skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I second this as well

I would do CS50 and doing FreeCodeCamp in parallel. This way he builds a light web foundation, and have a solid CS foundational base to work through other courses.

Other good courses are found through udemy, like Colt Steel. Another good one I recommend is watchandcode.com, for basic foundational programming principles
There are a lot of different options, but depends on what you are looking for!

* What are your goals around latency

* What does the publishing/viewing look like (want to watch in the browser) do users need to upload?

* Do you have any restrictions around codecs or bandwidth?
Our racism is a deeply hidden, systemic kind. It is in closely held personal beliefs, but often not put on public display. It is certainly worse in rural areas. It stems from judgement and ignorance.

It varies from province to province. In some places, de facto segregation still exists.

Understand, consecutive generations were taken from their parents to so-called residential schools. These were highly abusive environments, similar to China's re-education camps for Uyghurs. The last residential school closed in the late 1990's.

Children learn how to be parents, from their parents. For better or for worse. Take them away, traumatize them, then repeat for multiple generations and see what happens. It is not good.

I'm 31. When I was in school, we didn't learn about these atrocities. Really old stuff was talked about, like 17th century stuff, but the extent of the much more modern abuses was not part of the curriculum.

So the ignorance of their plight, combined with judgement of their behavior leads to the place where a doctor thinks he is doing society a favour by sterilizing this human being against her will.

Unfortunately, I think we are going to have our own angry-white-people feel-like-something-is-being-taken-away-from-them-and-need-someone-to-blame movement before things can get better.
Perhaps, but I don't think the solution to the ever-increasing number of devices collecting and distributing ever-increasing amounts of personal data is to shrug and say "well, at least it's not as intrusive as my toaster. Now there's some Orwellian shit". I think it is useful in and of itself to make people aware of the sorts of data that is collected and shared by devices most people don't consider at all related to privacy.
Lactobacillus is omnipresent in our bodies, from our stomach to our boogers, and is the main lactic acid bacteria used in sourdough bread and quickly brewed sour beers.

Most bacteria in boogers and sweat is pretty harmless stuff, and a lot of it can be used to metabolize some tasty compounds. Even some clostridiums (same category of bacteria as the disease c. difficile and an omnipresent type of bacteria in our stomachs) are used to produce esters in rum.
Your heart hates air pollution. Portable filters could help
New JavaScript library for high-performance filtering
I just created a new open source library to simplify my job and realized it might be incredibly useful to other people, so I wanted to advertise it a bit and see if there was any interest.

https://github.com/stevendesu/jsindex

The premise is this:

Given a collection in JavaScript (an array of objects, each of which has the same keys) this library will build a simple index - pre-filtering all records by their key values.

This enables:

1. Constant-time searching for records with a certain collection of values -- down from the O(n) solution that is Array.prototype.filter()
2. Linear-time joining (left, right, inner, and outer join) of collections -- down from the O(n^2) solution of iterating over one array and using Array.prototype.filter() on the other

The library isn't 100% finished, but I'll keep working on it during my spare time. I'm also open to any suggestions or contributions. I was just really proud of it and wanted to see if anyone could use what I had built.

I plan to publish the library to NPM shortly (maybe tonight). I've just been too busy and kind of wanted to finish up all of the array function overrides first. Currently I've done the overrides for Array.push and Array.splice, but none of the others (Array.pop, Array.shift, Array.unshift, Array.concat)
The species would be better off if we, in the West, did not have the centralized government. The population would be lower and better off without it. Starvation is a motivating factor. We've removed many people's will to go on by feeding them and housing them in government created slums. We'd be better off if they never existed. Sadly the central government won't require sterilization in exchange for government aid.

As to the general idea of the government figuring things out, I'd rather have a world where humanity comes to a homeostasis due to conflict and pollution than to live in the dystopian world that Merkel and her ilk are bring forward with their new Empire. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2018/11/12/france-calls...

However, I don't think we need to go to that extreme. People should take responsibility for their data. They should figure out what they care about and seek means to realize their ends without requiring an Empire to bring its claws to bare by fines.

As to "dumb or lazy" you implied it. I said if they cared about it, they can shut it off by doing a simple Google search. If they don't care about it, they can leave the status quo. If they care and can't be bothered figure it out, which I don't think there will be too many that can't even ask for help, then they are lazy. Your argument is that the bulk of the EU population is in the lazy/dumb camp since the primary reaction you're condoning is regulation.
take the nest

'has parental controls': can't determine

well, it's a blooming thermostat. You can lock the thing out.

