skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel like they are worse for society. We have an epidemic among children, people smoking them indoors, unknown usage and concentrations of a highly addictive substance.
Under Pressure (1995)
Honestly, yes. I realize that response sounds stupid but we're talking about something pretty obvious. Like "hey, if we catch you selling drugs again you go to jail for the rest of your life." Why anyone would ever take that gamble is simply lost on me. I don't care how uneducated or unintelligent a person is - everyone who isn't very mentally handicapped can understand that. And they still do it. I just can't wrap my mind around it.
On Fedora, there's a system Python interpreter installed at `/usr/libexec/system-python` that is used to run Python tools installed in the base system like `dnf`. On my F29 system, it's version 3.7. You can't install pip packages into the system Python environment, which helps you not break your system, like what can happen if you've ever run `sudo pip install --upgrade pip` on Ubuntu or Debian!
Wow. An important reminder that the space between “harmless” and “can kill you” has room for plenty of ills.
You don’t get to the point of having two felonies on your record by being good at thinking through the consequences of your actions.
Auto-completion and aliasing make a lot of sense! Thanks for that. We will look at StackOverflow's list. I think their API allows to fetch tags... but not sure. I will post to this thread when I find out. Thanks again!!!
"golang" is the official disambiguation, so it's factually incorrect to call people out for using that term. I don't follow that mailing list particularly closely, but I've not seen anything like this in the threads I have perused. To the extent that these things happen, the community should address this behavior.
Forming a technical advisory committee for iOS Metal port of Maply/WhirlyGlobe
It means that there is a psychology component. That people who are addicts, nicotine or whatever, spend significant portions of mental energy focussed on the object of addiction.
Meh, I'll tip 20% if I want. I don't care what it incentivizes, at all. Thanks for the concern.
11 To-Do's for Women in Tech (2011)
Did they ever publish the rationale for why they used MongoDB in the first place? They mention having 2.3 million content items. If we assume that they have 100 DB entries for each content item, that's still only 230 million DB items. In that case, was it important to run a sharded cluster vs a typical primary-secondary HA setup? (which they ended up switching to)
Why would banks have had to decentralize, if not for the computer? The given reason sounds like a non-sequitur to me:

> Consider that, say 20, 25 years ago, the banks were faced with the fact that the population was growing at a very rapid rate, many more checks would be written than before, and so on.

How does this imply decentralization would be necessary? Banks would just scale up their infrastructure and workforce, like any other institution over the course of humanity’s history of population growth.
Did it annoy anyone else that they say they say "10 years" instead of "a decade" and "half decade" instead of "5 years"
We made a similar switch over a year ago and have not looked back since. The migration was tough but once the bandaid is totally off it feels good.
IRS Linux move delayed by lingering Oracle Solaris systems
Gaming with Jen – OFFICIAL MERCH
Run your own open-source Timehop
An introduction to Python and containers: 6 conference talks you may have missed
Is Pluto the black circle with the question mark or is that “Planet Nine”?

Not marking Pluto on this would ruin it for me, even if it’s in the “Dwarf Planet” box.
>all those soldiers busy getting killed and wounded

Combat deaths in the US military are lower on average than roofers, steel workers, fisherman, loggers, and quite a few other professions.

So I don't think that argument holds water. There are actually some theories that the specific group of young males that join the military are safer than if they didn't due to traffic accidents and other stupid things that young males do when they've got too much free time and too little discipline.
Facebook sued by top prosecutor over Cambridge Analytica
From Mike Brown's Twitter:

> My biggest fear, though, is the Milky Way galaxy. There are SO MANY stars that we tend to avoid even looking there. But our predicted region goes through the Milky Way. So we are going to have to deal. We're testing a little of that this week, (Dec 9)

If it is indeed in that region it may be a long time before we detect P9. But I'm optimistic that they'll find it in their latest survey they did. Mike Brown is extremely experienced at finding objects in the outer solar system so if he's confident that they'll find it soon than so am I.
Do any states prohibit selling caffeine to minors?
Sure. It's all hypothetical, of course. Though, hypothetically, I might also thank them for intercepting a booby-trapped package that was meant for me.
> i feel like these are reasonable qualifications to give blogging advice.

