skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting. "We can turn a women into a man... But it's almost impossible to turn a man into a women."
Life and Death of a Planetary System
If parrots can't easily and legally stream music, it will drive them to piracy.
" There's no industry standard way to do almost anything. You can argue about "use Foo!" or "don't use Foo, use Bar!" and there's no one Correct Answer, so it becomes a political question."

When foo and bar both solve the job and equally fast, then yes. But in the example of the article the other version was much faster. So faster (assuming no bugs got introduced) means clearly the correct answer here.
I've fallen in the same trap. And you're right, you can't fight every battle. But I think the best approach is not to make it a battle in the first place. Sometimes bringing things up in the right way and with the right energy helps people be more receptive to your advice.
Every parrot should have a Palm Pirate.
First, they came for the scientific frauds . . .
A Letter from Robinhood Founders after criticism on checking and savings feature
In Canada we have this service [1] run by donations. You get tags you put on your keys. Anyone can then dump your found keys into any mailbox in the country and they get couriered back to you for free.

[1] https://www.waramps.ca/ways-we-help/key-tags/
Maybe because a making a "lambda" is quite like putting some code in a .php file and uploading it to a LAMP server, except it's pay-as-you-go and it autoscales.
I need to copy 2000+ DVDs in 3 days. What are my options?
Maybe! There’s not really much demand for such a thing. Web platform people don’t have the disdain for JS that many internet commenters do.
> If you're pedantic, you could lex (0x41 <= c && c <= 0x5A)

'A' v.s. 0x41 makes no difference for portability. The thing that's unportable about that is that it assumes that the characters A..Z are continuous in your character encoding, which isn't portable C.

Although admittedly having to deal with EBCDIC these days is rare in anything except highly portable programs like C compilers or popular script interpreters.

This is why ctype.h functions exist. Just use them.
I’m willing to believe this, having paid a lot of attention to the topic over the past few years.
I get the feeling we're going to have to reteach people about these kinds of problems, every so often. It seems like people just kind of forget that sweeping authoritative power and control isn't a good thing.
It's more about culture than neurotype. There's nothing in human nature itself or in human instincts that says "people will feel uncomfortable when refusing something that a stranger of equal social rank is asking of them, unless they have been provided with plausible deniability". It's a feature of our current (Western) culture. And since autism tends to come with issues relating to general intercultural competence, it's no wonder that someone who's autistic would have trouble picking this up. But so would any non-native in the relevant cultural context!
What a great incentive for top Chinese scientists to immigrate elsewhere.
It reminded me of how I once got into hot water with the Boss over introducing a binary search into their huge customer file search and update operation, which used to take three hours to run. When the program stopped in five minutes, everyone was mortified that I had broken it.
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The biggest issue for me is Messenger. There's a few people I only communicate with on it, and I'd hate to lose that, even though it's not frequent communication. Otherwise, I've had mine deactivated (so I could keep messenger) for going on a month now, and don't miss it apart from some updates for groups I'm in.
this article is blogspam for an AMA https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/a32j7e/im_jonna_mende...
...but it couldn't interact with the DOM or do anything else without JavaScript.
I can't read the commenter's state of mind, but the word "forced" seems to be used colloquially/artfully, to portray what they personally and subjectively experience with Facebook, and not meant necessarily as an objective description of Facebook's feature/UI/UX.

From a Facebook designer's point of view, the UI/UX most surely is intended to be "encouraging". But it may also be the case that for some users, the social dynamic may feel particularly oppressive.
Parrots have PIN feathers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pin_feather
That’s renovation - a restoration to a previous historic state (it wouldn’t be even necessary if communists didn’t neglect it).
Oh man, that's terrible news.

R.I.P. Tim May.
The context -

> Maybe you should disclose your city or at least state/general location

Washington DC, specifically College Park, even more specifically The National Archives at College Park.

> What is the content of the discs?

Years ago in partnership with the National Archives Amazon.com digitized a tremendous amount of film for the National Archives, with the catch that the material cannot be freely disseminated online by the National Archives until Amazon breaks even on their digitization investment. It’s been years now and for a variety of reasons - many of which are Amazon’s fault - there still exist a solid number of discs that Amazon hasn’t sold even one of. (In part because amazon hasn’t even had them all available to sell. Pretty ridiculous).

The flipside of the catch is that the DVDs can be viewed and even copied for $0 on site by researchers. I am doing research there and I have have a research pass. I was looking at many of these titles yesterday. It’s time to set these national treasures free.
I would not say in most cases organization is to blame, I would say in most cases the blame is shared.
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Is it still blogspam given that they organized the AMA?
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Mom of German Girl Killed by Iraqi Refugee Blames Merkel’s Policy for Her Death
"They may or may not take sole credit but it doesn't matter."

