skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is not some new phenomena that didn't exist until very recently. Critical thinking has been required since, well, 'news' was a thing.
Conventional bombing killed far more on the Japanese mainland than both atomic bombs combined did.
> Do you believe that the CIA is purposefully targeting random villagers for drone strikes?

Of course not. I believe that the CIA doesn't care who dies as long as they get their guy, and if they make everyone afraid to help drone strike victims, then it's much more likely that any terrorists who survive the initial attack will bleed out on the ground. (Innocents too, but they don't care about them.)

This is hardly an unusual claim. You can't be unaware that the CIA is infamous for decades of murder and abuse.
Just noticed the part of the question about what the certifications would be. For me, they would be the AWS Developer, Devops, and Architect Professional.

I’m thinking about the AWS Big Data later, but I don’t have any practical experience in that area and I refuse to be a “paper tiger” collecting certifications with no practical experience and probably a project management certification because everyone has a PMP after their name in consultancy it seems like.

I would probably study for some type of Linux certification just to transition from the Microsoft ecosystem but whether I would spend the money to get it and keep it updated is another question.
Permission granted to the user is also granted to malware.
> they've been building cars for a long time, far longer than Tesla.

In 2007 same could be said about Nokia vs Apple.
Oh not at all. Apple chips are beasts and surpass anything out there.

But it's likely a greater chance to see a snapdragon head into a convertible desktop format than an iPhone or iPad, neither even allow a mouse. Still have hope for an A12X powering a MacBook tho.
That animation was great. Just what I needed to wrap my brain around this.

But 4,400+ satellites! How many launches is that going to take?

Also, glad to see that Alaska doesn't get shafted in this. As the computer voice noted, it's an FCC requirement.
Windows and Android are fully supported, have been for years. As are iOS and MacOSX and all the BSDs.
Both of them are under "Homeland Security", and their 'mission' often overlaps, sooo perhaps it's more accurate to say 'homeland security.'
I'm not a coding robot that needs to be min/maxed for my productivity output all day at work. I'm certainly not even programming all day at work.

So I would not want to work where you're in charge where everything I may want to do (or consume) is judged on its productivity basis.

You probably have habits that sacrifice your work performance. There's a good chance, at the very least, you weigh more than you should, work out less than you should, and eat fewer vegetables than you should. You might even have children or plan to have them one day. Yikes!

And all of these cost you much more than the morale boosting beer I get to share with my team as is tradition towards the end of a Friday.
Fanout (https://fanout.io) can translate between raw WebSockets and HTTP, and this works well with serverless backends.
Magit 2.90 released
Release notes are at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/magit/magit/master/Documen...
It... isn't.
> This takes away your ability to continuously audit the maintainer and takes away data points which may cause you to suddenly distrust them.

The platform is not built for you as a free consumer to audit projects and ensure compliance with your own criteria. You would need to build you own tooling for that, and one might argue that is out of scope for Github to build. moosingin3space addresses this well further upthread.
Demoscene output?
there are several issues at play: rules around trading securities and securities fraud. EtherDelta broke certain rules and that/s why the founder got fined about 400k in total. You are correct that EtherDelta wasn't a fraud or a scam - and that's why there is no criminal proceeding, no accusation of securities fraud.
ICOs are securities so must be registered with the SEC.

Exchanges that trade securities must also be registered.

You can trade ICOs on an exchange as long as both are registered according to their respective laws...
We have only ever compared LMDB in synchronous mode to other DBs in synchronous mode, and LMDB in asynch mode to other DBs in asynch mode. Come on, that's too obvious.

And LMDB beats the crap out of SQLite, in any mode.
http://www.lmdb.tech/bench/microbench/

Replacing SQLite's Btree engine with LMDB makes the SQLite footprint smaller, faster, and more reliable too.
https://github.com/LMDB/sqlightning
No need to keep a tally; in 2018, any document that exclusively uses masculine pronouns for genderless subjects reads as outdated.