That's more 'parental control' than any standard thermostat.

creepy meter? as a gift for a non-family member? yeah, that's weird.
Oh, it's perfectly safe. You can tell by the smell... a healthy sourdough culture smells healthy, a rotten culture smells rotten. The yeast/bacteria system is extremely tough and resistant to other microbes and molds.
Can we bring back the Bull Moose part? http://www.progressivebullmoose.party/
General Electric is not doing so well either.
Up until this year, Vancouver had one of the highest proportions of single-family-housing zoning (over 60%). Vancouver is one of the worst cases of restricted (low-density) development in North America. Vancouver's housing problems are political, not geographical.
Google May Have to Get Used to Third Place in the Cloud
Some people willingly submit photos to be used in this manner[0], which will lead to them being used all over the place.

Once you've seen this picture of Brad Frost[1] (a web tech personality), it's hilarious how many startup landing page mockups he appears in. I've personally seen dozens.

[0] https://uifaces.co/

[1] https://avatars3.githubusercontent.com/u/383701?s=460&v=4
How Holography Could Help Solve Quantum Gravity
Just FYI the Minecraft activity isn't gamified computer activity, it is actual programming that uses a Block based language. So it has a lot of stuff, like loops, conditionals but it is more visual and allows the kids to see what their code does by watching how their character moves. The premise is that you have to move your character from one part of the map to another and avoid the obsticals. You do this with the Block based language utilizing commands such as move left, move right, move forward, move back. But then there are loops that allow you to move in a given (or multiple) direction multiple times.
I did it for years and my family's still here :-)
If you guys like this you might love my project Polar:

https://getpolarized.io/

it was also on Show HN about a month ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18219960

The idea is basically to allow you to create your OWN flashcards and sync them with Anki with the books you're reading.

Basically you can create flashcards in the app directly and sync them to mobile so you never forget the key points of the documentation you're reading.

Right now I'm working on the cloud version so that people can discover each other and collaborate on building their own cards, share highlights, etc.
A fair amount of resources spent in prison inmates is dedicated to keeping them inside the prison.
If you read carefully you will find that I have argued for doing as much as you can sustain doing. (I have edited slightly to make that clearer, now.) At the same time, unlike yourself, I thought it a best marketing practice to encourage people to get started with good actions, not to sell them on saintliness immediately. "First get a yes," as salesmen say. Perhaps that seems like a bitter trick to you, but Aristotle advises that establishing the habit of good action takes time.

Also remember, you don't know my circumstances - I'm trying hard not to use a wheelchair now, for example, so I may not be as active as you. I'm not young. Kudos if your charity can be relentless.

So do note that my argument was a limited one, I was arguing in favor of at least some action, not trying to define ceilings other than what you can sustain doing. Which, as it turns out, over time - is actually the greatest possible effort one could offer.

Not to mention that homeless people are but one possible focus for charity so I can't accept your apparent insistence that I should devote all my energy to them exclusively; I spend far more time and effort trying to help the severely chronically ill in my own way and am not willing to give that up. If only because chronic illness often leads to homelessness.
A slice of bread weighs about an ounce or 28 grams. There is less than 3 grams of protein in a slice of bread. About 80% of the protein is gluten which gives 2.5 grams of gluten per slice. So at the lowest exposure level, 1 milligram, this would mean making sure not to eat 1/2500th of the slice of bread. The slice of bread is about 4 inches by 4 inches by 0.5 inches giving a volume of 8 cubic inches. 1/2500th of that slice is 0.0032 cubic inches or a cubic piece >1/8 inch on each side.

Based on the above calculation, I think it's probably ok to use the same utensil as long as there are no obvious crumbs.
In such cases you can insert a barrier with a magic value to detect any array overflow.

The other thing to do is to enforce checks on array indices.
The system works because it's relying on the fact that different people have different thresholds for accepting candidates, not despite it.

It's still consistent in that in any case, the candidates you're approving of are all preferable (for you) to all of the candidates you're not.

There's no ambiguity.
It only works for the non-chronic homeless. It does not work with the mentally ill. All it does is temporarily redistribute the problem
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I'm hoping Adobe eventually goes the open source direction. I don't think there is much to lose at this point. As you mentioned, for historical purposes, it would nice to have a working archive of popular flash games and famous/infamous website flash splash screens and pre-loaders.
Chemical synthesis of medicine is highly scrutinized and fairly well understood, but there are a lot of other products that large chemical companies make in great quantity that are basically made using Black Magic. Tinker with it until it works, then don't mess with it!
And when it's one of the biggest companies in the world and has a user base of 2.3 billion people, those mistakes are not small. Here's an assessment showing that they accidentally made the genocide in Myanmar worse. https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/11/myanmar-hria/
The const keyword really doesn't mean anything. It is not checked at runtime, so a buffer-overrun could change the const member regardless
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Ah, that explains it. The link actually works, though.
Good to know. That is WAY beyond anything in the statistics in the pure/applied math department where I got my Ph.D. But in that department I ignored their interests in statistics as much as I could which was nearly total.