If you improved something greatly then it is your credit and it matters that it was you and not someone else.
IP conflicts are a different story, one that I would like to see avoided with OpenSource becoming standard.
Maybe. However it's the wrong analogy. Open source licenses are just that--licenses that specify conditions for use of the software including running it, building on it, adapting it, etc.

As such open source licenses can impose a wide range of conditions for use. Patent detente is a common term in OSS licenses, which demonstrates that such licenses are not just another form of copyright. [0] If you violate the term(s) you lose the right to run the software and may be liable for fees under a different license structure. Companies end up paying for this sort of thing all the time.

There's no particular legal reason why you cannot impose the sort of conditions that MongoDB or Confluent have added to their licenses. We can argue whether they are good for particular communities, or whether they are wise for the companies involved. But my guess is that the terms will largely stand up in a court of law as long as the companies involved can demonstrate the terms are reasonable and they have copyrights on the code involved.

[0] See for example article 3 of the Apache 2.0 license at https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.
This is very well put. In particular, there is a very common use case where Lambda-at-edge excels: thin query transformation layers, which both expand the number of use cases where back-and-forth can happen close to the user, and allow centralized services to focus on complex tasks worthy of the long haul.

Use lambda-at-edge to verify the format and size of an image. Ship it to your data center only when it's ready for permanent storage, object recognition AI, etc.
+1, except it was the worst decision we could have made. Her business is toxic and has held us back from growing.
America would never have had a President with Communist associations like MLK.
He killed himself, obviously all of the blame is on him.

If he had been locked in a cell when he did it, then it might be realistic to point fingers at others.
If I were a Machiavellian dominant player trying to keep my advantage in distributed systems, I'd invest into serverless propaganda to mislead everyone performance/cost-wise, keep my dominant position and get people doing real performant distributed systems for cheap due to market hunting slow/costly fad.
As a German, I have to ask why should that be any of the US's business?

It's disturbing how nonchalantly this keeps happening [0] and escalating with barely anybody daring to even mention the actual reasons behind it and instead playing up the "moral" angle of "China possibly spying = evil, US most certainly spying = good [1]".

While the US can't even reign in its own surveillance apparatus on a domestic level [2].
In that context, the US is like the thief yelling "Hold the thief!" to distract from its own, still on-going, much bigger heist.

A reminder: The US uses its "intelligence dominance" to not only abduct people all over the world, but de-facto assassinate them, "we kill people based on metadata" is not just a meme [3]. At least China keeps most of that stuff on a domestic level, while if you end up in the US's crosshairs you will be quite literally hunted all over the globe.

One has to wonder if Huawei systems encryption really is that much better, and that's why the US intelligence community is so "concerned" about an increased adoption of Huawei systems: They fear to lose their massive reach and access.

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-03-22/why-ameri...

[1] https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/news/worlds-largest-inter...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/04/us/politics/nsa-surveilla...

[3] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/02/the-n...
> I’m willing to believe this, having paid a lot of attention to the topic over the past few years.

Can you elaborate on this? Some more information and/or references would be helpful.
It didn't click until just now that rust is very naturally suited to WebAssembly due to its lack of garbage collection. As I understand it, there's no current plans for WebAssembly to include a garbage collector, so higher level languages that want to compile to it will need to bundle their own, increasing the size of the download quite a bit.
The student asked, Does an app have Buddha-nature?
Nah, missing the point. They had plenty of talent to build things. They didn't want to. Building things was a loss and a waste. If they were good enough to hold a large mass of people inside the eyeball-farm - then they were good enough.

They never had Google's attitude that "what helps the web helps us".
I don't see obvious evidence of 'curiosity' in your replies - they seem more like someone who roughly throws all statements about linux into assumed "linux rocks" vs "linux sucks" buckets. If I've misinterpreted you, I'm sorry for my part in that. You've clearly misinterpreted what I've written, and to the extent that's due to my lack of clarity, I'm also sorry about that. But in any case I'm a linux admirer - I doubt I've had a work day in the last decade that hasn't involved using linux on servers.

As I thought I had made clear, the issues I found with my laptop Ubuntu installations are probably largely fixable with reading & research. There's a fair bit of information about them in (for example) the Gentoo and Arch linux doco sites. But I'm not looking for answers because that's not how I choose to spend my time. There's enough else to deal with in life, and I am no longer an OS hobbyist who does this stuff for fun.
The AMA is based around the video made by Wired and featured in a linked article.
Funniest thing I saw today was a suggestion to include one of these in fake packages intended to catch package thieves.
When I read about it in Gödel Escher Bach I wasn’t aware yet that unsolvable is a valid answer to a problem. I felt cheated(1) and the whole book lost a lot of its appeal.

