skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. I loved "Interstellar", but leaving Earth is a hopeless prospect.

How do you move 8 billion people to another planet when it costs a $billion to send just 5 people into Earth orbit? Worse, there's nowhere enough sunlight and water anywhere in this solar system to sustain more than a handful of people.

No, if mankind can't make it here, we can't make it anywhere.
Exactly. This article seems to not really discuss that case. It’s specific to feature branches off a master line. Git rebase is generally what I use in feature branches.

Cherry-picking is important in the case that you mention, master to release, the opposite direction could be a merge, ie release branch to master.
Would you not be better with a VM for Excel, if that's all you need Windows for?

At a previous job I persuaded IT to build a Windows VM with all of their normal stuff in, so that I could boot Linux natively - it was a good way of working.
"How the strengths of Lisp-family languages facilitate building complex and flexible bioinformatics applications."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28040748

-- US National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health

"Clasp: Common Lisp using LLVM and C++ for Designing Molecules"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rSMt1pAlbE

-- GoogleTechTalks
I'd argue that language is less important than product/deployment type. The difference between releasing e.g. a desktop product on a yearly schedule with maintenance fixes going both to the 2018 and earlier main releases, versus building a web service with a single deployed version deployed perhaps several times per day is rather big when it comes to a branching strategy.
Sounds centrist, unlike virtually all those in politics.
The use of George Soros and Marxist as scary words. First off, Soros is not a Marxist. In the least bit. However using Soros as a dirty word is the practice of neo Nazis and antisemites for a long time. And anyone remotely familiar with German history knows that when people talk about Marxist owned shit, they really mean Jewish owned.
They have a much better security model than even OS X + little snitch + little flocker, too. I have both nvme pixelbook and touchbar rmbp and find myself using both a lot.
WSL is slow at creating processes, and pretty quick at everything else (in my experience).

This can mean some git commands (for instance) run slowly due to all the processes launched in the associated bash scripts.
I wonder if there has been a study on how effective the sikh turban is as a motorcycle helmet, I mean it's probably not as good a helmet, but it is basically a large amount of padding around the head so it's going to provide some protection.
>And yeah, I hope no one is claiming that weight lifting trains your aerobic system.

The issue is when people claim that weight lifting is detrimental to cardio-related activities, which is what OP seems to be insinuating.
Will that mean that technologies that are privacy centric will become important for some reason?
That's not quite right. Remember that grouped numbers count as a singular number within some limits. For example, if I was trying to remember a phone number in my working set: 1-2-3 4-5-6 7-8-9-0 that would be too large, but if I group the numbers: 12-3 45-6 78-90 then now it fits. Of course, most adults will remember that number like this: 123 456 78-90

When you're multiplying large numbers you only need around 5 or 6 items.
You want to look into permaculture. You should check to see if there's any permaculture groups in your area. They will have the best localized experience and will be a huge help.
Out of curiosity, how do you see the element of detriment being argued? The passenger paid for a seat. The airline will absolutely assign that seat to a standby passenger when they miss boarding. Even if they don't, the seat is paid and less passengers means less feel burn. In both cases the airline makes out better. Is the argument going to be that the airline would have charged you more had you told them you only needed the first leg and by extension you robbed them of a chance to squeeze you harder?
Caligari?
Life will definitely go on, but this would seem to be our sole chance at getting off the planet. Any future reboot wouldn't have the cheap energy resources we've exploited to this point.
You're not offering MongoDB as a service though. I think that part is pretty explicit.

> It just doesn't feel like open source anymore.

