skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The UK faster payments system is instant. Sorry US/Canada your payments systems are just slow and expensive.
Put2Win – Script to Automatize Shell Upload by PUT HTTP Method to Get Meter
Yeah, it irks me that this is seen a "stupid users" problem when our OSes are programmed to automatically execute code on a USB stick. I don't think the users are the stupid ones in this scenario.
As the article explains fairly well, this technique targets a gene that, if it mutates, causes that mosquito to be sterile. So when it happens de novo, you have a sterile mosquito that is simply not going to pass its genes along. Since this technique leaves the male mosquitos alone, it will spread as they mate with unaffected females (spread as in being transmitted to offspring — it’s not a virus, etc).
Seems like pointless temporary exercise not even based in science. Even if you "teach" the current batch of rodents to be afraid of cats, how will their offspring be afraid of cats if they aren't naturally inclined to be fearful of predators?

The way prey behavior is developed in nature is through evolution. In a batch of animals, there are mutations that cause a small portion of them to be naturally antsy, cautious and afraid. You could see this in litter of puppies. There are some who are very friendly, some that are neutral and some who stand back and are cautious. Same with rats and other rodents. When predators get introduced, the "friendly" ones get killed and the more cautious rodents get to breed, producing more and more cautious rodents over time. It's basic evolution. Of course with the introduction of human supported "super-predators" like cats doesn't give species time to "evolve".

Isn't the simple and obvious solution here is to remove feral cats and other non-native predators? Or are feel-good but ineffective "predator boot camps" where preservation is at right now?
So... A hosted Consul?
Yes, could happen. The extermination of the host could put pressure on the parasite and favor mutations that give them the ability to live in other species of mosquitoes (which didn't happen in the past for whatever reason, for example because the mosquitoes transmitting Malaria were competitors to those other mosquitoes and displaced them).

We were not even able to predict the impact of some rabbits on the local fauna. Now we want to play with genes.
> Optional shouldn't be used for most variables and parameters.

I'd agree if Swift was a general-purpose C++ replacement, but most developers use Swift to write Cocoa apps. viewController.navigationController is optional, view.superview is optional, label.text is optional; all of Apple's frameworks are built on mutable state where almost everything can be or become nil.

(We can make sure that most variables and parameters aren't optional, but that only pushes the problem to other lines of code.)

If we know that we've loaded a view controller from a storyboard, is `self.storyboard!.foo` really a code smell? What else should we do? The type system doesn't let us express what we know/assume about the situation, unless we completely sidestep Apple's controller infrastructure and write our own thing.

> Also, take into account that in Objective-C you can send any message to a nil pointer, and the result will be nil or 0 (for scalar types), as defined by the language standard.

Right, I am not saying that Objective-C handled this any better. But it boggles my mind that we have Swift's complicated type system now, and use it to rebuild an implicit source of errors from Objective-C.
We still have book tokens here (Ireland). They're a gift voucher that's only redeemable for books, and not tied to a specific shop
Tesla’s Musk pulled the plug on a settlement with the SEC at the last minute
> Adding the other batch of books that I have elsewhere, it seems that I possess altogether nearly 900 books, at a cost of £165 15s.

In 1946, one pound was ~$4 [0], making 165.15 roughly $660.
Using a US dollar inflation calculator [1], $660 in 1946 dollars is $8534 in 2018 dollars. Fudging a little, this works out to about $10 per book.

Later, he estimates his annual reading expense as 25 pounds, which works out to about $1300 annually. That's more than I spend on books+e-books+subscriptions, maybe by about double, but this is George Orwell we're talking about, I'd expect he'd be a better reader than I.

[0] http://www.miketodd.net/encyc/dollhist-graph.htm
[1] https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/
Are you planning on releasing any of the architectural details behind this service?

