skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Worthwhile ethically/morally. So, considering all factors, to include saving lives and capital.
This is possible right now with certain web applications. Such as gmail offline mode. I could see something like this working for Facebook also if they choose to implement an offline feature.
> DEX opens a door for next generation Mobile Desktop , where you SmartPhone is also your Desktop Computer.

Remember, Microsoft tried this with Continuum for Windows 8/10 and Windows Mobile, it failed. No-one actually wanted the core of their desktop inside their phones. People have partitioned off different use-cases for their PC and smartphones, and the overlap is smaller than designers think.
If you're not riding around on dangerous wheeled objects as a kid, you're doing it wrong. Worry about the adults.
> “Building things” isn’t an activity. “Building furniture” or “Building a web app” is an activity.

This is a strange way of thinking, to me. What I’m building (or even if I’m “building” at all) is way down my list of priorities. You’d do better to ask me what color I want the walls painted at my job.

Building software can be fun and I’ve spent many years of my life doing that, but in that field I’ve also had some of the worst managers I could have imagined. I much prefer loading boxes in a warehouse for a great boss, than writing software for a lousy one.

Why would I start a job search with the low-order bit? That practically guarantees an inefficient search, which may not even converge on a local maximum.
Most of the big providers (comcast & verizon certainly) bundle tv & internet together at fairly low rates. For instance, FIOS gigabit is $80/month alone, $80/month for internet + 155 tv channels. Certainly not $100/month for a basic TV subscription.
Passive-aggressive and coercive maintainers will almost certainly abuse this power.

My uninformed guess is that enterprise users asked for this feature for their own repos and it was eventually cargo-culted into the OSS side.

More reason to use Gitlab, I suppose.
Consider the case of someone who is terribly out of shape and tries something that is a bit physically demanding for a week. They will feel miserable. That doesn't mean the task is "not for them," it might mean they can enjoy it if they get into better shape.
Is there a better (read: objective) measure of physical pain than asking the patient to rate it from 1-10?
> Even if Damore was actually acting in bad faith, fireing him would still have a chilling effect unless it was thought by every Googler that he was clearly acting in bad faith.

You can't help side effects. If someone is acting in a way that is detrimental to the company, you have to fire them, even if you know it will upset some other people in the company.
Why should the representation of Asians in tech reduce the concerns about the under-representations of Blacks and Latinos in tech?
Windows subsystem for linux has pretty much achieved this.
> Put another way, you can only have a logical argument with someone who already agrees with your beliefs.

Technically true, but that's an easy (and all too frequently used) way to dismiss other people's arguments and keep believing whatever you want.

It's very unlikely that any real-world policy question is a question about your fundamental value. You most likely don't value marijuana intrinsically. The future of a river dam is probably not the real center of your morality. Rational reasoning is useful to illuminate connection between the subject of an argument and your moral values. A connection that usually is pretty complex, and allows for honest and patient enough people to reach the same conclusion given the same knowledge about the problem.
Just because you don't need money, it doesn't mean you cannot use it. Hopefully they will be able to use that money to speed up their revenue growth and quickly pay back stripe and be left at a higher revenue point than they started. But just because you are in a position where money helps you (pretty much everyone?) it doesn't mean you "need" the money as in you are searching for loans or investments or have some desperate need right here and now.

Edit to add: It's not a loan, they aren't accruing interest and the cost is fixed. This would be a weird type of deal if not for the 5% revenue fixed at paying back the advance and fixed cost. If not for that, they would essentially be getting a better and better loan the furter they waited it out, as the effective annual rate goes down as time passes. It's still true that the deal is better the longer you take to pay it back though, but the revenue payback means that you have incentive to pay it back fast, because that means you are making money. It's an interesting deal.
The beauty of English is the process of 'verbing', where we can turn arbitrary nouns into verbs. Schooled in Commonwealth English, I wasn't familiar with buffalo being used as a verb but others in this thread have cited its meaning.

https://www.thoughtco.com/what-is-verbing-1691035
In my personal project, I'm using my own Base92 encoding. I wonder why Base85 stops at 85? In particular, you can implement Base92 with one table lookup and one conditional exception. (Which could also be implemented as a table lookup to save branch prediction misses.)
At the moment, I'd rather hold dollars.