I guess it depends on what generation you come from. The GPL was far more popular when I was coming up where as today the Apache License seems to be more popular. They have very different philosophies. I for one see no issue with companies that have invested a lot of money into OSS protect themselves from mega corporations which contribute nothing to the project and simply exploit it. This is more dangerous as the project we all take for granted could then dry up and then we're left with a mega corporation cloud provider offering that isn't interested in improving the software I use.
Javascript is ruining the environment. Everyone should switch to Rust, and compile all apps to web assembly. Also, blockchain.
Kakao Talk has claimed to have E2E Encrypted chat at least since 2014; it is not on by default.

https://www.pcworld.com/article/2856452/kakao-talk-adds-secr...

https://techcrunch.com/2014/12/07/chat-app-kakao-talk-begins...
Wonderful general Git resource: https://github.com/k88hudson/git-flight-rules
Reagents generalise CML, but is also not as opinionated in that it is more a set of building blocks that can be used in many different ways. It gives you more flexibility, but at the cost of having to do a bit more yourself.

Reagents are more comparable to STM I would say, even though it is slightly less expressive in some areas, but on the other hand is always lock-free.
Flight rules for Git
At the same time we have an utterly boring/dogmatic salad of tales, such as the Bible and Quran, which remain important in the modern world - due to the still prevalent ignorant multitude. They would not mind if you desecrate the Iliad though. It belongs to a different audience.
What did Google Reader do that something like Newsblur doesn't? I transitioned from Reader to Newsblur before Reader was killed and have been happy ever since.
If you think aero styling is the reason your windshield is cleaner, then take a look at the largely vertical surfaces of your headlights and grille. No dead bugs there either.
It's less that it's BSD based, and more that they are on super old versions of all the GNU tools due to license issues.

Needing to update bash and coreutils on MacOS sucks, and even then I can't rely on all other developers I work with having those same tools installed and up to date and installed the same way. So I deal with the provided versions and their differences and quirks.
Xilinx is certainly doing some very interesting stuff with Everest.

But to be honest I don't see where all the hype (and funding) for inference accelerators is coming from. It think that many people overestimate the difficulty of making an accelerator that does high performance 8 bit math - google has done it (TPUv1), tesla has done it (unnamed custom silicon), nvidia has done it (nvdla), Xilinx has done it, ...

I can't see inference accelerators becoming anything but commodity in a few years.
No need to imagine. It happens all the time. More the rule than the exception, really.
Disk "thrashiness" been a problem with Windows for a long time. Back in the 90s and early 2000s when slower mechanical hard drives with access lights made HDD seeking and thrashing very noticeable, I always noticed that Windows boxes just thrashed the disk far more for trivial operations than Linux or even early MacOSX. (Never used Mac classic.) Windows has always been really clunky in terms of disk I/O. I've never been sure if the problem is in the kernel, filesystem, or higher up the stack.

Linux on the other hand is spectacular here. In my experience it's marginally better than Mac on the same hardware (and way better than Windows!). I threw Linux on a spinning disk Mac Mini a while back with a really slow disk and found that it didn't matter much. Macs with SSDs are so much faster in part because MacOS seems less efficient on the disk front and SSDs make that less of a bottleneck.

Linux is open source. Why hasn't everyone copied what Linux is doing? What is Linux doing?
You’ve gone from saying that the Orthodox world had separation of Church and State to pointing out that there were periods when the fusion between the two was less than perfect.

If anyone reading wants to understand how weird Western Christendom was compared to comparable civilisations Fukuyama’s Origins of Political Order is a good place to start.

If you’re interested in the relationship between Ummah and state in Islam which is very similar to Church State relationships in the Eastern Roman Empire look at Timur Kuran’s work.

http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/67518/timur-kuran/the...
This could arguably be a good thing.
Announcing drug prices would force people to pay closer attention to the typically crappy coverage by their insurance companies - where a generic alternative somehow costs more for the consumer than brand-name...
So I went back to the original PDF, https://b8f65cb373b1b7b15feb-c70d8ead6ced550b4d987d7c03fcdd1..., to look at the list.

I see lots of companies that sell oil there. Or coal. Or things. But none that really emit pollution as a side effect.