If you’re truly replicating to every PoP that’s quite a fan-out and I can see why you’re limited to 1 write per second per key!
I was intrigued to learn more about the winning language Nim to see how it beats C/C++, so I did a web search and was confounded to see Nim compiles to C/C++! What gives? Starting to doubt the methodology somewhat, though it was an interesting read.
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Please try to stay focused on the forest, not the tree's. With each generation my hope grows stronger.
The actual complaint includes a few tweets by Musk warning shorts to get out within a specific timeframe.
Work at a fortune 500 company, we're currently eliminating USB ports for data devices - but leaving them open for other devices that do not identify as media.

We are dragging people to a corporate cloud solution, however we are finding that the drive to cloud has severely underestimated the volume of data that people will sync across the network, and how much work is done outside official corporate systems and in Excel instead.

This is having 2 effects our network capacity is being drained, and users are reporting performance issues due to latency associated with poorly developed excel applications.
https://www.gravitational.com/telekube ?
The markets for owners vs renters is different. People with the means will buy if they have reasons for staying in one place for a long time. They will rent if they don't. That can depend on the local economy, schools, livability of the area, industry trends, etc.
Nuitka 0.6.0 released
I'd argue that it is just like drugs; you can make a lot more working the street than in a cubical. That's why some do it in the first place, the risk of prison time doesn't matter, because when you get out, you'd still have more money than if you worked in a cubical.
I have to comment on this. Swift is one of those languages that make me look forward to opening up Xcode in order to start writing code. It's just such a fantastic language, and it's hard to explain why until you've actually started writing code in it.
Faber just said on CNBC the settlement was couldn't be chairman for 2 years, add a couple independent directors, and pay a personal fine. I initially heard "step down"... But it seems just from the board for a couple years
Developers do have stakes in programming languages and programming tools. You, yourself, said that you don't want to invest in Emacs. Someone who has invested a ton in mastering Emacs at this point has a personal stake in it. He wants it to thrive and have high adoption.

That being said, I'm actually in the same camp with you, on both counts (this comment and your previous one).

My main problem with Emacs is that of mindshare. To clarify what that means, I'll use some examples.

Git has huge mindshare: if a new development tool appears, if it can integrate with Git, its makers will try to integrate it themselves. This generally provides the best and most maintained integration.

Emacs has low mindshare: if a new development tool appears, Emacs users have to integrate it themselves. Outside of the relatively small Lisp community, almost no upstream developer is bothering to offer Emacs integration.
I much prefer the new MAS than the old one, which was a poor WebView hackfest. That one feels more native than the brand new News/Stocks/Voice Memos apps, as described in the article: search box roundrects are correct, search focus and clear behaviours are consistent, titlebars are displaying content title, not app name.

There are a number of buttons that do follow iOS style though. Also, "Redeem" and "View information" open up views that were previously unavailable except through iTunes, and you can see a mishmash of styles there too.

The two things that infuriate me though are the font size of the sidebar, and the laughably placed "Done" button on the top right when you're viewing a story.
Because they expose fraud and inefficient allocation of capital.
Isn't asking just if one has been arrested in an interview for nonlaw enforcement positions technically an illegal question without qualifiers to specifically exclude the ones that didn't result in conviction or admission of guilt?

Arrest doesn't imply conviction or even the low bar for indictment. For instance SWAT protocol is to cuff literally everybody else possible on the scene for one and then assess and release after the scene is secured. One would have to be completely stupid and paranoid to think you shouldn't hire someone because they were in a bank robbery turned hostage situation as a victim.
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Yup, but the difference is that some of your appreciating asset is being paid for by someone else. In some cases that's worthless, in others quite valuable.

As for pricing, the market does that for you.
FrostWire Team Calls It Quits After Google Deletes Android App
Pretty awesome to see Charles Babbage credited in the introduction.
Right, but some browsers display a small warning message when you select a password field on a non-https page [1]

If instead of a password field it's a text field with a custom font, no such warning will be presented.