As I mentioned, I got an, admittedly weak, power result using Ulam's tightness. Yes, it's weak, but it's quite general.

If I return to the mathematical statistics of hypothesis testing, I'll look into what you mentioned.

From what you mentioned, it appears that some of ML is actually being mathematical: I continue to believe that computer science is 'out of gas' and needs some new directions and those about have to be from, with, in pure/applied math, applied to problems newly important because of computing, but, still, pure/applied math.
By the way I think this Santa guy himself is high on the creepiness scale when it comes to privacy infringement :)
A billion dollar unicorn hopes with all its might it does. During that time till they get wiped out in the great day of interest rates dread I will continue buying the same stuff I always do.

Unless there is a sale.
The real fun is going to start when there's going to be no chance for those that have started recently to be in the money on the options that they are getting.

Those leaks would make Sandberg portrayal in "Chaos Monkeys" look like a glowy puff piece in Vogue.
Seeing Planetary Change, Down to the Smallest Wildflower (2016)
Society. Nature does not dictate everything- nurture has a role to play as well. We're constantly being shaped by our environments, from friends to parents to media.

How much of our personalities is due to nature and how much is due to nurture is, as far as I am aware, not figured out. It is a very hard problem to separate those influences.
How that fear is supposed to help with court cases? Defendant being fearful does not help his case.
I was assuming that the majority of people have access to a stove and oven as I've always had even in the most low-budget living arrangements I've had as a student. Definitely without that, it does become more challenging.

> I'd never ever risk someones intrigue in the culinary arts by saying its easy.

I'm sure that's true from some. But the opposite could be true for others. I think saying it's easy as an isolated statement is pretty useless (note that I never said cooking was easy). However, I think rebuffing statements that cooking is hard coupled with pointers to easy dishes (which I admittedly didn't provide) are a good antidote.

Personally, I love to invite into my kitchen those I know who think cooking is too hard to try to equip them to believe otherwise :)
You can have automated test generation. I'd imagine with a database system, you'd have a big list of possible ingredients to a query and then go thorugh a series of nested for loops to concatenate them together and make sure each permutation works separately. That can easily make for thousands of tests with only a few lines of code.
If school starts later, then they may be dropping their kid off at school at 9am or 9:30am rather than at 8am. This makes it hard to get iinto the office in a reasonable time.

Its also not quite the same problem for those of us who ride the bus, parents aren't trapped schleping kids on the bus. I'm surprised Boston Schools don't use the local mass transit system for middle & high schoolers, we've been pushing for that change in Seattle for years (all highschool students get ORCA cards finally). Why needlessly duplicate service?
Dedicated chips for machine learning (inference) are being developed by many companies.
The hope is that these will be used instead of (or in addition to) GPUs for ML tasks.

Not that Nvidia is poorly positioned. In fact, I expect that if dedicated ML chips work out, Nvidia will also put one on the market.
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Was it ever not a tech hub? Every time I speak with a tech person from New York I feel a hint of inferiority complex.
People are weird. We feel better about things when it appears that our input has been taken into account whether or not the end result has actually changed.

Here's an article with a bunch of examples from elevator door close buttons to fake thermostats:

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/28/us/placebo-buttons-elevat...

So much of the pushback seems to have come down to the framing of the "algorithm" as this emotionless black box devoid of input instead of what it really is: a model based upon inputs from all sides.
The reason why games have such large files is that the fastest way of loading a game is to do a serial read of the data, ergo the large files.
Don't confuse debate tactics with logical/scientific rigor.

Here's a technique employed in this article and in many other Quillette articles: Person X said A and B; A is wrong because of [some citations], therefore B is wrong, and we conclude that C is completely wrong because science, QED. However, A is a peripheral argument while B is the central one, which in any event does not depend on A, and C is an argument which no one has made and is usually a gross straw-man generalization of B. Another technique, employed here and elsewhere, is: X said S; T is wrong because of [some citations]; but S rests on T therefore S is wrong because science, QED. But, of course, "science" does not show that S rests on T. Even if T => S, the conclusion that S rests on T (i.e. ~T => ~S, which is equivalent to S => T) is wrong. Yet another technique is: A => B according to [some citations] and C => D according to [some citations], therefore A => D because B => C, QED. But B => C is not established.

These are all things that give a cursory reader the illusion of rigor, as they may come to believe that if rigor is used anywhere in the argument, then the argument is rigorous (while, in fact, an argument is rigorous iff rigor is used everywhere). Of course, some of the texts Quillette's articles respond to are not rigorous either, but Quillette's core technique relies on the illusion of rigor, hence pseudoscience or scientism.
I'm genuinely astonished by how bad the entire introduction/tutorial to RDR2 is. It's several hours long, completely uninteresting, bogs you down in every control and feature that the game has to offer, and is so ungodly slow that I can't imagine anyone completing it in one sitting. I've played a lot of games; that was among the top 10 worst introductions I've ever seen.
This kind of thinking trivializes real progressive policies that “help the poor, the black, and the anti-imperialist” as “small adjustments”, and not the matter of life or death as things like torte law, affordable healthcare, unions, and public infrastructure can be. I hope there is more to that in the full context.

