skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some tests (e.g. unit tests) can run like this, yes. Other tests, including some benchmarks, are not meaningful when wrapped in a single process. Invocation speed and specifics matter.
> > User birdfo5_phpbb already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connections [1203]

I see not much has changed in web dev since the late '90s
Most of the computational methods stuff I see in historical linguistics is about trying to put a computational gloss over lexicostatistics, which I don't think is a very promising field. Preliminary surveys of probable family groupings are one thing, but unless sound correspondence identification can be automated, I don't think the later stages of classification can be aided much by computational methods. You still want regular phonological and morphological correspondences and, ideally, shared irregularities (good/better ~ gut/besser, that sort of thing), and I'm not sure what computational methods could do for that.

But there's really a lot to do in the preliminary stage, although it isn't always obvious. I'm still seeing classifications of Papuan languages that go entirely by their pronouns, the historical map of Africa is being redrawn (to clear out the overly enthusiastically lumping Greenberg classifications), and there are probably a few more chunks to be torn off Sino-Tibetan, which could... maybe be identified by throwing computers at word lists?

It's too bad language family proposals don't come with epistemic status markers.
> In fact I don't think I ever treat it as anything other than that in code either.

> Was the purpose of null ever to mean anything other than I have not been defined/set?

Different people understand null differently (it might mean "error", "value not in map", "invalid user input", ...) and there's never been a clear consensus. If "null" only ever has one meaning anywhere in your codebase, and any third-party libraries you use only ever use it to mean the same thing, you're probably ok. But as soon as there are multiple meanings you'll have confusion and bugs.

> Specifically, with the caching problem, provided you constrain the cache to reason about null == not set. I see no problem.

If you only have the one cache, sure. As soon as you have a two-level cache you start to have problems (you can no longer cache absent results, since you're using the same representation for absence from your outer cache). Or as soon as null shows up anywhere else.

It's the same problem as stuff that relies on evaluation order, or threadlocals: it's ok most of the time, as long as you're not combining it with something else that does the same thing. The trouble is the times when these noncompositional constructs break down are when you have complex nested code - which is precisely when you most need everything to work the way you'd expect.
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You could probably start from The Moscow Times, though they are rather softcore.

https://themoscowtimes.com/articles/krasnodar-judge-throws-2...

Then nobody was sure that this judge had ever study law. She said she went to some college in Georgia (the country) which said she's not on their records.
it was probably rhetorical, lol

I don't even think it guarantees that new neural nets won't be trained on your 'deleted' data
My hospital has earplugs that you can just request. Not sure about sleeping masks - didn't ever see anyone with one, so I assume they don't have those to give out.
India launches 'heaviest' satellite for internet access
Sometimes you pick from a set of actions for each you have equal reasons/information to pick. And you pick technically randomly. But after you made the choice, you stick/commit to it, you identify with it. The other choices are no longer a possibility. You become fixed in this particular causality. And it defines "you" as "the one who [randomly] picked choice X and Y and ... and ended up on this particular causal path".

This is what exercising free will means and how it defines you.

And if you put it in this terms it also becomes obvious that any kind of mechanism can "exercise free will" if you choose to look at it from this perspective.

(The problem with defining "free will" I think is that people get stuck thinking in terms of it as a fixed concept that needs a "what is" type of definition, instead of a procedural/operational "how to" definition. You only care about processes and mutations to the state of reality... not fuzzy wozzy philosopondering. Replace "what is" kind of knowledge with "how to" kind of knowledge and concepts like "free will" become christal clear and obvious. Also it's pointless to bring in another undefined concept, eg. "soul" when defining other.)
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I am going to guess no.
https://medium.com/@NetflixTechBlog/introducing-vectorflow-f...
I imagine the Yellow River has suffered numerous catastrophic floods in its history, and some must certainly 'line up' with various other historical and ahistorical events.
Holy cow! 1700 publications is one publication every week for 32 years! How could anyone see that number and not realize that it must be a scam?
A little over the top with this criticism?

Or, the other one: lack of affine/linear types is "inexcusable", really?

As if these are so mainstream that any new language should have them? It's a new language, still in development, use it or not. Zig doesn't want to be a dumpster for trendy PL concepts. It has been designed to be a safer and friendlier C, not a simpler Haskell or Agda.
I understand that ethical definitions are fuzzy. Just because we find confusing or unresolved ethical areas, does not invalidate efforts to clarify an ethical standpoint.

The list can never be complete, nor should it be exhaustive, but it is a living document (PRs are welcome). An ETHICS text is intended a candle in an otherwise darkened space. It is intended to promote critical thought about these pressing issues, and to take action to improve ourselves, our projects, companies, and communities.
I am really interested in the impact this will have. Kubernetes is releasing new versions bery fast and setting old versions to EOL. I suspect there will be many pre 1.10 clusters which will now have to upgrade the next days and solve all the upgrading problems.
Our experience would not have been different (Austria). Especially with the first kid going from hospital home was a bit regretful because of all the services you get in the hospital you need to replace at home.

