skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How do they handle Messenger? It sounds like it’s just that under the hood.
There's a video showing the JWST deployment sequence. It's set to calm orchestral music, and the visuals are just 3D renters of the spacecraft.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlJtO7EbK-U

This video makes me far more nervous than "7 Minutes of Terror", depicting Curiosity's entry/descent/landing sequence. Far more things have to go right in order for JWST to become operational.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ki_Af_o9Q9s
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Safety, acceleration and comfort are Tesla's pro-EV talking points. Of course they're going to try to be good at them. This car accomplishes those design goals (i.e. the people involved did their jobs).

Safety is an easier goal to accomplish when you're only shipping cars in low volume because you can just throw steel at the problem. When you're an established car company shipping millions of cars per year cutting out a few hundred dollars of materials per car and a handful of part numbers and a few dozen manufacturing steps is a huge tantalizing savings and wall street awards profits, not overbuilt cars so that's what you do. I don't think Tesla will ever be a high volume manufacturer (I think they'll wind up closer to Audi or similar) but it'll be interesting to see if they can keep over building cars at scale.
Then you don't have the resources to run the business.

The technical side is pretty cheap compared to the legal manpower you need to protect your end users.
NetLogo (a multi-agent programmable modeling environment)
Agreed, to me "low-code" is a lot more clear.
Alexa is barely home automation... it's a voice controlled switch in 99% of use. Home automation is events responding to triggers, as if by magic, not "Alexa, kitchen lights on", nor too any real extent voice controlled scenes.
How is the visa situation if given a remote US-based job?
> However, Wired did a write up[1] on why Damore's memo was clumsy despite trying to use scientific evidence. Mainly in that he cited facts without extrapolating on them and noting the small differences in the numbers. Further, there is a lot of nuiance in all of this and societal studies that get picked apart for gotcha facts is not a great way of using studies. [1]

It's great somebody discussed that, it was probably biggest complaint I had about Damore's article.

But you have to admit that "flawed methodology in reaching the conclusions" was not really widely cited as biggest issue with Damore's memo.
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I agree. The axis chosen exagerrates differences between the values. Also, why are all the non-tesla products the same color as the background? Is this another distortion technique?
Your application is awesome!

However, the logo to me did look like a blood bag with some yellow liquid in it and two tubes sticking out at the bottom. (When shown on white background, you cannot see hair on the guy's head - https://alan-platform.com/pages/tuts/introducing.html ) Anyway, the program looks very intuitive in its purpose and goal!
Among today's humans, could we find similar statistical clusters that would be as important as the difference between Neanderthal and Homo sapiens? We would have to give new names for those clusters.
I does look kinda like a beer mug, I can't unsee it! But that's probably also because on this side of the planet it's time for a pint.
Destructuring in Ruby
..by the new OS/kernel they forced you to install, without writing it to be friendly to the old phones they're forcing it onto.
An awesome looking tool, however I'm a little wary of building software for an expensive multi-gpu server that isn't fully vetted. Seems like a ripe target for cryptojacking. On that note, people should probably avoid pre-built binaries of this for that reason.
> Facebook doesn’t listen to, view or keep the contents of your Portal video calls. Your Portal conversations stay between you and the people you’re calling.

But, we do store your call history. We use this call history to "serve you great ads". We also sell meta-information from this call history to advertisement providers to help them know more about you. This could help them make decisions in your life like insurance policies, flight/train tickets amongst other things. Apart from that, Portal is completely "Private by Design".
It's getting to the point where simply opening a Microsoft Office document is roughly the same as opening a random .exe file.

I think we should treat them with the same kind of paranoia.
In heavy weather a sailboat sails under bare poles. However, it might actually be a stabiling force in rough seas. My sailboat is far more stable with the sails up. Side to side rolling is eliminated.
I would also like to see this comparison. Another thing is; HN is really the wrong audience for this. Technologists here will spin up a vm/container with their stack of choice. Indeed; ruby and rails, django, node, all fill the void 4GLs did decades ago.

Finding and reaching users for this type of tool is the challenge imo. Implementation is the easy part.
That's not my point, and I think that you know that.
Ask HN: What's your favourite package manager/package repository website?
I'm looking to redesign the package site for a language I'm working on and I'm looking for places to draw inspiration, so far I've looked at NPM and RubyGems, I'd be interested to know more, and why you think they're the best ones.
Great work! Thanks for this. Scripting WebRTC is always a hassle. And the CV integration will make things easier ;)
You can download the article directly from this link https://osf.io/8mcnh/download

The reason it's slow is because the OSF site loads the pdf in-browser.
This is an interesting idea. What makes you think better immigration would apply to this problem?

