skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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>Just getting started with a whittling knife? Go make a wheel.

I used to go to primitive skills meetups, and at one of them I met a guy who taught woodworking. At the meetup, he carried around a few blocks of wood and some basic tools, and when he sat down to eat he'd bang out a wood spoon and eat with that. This was good advertising, but he said he did that sort of thing a lot for practice.
I can't vouch for its veracity (bit ironic), but I heard there's 10 lobbyists for every politician in Brussels. Or at least some depressing number.
man I hate paywalls, I really want to read this one.
It makes sense. Like how the Gulf countries invest in solar. It's because they have the interested parties (Energy industry) on the phone every day.
For a while we had some quality conferences around topics such as Ruby, Javascript etc. with great technical talks that were open to anybody who had an interest and wanted to attend. These days many, if not most of them are thinly veiled political/social justice action get togethers that actively ban people who do not share in the ideology.
I feel like the motivation of any business is to maximize profit. Even if there is a side goal of improving society, in the end, you can't do that if they turn off your electricity for non-payment.
This isn't feasible. The refineries in the US are not designed for the same oil produced by the Permian basin (the Permian is producing light crude, US refineries are configured for medium to heavy crude). More importantly, oil is fungible on the world market; you can't effectively dictate "Oil produced in America is consumed in America" without drastically regulating the energy market with public policy (not going to happen).

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-oil-exports-study/sha... (Shale oil growth to overwhelm U.S. refiners, fuel exports: study)

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/17/shale-oil-has-a-refining-pro... (Shale oil has a refining problem, and Morgan Stanley thinks investors can profit)

If you want to lessen your dependency on middle east energy, switch to electric cars, trucks, and busses faster.
I'm saying that every time in history where voting has been restricted to "people who can give positive evidence for being 'responsible citizens'" has been used to define 'responsible citizens' purely for (white) nationalism, giving plutocratic power to a minority party.

I certainly appreciate Heinlein's thought experiment in the book. It is a useful strawman to argue about/against. In reading the book it gave me a lot of reasons to agree that it sounds good in theory, but sounds abysmal and is likely to fall to cronyism if not fascism in practice. As I stated well above, I appreciate that the film is a particularly strong indictment of the idea by very strongly showing it leading to fascism and propaganda. I read the book that way, assuming the narrator (Rico) to be unreliable and subject to very visible propaganda in the corrupt system to which he is so deeply embedded. The movie does alright by me making that subtext into very visible (not very subtle) text.

> The system we have now […] we have a Congress with approval ratings in the single digits and incumbent re-election rates in the high 90s

The system the US has now is not universal suffrage. We've seen the highest rates of elections won that do not match the popular vote. The majority of US states are dealing with gerrymandered districting that verges on ludicrous. The approval ratings are an indictment that suffrage is not being universally observed, and that election results are unreflective of actual US demographics. It's time to consider fixing US democracy, and making it more of an actual democracy, not changing it to something that no longer resembles democracy.
How about we leave all that shit in the ground where it can't kill us?
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The human assistant.
What hyperbolic clickbait nonsense.

> If Saudi Arabia and its allies cut production when they gather Dec. 6 in Vienna, higher prices would allow shale to steal market share.

Considering oil prices have gone from near $80 to near $55 in about a month, I'm guessing they've decided to maintain or even increase production. That is unless the saudis and the wall st banksters decide to game the market as they do from time to time. But of course the bloomberg "journalists" wouldn't know anything about it or investigate that because they are allergic to real journalism like more establishment media.

> But because the Saudis need higher crude prices to make money than U.S. producers, OPEC can’t afford to let prices fall.

The saudis make money on their oil. They don't need higher prices for that and certainly their oil is more profitable than shale oil. What they need is higher oil prices to maintain their government budget.

If you want to know what a joke bloomberg is...

The same journalist wrote this today : "Saudi Oil Production Surges to Record in Early November"

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-21/saudi-oil...

If anyone working at bloomberg knew what they were talking about, they wouldn't be working at bloomberg. They'd be raking in the millions working for themselves.
I don't know which phone OS you are using so I'm not going to bother to check, but I believe there are multiple Hacker News apps. It seems likely that at least one of them will provide a more appropriate interface.
I consider this a positive. If I ask Google not to save my data, I don't want them to save my data, not pick and choose where they should be saving it.
Of course, C++ is much more aggressive in stealing popular features from the community, especially Boost.
Would you be against your employer rewarding you with an IV injection of dopamine? I know this is a bit of a stretch but bare with me. Rewarding someone with gamification, either audibly or visually, or thought other gamification systems releases dopamine in the system. The medium of communication is different but the effect it the same: is a synthetic boost of dopamine and it's similar to injecting it directly into the body, albeit to a lesser degree.
Aren't all programming mistakes and bugs "technical errors?"
Isn't it typical for each economy to export the thing it is best at producing?

