skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's an interesting concept. You need more photos - I need to see how the slats interlock, I need to see photos of how the frame works. My immediate thought was that with a long enough desk (de-sk?) it would bow in the middle. A lot of questions I have don't seem to be answered on the landing page. I think overall, the landing page could be simplified and cleaned up so I don't need to go hunting through the "FAQ" and "Why De-sk?" pages to know if this is the desk for me.

As others have pointed out, I think the biggest weakness is the seams. It looks like it would be impossible to write on. I would suggest that you include some sort of optional desk pad as an add-on.

I'm from the US. Although it doesn't look like you're shipping here yet anyway, you might include inch/pound units too if you plan to ship internationally at some point.

Cool concept, good luck.

EDIT: Here's what I meant by a desk pad, in case it wasn't obvious. This one has a lip so that it stays put, and a metal backing so that you wouldn't feel the slats underneath while you were writing: https://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/40246156/
The thing that shocks me is how Americans casually accept that government will pooprly run some programs. It’s almost expected that this be the case. Indeed, one of the two major parties sometimes actively seeks to prove incompetence.
Hey at least they're passing the savings onto the subscribers.
In the Nordic countries, we just can't survive without our heating. Without it, we could probably not produce as much during the winter as we do now. Even with triple pane glass being the norm up here, we still consume massive amounts of energy every winter to keep warm. People are genuinely scared of having variable utility prices and many rather opt for a fixed price for a fixed time period, because you never know if you're going to have a really harsh winter, like we did this one that saw enormous amounts of snow.

If we could use the radiators and central heating to transform our countries into economic power houses, I don't see how we have the right to stop countries in the tropics from making virtually the same journey, albeit with cooling rather than heating.
At current rates, Saudi Arabia will be using more energy to run air-conditioners in 2030 than it now exports as oil.

There are 33 million people in Saudi Arabia.
This is something I've always wondered: Are treasury bond ladders strictly better than an equivalent treasury bond fund (say VFITX), because the interest rate risk can cause the bond fund to lose value while the treasury bond ladder is guaranteed to not lose value if held to maturation?

Or is there some finance black magic that causes treasury bond ladders and treasury bond funds with the same effective maturity to have the same return (ignoring expense ratio for now) after a long period of time?
It's easy enough to google it yourself if you think "no means no" being related to rape is just a figment of google's algorithm that appears for some people and not others. What was returned when you googled it for yourself?
I don’t really like Evernote/too heavy for my needs, but the OCR feature for handwriting/transcribing whiteboard sessions etc, was top notch. It’s cool to search your notes and get results from random whiteboard text, very usable.
that issue becomes part of public history.

i'm not the parent, but that is the main reason i try to abstain from posting on public forums unless its under a pseudonym, which my github account isn't.

I'm not trying to say that my anonymity is guaranteed with irc, its just unlikely that future employers and similar link it to me.
So your primary complaint with 389 is that it's built on a BerkleyDB backend? At the very least, there is some technical merit to this position and it looks like Red Hat is currently working on getting 389 to work with other databases; they mention LMDB as a specific example. https://directory.fedoraproject.org/docs/389ds/design/backen...
From the theoretical point of view we can get huge improvements both in terms of torrent availability and latency, by making use of "fountain codes".

Basically it is a family of error correcting code which splits the data in N+M distinct pieces, and allow you to reconstruct the data once you have any distinct N of these pieces. This allow you to seed any one of these small pieces yet allow the reconstruction of the whole data provided there are enough other people seeding other pieces (Typically number of "seeds" will increase between x100 and x1000 (Note that it obviously don't increase the outgoing bandwidth of your network, but it makes it a lot easier to conserve and distribute rare files). Which also means any of these pieces can help getting the first packets needed to begin streaming which reduces latency.
The negative aspects, are :
- bigger "torrent" files (because you need to store the hashes of more pieces).
- Some time you'll download an extra piece.
- More compute power needed on the clients to decode the stream.
- More complexity in the code.

Why is it not implemented ? Mainly because it is not a standard yet. There is quite a lot of freedom in the ways to implement it, and it will probably fracture the pools with plenty of non compatible protocols. And if you have a new version of the protocol to improve some things you need the seeds to re-encode the data to be protocol compatible.

That is also probably a subject which is encumbered by software patents.

Economically targeting the fat tail of rare torrents is probably not worth it.

It's fun algebra you should check if you don't know it already :)
That was the relatively decentralized and competitive pre-social media internet.

The problem now is that google and facebook have such a dominant position that larry page and zuckerburg can decide what to show us and what not to show us. They essentially hold the mirror and they decide what we get to see.