In retrospect it may have actually undone some damage done by the school system where the solution space is usually very restricted.

Edit: (1) From what I remember it’s stated as find the sequence and not does such a sequence exist.
yep, confirmed, "crypto" has hit a short term "bottom"
Joyent’s Manta system is closest to a ‘bring code to the data system’ as I’ve seen: https://www.joyent.com/blog/hello-manta-bringing-unix-to-big.... Though geared more to data processing than serving traffic.
300 Smart People
You ‘just’ wasm-compile the whole interpreter. It could even be feasible with a cdn.
We have many Democratic elements. We elect our Representatives, many times we elect our own laws, and we even indirectly elect businesses, voting with the wallet. But yes, generally speaking we live in a republic hybrid, for good reason.
the article is an abstract of a piece of source material with ads on it, so yes.

the level of detail on the ama is way better than the article
Efficiency is fundamentally at odds with elegance (2013)
That’s why your parent said “once host bindings are implemented.”
We all start out female in the womb, and then some of us turn make given the right chromosomes. If you look at those who have transitioned their genders, female to male almost always look more “correct” than male to female... it’s hard to remove the effects of testosterone, but easy to add it.
The mention of a river reminds of me of those ol' words by Norman Maclean [1]: "Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world’s great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs. I am haunted by waters."

As an early twenty-something, who thinks often too much about life and death and the wildness of it all, I like to think I'm preparing for death by carrying around a memento mori coin [2]. It's a healthy reminder that puts things in a golden perspective.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsDnrFBpsBk
[2]: https://prints.dailystoic.com/products/memento-mori
It's a traditional Chinese mindset that people should own land properties or houses. A man who does not own a house would be deemed not worth marrying, thus making overhyping real estate price possible since some people would take it anyway.
I could be wrong, but don't people have autocorrect on their phones that will correct the character based on context? Is that even possible?

Lets say somebody wants to say "how I eat" in spanish. The correct way to do it would be "cómo como". "cómo" means how, and "como" means "I eat". I wouldn't make sense to say "como cómo", so therefore, autocorrect should, in theory, feel free to correct all instances of "como como". Only until it becomes an international household brand name will this ever be a problem- for this one phrase at least.
So, I think you're confusing 'probability' with 'cardinality of the set of successful outcomes' (let's call that k). If k is proportional to the size of the company (n, say), then you are absolutely right that k/n (i.e. the probability) will not change as n changes. But the statement actually says that the _probability_ is proportional to n, not k. So no, the probability is not constant.

The idea of the probability being directly proportional to n is not technically correct for other reasons (with large enough n, this would allow for probabilities larger than 1), but not for the reasons you're mentioning here.

Perhaps more importantly, the meaning of the comment is independent from this pedantry and should be interpreted less literally so we can focus on its actual meaning.
I would posit that a person who plugs the USB key in leans more towards thief than "person who just wants to get the keys back to you." I'd further bet that there have been a not-insignificant number of CFAA prosecutions for actions of curiosity. (Not to say that plugging in a found USB key constitutes a CFAA violation)
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Oh yeah, you can do that. Performance is still quite terrible unfortunately.
Ask HN: What are some useful or insightful gists you have discovered?
I sometimes plough through pages of gist search results, and occasionally stumble across some pretty useful gists that contain nuggets of info.

Have any of you also come across any gists that you have found handy?
Lexer generators are pretty popular in C land. I mean, there's Yacc, obviously. And then there's more low-level stuff like re2c.
There are advantages in being able to have a security barrier between your code and that of your customers, and that you can push releases etc without having to update every downstream consumer.

More importantly though, we're working on incorporating storage in a meaningful way.
The most common way an individual reaps the reward of their copyright is by selling it to a corporation.
Joe should ignore unproven therapies, particularly when accompanied by grandiose claims, and especially when the proponent refuses point-blank to substantiate said claims. Probiotics are another good example of an unproven therapy, but with substantially more evidence against their efficacy. Joe should certainly read meta-analyses about such things, and avoid quackery -- and others should avoid spreading quackery.
From my amateur perspective, i think the history of how people treat others with depression may be deeply rooted in the Human flaw of, "the way I experience the sensations of existence must be how everyone else does."

I can't exactly fault the default response to be, "I don't get it. Just get off your butt and go for a jog. I always feel better when I do that."

I remember being so ignorant to depression until I experienced it myself. It's unlike anything else. Your drive to persist is just missing.

