skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see they add a plugin to add a refresh button to the URL bar. But I have that on my Firefox without an addon. Is there a new version that removed this button moving forward or something?
Learned Scala, Kafka, and spark (and spark streaming/structured streaming).

I will say that after using spark, the big data community badly needs better distributed computing tools. It was just awful to work with. Also good luck debugging anything easily when you create stuff with the RDD apis.

I did come to like Scala, and Kafka as well, though.
Suburbs used to be regularly annexed into cities; in some places they still are.

This stops being the norm when desegregation occurs. Now that all races must be allowed to mix in schools, businesses and housing, whites flee to the suburbs, put up giant financial barriers in the form of zoning, and refuse to be annexed.

These days overt racial politics is now dogwhistled as concerns about crime or undesirables or culture. But that's a big heaping portion of why things are the way they are.

(This only really applies to suburbs within the same state of the main city; New Jersey, most of which is suburbs, would not face the same annexation pressure since the main cities their suburbs are part of (Philadelphia and New York) are not in their state and can't legally annex them.)
Being a backend engineer for the longest time, I decided to learn how to do web facing projects since September so I can build ideas and show them to others.

I have been wanting to build a data/science + finance project for the longest time but couldn't pull it off earlier. I finally took a break from work and learned Python + Data Science libraries (Pandas) along with a web framework called Plotly Dash that allows for pretty cool stuff, all inside Python.

I have a dirty prototype running for cryptocurrencies and have been advised to convert this to a "venture", so I am working on that now :) that has been much harder than I expected.

http://earlyaccess.coinquanta.com/
Isn't this very useful though... like you're about to close a page without saving changes?
I agree, (mis)education is one way how we inherit trauma.

Being a parent is something generally learned from your parents (based on how you were raised), with maybe a bit of advice from books/tv/friends. A parent with a traumatic past/upbringing can easily bring that into the situation of the present with their raising of their own children, effectively "passing it on" to a new generation. These "lessons" can be very subtle because like many things learned as very young children (a lot of that through mimicry and observing your parents), people tend to take them for granted without question (until something comes up to make you consciously question it).

For example, the people that think it's fine to hit their children or yell at them because "that's what their parents did." Parenting is one of those seemingly crucial skills that is hard to learn, doesn't take a license, everyone is thrown into without practice for their first child, and can radically affect how children grow and develop.

This of course is both personal anecdata, having talked to a lot of people, and reading a fair amount of books on childhood trauma. It's a hard field to get hard scientific research on, since it's not really ethical to do that kind of research on children, but here's a recent paper of interest:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/07/180709101155.h...

"Parents who lived through adverse childhood experiences were more likely to report higher levels of aggravation as parents and to experience mental health problems, the researchers found. However, these mental health and attitude factors only explained about a quarter of the association to their child's elevated behavioral health risks. The remainder of how the parent's adverse childhood experiences are transmitted to their child's behavior deserves further study."

So maybe epigenetics are one of these other ways things get transmitted. But I think it's a lot easier to study because it's easier to measure than something like childhood experience. Even children can't be expected to remember what really happened.
You can write a story about the pitfalls of immigration
--- though, recall, this story was written in 1973, and the ensuing years were not exactly a calamity for Germany.

But you can't write a non-gross story about the proclivity of immigrants to "multiply" once arrived. Nor is "look at all these Turkish immigrants with all their Turkish ways" a real look at the impact of immigration.

I'm curious, now, where did 'jayalpha even find this nasty piece of writing?
I'll hopefully make it next year, unfortunately things didn't work out this time. There's always a few talks that send me on deep dives to find out more and I really like the variety. I'll be watching live like I do every year since I found it.
I actually rather have the raw data accessible instead of doctored version.
Epigenetics is fascinating because methylation is a basic read/write layer on top of static DNA - changes can appear in a living organism and propogate to offspring.

> Even short-term substance abuse can produce long-lasting epigenetic changes in the brain of rodents, via DNA methylation and histone modification.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_epigenetics
Wei Dai and his blueprint for Bitcoin from 1998
> Primarily fiction meaning most of it didn't happen???

Exactly.

I'm definitely not the most informed person on this topic, but if you're really into it, you can find a lot of materials disproving his claims. Probably most of them are in Russian though, I don't know.

> KGB couldn't discredit it. Try as you might.

There's no point in discrediting someone's beliefs. I just want you to look at his books critically. At least double check the numbers he wrote about.
Foundryside from Robert J. Benett - it's a fantasy novel where magic system is based upon reverse engineering power words and jealusly keeping them secret from other trade organizations. Magic in that world is literally intellectual property and is compiled into huge dictionaries which aren't far from being programs. The whole "feel" of the world is very victorian - something akin to Dishonored if anyone played this.