Someone like 3M could pollute less by changing the way it produces each packet of yellow stickers. The pollution is a side effect, it's something the company can change by internal decisions.

Someone like Shell cannot pollute less by selling 1l of petroleum (I assume that pollution during production is a rounding error in this context). The pollution is inherent in the product sold. The act of polluting is identical with the act of selling.

Which implies that your last sentence should be "the most we can do is stop buying polluting products".
Not tech related, but I could go for some Altoids Sours.

On the tech side, I switched from a Pebble Time to an Apple Watch. I like all the fitness stuff, but I think I would've liked a Pebble Time 2 with fitness stuff better.
Branch off the release branch for fixes to it. Then merge back into release and develop branch.
A while back I built a site for converting torrents into banner-sized images, with the idea that people could share them on message boards and such, and there were browser extensions that would detect them and let you open them in your bittorrent app.
For any devs worried they're missing out because they're not in the "strategic" role described here: There's still a boatload of money to be made just doing the coding.

Yes, strategic work can be the way to big buck$, but there's also a shortage of reliable implementers of moderately-technical projects who don't disappear and communicate reasonably well.

Sure, you might not get to a $20k/week bill rate, but for many of us $4k/week isn't a bad start.
Unfortunately, the snap dies with this error for me on Ubuntu: https://www.pastery.net/vfyfyj/
It saves my time by providing articles with very good content.
Really, no. They are fundamentally identical executable lambda calculus, despite Lisp's attempts to look abstract by shrouding itself in parentheses and Forth's attempts to look like "portable assembler" by exposing most implementation details.
A key feature of the original Macintosh operating system was an orthogonal interface for copying, pasting, dragging and dropping arbitrary data, whether plain or styled text or graphics, into (more or less) arbitrary locations, which was far from obvious in consumer systems of the time.

And when QuickTime came about, video was no exception. You'd select a length of video from the timeline, copy it and either paste it into a different video, or into a presentation or other kind of document. It's ridiculous to call the ability to use the OS the way it was intended a "pro feature" that you should have to pay extra for.
Can you show that predictions are true rather than just being perturbations. To me it looks like trading drives markets to respond (beyond large obvious fundamentals changes), rather than providing usable predictions.

Moreover, assume they are predictive, do they target funds to where society needs them.

Finally if people are good at prediction, using algorithms for example, then those algorithms provide the required prediction and we should use those to target resources and retain wealth in the market rather than giving out 40% of the wealth (UK) just to get some predictive power.

I think the value added by the market is vastly over-stated in the present model.
Dental picks
What does a data scientist really look like?
I came across Tungsten Messenger the other day and it's supporting even multiple personas (public, private) and runs traffic via Tor. Pretty neat UI and the team is throwing out new features regularly: http://tungstenapp.com/

(Edit: typo)
What are you talking about? Paint is still incredibly barebones and Photoshop 1.0 already had lots of major features that Paint lacks. Magic wand select, stamp, filters, perspective transform, etc.
> Since we do anecdotes here, a friend who is purely heavy lifter (squats, deadlifts, benchpresses etc), exactly in those low reps range, and pretty good at it. He is utterly useless in 2h+ hikes with 1000m+ elevation gains.

Kind of a false equivalence. Firstly, I'm not sure that long, arduous hikes are very relatable to e.g. moving around in old age, whereas doing a single squat is absolutely comparable to getting out of a chair for anyone. Secondly, my guess is that you'd be utterly useless if you had to carry a pack whose weight equalised the difference between your respective bodyweights.
We have the XMPP Compliance Suites 2018[0] providing an overview of protocol-level specifications that a modern client or server should implement, and there was recently a nice article[1] for some example use cases.

What is still missing is everything above the wire protocol level. The XSF, being the XMPP Standards Foundation, is guarding the protocols, and things like UX and client interoperability are considered as off-scope. However, there are people interested in these topics as well looking for fresh collaborators.

