skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a tiresome argument. The first amendment guarantees freedom of the press (ie, the printing press). The clear aim is to guarantee not just the right to speech, but also the right to _distribute_ that speech. In fact, without that the right to freedom of speech is of limited value.

This doesn't mean Facebook couldn't ban political ads, but it does mean it would be unreasonable for the government to do so.
While I appreciate the commentary, I do disagree on a few points.

Starting towards the end. The comments about JS Framwork cadence doesn't nearly apply today as much as a few years ago. I mean Backbone was released in 2010 (8 years ago) and was probably the first JS SPA "framework" to gain significant traction. There have been many since then. Angular and Ember were also in 2010. React was first released in 2013 (over 5 years ago) and Vue was 2014.

Those have been the heavy hitters imho. All of which are pretty mature at this point. There are many others, of course, but that's been true of even desktop platforms. Yeah, Angular 2 was a big shift, but React, Vue and Angular are really the main players in this space. Most others take some queues from those three. Given that, it's a poor argument, and the language is more dated than the frameworks in question at this point.

Personally, I find SPAs are great for Line of business apps that need more complexity than a typical CRUD app can offer. Also, front end development IS DEVELOPMENT. Many snobby backend developers turn up their noses and feel it doesn't deserve the same level of consideration as backend development. They don't follow the same practices, consider use or lean on application designs already established in a number of toolkits.

Personally, I currently lean on React + material-ui. For the most part it has me covered, and I can find third party controls that at least match the styling. Read the Material Design guidelines. It isn't that hard and just try to follow the rules. Think about other applications you've used and push back on all features, punting as much as you can for as long as you can.

Avoid complexity at all costs. Break stuff apart into smaller pieces, and write code that's easy to replace.

Everything said and done, I think I'm just cranky at these types of articles that just indicate to me a point of view of someone unwilling to learn new things, or try new tools. I keep an eye on so much, and have for over two decades in dealing with web-based applications. I'm surprised how much the attitudes of some haven't changed in two decades.
This is why people should support popular movements that are resisting the right wing and resisting unsustainable practices. Unions and social justice activists are our best hope for a decent future without extreme repression. But they get labeled as antifa or eco-terrorists and arrested or otherwise silenced.
binwalk DqteCf6WsAAhqwV.jpg
DECIMAL HEXADECIMAL DESCRIPTION
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
0 0x0 JPEG image data, JFIF standard 1.01
182 0xB6 Zip archive data, at least v1.0 to extract, ..., name: shakespeare.part001.rar
...
1971177 0x1E13E9 End of Zip archive
Basically just the ability to run on Linux.
Just to toot my own horn - I wrote a book called SQL Practice Problems (available on Amazon), plus I also have an expanded problem set on my website SQLPracticeProblem.com.

The framework for the problems is that you get the problem statement, the expected results, and then you figure out how to write the SQL to get the results. I have lots of hints if you get stuck, but there's also a hint-free version, which some people prefer.

It really helps for people who like a "learn-by-doing" approach.
I know that the real reason is a requirement for length 3 combined with a slight preference for vowel elision, but I just realized that if one were so inclined it could be interpreted as a snub.

Joint Photographic Experts Group -> Joint Photographic Group

No experts to be found here! :P
Here you go ".JPG image of Shakespeare which is also a .zip file containing his complete works"
And I had the misfortune for working for a few years with bond modeling software that used floats internally.

Turns out that the first thing a financial analyst does to compare two implementations of a bond securitization model is to look at the pennies. If those tie out, then you're good. But if your software predicts money off by a dime in a billion dollar model deal, the analyst WILL notice and WILL try to get to the bottom of it.