Worse, in this context it seems to suggest that you should bargain with neither side and instead seek some new power dynamic. That would be a recipe for disappointment, especially when I think an engaged citizenry can make real (albeit slow) progress by bargaining with the major political parties.
Car parks, quality dating grounds!
Snapchat is out of fashion already. It's Tik-tok/Musically that's the current fad (or trendy) social media app.
Do you know where I could find details about how to optimise for SteamPipe?
Chrome OS is open source. So is the browser on it.
GE stock has plummeted by nearly 80% in the last two years.
Just because you have full "shell" access to the container doesn't necessarily imply any thing needs to be mitigated.

What do you mean? It's an arbitrary RCE - a scenario that's generally treated as game over. What specifically are the concerns you don't have if that happens to a system of yours?
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Mostly to see what it's like. The businesses selling starters focus on historically interesting, important, or notoriously good starters (like the "San Francisco sourdough", or the oldest known starter in the world, salvaged from an Egyptian tomb). I've done my own wild starter, and my daughter has also done wild starters (in her case, she made a rice bran starter for making Japanese nukazuke pickles).

So mostly, it's the academic interest.
I found that Firefox via flatpak works very well on my i5 Pixelbook
>WASM based

png encoder feels about 100x slower than native (didnt measure, but took over a minute vs 1 second)
A vital figure is missing from the article, how many people are actually being housed with that budget?

If it's 10k people, that is $16,500 per person (ignoring administrative costs). So that is pretty damn effective budgeting. (roughly)

But, it's 1k people that is $165,000 a person, which is piss poor.

So just shouting down someone else that is missing a few numbers is pointless without all the numbers. You may end up agreeing with their sentiment if you find the end results are the same. (ie, possibly the budget is going to rich land owners pockets instead of actually helping more people)
Traveling near the speed of light or at it will never happen. Infinite energy / mass problem. Plus everyone back at earth will have aged equivalent to the number of light years away, while it may feel only like a couple weeks on the ship. Unless we develop some type of wormhole technology, we're pretty much confined to our immediate system for any realistic exploration and communications.
I'll expand this further by saying yes to all of the above with the addition that to get it perfect in my experience requires about 7 iterations.
How is this different from credit scores?
GE is "reinventing" just like IBM. They will probably be dying 10 years from now...
If you're truly on the line about approving of a candidate then it's exactly the same quandary as being on the line between two candidates in a plurality decided election.

There's literally no difference. It's up to you to make your choice.
Yes, "[r]emaining silent is (in the USA) evidence of nothing", but only regarding the facts of the case. But it can be evidence of contempt, and that can put you in jail. And because each refusal to answer is an additional act of contempt, there's effectively no limit to jail time. You're stuck in a contempt-of-court loop.
The end of the article has me confused, they say modern machines can't match these old ones. But then say most of their ancient designs are now done on the mainland with modern machines.

Which is it?
> the people who whine about it largely already gave you their money and aren't likely to refund/return (in some avenues it is impossible).

Not only that, but they will buy the next game and the next one too. This is the reason so much game software is buggy, bloated, and user-hostile: people keep buying it, release after release. You’re rewarding the company for crap! The whole “buy, complain, buy the next one” cycle keeps products of all kinds awful.
I'm only a few years younger than you, and I also use Facebook a lot. But I only use groups, events and messenger.

It's impressive how bad their UI is for my use, though.
It seems like Facebook is trying to be useless for important things, like community groups where you actually have to coordinate things, or events you actually want to show up to. Instead they're working really hard to always shove uninteresting algorithmic suggestions in your face at every turn.
>“We’re not going to traffic in your personal life,” Tim Cook, Apple’s chief executive, said in an MSNBC interview. “Privacy to us is a human right. It’s a civil liberty.” (Mr. Cook’s criticisms infuriated Mr. Zuckerberg, who later ordered his management team to use only Android phones, since the operating system has far more users than Apple’s.)

I can't get enough of the Apple-Facebook beef. Also kind of a "cut off your nose to spite your face" kind of move from a security perspective.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18450681 and marked it off-topic.
Funny quote:

> “We’re not going to traffic in your personal life,” Tim Cook, Apple’s chief executive, said in an MSNBC interview. “Privacy to us is a human right. It’s a civil liberty.” (Mr. Cook’s criticisms infuriated Mr. Zuckerberg, who later ordered his management team to use only Android phones, since the operating system has far more users than Apple’s.)
I rendered my disapproval of Facebook by deleting it.
That is the only action they care about.