skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If only that were actually true. I've done a lot of work porting C++ code to various different flavours of Linux and Unix as well as compiling stuff for Linux from working source and it's rare that things will "just work". Granted a lot of time the real pain point is manually having to deal with dependencies (even Go's old $GOPATH solution is better than the stanard C++ approach!). Then you have compiler flags, compile time options, distribution specific patch files, dependencies for the build scripts themselves, etc. And that's before you've even touched on compiler specific variations, language versions and undefined behaviours. There is a reason why the source-orientated repositories like FreeBSD ports, Gentoo's portage and Arch's AUR have wrappers around build scripts and it isn't because things "just work 99% of the time" ;)

Go does have its short comings, I'd be the first to admit that, but the actual reason I started writing Go was because it was far less brittle trying to write portable code than C++ and at the time I was having to do a fair amount of cross compilation on platforms of other CPU architectures as well as different host OSs (Rust wasn't mature at that point, .NET wasn't open source and I've never enjoyed working with Java so I thought I'd give Go a try)
> Yeah I don't understand at all why people think that Google wanted to be in this business.

People still think Google Glass was a failed product. Many just have no idea how businesses, particularly non-traditional ones like Google with an appetite for change and a pocketbook to buy what it wants, are run.
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Ok, let's take it one step further. All the supermarkets in town decide not to sell food to Alex Jones, essentially condemning him to starvation. Are you still good with that?
I use incognito mode for probably close to half of the YouTube videos I watch, as a defense against the algorithm. That technique, plus freely using the "not interested" button, has actually resulted in a pretty good experience.
Yes, that is the point here. If the article had been rejected everywhere, debating its soundness would be relevant. But this paper was accepted, and actually published, so that's irrelevant.
> It's also probably why firmware engineers tend to write so much copy/paste code

This always seemed like limitations of the commonly used HDLs. Both Verilog and VHDL are extremely verbose and do not really allow a lot of abstraction. Even stuff like "I want this module to have a $common_interface" is hard to impossible without just copy pasting the definitions (sure, there are C macros) every time.
What fraction of the fleet are incompatible?

Just shove all the old trains on a single line for now and install the platform doors on that line in the 2030s.
But you don't link against the X11 server, you communicate via sockets with it. So the client application has no direct dependency of the X server implementation. Like a web server, the X server could be written in any language.
who have no idea what to do in a troubled country with an education system that's stuck in the 90s.

https://clementecourse.org

Years ago, I read a book about the program. It's designed to educate people in terrible circumstances. I am thinking you might find it a useful resource. Among other things, they designed a schedule that helped minimize the damage from missed sessions, iirc.

Best.
The family unintentionally memorialized the facebook account of an impostor. This significantly added to earlier confusion.
It's a neat idea, but I don't know if it would actually work.

Cheese is fermented by lactic acid bacteria, not yeast. From my limited knowledge of lactic acid fermentation, there really isn't the same diversity of starters as there is in yeast fermentation. At least, I've never heard of people cultivating or buying particular strains of lactobacillus in the same way beer brewers select particular strains of yeast.
Found a link on the Web archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20080117115912/http://www.karlsc...
One of the most beautiful and simultaneously terroristic traits of our existence is that of binary computational equivalence.

Of course, binary as a notion is simply a set of relative measurements of the peaks and troughs of a wave at a specific time and scale, therefore we may deduce the ultimate excitation of all, what appears as this large number, is an analog, encompasses everything, and our reality a carefully crafted series of reductions from this source.

Wonderful and awe inspiringly scary that we may even consider such a thing of brilliance.
Bengaluru airport to adopt paperless travel using facial recognition technology
It's hilarious that people are taking this thread seriously.
This is the saddest thing I've seen all year, easily worse than any gore video. I can't believe this is real.
I don't even understand why this is controversial. I've explained this to a number of women before and none of them have felt hurt. On the contrary, in fact, it makes them feel better. Humans always fixate on extremes. Men and women. It's a problem in our society. We always want to see the very best and we're not interested in others who are still way above average. There are thousands of women doing great science, engineering, programming etc., but the very best are almost always men, and it's our fault that we only care about the very best.
I'm not against Material Design personally, you have plenty of websites & apps with good Material Design, Google Groups just has shitty UI.
Gojek haven't tried to penetrate the SG market huh?