Yeah, floating point roundoff error seems like it should be immaterial. However it can matter a whole lot.
money isn't speech but the courts that ultimately decide this in the USA are directly appointed by someone who got elected using money instead of speech.
Just tried it out and it does indeed work.

curl 'https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DqteCf6WsAAhqwV.jpg' > shakespeare.zip
unzip shakespeare.zip
unrar e shakespeare.part001.rar

I'm excited for the inevitable curl | unzip | bash method of installing software directly from twitter that is sure to follow.
in a short time, may be even in our lifetime, we'll probably be able to set up manufacturing and sending out of the light sails like this just as a task performed 24x7 by several weaving/printing machines planted on some asteroid having needed raw materials. Given even today's technology something like on scale of hundreds of thousands of such sails can be produced yearly. We just have to get up there.
I just added the book to my Audible wish list, thanks for the suggestion, and your comment is definitely on point. I'll keep this piece of wisdom I am painfully learning for the rest of my working life, never do business with people who can afford to risk/lose much more than you, whether it be time, money or mental sanity.
Moreover, helium floats to the top and escapes through any opening (staircases, HVAC ducts, gaps in ceiling tiles) because it is lighter than air. This makes it much less dangerous than a heavier gas such as CO2 even if there's enough of it to displace a significant amount of air.
In cases where you can rely on the system to self-repair, automatically moving writes quickly seems reasonable. But otherwise, it seems like you want the system to cope with the situation where writes are unavailable -- clearly a lot of things will be broken, but if writes fail fast, reads are still viable.

Assuming you have that, it's OK to rely on a human to assess the situation, make sure the dead master is really dead, salvage any partially replicated transactions, and crown a new master. With the right tools, it could take only a few minutes -- a bit longer if you have to wait for the old master to boot to see if it had locally committed transactions that didn't make it to the network. If it takes 5 minutes to resolve this (including time to get to the console), you can do this ten times a year and still have three nines.

For the more likely case where it's a network blip, the situation resolves itself (in a nice way) by the time the operator gets to the console.
How Much HTML and CSS Should You Know to Develop?
"Pixel-accurate" might be an obsolete term today when you have 9 or more pixels where previously there was 1. (I know, that isn't what you meant ;-)

See how Autocad was using a command line for ages to implement precise control over coordinates. Don't need a mouse for that. At the same time, the imprecise things that you use mouse for (e.g. dropping a symbol from a library into a workspace, or connecting controls with outlets in an interface builder) are much easier to do using a direct touch.
These are not an edible species of octopus, they live at a depth of over 3000 metres, five times deeper than any trawler can reach, and they're small - species in that genus are typically ~10 cm across, so all 1000 of them would make about a tonne, worth <$10k if they somehow became edible. I don't think they're in much danger of being eaten by humans.
> Behavior can improve by orders of magnitude and even reverse polarity amicably and rapidly, through culture, inspiration, technological potential, historic renaissance

I think, without the right economic incentives, people do not change their behaviours substantially. I think the GP comment is right about political engagement being necessary. However, I don't think electoral politics will cut it since it is so corrupt. The best chance is for mass collective action in the form of worker strikes and other acts of civil disobedience to force the governments of the world to act in our favour, rather than in the favour of the elites.
What does the economy have to do with units of measurement? Not to mention that all of the scientific and engineering world (yes, even in the US) uses metric. If you were to do a headcount, the US is very strongly in the minority on this one. Not even the UK uses imperial outside of the historical usage of miles.

Most anti-metric folks I've spoken to don't like metric because an inch is an ugly amount of centimetres (or similar arguments). But by the same token, a centimetre is an ugly amount of inches...

(Also, most imperial units are now defined in terms of SI units.)
>...political advertising...

This is a euphemism for quid pro quo bribery. The Europeans and other democracies recognize it as such.

It is clear that the Western Democracies have at least as much freedom of speech as the US. For example, they do not have leaders who get sport figures professionally banned for what is conspicuously an instance of unpaid political speech.
You don't even need a fountain pen, which even as a fountain pen user I will admit can be fiddly sometimes (doesn't write on certain paper, can be messy, requires constant refilling).

