skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>b) tobacco consumption is declining (nicotine use may not be, but it's also not clear that nicotine use alone is as harmful).

Sure it's not "as harmful" but a shotgun isn't as harmful as a nuclear bomb. Relative harm isn't important here, it's just "ability to cause harm" and understanding the likelihood that could happen. A car can cause harm, but most people drive safely. Nobody smokes a pack a day for 30 years with ill effects. We're not sure exactly what happens is you vape the equivalent level of just nicotine and additives, but we're pretty sure it's not going to be a good thing.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4363846/
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Src-d/go-mysql-server: An extensible MySQL server implementation in Go
The point is that a person who otherwise works and provides value, but does cannabis is better for the society as a working person rather than someone in prison where people will pay with taxes for his living. If you skip on taxes you are living off of society so this should be illegal ofcourse.
Sounds like freelancer position you have on your hands. You should consider posting your position to the Whoishiring thread tomorrow.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18113145
> SAP is a company for HR departments.

And finance. And operations. And compliance, and ...

> The kinds of departments that aren’t technical

Which, in most businesses, are almost all of them. That's why they are so entrenched and so profitable, despite selling an utterly unfashionable and over-complicated stack.
People want egalitarianism, it's not provided,

People want georgism, it's not provided.

People want privacy, it's not provided.

People want to the signing keys for the whole chain of bootloaders, without false bottoms, it's not provided.

People want universal basic income (or some variation thereof), it's not provided.

And so on...
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So it sounds like it's less that the entire enterprise is offensive on the face of it (like building on Uluru in Australia would be), and more that the locals don't trust the management to be respectful of the land and not fuck shit up?
Good to know, thanks! Can you add that info to btrfs wiki compression page, please[1]?

1. https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Compression
Noria: dynamic, partially-stateful data-flow for high-perf. web applications
Do you have any of those examples pushed up to Github/Bitbucket/etc? Would be cool to see
1. Show interest.

2. They are the only authority that can rightfully claim that their product is virus free. In time they might gain an understanding of what triggers it which might also be beneficial when reporting it. If it is a common occurrence they should probably have a template ready and a process for doing this. They also have interest in it being done correctly and that they have the ability follow up on any issues. In fact, they should prefer to do it themselves rather than random people doing it for them when they only indirectly can be informed of any progress.

3. Thank the reporter for bringing the issue to their attention.

4. Happy to answer questions related to the issue.

Doesn't matter who is to blame. The D community is taking the hit, they should act to try and avoid that.

If google erroneously blacklists your site, why should you care? You haven't done anything wrong? Some things just suck and you have to take care of it yourself.
This seems bizarrely restrictive. To not be able to use a computer or a device without the specific app seems somewhat foolhardy.
We must not forget that the only alternative to letting machines make decisions is to have people make decisions. If I had to put my fate in the hand of either a somewhat racist regression model or a random human bureaucrat, I'm not sure which one I would prefer.
I just checked a middle egyptian dictionary I just happen to have on my computer. There are 330 words that use D52 (the phallus or the phallus with the folded cloth). D52 was used to make the sound "mt". A sampling words that use D52 include: ancestors, bull, to appear, ox, men, impregnate, midday, fame, witness, discuss, artery, watermelon, without, to be thick, friend, husband, donkey, boom (or a ship), gateway, erection, sexual abuse, to plan, urine, etc.

The other one, D53 (phallus with liquid issuing), could be used to make the "bAh" sound. There are 200 words in my dictionary that use this sign. Some words include: boy, to know a woman sexually, Bull of Bulls, sperm, uncircumsized, virgin, to escape, lustful, poison, venom, in the presence of, masturbator, ejaculation, flood, virility, genitals, flaccid penis, to become erect, to sicken, seed, to pour forth, begotten one, male, son, profusion, discharge, sexually excite, homosexual, to commit adultery, repeated copulation, coward, unmanly, sissy, to sleep with, divine seed, to bear witness to the truth, sin, evil, to take a woman's virginity, etc.
Including me. The artifacting and crashing has become progressively worse with just a few weeks of sporadic usage. Heavy loads tend to accelerate the deterioration.

The RMA process looks bleak with so many users having received defective replacement cards, some multiple times.
>On the other hand: some of the telescopes have been there many years and are probably somewhat obsolete by today's standards, producing little new science.

I can assure you most of those telescopes are still being used for new science.