P.S. the entire lecture series this one is from is worth watching.
There was more economical freedom in Eastern European countries compared to those incorporated in Soviet empire. At least small private initiative was somewhat tolerated. Also, in countries like Poland communists weren't able to completely suppress religious attachments of populace. They had to accept the existence of alternative, competing moral, and cultural values, and it had the general effect of less-controlled cultural, and private space. Very unlike the strict USSR model where everything had to be in line with central-planned norms.
It's not uniquely english
Unboxing IBM PC AT from 1988
We are a representative democracy and a republic. Those things aren't mutually exclusive.

When people say things like "US is a republic, not a democracy", they're using the archaic definition of "democracy" from 200 years ago. Modern English has a different definition.
The problem I see is pseudo science is used to build policies that are implemented via the law, aka threat of violence. You have to be very very sure of things if you are going to go down that road. I consider the incorrect application of violence to be the root of most of societies problems.
Is there a list of what people have been historically traumatized from before?
I now wonder, considering that such devices were pretty well known for a long time, how come I've never heard of stereoscopic porn or erotica until 3d cinema finally rolled in for good in the past decade.

(Also, cross-eye 3d is a thing, wink nudge.)
"In the long run, few things are more expensive than a mediocre programmer. "

Disagree very much. Mediocre programmers are very good for mediocre tasks, of which there are plenty of.
The problem is only, if mediocre programmers work on advanced tasks.
Mercury is in retrograde and Jupiter and Mars are in alignment so my horoscope says go all in on doge.
So I have an instance on Amazons EC2 with 2 CPUs and was wondering how much users I can serve my website to before running out of resources. I think my bottleneck are the database queries.

http://www.uptopnews.com
Because what you really want is to tie your lost house-key to your address so that anyone who finds it can let themselves in and leave it on the mantelpiece for you.

Much better to leave them anonymous and just get a new one cut for a few dollars (as opposed to needing to replace all the locks if your address is identifiable from they key and it doesn't get returned).
In a different life of mine, a long time ago, my surveillance team and I were doing a multi-day follow of a non-us person of interest in a major city.

I recall one day in particular, this person, who didn't know we had significant camera coverage of their route, changed clothing twice, right in front of our cameras. Like the short article described, it was pretty easy to don stuff, like a hat with built-in wig, reversible backpack/carrying case and obvious accessories.

So you'd be surprised how little it takes to fool a team of trained people following one person in a crowded area. We were lucky that our coverage caught everything, because had we not caught the person in the act of changing, we would have probably lost them.

Anyone who has a kid will recognize this phenomena from what happens at a crowded playground.
The /r/rust thread is worth reading: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/a68ydk/storing_unboxe...

TL;DR this relies on unstable internal details; there’s a proposal to add an API to let you do this kind of thing but it hasn’t been accepted yet.
Don't swim with contacts either.
> If you have a 20$ bill that means essentially that the government owes you the equivalent in value

As the book delves into, it may actually be the opposite. A bank borrows the original 20$ from the government. This allows the bank to create a 20$ bank note to be loaned out, and as long the government doesn't demand their money back, it can continue circulating in the economy. The bank notes get traded and becomes the currency, which is how many paper money currencies was created according to the book. The problem arrives then when a single nation has bank notes from several different banks, so in order to solve that problem the government then grants a single bank, let's call it a central bank, the monopoly of borrowing money from the government from which all the other banks then borrow from.

A key point here is that the central bank can not be part of government in this scheme since then it would be the government borrowing money from itself. When people talk about money as an illusion, this is one of the larger aspects to it.
That's why I made http://bigcgi.com. It's just CGI behind a reverse proxy that handles file sync between hosts. My blog runs on it.
? So amazon needs to fix it for everyone that does not have the parental lock. Or make the parental lock mandatory.
I’ll never understand why we collectively wag our fingers at individuals or companies that try to keep the likes of Amazon from building a profitable service off of their hard work then contribute back little-to-nothing. Would redis, mongodb and dgraph have even considered alternate licensing if companies like Amazon had thrown them a minuscule amount of funding and patches? We can’t know because they didn’t. And then we sneer at them for having the audacity to try to stay open but stop these giants from using them and throwing them away.

This kind of aggressive behavior toward these people trying to stop their own destruction at the hands of the biggest and most profitable companies in the world makes me wonder what the hell is wrong with our industry. This could easily be any of us. It might be any of us in the future. What do we gain by consolidating control in 3-4 different giants? What are we achieving with such a black and white view of what constitutes open source or not?
A thief, someone who already has the mindset of "ignoring the rules", is more likely to see "Do not plug in" as yet another rule to ignore.
That's an interesting perspective. I think you're right that we don't have "correct" and standard answers because we don't assume total competency, but I think we don't assume total competency because software development (both the requirements and the practices) change fairly rapidly. I wouldn't be surprised if in 100 years, we're still trying to figure out standards, if the pace keeps up.