skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like this at concept level though am not qualified to dig into the internals. A use case could be eith CBRS (soon open in USA)? Add a neutral SAS and you have an IIoT solution with LTE type bandwidth, sans the monoploly telcos?
okay, f# has curly braces. but not in the sense of other C-like languages like c++, java, and c#. they are primarily used for sequence expressions and computation expressions like async.

> I see that F# has a REPL, but it seems bolted on as an afterthought instead of being an integral part of the language. (Also, it's not clear whether the REPL is available in Mono on Linux. I am allergic to Windows and anything built by Microsoft.)

well that first sentence is simply not true, and i don't know what gave you that impression. f#'s repl, f# interactive, is available on linux through mono and will soon be available through .net core. i can't help you being needlessly allergic to a major operating system or company. f# came out of microsoft research.

> Huh? Python expressions always return a value.

they do? take:

def test(x):
"something"

so what does

test(2)

return?

> I don't owe it to myself to learn anything unless I decide to. I wasn't trying to convince anyone else to use Python; I was just giving reasons why I like Python. Please extend me the same courtesy when you talk about things you like about your favorite languages.

i don't know why you're upset. i am not for sure where i was discourteous. i didn't mean anything by my statement other than to check out the languages and courses (the coursera one is very good). if those are your reasons for python, i just thought you would honestly like an ML-based language. i just used "owe it to yourself" as an expression, which apparently came out wrong through text. of course you don't owe anyone anything. i was just making a suggestion.
Yes, exactly, I win every time because I just make my competition shoot itself in the foot over and over, very simple.
The problem with the "directions on how to increase the blocksize" is that they're not compatible with what Bitcoin is. It's a system that nobody has the authority to change. The only people who can change it are the people running the software. If enough of them migrate to new rules, they may be able to move the economy with them. But given there's a tremendous risk that they could fail to bring the economy with them (proven by Bitcoin Cash), then few are going to take that risk.

So the question isn't whether we should or shouldn't change a block size. It's how the hell do we change the block size? Can you change the blocksize? Please enlighten me on how you intend to change the blocksize in everyone else's client? Bitcoin has become too large for even developers of the primary client to forcefully change, and they're certainly not going to risk their own reputation by attempting to change it against the will of users.

So how do you even get the consensus of users of the system to agree to whatever blocksize increase you intend to have? Attempts at civil discussion were shut on both sides. There were some not willing to compromise on the existing blocksize, or even asking for smaller sizes, while others were not willing to accept anything but complete removal of the limit. The correct action was taken to do nothing, since it was too controversial to force one opinion on everyone, and would've set a terrible precedent that a few developers have the authority to specify the rules on behalf of everyone.

Bitcoiners have settled on the fact that nobody is in charge. Bitcoin Cashers are still arguing about who's going to be in power.
Guess who owns the bulk of the stock?
I can't help but wonder if this is a subtle way of making the lives of non-Chrome users harder.
TypeScript is a structural typing system, vs the normal nominal one we are used to. Now, I agree that even with this difference, still not a strong typing as it could be, however, get pretty close to it (with all of the added expressiveness added to it). So, all in all, for big app dev, Java vs TypeScript, from a typing point of view, it comes pretty close.
They used to sell Lands End at Sears. A solid LL Bean competitor for a slight discount.
that's the point. that's what it's supposed to do.
No .st so that domain will have to stay stranded at Gandi :P
The entire genre of 'non-narrative documentary' film https://www.imdb.com/list/ls073014744/ notably Manufactured Landscapes @ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufactured_Landscapes

Many BBC documentary series. Personal favourites include History of India and Islamic History of Europe.

The extremely unique (probably never to be repeated in spirit) and zeitgeist-defining Julian Assange Show @ https://www.rt.com/tags/the-julian-assange-show/ and Citizenfour.

A post-facto interview based documentary whose name I forget, perhaps Real War, about Russian military human rights abuses in the Caucasus, which was extremely shocking.

