skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is Brexit inevitable or might the upcoming vote in parliament derail it? If so, how would that work? Everything goes back to the way it was some 2 years or so ago?
How about department or squad insurance? If one member is negligent, the entire team pays higher premiums. Put that blue line to work.
Works on NewPipe...
My problem is just not having the time to read such long texts. So yeah, I agree, just get to the damn point and give me the facts!

On the other hand, anecdotal evidence suggests for many people telling an emotional story about someone they can emphasize with is the most effective way to change their opinion, and as such necessary for that audience.
>If a modern program doesn’t compile on an older version, I would interpret that as being a significant change in the language, the referent of “FORTRAN”.

A modern C program doesn't compile in old C compilers. That doesn't mean it's not C. You can change tons of ergonomics and keep the language the same. Or you can keep the spirit the same (which in a language are its core semantics and concepts).

>I believe GP simply didn’t develop their argument effectively.

GP just casually said it's a whole new language in the casual, everyday sense, that a e.g. you can say "it's a brand new car now" after you redid the interior and did some repairs on your 10-year old car.

(And I got in with the Ship of Theseus thing to humor the objection -- not that I really consider the GP statement to have to be taken at face value).
Someone hasn't payed attention to the AOT compilers available for C# and Java, their widely deployment on embedded platforms, PTC, MicroEJ, Aicas, WebSphere Real Time, Android Things, wearOS, Ricoh, Cisco, Netduino, Meadow, IoT Core and many others.

Yes, maybe not on a satellite's firmware, but on a Gemalto firmware, certainly.

https://www.gemalto.com/m2m/solutions/modules-terminals/indu...

https://www.gemalto.com/m2m/solutions/modules-terminals/indu...

Just two examples from their portfolio.

Naturally it depends on how much memory is available and real time constraints.

However something like MicroEJ is already happy with an ESP32 variant, and I guess Rust could replace its C layer.
In one of my classes, as a gross oversimplification, I explain that what determines the difference in speed between an R and a Python implementation of something is how much of it is secretly written in C or Fortran.
You are thinking of cryptomining, specifically ones that use proof-of-work blockchains.
> since the environmental factors that the poor tend to be more exposed to that lead to downward deviations from genetic potential have had significant impact before schooling starts (in many cases even in utero),

It's true that adverse environmental conditions can lower IQ, but not whole standards of deviation. There are many people who grew up dirt poor and yet managed to achieve academically, which if intelligence was really irreparably impaired by a poor environment would not be possible.

> and school performance numbers today basically just reflect the student body (and in very large part the engagement and socioeconomic background of the parents) they are dealt more than outcome differences produced by the school

Which is exactly why a genetic test would be more accurate! It would not take into account differences due to quality of schooling.
That site has the cookie policy from hell. Go to the site, ctrl-a, ctrl-c, ctrl-v into a pad and close the browser tab.
Then you will have the information without having to deal with their corporate madness.
Could it be the aggressively over prescribed amphetamines?
This is an important question everyone should ask themselves. Should you be honest or sacrifice it for money? Do you want to sleep well every night? Do you have a moral compass or is it broken already? Should you sell your ethics? You probably have more space to decide than those who struggle surviving the day. You can choose.

Wise words indeed.
Yeah.

Apparently the downvoters don't get the irony.
That's not quite true. If you want to view the video in fullscreen on iOS it'll just show the content of the video tag and nothing else. They're working on Fullscreen API support, though.
Extreme male brain theory of autism confirmed
I've only taken a brief glance at this report, so I apologize if my issue I'm about to bring up is already addressed within.

It seems that this report is falling into the common trap of 'Officer deaths are down, the job must be safer'. Officer training has increased in the last 20 years, as has protective equipment, and life saving measures.

Page 38 states "Further, the data presented on Chart 5 (which includes the average number of police fatalities due
to shootings, stabbings, assaults, bombings, and vehicular assaults) suggest that intentional attacks
against law enforcement are at historically low levels.200"

The FBI's statistics[1] report that in 2017, 60,000 officer were 'assaulted'. 2677 were assaulted by firearm, and over 267 of them were injured.[2]

Quite simply, the most thorough and definitive source of attacks against law enforcement officers is not used to measure attacks against law enforcement officers, instead we are simply measuring deaths. Safety is a difficult thing to measure. If a pilot with 5,000 hours of flight time has crashed 4 small charter air planes with 0 deaths, is he safer than the pilot who has 2,000 hours of flight time with 0 crashes?