You didn't answer the question; there is still an oracle problem. How do I know you're holding a unit of the index fund for each token? I have a pretty good idea my broker will, as he'll go to jail if he gets caught short. That's usually right, but then we have clowns like Jon Corzine who get away with it because they're more equal than others.

The other stuff can be done with a permissioned blockchain; if you can adequately solve the oracle problem, you'd have something pretty interesting. If you don't, you're an unregulated broker who uses Chaumian tokens.
> Sure, but look at your typical freeway rush hour traffic jam - how many of those vehicles really have multiple people or heavy cargo?

I'm not sure how that's relevant. You edited my comment to try and make it apply to cars, but it does not - cars are necessary both in the CBD and out for instances where you need to transport cargo etc, while scooters are less necessary in the CBD if you can use good public transport instead.

The fact that many people use cars when they aren't necessary is not relevant, other than to note that there's a lot of potential to reduce traffic by replacing single-occupant cars with personal transport.

And I'm not claiming that scooters or scooter rentals are bad - I love my scooter and see scooter rental companies as a big part of reducing the number of cars on the road. But why do they insist on deploying in areas where scooters are not wanted? Why not focus on the areas where they are most practical?
Worldwide IPv6 adoption reaches 25%
I don't think they are pirated per se. More likely, they are student/international editions.
Like salesforce, let companies ban the drug, sorry alcohol.
Benchmarking “Hello, World”
AFAIK, Raft is a form of Paxos, spec-ed out to do log replication.
I'm a municipal civil, wife is a winemaker. We do well enough that we can afford to live where we grew up and I don't see this job getting disrupted (old underground infrastructure, much of the work is project management related, im pretty adaptable to whatever technologies end up downsizing the field, etc) but it is definitely just a job to me and not even remotely a passion.
This is a dramatic shift from the mid-90s viewpoint, which held an incredibly youthful optimism that has long fed into Google's culture. I want to bring that to one's attention.

That said, this also reads like a thoughtful and mature viewpoint; nuanced and understanding the reality of humans colliding with sophisticated technology.

Historians and philosophers have a lot to contribute to this world; I think there's an increasing awareness of that reality.
If you don't mind me asking, can you share the 1TB SSD you chose?

I have an 11" that I would be interested in upgrading, but was unaware there were compatible parts like that.
For a network driver, 2ms seems enormous. At 1Gbps that's 250 kilobytes, which is an awful lot of packets.
If anything, clinical trials should be more reliable than the average scientific study: after all they are experiments, with well defined numbers (sample size, effects measurement, controlled conditions). Compare with all non-experimental science- including for example most environmental and climate science, where, if experiments are made at all, the results are wildly extrapolated and generalized.
> I am thinking of two things in particular that current ML approaches lack; that are ubiquitous (well arguably for the second...) in neuroscience: feedback and modeling uncertainty

You'll be interested in a recent post about a new paper for an AI physicist then: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18381827
> Is it not possible that the low-hanging fruit had been found earlier, in the 1970s-1990s, and the problem got harder?

The problem of "problems getting harder" is a continuous phenomenon. Why would that be the case suddenly after 2000, and not before?

> However, I'm a bit puzzled by the weird direction the journalist ran with this, which is straight to his preconceived notions that are not that supported by the data he's looking at.

Is it possible that your own preconceived notions about the author and the publication may have caused you to judge this way?