[1] https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2017/01/20/communicating-t... http://http-password.badssl.com/
They were/are much prized as an 'improving' birthday present or prize for children.
E-pub is basically a set of HTML files with just a few additional files, but if you want to convert them to one large HTML file, there is a plugin for that (HTMLgen) [0].

[0] https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=247431
A Simple Idea for Flint, Michigan's Water (2016)
>Subsequent generations of the test group are also avoiding cats, which indicates parents are passing the relevant behaviors along to their offspring.
If Apple's own developers are just slapping '!'s on optionals to make errors go away, I would be seriously concerned.
Sadly they only measured bias in the sense of how much people is biased in relation to the brands, they didn't found out a way to measure articles quality and then cross with the data they collected from readers.

Example: in my country the most popular news outlet has lots and lots of haters, obviously there will be bias against their brand, but not undeserved, they admitted themselves openly to have manipulated news for political reasons in the past, caused some mass panic and ruined people lives with literal fake news, got convicted more than once for libel, and their reporters and anchors often express their political views openly on air...
That's the plan.

Humanity's plans to eliminate specific animal populations through introduction of other species, disease, or similar means have always backfired.
> Reading values from Workers KV is designed to have the same reliability as reading static files, making it much less likely to become unavailable than a traditional database. It’s designed to have the same performance as reading a file cached within our network, close to your users, giving it the speed of serving a static file as well.

I wonder how this kind of speed is achieved with an API that has to go over the network? Even if the round trip is short such as between two AWS services, there's always at least some latency.
In Scotland there's a system called "Disclosure"[0]. There are different types of disclosure[1]:

- Basic disclosure

- Standard disclosure

- Enhanced disclosure

- Protecting Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme

Depending on the level of disclosure, "spent" convictions may need to be disclosed. You can however apply for spent convictions to be removed from the disclosure process.

As an employee for a private consultancy which was carrying out software development work for the Scottish Government I had to get a Basic Disclosure to be able to perform my duties on that contract.

It's not that unusual for certain types of work.

[0]: https://www.mygov.scot/organisations/disclosure-scotland/

[1]: https://www.mygov.scot/disclosure-types/
The data collected by dockless bikes is helping cities map your movement
Yeah! I only judge people on their actions, not their skin or hair or...wait. That's what a criminal record is?
> Finally, the topic of burnout and physician abuse (lack of sleep, working overtime and being on call), is truly disgusting.

The simple truth is this: pay has been dropping like a rock, every public mention of doctors is about how much we suck, regulators and bureaucrats are telling us how to practice medicine (but we continue to carry the liability), we're given 5 minutes to see patients when we should be given 20 (and when we rush out the door, patients think it's because we don't give a shit), and and and. .

The worst of it is: everyone else has a "career" - they're allowed to worry about work/life balance, about trying to get paid for their time, about trying to build a nest egg. When physicians do that, well, medicine is a /calling/. You're not allowed to worry about paying for your kids' schooling, or paying off your debts, or etc. That stuff is for programmers and accountants; you're just working with "sick people in their worst moments," so you're not allowed to be anything but self-destructively selfless. No one is allowed to discuss physician misery (I hate the word "burnout" - those docs aren't a resource that came to the end of its useful lifespan, they're human beings in desperate misery) except when residents are throwing themselves off the roofs of hospitals. I've lost -two- friends in the last year. TWO in the last YEAR.

And the only people that pay attention to that are the residents who have to carry on and the attendings that go, "well, it was still better in my day, when residents didn't expect to sleep or ever go home. It was better for patient care continuity if their doc never went home."

Private practice is dead or dying for most specialties as well. The healthcare field is heavily concentrating into large regional networks.

I knew this all going in. So I can say to your wife what I said to myself: The only reason to become a doc is if you cannot, for the life of you, force yourself to become anything else. It has to be a fire in your goddamn marrow.