When writing on technical topics, the chief concern is to be clear, accurate, and straightforward. Anything that might distract your reader is undesirable. By referring to “the user” as “he”, you’re already distracting roughly 50% of your potential readership (if you’re writing the documentation for a Do It Yourself Vasectomy Kit, perhaps you get a pass).

Switching up pronouns every other time is a strategy, but it is indeed one that can hurt the readability of a document. This article covers various strategies nicely:

https://www.herodios.com/pronouns.html

(Note that this document was written over 20 years ago, so the “rules of style” when this document was written were roughly the same as they are now)
Taxes and cost/benefit aside, do you believe there should be no borders?
Would be interesting to compare office drinking in other regions.

I've heard stories about Korean chaebols that are hard to believe, but I'm sure there are intense workplace antipatterns worldwide.
Could you elaborate on the Pharmakon in this context or point me at any resources to get a better understanding of it?
First time I've ever done this but there's this show I literally cannot find anywhere online legally.

I had to buy some old DVD's which I fully intend to rip into x265 hevc and spread around online - just to preserve it.

It's called The Jamie Kennedy Experiment. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJVCr7H3rco
Totally possible. That again would have the result that they increased all their prices by a whole class, without most people recognizing it. The MacBook Air is then at the level of old 13" Pros, and the Pro is much higher (at the previous Pro+Touchbar level). That approach would match what they did with the new iPhones, where the X also moved the price range for an iPhone by a big amount.
Note: this is about music conductors, not electrical conductors, train conductors or thermal conductors.
Gedcomq Is a Query Language for GEDCOM Files
I think smoking has a unheeded effect on lower income smokers who sustain poorer diets.

I have never been aware of any studies of smokers who sustain the heaviest habits and I grew up with 40 high tar cigarettes a day being I will guess easily ten percent of the society. My uncle and aunts silver wedding photography is occluded by smoke and visibility- it's not smogging of the undeveloped film, I grew up to be a professional photographer, - was just six feet. I experienced cravings for nicotine the first time that very night, escaping for air outdoors...

Ny parents were old when I was born. They lived a combined 180 years. I have far more to say about the effects on my parents of losing their peer group and friends, just as I was growing up. Losing his big brother, his last confidante, destabilised my father, and traumatized my mom and me.

Surely lower fertility can also explain late parenthood..

I have read other studies claiming that epigenetics conveys a ability to cope with stress from parents, if they survived exceptional stress in early life. I long lost my link for the paper, unfortunately. Maybe I just didn't look into the subject because anecdotally, I coped too well with stress and failed to avoid being stressed, until I found new perspectives.
Jim Barksdale:

Gentlemen, there’s only two ways I know of to make money: bundling and unbundling
There is simply no space in most inner cities for this mode of transportation.

Which is fine, since inner cities are the most walkable places in the world, and the most well-served by public transit.

Unless we're prepared to spend billions on new construction over decades, there is just no infrastructure for a mode of transport that conflicts with all of the existing modes.

If anything, we should be building more bike lanes (on a gargantuan scale) since they are proven, efficient and already have substantial infrastructure.
> Marijuana is now legal in California too.

No, it's still against federal law, which covers California.
I have my bash history set to unlimited and there are currently 34489 entries in there. Since this is my development laptop and a machine that isn't normally accessible by anybody else, I don't worry too much about any security implications. And if the machine gets stolen, I'm screwed anyway.

OTOH, I hate knowing that I have used some obscure command or combination of commands and args in the past, and not having it in my history. It was after getting fed up over one such incident a couple of years ago that I changed my history settings to unlimited. I haven't regretted it yet.
> Many compilers even expand the code inline to generate fix size divides into mult and shift.

