skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Docker will not be officially supported in RHEL 8, fwiw.

LXD offers snaps, which work on a wide variety of distributions. As somebody who has packaged LXD for Void Linux, I can tell you it is not a simple piece of software to package. It requires a patched version of SQLite, for example.
Seems to be like After Effects with Google Earth as the only input. Impressive. What are the use cases?
Bootstrapping Rust
https://www.bmj.com/content/327/7429/1459

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1584330/
Is it irony that one of your interests is "algorithmic ethics"?
For walking, I imagine you do lock your knee as you stride off of your toe.

That's a dynamic situation though, locking joints in a static situation pretty much requires thinking about balance, so you'd notice perturbations more.
Where is the boundary between your phone and your mind?
Those classified documents showed how the government was spying on their own citizens and breaking the law. He was whistleblowing.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/07/edward-snowden...

He is literally not allowed to denounce the government for breaking their own laws.
That Alpine Linux package is woefully out of date (3.2), and will not compile with more recent versions of Go, AFAIK.

Void Linux has LXD LTS (3.0.3) and latest (3.8) available.
It’s basically a ‘gig economy’. Waitstaff hang out and wait for customers to come in, who they may serve for the chance to make $1-5 a customer.
How does this relate to previous work that's described NNets in the limit of infinite width as GPs?
And when you don't do your community service because there's no consequences (because jails are already full and because you can't squeeze water from a stone), what happens?
You can, but why would you want to?
Have you used Opera before and after they switched to being a chromium clone? I used Opera back when it was good (10-12), and when they decided to sell out, I returned to Firefox.

Opera was great because it had lots of conveniences built in to the browser as well as bleeding edge features. They often beat other browser vendors to implement features, and they had a pretty good developer tool stack.

Now it's a shell of what it once was.
Oh yeah, I was more referring to the string of events that led to the realization that you might need a brain scan vs. just being prescribed something. I imagine there is an interesting story to be told here regarding your experiences with the medical system leading up to that point?

I don't mean to prod too much; just curious.
How is it you equate the assertion that "Humans aren't perfect economic machines" with "But capitalism."?

The usual criticism of acolytes of capitalism is that they do (unjustifiably) think humans are "perfect economic machines". You seem to be inverting the normal attack and I can't make sense of it.
So how are we supposed to discuss content if we can’t read it? Are you saying it is compulsory to buy a WSJ subscription to use HN?
I'll be interested when they start firing Branson, Musk, Clinton and Trump towards the nearest habitable system.
systemd-nspawn is a very simple container runtime. LXD is a hypervisor. They aren't great comparison points.
Many front-end developers keep building the same thing over and over again with minor variations. To make the work feel more meaningful, it’s regularly reprojected onto a new pattern. Then you can go give a conference talk about “I did old thing X using new thing Y” and get away from the office for a day.
This is exactly what I'm saying. It's like when you walk into your work office. Not smart to talk shit about your job in the office. China is not America, but it's not dystopia either.
Add New Barcode Subsets to DecodeType and Recognition of 3D-Distorted Barcodes
It's true. There were over 15,000 submissions from the public and industry, most of which weren't published (the few hundred that were were overwhelmingly negative). In the hearings of the Parliamentary Joint Committee for Intelligence and Security, there was testimony provided by technical experts, industry groups, human rights groups, legal experts, and digital rights groups, all saying that the bill was flawed, needed to be significantly overhauled, and shouldn't be passed. Apparently the offices of MPs and senators all over the country were inundated with phone calls, letters and emails in opposition of the bill too.

Even Labor (opposition, who had the numbers with the cross bench to block the bill in the Senate) the week before it was passed basically said they wouldn't support it, and even earlier in the day they rolled over were still saying how terribly flawed it is.

After it was passed, in email correspondence with the office of my federal MP, basically all they said was "The intelligence services say they really need this to keep us safe over Christmas from terrorists and paedophiles." A clear example of post-truth politics - let's ignore all the experts and instead use an emotional argument!

The worst bit was that it was patently false. The Secretary-General of Security at ASIO had actually admitted in a PJCIS hearing two weeks prior (with the potential to be charged with contempt of the Senate if he was found to be lying) that they didn't actually have any specific threats that they needed this for over Christmas! Not to mention that the bill had a 28 day response window for most of the notices and then implementation would take at least weeks, so there is no way anything could be put into action for months! One of the only things they got that they could actually use immediately was a much harsher penalty for not giving up your phone passcode to police or the intelligence services if they ask you for it...