In any case, don't trust every comment posted on Hacker News (including my own) :)
Just "dealing with" injustices is enabling injustice through. And I am fully willing to help people in accident or bad luck assuming they will help me in bad luck.
Working on that. As SRFIs get incorporated into the R7RS-large edition of the standard, they get renamed to (scheme list) and so on. Of course, that hasn't propagated too far yet, but it's coming.
we still need the pc revolution on mobile devices.

we are still in the mainframe/timeshare stage.
Show HN: Back endLab – new BaaS platform for rapidly prototyping web apps
It also says just before that:

"Only use authorized images provided directly through Linux on DeX. Other versions or unauthorized images may not operate properly."

Seems to imply, to me, that it is not impossible to run other images in this container.
Chicken works great on WSL. I used to have it on both WSL and Cygwin.
I don't think that's really feasible with IRC unless you invent your own extension to the standard and then convince every other IRC client to adopt it.
No, Cortex A in an Arria10 SoC. The boot process is tedious because you have to load the FPGA before you can access the external RAM so the stage 1 bootloader has to fit 256KB code+data. Currently I'm using a multi-stage U-Boot but for simplicity and robustness I'd like to cram everything in a single stage loader.

Since I can't get u-boot to create a small enough image with all the features that I want (and also because I want to add vendor-specific customizations on top) I decided to try and rewrite a small, single purpose loader from scratch. I considered Rust but then that meant that I'd have to port or rewrite all of u-boot's code I want to reuse (especially the vendor code contributed by Altera mentioned in the previous post). So C it is.
If this is your take, why are you replying to me?

I'm not arguing there is (or isn't) a shortage, I'm pushing back on a point premised on the existence of a shortage. Go reply to that other guy.

Your point seems to be that a shortage is not possible because carrier grade NAT. I'd argue that the deployment of carrier grade NAT is proof that one is actively in existence.
Formal proof typically refers to a branch of mathematics / philosophy concerned with the symbolic manipulation of formal systems in order to prove axioms about representations of real world objects.

For example, a system like Coq (https://coq.inria.fr/) is concerned with formal proofs, but is not really a foundation for most of science.
> This is something that seemingly passed by many US Americans like it never happened. But you can't declare yourself a "Christian nation" going on "crusades", hinging large parts of your popularity drive on this imagined "clash of the cultures", and then act all surprised and outraged when the opposite side also reacts with more radicalization.

Hm? Which crusades are those?

> Just looking at the trends for global terrorism for these past 2 decades [1], there's a very clear picture to be found there. Before 2002 countries like India, Colombia and Algeria topped the "terrorism charts".

You mean countries that had civil wars going on in them? That seems practically tautological.

> But by 2003, as a response to the "War on Terror" started by the US, you already see Iraq and Afghanistan making their way up the list, steadily increasing in the number of attacks and fatalities until in 2005 they take the top.

You mean that terrorist attacks increased in places when they had foreign military bases in their country to target? What is that evidence of, exactly?

> But all three of these countries represent massive outliers and make up the vast majority of "Islamic terrorism", what do they all have in common?

Fundamentalist Islam and low economic development.
From a science perspective, positive results are overrated; the most important aspect is to investigate a “good” question. Researchers understand “good” has not the same meaning everywhere or to every stakeholder. More at large, blurred journalism is attacking science to undermine the scientific method, aka meaningful questions + proper scrutiny + full transparence. This is a sign of the times, though.
I don't understand why the "mandatory" training has a penalty for skipping it. If it's mandatory, it's mandatory.

This isn't rocket surgery; there are all sorts of mandatory training things big companies do, and they are often actually mandatory. For instance, we've worked with HIPAA-encumbered clients where you'll lose access to their network and applications if you don't complete annual security awareness training.

The "docking people in Perf" thing just seems like needless drama. Just require people to do the damn training.
Oh, I see! I wasn’t familiar with this term.