I don’t. As a 21 year old, 21 year olds are terrible at giving advice. There’s also the successful-bias problem, where you think you’re successful because of whatever you did, and that there aren’t other ways.
The no persistence is why I like it. It would be ideal if I could ask my parents to do their entire browsing in an ephemeral sandbox and even if they end up clicking / installing something from a shady link it wont blow away their (real) persistent OS install.
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Unmanned grocery delivery is underway in Arizona
Nice try, Mr. AI but you won’t escape detection by pretending to be a jokester who grew up in Boston.
You could implement presence on this, as it will send events on connect and disconnect.
We do need to get rid of flavored Vapes, kids don't even realize they are using nicotine and becoming lifelong addicts.
Bulk delete GitHub repos
Basically, this goes well with "America First" attitude. I don't have a problem with it but things doesn't work out when all big countries keep themselves first.
But when is the US gonna join in on that public transit & high speed rail cold war though?
4000 cards in six weeks is completely doable long term as long as you configure ANKI correctly. As an example, I have 14000 cards in my Italian deck, which I have been making for 2.5 years, and 6K in my french deck, and I do my reviews in < 30 minutes a day. Everyone can find 30 minutes
Cultural Intelligence
Most of people don't have (at time) Diabetes or STD. If you would test for everything you have a slight chance to have, we would have an even more hypochondriac society (for the happiness and profit of the drugs business).

I do think that more people should do diabetes test, though.
I am a big believer these days in letting radios be radios - if you want a high capacity, relatively low cost 5.x GHz band PTP link, something like two ubnt AF5XHD radios and a pair of RF Elements Ultrahorn antennas. Put the routing intelligence and anything that requires a good amount of CPU and RAM in something dedicated to that purpose at each site, such as a Mikrotik RB3011 or RB4011 ($199).

https://mikrotik.com/product/rb4011igs_rm

Or a home-made hacked together x86-64 system running VyOS or FRR, if you want, which can be assembled for zero dollars in many cases. Or zero dollars plus the cost of a few Intel 1000BaseT NICs.
The simpler explanation is the person is just in a bad mood. I know the internet can put me in a frustrated place where I get upset for silly reasons.
The authors of Go have stated they themselves sometimes miss the ternary form, but have seen it abused too much (deeply nested ternary).

This isn't an insult to programmers, it is an option that clarity of code is more important then continence. Thus all if and for statements also require {} brackets.
Any idea what Goodlatte's problem is with the bill?
Obviously I'm aware that he didn't write it, and that it doesn't necessarily reflect his personal views. I was being lazy, but it's also true that when most people read those words they picture them coming out of his mouth.
GAN 2.0
So you're saying we, the rest of the world, are funding your inefficient military budgets and troops sitting in garrisons around the world, doing push-ups, playing with guns and yelling each other? Had US policymakers little more sense in their heads I'm sure they could achieve the same result (dictators around the world not willing to invade their neighbours) and get actually working infrastructure. But nope, let's waste the money on teaching people how to kill and neglect the actually productive projects for the sake of global "peace". And how's that been working so far?

Sure it's hard to assess how much military spending is the "right" amount and how much US prevents unrest on global scale. But let's not kid ourselves, we'd all be better off if we didn't have to spend money on keeping armies. They produce next to nothing on economic growth or scientific progress. We'd be having colonies on Mars if US had spent a part of that money on NASA.
> it's good to keep in mind the alternative, smoking tobacco

OR not sell and advertise to children? It is proven that there is damage to young people so let's admit that the problem exists and find a way to protect the young but let the adults smoke or do whatever they want.
>Besides Rust enthusiasts have reputation of trolling random people on internet who have unflattering things to say about Rust.