I'm not into conspiracy theories, but the BS is so strong and this bill being passed so anti-democratic that it really makes you wonder if the intelligence services are pulling strings in the background behind this.
California considering text messaging tax
Returning Soldier Effect
So far as I know, my city uses bait bikes.
The pricing screen didn't scroll when I went to it. so I couldn't see the pricing. Also, when it asked for a captcha I wasn't able to enter it.
I don't think Star Trek isn't a similar franchise. It's not centered around a single storyline like Star Wars or Harry Potter.

Star Wars is a similar franchise, but I think it shows the opposite, because the fandom was strong during the 16 year gap between movies from 1983 to 1999, which shows that once successful, a fandom like that will stay intact for years, whether or not anything new gets added to it. Harry Potter fans can ignore the new stuff that's coming out. A lot of Star Wars fans disliked or didn't pay much attention to the new movies but remained part of the fandom.
Perhaps a direct quote from prop 47 would clarify how it makes theft not a crime.
GLIBC support for Hygon Dhyana processor
Building a Ruby profiler [video]
Hello! Can you comment on how this relates to: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1804.00779.pdf
It is not contradictory to maintain both.
I have no problem paying for good journalism, but it's the equivalent of posting a link to a book or a paywalled research article on HN. Useless to anyone that doesn't buy it or have a subscription.
It isn't a question of loopholes, this is a deliberate policy decision. These articles [1, 2] discuss the politics more.

> In the final hours of Scott Pruitt’s tenure as administrator, the Environmental Protection Agency moved on Friday to effectively grant a loophole that will allow a major increase in the manufacturing of a diesel freight truck that produces as much as 55 times the air pollution as trucks that have modern emissions controls.

> The move by the E.P.A. came after intense lobbying by a small set of manufacturers that sell glider trucks, which use old engines built before new technologies significantly reduced emissions of particulates and nitrogen oxide that are blamed for asthma, lung cancer and other ailments. …

> But agency officials confirmed to The New York Times that, through the end of 2019, the E.P.A. will not enforce an annual cap of 300 gliders per manufacturer that had been imposed in January. …

> An estimated 10,000 glider trucks were sold nationally in 2015 — about 4 percent of new heavy-duty truck sales — and production could soon return to that level. … The agency, she said, is also considering formally delaying the 300-unit cap until December 2019 — by which point it hopes to have permanently repealed the cap.

[1] "‘Super Polluting’ Trucks Receive Loophole on Pruitt’s Last Day" (July 6, 2018) https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/06/us/glider-trucks-loophole...

[2] "How $225,000 Can Help Secure a Pollution Loophole at Trump’s E.P.A." (Feb. 15, 2018) https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/15/us/politics/epa-pollution...
Show HN: Automated tweets for new Brave Browser publishers
I can't speak to the accuracy of your claim, but Matt Levine recently wrote about another factor, payment for order flow [0]:

>They want to buy stock for $99.99 and sell it at $100.01 and clip two cents on each trade. If their orders are random—if sometimes people buy and sometimes they sell, with no pattern—then that works out well for the market makers. But their big risk is what they call “adverse selection”: Sometimes, when a customer buys 100 shares at $100.01, it then buys another 100 shares at $100.02, and another 100 shares at $100.03, and keeps going until it has bought 10,000 shares and pushed the price up dramatically. The market maker who sold it the first 100 shares—and who is probably now short and needs to go out and buy those shares at a higher price—has been run over.

>[...] [I]f a market maker can guarantee that it will only interact with retail customers—if it can filter out big orders from institutional investors—then its risk of adverse selection goes way down. The way the market maker does this is by paying retail brokers to send it their order flow, and promising those brokers that it will execute their orders better* than the public markets would. [...] It can offer a tighter spread than the public markets—and have money left over to pay the retail brokers—because it doesn’t have to worry about adverse selection. If the retail broker is, say, one designed to let young people day-trade for free on their phones, then those orders are probably particularly valuable, because they are probably particularly random.*

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-10-16/carl-i...
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2018/11/28/atm-ac...
We are working on one. Will post the link soon.
Anyone know if these results have been reproduced by anyone? I'm a bit skeptical.
Yes, the cost/latency trade-off is exactly why this can be interesting. Significantly fewer or less-impactful outliers can save a lot of money (or allow a better SLA with the same cost).
Reusability, which software folks generally consider to be a good thing.

Let's say you used Axios directly in your components. That means every component needs to (1) set up its own state to track the request status (like whether it's loading, errored, the latest payload, etc.) and (2) set up its lifecycle hooks to kick off the request at the appropriate times, update the component's state, etc.

Do this a few times and you'll notice things becoming very repetitive. So naturally you look for a way to factor that out.

