skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the key phrase, actually found most of the original thread (I think), and the feminist cover one you mentioned [1], but not what apparent revision Beard made that led that reply. I don't really use twitter, partly because it's such a terrible place to begin with and I get into enough arguments on HN and Reddit as it is.

Taleb is unsurprisingly obnoxious and inflammatory, and you're right that his ego is huge. I don't see anything specifically misogynist from in that thread (although maybe that last one crossed the line, hard to say without context), but if you're right that he encourages his followers in that manner, that's skirting that line pretty damn closely.

At the very least, this is an interesting case study in historical scholarship and philosophy of language for sure (does Beard calling it "accurate" entail that it's "representative" and thus "typical"?). I would have to read a lot more to take a side, but I probably won't. Thanks for the info though!

[1] https://mobile.twitter.com/nntaleb/status/894316405365100544
- GuixSD is writting a Bash replecement shell based on Scheme =)
- About Unix and Emacs, I like both approach, but Emacs tends to locks itself pretty often. Now, if there was an Acme-like editor without mouse chord and Vi keys, it would blast anything. Emacs has google-translate-at-point, I, myself, just use xsel on the clipboard and pipe it automatically to translate-shell. A cwm keybinding, and I get a translated text on a popup.
From time to time I've run an analysis on the use of alternative image formats on the web and it never comes out to be worth it.

New formats are not supported on all browsers so you wind up having to support the mainstream formats as well as one or more new formats. Rather than benefiting from reduced storage costs, your storage costs get multiplied.

Performance is also a problem, particularly when people add "yet another polyfill" to get an image to work without native support.

Once I get into eyeballing images closely I also end up questioning if the compression gains are real. For instance, one I read a comment on the article here

https://calendar.perfplanet.com/2018/is-avif-the-future-of-i...

and looked closely I couldn't unsee that the AV1 had very different artifacts than the other compressed images. Not necessarily worse, but definitely different. Unlike the poster I liked the way the suit rendered but definitely there was a lot of blocking around edges that the poster interprets as "pixelation on the flag".

Like many things, the costs of switching image formats are definite, but the benefits are questionable.
Come up with a convention and stick to it. Bracketed network/host, trailing port. Shoot anyone who does it any other way. Ignore case in network/host...and yes you need to be able to do this. Counting on some other system to do the right thing is silly.
A company can go bankrupt but still have assets to pay back debts. Bankruptcy protection can apply in that case, if the business can somehow continue operating instead of simply be liquidated. But if the company has no assets to seize, bankruptcy protection doesn't apply...
Yup. When i taught a class (contract) at a local U i had 6 supervisors, none of which taught students. I had a list of another dozen who while not direct supervisors could still command things (diversity coordinators, access to education people etc).

But when i was at law school my contracts prof was the semi-retired former dean and all the admin taught at least a couple courses. Admin was a secondary duty to teaching. That old school still exists in places.
BleedingBit: Exposes Enterprise Access Points and Unmanaged Devices 2 Undetectab
The points are nice, it would be amazing if the 90% of the web wasn't dumpster fire of inconsistent slow and hard to use sites.
You are not being tracked. That is, previous data is not correlated with current data.

To get around that you just send everything every time.
2018 in Charts
This is completely untrue in Europe. Flying is cheaper than taking a train somewhere with Ryanair and Easyjet. It's easy to get a ticket to a prime destination (any major capital) for 25 euros, return included.
Graph clearly showing Tenessee outperforming other states in Education
The user is losing a fight against the format; this post is an absolute chore to read.

The author account is such a spot-on display of the SJW stereotype that I'm not sure this post isn't a joke.
I wrote a little wrapper around this library to check python scripts/services for profanity (checks strings and comments in files). https://github.com/ozychhi/prof-checker
If you don't want to do that, then jail would be a fine disincentive.
javacodegeeks.net
The condescension here is supplied by you. Alas, it is based upon inaccuracy.

VIM/NeoVIM cannot stop you from entering control characters by pressing [Control] and a key. It is a function of one's terminal or terminal emulator that (aside from employing some fairly unconventional keyboard maps) does not get turned off.

You are confusing entering text with typing control characters on a keyboard. One types these control characters with VIM/NeoVIM all of the time. One of them, after all, is ESC, and the others are fairly common as I said. That the control characters are commands, even in insert mode, is a different matter. One such command is the SYN control character, typed on the keyboard of course with the [Control] key as [Control]-V, whose use demonstrates that in VIM/NeoVIM one most definitely can insert control characters as text.

The fact that you brought up nano is also somewhat risible. That has a large banner across the bottom of the screen telling you what control characters the editor responds to, which one uses the [Control] key to type on the keyboard. It's staring you right in the face. (FS is even one of the ones on the main menu.)