Vint Cerf's internet is the one I grew up with and the one I believe in. With the rise of social media and monopolistic tech companies, the relatively uncensored decentralized internet has turned into a dystopian curated and centralized one.
Scientists edit a disease mutation in human embryos
This was posted elsewhere on this page:

http://www.seilevel.com/requirements/visual-models-save-live...
Is there anything OSM-based like gmaps with the ability to search for ie restaurants in an area, then get voice navigation to the location? Even something that lets you search for "McDonalds near this address" would probably be good enough for me to switch.
> But a T-Mobile spokeswoman later told news site Motherboard that "encrypted" passwords were in the batch of data.

T-mobile stores plaintext passwords. They recently invalidated a password I had been using with them for some time because they changed their rules and disallowed special characters (tons of stupid there). They wouldn't have known to do that if the passwords were properly hashed.
Try searching for "American inventors" or "American scientists" on Google and tell me if you notice anything odd.
Gonna have to agree with the others here. My comment wasn't that helpful and I could have expressed my contempt for "Javascript-all-the-things" in a more constructive way.
I think the server died under front page pressure :)
What year did you refinance and get a 1.25% rate?
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Agree 100%! The best use of notebooks seems to be making demos of very simple things that demonstrate the idea of notebooks. My gripes:

1) It's claustrophobic! Trying to work in notebooks always felt like trying to do a math problem with too little paper when you're used to big empty sheets.

2) Readability is weird! I want to see all the code and then see the plots, not little crazy crunched up snippets with little crazy crunched up plots that might allow interactivity.

3) I might actually want to do something that involves looking at more than one plot at a time! Seriously? This always struck me as ridiculous. I have screen real estate, I want to use it! ESPECIALLY for interactive data analysis.

4) They're not as portable as they should be! There's always some drama when you open up someone else's notebook locally.

5) They encourage people to write weird ass code! Scientists already have a tendency to be messy if they're not CS types, this just makes it worse.

Alternative:

vim + tmux + ipython REPL + vim/tmux slime for shipping stuff from the editor to the REPL + matplotlib in QT mode

It's not as good as MATLAB but it gets close.
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All of AMD's 7nm Processors to Be Manufactured at TSMC
Just open in a private browser window to circumvent the 1 article per month limit.
Wrote my master dissertation in LyX, it was great. The LaTeX-specific features that LyX did not support, I put in a "preamble". Never had a problem and it even worked on a then-rare iBook (2004).
Is it odd to others that after decades of Windows security nightmares we seem to have basically replicated the issue on an entirely new platform?

I get that it's a fundamentally hard problem. But I can't shake this feeling that we maybe missed an opportunity to do better with the fresh start that mobile OSes represent.
I use LyX a lot for writing manuals, especially operations manuals. It's worked out fairly well. I've written and maintained several large "Operations Manuals" with other members of my team by placing the LyX documents under version control.

The main issue I had at one point was producing usable HTML output from the LaTeX conversion process, but I found a tool that processes the LyX file directly into HTML which produced acceptabled results.
Is imgur.com working for you?
Public By Default is an amazing investigation into one year of Venmo data available on the public API
http://publicbydefault.fyi/
Way too expensive, sorry. I just built my own: 400cm oak wood tabletop: 200 Euros. IKEA Legs: 18 Euros. IKEA ALEX drawer element: 60 Euros. Putting everything together took an hour.
There's three billion people living in the tropics. I don't know how closely you follow European politics, but letting all of them move to cooler climates simply because they can't stand the heat would upset quite a few in the populist movement over here.
Indeed. Simply keep providing feed in tarrifs for renewables, thereby ensuring cryptomining and AC are both paying their "fair share" for receiving clean energy. Not that regulation isn't important (ie Energy Star), but market signals are important as well.

In a perfect world, a refundable carbon tax fixes all of this, but we don't live in a perfect world.
I've worked in many office buildings and they cut Air conditioning at 7PM
> Oh boy: an "unscientific study", whatever that is.

Otherwise known as an "anecdote."
Maybe we should bring back the FCC fairness doctrine.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FCC_fairness_doctrine
What is your suspicion here?
I'm not sure that would do anything other than spur the companies to have an identity theft protection department.

I'd rather them give basic compensation to anyone with breached data (even if it is $10) in addition to covering the costs of anyone who had problems after the breach. The first year, I'd think it would be best if the consumer didn't have to prove it was their fault as that could be too much of a burden for folks.

I'd give an exception for companies that went over and above on their own security and still got breached. After all, security doesn't make one completely safe (much like places can still get robbed), simply less likely.
I am a fan of LyX but using version control with the resulting tex document is near impossible and does not work well with others editing in a regular text editor. Wonder if anyone else had this experience?
This causes issues when working with large data sets or running expensive operations, which is an advantage of modifying a single step independently from the rest.
Android is perfectly usable without the Google services. It may not be as polished and of course apps that depend on Google services may not play nice with the drop in replacement but its not like your smart phone suddenly becomes a dumb phone.
This started from an article [1] posted on Drudge Report recently.