[0] https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0387.html

[1] https://www.erlang-solutions.com/blog/21-xmpp-use-cases-and-...
That's a cool tool.. I did that manually many times and always thought I should write a tool. Glad to see it exists already :)
People have measurable and quantifiable biases that have an effect on how they perceive others.

While there are actual differences between individuals, what is presented as an objective biological fact is often a false projection of someone's subjective biases (i.e. sexism and racism).
That’s probably true, The Odyssey is a coherent story with a single protagonist and works better as a whole narrative. The Iliad is really a collection of stories, but taken together it’s a treasure trove of characters, events and ideas.

The Golden Apple, the beauty contest of the goddesses, Helen’s elopement with Paris, the Greeks burning their boats, the story of Achilles and his famous vulnerable spot and death, the wooden horse, the destruction of Troy.

Its a huge fund of anecdotes, sayings and archetypes that infuse western society.
Twilio to buy Sendgrid for $2B in stock
What does that mean, practically? For Odysseus for example, what foundational message does it have? I read it and it was interesting and even fun, I don't know what philosophical or moral component you have in mind. It had nuanced characters, but even that seems to be ignored by our popular culture which focuses exclusively on sirens and such.
Python 3, UTF-8 AND locale
Yes, as a fellow human being living in this culture, I also understand sexual dynamics are asymmetrical and complicated. Thanks.

That said, I don't think there's much reason to think that a person who created a throwaway account to undermine the legitimacy of #metoo is really trying to have a good-faith discussion.

The point about my comment on men not understanding consent and boundaries is that it is very often a convenient lack of understanding. The claim that women are just too darned mysterious is used to justify violation of consent and boundaries. However, if those same straight men are hit on by other men, they suddenly develop a very clear idea of boundaries and consent.

This suggests to me that the lack of understanding is not just convenient but willful. As Upton Sinclair says, "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!" The same goes, I think, for horny dudes. Especially horny dudes living in a patriarchal culture where women used to be effectively property of one man or another, and where that patriarchy is still being slowly unwound.
If you want to wholesale to us in the US, we could do that for you. I'd be happy to discuss logistics and see if the numbers work for you.
To be fair, the way that JavaScript development works these days, particularly anything involving npm, is batshit insane. I should not have 400 MB of hundreds of thousands of tiny files sucked down into my node_modules folder for a simple web front-end, with 17 different version of lodash required by different packages, and dependencies nested so deeply that I can't even delete the directory without resorting to specialized tools. It's a complete disaster as far as being able to verify your dependencies, and we're sort of just blanket operating on the assumption that everything is always licensed with an MIT-alike license.
> The lack of adoption from both devs and users killed it.

Both of these fall square on Microsoft. Developers didn't care for the platform in part because there weren't users, but also because every version had a completely different UI framework that wasn't compatible with older oses, but if you didn't use it, your app wouldn't fit well on the new oses (and occasionally never start up). Developers of Windows mobile 6 apps had no path to wp7, other than rewriting everything.

Users got a very weird upgrade story. Sometimes, upgrades were just not available, despite promises that they would be. Windows Mobile 10 was a mess, Edge is worse than mobile IE, but users don't have a choice to go back. Microsoft pushed back on a mobile Firefox in the app store early, and if they changed their mind it was too late.

Finally, Microsoft decided to retarget towards the high end with Windows Mobile 10 devices -- somehow they forgot that most of the devices they were selling were low end devices, where they could have a lot better responsiveness than a similar cost Android, because of platform differences (single app at a time is probably a big part, but maybe there's some other components).

Windows Mobile 10 also lost all the boxy UI which I loved :(
Reading the comments, might be because of the lack of literacy on this topic in this venue
Even with an open source edition it's hard to link strongly the source code to the resulting APK. How do you know that the generated APK hasn't been built with extra "features"?

For each release, independent people would have to compile the same source code and inspect if there is any differences with the published APK.