We had a family room for me, my wife and the newborn. They served food, there were replacement clothes and diapers in unlimited supply, no washing etc.

With the second we opted for having only two days in the hospital because I have to deal with the bigger one going to daycare and then we had to go to the child doctor for the remaining tests since we couldn’t do all in the hospital.

If you have a good hospital I would do that over leaving early for sure.
> I stand corrected, as monomorphization is optional for parametric polymorphism but mandatory for ad hoc polymorphism.

It's not mandatory for ad-hoc polymorphism. Haskell desugars ah-hoc polymorphism to dictionary passing (although it often does inlining to reduce the overhead of this).
You can't in Germany, either.
> I seriously can't think of an example of this. If all testing is done properly, from unit testing to integration,

Those tests take time to write, time to maintain and must be updated when you refactor. They're not free. It's very unlikely you're writing tests to cover every case of e.g. a variable being undefined or the wrong type either which happen often.

> In the second example, gone are the years of making Javascript an elegant and straightforward language, adorned by the intuitive syntactic sugar that is JSX.

You'd be better looking at examples that mix strings, numbers, arrays and potentially undefined variables.

For the small amount of time annotations would take to write you're getting all the benefits I mentioned. Those benefits are worth a huge amount on projects with lots of code and team members. I wouldn't say JavaScript is elegant and straightforward when simple looking code can be full of subtle bugs.
I honestly think you're missing the forest for the trees.

It doesn't matter the actual reason massive, subtle opinion changes occur. Maybe it's the Russians. Maybe it's a liberal cabal. Maybe, as I suspect, most of SV doesn't know what the hell they're doing and are just faking it the best they can while they make bank. There is some effect occurring. Most reasonable commentators agree on that.

Once that's settled, then there are a bunch of follow-on questions: how large is it? How do we measure it? And so forth.

This video, assuming the worst slander you have is true, is an example of an answer to the following question: how are the existing political power structures perceiving this new effect?

That, in my mind, is as interesting as any of the rest of it. More so, actually, since the perception of damage is a much bigger thing in most cases than the damage itself.

This is going to get political, and in a hurry. I don't care which bunch of political assholes are carrying the flag towards fixing it, but I want to know how they perceive the problems involved and what they might do to fix things if given the chance. This is too important to choose up teams and play the usual stupid partisan games.
Source?

Based on this link [1] posted elsewhere in this thread, if it is true that Amazon funded this, that has the potential to backfire spectacularly.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/19/17878332/creepy-line-anti...
Every business will prefer someone else to handle parking. No business will survive if parking is not handled. Eventually, someone will pay for it, else no business will survive. And since we know businesses survive without parking minimums, we must therefore also know that a solution to your freeloading problem can be found without the requirement.

Also, parking minimums can omly make sense in the middle of nowhere. In a dense location, each business cannot be reasonably expected to build parking.. because the location is dense. Unless you spread out the buildings, to make it sparse enough to support each building owning x spaced... but I don’t think anyone wants to take a city and pretend its the middle of nowhere.

Parking minimums are neither a good solution, nor the only solution. I don’t know what the best solution is, but as above, alternative solutions obviously exist. My opinion: city-owned street parking + private lots offer a good setup; businesses shouldn’t be directly involved in parking lots, except as a worst case scenario (ikea/walmart 40 minutes out of the city proper)
Maybe that explains why Google gave me 1st-page results about "shrooms" few days ago while my search term was specifically asking for "Champignons" and "pizza" and whether to pre-boil or use them raw.
> Nope. Literally can't get it to vibrate/alert when a notification comes through unless it's through Samsung's SPECIFIC applications. So my HipChat messages, Gmail inbox, etc have ZERO notifications even though it WILL show as a new notification on the watch face. Before anyone gives me crap saying "you screwed up the settings" - trust me, I didn't, and I've tried everything.

You screwed up the settings. It defaults to only allowing a short list of (mostly Samsung) applications, but you can configure it. Galaxy Wearable > Settings > Notifications > Manage Notifications and enable those applications you want to see notifications from.
I have the same feeling about this, and I've noticed that folks from the UK are more likely to use "bottoms-up" to mean both. I rarely hear it from US-born speakers. Has anyone else noticed this pattern?
This looks awesome. Do you know what the latest status on this is?
Can we identify groups of people by similar interests and personality type and classify them with a label? It doesn't seem like it would promote inclusivity and diversity among people with disparate interests since we are all "equal" but it would be very helpful for this use case. We can create labels by having people self identify who they think they are.