Many SBS Dateline reports.
> ... do something fun and goodwill-promoting toward their brand on their 20th birthday...

And I know what they decided on: free hidden advertising for every competitor!

Look how mant people went to Firefox and Vivaldi this week and how many went to Bing, Duckduckgo or Qwant.
Ok but the present article is by Allen Downey, a well-known figure here and an academic. I don't think we could suggest he is part of astro-turfing.
My anecdotes are the complete opposite of yours, so I guess they cancel out :)
They Might Be Giants: "What's that blue thing doing here?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXmBs1OppXw&t=91
Rare Tree Kangaroo Reappears After Vanishing for 90 Years
Harvesting Global Agriculture Intelligence APIs-Demo
It's nearly impossible to do legally.
I dunno, to me the icon is reminiscent of the Hades character from the Disney movie: https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/disney/images/c/cf/Hercu...
Database with the entire data set in memory?
> I promise you, Elon legitimately thought there would be an opportunity to go private again.

That's cool and all. And that's probably why the DoJ case will fail (at least, I'm betting that the DoJ case will turn up nothing).

But this is the SEC: they only have to prove recklessness or negligence. That Musk was NEGLIGENT in his ability to properly vet the information before tweeting.

In particular:

> Musk knew or was reckless in not knowing that each of these statements was false and/or misleading because he did not have an adequate basis in fact for his assertions.

https://www.scribd.com/document/389617063/United-States-Secu...

As a CEO, his responsibility is to report on the news of the company to his investors in a responsible manner. If Musk is negligent and/or reckless about the facts, then that is ALONE sufficient to have him removed from the position.

That's the thing about this SEC case. They do not have to prove scienter (criminal knowledge of wrongdoing) or malice. They only have to prove recklessness or negligence.

EDIT: Upon further review, paragraph 79 claims that Elon Musk has scienter of these events. So the SEC is in fact claiming that Elon Musk deliberately knew that making these statements were wrong, and did it anyway. This is above and beyond "reckless" or "negligent" !!
Not disclosing your password in Australia will cost you $60,000 or 5 years jail
"it doesn't have a default theme" ...One paragraph later "here's a business card in the default theme"

technically, it have all the themes to the point that picking up individual color for everything make it as unmaintanable.
The irony of it all is that Elon Musk probably ended up making the people shorting TSLA a lot of money with that stupid tweet.

Down to $266 in after hours trading:

https://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/tsla/after-hours

Ouch.
Facebook policy head makes a surprising cameo at the Kavanaugh hearing
CNBC article: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/27/tesla-falls-4percent-on-repo...

SEC Press release: https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2018-219

United States Securities and Exchange Commission v. Musk [PDF uploaded to Scribd by CNBC]: https://www.scribd.com/document/389617063/United-States-Secu...
I find these claims extremely dubious. Everything they claim the Pi is needed for can be accomplished without the equipment and postage costs with a purely software solution; The hardware allows them to monitor all traffic and avoid antivirus/firewalls. Moreover, I doubt it is difficult to find mass-market Facebook accounts for much less than $15/month - it is far more likely that, given the hardware allows them unfettered access to all network traffic, it is designed to report back as much data as possible, ideally including plaintext passwords and banking information.
From the page:

>> SAP HANA in Minutes

> The EC2 High Memory instances are certified by SAP for ⟨…⟩

[SAP HANA keeps everything in RAM.]
Yeah, if the government wants something then it's going to get it. There's this, obviously, and you're right: https://xkcd.com/538/. I am not advocating that crypto can help you bypass the law. But at least in the instances you're talking about, I would hope there would be due process.

There is no due process for civil asset forfeiture. If your money's on your phone, maybe they'll seize your phone, but you'd still have your keys, and that would not be illegal.

Typically they just see physical cash and take it. They take it because they see it, and it's theirs immediately. This is the type of theft that crypto helps prevent.
Did you see the link that just went up on HN a couple of days ago about land use regulations in San Francisco? I chuckle to think of the prospects of a pre-fab developer making headway against all of the forces SF has arrayed against them...

https://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/demolishing-the-ca...