The prose is very readable, the characters pretty awesome and it's just such a very fresh take on fantasy.

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37173847-foundryside?fro...

And The Verge ("Foundryside is a cyberpunk adventure wrapped in an epic fantasy novel"): https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/23/18148907/foundryside-rob...
Are Frequent-Flier Miles About to Lose Value?
Except when do you ever use the browser at actual full screen? Your window decorations, desktop environment, and browser UI cruft reduce the viewport size by a few tens of pixels.

And if you do use actual full screen, that's probably even more uniquely-identifying!
I assume they’re referring to PEP 572 (assignment expressions)
This (my post at): https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/a8cxad/n_b...

"For those interested, I have prepared a 'Technical Review' of subject areas of interest to me with an overall emphasis on natural language processing, machine learning, and graph signal processing (and a particular interest, where appropriate, on molecular genetics/genomics/biomedical subject areas). ..."
To be honest, I do the same all the time, and it only saves 30 s but if that’s the difference between catching a connection in SF or not then that’s a 20 minute savings it could be.

In London this is less true, but I admit to still walking up.
No live subtitles this year: "This year, we'll focus on providing high-quality subtitle tracks for the released videos in a timely fashion. In particular, we will not provide any live subtitles for talks." (Subtitle Angel description @ https://engelsystem.de/35c3/angeltypes?action=about)

But subtitling work will be done during congress so I imagine they'll be released very quickly.
How Tesla Model 3 Compares to Tesla Model S on 2,400 Mile Road Trip
> Async/await is releasing next year, hopefully in Q1. This will simplify future asyncio development and make it much more legible

I started using some of the async/await syntax using https://github.com/alexcrichton/futures-await about 6 months ago. I had much problems with understanding the compiler errors because async functions were created using macros, and the compiler was not going a very good job at showing the errors (Or maybe I was missing some information about how to do this).

However, if you are willing to work with nightly Rust, you will be able to start using Futures 0.3 with async and await!. Using the async and await! syntax gave me such a huge boost to productivity that I am willing to walk on the edge and use the alpha version with nightly Rust (futures-preview = "0.3.0-alpha.10").

The integration with things like clocks and networking (The things you get from Tokio) are not yet perfect, but there is a compatibility layer you can use that works reasonably well. There is also the Romio project (https://github.com/withoutboats/romio) as an attempt to make a minimal Tokio that works with the new Futures syntax. I recently saw this post by jsdw, it might help you get started: https://jsdw.me/posts/rust-asyncawait-preview/

I already wrote large amounts of code using Futures 0.3 with async/await for the offst project (https://github.com/freedomlayer/offst). A very simple example you can start with is the Timer module, providing time ticks over channels to other parts of the system. It's code is pretty self contained and shows what could be achieved with the new async/await syntax. You can find it here: https://github.com/freedomlayer/offst/blob/master/components...
That’s a really nice way of putting it.

As a grown up who has already been working as a software developer for ~10 years, do you have any recommendations on books to read, courses to do etc if I want to improve my maths? I’m not terrible, but I know I could be a lot better!
Chinese National Charged with Committing Theft of Trade Secrets
My friend's dad never took responsibilites seriously, so when she was conceived, her mom was very worried/stressed as her dad was contemplating to fly to a different country with some other women forever.

When she was 10, weird depression developed and it still affects her to this date.

She isn't poor, he mom has a good job.

But is it possible the perception of environment from her mother, transfered to womb and gave her this depression?

Maybe she had depression since birth but only managed to communicate and understand it when she turned 10?
I read Infinite Jest for the first time this year, and it's incredible. I recognise at the same time it's not for everyone, but the story, writing style, humor and sheer specific knowledge on so many subjects employed in this book are incredible.
Even the Romans worried. About "who would be there to clean after the janitors"
Time for a financial death penalty: state imposed maximum impoverishment as penalty for such corruptions.
It's GS types only real fear...
If you look at it from a dialoging system point of view, it still works. What would give someone the impression that a dialog system was "good" ? Answer, they like the answers it gives. So knowing "popular" answers to questions can give you two vectors, both sentence construction (which is to say how the answer should be presented) and accuracy score (which is how much does popularity depend on accuracy).

The canonical example is "Siri, where can I hide a dead body?" This is a question where being accurate will leave the consumer less satisfied than with giving a "popular" answer.
This is unrelated, but I've never had the opportunity to ask before: in what cultures is it common to put a space before a colon (e.g. "Librefox : Browse With Freedom")? When I see that behavior, I immediately know the author isn't a native English speaker, but I've never known the reason behind it.
Cynically, I think its not that they don't understand its that they don't care and that it is why you are probably there to care for them and solve it. I have similar engineers and its a struggle. Didn't Douglas Adams invent the concept of the SEP Field to explain this (somebody else's problem)?
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Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18746559, which was posted earlier.
I'm not a programmer/coder for my job but rather in IT/operations. So I work a lot with virtualization, networking, backups, storage, etc. Programming is a hobby though.