One way to make this easier would be to fix the build system so each build with the same source would provide a bit-exact APK file (without timestamps). Then the independent parties just have to check if all of the bits are the same (with a hashing function).

Ideally Google would also publish the hash output of each APK so that it can be checked against another distribution channel on installation.
Is the Pixel 3 worth the upgrade?
U.S. job openings jump to record 7.1M
> Why is it OK to have all our devices, etc. manufactured in China, but it's not OK for Google to offer services there?

That might not be OK either. People are questioning the wisdom of having "all our devices, etc. manufactured in China."

https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/10/11/if-the-u-s-doesnt-contr...
> and liquidity for all the employees (not just VCs and founders)

As mentioned in the article, SoftBank often buys employee shares, giving them liquidity without needing an IPO.
The same way we explored the earth. Every one won't move at once.

These are gradual things that unfold over decades to centuries.
I have been inaccurately predicting this for a few years (with a variety of big box stores/ many location stores).

I think what I was most wrong about is AMZN thinks a lot about the geographic overlap of their customers and where they will shop. That is why the Whole Foods purchase was so brilliant. Both the overlap of wallets shopping in at both AMZN (prime) and WF.

I wonder how well Sear's store footprint fits with the AMZN customer base.
Bug swarms have always been seasonal. Maine famously has a painful period in spring when the black flies hatch.

https://bangordailynews.com/2017/05/19/uncategorized/survivi...
Man sends BTC transaction 12.6 km away without internet or cellphone network
At the outset, it sounds simple that MongoDB inc thinks why should some 3rd party cloud provider (AWS, GCP, DO and the like) be allowed to run MongoDB as a service and make money while MongoDB contributes the biggest part of the open source project that is MongoDB.

But, it feels like yet another fallacy. What really is an open source project then?

Say some developer X contributes to a project like MongoDB his/her open source code so that they can one day run MongoDB as a service and make money. At that time, he/she believe that status is true and submits their code. But, later, after the project is mature, the major contributor easily changes license at will, and the open source contributors walk away with nothing?

I'm not saying that MongoDB Inc, does not have the majority stake here. Just wondering about whether it is a "bait & switch"esque move?

Imagine if all projects did the same... Say Docker? later on chooses to say that you can use Docker for free but if you distribute your software through repositories supported by the daemon, then you need to pay up.. Wouldnt that be a loss for the contributors that are not working for the company?
So the breakdown I saw this past year was:

* 5% consulting (e.g. reports, audits, et al)

* 10% subcontracting to other devs

* 85% direct software development

The highest margins were certainly on that 15%, but the volume was not nearly high enough to be able to make it work.

Would a scenario be something like:

Prospect wants work done. Instead of turning them down because my rate is too, subcontract that to someone who is maybe less experienced and can do it at less than the advertised rate and bake in a margin there?
Sunrise calendar
Imagine if you were to live in a country where government dictates the nature of information you can access. A foreign service provider happily complies with that. Nice guy, I seriously want to get to know them. Completely irrelevant, I know.

You cannot even quantify the information people would get additionally on market deployment. Because the assumption is pretty baseless to begin with. Therefore I have nothing to balance against besides Google's bottom line.

Believing alternative explanations is heavily naive.

On the contrary: If said bottom line is established, you can be very sure Google would be very open for suggestions by the respective government. Logically.
dwell is a technical term from production lines ;) it means you adjust the speed at which your conveyer runs, to offer more time under a particular process (implemented along the line). typically heating.

Google, like Amazon, and Apple, have jumped the shark.

Facebook, is the shark. ;)
Would be very interesting to read more about it. Do you recall where you've learned about it?
You know black slaves couldn’t vote right.
Gores energy expenses were high because he was purchasing green energy sources. Further his home uses geothermal energy and solar energy, so while those make great right wing talking points to dismiss climate change as being serious his home has a smaller carbon footprint than most homes.