I'll let you discover the equally simple key chord that you can use with nano, which likewise does let you insert control characters as text with the [Control] key.

As for Windows, you might want to fire up a console and actually try pressing some [Control]-key chords. For best results, run a console program that follows much the same convention. In TCC, for example, Alt-255 is the literal-next-character convention. But even without such a program, SUB as an end of input indicator, typed on the keyboard as [Control]-Z, is a fairly easy demonstration; and an application-level convention that goes back a long way.

* https://jpsoft.com/help/editing.htm
https://cert.europa.eu/static/SecurityAdvisories/2018/CERT-E...
Opioid Makers Face Wave of Lawsuits in 2019
Let’s say you wrote a function f(x) and want to know where it is zero.

The traditional way is Newton’s method (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton's_method)

That requires you to compute f’(x) at various points.

You could either pick some small epsilon and approximate it as (f(x+ε)-f(x-ε))/2ε or implement a function that symbolically computes it (likely returning better approximations). This kind of stuff gives you the latter for free.

That’s less work (more so if you’re continuously tweaking the definition of f(x)) and less error prone (once the bugs have been ironed out :-) ).

Now, you’ll ask “who ever wants to compute zeroes?”. Turns out that’s basically (1) what machine learning does. It searches for a maximum, but that can be done using Newton’s method (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton's_method#Minimization_a...)

(One problem that these kinds of approaches overlook is that of numerical stability. I fear many uses will see implementers help their automatic differentiation tooling to improve numerical stability)

(1) yes, I’m painting in very broad strokes, losing detail.
you can look up the mitanni kingdom who worshipped vedic deities mentioned in treaties with pharaohs of egypt

also the first known horse training manual by kikkuli of mitanni used sanskrit terms even though written in another language
Clearly idiots are not what they use to be in my day ...
My system seems to terminate the program I'm typing into when I press Control-\. Also, with the default German kez^Hymap, I can't seem to type Control-^.
> The quote is not about learning the bones, but their names.

Names simplify communication, both from educator to learner in teaching and practitioner to practitioner in use. Learning the names used for things in a field, is for that reason, usually part of learning about the things (and the field.)

(Of course, names aren't always words, they can be visual symbols, and it's not like people learning math don't have to learn a whole lot of domain-specific visual notation alongside learning the concepts that notation is used to communicate about, for the exact same reason as medical students learn the names of bones and other body parts.)
Could he look it up?
Court rules universities may have duty to block websites that harass students
This type of feature-itis -webv2+uquic+v6:/SC,TLSv1.3/userid[s:84742049]@google.com(r:NA)/- is exactly the reason google is going to hell.
My hope is that if there are whole new levels of science that haven't yet even glimpsed, then the aliens using that science are so far advanced that we have no hope of viewing the footprints they leave across the galaxy. Or perhaps that they have a very strict prime-directive-style zero-interference policy that they've built something that protects us from seeing anything out of the ordinary until we reach a certain level. It may be that such esoteric or advanced sciences can really mess up your local star system if handled poorly, so they want to keep immature hands away from the stove, so to speak.

Neither of those possibilities really mean that we should be doing anything different regarding our peering into the cosmos. There's certainly wonders already in our view that are beyond anything we can really comprehend.
Excellent point. Will look into that.
In each of these cases the successful professional was able to pay people to maintain and improve the software after they’d proven the code enough to make it pay for itself many times over. That’s a real mark of “maintainable” and is outside the thinking of most programmers.
Unfortunely D lacks Google level social sponsoring.
>Compare the Catalans, who are very passionate about teaching a standard version of their language

Warm is an odd way to describe them, so I'm gonna try to give a more thorough explanation. Catalan in Catalonia (and Valencia and the Balearic Islands, I am a Valencian myself who grew up speaking and up to this day speaks Catalan regularly) has always been the "standard" language of the land, and Spanish was never the majority language of the region until 50 years ago (and it became the majority language because of immigration from other parts of Spain during the Nationalist Dictatorship of Franco, who until the late 60s/early 70s actively persecuted and discouraged the Catalan Language[Btw that immigration from other parts of Spain happened because Catalonia was an economic powerhouse compared to other parts of Spain, and this also one of the reasons why they are "autonomous" and the Catalan Language is official and whatnot, since you simply have more purchasing power politically speaking if you're richer than everyone in the country at the time).

Heck, the Spanish State tried to completely eliminate it actively for 300 years ever since 1714 until 1978 and yet they couldn't, contrary to what happened in France. Now the language is completely official in the region alongside with Spanish and education there, even sometimes in unis, is taught completely in Catalan (except in some cases), and this has been an "issue", mostly to people from outside of Catalonia who think that Catalans don't learn how to speak Spanish ranging from "completely" to "properly" (A lie btw, I until college went to a 100% Catalan Speaking School and I can assure you that I can speak Spanish more than fine). But it's impossible at the same time to not learn Spanish in Catalonia.