A half decent gel pen will work almost as well, combining the best parts of a fountain pen with the best parts of a ballpoint. I can write for hours with a fountain pen or a gel pen, but I really struggle with those $1 Biro pens.
Very impressive complexity. Really appreciate the transparency. Much has been a couple of stressful days.
Regarding point 3 - I've wondered if there is a bit of a delay because micro.blog content can be hosted in a variety of places - a Wordpress blog, a static site, a GitHub page, or micro.blog itself. I think it is relying on webmentions to circulate through the internet to create these conversations. I agree with you concern, but I suspect it is more of a technical challenge because of the way hosting can be de-centralized. @hooper
It's good that he was able to reproduce it (although with a far higher concentration of helium), but the original story showed up a few weeks ago at an EE forum I lurk, and everyone there was skeptical of helium and suspecting EMP instead:

https://www.eevblog.com/forum/chat/helium-in-the-air-kills-i...

But an electromagnetic pulse would have taken out medical equipment in the facility as well, and they were working fine!

I suspect medical equipment is designed to a higher standard of EMP resistance than most other products, especially equipment designed to sustain life. Phones also have antennae specifically designed to pick up EM fields, while medical equipment like an EEG or ECG is specifically designed to reject them.

Likewise, the devices "reviving" after a week is not unusual if they're just resetting due to power loss. Immediately disconnecting and reconnecting the battery would for sure differentiate between helium (device remains dead even after reset) and EMP (device reboots successfully.)
Horsen Around: An Interview with Teletext Artist Horsenburger
I'm glad to have the thumb sensor on my MBP but in buying again I wouldn't pay extra for it.

It is nice to use Apple Pay from my Mac -- the twice I've done so. I could always have opened the page on my phone and use its sensor instead.

Other than that, moving my hand up to the corner isn't much faster, if at all, then simply typing my Mac password which is pretty well wired into my fingers anyway. In fact I had made a small config mod to use the touch sensor to authorise sudo, and in the end I undid it because typing was faster. And my watch unlocks my Mac most of the time. So a nice to have, sure, but not as revolutionary as it was on the phone.
Who Owns the Statue of Liberty? (New Jersey vs. New York)
Your funding mechanism seems compatible with cooperatives, which have no equity (but do have founders). For example, Stocksy (https://www.stocksy.com/) is a producer cooperative with members who are artists who make photos. The founders aren't the cooperative members, they were technologists who wanted to make a cooperative platform for artists to make stock photos.

In a cooperative case, the founders would be investing their time beyond draw under the same terms as a cash investor would. If/when the venture makes profits, the investment of time/money can be paid back though a percentage of revenue. Anyway, you may want to solicit feedback from members of the Platform Cooperative movement (https://platform.coop/). They are actively searching for those who might have a compatible, patient capital funding mechanism.
I really like this idea. A thought:

"If there’s a hard stop on the investment, then Earnest and its team will no longer be invested in the success of the company."

This is shortsighted thinking. The stronger the companies are in your Alumni network, the stronger your Alumni network is- so if you are seeking to continue investing long term, it is always in your interest to build companies in your Alumni network, even if there isn't a direct cash return for doing so. The publicity benefit alone is well worth it (We were an early investor in XYZ!)
Economic impact of excess weight now exceeds $1.7 trillion
Wouldn't work reliably due to cases of genetic chimerism, though that could possibly be tested for. Though, in several cases I've read about, there was no consistent place to get samples to test for mismatched DNA.
Sign Up vs. Signup
send it to me I am poor and would love one
It really depends upon the context. If they're talking about reporting and forecasts, floats are almost certainly fine. The back end actual storage is generally always numerics, however.
Advantages of Using R Notebooks Instead of Jupyter Notebooks (2017)
It's not accurate to say that BlueStore is just a large RocksDB...

RocksDB is one of several possible backends for object maps. There is a lot more to BlueStore than just omaps.

