skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Text-based UI that is smarter than the conventional command line.

With Zork you somehow have a (seemingly) plain-English conversation with the computer that takes you through a fictional setting and story.

With Inform7 you write the scenario in what looks like plain-English (eg. "The shed is north of the building") and it compiles to a Zork-compatible runtime engine.

Inform7 uses a number of "clever" tricks such as accepting the word "seven" for the number 7 that are unusual in software practice, not conceptually deep, but contribute to the illusion that you're writing English. The rules engine is half-baked but confronts head-on the problem that "commonsense knowledge" that it is mostly built around defaults. (eg. by default you can not pick an object up, but if an object has the "portable" attribute you can pick it up, unless it is a bird statue that will turn into a real bird and fly away when you try to catch it unless you are wearing the medallion)

The author of Inform7 would like to enable English majors to write interactive fiction and the success there is still partial because once the story gets complex enough the authors have a hard time understanding why the system does what it does.

The author of Inform7 is plugging away at it, maybe somewhere somebody else is building something similar out of stronger wood. I was talking with a European aviation regulator who would love to see "Inform 7 for business rules".

It is much easier for rules in this kind of system to be readable by subject matter experts than writable, but readability is a big plus -- if you can show the rules on
a slide and a get a check-off that is a great way to keep in sync.
Maybe it's a coping mechanism for unrealistic expectations?

I'm not saying 100%, but playing with that idea. If you grow up your whole life on stories of teens making millions and you're a loser if you don't. What else is there for you?

I grew up that making bank like that was rare. Super rare. You work for it. Some way, some how. Through connections or through ideas. But it's not "normal". Thus, don't think it is. It does seem on social media and the filth, that being stupid rich is normal and you're a loser if you're not.

I can understand that if you grow up seeing that, a majority of your developing life... yea... I'd probably have a mental breakdown too. What else is there? You think, well, your life is over. It's too late to "become rich" or important.

In some respects, the hipster movement is a slightly interesting counter culture to that problem. Looking back to the old ways. I think they take it too far and are dumb about it sometimes. But, at this moment while writing this, I can respect it. What we have now is not normal. It's easy to deal with if you remember a day when no one had cell phones. You ran around outside doing dumbshit. No one cried if you called them an asshole, they just hit you in the mouth and the day was done. Hell, if I had a kid in school now, I'd be scared that they might call someone a boy or girl and end up on the news because of it. That's an irrational fear on my own right. But, yea, I seem to have it.

I don't know. I don't feel like this is well thought out. It's just a weird thing that I understand that there is an inherent problem with people growing up nowadays and mental illness is a bad result of it. Exactly what, I don't know.
These are almost exactly my thoughts as well coming from a 2015 MBP. I would only add that for me, I actually like the new keyboard. The low/firm travel of the keys is actually preferable for me. I felt like the old keyboards were "mushy". That's obviously a personal preference, however.
How in the world is nuclear power more safe than friggin solar panels that just sit there in the sun?
It's the difference between the sense of training the model to be a "generalist" and it doing "generalizing".

I strongly doubt that you can "generalize" colourization in the sense that you talk about (over a wide variety of subject matter).
It probably isn't all roses, but I have the feeling people today are more prone to "fork" if they feel belittled, because of the omnipresence of the Internet they feel less weak against big companies.
That’s twice in this thread that someone has revealed pretty potent details of their personal security.
There's a little of column A, a little of column B.

Standards allow the information economy to function... but influential companies want their internal practices to become 'the standard'.
Am I missing something, or do you mean they didn't know `myDict['key'] `?
> "The
observed effects include ptosis of the eyelids, relaxation,
drow Ziness, the feeling of pressure at a centered spot on the
lower edge of the brow, Seeing moving patterns of dark
purple and greenish yellow with the eyes closed, a tonic
Smile, a tense feeling in the Stomach, Sudden loose Stool, and
Sexual excitement, depending on the precise frequency used,
and the skin area to which the field is applied. "

Focus on:

> "Sudden loose Stool"

I vote "no."
Thanks for the reference.

As we develop systems that take software developers out of the loop because it seemed a cool idea to work on, we'll only have ourselves to blame.
USB has had the throughput to handle multichannel audio for decades; USB still has issues regarding device priority when it comes to the nature of its interaction with the OS.
Looks neat, will give it a go. I think you may be in violation of the GPL for your vim plugin since you are creating a combined work but are not releasing the TabNine source code under GPLv3.

https://github.com/zxqfl/tabnine-vim/blob/master/COPYING.txt
Sure. We have a huge shortage of unskilled labor in the US, if this shortage isn't addressed, it might put upward pressure on wages for unskilled workers. We can not allow this to happen to the ownership class
Speaking of SRAM, it's interesting how much effort is devoted to keeping the logic busy so they don't have to spend chip area on cache.
Yes - the most evil companies go for after well established freedoms. Apple has gone after the freedom of it's users to run apps of their choosing, or use industry standard computer accessories of their choosing, just to inflate their bottom line. And all along, their PR messaging is about how their totalitarian control is in the user's best interest.
As for not being able to risk rejection,
what is there to risk besides time?