And for all that, I recommend choosing a residency in psych. They work 9-5 even in residency - call tends to be 9a-8p or 9a-11p (rather than 24-hour shifts like the rest of us) and every other weekend they tend to work 9-9 Sat and Sun. It's the lightest residency on the planet, and they still make - per hour - the same money as IM and FM. It's the best thing I've ever heard of for people that want to have work/life balance and a family. Unsurprising, as they're the ones who spend every day seeing stressors break people's minds in half.
Note; Chrome's PDF reader executes the nested JS in his breakout PDF game. IIRC, the only one that did support it.

Not that PDFium is any worse than Adobe, but certainly not much better.
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We do not understand well enough to even believe we can properly assess that question, let alone express reputable confidence.
Pre-rendering techniques on all SPA is poor and will introduce a lot of complexity.
Effective computing for research reproducibility
I Want Scalar Objects in PHP
Here on Long Island, NY, renting with one roommate is infinitely more profitable than owning a house:

Renting = $1,900 a month for brand new construction, centrally located 1br apartment including utilities

Owning = $3,300 a month for 2br dilapidated house, inclusive of property tax, home owners insurance, massive utility bill, and I haven't even factored in repairs of equipment from before 1960

Sure, you could rent out your basement and your bedroom for an extra $1500, but now you are running a hotel and have to report that income :)
Good stuff. Now to fix my only other pet peeve which is declaring IBOutlets with a ! by default. In the ideal world IBOutlets would be checked compile time unless they're declared with a ?
My 6S battery was maybe only a few months old(replaced), had same issue with crazy battery drain on IOS12, particularly with Instagram.
Many works are left to rot on fragile film reels.
They asked for options! :/
Use your own email address with Gmail, make regular backups and switch the provider if Gmail locks you out.
"Wealthy American buys large swaths of land and donates them for preservation" is a model that happens in the United States even today, actually! And... it can be controversial, as you suggest. One recent example I can think of in the United States is Katahdin Woods in Maine (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katahdin_Woods_and_Waters_Nati...) which was created using land bought by one of the founders of Burt's Bees.

Usually the controversy is some combination of access, employment opportunities, and fear of "outsiders" meddling.

From my perspective, at least regarding American land and access issues, this sort of situation is quite a bit better than "wealthy person buys large swaths of land and uses it as a private playground for himself or herself", which also happens a fair bit. The United States in general does not have a "freedom to roam" concept so even simply hiking on private land can be problematic. Let alone other recreational activities. The best way of ensuring people have access to outdoor recreational activities is exactly through the establishment of these sort of places.

The employment / business aspect is another story and can be trickier to balance sometimes.
Interestingly, the C and C++ versions have different performance for the same reason: they produce the exact same machine code, at different addresses. Thus one runs faster than the other. Edit: actually, there isn't a difference in branch-misses for those... only in cycles, which is even more intriguing.

Another interesting fact: valgrind's branch simulator doesn't show a difference in branch mispredictions between both (it also shows a misprediction rate much larger than reality, it's likely based on an old model Edit: valgrind manual says: Cachegrind simulates branch predictors intended to be typical of mainstream desktop/server processors of around 2004.).

More edit: I hacked a linker script to place the fib function from the C++ implementation at a fixed address, and tried different addresses, with interesting results:

0x10000: 5.117084095 seconds time elapsed, 17,866,364,962 cycles
0x10010: 5.206242916 seconds time elapsed, 18,090,712,907 cycles
0x10020: 6.096635146 seconds time elapsed, 21,285,484,583 cycles
0x10030: 4.955020420 seconds time elapsed, 17,297,162,836 cycles
0x10040: 5.146043048 seconds time elapsed, 17,954,722,919 cycles
0x10050: 5.252477508 seconds time elapsed, 18,335,804,193 cycles
0x10060: 6.100806292 seconds time elapsed, 21,300,089,284 cycles
0x10070: 4.936397948 seconds time elapsed, 17,216,051,020 cycles

Even more edit: I vaguely remember there was someone doing some analysis (with performance counters) of some similar performance difference depending where the function was located, that was on HN a few months ago, but I can't find it anymore.
The behaviour is poor, yes. But if you view it among it's peers it's not at all poor, it's normal. That that normal is actually "exceptionally poor" might be true, but that's not really the point I was trying to make. On that I think we agree.