What we can measure is things like 'Felonious assaults' and 'Injuries per weapon type'. Which we have measured, but people keep ignoring in reports like this. Reports and reviews such as this usccr report are important, but we need to look at the situation at hand accurately if we want to address it properly

[1]https://ucr.fbi.gov/leoka/2017
[2]https://ucr.fbi.gov/leoka/2017/tables/table-85.xls
...and why would you even go all the way to Mars to do it? Why not just do it right on Earth where you already are.
Overshadowed by Opioids, Meth Is Back and Hospitalizations Surge
Much of this is PR dominance as well. Corporate media has already done 90% of the hard work for people to be able to easily market and feel good about opposing specific issues. You just need to fill in the colors in the coloring book. But these issues have been done and accepted for the longest time, such as Google's State Department staffed Jigsaw branch that creates tools, shown in Wikileaks, to assist overthrowing foreign governments in collaboration with the State Department, or tools that AI-censors comments, or tools that delegates control of the discoverability of grassroot contents to other corporate conglomerates.
Pie charts :(
It's not just the avocado farmers in Chile, it's also the avocado purchasers in the UK.
not if you have the option to use cash for these activities. cash is more versatile and untraceable for this kind of things.
He is pretty significantly favored to win the tiebreakers. His ELO goes up as we move from rapid to blitz while Caruana's goes down so the longer this drags on and the shorter the games get the better off he is.
Hi, I work at AWS and before that on KVM since it was a thing.

Restricting /dev/kvm these days doesn't make much sense. The interface is designed to be safe for any user. The fact that we started as a character device and not syscalls is just a historical decision.
I think it has more to do with national security; i.e., not sharing our tech with other nation states that might use it against us. That used to be more of a thing a generation ago. For example, it used to be a crime to export certain computer technology to communist China. Now lot of our stuff is built there.
If someone were to say to me, say, "Pot should be legal everywhere", and you tell me it's unacceptable when considering this claim to consider that the speaker is high, then I don't accept your bounds of acceptable reasoning. (Yes, knowing enough directly about pot would screen off this evidence. I think pot should be legal.)

For an X about how an individual wants to live their own life, that is up to them: it's not for me to "accept" or "reject" it -- though I might think they're making a mistake. I wouldn't privilege moral/political claims to the same degree.
A 'full-time dad' must mean different things to different people. To me, it's incompatible with working full time.

Making them breakfast, seeing them off on the bus, picking them up from school, shuttling them off to activities, helping with homework, making dinner, cleaning up, helping them when they have nightmares ... &etc.

It's healthy to think of raising children as a creative, meaningful project on its own merits.
>For example, the old Fortran did not support recursion (which fact I consider a feature rather than a "bug").

So? C# 1.0 didn't support 90% of the cool features of C# whatever it is now, not even LINQ, the bread and butter of C# programmers.

Java up to 1.4 didn't have generics, closures, streams, modules, and tons of other stuff besides. Soon it will be getting many more.

Is it a different language for that?
That filmmaker was anti-Putin and he still lives in Russia? Totally believable.
It's Gandhi and not Ghandi. (Couldn't resist correcting, sorry).
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DC is in the process of mandating electric leaf blowers...
https://dcist.com/story/18/10/16/dc-gas-powered-leaf-blower-...

I've seen a few landscape crews using battery powered blowers and trimmers (not downtown, but near IAD). I have no idea how they manage the batteries.
Why does EC2 still only have read-only serial console?
>I would 100% be in favor of eliminating tariffs to countries that meet the same standards

That’s the current situation with the EU. Turns out the UK is not happy with that.
A web service is not web development though. At least I didn't consider "web development" in the parent's sense with "running a backend REST service", but more like "running websites".
> If only Westerners weren't so darn skeptical about everything.

The Chinese have become skeptical as well .

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2119375/nobo...
Actually this was being discussed in the ECJ today. The UK most certainly can withdraw article 50 and remain

There is some dispute over whether they can do it unilaterally, but we will find out when the ruling from todays case comes out.
Let me count the ways.

* All our manufacturing exports to Europe would suffer tariffs. 10% on cars for example.

* All our agricultural exports would be hit by tariffs.

* The legal basis for many of our financial services provided to Europe would disappear. Clearing for example.

* Imports and exports would suddenly be subject to customs inspections, introducing delays. No arrangements are in place for this.

* Many goods manufactured in Europe only count if a certain % of value comes from Europe. Parts made in the UK would not count anymore so European manufacturers using our parts would have to find alternatives. Cars are another big example, but there are many more.

* We would lose access to all the trade deals with non EU countries negotiated through the EU, which is (almost) all of them. E.g. the big new trade deal negotiated with Canada would no longer apply. Some minor trade deals through the commonwealth might survive, but it’s not much.

* We would probably end up defaulting on our €38bn obligations to the EU. Not as bad as a sovereign debt default, but not by much.

* Oh, and we’d probably also be in violation of our treaty obligations under the Good Friday Agreement, with unanticipatable consequences in Northern Ireland, except it wouldn’t be good.