They're fighting Grab in Thailand and Philippines for now I think.
On a MacBook, you can pretty easily create a temporary RAM based virtual disk. Just drop your IDE app in one of those? Could probably make it a script that runs on startup
We should all blindly trust what the NYT and CNN tell us. Otherwise we risk becoming Nazis. That's what you just wrote. Good job.
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I do something very similar; there are two main differences

* I make a copy of a special default profile instead of a fresh one - eliminating a bunch of annoying popups and preserving add-ons

* I set it as my default browsing experience ('web') so that anything that tries to launch a browser window also gets contained
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What’s the level of English proficiency?
Like CNN said, it's up to them to interpret for the people. Now back in line sheep, and get ready to be sheared...
Didn't think Musk would outlast him.
Yeah. Various kinds of reproductive and genomic technologies invalidate general evolutionary assumptions, but the techniques haven't been around long enough or been common enough to matter so far. But in the future? Who knows?
Ok I take it back that’s still really bad
While some like the local laws, CEOs have openly stated they've incorporated there for tax reasons, and there's research suggesting the tax benefits matter more than the legal benefits: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1737937

I'd also note they seem to have given in to some federal demands to make the incorporation rules stricter: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/delaware-backs-overhaul-of...
Why are people down voting my above comment? It had up votes until recently and people are not posting any counters.
I believe it's referring to the old 'It is official; Netcraft confirms: *BSD is dying' statement.
So... many... frameworks ... What's the C version of Sciter?
But that's probably because NYC pays some multiple of what anyone else would pay.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/nyregion/new-york-subway-...
Regarding printer, I found my printer supports USB, ethernet, and WLAN (I'm using ethernet). YMMV.
Well maybe apps like Facebook (=Instagram), Apple Weather, Gmaps will "only" use your data internally, but they also make most of their money from ads. So yes, all our data is always used to target ads, political campaigns and "viral" marketing campaigns at us. Where is the surprise in that? If you asked 2007 software engineering student me, I would've told you back then. That was the point in time where this work started. Nowadays everybody is doing it themselves or selling the data one way or another.

Don't you know that also this very post will be grabbed by multiple people and companies and analysed to death by their algorithms to maybe squeeze out another bit of information that they then try to link to me as a person in some way?

So if you sit there wondering "does the app X that I'm using does that?" then the answer is yes, because everybody is doing it.
It reminds me of a quote by Stoic philosopher Marcus Aurelius: “If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.”
I thought that's how it worked too but it is not. 1 click shows the entire url and selects it. Still without "www.". Another click will show "www.".

Regardless of how you feel about the change, it does indeed hide 'www.' to the point where a power user could easily be fooled that it was the naked domain.

Edit: Here's a demo of how it works: https://www.useloom.com/share/f7d71b95d75b4c4582bb38cdc84326...
Do you have an extraneous not in your first sentence? Didn't you mean to say "It's not good for society to ask anyone to put their job first"?

It is <i>amazingly</i> good for society when people put their jobs first. That's how you get people sacrificing their lives as police officers, their twenties as doctors, their privacy as President, their chance to have kids as mathematicians.

It's not great for the people, and we should feel bad for tricking them into such an unfair distribution of society's costs.
This was addressed more broadly in "We're building a dystopia just to make people click on ads" by Zeynep Tufekci on TED.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15891014

She remarked that Youtube's recommendation system invariably pushes people towards more extreme views on anything, not just politics. Interested in vegetarianism? Here's something about veganism. She has a hypothesis it works this way because the goal is to make people spend as much time on a site as possible, and feeding people progressively more extreme content works for that.

My comment: what does it say about us humans that we fall for progressively more extreme stuff? Perhaps that few people actually hold balanced views and nowadays a compromise is looked down upon and a mark of a weak character?
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I applied to someone looking for a webmaster for their website on Craigslist and that led me to a bunch of clients. I've since gone down to just one or two nowadays. Hope to get more someday again, but for now, I took a long break.
The level varies but in general, the young Iraqis are Hollywood addicts xD, so I would say it's decent, some are really good and some need a little bit practice.

All mentors/leaders are easily on the high side
XKCD 846: "It's hard to imagine the pain of a deeply infected dental nerve. To get an idea, put your hands in a bowl full of ice cubes, and hold them there for 90 seconds."

Here Randall is using this example as one of the worst pains in the world, while others submerge themselves in ice baths voluntarily for health and enjoyment (eg. Wim Hof the ice man)

There is something about facing an unpleasant stimulus (to put it lightly) voluntarily that changes the neurology, and the subjective experience of it.
I've noticed this as well, the algorithm hones in on a few topics and videos. Interestingly enough, so does the algorithm on the Quora app. I hate this behavior, I want to use a recommendation algorithm to discover new similar content. My guess is that a "new similar content" algorithm doesn't get the same levels of engagement. Maybe its the same as radio stations playing the same twenty songs on a loop.