A higher-order component (basically a function that generates a component with all that boilerplate) is one option. Another option is what you see here – Hooks.
Supposedly the prisoners were alive and conscious while they were cut open and their organs removed (no anesthesic). If I’m going to die, I think I’d rather face the firing squad and get it over with.

And then there’s the extraordinarily perverse profit motive to arrest more dissidents for organ harvesting.
Because that is a secondary concern compared to the quality and value of the information.

If there are alternative sources or means of access, they will likely be found. Personally, I don't demand to be spoon-fed.
The problem isn't using axios, it's making sure your React components interact with axios appropriately. You will want the request to (1) fire when the component mounts, (2) cancel if it's going to unmount, and (3) re-render with the result/error once the request is finished. This is a pattern you will do over and over again. This gets really messy when one component needs to be able to make two or three different calls. The usual approach is to wrap that component with two or three different "container" components that each handle a different call. That keeps the view simple, but now the problem is insanely deep nesting of components.

Part of the goal with hooks is to give a way to abstract away the details of how you must interact with the React, without resorting to burying your view-components under 10 layers of controller-components.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18666620

90+ comments
How so? Presumably packages are generally stolen after they've been delivered? So their photo proves it was on my porch, but it doesn't disprove that someone came along and stole it shortly after it was delivered... (my camera provides that video, however).
If you think your 3 points cover privacy for Windows 10, you are grossly underestimating the extent of the problem, and have no idea what you are talking about. It's not even possible to outline in a comment twice as long as yours how to go about configuring Windows 10 to prefer privacy.
Crypto Jews manipulate stock market to appease Americans into not caring about their war crimes, color me surprised. To the downvoters -- Everything I said is factual, other than the surprised part.
I'm almost certain that there's something about just every nation that I would find just as unacceptable.

Put another way, judging nations based on particular actions is iffy at best.
If the fish is able to bring up concerns about the test being used, it has to have some degree of intelligence.
I've looked into one-way package recieving devices before, and I think something would be best integrated into the person's home wall or door. A system like USPS mail drop boxes would be ideal.
https://outline.com/7E9wLe
Of course not -- hostages need to be alive to have negotiating value.
Assuming you’re serious, you can reproduce this yourself. Put on a backpack, stand on a chair and step off. The trial participants “jumped” from 0.6 meters.
Why do people use parachutes then? I felt like I'd like to have a parachute jump experience one day, do you mean that would equal jumping without a parachute (guaranteed death)?
You can't do this here. We've banned the account.
Please don't dump scooters into our vulnerable watersheds. Despite their names, neither Birds nor Limes float. Instead, break them down for metal recycling and battery repurposing.
What problem does React solve for GUIs that isn't an artifact of shoehorning UI design into a document markup language?

UI systems like Qt and Swing have had the concept of a component tree with independently replaceable and renderable subtrees for 20 years or more.
It's good to see you too, Facebook
Politicians in this country have no backbone, and scorn the only one ever elected to do something about this.
You can do the same in Google Play Music for free. https://support.google.com/googleplaymusic/answer/1143668?hl...
If there's a workaround, it's ok. Users usually post workarounds in the thread.

This is in the FAQ at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html and there's more explanation here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18677791 and marked it off-topic.
Setting circumcision aside, AFAIK anesthesia is not possible when doing surgery on infants, so with serious conditions, it's either operate without it or nothing.

Therefore, believing they don't feel pain is a matter of expediency allowing doctors to save lives.
I'm not sure why you're being downvoted but this is a pretty serious shortcoming.
There's a legit argument there, but it's tired and boring to rehearse this on every paywalled story, and that makes it off topic. HN's policy on paywalls has been the same for years. It's in the FAQ at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html and there's more explanation at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989 and lots more at https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme....

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18677791 and marked it off-topic.
Yes. Consider trialling a new drug that is supposed to prevent/cure a terrible disease, and has a well explained mechanism of effect, supported by clinical results of some % of sick people no longer being sick after treatment.

If you want an RCT you need a control group who will be subjected to the horrible disease with standard treatment (and sometimes a group with no treatment), and a group subject to the experimental treatment. Who will volunteer for this trial? Perfectly health people? Or people with the disease?

Like, maybe the measles vaccine is all just placebo effect and good sanitation and handwashing practices. Can we do an RCT where we inject some children with saline instead of vaccine, then see what happens?