Do you think more cultures would displace the homeless? Or they would be more able to care for the vulnerable population? Immigration is less restrictive now than 50 years ago, but this problem seems worse now than in 1970, right?

I’m all for improved immigration policy, don’t don’t see the connection.
Is there a place where developers who disagree with this type of political movement can gather? I do believe in meritocracy, I believe on the internet no one knows you're a dog and I believe in judging people based on their code contribution alone. I also have very little interest in letting non-tech interlopers into projects.

Where do I go?
> Do musicians tour there ? What about the classical music offer (a good marker in my opinion of intense cultural places) ? How many art museums, do they host touring exhibitons ?

Lisbon is quite good in all of the above since it is well placed on the European circuit for performing arts and has plenty of smallish but very high quality museums. As a music student there I got to hear all of the greats and frankly I got to attend relatively more high-quality concerts there than what I get around to living in Paris, since in Lisbon I didn't have to book everything 6 months in advance. (I'm not complaining about Paris, it's awesome.)

Braga on the other hand has a lot less cultural activity as is normal for a small city. However, it does have an incredibly rich history, plenty of ancient monuments (mostly churches) and is a 45-minute drive from Porto.

If you're talking about the bubbling native culture that you can find in cities like London or New York, than no, Portugal isn't the hottest place. But the SV isn't either.
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I was disagreeing with the idea that established treatments today are known to improve outcomes. It is very mixed, and really depends on what problem you are trying to solve. There has been a lot of progress in some areas, but there is also a lot of bad science out there, together with institutional, legal, and regulatory corruption, on top of plenty of plain old incomplete understanding of complex hard problems and the associated necessary accidental causing of harm in ignorance while doing the best we can. We do a lot of good. We have made some miraculous advances. But we also still treat some very common problems with methods known to cause harm. The way we treat type 2 diabetes, heart disease prevention, chronic high blood pressure and mental health are particularly suspect, and these are very common and widespread problems. And I don't call those out because I have read an article or done a survey of medicine - I call them out because as problems I have personally had, I have taken the time to learn about them and found the standard approaches to be shockingly poorly evidence based. I do not know enough to make a claim about the average case, but I do know that the reliability of the medical system in dealing with the particular problems I've had in the last decade or so has been surprisingly bad and dangerous. I've come through it okay, but I've also been given way more useless or harmful advice than I would have expected, and dodged way more bullets than I would have believed were out there.

The article I posted is the tip of the iceberg. A commonly recommended, unnecessary procedure, which kills or seriously injures one in fifty is a horrible scandal. Hundreds of thousands of deaths a year from errors in hospitals, a risk one avoids by staying home, is an awful scandal. Drugs prescribed long term to improve mental health issues based on short trials, now suspected to make them worse and induce dependence, are a terrifying prospect. Diabetes treatment protocols now absolutely known to kill people, in use for decades and probably still in use in plenty of cases. Suppression of dissent. Suppression of competition. Corrupt and motivated research.

I'm not saying don't go to the doctor. You should for a lot of things. I certainly do. I'm not saying doctors don't help - for a new issue I know nothing about, I'd generally expect them to be able to. But it is certainly true that if you exercise blind faith in the system, it is perfectly capable of cheerfully killing you. The best advice I have, and it is not very good advice, is to read absolutely everything. Review the basic science yourself for and serious condition you are dealing with, commit to no serious and life changing treatments without plenty of research and multiple opinions, DON'T TRUST THE STANDARD RECOMMENDATIONS TO BE SOLUD WITHOUT REVIEWING THE BASIC SCIENCE, and avoid unnecessary hospital trips and medication as much as possible. It is easy to scoff at the doctors of Washington's day - look at all the unnecessary and harmful crap they did! At least things are better now! Well... yes, a lot of things are better now, but we still do plenty of unnecessary and harmful crap.
It's so big because it comes with an embedded copy of the QQ browser, which is used to render almost all content. (On Android, on iOS they might have to use WebKit?)

So it's bloated for pretty much the same reason Electron apps are bloated.
Chiming in to say I'm similarly semi-disconnected from Facebook at this point. My account is still active and I still post occasional updates from a third-party platform (mostly articles I've read), but I rarely browse the site anymore.

The only thing I find useful on Facebook that I can't find reliably anywhere else is a comprehensive listing of local events and concerts (as well as invites to things my friends host). If there were a separate site that could aggregate and organize events content as nicely and completely as FB does I would have deleted my account outright a while ago.
Thanks God, it's dying :)
I hope Google rejects meritocracy harder and faster than Mozilla, so we can continue to have a competitive open-source browser not built by an advertising and tracking company.
Or D: https://github.com/kaleidicassociates/excel-d
Can anyone tell us if WeChat's inability to flex to the Indian market was intentional and "arrogant" or was it unintentional? They call them "blind spots" for a reason.
It's been obvious for a while now, that the out of Africa theory was far too simplistic.