I don't speak about Rust enthusiasts or even the Rust community at large, there are people like that in all languages (though indeed some communities might be better than others, but with large enough numbers of users of a language you get all kinds of people in a similar enough distribution).

I speak of the core team. Go's one has a vibe I don't get from Rust's.
These gigapixel images are an extreme kind of landscape photography. None of these people are directly targeted in this photography.

Even street photography doesn't target people as-is. They become objects, they are stripped from their identity. They are part of the picture only.
I remembered this headline from years ago. The article is from 2015, does that warrant you adding a year to the title?
I cannot imagine the customer support burden in time and emotional energy that goes into explaining to people, day in and day out, that the thing they hung their hopes on is spamming and not permitted. It sounds exhausting and draining.

Having done community moderation in a past life, I know how tiring it is to try to offer real engagement and empathy for people who refuse to understand that they've acted in an unacceptable way. There are also the people who know they're abusive and expect to just talk they way through it until you allow them to continue. Combined, it's enough to convince someone to stop offering humanity and sympathy to those who have acted badly, knowingly or otherwise.
> It merely offloaded the problem to someone else. In other words, it has a dependency and therefore is not a complete solution.

Debian isn't more dependent on RedHat than any other Linux distribution is. It has nothing to do with the governance model, but rather with the fact, that multiple open-source solutions created by RedHat employees and firstly released in Fedora have won as currently the best.
I love Prometheus but in some cases push-based metrics have they advantages. E.g. I'm using push based system in my home automation, where apart from metrics (stats of temp and humidity) it also works as a state machine (door open, switch off) so that I can build logic on top of that by listening to changes. I think having realtime data helps in evaluating some server problems too. Obviously everything depends on use case and not every solution scales well.

Re having downtime indicator that's really a few lines of code, if no event received in the last X seconds then the host is down or busy enough to need attention. With websocket connection you can react to such downtime pretty much immediately instead of waiting for the next poll.

I know there are workarounds but I really wish Prometheus would support some push based system out of the box. It also helps with tracking simple scripts that only run occasionally etc. And yes, I know, they provide workarounds, the docs are really good.

It seems to me that having a realtime system with push based metrics is cheap enough that we should have it already. Imagine ideal monitoring system of the future. Does it poll and refresh data every so often or are you able to see everything as it's happening?
Best year, ever. lived in 3 different countries, more than 10 different cities, and discovered definitively how I like to life life - just after I made 30. The investment I made 2017 in health were all worthy it. And I made 1 year more of investment this year so 2019 is probably going to be even better.
Disappointed with people talking about the tone and not the content of the blogpost.

Didnt realize it was an intern (who probably lacks experience with the code) who made the false accusation in the first place. Even if that werent true, making baseless arguments do not sound like the new MSFT that HN tries to project.
NHAD: Neuro-Fuzzy Based Horizontal Anomaly Detection in Online Social Networks
Sugar generally?
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1633:_Possible_Un...
Using sentence embeddings to automate Customer Support
It might have been an inspiration for the Busway in Nantes, France: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nantes_Busway
perhaps, perhaps not. in the abstract there's no way to valuate it. it depends on what it means to be an Order and what it means to be a DeliveredOrder, what assumptions are made by code that receives an Order, etc.
It is also worth noting that China's GDP tripled in the last 10 years. In the same Wikipedia article, the second graph shows a fairly flat military budget as a percentage of GNP over time as of late.
biodegradable cups? Is that possible?
The k-cup is genius. There are 5 people over your house. They can all make a cup of coffee whenever they want. They want more? Just make another cup. They can do it themselves!
They're probably using 802.11n WiFi because all 802.11ac NICs require proprietary firmware, but Qualcomm-Atheros 802.11n hardware doesn't, and can be used just with fully open-source drivers.
The difference in definition between a planet and a dwarf planet is just that a dwarf planet has not cleared debris from it's orbit. So not directly dependent on the mass, diameter etc.