Because we can't be certain the children of crunchy hipsters who don't get immunised get measles is related to lack of immunisation, it might be they expose themselves to exotic strains by taking exotic holidays.
news stations who don't have good animators
Agreed. Calling this "<this> for <that>" always rubs me the wrong way. Just describe the product. How does TweetDeck describe their product?
You can use Bootstrap without jQuery too. For instance, reactstrap doesn't use jQuery.
If you make end-of-the-year donations, giving to Archive.org is an outstanding choice. Brewster and his team are focused on things that mattered in the past, are important now, and will form the structure which supports the future.
poor title. the police did this, not amazon.
Anyone else get acquainted with tontine from the simpsons?
I watched that episode as a kid and still remember it to this day.
This is why I tend to like GCP SSD persistent disk. For a 333GB disk I get ~10k IOPS consistently. It's $.17/GB vs. $.10/GB for EBS GP2, but still way cheaper than IO1.
Do we know what happened to him? I really miss his work.
What’s more amazing is that most of the companies going into China knew this was a severe risk, but yet they could not resist the lure —the lure of a ginormous market, cheap labor, and the arrogance thinking they could stay one step ahead.

Finally they’re geyting called out and taken to task, but, the proof of the pudding is in the eating, so we’ll have to see if the threats and negotiations work.
I think you'll find that key-man insurance policies contain clauses explicitly to prohibit these sorts of shenanigans.
If you haven't yet, I'd encourage you to seriously read through the hooks docs [0], as well as Dan Abramov's recent post discussing why they settled on this API design [1].

[0] https://reactjs.org/docs/hooks-intro.html

[1] https://overreacted.io/why-do-hooks-rely-on-call-order/
Agree. To me this is like saying "use this because it is written in X". I'd rather use this based on the feature set that improves this client against competitors.
I'm still a skeptic, so you have found at least one. Still think Tesla will go out of business in next couple of years. Their financials will deteriorate going forward in my view and they will run out of cash (even after their last successful quarter they are months away from empty bank account, so any glitch or drop in sales will get them closer to that point, Musk revealed during recent interview they were weeks from insolvency just months ago, which means even though their position is better now their runway couldn't have increased too much which is why I put it at few months).

It will also be probably difficult to raise more capital as the markets are entering a rolling bear market right now (I believe the Uber IPO early next year might be what finally breaks the market's back completely and we will see a big rout, not just correction like we have seen during last couple of months).
Lund professor freed student from Islamic State war zone
> The Bievre river was used to dump the waste from the tanneries of Paris; it emptied into the Seine.

Even before reading the caption, that picture -- absent any obvious tourist landmarks -- immediately made me think of the same location rendered in one of the Assassin's Creed games... I can't tell whether that's funny, sad, or bizarrely positive. Maybe all three.
It’s this kind of sharing that makes HN so valuable.

I never would have thought about the shady side had you not told this story. Makes me start to wonder what else I’m missing...
Expect that Pokemon has done the exact opposite: it deliberately has not upped the age of the target audience of the core product. Ash is still ten years old, after adventuring for 20 years. And he's still "relatively unexperienced". Time doesn't pass.

Pokemon has diversified the franchise selection though, there are now many goods (themed tableware etc.) aimed for more mature audience.
Hooks are interesting. We are reading about it and evaluating it.

However, I have a hard time in understanding why I should use all these tiny ‘use’ libraries? Hooks are already simple to implement such small snippets yourself in your codebase.
Ooo, great question. In both cases, we define a function using a sum over an infinite number of infinitesimal things.

In the GP case, those things are random and independent of each other, so the central limit theorem applies and we get a simple Gaussian.

In the ODE case, the infinitesimals are deterministic and depend on the previous ones in the sequence, so the final answer is deterministic and impossible to compute exactly in general.

You could also use a GP to model the dynamics of an ODE, and this was done recently: [https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.04303] although the drawback was that they couldn't train the model by backpropagation.
Missing some of the best of the 60s (maybe Byrne's too young at 66?).

Malvina Reynolds, "It Isn't Nice"

performed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvC4xq32AX8

lyrics: http://www.lyricsochords.com/It-Isn-t-Nice-Lyrics-Tab-Malvin...
I thought for sure Black Sabbath's War Pigs would be on here. Maybe it's not as specific of a protest as some of these.
That's what classifying documents is for - to keep them secret. He didn't get in trouble for "denouncing the government", he got in trouble for publishing classified documents.

I agree with what Snowden did, and respect him for having the courage to do so, but I'm not sure if you're trying to demonise the US government or legitimise the Chinese one by claiming the prosecuting someone for publishing classified documents is equivalent to prosecuting someone for disagreeing with the ruling party.
> This is a game changer for security.

uh, no. it might be a game changer for open source, though. maybe.
I'd argue that the Gulag Archipelago is an excellent reflection of applied Communism.
What sorts of things would you be interested in? I’ve been building a product that can improve product quality by analyzing the relationship and history between source code and tickets. We use gitlab and have always treated gitlab as a first class citizen.