So high end manufacturing and agriculture devastated, remaining trade (globally) obstructed, financial services crippled, debt default, political instability in NI. Some of those might be cushioned, but there’s no way it can all be significantly mitigated in a few months.

My hope is some sort of keep-it-as-it-is-for-now deal could be worked out. But that’s basically the May plan anyway.
How on earth do you not know to google? And in what situation do you think it's acceptable to keep asking people to post easily found links?

'Of course it's not ethical': shock at gene-edited baby claims. Chinese geneticist He Jiankui’s claim to have altered embryos prompts outcry from scientists

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/nov/27/he-jiankui-c...

"China is putting Uighur children in 'orphanages' even if their parents are alive"

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/china-uighurs-...

"Inside China’s Dystopian Dreams: A.I., Shame and Lots of Cameras"

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/08/business/china-surveillan...

"Time to Address China's Expanding Nuclear Weapons Program"

https://www.armscontrol.org/blog/2018-08-22/time-address-chi...

"Air pollution is killing 1 million people and costing Chinese economy 267 billion yuan a year"

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/2166542/air-...

"True grit: clouds of Chinese dust descend on southern Japan"

https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/east-asia/article/2093573/tru...
Seems somewhat similar to what Descartes Labs is doing - a "data refinery that combines data from diverse sources, cleans it up and makes it ready for modeling - and a platform to upon which to build living, learning models" [1]

[1] https://www.descarteslabs.com/
The truth about working from the beach
I don't understand who "they" and "us" are referring to.

Confusing article...
The vast majority of this account's comment history is targeted towards China.
People downthread have remarked on the lack of Chinese signatories, commenting on how the Chinese government tracks their citizens abroad. With ramifications for their family and friends as actual, real possibilities, according to some commenters.

If that were true, then their silence can definitely not be construed as any kind of tacit agreement, or even disinterest.

How many Chinese citizens (or people otherwise susceptible to this purported pressure) work at Google?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18543164
I didn't really think "sedan" was a throwback word... might be a local dialect thing but we use it often to differentiate between passenger cars: a 4-door is a "sedan" while a 2-door is a "coupe".
Azure Cosmos DB and multi-tenant systems
Thank you, I see what you mean.

Firstly, I agree that Git has a learning curve. However, trying to learn anything based on man pages alone is not a good idea, in my opinion man pages are for reference and not a substitute for more extensive documentation. Of course, sometimes man pages are the only document one has, but this is not so in the case of Git. I myself am not a Git expert, but after reading about what problems people have with Git, it feels like people should perhaps not go for the most exotic commands by default, and they should use a topic branch based workflow. And they should read the Pro Git book and I mean this in a good way :)

As for the switches, one can just as well use "git branch -v" to list branches, I usually pipe to grep if looking for a branch. For the "git remote", it actually does show you the remotes without any switches, but the URL of the remote is not the remote... To see the URLs you'll need the verbose switch. Maybe this is right, maybe not, I do think it makes sense.

The two dashes is actually not a Git peculiarity. It comes from getopt and POSIX.2 to signal the end of options. Compare with e.g. to rm a file that's called "-rf", you'll have to do "rm -- -rf" in the shell.

As for the intern, just tell them "Git reset moves backwards in commit history". Of course there are details (and you can get back to the future with e.g. git reflog), but it should be accurate enough description to an intern who is new to Git, since that's what "git reset" is mostly used for anyway. IMO "git reset -p" and such are somewhat advanced usage.

The problem with the Stack Overflow link is that Git is not tracking that upstream branch, just because the local and remote branches happen to have the same name after a push does not mean they are the same and should be tracked. I'd argue that if one works with topic branches, that kind of situation is kind of remedied automagically through the workflow... Anyway, Tzen's answer there is the correct one (when including the typofixes in the comments).

Also, thanks for the link to the Git man page generator, it's great!
If you use Firefox, Reader Mode is quite effective against this site, and many others.

It's the little "text document" icon in the address bar.
The GPL version was produced to be included with Ghostscript, which itself is GPL, so that wasn't an issue. I'd be very wary of using it with any other project.
Holding referendums in a representative democracy could be argued as undemocratic.
One solution is invoking a scheduled Lambda (with a test payload) at regular intervals to keep the function warm.
Computers are better but they still take a while to process the best moves, more if you're playing out a couple possible moves for each player to try to figure out the possible branches a human might go down that a computer would discard.
I find it ironic that these employees complain about an unethical search-engine project but have no issues stalking & violating the privacy of billions of people across the world.
NOAA scans the earth like a big scanner and sends the data down for anyone to pick up and get an image of the globe. It's not encrypted.
Xipology: Exploiting DNS caching as a covert channel
That might be fair, yeah. I've seen some sharply make this distinction, and others not care.