If you're implying that "most in the know" think FB is much worse than competitors or even other IT companies, we do indeed disagree. Sadly that is not something we can argue here, because if you are in the know you cannot share examples :)
At least on Dell, USB ports can be disabled in the BIOS (with separate options for front and rear ports). Disclaimer: I haven't tried to do it so I don't know if it actually works.
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They all seem to be consistently wrong. The series is shifted by 1.
> get a handyman to fix anything, order renovations, moving, breakfast delivery, daycare, cleaning, maids, buy furniture, order a restyling, get new appliances, remote lock it, pay for every service, or even Airbnb it on your behalf if you leave for extended amount of time, or do that in reverse while you are on a trip to another city.

So... apartment concierge. Americans already have most of those services, provided by another app. The value added here is the patented one-click single point of failure.

Some of these - renovations, daycare, furniture, appliances - I would want more involvement than just tapping "buy" in an app.
Not wholesale, Porkbun are adding 10%.
This is probably the most striking example:

* https://www.enel.com/media/news/d/2016/12/climate-change-exp...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upsala_Glacier
Actually Visual Basic made COM usable :)
It's just a throwaway to explain the point with regard to the examples the parent poster cited.

Peruse the site yourself and you'll find all sorts of other examples.
Thank you, I had no idea I could configure that in htop.
Elon Musk: At this point, I want ETH even if it is a scam
Interesting. With the latest version of Chrome on Linux I see no warnings whatsoever...
First of all that is looking at British Muslims who are a tiny minority of the 1.6-2 billion Muslims in the world.

Maybe take a look at the number of muslim civilians killed in Somalia, Iraq, Syria, Pakistan, Bangladesh by the number of Muslim extremists. It's a lot more than you seem to think.
Well hiring practices in the US tend to be skewed toward people knowing a ton about data structures and algorithms versus people having years and years of practical knowledge programming things. I wouldn't be surprised. I've seen Swift code built by pretty smart people that was one big exclamationfest.
Within the EU (and some associated countries) there's SEPA [1]

I can send my brother in Belgium Euros from Switzerland and the transfer is effectively free (depends on the bank. Some banks charge marginal fees, usually < 1EUR).

Before that it was rather expensive to transfer money to bank accounts in different countries.

This seems like a problem that has already been mostly solved

I agree. But apparently not for people who see governments as evil and fiat money issued as essentially worthless. And yes, I scratch my head about those folks.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_Euro_Payments_Area
When those statements are blatantly false with a clear intent to do reputational and market damage to the business they become more than simply "short sellers writing slander". When they pay to have them promoted it looks more like fraud.
Seems to me like the farmers need to form a futures market to even out the boom and bust cycles.
This is censorship just like removing opposing opinions for "hate speech".
California Apple store robbery gang stole over $1M in goods, cops say
Is that like CNN threatening to doxx some random nobody because he made a political gif? That they're so biased, they're actively participating in the political game?
When it works, it works really well.

When it goes wrong, it fails catastrophically.

That is to say, the variance of slumlording and poker arr probably equal :)
They would have 420 times less pain, despair and misery.
I am sorry I don't follow. You think most Muslims grow up to gangsters? There's about 1.6bn Muslims in the world, and the majority of them do not engage in criminal activities. Have you ever been to a Muslim country? Crime rates in some of those places is ridiculously low compared to some western countries (i.e. UAE etc)
Clear disconnect from the open source community, which isn't a negative signal, but also is not a positive one.