Specificly, u8 divmod 58 can be reduced to a u8->u16 multiply, a right shift, and three conditional subtractions; that's not great, but on a modern CPU it's a afterthought compared to the quadratic loop over the input size.
One of the first things I do on a fresh install is set my history to two million lines:

HISTSIZE=1000000
HISTFILESIZE=2000000

I also have a one-line script "did" that searches for a pattern in the recent commands (from previous sessions):

grep "$1" ~/.bash_history | tail

This is so simple but I couldn't begin to estimate how much time it has saved me over the years.

The history file is saved in my backups of home dir.

For what it's worth I sometimes am concerned with privacy, but it's important to remember that you must specify: privacy from whom?

For most cases I trust file permission flags, either only I'm root or someone else is and it wouldn't be appropriate to hide history from the sysadmin (i.e. on my employer's machines.)

- - - -

edit: TIL

> In bash 4.3 and later you can also use HISTSIZE=-1 HISTFILESIZE=-1
Note: title was changed from "Tell HN: Facebook is censoring news of the protests." Assuming this was the submitter and not the mods, WTF? (And if it was the mods, WTF anyway?)
There is reparations, and then there is reaping what you sow. We can't be humanitarian and at the same time think it's just the other people's fault to have whatever problems they have, when most of them were caused by first world countries. If we don't want to help those people, then just kill them, it'll be cheaper and more humane.
It's not just an environmental issue. It's an ethical issue.

Maybe some companies out there also banned slave ownership across the board. Probably seemed unfair, too. Did they not realize how useful slaves are?

Now, this seems like a silly comparison because we're all so used to eating meat for every meal, but does familiarity trump ethical concerns?
> The world-wide net immigration is inherently zero.

Good thing I didn't talk about "world-wide net immigration" but rather about "worldwide net population growth".

The two are related, but not the same. Low birthrates are very much a localized "problem", fixed by global migration due to the fact that globally we do not have a fertility problem, globally we have the exact opposite of that problem.
Yes. Though other commenters have said that it is only supported on some browsers.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/stat...
package.json says it is MIT licensed but there is no LICENSE file
I believe we should have borders, but I think we should let anyone in who wants to come in, once they've gone through a criminal background check.

In other words, same policies as we have now, but no quotas on any type of visa.

You know, the way it was for the first 150 years of this country.
Sure, why not... But you also have to come out of retirement and give up any SSI because you're no longer old enough to collect, and your senior discount -- kiss that goodbye...
Wow, piloting a program for drink tickets?! Crazy! My team at OtherBigCo did that a decade ago...
You didn't read the post carefully, apparently. Previously there was no penalty for skipping the mandatory training. (The fact that such training is "mandatory" is required by US law. Like most companies, such training is generally done on-line. It was that way at all of my previous places of employment, including at IBM. And I'm not aware of any impact, other than continuing to get nag e-mails, at any of my previous employers for not bothering to do the training.)

Moving forward, there now is a penalty for skipping said training. More importantly, it applies for everyone, including Directors and VP's, not just individual contributors. And one point on Perf is a big deal; it's the difference between Significantly Exceeds Expectation and Exceeds Expectations (or Exceeds Expectations vs Meets Expectations), and this impacts salary increases, bonuses, and promotion.
Which is a true statement. It's the above that isn't.

At this point, no one is locked in on that deposit. Anyone can cancel at any time - until you click purchase with a additional payment for the car, which is only after the car is available for purchase.
Some phones now ship with 2 sets of quad cores, one high performance set and one low power set.
Are you seriously arguing companies should be entirely white and male because then there won't be sexism and racism problems?!

And are you aware that non-DNA differences also create divisions?
I’ve been on a Kratom regimen as well and tried CBD a few times but it didn’t seem to relieve the pain for me. What do you think of this article that came out the other day: https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2018/11/1/18024806/cbd-oil-vap...
What Makes .NET Core So Special?
Someone looked through a drone cam at a crowd of women and children, and authorized the drone to fire.