Clearly google knows what their doing, its just disheartening that this algorithm is the best for engagement. Also makes me wonder about human habit and reinforcement...
What we need to distinguish here is what exactly we're talking about being "settled science".

Is "human CO2 emissions are causing an increased greenhouse effect and ocean acidification" settled science? Yes.

Is "how much will that affect us and the planet at different time scales" settled science? Not completely, no. The climate system is incredibly hard to model.

What scientists are doing in the latter regard is making their best estimates, seeing that these predict very bad things happening, and then saying we should work as hard as possible to reduce emissions.

Which, incidentally, nobody is actually doing.
For people who are new to this topic and find it to be surprising: This is not new. There is a term for this called "echo chamber":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echo_chamber_(media)

I have observed this trend happening on Internet since 2014 and written about it in my blog:

https://paradite.com/2014/11/11/internet-polarized-society/

Previously it was more for closed communities like reddit and Facebook groups, but seems like now it is also substantial on open platforms.
I think you overestimate what is "common". It might be "common" for the network admins or highly technical people browsing this website. It is not common whatsoever for the vast majority of the public that uses WPA for home networking or small businesses. Security is significantly decreased for everyone if it's only practical for those that are highly technical.

It would be great if it actually was common, and such features came pre-configured out of the box for users. Unfortunately, most of the routers I'm aware of that are given to users from ISPs don't even support guest modes.
The international corporate media has not been honest in its reporting of the refugee situation in Europe. This is becoming clearer year by year, because some of the facts that were earlier dismissed as racist rhetoric are now becoming very difficult to ignore. For example earlier this year, Chancellor Merkel finally admitted that there are "no-go" zones in the country where even the police dare not go. This is an extremely serious problem.

People flock to this content because they are not getting the whole truth from the corporate media, and that is the root of this problem. YouTube's content would not be compelling if these things were being reported honestly, and given the same degree of volume as other important stories.

In my country, India, there are plenty of places in which the value systems are completely at odds with ideas of gender equality, religious tolerance, racial equality, and LGBT equality. If a western country were to create pockets of populations where people held these values, it would be extremely incompatible with the norm in the societies that they have achieved today. As a result, these places would be radically transformed into incredibly dangerous areas, particularly for women and LGBT folks. It is not bigoted to point this out, it is true because this reality exists in our country, and it is one that we are aware of and grapple with. Of course it will exist in another country if a large enough number of people who hold these ideas are imported en masse. If these values existed in Syria or Sudan or other parts of the world where refugees are coming from, of course this will become a problem for the country that is resettling them. This was a valid criticism that did not get a fair enough deal from the media, and the consequences have been life altering for many Europeans.

The dream of multicultural societies where everyone lives together in harmony requires everyone to buy into it. If there are bad actors, and others are aware of this, it does not make them bad actors too. The media seems to have been hesitant, perhaps because of fears of stoking xenophobia by providing it with legitimate information that could be compelling for their cause. There is never a good reason not to tell the truth about these things, this is the result of what happens when you go down that path. At this point, many are convinced that the news media had sinister and not well intentioned motives, behind why this was done, and as a result trust in the news media too will decline rapidly, in favor of rag tag YouTube operations.
Can anyone recommend a "coworking space" [0] for people who don't like coworking spaces?

Look for a “hacker space” in your area.

There’s one in Sacramento, CA, and it’s awesome in addition to being way less expensive than a strictly “cow-orking” space.

Plus... lasers and shit.
A good overview of that API here: https://kean.github.io/post/network-extensions-into
Basically, the scoundrels don't trust other scoundrels. That's what's saving us from getting server-rendered first-party ads on most websites, that would make adblocking much more difficult.
Interesting thought. Can you provide any historical examples of this?
Well, reduce emissions and more seriously consider geoengineering. A lot of otherwise-reasonable climate researchers seem to have an unduly negative view of potential direct interventions in the climate.
Link to paper https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.10498

Also worth noting that Freeman Dyson pointed out the link between prime numbers, or the Riemann zeta function, and quasicrystals, see p. 2-3 of http://www.ams.org/notices/200902/rtx090200212p.pdf

And here’s some marhoverflow discussions on Dyson’s ideas: https://mathoverflow.net/questions/133581/quasicrystals-and-...
The separate fleets are assigned to individual lines (which are better thought of as services). But there are 36 of them, pretty much all of which interweave with each other. The R, for example, at some point shares track with the N, the W, and the M, which in turn share track with the Q, the D, and the F, which in turn share track with the E, the B, the G, and so on and so forth. And this is before we consider the fact that in New York, trains are often rerouted due to service changes onto tracks they don't normally serve, and sometimes are changed after years of change in ridership patterns; installing platform doors incompatible with certain trains would reduce operational flexibility.