Hypothetically, if you interview at employers in preference order, bungling the first two interviews would mean missing out on your first two preferences.

And if you avoided that by applying to your twentieth-preference company first for practice, some people would feel bad or insincere.
So is he working for Triplebyte or interviewing.io?
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> If the company isn't asking questions relevant to the work or you can't answer those types of questions then it's best to not work there.

Tell that to every company in the Seattle area. They all seem to think that Hackerrank-ing everyone is a good way to hire because the bigger companies do it. It's an evolution of "nobody got fired for buying IBM" but instead they're buying the interview methods that Facebook, Google, Amazon, and Microsoft are using.
I like the Touchbar more than most of my other colleagues like the Touchbar. And I hate the Touchbar.
> includes accidents in the mining of the raw material, the processing and production phases, and pollution-related impacts
> "better for the economy" doesn't always translate to better lives for the laymen.

It arguably does far more times than it doesn't.

> Also you have to understand some people don't want immigrants at all.

Putting aside the fact that 99% of the time they are decedents of immigrants, I've yet to hear one compelling reason why they should be taken seriously.
For most workers this is much harder though. Low wage workers want more work, if anything. I think the only way around this is more unionised workers that can successfully fight for changes that would allow this. It would be nice if the article addressed this and proposed more union support.
Sure - you do get basically the same thing with Azure or GCP, though.

(DigitalOcean...tries.)
You know what's funny, I don't think hobbies are an acceptable thing anymore. Seems like "hobbies" are demonized if they're not "productive".

I even have to combat the random feelings that "I should be working" instead of just taking time off for me.
Are you using a tshirt api dropship service? If so, which one? Or is it custom ordering and fulfillment?
Wow - that's shockingly tone-deaf.

He's virtually goading people into releasing discoveries to the public first (but of course they have already discovered these bugs and the fix was ready anyway - so THERE!).

Aren't we past the days when decompiling code would offer any real advantage?
What scenario is more likely:

1. While in Japan, or during the planning of the trip to Japan, the persons visited websites that indicated a preference towards visiting Japan, and sometime later an ad network connected the cookie with their past behavior and served an ad for a flight, or

2. Someone has created a hitherto unknown stealth malware designed to circumvent the "microphone on" notification on smartphones and exfiltrate audio from a user's device, deployed the infrastructure to store and process the audio, and then done everything already needed in scenario 1 to serve ads for a flight.

Any moderately-skilled network engineer or security professional would be able to instantly tell if a device was sending audio to a remote server if told to look. And highly-skilled people are actually looking.
I agree with OP. I am French as well. I can confirm that for a French politician, any issue can be solved by adding a new tax. Tax for this, tax for that and whatever else.

They just have no clue about what to do so they try to tax it.

Well, guess what, people who actually want to achieve something productive, who want to make a good living, who want to start a company and not see our profits taxed again and again to feed a bunch of bureaucrats who have never even run a business before, those people they have already left and they are not coming back.
Coordination-Free Consistent Transactions Using In-Network Concurrency Control [pdf]
Hare-Clarke or bust.

Also: multi-member electorates, otherwise the system trends towards two parties exclusively.
Taking Out the Garbage
Is Listening to Music Good for Your Health?
How is the caravan a problem to the welfare of Americans?
Midterm, Trump and the Stock Market
bollocks is it
You can upgrade the drive, externally through tb3. There will be tb3 enclosures that exactly match the mini’s size (historically there always have been) and it won’t even look weird. I did that on a previous mini (firewire).

Having said that, I’m still going to get one with 512gb ssd, because I just want everything neatly in one box.
Given how companies treat candidates and employees as disposable these days, nobody should feel bad about giving a little of that treatment back.
Given all the deaths from oil including all the war and destruction in middle east, plus enviro damage, plus health impacts, I always wondered why nuclear is always considered the most polluting energy source.

One note, they focused on dominant sources of energy (95%) so most renewables are not in the mix.