If he didn't bother looking closely enough to identify his target, that's negligence or incompetence. (Middle Eastern women are noted for dressing distinctively.) If he didn't care, that's intentional murder, or whatever euphemism we're supposed to use in those circumstances. If he was told it was all right to fire without being able to see the target clearly, that's bad policy. If he was told it's all right to knowingly kill women and children, that's also bad policy. If the drone was authorized to fire without any human in the loop somewhere, that's really bad policy, and also bad tactics--there's no point in wasting a missile on an empty field that you expected a terrorist to be standing in.

There is no circumstance where someone wasn't lethally and unnecessarily careless with innocent lives. Whether it was due to malice or incompetence is not really relevant.

> Did they actually do a double tap strike in this instance?

Yes. You've already been linked to relevant articles in this thread. Do your own homework.

You are not going to Socratic-method anyone into admitting that, yes, it actually is okay to blow up a wedding if we think there might be a terrorist in there somewhere.
Video of me sculpting Donald Trump's head
Nationwide Closure of BJ’s Wholesale Caused by Software Failure
Set Font Fallback Settings for Rendering and Insert Empty Field in Word Document
The US constitution and founding documents make it very clear that the president is meant to be a separate entity - the fact that it’s devolved to the point that one party will rubber stamp pretty much anything the president tells them to is a failing of that party.

Specifically the president represents the executive branch, then you have the two houses, one that represents the people approximately proportionally, and one that gives 20x multipliers to the voting power of people from mostly empty states.
Meh, I get what you’re trying to say but ultimately I’d rather pay content providers for making the content.
It's not that simple. What you mean by saying "(a)synchronous mode" is very different from database to database. See my above comment. Is SQLite synchronous or asynchronous if you configure it as journal_mode=WAL and PRAGMA synchronous=NORMAL?

For my purposes as an application developer, I care about comparing databases operating in safe mode i.e. a system crash should never cause total data loss. According to my experience SQLite's safe mode is many times faster than LMDB's safe mode, with a write workload. While LMDB is thrashing the disk and achieves only a handful of write transactions per second.
If you're looking to serialize parallel build logs without changing to an entirely new build tool:

1. Electric Make, a high-performance reimplementation of GNU make and ninja, has properly serialized build output logs since it was introduced in 2002 (https://electric-cloud.com/products/electricaccelerator) (disclaimer: I'm the chief architect for ElectricAccelerator, of which Electric Make is a component).

2. I published a technique on CM Crossroads you could use with GNU make 3.81 to descramble parallel build logs in 2009. The article has moved around since then but these days it seems to be found at https://www.cmcrossroads.com/article/descrambling-parallel-b....

3. The maintainers of GNU make took the concept described in that article and baked it into GNU make itself in 2013 for version 4.0 (http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/make.git/tree/NEWS?h=4.0)
This statement is fairly inaccurate. If you check Peter Madderom 1966 thesis, you'll see that it states the earliest work on automatic differentiation was done in the 1950s. It's just that back then, it was called Analyitc differentiation. You can see many of the key ideas already existed back then, including research into specializations for efficiently applying the chain rule.

https://academic.oup.com/comjnl/article/7/4/290/354207
It's not that Continuum failed. It's that Windows Mobile failed as a platform (for other unrelated reasons), so we didn't even get to the point where Continuum was even a realistic consideration.
Are you able to explain why one needs a "no warranty" disclaimer on software you are giving away for free?

All consumer protection laws I've seen are predicated on a sale, and so I would not expect them to apply to gifts. A warranty is a contract term, an implied warranty is an implied contract term, but if someone distributes open source software without charge, there is no exchange, no consideration, no contract–so how can there be any warranties, express or implied?
I have been comparing multiple key-value stores and lmdb has been the simplest and fastest to use with or without MDB_NOSYNC. It beats almost every kv store in writes.. and in reads it is untouchable by anything by a large magnitude.
Germany: Low Crime, Clean Prisons, Lessons for America – Jeff Rosen – TEDx
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_O_notation

> Big O notation is a mathematical notation that describes the limiting behavior of a function when the argument tends towards a particular value or infinity.