Untangling the lines is not possible, partially because the system was designed to provide as many one seat rides as possible, and partially because the current subway is a patchwork mashup of three separate, competing subway systems; if you were to separate the lines, some trips would just not be possible via transfers, and most transfer complexes would not be able to handle the amount of passengers changing trains.

To answer how many cars are not compatible, that would be 2025 subway cars out of a total of 6148 (at least according to Wikipedia.) Of these, 625 were built in the late '80s and are not due for retirement til the 2030s. To put that in perspective, the late '80s fleet is bigger than the entire Boston T rapid transit fleet (Green and Silver Lines not withstanding)
The difference you describe imo is between descriptive and imperative programming languages though (Prolog comes close for the desktop world) and that one usually targets wires and one targets assembly is irrelevant as you can use either for either purpose. Your reply covers which is used most commonly for which purpose. Where does System C fit in this model out of curiosity?
Time in relativity bears almost no resemblance to the common definition of time.

1) There is no such thing as simultaneous. There is no universal now.
2) Time does not proceed at a constant rate
3) Time proceeds at different speeds for different observers.

So time as relativity defines it is certainly true. But time as people conceive it is fundamentally different. At best, common sense time is a profoundly special case that can't imagine the general case. And at worst, a nonsensical concept evolution gave us. Perhaps so erroneous it might be valid to say it does not exist.
I came the other way around and tried some Erlang before settling on Julia, but if I your focus is on scheduling of data science tasks I know why you used elixir.
Steve Jobs’ daughter recalls a complicated man
> Because of course nobody would buy a house with no dialtone phone and/or no cable TV.

This was sometimes due to a legal requirement, similar to requirements to maintain water and sewer connections: https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySectio...
There's way too much unmet need to discredit socialism right now. There was a failed meager attempt circa 1950 that ended with McCarthy's character successfully assassinated and socialists in charge of the schools so they could slowly take power even as their ideas obviously destroy wherever they gain it quickly.
Why does this have so many upvotes?
That was my instinct too.
CouchDB/PouchDB/Service Workers is a pretty sweet setup.

I made a demo you can check out at https://cherrypc.com/todo

PouchDB has a sync to remote CouchDB function builtin.
Judo seems like a great automation option for some simpler tasks where Ansible could be considered overkill. For me, that covers almost 100% of my remote automation needs. :) Nice!
Sounds exactly like standard academic politics to me.
I once saw an young man with some sort of psychosis so distracted that he walked into traffic at 5th and Folsom. And didn't realize it until he was halfway across.

Other hand a friend of mine with psychosis threw himself in front of a BART train.

Also with a train there nothing to engineer can do since the coefficient of friction between the steel wheels and track is like 0.05 vs close to 1.0 for rubber and asphalt. The engineer can't stop the train in time. These accidents take a bad toll on train engineers.
Contracts in OpenBSD (2010) [pdf]
> An attacker can't create a different network with the same SSID and trick existing devices to connect to it, right?

Can't he? Wouldn't the existing devices just try to connect to whatever broadcasts that SSID.
One modern player who does a great job using this instrument is John Medeski. I strongly recommend checking out his work with Club D’Elf.
The IRT and BMT Eastern Division all use cars that have doors at the same place, so that's not an excuse to not try platform doors. You could make the test station one of the L train stations that's going to be closed for two years and install them at a super leisurely pace. (The L is basically completely isolated from the rest of the system, and already requires special rolling stock for CBTC. And it's going to be closed for two years for other repairs.)

Even if varying door locations were the problem... Tokyo has many lines that share rolling stock among 3 or even 4 separate rail companies, and they still have platform doors. There are just a lot more doors in the station than on each train.

There simply is no interest or money for platform doors in NYC. Even though people fall onto the tracks and are killed, even though many stations suffer from capacity problems because there aren't enough safe places to stand, even though people holding train doors delays every train multiple minutes a day... we're simply allergic to the concept. I've never even heard it seriously proposed.
Instead of trying to solve the "problem" of YouTube showing pro-AfD content to users who are searching for information on a stabbing, how about removing asylum seekers from Germany so people don't get stabbed in the first place?

Saying "we shouldn't let asylum seekers enter the country because they might be dangerous and we don't have enough information on them to assess the situation correctly" shouldn't be an "extreme position" to begin with!
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CEO David Taylor announced plans to dissolve what’s left of Theranos [pdf]
Project Mentat: a store for evolving data (RustConf 2018)