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It is a random third-party site to anyone that doesn't play Fortnite, which is a lot of people.
Are you uploading your CV here too?
Chrome 71 for Mac, Windows, and Linux rolling out
Old Tom is right. Motion smoothing looks awful in movies. It doesn't represent what was actually shot, which is never good.

Some people don't care, or don't notice. Me, I turn it off. I don't want fake computer frames added to the actual frames. For me it looks unnatural, not because of "psychology" or what I'm used to, but because it actually really is unnatural due to all those added artificial flavours and colours.
>They do care. Try writing a DOS or Blackberry-style app today and see what happens.

Nothing much. Some of the most downloaded and bought apps (desktop and mobile) have horrible custom UIs. As long as the app has the crucial functionality, few care. And I'm talking for average users.

As for pros? Well, vim and Emacs are DOS style apps (well, in that they use curses and totally un-native GUI paradigms), and they're still strong.

UI concerns of that level only matter when apps otherwise have marginal utility and small other differences with competitors.
You can't regularly restore a patient from death unfortunately
In desktop Firefox there is a dark background option, which is my favorite, along with serif font. I used to postpone my reading list until reading mode came about, because the white screen is just too much sometimes.
Call it "Emix"
> We can build better bridges than we could a century ago, but there isn’t an incentive to replace a bridge until it falls down

WRT. Emacs/vim vs. VSCode/Atom, I can only say that we may know how to build better bridges than in the past, but for some reason we opt not to. It's like the goal of new software is everything except empowering users. Optimizing for ease of onboarding, for looks, for extracting value from users via business model trickery, etc. But not for utility.
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is the hatred of Goog and FB so intense on HN that Republican conspiracies are now the norm over here?

what’s next? the jews are out to get you?

honestly, i’m saddened by how low has HN gone...

here’s a review of this garbage:
https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/19/17878332/creepy-line-anti...
As usual, these kinds of discussions are really about what we mean by words.

What does "free will" mean? I think technically inclined people like us are easily led down the path you describe, but over the years I've become convinced that the kind of definition that leads you to "free will = random choice" is pretty pointless because it's so vacuous.

I like to take a step back and ask: why are we interested in free will in the first place?

In practice, what tends to be really relevant are questions like: are criminals responsible for their actions?

Free will is better defined as a shorthand for these kinds of questions. And in that context, it seems clear to me that even if our actions are purely deterministic, we can still have free will. What matters isn't whether our will is free of physics or determinism; what matters is whether or to what extent our will is free from the influence of other people and society.

Once you look at it this way it's also clear that there are no absolutes. We all influence each other, which puts limits on our free will, but we aren't just puppets, either.
Sorry, I don't buy it. If you (or the authors of this piece) want to have a conversation about data harvesting, do that. Subtly entwining that with conservative conspiracy theories isn't just an innocuous side thread of the conversation. This is clearly an attempt to hijack the conversation about data harvesting to amplify their totally unrelated message about supposed suppression of conservative speech.

This is a case of 'the enemy of my enemy is my friend' going horribly wrong.
Sure, and many others are also missing. I gave some examples, not an exhaustive catalog.

This is hinted at where I say "Google, Facebook, _and other top dogs_", and "_e.g._ Material UI" -- emphasis mine.
Apple’s whole stance is to protect your data. They don’t sell it.

Don’t know about Amazon but I think they use it for their own services only as they’re not advertising company.
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> for small communities, public transport doesn't always work

For very small towns, you can walk. For mid-size villages, you take the bike. For cities, there is a public transportation network. In exceptional circumstances you can take a cab or an uber. If you want a week-end in a remote site, you can easily rent a car. I see zero need of owning a car for the general population, and I have never had or needed one.
Vault is usually hosted in-house.

Vault offers features such as short-term secrets which are unique to each client. Vault itself manages creation and destruction of the credentials on the server, allowing it to enforce credential lifetimes
What files?

When talking about SaaS (or more accurately, SaaSS[0]), you can "share" stuff between devices and people, but you don't control the data. You don't get a self-contained file that you can store and use independent of the service.

Just that is enough for me to prefer Word or OpenOffice whenever I can (and really, I just use Org Mode whenever I can get away with it).

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[0] - Service as a Software Substitute. See also: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-s....
Exactly. If I need to run a browser in a special configuration, I want to take every precaution to avoid using it for anything but the intended purpose. Since I disable my profile and extensions, I get similar cues.

The problem I see is that not everyone takes the same precautions. And plenty of developers accumulate these sort of tweaks and hacks in their daily driver without realizing or remembering that they've crippled their own security posture.

From a UX perspective, my preference is to make it clear when normal security mechanisms are disabled.
Thanks, I'll give those vids a watch.