I'm unsure why the further would orbits require a larger size though; my guess is something to do with longer, slower orbits needing more mass to get rid of the debris.
This already sort of happens. Many larger sites, places like HuffPo or TechCrunch, accept contributions from outside contributors. You get paid a tiny bit, and then you get to link back to your own site, so you get a little marketing juice too.

A platform would be interesting too, but it’d be hard to curate without all the standard race to the bottom tactics that people would use to exploit your page rank.

In some sense, you can’t avoid the need to commit to a brand and a voice. So the way to achieve what you want is by federating with other brands and voices, not dumping into an anonymous platform.
In case people want to read the original story and discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18712382
Ah, the old money/time pit called "saving $100".
How to build Docker images from within a Kubernetes cluster
They believe they know where its orbit is because of its gravitational effect on other bodies, but they have no way to know where it currently is along its orbit.

Its orbit has between 200 and 1200 times the distance from the Sun as Earth (it's an ellipse), and it takes 10 to 20 thousand years to revolve around the Sun once.

Depending on where it is currently on this orbit, it might be that we will need to wait for better technology or for it to plainly get closer to Earth before we can find it.
Since I am trying to not let my German become too rusty, what would you recommend as a German news source that is somewhat free of a political agenda, so not leaning to the right or to the left too much?

Ideally just news, or news in context but no unbalanced editorials, opinion pieces or political or social agenda. It is the last one I am struggling with finding.

Also no cheap drama, preferably being positive in general.

No popular science, too.

Not shallow.
This is so lazy -- coffee is so easy to make, why add the trash?
A well-known format in phylogenetic tree software circles is the Newick format:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newick_format
Re:publica's successful premiere event in Accra
From the article: "According to a wildly popular ad campaign against the product earlier this year, there are so many discarded K-Cups that if you lined them up it would be enough to circle the earth more than 10 times — and that's just from one year's worth of coffee pods."

Yes. I think the incentives to have a sustainable/ethical design in the context of reducing waste or recycling waste would be a good incentive for products/service/companies like this. Could there be a subsidy for companies that take the time to manage their products/design/supply-chain to combat wastefulness/negative externalities of using the product/service?

For example, Apple appears to be taking the environmental impact of their business seriously:

> https://www.apple.com/environment/
But just saying money is still circulating is very short sighted. Is the velocity is the money the same? Is it circulating among rich or poor?

Taxation is normally for taking money from the rich and spending on the poor. In this case however, money was taken from the middle and lower working classes, and given to the rich stock owners. And the country got nothing in return, not bridges, trains, or roads.

If you give rich people tax breaks and they spend it purchasing and bubbling real estate, your gdp might show good numbers, but money is just circulating among the rich.
This is almost certainly an oversimplified question born out of ignorance, but I've always wondered why we have to rely on the light of the Sun to find distant, dark objects. Why would it not be possible to fashion an extremely powerful laser and sweep it across the sky in an area where gravitational clues indicate a dark object may reside? Unless the object was utterly black on its surface, I'd think we would be able to monitor wherever the beam traverses and look for tell-tale spectra coming back in our direction due to the laser being scattered by a solid object's surface.

Again, I know I am oversimplifying a complex problem, and I could speculate on factors that might render this impractical, such as atmospheric effects or the necessary power needed for a laser strong enough to travel to such a distant point (it might not be physically possible to create a laser large enough to exceed the light we would already see reflected back from the already formidable output of the Sun), but I don't have the requisite knowledge of physics to really make solid assumptions about such things.
Is that GDPR compliant?
My take away from this is that he sold out for $50,000. Not the best investment "screw up story" but it made my day.
Surprised there's no mention of Nespresso's system, which uses aluminum pods that are recyclable. The 'pod per cup' system is very convenient, but I cringe at all the waste of the Keurig k-cups. Nespresso sold me though on their recycling program (fill a bag with the used pods and mail it to them for free).
Yknow the paperclip maximizer? The thing where a paperclip company makes an AI that takes over everything, making it into paperclips? Well, actually you don't need any fancy AI. The paperclip company is already a [Local Currency] maximizer from the start.
Come on. It's obvious they blocked it not because it's "critical of Facebook" but because it contains links to known Russian disinfo sites.
PCP also gives you immense strength. Let's give our kids PCP!