Also, BlueStore was actually designed with SMR drives in mind, however certain components of it are best placed on solid state media.
I always pronounced it like "post-grease squeal" and no one ever corrected me so I just assumed that was canon.
Not just any opening: just about any microscopic crack would let it out and most non-metal materials are effectively porous when trying to contain helium under pressure. It's even used to detect leaks in high vacuum chambers.
the issue now is that it is getting very expensive to not have someone who bundles many channels together. I know people bemoan high cable prices but with every content owner coming out with their own channels its going to be expensive to watch.
and after having the "paid by Zuckerberg" confirmation that this was a malicious account, they didn't revoked approval of the other ads.

Triple ouch.
I guess I'm not understanding your point. I don't have a formal study about the (un)popularity of the Control key multi-select convention; it's merely my anecdotal observations. You are welcome to fund a formal study. (It's possible Delphi does it "wrong" also.)
I have known many interviewees/ers that talked about their queerness in tech interviews.
yeah, better to trust "science" funded by governments and corporations that profit directly from exploitation of natural resources
How 43-second outage on network connection staggered GitHub’s services for a day
Steven Zeitels is one of the best vocal surgeons in the world -- he's operated on Adele, Roger Daltrey and others. Prior to becoming a physician, he did leather work, selling his creations on the street and that appears to have allowed him to develop unrivaled manual skills [0]:

Zeitels succeeded in part because of his leatherwork in college: It made him ambidextrous, a necessary skill for a procedure in which a cut a millimeter too deep would damage the vocal cords, but where one too shallow would leave some of the lesion intact, and therefore able to grow back. The problem with Zeitels’s surgery, however, was that no one else could repeat it. No one else in the field could be as precise. As he looked to publish his findings in an atlas on the larynx, one editor told him, “You can’t write that! People can’t do that!” His findings were published anyway, but the editor was right.

[0] https://www.bostonmagazine.com/2008/09/22/voicebox-hero/
I try to buy hot spare or the last drive in a raid6 later than the rest of the array to try to spread them out too.
How so? Is craigslist required to pre-screen housing ads? I don't think so. The ads themselves are illegal, but there's no legal requirement to pre-screen that I'm aware of.
there's plenty of non-JS dev work that isn't scientific or financial. Since ChromeOS now runs Linux apps, any dev is feasible; arguments about machine specs are about the hardware, not the OS.
> heightened

> delicate and highly tuned

> refined

> deep and subtle

Ok, Jony Ive
So basically a zip file?

I will note that you could easily build the MFT before you start transferring data. That's really your active 'dataset' here, and it's not very big.
>Forcing independent organizations to pre-police is generally a bad idea. It's a good idea for them to do it, it's a bad idea to use threat of force (government) to do.

The financial industry as well as many others say hi.
Though it may occasionally seem so, the NFL is not a government organization.
> Limiting speech like that sounds dystopian.

This oft repeated refrain r.e. more restrictive speech laws is something that I don't really understand. You can look at Europe or Canada and see that they are no dystopias, compared to the United States. There are ways they are better and ways they are worse, but there is no consensus that either is a significantly worse place to live than the USA.
Dr. Mike Pound from Computerphile did a video on this "Secrets Hidden in Images (Steganography)" [Youtube video] https://youtu.be/TWEXCYQKyDc
Most bitcoin mining utilizes hydroelectric energy. Its much cleaner & more environmentally friendly than fake news academics give it credit for being.
The best time to buy is after a dip in the price.
> the med schools should test for dexterity

Don't you mean they should test for "real professional-level dexterity"?
I had exactly that post in mind, it really raised my awareness of these issues.

I agree with Jake's interpretation of the conditional interpretation of the estimates, but the practical issue is that virtually nobody not well-educated in statistics will do that correctly. In particular, people tend to do exactly what Jake concedes rarely makes any sense, which is comparing estimates across different model specifications.