[1] - https://pjmedia.com/trending/google-search-results-show-perv...
It looks like there also aren't US power outlets as an option yet.
At roughly what scale would new colliders need to increase by to open new paths?

Are proposal estimating new efforts at 100's of km? 1000s?
how did you refinance so low?
I agree for long-term investments a fund might be better (ex. in a retirement account mixed with equity funds) but if you bought those bond funds in the past few years and sold them you might not have made much of a return. For example in the past 1 year the price of VGSH went from 60.83 to 59.87 so you lost over 1% on the price change which cancels out most of the interest yield. My point is that for short-term savings in a rising rate environment this can work better.
Archlinux user here (Manjaro is based on Archlinux). TensorFlow with GPU support is a supported package you can install it with all it's dependencies in a simple command with Pacman. But you don't want to do that the same way you don't want to compile TensorFlow. It is better to use an official docker image because they include all the dependencies, even the optionals as nccl 2.0. You forgot to install it, and it is speed up if you use more than one GPU. Just use the official docker image and forget all the burdensome of configuring everything.

P.S. well you need to install docker with Nvidia support, but you can use it in the future for other things. This is also a couple of packages in Pacman (maybe Nvidia docker is in air, I don't remember now).
This looks fantastic. Anyone tried it on aarch64?
Looks like either all search engines are biased (not just Google) or Trump is.
I don't see anything odd. I see a lot of American scientists and inventors.
Macroframeworks vs. Microframeworks
Thank you for posting this. A former version of my post included a reference to this because it's a great read, too.
The server responds with HTML, but it's all broken.
Yeah, but crypto is a hobby, air conditioning is a medical need in extreme weather. We can literally just stop crypto mining forever and very little of value is lost.
What does PHP mean to you? What are your personal views?

From a language perspective it's stable, fast, easy to deploy. Why wouldn't you choose to use it? For most it's not a difficult language to learn and start using.
It is a weird US thing, and nobody can give you numbers because the existence and outcome of these lawsuits is never talked about (most are settled out of court).

But talk to anyone in HR and you'll hear, "The stories that I've seen, if only I could tell you!"
This is super interesting!

I wonder if there's a clear trend or explanation for Czech-Texans moving (back?) to the Czech Republic? This does a great job of explaining a connection between Czech culture and Texas BBQ in Texas, but not how that leads to BBQ sauce hopping back across the Atlantic.
I don't know how you reached that conclusion. The tweets read to me that the author is willing to sell to the highest bidder.
> Then I spent hours fiddling with types and boiler plate code and catching errors.

LOL. Dealing with your buggy code upfront instead of waiting for it to bomb at runtime. The horror!

I bet you just write perfect code all the time. LOL
I don't know if it's because he's a nice guy. I think you identified the reason earlier. He's avoided direct whistle-blowing because that could get him removed from the Intelligence Committee. The only reason the committee hasn't tried to force him out is because he'd talk, and he won't talk so he doesn't get forced out. He'd rather be there and be the bulwark, and occasionally get people to perjure themselves.

It's an odd game-theoretic stalemate.
I think that's a form of gatekeeping and privileges certain groups of people.

It depends of course in hwo the "no" is worded.
It's seems to be down for me. Perhaps the hacker news hug of death?
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Not me, not me, always them.
Yikes this is a complex topic.

There’s a couple of things at play:

Google does control (unbiased or biased) a significant portion of what internet users see

This control has the potential to sway public opinion, direct discourse, and economically make or break businesses (even those that extend beyond media)

Personally I believe gigantic internet companies like Google require more regulation because they can’t be trusted to act responsibly indefinitely.

However I do not believe the current administration has shown thoughtfulness and care for the republic in a way that I would trust them to enact this regulation.
DownDetector [1] shows a problem. More specific details and comments [2]

[1] - https://downdetector.com/

[2] - http://downdetector.com/status/imgur this one strangely redirects from https back to http.
I teach at a community college. Increasingly we are becoming a business and we now actively recruit people who realistically can’t get a college degree. Due to lower per student funding by the government we rely on tuition and need to market and recruit. We have become like a smarmy for profit. It’s a bad trend for society.

This semester before classes started we had seminars on helping students dealing with food insecurity and housing security. The whole time I’m wondering why are we asking students who are hungry or homeless to take on unforgivable debt to pay for tuition. The system is rotten.

The standards have eroded. Increasingly I see barely literate people being passed through the system. I pass people who don’t deserve to pass because I’m hounded by administration on the importance of having a high passing rate. I need a job so....
In Depth: The Datacenter Impact of the GlobalFoundries 7 Nanometer Spike
Thats amazing! great progress!
I use LyX with version control.