So, this system is used in the United States, right?
Tcl is awesome. It's like Python having a baby with bash, and the baby is actually pretty :D

For me, it's one of those languages that change your way of thinking about programming and you will take that with you, no matter what language you will be working on.
You do in America by tipping the waiter.
I don't see an alternative offered here. The argument seems to be "don't do things just because you think they'll produce the best result". Which...makes no sense?

If this advice is followed, we would have to knowingly choose to do something that we expect to be worse than another option we're considering. What do we hope to gain from that?
>There are and always have been professions dominated by men and those dominated by women. From the perspective of an employer, gender, skin colour or political views should be completely irrelevant when it comes to making a hire/no hire decision.

What you're missing is that many employers don't have the perspective whereby gender, skin color or political views are irrelevant. Biases against gender, race and religion are part of the reason that many professions have been dominated by certain races, genders and religions (although laws have attempted to counteract this effect.)

The point of diversity in the workplace is to force an implicitly prejudiced employment market to be less prejudiced than it otherwise might be, just as the point of labor laws and the minimum wage are to force companies to care more about their employees' welfare than they otherwise would.
What should go into a (sincere) privacy policy: a checklist
The Achille's Heel of Artificial Intelligence
Why would this guy think he needs government approval to lie about his age on the internet?
Don't forget to fire anyone who can actually complete the tasks given; they'll be the ones your boss will hire to replace you.
One could argue that this chart too is an example of post-hoc data mining. I still find the effect plausible, though.
Why are you opposed to force by violence?
One of the "Yes, Yes, No" segments on Reply All featured this and it was the only time I've come away from it more confused then when they started
The phone with 4G will not be subjected to stupid corporate firewall rules preventing access to, say, StackOverflow.
The recipe is quite simple:

1. Take a nice shiny new laptop

2. Install Windows onto it.

3. Throw a large bucket of badly written monitoring apps, security apps, encryption apps, in-house apps, and pointless business notification apps.

4. Lock down the OS so the end-user can't remove or stop any of the added chaff.

5. Watch the nice shiny new laptop slow to crawl under the weight of all that crapware.

This is speaking from experience - I have 10+ years of designing and deploying corporate Windows based Desktop/Laptop builds. It all starts fine, until some clueless internal committee decide that they want to install everything and the kitchen sink onto your nicely designed platform...
> The only way to mediate between them is by discussing non-objective things like how we value fish and the services provided by electricity.

Seriously, a better way would be to start doing 5-whys on this, instead of going for "non-objective things". A quick attempt will tell you that we care for both ecosystem and power, but depending on the local context, we might care more about one or the other. Maybe we can import power from elsewhere, or put a dam in a place where it won't disturb ecosystem so much. Maybe the ecosystem can handle the dam, or really the power is desperately needed.

You can quantify this all if you bother. Problem is, most people don't bother, they very quickly stop thinking about it, and start going by their gut.

(I'd say, they stop behaving like adults, but since a lot of adults have this problem, I guess we need a different phrase.)
They fuck you up, your mom and dad
They may not mean to, but they do.
They fill you with the faults they had
And add some extra, just for you.

But they were fucked up in their turn
By fools in old-style hats and coats,
Who half the time were soppy-stern
And half at one another's throats.

Man hands on misery to man
It deepens like a coastal shelf.
Get out as early as you can
And don't have any kids yourself.

-- Philip Larkin
Appreciate your work on Nim.

My statement is based on my opinion. There are certainly imperfections in Nim even bugs and things that annoy me but the mental load is far less than working in Rust, for me that is, and so to me it is better in every way since in the end I find it to be congruent with my mental model whereas I can’t say the same about Rust. It is a purely opinionated statement like everything else where meaning is involved. We are the meaning makers. It doesn’t exist in detached form.

Your opinion is valid.
Rule #1 for career advice: Never, ever leave a good job unless your financially ready to retire.
Rethink robotics ... snif

You will be missed.
A simple htaccess rewrite ruling can cover handling that, though.
> encourage more efficiency and less waste

That's exactly what we can do with technology. How are we going to clean up all the plastic? How do we build a house that doesn't leak heat? How do we avoid putting all that carbon in the air?