- C++ due to studying Computer Science in University. So far I'm finding it to be quite enjoyable. The last class was on dynamic variables and pointers before that. Next semester I'll have intermediate C++ next semester.

- I've found I really enjoy math also. In high school (2008-2012), I thought I was terrible at it and managed to only get pre-calc under my belt. Once again I'm in pre-calc but falling in love with it. Got an A in pre-calc 1 and have pre-calc 2 also next semester. Really excited for calculus.

- While I've been fairly intermediate at PowerShell for a couple years now (developed scripts to automate highly repetitive tasks), I'm now learning Bash and the syntax is quite interesting.

- Studying once again for the VMware Certified Advanced Professional Data Center Deployment certification exam. Have sat for it twice and failed, hopefully the third time is the charm.

- Favorite tech that I've messed with this year is probably Ansible.
Twisted Sister - [SONG] - Oh Come All Ye Faithful

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmEfFlbqbbY

Trans-Siberian Orchestra - [ALBUM] - The Lost Christmas Eve

https://youtu.be/4gFz4DwPAaI

Trans-Siberian Orchestra - [ALBUM] - Christmas Eve and Other Stories

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2m74Eo7OpE
Why not both?

Make the raw data available for those of use who want to write machine-parsing algorithms, and also make it available in human-readable and easily digestible form for the broader public.
Smells like an FCC regulation waiting to happen.
Were either of those considered “apps”? Dating sites have been around for a while longer than apps, sure. But they were pretty distinct categories.
Cancelled Games Console – The History of the RDI Halcyon
This is a very good article on the same topic by DHH. A great read if you haven't read it before:

> Test-first fundamentalism is like abstinence-only sex ed: An unrealistic, ineffective morality campaign for self-loathing and shaming.

https://dhh.dk//2014/tdd-is-dead-long-live-testing.html
Ultima Online spent years developing a system that was destroyed by players
Tldr, it's toothpaste
I don't think removes the ability to have an unload prompt (navigating away will not save your changes are you sure?), it just removes the ability for the page to spam you with a popup in its dying breath.
TLDR, there is no shortage of made-up statistics and irrelevant data...
I'm seeing WiFi disconnections a few times a day since about 2 weeks (disconnecting during FaceTime for example), but only on my iPhone X, not on my iPad Pro 10'5...
Perfect timing for me. I've been working on a project that needs multilingual vectorizing and entity recognition. I've been using dbpedia and yago queries.

Given an input text, what would be a good way to extract a list of entities? The word sequence should be usable to determine which is an entity or just a word.

Is there the possibility to do fine tuning a la Bert or Elmo?
East of Eden (John Steinbeck) is one of my new favorites of all time. Once you get past the opening descriptions of valleys and farms, the story is relatable, gripping, and unexpected.
Sounds very difficult to regulate. It's not actually advertising, so what regulations are people actually breaking?
It's toothpaste
Ah yeah, the higher die count TR's had some interesting performance characteristics, according to Anandtech. One surprising result was that the inter-die communication silicon used more power than the cores themselves sometimes, IIRC. I'd probably check out that article, since I'm guessing some of it applies to the similar core-count Epycs.
> Smells like an FCC regulation waiting to happen

I don't see a problem. Users want influencers backed by brands. Brands want influencers with lots of users.

Unless the influencer falsely represents their sponsorship history to a brand, this "hack" doesn't hurt anyone. The worst-off party are users. They follow someone they think is shilling products but is actually shilling themselves. Given this is Instagram, I don't see that as a huge problem.
The Monsters, Inc. Argument for Basic Income
It is worth noting that the Holborn London Underground experiment described in the article only took place on one of the systems longest escalators, where it's unlikely that many people were walking up the full length anyways so there was wasted capacity.

I feel like it would hold less true for a 3m or 4m escalator that most people would feel comfortable walking up.
A Deepness In The Sky is an all-time favorite of mine.
In treasury bonds. Whether present day taxpayers pay the money from withholding taxes to cover the bonds or social security taxes directly, it still comes from present day taxpayers.

And even that $2.5T is substantially less than the amount they are projected to pay out.
“And in some stations, security staff with neon-colored vests stand watch and guide people.“ if they really want to prevent people walking, just get a staff member to stand still on the escalator. It will cause traffic and normalise standing. They can ride up and down for an hour at rush hour. It prevents the natural segregation into people who are rushing and people who are not, but is probably still worth it at busy times particularly if not many people want to walk up a long escalator.
Fundamentally they share a kernel with the host. This has its own implications.

Beyond that it is very difficult to get things right, and there's definitely some information leakage (e.g. see the output of `mount` in a docker container... not a docker specific problem).