Denisovan DNA for instance, of which there is no sign in any African and very few European people...
Why though? Is this some kind of political stunt? I can basically guarantee this will increase the usage of the word meritocracy across the internet. So.. good job Mozilla.
Get woke, go broke. I hope Mozilla suffers relentlessly from this and the other stupid decisions they are making, until they either repent of this foolishness, or go away entirely.

Obviously, more competition in the browser space is better, but this toxic ideology poisons everything it touches.
If your testing is time consuming to the point that you can only test on your PRs and never on what master would be after each one merges, then you have to choose between somehow forcing PR authors to serialize their merges somehow (external convention or tooling or something) or not testing the code that will actually be released. The latter isn’t always the wrong choice, though.
You're really stretching things to force a weak comparison.

Journalists entrenched in violent protests will inevitably get arrested, that's not a break down of rule of law, nor of democracy; are they getting imprisoned for being journalists who are critical of the president? Not AFAICT. In Turkey journalists are imprisoned for not supporting Erdogan.

Has Trump called for his opponents to be imprisoned for not supporting him? Or, did he claim they had committed crimes for which objectively they should be punished? Erdogan has his political opponents actually imprisoned; and 10s of thousands of their supporters.

Trump is a whacked out crazy misogynist, displays the worst traits of capitalist greed, and of self-obsession, he's a power hungry ignoramus. But Erdogan is an evil genocidal fascist.
Damn, just installed plain 18.04 a month ago, using it with i3 + KDE. Maybe I should've tried this one instead, keeping KDE a bit more current.
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Apple also extended their crusade against firearms to modifying the way iOS displays the pistol emoji, rendering it as a toy water pistol, an entirely different object from a deadly weapon.

This sort of newspeak ideology-based purge is bad for everyone. Political agendas have no place inside of general purpose communication tools. This is no different than running an automated string replacement that changes the word “handgun” to “squirt gun”.
If you want to remain in a major US city with a lower cost of living, great quality of life, and thriving intellectual community, I'd strongly recommend checking out Chicago.

While it's not as cheap as many cities you'll find abroad, it is extremely affordable compared to US cities. The food is fantastic and affordable. There is a wonderful intellectual community. The nightlife is amazing, if you're into that. It's also possible to find lots of space, as the city is geographically massive with many different neighborhoods with diverse vibes.

The big downside is the winter. However, if you know how to dress for the weather and don't live somewhere incredibly remote, you can mitigate a lot of that inconvenience.

Again, you'll be paying more than you would in Thailand, but for the US it's really fantastic.
Ah yes exactly. For a while I just never logged in, and then suddenly FB started spamming me with emails. "John misses you." "Susan posted something recently, see what she posted." etc etc.
Wonder what the operating budget of the organization is.

I donate $50 a year, because it's pretty much the only site I can check every month or so and reliably expect that it will be better since the last time I visited.
Vienna would be a lot nicer if they didn't still allow smoking in bars and restaurants.

"Just don't go to the smoking places."

A very large percentage of the adult population in Vienna still smokes tobaccco. When I was there in 2017 it felt like there were no non-smoking places.
Although they are fast, TypedArrays and DataView only deal with setting/getting data from a buffer. They are totally unrelated to numerical calculations mentioned in OP.
No, if you survive an electric shock, it's not electrocution.

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/electrocution
I'd highly recommend the triangle area in North Carolina. In Raleigh, there are a large number of tech companies, RHE, Cisco, IBM, Unreal Engine, just to name a few. It has the second highest % of computer science PhDs, and it's home to NC State, Duke University, and UNC. It's also a cultural hotspot for Blues creativity. Many of the best contemporary blues artists are located here in the triangle. The cost of living is relatively low. The rent I paid for 3 months in Redwood City, would have paid my mortgage here for 14 months. The southern part of NC is an agricultural center and thus food is relatively inexpensive. We usually spend ~500 a month.

In addition, Durham, in particular, is a melting pot of Northerners and Southerners. This has lead to some wonderful conversations where regional and cultural expectations were questioned.

Lastly, there are several startups here that are actively recruiting the best people away from the groupthink and costs that are currently dominating the bay area.
Actual title of article: "Words Matter – Moving Beyond 'Meritocracy'"

More descriptive title, taken from the article text: "Mozilla has taken steps to discontinue using the word meritocracy as a way to describe governance and leadership structures."
If you don't mind the humidity, Houston has an extremely low cost of living and, well, as one of the largest cities in the US it has a little bit of everything. It is also known for it's diversity and high per capital restaurant count.
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I know that "electrocute" was originally a neologism meaning "execute with electricity," but for decades at least it's meant "put more volts through a person than they'd prefer." People commonly say "I electrocuted myself" if they get a stinging zap while installing a lightswitch or something.