In particular, the article mentions Richmond Specials, which are "generic boxy buildings" that are designed to "maximize the size limits on each lot." Sounds kind of like what pre-fabbed apartments might turn out like, right? Unfortunately, they appear to be widely loathed.
The registration cost for domains is trivial (for most common TLDs): $8/year or $35/year - how much is $27/year worth to you and your company?

The primary cost for domains is potential downtime. How much does a day of downtime cost you and your company? I don't want to think about it either.

The next most significant cost is labor - your time and your business' delays when dealing with the registrar over service and support issues.

Both of these problems are solved with available, responsive, highly effective support. If it goes down, you want to reach someone right away who has the skill to quickly solve the problem and who is empowered to do whatever is necessary to bring it back up. And for lesser issues, quality support means you spend less time solving problems, which not only saves you time and frustration but reduces delays for your work that depends on the problem, and for other people depending on you and people depending on those people. It's the difference between spending days trying to communicate with someone who turns out not to understand the technology anyway, and then you have to figure out a solution yourself and coax them into implementing it, and communicating with someone who answers immediately and says 'I got it', explains the tech to you - and you don't bother to remember it because they already know it.

I don't see support, the most important capability of a registrar (besides basic competence) IMHO, mentioned in Cloudflare's announcement. What is the support story?

EDIT: Added exposition
One comment in that thread[1] gives a full explanation of what such a Raspberry Pi device hooked up to the router can do: forward all the network traffic, replace router's stock firmware with its own, install software on the network connected devices via known vulnerabilities, spoof websites by acting as custom DNS server. In my opinion, it looks like "a Pi-hole[2], but for phishing".

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/whatisthisthing/comments/9ixdh9/fou...

[2] https://pi-hole.net/
will throw mine in if people want another example. HTTPS://kolemcrae.com for personal site, HTTPS://kolemcrae.com/thoughts for the blog like experience, though I don't call it a blog.
Sure, as long as it's using real signal data to make the decision then things are good.
Prove them wrong? Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, not a lot you can do about that. Trying to do something about it that goes beyond saying, politely, "well, we disagree" usually ends up making you look a lot worse.
This is what I meant by how even hn users are unaware.

Whether you use google or fb they will still spy on you. You the tech savvy hn users might make it a tad bit harder for them but 90% of people can't.

You can fight government surveillance but a very large majority of people don't care because they don't understand the extent and implications of what's happenning to them. In many(not all) ways 1984 was better
Some corrections to this misleading article:

It's not a hiking trail. It's, in part, a "rebranding" of the existing Carretera Austral (a previously dirt highway built under the orders of Augusto Pinochet, now partially paved), combined with a tour ship cruise (between Tortel and Puerto Natales), and then a "rebranding" of Highway 9 down to Punta Arenas, and perhaps another cruise from there to Cabo de Hornos.

There is a Sendero de Chile (Chilean Trail) project, started by the government in 2000, which would have been a hiking trail that extends the full length of Chile. But that's a different plan, and has unfortunately been stalled...

The big Tompkins/Buckley bought-and-donated National Park, Corcovado, was established in 2005, and still has no access to the public available: there are no roads there, and no trails.

In the newer Tompkins park, Yendegaia, the Chilean government has begun to build a road through it. Access to the public is still limited.

His first park, Pumalín, was operated as a publicly-accessible private nature reserve from 1991, when Tompkins purchased the initial estate, until two years after his death, in 2017, when his widow finally turned over the reserve to the national park service.

The "Route of Parks" rebranding "es una propuesta de Tompkins Conservation" (is an initiative of the Tompkins Conservation foundation).

