name, abbreviation, suggested usage all inappropriately invoking open source).

Worse, none of the deceptiveness was necessary to implement the plan described by the Redis Labs Co-Founder above, which is completely [edit: potentially] compatible with Open Source. Antagonizing the wider Open Source community was pointless.
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These days pretty much anyone going to a tech conference that allows any sort of salespeople to attend, or vendor booths, should expect a high degree of spam. Email I can deal with, when they get my direct cellular number and won't take no for an answer, that's when the vendor goes on the "never buy" list.