There is a serious lack of "big" telescopes, globally. We simply don't have enough instruments to follow up everything we want to look at, and getting time on these "old" instruments is still competitive. A big part of this is location: Mauna Kea has fantastic skies and is good for things like IR astronomy as a result of its elevation.

Telescope optics are fairly simple. They're a bunch of mirrors which focus light in one place - a 2m mirror is a 2m mirror. The main maintenance task is cleaning or re-coating, which happens once in a while. While larger telescopes really need adaptive optics to fulfill their potential, you don't need it unless you need to resolve tiny objects in crowded fields.*

One good use for these smaller telescopes is long observations, or repeat observations. Time domain astronomy is a Big Thing at the moment, and for a lot of objects you don't need a 30 metre mirror (the main benefit of which is seeing extremely faint stuff). Another use is follow-up work, which is rather mundane, but necessary. For example you get a bunch of targets back from a sky survey and you want to observe them all for a period of time. Doing that on something like the TMT or ELT would be a fantastic waste of resources. Usually you would need to prove, using a smaller telescope, that it would be worth pointing a O(10m) mirror at it.

What often changes is the instrumentation: lower noise or higher resolution CCDs, fancier spectrographs, etc. These can all be retrofitted to fit onto older telescopes.

* more specifically, if you want to do diffraction-limited imaging and your telescope can theoretically resolve better than atmospheric seeing.
Sorry, indeed this can be useful to know.

You must run weidu where chitin.key is
There is a good, supportive community at https://www.reddit.com/r/roguelikedev with lots of links to libtcod tutorials. I love playing roguelikes, and although my attempts to make them have only gotten to the "move @ around the (non-procedurally generated) map" stage, I like reading posts there.
I thought this story was going in a different direction, where you had replaced Powerset's logo with one having bright colors, and then it started winning.
And here is the original post by the author
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12539109
> So far as I’ve seen, most credit cards issued in Europe don’t have huge rewards like that

They do in the UK, which this article is about.
I mean, it is a verified fact that they dropped it from the code of conduct.[1,2] My understanding is that, consistent with your link, they added it back later.

[1] https://gizmodo.com/google-removes-nearly-all-mentions-of-do...
[2] http://time.com/4060575/alphabet-google-dont-be-evil/
Initiative Q: pyramid scheme or next Bitcoin?
That's a good example too of how the best option for a game (which is supposed to be fun) can amount to a hand-tuned game-specific solution despite the temptation I think most of us have as developers to come up with generalized solutions.

Maybe your LoS algorithm sucks with 1x1 columns and windows, so decide your game doesn't need them and you move on.

Kind of like how the classic mistake you hear about among gamedevs is that they built a game engine instead of the game, basically the end result of constantly following the siren's call of "I'll just generalize this."
I'm sure it was an interesting experience for the author, and it probably doesn't make much difference that he's describing the month of 2013-11, but comes with an abundance of false dichotomies along with forced and uncomfortable parallels to various religions (weirdly no mention of the Amish, who are perhaps most famous for eschewing all technology all the time).
I recommend https://www.adachi-hanga.com/ukiyo-e-en/
What they sell are not poster prints, they are made the old fashioned way: https://www.adachi-hanga.com/ukiyo-e-en/quality/index_en.htm...
Sexual harassment aside in my experience women not all but a sizeable percentage love guys with money or muscles. Women love a man with power. Qué sports stars and executives. Humans and reasons they use to select bedroom partners is one unpredictable mess.
Yeah, and in particular: anonymously. It seems to bring out the absolute worst in people when they can say anything without immediate or visible consequences of their words.
Unimogs aren't very big, especially not compared to modern full size SUVs. I don't have one (wish I did!), but I doubt that the maintenance is difficult: I already repair all our vehicles except the newest one that's still under warranty.

[edit] However the prices have increased since I last looked. A truck dealership near me used to sell them, but not for $100k+
The compute platform overview pages [0] list all the HPC systems at LLNL. It's an incredible list, with a huge amount of TFLOPS, GBs, CPU and GPU cores available. The systems range from small 50 TFLOP, 20 node Xeon CPU Linux clusters up to the multi PetaFLOP POWER9 and Nvidia GPU monsters with millions of cores. Not sure what the total compute power available across all lab systems would be, although I guess it will be dominated by recent installations like Sierra - maybe 250 PFLOPS? Anyway, impressive engineering....