Also look at Norway--huge petroleum wealth, lots of Teslas because oil is dirty.
The entire embedded systems industry revolves around C and C++. This includes the automotive industry, aeronautics, robotics, medical devices, space, much of IoT, appliances, countless defense projects, infrastructure, etc. And even in a traditional computing environment, many projects requiring high performance and portability are still being written in C or C++, such as games and high-fidelity modeling/simulation.
So you got scammed on the internet. How is that relevant or have anything to do with Dubai/Abu Dhabi?
That sounds uncomfortably close to iPhone :)
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> It tastes totally different to what you can buy in the store (at least what I have had), or even how it tastes a week later.

Weirdly enough that reminds me of colostrum, or first milk:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colostrum
Back in the 1970's, I was fascinated by the (now famous) ADVENT game and how it worked, so I studied the Fortran source code.

When started up, it would do all kinds of slow (at the time) initialization of its data structures. Then the genius move kicked in - it saved the memory image to disk as the executable file! Next time it ran, it was already initialized and started up instantly. It blew my mind.

I liked the idea so much, that years later when I worked on the text editor I use (MicroEmacs), I did the user configuration the same way. Just change the global variables, then patch the executable file on the disk with the changed values. It was so, so much simpler than defining a configuration file, serializing the data, writing/reading the file, and deserializing it. It worked especially great on floppy disk systems, which were incredibly slow.

But then came viruses, malware, etc. Patching the exe file became a huge "malware alert", and besides, Microsoft would mark the executable as "read only" while it was running. Too bad.
One of the most enlightening books I read as a teenager was "The Wit of Oscar Wilde" a gift from my father. It taught me the value of a well phrased insult or what we refer to now as backhanded compliment. Things like "I always feel smarter after listening to you". Stopped me getting in so many fights for calling (much larger, stronger kids) morons.

I wish more theatre companies would perform his work.
I'm unsure what you mean by Google "destroying" newsgroups. Newsgroups were decentralized to begin with, the fact that Google purchased Deja News and then didn't... I don't know, turn it into a Reddit-equivalent or something doesn't surprise me. You can still use Google Groups as a Usenet gateway and there are still other Usenet gateways around, although the offerings are getting a bit more scarce and it's no longer a standard part of your ISP's package.

Whenever I look at places like comp.lang.c (which still exists) I remember the bad Usenet experiences I had in the 1990s. It's certainly not worse than it was, in my mind. If anything killed newsgroups, it was Slashdot / Reddit / Stack Overflow and the like.
That might because they are targeting Embedded C++, which explicitly eschews these features.
And if they didn't target EU users they could just delete the ads, like USA Today does on its super fast EU-specific website (https://eu.usatoday.com/).
At least he can get a tax deduction from it, I guess?
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Ars Technica has an article on this as well. It features a 5 minute video of various attempts and sustained flight as well.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/11/small-drone-soars-on...
I set up my servers to use Google's SMTP, then proceed to use inbuilt tools. So only port 25 (or whatever the TLS equivalents) blocking is a problem
> The ones written in Lisp

I have some of these exotic Lisp Machines from the 80s which run no C code by default and where the C compiler is optional and written in Lisp. ;-) Obviously exotic and outdated. An alternate world.

> I haven't seen a popular lisp yet with a meaningful amount of assembly in lieu of C.

https://github.com/Clozure/ccl/tree/master/level-0/ARM

And, yes, the assembler is written in Lisp, too.
They would have had a simpler time of cpu feature detection in Rust, as it is built in. But that isn't a huge thing.
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So a woman in a car with a gun in her glovebox sees a group of young boisterous men approaching her. She gets the gun out of the glove box and brandishes it at them. They go away. Was this a "defensive gun use"? She will certainly report it as a defensive gun use. But we don't really know what those guys were doing.
The underlying libraries may be in C, but the vast majority of data scientists never need to alter the C so it's fair to say most data science code is written in python. Python/Numpy/pandas has enabled data scientists to avoid writing C entirely.
Tell that to the bash people above.
Yep. It was easy for us to topple Libya, and we almost succeeded with Syria as well, if Russia hadn't stepped in. A secular government is easy to stir up the fundamentalists against, to use them as foot soldiers in your regime change operation.

They won't have as much luck with Iran, since it's government is so strongly aligned with the fundamentalists, the pool of willing cannon fodder will be smaller.