Yes, I'd definitely say that Linus' channel is much bigger than I'm interested in. I'm thinking of the small channels who put out quality content, b with a restricted audience. I watch some channels who make Linux and Chess videos and the content is superb, but there's a natural threshold level of views they'll get.

I was prompted to think about it after a conversation with a colleague. We were talking about the market within medicine for giving exam prep courses to med students and doctors. A recent day course we noted was £50 per student and it was sold out (about 200 people I think). The person delivering the course had multiple dates lined up across the UK.

We wondered whether it would be more profitable for this individual to use youtube (there would be numerous pros/cons to this, but that's another topic).

We could quickly do the maths to work out the income from X students, on Y dates, minus Z estimated costs, etc, for the traditional lectures... but we just cant find any data for likely youtube profits. The information seems almost deliberately obscured.
no.

i would argue it’s not even your data, but that’s for another time.
You are deeply misinformed, and to be blunt, people like you are killing Firefox. Somehow Firefox managed to go for over a decade without blocking sideloading of extensions.

And no Mozilla should not be thinking in terms of "market share". There is no market! Mozilla is a non-profit. They should not be sharing the same paradigm as Google. And it is this vanity-driven pursuit of "brand prestige" and "market share" that has ruined things.

It makes business sense for Google's platform for them to do things the way they do. It makes absolutely no sense for Mozilla to emulate Google. The very fact that Mozilla can just afford to make unique software without the constraints of the market, supported by donors, is a strength, not a weakness. They should be leveraging it instead of trying to "stay relevant" and compete with Google on Google's terms.

And this whole incident is a disgrace. If it wasn't for Mozilla getting between users and their software, then this takedown would be nearly irrelevant, as it would be that much easier for users to install it. It would probably even disincentivize take-downs like this, because they would be so futile.
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You don’t understand Bitcoin because you think money is real
kind of, yes: https://codesandbox.io/s/jznpj65nm5
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I do the same for myself, including an obnoxious theme. Not all developers are this cautious.
Well. People argue against free will.

I've learned to embrace it and it makes my and my kids and my neighbours and my colleagues (and so on) lives a tiny bit better everytime I take advantage of it. (Yes, I've made a decision to use my life for good.)

I've lived like this more and more for 20 years now and my life has become increasingly better.
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That's very true. In the early years we all loved Google. Good and fast searches, spartan interface, do no evil mantra... So different from AOL and Yahoo. Then, with time, it became a monster that you practically can't get away from even if you want.
Thanks. I haven't checked in a few months, so I'll give it a look.
Personally, I like Word, because it has a particular niche - fast WYSIWYG use and mid-sized documents. That is, I can quickly make the exact nice-looking document I need, and print it. Without clunky UX (of Open/LibreOffice), and without it choking on mid-sized documents that's characteristic of GSuite and friends.
>The prime goal isn’t really to help patients sleep better ...

so really, this is just a same-industry product plug.
X - sure; Unix - not do much; CDE desktop ran on OpenVMS.
Good insights on the trends in word processor markets. But, including rich text editors and note-taking apps into the word processor market is bit of an overstretch.

Note-making apps are typically for digital screens, with a limited set of tools for document creation.

Word processors cater both for digital screens and print media. They'd have a richer tool-set and are for power document making people.

Interestingly both categories have made lots of improvements recently, when it comes to sharing, reviewing and co-editing.

Take, Zoho Writer (https://www.zoho.com/writer/) for example. The product beautifully carries the ease-of-use of simpler apps, without compromising on the richer word processor features.
This takes the game one-level up. Simple writing apps now have to bring in more document creation features to compete in the market with word processors. Otherwise, they are just their own category with their own market.
Lowering carb is a good idea but I think that the type of carb matters.

If it’s pure sugar (a soda) I’d say 45grams it definitely an upper limit to never overshoot.

If it’s home cooked pasta 100g at lunch won’t do you any harm depending on what you serve it with.

Especially if you start avoiding all carbs at dinner, which is not a bad idea, having some carbs at lunch in the form of pasta or bread (but halving the dose) will keep your metabolism spinning.

Keep in mind I am Italian so when I say pasta or bread I am talking about prepared food so no macaroni and cheese or garlic bread (FWIW, as benchmark, do not eat at olive’s garden. If I have to indulge in junk food macdonalds better)
What's to stop users faking ad views/clicks to earn coins?
"Polls conducted in recent decades by Gallup and the data firm YouGov suggest that roughly half of Americans believe demonic possession is real. The percentage who believe in the devil is even higher, and in fact has been growing: Gallup polls show that the number rose from 55 percent in 1990 to 70 percent in 2007."
Wow that is scary. Intelligence is in strong decline.