Why? Because all the media is in Spanish. Catalan Speaking media is simply weak and dead. And this is the "bigger" problem of the language. Catalan, while it may be in a rather good position in Catalonia, will never truly be a language of culture for people anymore. This saddens me, it really does, because I love my native language, however, I realize that this would happen to the language regardless if Spanish existed or not because just look at for example Sweden -they speak a small language close to English and thus most young people enjoy their culture in English, even going as far as to sometimes Englishize Swedish (and this has been an issue in Catalan too with Spanish, for example with the famous barbarismes [when you choose a Spanish word over a native Catalan one, for example: salida vs eixida (exit)]).

Overall, I genuinely believe that Catalan is gonna almost die in the next 100 years. Although at the same time I'd even wager to that on a 100 year timeframe I'd even wager to say that Spanish and any other language spoken in a free country is in danger to English.
For the same reason they buried a monolith on the moon.
Not downvoting as it’s still an interesting comment bringing personal insight.

This is an article about a different approach to detect/diagnose depression, and the first comment reads a lot like “this weird trick I used to beat depression”.

The “Not meaning to demean anyone's hard work with psychology, but” really doesn’t help. They found a way to beat their depression, what does it have to do with other people’s hard work in psychology ?
They might have looked at data from current neolithic and other low-tech communities.
And your an authority on this? I find PF much more difficult to deal with and I like having two clean interfaces to v4 and v6 in iptables....rather than some overeager tool set that thinks it knows what I mean when I create a rule and the tool then (willy-nilly) applies it across both stacks.
> Bankruptcy is for failed companies

No, bankruptcy is not exclusively for failed companies.

And failed companies don't always go bankrupt.
That’s really the mark of a good coach: being able to identify what’s good for the individuals they’re coaching. “Don’t be a weak little girl!!!” works for some “C’mon 5 more you’re almost there you’re awesome!” works for others.
CVE-2018-17191 Apache NetBeans 9.0 Proxy Auto-Configuration Interpretation RCE
They may also be able to advise you on what specific activities are and aren’t appropriate for you to start with, and how fast you can ramp up.
McCLIM – Yule progress report
When I knew that all of the other apartments in the block I am living in were empty, I would throw parties.

Big loud parties, where people would yell and music would blare until the sun rose in the morning.

No one was living there but me so nobody was aware of them. It's a brick building so the noise wouldn't make it outdoor. Since it's winter, people keep their windows closed.

Once people moved in, I stopped hosting those.

Using your arguments, I should keep throwing them even if it means disturbance to the neighbors simply because it was an habit that started before they moved in.

I can't see myself saying: "Oh, those loud parties at night? They are happening since before you moved in. Surely you were aware of them when you visited during the day, you could see the plastic cups in the trash in front of the block! Get used to them or move!"
So if I’m a Georgia resident (which I am). Why would I pay the exorbitant tuition of MIT when I could pay 1/5 as much to go to the Georgia Tech and have basically the same average outcome?

In fact, I could pay even less and do the 2+3 program and go to an even cheaper school for the first two years and stay at home?

https://www.nerdwallet.com/blog/loans/student-loans/highest-...

On the other hand, I graduated from a no name state school in the mid 90s and within three years I was sitting by people who went to “prestigious” schools making just as much as they were making with no student loan debt. My entire four year tuition was less than they spent in one year.
CVE-2018-11799 Apache Oozie security vulnerability
The doctor has a much more nuanced view of that concern. And doctors tend to protect themselves and each other very well.
I enjoyed Andrew Ng's class on Coursera, which introduces basic concepts. For "real world," maybe find a dataset on data.world and try to figure out how to answer a question that is interesting to you?

https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning
> ... But Replace Judgement

Well, that's not true.

A software development methodology doesn't replace judgement. If you try to make one do so, you're probably going to end up with a mess regardless.
Back in around 2008, SVMs were all the rage in computer vision. We would use hand designed visual features and then a linear SVM on top. That was how object detectors were built (remember DPM?)

Funny how SVMs are just max-margin loss functions and we just took for granted that you needed domain expertise to craft features like HOG/SIFT by hand.

By 2018, we use ConvNets to learn BOTH the features and the classifier. In fact, it’s hard to separate where the features end and the classifier begins (in a modern CNN).
Apache CouchDB CVE-2018-17188: Remote Privilege Escalations (
Noticed that too. It feels it was just a few years and all of the sudden everything is "deep" now.

The same thing happened with data storage. As soon as big data appeared everyone stopped doing just data and started doing "big data". Now the term is kind of a joke even.

I predict in a few years "deep learning" term will become mostly used in an ironic sense as well.
https://www.bollymeditube.com/2018/12/how-to-unboil-egg.html
I don't quite understand your criticism of sans-serif fonts.