You and I might interpret these betas just fine, but if we show them to a less stats-y audience, will they?
Charging a phone has a tiny carbon footprint when compared to being a meat-eater. There is a reason why one is encouraged more by climate scientists than the other.
MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for treatment of chronic PTSD
> I'd have opted for 1 personally (losing 30 minutes of data) assuming I knew the alternative was 24 hours [of read-only access to prod]

With no offence meant, I'm glad you don't get to make decisions at github then. I'd lose faith in github for that since their primary purpose is to store other people's data (git blobs+metadata, comments, etc). If it was their data, it could be fine, but since it's user data, I don't think losing it is acceptable, even if that means being read-only for an entire week.

> why not just let the West-Coast replicate to an East-Coast slave, and switch em?

At the time of the incident, east-coast has already diverged, so it's not possible to replay logs from west-coast without moving east-coast back in time to some point prior to west-coast (but a point recent enough that west-coast still has full replica logs to replay).

It's not possible to simply "rewind" a mysql database typically without restoring a backup.

It's not possible in many mysql clustering solutions to catch-up to a peer unless you're already within a recent time window where the replay logs are still available.

As such, the only option is to restore from backup and then catch up, which is what they did.

I assume if taking another backup of west-coast, transferring it to east-coast over the DC link, and restoring it was faster, they would have done it, but I would be totally unsurprised if that was about the same total time.

I'd also say that if you have a practiced procedure (restoring from a scheduled backup in the cloud) vs an ad-hoc procedure (custom backup, custom storage and transfer), the former is probably much safer to do when you're under fire and want to minimize risky moves stressed engineers have to make.
Facebook is a medium for spreading propaganda. In your analogy, everyone that eats sugar is exposed to propaganda and then votes having been influenced by that information. As a non sugar-eater, this still affects me.
How much would you need to experience a "good" life? Say renting a safe apartment in a nice place, do some travelling (within the country) on the side, and eat out a significant portion of meals?
Timber floor sanding and finishing Melbourne
Jonah Hill Makes Directing Look Easy
You forget that the iPad Pro also has a full digitizer on it.

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1408960-REG/wacom_dth...

What are your thoughts on this Wacom Cintiq Pro? Do you think this is too expensive?

A lot of designers I know are replacing that with an iPad Pro. For many, the iPad is a much more flexible tool AND cheaper AND more powerful. The Cintiq still has it's place and for people that very specifically need it, it's useful. But many are finding that an iPad Pro is a better tool for them.

So that's the pricing perspective you need to understand the iPad Pro.
Study finds abstaining from pot improves memory, ability to learn in young users
I would take an iPad Pro with the overpriced keyboard and an Apple mouse. I think if they can jailbreak iOS 12 to support a Bluetooth mouse... we might be onto something.
they could have called it the iSurface.

their feature page is a 1:1 match to Microsoft 's surface page. Even down to the scree x body ratio (which is actually larger on the surface 4). And having face unlock only (no fingerprint).
I love when people try to point the finger at a technology when in reality it is 100% the people who are using and implementing the technology. It's their fault. 99% of developers I know who create terrible SPA's have a long list of terrible things they've created. It's a mixture of incompetence, laziness, and poor management.
Presumably the city tax isn't high enough, if overtourism is a real problem.
> These license changes have been forced by the business reality of larger cloud companies capturing all the value created by open source communities and leaving OSS developers to starve.

No, they haven't, because the “big industry players capture the revenue, while open source devs mostly work for those players, either directly or through sponsored projects” isn't something that started with the cloud; it's why Linus Torvalds isn't a billionaire.

It's forced by firms wanting the economics of classic proprietary software and the PR benefits of F/OSS, in many cases, apparently, because they have investors who bought in to F/OSS-based endeavors based on expectations that were unrealistic ab initio given the economics of the industry.
>I do pirate.

Y-har matey, good to see a shipmate aboard! In the age of advertising often times the 'legit' sources where one can buy content still show ads or handcuff your free use of it. BitTorrent (over Tor)/I2PSnark/IPFS/Freenet/etc will probably remain the best way to obtain digital consumables. Big (and small) media still doesn't understand that being anti-user is a Bad Thing(tm).