0. https://hpc.llnl.gov/hardware/platforms
That's a really interesting idea.

I can't really think of a barrier to this. Detecting the file format is straightforward, and generic image/text/etc. embeddings work surprisingly well. (In fact, you can actually get some generalization gains by training subword text embeddings on corpora in multiple languages.)

If we wanted to able to use specific embeddings (e.g. photos vs. line art, English vs. German), we could probably do it by running the data through a generic embedding, and then seeing which cluster of training data it's closest to and running it through that specific embedding.

It would be really important in this case to make sure that all the specific embeddings are embedding into the same space, in case people have a mixed dataset, but that's very doable.
Maybe we should think of it as social debugging.
>How much of the interview is expected to be second nature (or maybe even just solvable) to an entry-level engineer?

Essentially none. Its a London Taxi Knowledge test(1). Its a filter designed to see if you can acquire "the Knowledge", not because you'll "need" it to do the job, but because of what it says about you as a technologist. Its not a good filter, mind you, but they think its the best they've come up with so far. (Its cheap for them to use and expensive for you personally; it works for them because they have more than enough applicants.)

If you really want to work FAANG, treat it like being on a game show like Jeopardy.

(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxicabs_of_the_United_Kingdom
Do you think humans would stop at the first hurdle they encounter in their endeavours? How about the 99th hurdle? CRISPR is a naturally occurring gene editing tool. We have only recently started engineering solutions using it. Once this tool meets the full might of human ingenuity and our constant resolve to improve things, it can overcome great biological challenges. Eliminating disease carrying pests, curing genetic defects in children, shortened crop cycles, tastier strawberries these are some amazing possibilities that CRISPR holds. It might take some time but we will get there. So no the game is not over. It won't be over as long as we have a few humans on the case.
WHY RACKET? WHY Lisp?
Silicon Valley elite to social media hate: The radicalization that led to Gab
2 has been addressed by adding membrane under key caps and texturing bottom of key caps to push dust out.
What do you mean by "secure DNS box"? This is a DNSSEC-validating resolver, which means it will check DNSSEC signatures, for whatever that is worth to you. It won't encrypt your DNS traffic. It may accept DoH/DNS-TLS requests, but won't (AFAIK) make outgoing DoH requests, so all the requests you make will be visible from the server.
Just to reiterate the point... this is an instance with terabytes of near-memory-speed storage.

If persistent memory pans out as a technology it will completely upend the way we think about building software and the cost tradeoffs of hardware. (as much as or more so than the transition from spinning disks to ssds)
that's an excellent quote, and reminds me of what I wrote at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17936282

(just ignore the first sentence/movie reference)

Edit: woops!
OP here. In our front-end tests, I haven't really noticed cases where the mocks get out of date that don't cause the test cases using the mock to fail, at which point we'd update the mock data. We also have end-to-end Selenium tests as supplement to our front-end tests which helps with catching format mismatch between front-end and backend (granted they're not that comprehensive at the moment).
Those constraints are derivatives of the fundamental facts of nature. You are not forced by your boss to work, you are forced by nature to work for the necessities of life.
> weirdly no mention of the Amish, who are perhaps most famous for eschewing all technology all the time

The Amish do not eschew all technology all the time.

http://www.discoverlancaster.com/towns-and-heritage/amish-co...
The Beatles song "Rocky Racoon" mentions the subject (Rocky Racoon) going into a hotel room and finding "Gideon's Bible".

Rocky Racoon goes to the hotel to shoot the man who had stolen his girlfriend's heart. He loses a shootout, and heads back to his room.

>Now Rocky Raccoon, he fell back in his room
>Only to find Gideon's Bible
>Gideon checked out, and he left it, no doubt
>To help with good Rocky's revival

The song was written in 1968 when The Beatles were in India studying transcendental meditation. Makes me wonder whether Paul McCartney was gifted a Gideon Bible in Rishikesh.
There has been at least 10,000 "Next Bitcoin" projects and Bitcoin remains #1
It happens with useful system utilities (windows sudo and nssm for instance). It's because they request elevated privileges and aren't part of an installer application that's popular.
There are certain industries that have requirements for vetting customers, and if those requirements are not met then responsibility falls on the company and not the customer.

If a car manufacturer distributes a car that did not go through any inspections and it turns out the brake lines were hooked up incorrectly and consequently causes damage or hurts the customer then it's neither the customer or the dealership who are at fault, but the manufacturer for failing to properly inspect the product that they are making.