I.e., it's an asymptotic upper bound.

It's also interesting to compare with Ω() (Big Omega ­— asymptotic lower bound) and Θ() (Big Theta) (big-O AND big-Omega): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_O_notation#Family_of_Bachm...

A good textbook on this subject is Introduction to Algorithms: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0262033844/ .
In our world, it's considered malpractice if you have the option to include double blinding in your study design, but opt not to for convenience.

In some alternate universe, it is considered malpractice for those who design the study to be the same group that runs the study.

I don't think we can get there from here, but if we had a core track of theorists who designed studies, and a second equally prestigious track of practitioners, who independently tested and ran studies, experimental science would be much more rigorous.

Your prestige should be tied to your ability to identify novel experiments to try, or in rigorous testing procedures, never tied to your ability to shape data to make your claims appear grand.
Your understanding could be correct, but I've heard of others as well. I had heard/understood for it to be quite the opposite, based on speculation that the greek saying is likely taken from an Egyptian inscription "know thyself, and you will know the gods" aka the body is the temple of god. I believe Socrates expanded the statement to mean "the unexamined life is not worth living".

all my sources are this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know_thyself
> Only Apple seems to have got the control over the stack to get calls through iPad/macOS.

If you're on Google Fi, you can make (and take) phone calls on your desktop via Hangouts.
It's just an asymptotic upper bound (though often used to imply tight bounds).

It's most commonly applied to worst case running time, but is often applied to expected running time ("hash table insertions run in O(1)"), space complexity, communication overhead, numerical accuracy and any number of other metrics.
Samsung's First Tablet: The $5,000 PenMaster (1992)
I would love to hear a post mortem on the bug that caused this outage.

It’s slightly disturbing to me that a software issue can cascade enough to take down an entire retail chain. How many more systems are designed with such vulnerabilities?
> I'm sure almost everyone reading this thinks I'm hopelessly pedantic to care so much about the sequence of lines of output in my build logs.

Not at all! In fact there are other tools in other domains that could benefit from careful thought about how to interleave parallel outputs in a way that favors interactivity/immediate output but preserves (effective) ordering [1][2]. This is a tough problem a lot of tools just give up on, but the status quo of "buffer everything until it is completely done" grates against one's senses.

[1] https://github.com/saltstack/salt/issues/22733

[2] https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/3887
Nobody is being "replaced", you make it sound like they are taking highly educated German people, dispose of them in some secret way, and then fill their free positions with random Syrian refugees.

As a native German, I can assure you that no native German people are being "displaced". This is just a semi-ancient right-wing trope about "Them foreigners stealing our jobs", with the occasional "and women" attached to it.

In the 90's these same people were railing against eastern Europeans, and how their culture and values are supposedly not "compatible with Western Values". Now, over a decade after the EU eastward expansion, rarely anybody seems to remember that part of history and the formerly marginalized are now so "assimilated" that they are part of the very same mobs which used to marginalize them.

Nothing about this whole topic is new, even the surrounding social unrests ain't new and are comparably civil compared to what went on not too long ago [0]. The only thing that's changed is the color of the people that are being scapegoated as the source of all problems and controversy.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rostock-Lichtenhagen_riots
This kind of mentality exasperates me to no end. I am a heavy drinker (never at work), and I hate it when people blame my behavior on my alcohol level.
I always have to correct them, they are lucky I am drunk when bad things happen, I tend to be a very violent and horrible person when sober, for sure the outcome could be much worse.
People should take responsibility for their behavior without blaming substances.
Zero. Don't drink and drive; It's the drinkers responsibility. Do you blame the liquor store? The state liquor laws?
California Moves to Replace Gas Plants with Batteries from Tesla