Short term advantages don't make up for long term consequences.

Edit: I'm sorry, that was overly snarky. I should be clear, I don't give a shit what adults do to themselves. My sole concern is this normalization of nicotine reaching kids. They're being marketed to very strongly with this "it's safe!" argument, which doesn't hold up to scrutiny.
Time-saving Symfony 4 project template with two-factor auth
This would be a reasonable position:

"While the ternary is often clearer, we chose to sacrifice expressiveness and brevity for the sake of preventing abuses, which we found were all too common."

But that is not the claim being made in the FAQ.

> Thus all if and for statements also require {} brackets.

Indeed this rule seems to spring from the same philosophy. It is most certainly not a preference for clarity, though. It is a preference for consistency.

The philosophy is: "We're giving up expressiveness and brevity because in our experience most people can't be trusted to not shoot themselves in the foot."

This choice would be much more palatable if they were honest about it. But instead, they take the road of insisting that the verbose consistency is actually clearer, which it isn't, at least in many people's opinions.
We both got tested at roughly the same time. Different clinics.

Didn’t get tested before.
Not sure if there's a PC/Linux equivalent but Chrome (and other browsers I believe) on Mac also supports two finger swipe on the trackpad to go back/forward which works well in one-hand navigation flow.

(I also use BetterTouchTool to add similarly simple gestures for open-in-tab, close-tab, switch between tabs, and go-to-top/bottom)
I used to have a Keurig but instead had a refillable filter - instead of pods I just filled the filter with whatever coffee I wanted. Still super convenient, easy for just one cup of coffee, no waste.
So. With Ansible's YAML it was always a pain when your configuration grew beyond what's envisioned and you needed some more conditions and loops―because the programming functionality was always incomplete and needed to be implemented in every new case (e.g. you couldn't do loops of roles when I last checked).

I guess Mr DeHaan decided that this was a mistake and returned to the beaten path of full-featured programming. In which, of course, you can't spill config data into your files as freely as you would with YAML, since it has to be distinguished from language constructs and thus encrusted in syntactical markings.

Now, it seems to me that Lisp better marries data structures to occasional programming functionality, especially for Ansible where every part of a config is a declarative value first, and an instruction secondly. More so compared to Python, which uses statements instead of expressions in plenty of notorious cases.

Of course, you'd still have to mark values with more syntax than in YAML's free-flow, and I guess Lisp isn't good at embedding expressions in strings. In this regard, I'm very curious to see one day a lightweight version of Lisp syntax reminiscent of YAML. Notably, Ansible's configs essentially use the syntax of "function: argument -keyword: value -keyword: value..."

I'm not sure if I've seen a Lisp-based Ansible clone. There's Vektra's Tachyon in Go, but apparently it only uses Lisp for embedded condition snippets: https://github.com/vektra/tachyon
Dynamic linking is also really bad for security. There exist whole classes of bugs that require it.

Library substitution is a big problem. If an attacker can get a library into a place where the executable looks for libraries, the attacker gains control.

Merely having the capability to load a dynamic library is an issue. Generally, this means it is possible to load code into the process.

Library ABI mismatches can be security bugs. There can exist two pieces of software that can be installed and used separately without trouble, but which have security bugs when both installed. This happens for example when the second piece of software to be installed brings along an updated library that isn't fully compatible (even bug-for-bug) with the one that the other software came with.