However I wanted to address your last sentence. Perhaps you could try to see if the "Stylus" add-on works on Firefox mobile. I haven't tried it myself but it should.
> But you can see the questions yourself.

Sure, but how long are you going to spend reading the syllabus/example questions for some qualification you've never heard of, versus just assuming it's junk like most of the other random qualifications you haven't heard of that people list?

> As for the profs, you can hire them from the same universities. They're allowed to work on the side.

They can, but people will talk. At professor level the people in the same field know each other and reputation is important, especially for the very top level.

> plenty of businesses depend on trust, and it's not like nobody has managed to build trust before.

Bootstrapping an alternative trust basis in an area where one already exists is inherently much harder, because everyone assumes (not unreasonably) that you're probably doing it because the existing system doesn't trust you, probably for good reason.
In Taleb terms the doctor has “skin in the game” which acts as an excellent way to ensure quality.
But on that list are great sources for fiber and carbs, namely berries and nuts. So going by the assumptions that we should eat like the early humans did, it makes no sense to avoid fiber and carbs.
Yeah, most of these problems can be solved by declaring a new type of data, defining how a string address is parsed into that data type, defining rules for comparison, and using that type whenever a host is input into the system. These are problems that happen when you don't use the type system of a language or the language doesn't allow you to enforce specific types as input.
Oliver Stone's Wall Street was not an instruction manual.
ADHD May Affect Certain Regions of Children's Brains
You should start paying close attention to the carbs. Also Cruciferois veggies can be rough on the stomach (bloating, gad). Just see hat you observe. Carbs get stored readily as muscle glycogen, so maybe something in that process is causing issues for you.
https://rosettacode.org/wiki/FizzBuzz
Tobler's first 'law' of geography: All things are related but nearer things are more related than distant things. This is the concept that describes regularity and order to all spatially variable phenomenon. It is essentially the concept of spatial autocorrelation. Without it, the world would be a chaotic place. Imagine if moving from one room to another meant you could encounter a 100-degree drop in temperature or if you had to regularly face a 100 m drop in elevation when walking 100 m down a road. It also means that we can infer an underlying spatial distribution from a sub-sample of point measurements, which is central to understanding most geographical phenomena.
Exactly: just take a walk for 30 minutes. I mean, it's certainly better that you can use that time for something else, even if you don't want to go home immediately - rather than being forced to commute.
That's reactive thinking and it honestly sucks.
While you might encounter unexpected situations from time to time, a good ops person will be preventing problems a lot more than he firefights. If you only hire a good firefighter, he will do the only thing he knows ad infinitum.

I've worked with people that were reactive and would love to be "the fixer" when, in reality, 99% of the issues he fixed were caused by his ignorance/incompetence in the first place.

Specially for crucial 24/7 roles, you need people that think ahead and not reactive ones.
Review of 2018 Mobile Development Conferences
Why not just stop using those websites. That's my policy.
If you like this may I also recommend [0] which has fizzbuzz in:

Java, VBA, php, cobol, forth, C++, brainfuck, python, Groovu, BASIC, JavaScript, CoffeeScript, sh, PowerShell, Clojure, Ruby, C#, Haskell, ABAP, Lua, Matlab, Common Lisp, Oracle PL/SQL, Scala, F#, Bash, C, LOLCODE, golang, Enterprise Java, MySQL, Visual FoxPro, Perl, shakespeare

Of course, if you want it in Malboge [1], you can refer to a prior HN discussion [2] of FizzBuzz in multiple languages.

[0] http://wiki.c2.com/?FizzBuzzTest

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malbolge

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4921651
That's right, any kind of communication opens up some form of attack surface. Eliminating DMA is still worthwhile by reducing its total size, and shifting more of the implementation to the softare stack gives the device owner (hopefully the user) more control over the attack surface.
it's sad that this is a throwaway because i hope you see my comment. i suffer from the same every day and my life doesn't move. i want to die every day. please reach out with some sort of contact. im in toronto, i have no idea what clinics or doctors or what to visit, i've never been to a doctor. email is in profile, if anyone has any info i'd love to hear it.
I wonder how much of that was politicking, where someone was keeping something purposefully bad so that they could sell a solution that "saves so much money" when a far cheaper solution would save as much money and cost way less.
In my view, you've hit on the main issue, which is that "tax avoidance" is coupled with "democracy avoidance." Notably, the rich have disproportionately higher power over government policy, which they use to their benefit. Democracy avoidance includes measures to limit the effect of elections on policy, such as voter suppression, gerrymandering, and so forth.

This is one reason why I'm not worried about letting the rich leave the country. How would it be a net loss? Their wealth is primarily hoarded rather than spent, and they use government policy against us. They would still need our markets if they did want to do something productive. I've heard New Zealand is nice.