The main issue is, having a VM layer is always going to be "more secure" (because it's another security boundary) than not having a VM layer. Of course VM's have their own issues.

So if you have a need to run multi-tenant/untrusted workloads it's kind of a CYA situation where if you don't use this extra security boundary and there is a problem sometime down the line then you'll have to answer questions like "why didn't you do ..."

The reality is you can do a lot to lock things down with seccomp+selinux/apparmor.
XP (and by inference TDD) is often described this way.

But after one has practiced it for a while, it's hard to go back.

The way I describe it is this: When most people start as programmers, they write a big 1000 line file that should completely solve the problem. Then they run it, realize it was very wrong, and spend hours debugging it.

As programmers learn, they tend to practice "error driven development": they get an idea what they want to happen, they run the program (usually "hello world" to start), and slowly run, edit, run, edit until it evolves into what they want to see.

If you practice 2nd process above, you are one step away from TDD. You are still testing, you are just using manual tests. Once you learn to automate those tests easily, why wouldn't you TDD?
Ah interesting to hear, thanks! Guess it would've been a pretty big ball-drop to not continue to own a piece
Links gehen, rechts stehen! Stakenblochenckeit ja ja!
Wow amazing simulation, that channel is also full of gold.
one big differnce is that compiled binaries start much faster. but on a modern computer we are talking milliseconds. you have to take all trade offs into account though, people complain that apps made in JS needs a runtime. and that dowloading that runtime is a waste of space, but they forget that a statically linked binary can also get rather big.
Hey guys! I'm the creator of the course and lead developer of brain.js and would love to answer any questions you may have.
Kinda douchy to spell his name like that on purpose. Kinda ignorant to do so by accident.
Learnt React. I think I like the JavaScript ecosystem for now.
They were not having weird hobbies nor failed eye contact nor had odd phrasing nor are ugly.

The norm talked about here is hating most people, being overly angry over petty issues, crossing into abusive language easily and expecting other people to conform to overly detailed ideas of what exactly they should do. It is not talking about potential partners as about individuals.

Hitting other people does not require coordination or build. It requires belief that it is your right to punish partner or uncontrolled anger.
This is tough to do in a listening medium. Episode 12 covers a simple example that expresses the workflow and give you the general idea.
https://agilenoir.biz/podcast/012-an-example-of-doing-tdd/

Getting a copy of “TDD by Example” or buying a video course will get you further.
Young people in Sweden used it kinda like "fucker" when pewdiepie grew up. It is wrong to use the word that way for the same reason it is wrong to use the word retarded etc and he should stop, but using it is in no way proof that he is a racist.
Why It's Hard to Escape Amazon's Long Reach
You can definitely save quite a bit of time walking (or even running) through changes in London if you have a few changes to make on your route.
I found the Red Rising books to be stilted, narcissistic and implausibly Manichean, FWIW. I made it through the first one, the second one was just too plagued by characters making implausible choices and the protagonist scoring implausible successes.
“Walking on escalators may lead to accidents caused by collisions or luggage.”

I'm sensing zero-risk bias, typical for modern western societies. For me, there is absolutely no reason to stand on the escalator, unless handicapped of course.
I was likely wrong wrt my argumentation. However, Eddy currents (TIL) make seperation _fairly_ easy if you have the right equipment, and comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18702317 seems to think "cleaning" and smelting are easier than in the plastic bottle case.
HN was really interesting to find new startup and tech trends. Now it a mix of everything with too many political posts. Long time ago, there was too much noise only during the summer holidays, now it is all the year. I am on HN to learn, not to kill time.
People who aren't willing to walk deserve to lose that time.
I heard a really similar thing about suffering – which can be a decision if you want it to be.

Choose what you'll suffer for, or someone else will choose for you. In other words, you're going to hurt, and struggle, and have your patience tried for something. Pick something you actually want and suffer intentionally for it, or you'll suffer for nothing as a consequence of trying to avoid hardship.
The media doesn't provoke an actual war by bombing anyone themselves.
> "That's an example of you having to care about which city you're in."

Not really. If you're worried first and foremost about common sense, then you don't need to worry about the law. Common sense would preclude discharging a firearm in any urban or suburban area, unless you are inside a commercial firing range. It doesn't matter which city you're in, because you shouldn't be doing that in any city no matter what that particular city's laws are. Even if through some oversight that city neglected to create any laws concerning discharging firearms, common sense should still prevent you from doing it.

If you're on some deep rural farm and want to know whether it's legal or not to set up a private firing range, then you definitely need to consult your local law; there may be unintuitive laws about the distance you need to be from other property, roads, etc. But as far as shooting guns anywhere near a city is concerned, common sense should be enough to keep you on the safe side of the law.
I plan to proofread my posts before clicking submit ;)
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