I think things are much more viable for "services" rather than "sites" right now. And the npm thing is a service.
What would anyone be punished for?
It's just silly to claim bluetooth is better than the headphone jack. There are lots of reasons people use headphone jacks less. I can't buy a phone one with one, cause I want a recent better spec phone.
That depends on what you're paying for. If you're using Lightsail or one of the t-series EC2 instances you'll definitely get throttled as you don't get dedicated hardware. All other EC2 instance types give you dedicated hardware, on the Intel instances you get one hardware thread per vCPU and on the ARM instances you get a physical core. Those instance types don't throttle.
It gets better. Soon it will imitate you without you uploading your conversations, because enough people around you did it (making themselves guilty of private conversation disclosure, at least 6 months emprisonment in France).

It’s not that privacy is an endless pursuit, it’s more that the governments enjoy it so much that they don’t really work on preventing it.
The literal translation of "kung fu" means skill through effort. In fact in some parts of China, the words "kung fu" is used to mean skill in general. To say a practitioner of some art has "no kung fu" means he or she is lacking in practice/skill. The more correct term for Chinese martial arts is "wu shu" -- "military/martial" and "art".

This idea of skill through practice is one of those values that I am very grateful for because it was sort of drilled into my head at an early age and has been enormous beneficial to me throughout my life. It's become more valuable now that I'm older and don't absorb new information as quickly or easily.
Being able to generate fast code doesn't imply not having a GC.

It is all a matter how it is implemented and the additional language features for manual types and control of allocations, and how good the compiler backend is transforming all that AST information into actual code.

Something like Modula-3, Active Oberon, System C#, Eiffel, D and so forth.
No, parliament could choose to withdraw their notice to leave. They are pretending they can't for political reasons, but it is far from inevitable
Kasparov is the greatest of them all, imo.
I'm sure he's not a monster. Thing is, Americans find it very hard to see us as anything other than monsters. It's exhausting to try and have a conversation when the interlocutor is ready to terminate it at any point because s/he decides that you are either evil or brainwashed. (To me, that's where the real prejudice lies - the inability to imagine other people as moral, not just intellectual, equals)

I should also say that the distinction between "criticizing government" and "criticizing people" is routinely not observed, even by Democrats. When Obama was making a case for the TPP, one of the main argument he gave was "The TPP would let America, not China, lead the way on global trade". Zero-sum language like this sends a signal to Americans that if doing something X is bad for this other group of humans, then that's an argument in favor of doing X, not (crazy thought!) an argument against doing it. That's how you get to where we are now where prominent Democrats like Chuck Schumer can say "we must be united in our fight against the Chinese" and not a single American, liberal or conservative, even took issue with that kind of language.
Another amateur radio sidenote for the day[0], SATNOGS[1] performs a similar task by tracking and recording satellite passes of LEO cubesats with amateur radio telemetry and communication payloads via a network of DIY ground stations. Anyone can see a history of any pass of a tracked satellite over a particular station including a RF spectrum waterfall, audio capture, and telemetry output if supported.

The SATNOGS receivers, usually a low-cost RTLSDR, cover a much wider spectrum than just amateur bands (which prohibits commercial use of it's spectrum), so I wouldn't be surprised if non-amateur entities are eyeing the service, or if SATNOGS organization is thinking about going commerical (although there's already competition in this field besides AWS Ground Station).

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18543454

[1] https://satnogs.org/
A link direct to the announcement for the curious: https://www.bitfinex.com/posts/319
In case you guys want a comparison to a similar survey for another language, here is Nim's 2018 survey results: https://nim-lang.org/blog/2018/10/27/community-survey-result...
Github repo with proof-of-concept code: https://github.com/oherrala/xipology
Tõzan came to study with Unmon. Unmon asked, "Where are you from?"

"From Sato," Tõzan replied.

"Where were you during the summer?"

"Well, I was at the monastery of Hõzu, south of the lake."

"When did you leave there," Unmon asked.

"On August 25" was Tõzan's reply.

"I spare you sixty blows," Unmon said.

The next day Tõzan came to Unmon and said, "Yesterday you said you spared me sixty blows.

I beg to ask you, where was I at fault?"

"Oh, you rice bag!" shouted Unmon. "What makes you wander about, now west of the river, now south of the lake?"

Tõzan thereupon came to a mighty enlightenment experience.
Magnus Carlsen is widely considered to be one of the very best chess players of all time, and it's more than respectable to consider him the Greatest of All Time. World Chess Championships are every two years. It's almost impossibly unlikely that someone like Carlsen (who is also very competitive) would deliberately prolong an event like this.
I was half-joking, but you do have a point. Nothing guarantees the standards of beauty will remain the same.
only the last few ones :) but hey, please ban me for talking about the urgent issues of the day.