I've got to think for the cost of the US military (or some modest portion of its budget) you could move the part pretty meaningfully towards an improved US energy story (security / health etc).
It's group think. Don't read into it too much.
Maybe in a couple years we can talk about statistics suggesting inherent gender differences in academic interest without getting screamed at.
'Major' is the key word here. Solar and wind are not included in the analysis.
Pretty sure an electronics tech for a small machine shop (20 employees or so) does not count as white collar. Some days I envy coal workers. At least their stuff is dry unlike the atrociously bad coolant and grease I am often in.
Somehow they didn't include solar, wind, geothermal, or hyrdo in this analysis? It's still a good point though I'd imagine all of those would have similarly low mortality rates.
The article does not address solar (and wind power) as they are not major energy sources, but nuclear power is safer per TWh than solar if you take in account deaths in manufacturing and installing photovoltaic panels (same goes for wind power). You also have to add the energy require to produce the panels, which itself most frequently comes from non-renewable and non-nuclear sources, thereby contributing to pollution and causing more fatalities.
Had to drop Eris from the title due to exceeding the title field length limit.

Code can be found on GitHub https://github.com/UWSysLab/Eris
I don't think that's correct (and it's certainly not correct for my system). Not drawing in outside air from time to time will make the indoor air quality very poor.
Basically all the really useful code I've written
Still pretty popular in the 2-channel audio world... audiophiles, in other words.
Relatedly, Arnold has said he prefers lab grade ethanol to everclear for infusion and redistillation purposes. The lab grade stuff apparently is much more neutral tasting.
They still require maintenance. And the amount of power they give is very small in proportion to how much hardware is required, unlike nuclear where a very large amount of power is produced from a small amount of hardware.
The CIA has large numbers of OSINT analysts. Pay isn't too bad either, at the higher end:

https://www.cia.gov/careers/opportunities/analytical/open-so...

In later years, KBG agents in boring posts would basically repackage OSINT as secret intel and send it back to Moscow. Putin was supposedly one of the people who did so, during his assignment to Dresden.
and of course nuclear material won't be mined, processed and won't have any production phase at all. and building a plant is as harmless as anything else.... yeah, clearly.

also their death toll article.... I mean most russion publications think that chernobyl caused the death of a million people, their article was in "the thousand".
of course we can always think nicely about anything and be postivie till the end, however humanity can't work with technologies that causes a huge death toll when it comes to desasters, because the market will always bring us to a desaster.

also the storage of waste is not a problem we can solve. no human lives over a thousand years, thus no storage will ever be safe.
That's also what I thought, but for some reason I got downvoted for it :)
Stop worrying about what you don't have and start enjoying what you do -- i.e. life doesn't need to be fair for you to be happy. Enjoy everyday, find happiness in who you are and what you do. If you are unhappy to many days in a row change your behavior or change your environment, but don't be the person that blames others or complains about being unhappy.

Money doesn't make you happier, it makes certain things easier, but complicates things too. Dream jobs come and go, and you will personally change, so what is a dream today can be a nightmare in a few years. The same things can be said of love, some things are awesome, others mean compromise and complications. If you aren't happy yourself, you won't make a good partner to anyone either. Being unhappy or consistently negative is also why, many times, people find others unattractive or unapproachable.
I just installed it in Sublime Text 3, TabNine seems to expand the first autocompletion only if the character to the left of cursor is not a whitespace, i.e. if I'm typing "let v = |" (where | is a cursor) and TabNine shows me a list of autocompletions, I press Tab key and then \t is inputted instead of first suggestion.
But these things aren't degrees of one another, they're totally different.

Saying "we only ever eat meat, let's try eating an orange and see if we like it before we eat any of this lettuce" doesn't follow any actual logic. You might hate lettuce, you might hate oranges, but there's no specific factor that binds them together.

Also what sort of things would you factor into what you prefer? How important is each of them?
AI hits barrier of meaning
Are those "major"?
>nuclear power is safer per TWh than solar if you take in account deaths in manufacturing and installing photovoltaic panels (same goes for wind power).

Do you have figures for that?
The people vote for their representatives directly, and the party with the most has the opportunity but not the obligation to form the government. The alternative, PR, breaks the link between constituency and representative. That's why very few wanted it - generally those who thought it would favour their party (Lib Dems) who are unable to muster much support at the local level.
That is completely American and has been for a few generations.
it just goes to show that these questions are useless as a security barrier. Any institution still using them are doomed to have social-engineering vulnerability.
Generalization of Hanlen's razor: Never attribute to malice what can be explained by laziness/greed/stupidity.

FB has GraphQL stable and doing exactly what they want it to do. Now they can pass it off to a foundation for maintenance and blame without having to pay out of pocket.
Some analyses have shown that nuclear beats out all those, too: https://www.iaea.org/sites/default/files/publications/magazi...
Shared nothing. It has leaf nodes that store data and do local processing, and aggregator nodes that run queries spread to the leaf nodes and return the results.
I was doing some research a year ago or so on which Mac Mini to buy - currently using one from 2006 or so, which can't handle https sites mostly, but otherwise is great.

Everything I read said to get the 2012 model, not the 2014 one, which was slower, less memory, less everything - way worse. So the last one before this new one definitely did get a lot worse.
Depends on the country.