In my opinion, although it's wonderful what the end result of the Tompkins/Buckley efforts to conserve this land has been — let's not ignore the ugliness of how it happened. Wealthy American businessmen buying large swaths of the most spectacular parts of a South American country, using them as a private retreat during their lifetimes, and then turning them over posthumously, is not really a model to be idealized.

To flip the scenario: How would you feel if Jack Ma had bought Yosemite in 1991, set up the valley as a private retreat, lived down in the Ahwahnee until his death, and had his widow donate it to the federal government?

Edit:

For more context, two of the best-written, most balanced, English-language pieces on the Tompkins legacy and controversies are both from the Atlantic:

Eden: A Gated Community (1999) https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1999/06/eden-a-...

The Entrepreneur Who Wants to Save Paradise (2014) https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/09/the-ent...
Sure. OK. Where does insulting people come into that?

There have been a lot of electrons perturbed dancing around that that's what we're talking about, yes?
My redis is bigger than your redis?
Looks really cool, but I have one suggestion. Have you considered using leading commas? It makes big SQL statements much easier to edit and it improves diffs. I normally use trailing commas for my code, but most sql dialects don't support it so I fallback to leading ones there.
Any time you might think "I need a Hadoop cluster for this!" is now less likely to be correct.
I think anyone who reads HN or other tech media is incredibly disproportionately overexposed to the tech gender conversation compared to the general public.

It just isn't a thing that registers much for the non-engineering people I know.

I have no idea how much I'd see discussion about men in nursing if I was a nurse. I know a few (women) nurse, it's something they've mentioned occasionally, same with teachers. But in both cases, you see much less of anything about those fields in the news right now.
Nim generates C and compiles it using GCC. It does not inject a runtime that runs its own threads or any other magic.

All the usual static analysis tools, debuggers and even formal methods can be used on the generated C code.
Secret Service Warns of Surge in ATM ‘Wiretapping’ Attacks
Yeah, the A7III is definitely on my short list. I could spring for the A7R III, but that just seems...excessive? And as likely as not to show off even slightly imperfect glass.
but they’re losing the excitement and expectation of something truly new and original

It's just the technology which has matured. The innovation slows and becomes more incremental so certainly the excitement goes down. Jobs wouldn't have been able to change that. Maybe the quality of new Macs would be better or maybe he would have pushed his engineers more to make more elegant way to solve the notch problem, but that's it.
Don't make a mistake, he was insightful executive, not the miraculous engineer inventing new technologies. At this stage of the company he would probably just pushed more to the services and content deals.
> until they start making predictions

1. Economists make predictions.

2. Geologists don't run experiments with n earths and randomized double-blind trials. Do you think they're not scientists either?
The key, the whole key, and nothing but the key.
All my domains are with Hover.
Good customer support, reasonable UI, 2FA. I'm pretty happy with them.

Sure, it's a little more expensive, but I actually like the no upsell, stable prices, no coupon codes etc..

Most importantly, there's a number to call. I've never had to call it in my 7 years with them, but I'm glad it's there for emergencies.

A domain is so, so important, I don't see "we're a few bucks cheaper" as a selling point.
a photograph of a person being interviewed is something that adds a lot to an article.

Does it? It seems that it ought to add nothing to the content - unless the content specifically references their appearance.

As well as that, unless it's a person you can google independently (like a head of state, or large company CEO) there's very little chance you can know whether the image is actually the person being interviewed, and even less chance you can tell whether it was /this/ interview. What you do know is that the image will have been posed, chosen from a lot of candidate images, and quite likely edited after that.

It might feel good to recognise and see a human face, and therefore "add a lot" from the publisher side - exploiting that sense to make people click and keep people there longer - but that's not quite the same.
Database server?
Page 21: "Prayer for Relief"

interesting that this kind of language is accepted legalese

par. 80.IV and 80.V seeks both civil penalties and removal from office.