The original meaning is a popular bit of trivia in today-I-learned circles right now, and it's historically interesting, but you should know it doesn't reflect common usage.
For what it's worth, I think that is one of the very, very, very few good things that will come out of that presidency. We'll see what future presidents make of it, but I have hope that in the long run it leads to increased transparency.

Of course, other checks are being removed left and right, so I don't think it evens out in the case of the Trump admin.
Depends what your threat model is.
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>apart perhaps from VB but it is going away

Even presuming it's gone zombie, it'll be 30+ years before it might scatter to the winds...

(And that's presuming that VBA is finally no longer a thing.)

In the meantime, some of these kids might someday make a living at maintaining VB codebases.
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Based on how it was written, I assume that the Explorer was shunted from behind by the 18-wheeler, into the flatbed trailer of a different vehicle that was in front.
Good! Meritocracy is a fake idea used to justify giving power to those who are already powerful, and the word was invented in order to satirize the idea[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meritocracy#Etymology
<< The string "foo" has no file, not in the past, present, or reasonably-predictable future. Ditto for the literal bytes. >>

Is Python not parsing/compiling the source file ? Does the "foo" string constant not live in such a source file ?

<< Explicitly specified by who? Where? When? >>

The "b" prefix states what the encoding is: it is a raw byte string whose bytes are assumed to correspond to their ASCII counterparts.
GDPR subject access request (and deletion request for the "locked" accounts) to Facebook, and if that doesn't work complain to your country's privacy regulator (the ICO if you're in the UK).
I wish it were not monolithic but I understand why it is.
The dictionary hasn't caught up with current usage. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18167369
Without seeing your back-of-napkin numbers it’s hard to know where you might be going with this, but the idea that sail efficiency has something to do with the amount of energy in the wind in a particular cross section seems in need of justification. You’re probably better off considering air/sail interactions as a momentum transfer - the goal of the sail is not to extract all of the energy from a packet of air (presumably leaving blocks of frozen nitrogen in the sail’s wake), but rather to extract as much forward momentum as possible out of the interaction, leaving the air with more rearward momentum than it started with.
I'm not familiar with MiniZinc and I've studied but not used Prolog; however I have worked on a library which combined a linear constraint solver with a Prolog-like DFS (depth first search) logic implementation.

The most succinct difference is (usually) a constraint solver is going to find a solution (or the best solution) while a DFS logic will attempt to enumerate all solutions.

For example, consider a geometric problem of placing a point on the plane according to constraints (such as left of line AB, above line CD, etc.) Assuming a solution exists, there might be a whole region of solutions (for example three lines might describe a triangle where any point inside the triangle is a solution).

A linear constraint solver is going to give you an answer of an arbitrary point in the triangle. It is not going to give you a stream of results "1.00,5.00; 1.01,5.02; 1.02,5.04; etc." If you want that you need to perturb some of the inputs to the solver to change the output. In other words there is no built-in combinatoric enumeration order.

In contrast, a depth first solver would output exactly that, because that's how it also views the problem internally - by enumerating options. It may be sophisticated in ruling out scanning parts of the space which can't be in the solution, but it can't avoid enumerating partial solutions which are part of a full solution because that's how the algorithm works. It would be the same as an implementation leaving arbitrary rows out of a table join in SQL - the algorithm depends, for correctness and completeness, on that not being done.

(Note again the distinction between leaving out partial solutions that are part of a full solution versus leaving out searching entire regions which can be ruled out of ever being a solution. So I'm not arguing that it has to brute force solutions I'm making the more nuanced argument that the "row count" is significant in data flow within a DFS logic engine in a way that is not even a concept within a linear constraint solver's data flow. Or to put it another way, within a linear constraint solver there's only ever "one row" but it is kind of fuzzy what the values of the columns are.)

However unlike a strictly linear constraint solver minizinc also supports either-or constraints so I don't know how much that changes the above. I would be interested to find out if MiniZinc tracks the combinatorics of multiple either-or constraints in the way that a Datalog or SQL would - I suspect it instead treats them all as interchangeable and indistinguishable rather than enumerable.

Another difference between constraint solvers and DFS logic is generally you can pick an arbitrary variable in a constraint solver and change it's value an recalculate the model. In a DFS logic you generally cannot do that; at most you could (at the implementation level not the user level) unbind and rebind the most recently bound variable, or unwind the stack and recalculate from an earlier point.