I hope, at some point, these illegal regime change operations that the US and other western countries have been involved in for so many decades, will eventually stop.
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As a nexus/pixel user since the Galaxy Nexus I'd say so too :)
> "I'm approaching 40 and I have no one I look up to as a role model (parents are fine but got the same problems as the general population)"

Seneca reminds us[0] that we may be the sons of whomsoever we will:

"We are wont to say that it was not in our power to choose the parents who fell to our lot, that they have been given to men by chance; yet we may be the sons of whomsoever we will. Households there are of noblest intellects; choose the one into which you wish to be adopted; you will inherit not merely their name, but even their property, which there will be no need to guard in a mean or niggardly spirit; the more persons you share it with, the greater it will become. These will open to you the path to immortality, and will raise you to a height from which no one is cast down. This is the only way of prolonging mortality -nay, of turning it into immortality. Honours, monuments, all that ambition has commanded by decrees or reared in works of stone, quickly sink to ruin; there is nothing that the lapse of time does not tear down and remove. But the works which philosophy has consecrated cannot be harmed; no age will destroy them, no age reduce them; the following and each succeeding age will but increase the reverence for them, since envy works upon what is close at hand, and things that are far off we are more free to admire. The life of the philosopher, therefore, has wide range, and he is not confined by the same bounds that shut others in. He alone is freed from the limitations of the human race; all ages serve him as if a god. Has some time passed by? This he embraces by recollection. Is time present? This he uses. Is it still to come? This he anticipates. He makes his life long by combining all times into one."

> "Is resignation the only way to keep sane?"

Resignation is not likely to produce the good you seek.

Epictetus' Discourses [1,2] offers advice on attaining and maintaining tranquility, even in the midst of hardship.

If you have the time and interest, a meditation retreat may offer deeper, experiential insight into the nature of existence; the topic comes up fairly regularly on HN[3].

[0] http://www.stoics.com/seneca_essays_book_2.html

[1] https://archive.org/details/epictetusdiscour01epicuoft

[2] https://archive.org/details/epictetusdiscour02epicuoft

[3] https://hn.algolia.com/?query=vipassana&sort=byPopularity&pr...
you don't need deduplicating file system or ksm. regular file systems and regular shared read only code pages work fine.

see the links I posted above, if every package (or a subset of packages based on the underlying source package) in a traditional linux distribution is treated as an independent layer that can be composed together on demand (i.e. what happens when you install a package, except much slower) using a traditional union file system you get deduplication (as every image using that package will be sharing the same exact portion of the file systme) and you get memory sharing for free (for exact same reason, as its fundamentally no different than multiple processes on a single host dynamically linking the same binaries).
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You won't be able to get to the stratosphere with low efficiency propellers. And you would need an absurd number of them to make any difference.
That seems awfully nitpicky in this context. Look at russdill's comment, then look at the throwaway, which is reasonable to interpret as stating that DRAM is being continuously refreshed - which it isn't, it happens at discrete intervals.

Anyway, what you're writing isn't wrong but I'd say misses the context of the conversation a bit :)

(Also, it's a great example of mansplaining...)
Swift is a complex language, and this allows for a lot more people to talk about how their programming paradigm is the best way to write Swift. It’s the same reason we often see articles like “extending Optionals” or “AutoLayout with a DSL” on Hacker News: Swift is so overwhelmingly used for iOS development that people seem to find it useful to specialize it in places where it designed to be general, and they love to tell other people about it.
Less dependency on foreign oil is good for peace since the US will not be "protecting their interests". And Saudi Arabia having less budget for their wars is also a good thing.
No, it doesn't have to be, but I have very little faith in Google to make any choices that even border on altruistic when it's far more profitable to exploit us.

I think there's a case to be made here that Google's motivations can mirror those of the users and that it's in Google's best long term interest for that to be the case.

It seems obvious to me that a company that can be aligned with their customer's desires will have the most longevity, which may mean forgoing temporary, short term revenue gains.

I'm not so naiive to think that it currently is the state of things, or that it's simple for this to be the case - quite the opposite. Rather, my point is that there is no law of economics that guarantees users and corporations must be in conflict or that corporations will always do better financially by exploiting users to the users' detriment (or that a competitor that does that will beat one that doesn't).
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Ask your peers. Ask your manager. Outside the review cycle. Tell them you’re specifically looking for things to improve on.

If you still can’t get feedback, find a new job with a manager who focuses more on individual employee development. Incorporate that into the questions you ask during the interview process.
With the DNS and Alt-Src, are you saying that the Onion site identity can be verified by visiting the non-onion version of the site, and then relying on the header/DNS record to take the session onto Tor?

Then when the onion service private key is breached, the site operator just changes the header and DNS record to a new, non-breached one?

As you say though, querying these does reduce anonymity.
This sounds like a preeminently practical strategy.
Don't forget that Texas is also one of the largest producer of nuclear energy in the nation.
> Texas is in a funny place. They are pumping oil like crazy

Texas had always pumped a lot of oil. Texas was the oil capital of the world for a long time before saudi arabia came around.