Is it feasible that Musk/Tesla can negotiate only penalties, thus keeping him on the board? Given Musk's position of power over the board, and importance to the company, I could see the board agreeing to it, but would the government.
Because you're paying for all the fraud around you. It's like insurance. You're guaranteed to lose money.
The big difference between this and "background: #333" is that in the later case it could also be "background: #334" or "background: #435". The functional framework approach forces a minimal amount of consistency.
I've been very happy with MS Sculpt keyboard. It's even relatively inexpensive. I just hope it'd be a normal USB model as I don't really get why a keyboard should ve cordless.

I've also used the later model, MS Surface Ergonomic, and it's one of the worst keyboards I've had the displeasure to use. YMMV.
It could run GTA5 inside JS inside an Electron app :-)
Disable Javascript by default. That's it. Single one-button plugin made my web experience incredibly better, and almost all of the news and blog sites became much cleaner and more responsive.
No reason to think they wouldn't. It'd be very un-Apple like to bifurcate core APIs like that.
Good point.

I fully expect that this WILL happen here in the US, and I am surprised that it has not happened already.
"In the interest of fostering an open and welcoming environment, we as contributors and maintainers pledge to making participation in our project and our community a harassment-free experience for everyone, regardless of [...] level of experience"
This looks great! I notice you mentioned Prettier in the post — do you have any plans to integrate sqlfmt with that?

Prettier actually has a beta Postgres plugin, but progress on it seems to have stalled. Hooking it up with sqlfmt would be neat - then prettier could format SQL inside other languages too, like code fences in Markdown or template literals in JS.
Game developer Telltale hit with class-action lawsuit for breaking labor laws
Because this is simply how SEC politics work. It rarely goes that far, and it's like 99% a fine. They don't actually have That much power beyond that.
I don't know an easy answer to this, but I recommend reading SICP: https://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/sicp/index.html
This is very old (1958) but my Dad introduced me to Missa Luba - a Catholic Mass sung by Congolese.

Famously used in the movie "If..."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missa_Luba
I find this very important:

"(2) REQUIREMENTS.—In taking the actions described in subsection (b)(1), the Secretary or the Attorney General, as the case may be, shall—

(A) avoid infringement of the privacy and civil liberties of the people of the United States and the freedom of the press consistent with Federal law and the Constitution of the United States, including with regard to the testing of any equipment and the interception or acquisition of unmanned aircraft or systems;"

See y'all in court.
surprised at no '.me' and '.io'.
They're pretty popular. Presumably they'll come later.
At this size calculating power consumption is probably important, it's definitely no longer insignificant
>>> test(2) is None

True
I believe and direct my team to use leading commas, with fields on individual lines, to facilitate easier copy/paste and also to make it easier to comment out sections of the query.

It does lead to longer queries and poor use of screen real estate, but it is very readable.
My rule of thumb is: if i have root on the device, it can go behind my private LAN firewall. If I don’t have root, but the device requires Internet, it goes in the guest network which gets throttled and has no access to my LAN. I also scrutinize outbound more on this network. If I don’t have root and it doesn’t need Internet? It stays airgapped.
I built a simple phase vocoder as part of a college project in a Numerical Methods in Physics class!

I wonder whether Auto-Tune was invented pretty much as soon as was possible. On the one hand, the phase vocoder, on which Auto-Tune is based, was invented in 1966[1]. On the other hand, it seems that its output was quite objectionable (lacking clarity, for one) until at least the mid-1980s and possibly longer. I wonder what 80s music with the Auto-Tune effect would have been like...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase_vocoder
If you must use your phone to do that amount of typing, I wonder if a swipe keyboard would be better.
I think the issue was that the Daily Stormer communicated that the fact that cloudflare hadn't banned them was a form of support or endorsement.

It seems reasonable to put a lid on that.

I do see the moral dilemma though.
That's not really important and I say this as a foreigner to your culture.
There's an argument that that makes him more essential, because (so the argument goes) one thing he has been demonstrably good at is fundraising.

Not sure if I buy it or not - I've not looked into it in enough detail really - but for a Company in that kind of position it's an important attribute for the senior executive team to have.