If you are looking at making an argument on safety for going forward, you should probably look at them.
they may not want to include intermittent sources of power.
For almost any company, if 100% of your engineers are senior, you're overpaying for talent (and probably burning out some talent, too) because not all the work that needs to be done is senior-level work.

This is not the same thing as 100% of your engineers being good, by any means, so it's not quite a stack ranking problem. In particular you can solve it by hiring good junior people, as long as you're not overstaffed (and if you are overstaffed, you need to find a way to figure out who to get rid of, other than getting rid of all the junior people).
Because solar panels production is incredibly toxic. Also coal-burning power power plants emit much more radiation than nuclear ones.
Truly the code messiah. He rose after three days of interviews.
In the USA, renewables provide two-thirds as much power as nuclear. If you want to claim nuclear is major, you have to accept renewables are too.
This is a common proof strategy in math. If you want to show two values a and b are equal, proving (1) a cannot be greater than b and (2) a cannot be less than b is often easier by proving (1) and (2) separately rather than directly proving they are equal.
I would love to see regularly updated and triaged "backlogs" for countries, and subsequently the world. And then maybe just report on the top 100 in each news cycle.

Just lists of most important tickets in a global todo list - because this would just rise to the top pretty quickly and make us rethink mid terms, Brexit and train delays.
Bye Felicia. /s

This sounds bad, but I question if their political views would have really mattered as much if Texas wasn't much cheaper. Being able to buy a house instead of forever renting a tiny place sounds like the real incentive. Regressive social policies are just a bonus.
"Basically like" is very different from "engineered for"

Column-oriented storage itself is many times faster for analytical queries, even if on disk, and combined with the other optimizations of MemSQL will get you far better performance. Along with all the data being able to constantly undergo transactional updates.
That sentence could probably use some sort of proviso. I don't mean all people, all the time and I certainly am not testing for anything. I'm just living my life and periodically run into push back over things I had no idea would get some kind of reaction when I did them.

I had a corporate job for 5.25 years. My department had around 500 people in it. I routinely sat up front in large meetings, in part because I have terrible eyesight. One day, the highest ranked woman in my department said to the guy who was her only equal in rank "Look at Doreen, sitting up front."

I don't sit up front to signal aggressive type A personality stuff or ambition or whatever, but other people interpret it that way.

I went to GIS Summer School, an 8 week program that covered a normally year long certificate. It's a two thirds male field and most classes were two thirds male. The last week of this program, I realized that I was the only woman who routinely sat up front. Most women sat in the last two rows of class.

I'm routinely interpreted as highly aggressive and pushy for doing things that are totally normal and completely unremarkable when men do them. It's fine if a guy does it. It's normal for men to sit up front. No one accuses them of anything for not hiding themselves away in the back row seats. But it gets a fair amount of attention for me to sit up front, and not in a good way.

This was viewed by the highest ranked woman in my department as noteworthy and she said it in front of a bunch of people loud enough for me and everyone else there to hear. She didn't discuss it with her equal privately nor comment on it to me privately. You could interpret that as a rebuke, like "how dare she do that!"

You could also interpret it as a shocked reaction by a woman who is presumably a great deal more empowered than most people regardless of gender, yet could not imagine doing anything as daring as sitting up front, apparently. She also got very defensive when I said my sons had taken over the housework and cooking. Her husband followed her from another state so she could take the job, but she still did most of the women's work at home. Most of my female colleagues were shocked that my sons took over the housework and cooking at home after I went from homemaker to primary breadwinner.
https://mobile.twitter.com/stocknosticator/status/7425391560...

Looks like my prediction will come true.
It is very unlikely, because that's just not how this works. Remember all those execs have been in secret talks with each other for months without any employees having a single clue. They aren't going to divulge anything which could threaten the deal, not with billions on the line, not worth the risk that an employee would let something slip or even deliberately leak.

The company would likely be upset if anyone leaked and take disciplinary action, but the regulator isn't concerned with that.
That article is from 1979. Wow.

Probably best taken with a grain of salt given how much solar in particular has ramped up.
Exactly.

We have two INES 7 incidents 25 years apart. Nuclear is 11% of world electricity generation and is concentrated mostly in technologically developed countries. Spreading that into developing world and to 100% of power generation, we'd have a chernobyl at least every 2.5 years. And given the wars and civil unrest, probably more.
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That's not the whole truth. That two-thirds is often backed by often stand-by NatGas generators, complicating the issue on if those additional plants should be counted separately.
> Of course it does, it's not a gender problem, who said it was?

Many people have said this.
I agree a comparison with those would be interesting however the article does explicitly state which sources are included in the analysis:

Here we limit our comparison to the dominant energy sources—brown coal, coal, oil, gas, biomass and nuclear energy; in 2014 these sources accounted for about 96% of global energy production.1