We put the software architecture document (about 100 pages) in a single .lyx file in a "doc" directory of our Git repository, which stores our software source code.

We love feature branches, so we update not only the code, but the documentation as well, in the branch. When we merge, everything gets merged together.

What I mean to say is, we're not just using Git to "check out, check in", we are also merging and branching as well.

The workflow works perfectly for us.

We've been using this for 2 years, with many many commits. Hardly any merge errors. And no times where Git merged wrongly and corrupted the document or similar. I fix merge errors in a text editor if they occur (maybe once every few months, takes a few minutes to repair.)

One thing I would say is that LyX always writes the newline endings native to your platform. Git, by default, checks out Windows newlines on Windows and converts them to UNIX newlines on commit. So that works well too. But if you don't use that feature of Git, you might experience problems.

We haven't had a need to edit the generated TeX document manually. We just use LyX.
Why do articles like these never mention the fact that air conditioners are heat pumps, and therefore quite a bit more efficient at cooling than oil or electric furnaces are at heating?

I rarely see similar articles bemoaning the carbon emissions associated with heating, say, wealthy New England apartments. It's always those damn poor people in the South ruining the environment.
That's an awfully presumptuous assumption to make, that all the executives and shareholders are also subscribers.
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I haven't used VSCode for Python or C++ yet, but I can agree the Java support is pretty bad.

That being said, the C# support in VSCode is absolutely amazing. Better than the Visual Studio IDE, imo.
Yes, and those office workers then go home and turn on air conditioning there.

The people need AC, not the buildings themselves.
Many of the responses are more positive than I would have expected, a pleasant surprise.
Google is one of the main data pathways in our society and the public has literally no idea what algorithms they're using to curate content. So, as per usual, Trump is the only politician touching on foundational social issues in his own dumb, self-serving way, while partisan hacks in the media completely miss the point and try to make it out like Trump is the crank.
Besides the denialism in the comment that the siblings mention, there's also the issue that ACs tend to get _overused_ a lot. Going from 35C & 100% humidity to 26C & 50% humidity is quite reasonable, going to 18C & 20% humidity is not. And there are a lot more low hanging fruits when it comes to conserving ernergy surrounding AC usage: bad insulation, stores keeping their doors open etc. etc.
Are they though?
"Old man shouts at cloud"

This has been a conservative talking point for a while. I'm surprised it's taken him this long to publicly complain about it.
This was exactly the experience, but with the twist that it was a group interview, so interviewers would move on hoping that some other interviewer actually understood that answer.
From the article:

> Bond prices fall as interest rates rise. You can avoid this by buying individual bonds and holding them until they mature (pay out their full value).

You can avoid selling the bond at a loss; however, you are still holding a bond that earns less interest than current bonds are earning. As far as I know, holding to maturity doesn't improve your returns in the face of rising interest rates despite what the author seems to be implying.
Exactly how terrified should I be right now?
You can get Stubbs all over Europe.
An answer to #2 might be "my friend is bleeding from the neck". The dispatcher needs to 1) give first aid advice (put pressure on the wound) 2) figure out if the police should respond. People in an emergency are not always forthcoming with details.
Aka, Man in the Middle
That assumes GP's primary motivation is to support/improve the particular project, rather than discuss UX and kvetch with fellow hackers and designers.
I think you did good but employability is crazy good in computer science. Not sure how much is applicable in other fields.

Apprenticeship can work in other engineering fields (at least it does in Germany, for cultural reasons), perhaps a few other fields like sales... but you cannot extrapolate for all educational tracks

Same with other path to software engineers like self-taught or bootcamps. Very good but almost impossible to replicate in other fields with less desperate demand
I agree that AC is important and helps lots of people, but the impact can certainly be reduced. People adapt remarkably to warm/cold conditions, but the barrier of pushing through for a day or two is difficult. The only reason offices/homes need to be 72 all summer is that the home/office is 72 all summer so changing the other feel unbearably hot. If you would actually give it a chance you would be comfortable at 80 all summer and 65 all winter.

Anecdote follows:
So there I was. 2 days into a stay in Kuwait and trying to get some rest. During the day it got up to 130F outside, but it cooled down some at night. The AC in the tents was doing its best, and I was shivering so much I needed to pull out my sleeping bag to get to sleep. I got up and checked the thermometer on the side of the tent, and the air temperature was still 90, but since it was 40 degrees colder than I was during the day, it felt cold.
I think not. If that woman had seen an 8 year old girl in the custody of a religious figure, she'd look the other way.
Agreed. Although poor security with easy hijacking, it's still a form of 2FA. Even NIST doesn't recommend it as a factor to use for authentication.