The answer is always going to be this: someone thinks of a new way to arrange things in order to achieve these goals, in a way where we get more goodness (utility, health, happiness, etc) out of the same blue sphere.

> There is a book on this dichotomy of environmentalists vs technologists, and how one group advocates efficiency/conservation and the other advocates innovation/change. I think both schools of thought are needed to move forward to the best outcome, wouldn't you agree?

Yes, they are two sides of the same coin. When the tech exists, society (ie environmentalists in this case) can plausibly push for new behaviours.
I bought a copy of SICP from them, it definitely did not look pirated, but it was wikdly less expensive than a normal copy.
How Helm Works (or how to get your home mail server to run better)
Still haven't been able to get a simple now example running, issue open since Apr 2017 - https://github.com/now-examples/linux-desktop/issues/1
If you've ever had to Google information about using libcurl you've most probably noticed how so many people ask questions and get answers by Daniel himself.

These answers are always very helpful and polite, doesn't matter if the question is smart or stupid.

Daniel seems a very nice person just as he's a great programmer, and I think curl success is due to its quality as much as it's due to how Daniel cares about it's users.
> Technology absolutely solves humanity's problems. There's pretty much no problem that given a large thoughtful effort, technology has not solved. The problem is that humanity is bad at choosing where to invest in technology.

In other words:

Technology would solve humanity's problems, except it doesn't, because humanity is bad at choosing the right technologies.

Or, more succinctly:

TECHNOLOGY does not solve humanity's problems.
Well... As a maintainer of multiple repos:

a) If you don't trust the maintainer, the project is already dead.

b) If the maintainer is power hungry, you're already screwed.

Sometimes, we seek for programmatic solutions where trust should be employed. If you can't trust the maintainer, just forget about the project, regardless of whether maintainer can delete issues or not. I mean, we can already force push to delete history, for example.
How long does your nanosleep() really sleep? (2004)
Learn theory at a job then?
Postgres and MySQL both do calculate costs. One difference is that they are not based around the Memo data structure (someone correct me if I'm wrong about that!), which gives an extra measure of flexibility, power, and elegance to solving the problem of SQL optimization. The Memo structure was introduced by Goetz Graefe in his seminal papers on top-down, rule-based query optimization (Exodus, Volcano, Cascades), which are the chief inspiration for CockroachDB's new optimizer. In the late 90's, Goetz joined Microsoft, and assisted the SQL Server team in rewriting their optimizer from scratch based on the techniques he had pioneered. I believe this foundation is a big reason why the SQL Server optimizer has become one of the best (if not the best) in the world. We are indeed building on the shoulders of giants.
> In any built-up area

Was it being done in built-up areas? I see the word 'rescuer' being used in these articles. But I notably do not see the word 'civilian'. A terrorist who tries to save the lives of his terrorist buddies is still a 'rescuer', and that's exactly who these drone strikes ought to be targeting.
Non Hispanic Latino ? isn't that a moot point at his point in history un less you ant to go back to the Spanish/French system of race classification
The behavior and displays in these ideological flamewars have gotten so much worse over the last year, and the pace of that change seems to be accelerating.

There seems to be a demographic shift happening on HN, away from rational and genuinely interested technologists and business people, and toward college kids who haven't done anything and don't know anything, trying to sound smart and then throwing a temper tantrum whenever anything political comes up.

How a community in aggregate behaves when certain topics are brought up is more than just an isolated event, it's a litmus test for what kind of community it is and the kind of people it is attracting. I think I'm done participating entirely.
No passive-aggressive and coercive maintainers on Gitlab? Huh! a three-letter change will save your projects it seems :)
> in javascript

Spotted your problem.
You did - great job!

ps. Please don't sell out before Christmas again.
The alternative is having to take your vehicle in to get the brakes fixed.