> but they are building wind like crazy as well.

That's because one of the wealthiest men in the world has been a big fan of wind energy.

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/19231397/ns/us_news-environment/t/...

> I could easily see Texas being a majority renewables while at the same time exporting more and more Oil.

No major state or country is going to be renewable majority for a very long time ( if ever ). Least of all texas.

https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/images/charts/primary-en...
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Objective-C, as a language, is still improving slowly. But it’s pretty mature overall; the majority of Objective-C developers I know actually write Objective-C++ and hence tend to follow the development of new C++ features.
> Why wouldn't they track and display this statistic to the drivers?

It's not done for the benefit of the employees, it's done for the benefit of the employer. I suspect that a rating is anxiety inducing more than anything. For instance:

https://www.ridester.com/uberx-drivers-stop-obsessing-rating...
I think the core distinction is business-centric conferences vs developer-centric conferences. You've entirely named the former. Those are geared towards using platforms, and while developers are welcome, they aren't the entirety of the target audience, business professionals (eg MBAs) are just as first-class at those. But Ruby and Python and Swift conferences are going to entirely be geared towards developers.

I think the hammer analogy works better as conferences for building houses (business conferences) vs power tools (developer conferences) vs hand tools (no conferences), the distinction being how quickly can you get to a finished house. A power tool is something that can make houses quickly. A hand tool can be used quickly and efficiently by someone very experienced with them, but power tools can be used by almost anyone.
Size of model is unclear at the moment, but will likely need 4 gigs or RAM or so?

We will only be doing inference with this particular app, the training on another machine.

Images will vary based on what users upload, but larger ones a couple GBs.

Would be ideal to have a website running, to be user friendly and present all of this.
FWIW, if you use Amazon SES, it costs $1 to send 10,000 e-mails a month, with a regular mail client. If you use EC2 or EB, you get 62,000 sends free. So you could use echo/cat/sendmail with an SES account to handle a crapload of e-mail notifications for practically nothing.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/DeveloperGuide/send-e...
I am new to Silverblue, but also using it daily for the past month.

An important aspect of it, I think, is "rootless" podman -- I can create and manage containers without elevated privileges. Any required root escalation is done in the containers.

Still, it is weird. GUI apps do work, but hmm.

Solaris Zones are better-integrated than this newfangled podman stuff that you kids are using these days.
Depending on where you get the electricity to charge your Tesla it could be worse than oil. But seeing as Norway gets almost all of it's electricity from renewable energy that's not the case there.
Your point about

>in the English speaking world.

and

>Resume size

don't make me confident that this will apply very well to any job not in the USA. Or in something other than Silicon Valley web-dev.
What's scandalous about this is that there a journalists out there who would make a story out of this. Amazon has so many employees that "Some Amazon employees bought condos is location X in week Y" is probably a true statement for all X and all Y.
Not really sure why this was downvoted. The website is incredibly unclear as to whether it’s an ongoing thing or just a certain day/month/whatever. Sorry for daring to ask techbros a simple question.
Something along the lines of this article? https://aws.amazon.com/fr/blogs/machine-learning/how-to-depl...
This is irrelevant as long as they have customers whose rights are protected by GDPR.
I was never in SLC. I was in the South and the Midwest.

With regards to referring to the Mormon church as Mormon: I will use the common reference standard as it will likely be returned to in a few years. The whole recent re-labeling is useful internally but not my business externally.[0] Not my rodeo, not my clowns.

[0] https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2018/08/17/us/m...
> Gail Greenberg of suburban Philadelphia embraced the nonperforming-loan trade to build up her retirement savings, which took a hit in 2008. She started in 2016 with a loan in Flint, Mich., she bought for $15,000.

> “I only owned it for nine weeks and the house burned down,” Ms. Greenberg said. Thanks to an insurance payout, though, she said she made a profit of $27,000.

> Ms. Greenberg took that as a sign she should make loan investing her day job. She now owns 58 mortgage notes, as they’re often called, totaling more than $2.4 million in unpaid principal.

I wonder how she's doing now.
Everything about this sounds so fucking gross.

> A scrappy breed of independent investor

> During the boom before the bust, lenders made mortgage loans to countless buyers who couldn’t afford them. Lenders later wrote off many of the loans, but borrowers’ obligation to pay remained. Today, in an improved economy, a rag-tag group of individual investors, plus some Wall Street giants, is buying these old loans and trying to tease value out of them.

It's a feel good story of the year! A group of scrappy rag-tag enterpreneurs, with a can-do attitude, hustling by ... going after people who were already fucked at least once.

> Others use loan servicers to try to get mortgage payments restarted so they can feed the loans back into the Wall Street mortgage securitization machine.

Yes, feeding things to a machine definitely sounds like a morally neutral proposition.