In the same sense, if a bar sells beer to someone without asking for their ID and they turn out to be underage, or a gun store sells a weapon to a convicted felon without performing a background check, liability falls on the company and not the customer.

I am not sure if this should apply to newspapers in respect to their advertising, but there are examples where this line of thinking does apply and this might be one of them.
Ask HN: Know a good service or OSS to provide email Templating?
My company wants to provide email templating to our clients. Basically, we want to provide them with functionality that allows them to create and edit email templates within our systems in an interactive way (like using FCKEditor and the like).

What recommendations would HackerNews that would allow me to integrate into our systems to provide this kind of functionality?
I don't use a credit card. I'm also 100% debt free. I don't purchase anything I can't afford up front. I'm also British.

I don't agree with the "rewards", which seem like a massive scam, which rips off everyone though higher prices irrespective of whether they pay by credit card or not, and I refuse to be a part in that. I likewise refuse to bother with any other dodgy scheme like mail-in rebates. Charge me a fair price up front, and I'll pay it in full, there and then. No silly financial games.
I would like to commend the readability and simple structure of the Annual Letter with minimal jargon and getting straight to the point. Secondly, interesting to see the stress on AI parallel to Maya Son's SoftBank Vision Fund. Thirdly, Family offices comprising the majority share is quite enlightening.
The folded cloth was used by itself or in combination with many other signs, for example:

𓋴
U+132F4
folded cloth

𓄸
U+13138
folded cloth and intestines

𓋵
U+132F5
folded cloth and horned viper

𓋶
U+132F6
folded cloth and sickle

𓌭
U+1332D
folded cloth and knife sharpener

𓌯
U+1332F
folded cloth and butcher's knife sharpener

There are other signs that they also combined like this, for example,

𓌌
U+1330C
cobra with mace

Both the cobra and the mace are also standalone signs, just as all the signs above are standalone signs in addition to being combined with the folded cloth. Why did the egyptians combine signs like this? I'm not sure. I've never read an explanation for it.
The distinction I tend to make when talking about any kind of art fidelity type of thing(whether it's roguelikes or pixel art or lowpoly styles) is that you might not have art, but you still have assets. The procedural world generator: that's an asset. Different types of terrain and traps: those are assets. Stats and abilities: Assets. Special case messages on unusual events: Assets. And so on.

And when you add new assets, you still add some kind of burden to the design. Roguelikes just hit those design challenges much faster than most, since they have a world model that makes it straightforward to get to the part where you have the assets and now they have to be tied together in some sensible way.

Action games have it relatively easier when it comes time to do this design work: You know that the gameplay is mostly going to be about collisions, timers, and finite state. The bandwidth of what can be visualized gives you some hard limits on your design scope. Role-playing, in contrast, can keep piling on details. There's more of a UI/accessibility concern in good role-playing design, something that can produce interesting scenarios without resting on obscure details that the player has to sit there calculating out.
The best online communities I've seen have a clear set of guidelines to follow (Hacker News, Subreddits).

Give out warnings and link to the guidelines. If people still don't follow these rules then remove them from the community.

The community will slowly become more positive
I use this template way too much, but...

Sufficiently advanced "inappropriate relationship at work" is indistinguishable from sexual harassment.
https://gravitational.com/gravity/documentation is 404ing

https://gravitational.com/gravity/docs/overview/ working fine.
Creating a grid to fit the chosen words in wouldn't be so hard. The real difficulty would be coming up with clever clues that weren't just the first paragraph of the wiki article with the names removed
No, because by breaking whatever contract you agreed to, you have defrauded the other party. Initiating fraud is a form of coercion. The defense of their property from that coercion is not itself a coercive act.
That blog post was a nice read, thanks!

I realize this is just one example, but you might be interested to know that I've done some work making this kind of invariant enforceable via static types (though in practice, you need a combination of features that aren't found in many mainstream language besides Haskell afaik).

See the README here for motivation and some examples (in Haskell, but hopefully the idea is still clear): https://github.com/matt-noonan/justified-containers

Or the tutorial module here:
https://hackage.haskell.org/package/justified-containers-0.3...

Or this paper, if you really want to go off the deep end: http://kataskeue.com/gdp.pdf
It's time for a new exchange. MerkleX, a hybrid decentralized ERC-20 exchange
Thank God (:p)