skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I tend to agree. At some level, I keep coming back to the fact that these are just websites. Like, you can turn off your computer and go for a walk or something.

I don't use facebook or twitter, so I guess that colors my perception as to how trivial they are in the broader picture of life, but it also means I don't totally understand the issues that people who use the sites face.
This is most likely a TDOS attack, given the busy signals [1]. Plus, the transformer that happened to blow last night in NYC adds to the suspicion, as the Ukraine Power Grid attack on December 23, 2015 was a TDOS attack [2], too. Additionally, there was a BGP network hijacking incident to the US Department of Energy today [3].

[1] https://www.nojitter.com/when-911-busy

[2] https://www.wired.com/2016/03/inside-cunning-unprecedented-h...

[3] https://bgpstream.com/event/171779
I tried using Bullet Journal for a few months this past year and what I loved most was the modularity in it. It was easy enough to use it month to month and let it evolve versus diving headfirst into the massive world of it. What worked out best was the index piece of it by making it easy to flip back through your notes.

Where it fell apart the most for me was on weekends when I wasn't working, or with a notebook all the time. So I'd just end up opening my phone and then forgetting to move the notes over. And vice versa, if I forgot my notebook I wouldn't have my notes on me.

I've been trying to find a digital solution that lets me keep a notebook at work and easily put those into digital tracking. The closest I found was Agenda (https://agenda.com) but it's kind of over engineered for my needs. I know Notion is well liked, but again it's overly complex for my needs.
Science says your cat’s tongue is ideally suited for grooming fur
You are very welcome. Thanks for your excellent recommendations down below!

You are correct! Thanks for that version. John Coltrane was extravagant in this regard, just like Miles Davis, Charlie Parker or Art Blakey. You can really tell whether you are listening to an early or late Davis/Bird/Blakey. Ornette Coleman was also a genius in switching and developing different styles [1][2].

Also, I really find the experimental music of JoJo Mayer & Nerve intriguing. Just heard him live few weeks back, and it was truly an amazing experience. Their newest album is the most "harmonic" and more easily accessible. It's a wonderful take on classic jazz by extremely good musicians. [3] Their other works are also great, but may be a bit difficult to listen.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNbD1JIH344 (1959)

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEikZrO2Cus (1982)

[3] https://nerve.bandcamp.com/album/after-the-flare
Amazing, I planned to work on something similar in 2019 for our SaaS, you just saved me few days / weeks of work :)
Thanks
I think you may be misunderstanding what the other guy means by exact real numbers: not rationals (for which indeed you can't do things like square roots) but real numbers expressed, say, as functions that deliver arbitrarily close rational approximations. With these you can compute e.g. square roots just fine.

They have disadvantages of their own, though: for instance, y if two of these are equal then in general you can't determine that they are in finite time.
The concept of determinism has no physical limits. Don't try to redefine standard terminology.
I am not a US citizen and not living in the US but I can't recall hearing a foreign official or non-official supporting a reduced US government.

US local politicians are vocals enough about it.
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Write automated proofs? Probably best but tooling is junk - it's rarely supported.

Constraint or property based tests as opposed to value tests? (That depends on how unique.)
Usually the only thing that does unique things is a direct mapping, everything else is either an equation or has other preconditions, postconditions and internal or external properties.
It also makes the logic more directly visible and refactoring easier presuming tests are reasonably written.

Ensure coverage with a tool to be sure.
I don’t work in libraries often, but I have one 1920x1200 monitor on my desktop and a laptop at 1400x900. I’ve used multiple monitors before but I always find that I direct my attention to one or the other primarily.

I guess you could bring two separate laptops with similar software and use one as a web browsing machine and the other as a text editor/compiler/version control system machine. I can’t say I’ve tried that but it sounds like it would be a little challenging with multiple power supplies and finding a bag big enough to carry both comfortably.
That'd be illegal for food, which must state the country of origin.
In the early 2000's, I knew a guy that responded to a spam message, which seemed like an obvious scam.

It was selling illegal software on DVD. After you pay through VISA, they would send you some DVD's with cracked software.

For me it was obvious that they would clear his VISA. But weeks later, he received the DVD's, and didn't have trouble with his VISA getting stolen. Seemed like a "legit" business.

I still can't believe it, but sometimes it seems to work out just fine (⊙＿⊙')
This was most likely a TDOS attack, as the Ukraine Power Grid attack on December 23, 2015 was a TDOS attack performed by the Russians [1]. Plus, the 911 call centers in various states being out of commission this night/morning, with busy signals, adds to this suspicion [2]. Additionally, there was a BGP network hijacking incident to the US Department of Energy today [3].

[1] https://www.wired.com/2016/03/inside-cunning-unprecedented-h...

[2] https://www.nojitter.com/when-911-busy

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18776051
I'm thinking of the same way that land you owned is taxed even if it isn't being used for anything, with a tax partially based on how much the market values the land (so land that is nowhere interesting is barely taxed while land that is highly desired is highly taxed).

This way, a company couldn't just hold onto an IP and no do anything unless it wanted to keep paying the taxes, and the higher the demand for the IP the higher the taxes.
"A farm atop a former factory in The Hague produces vegetables and fish in a self-sustaining loop: Fish waste fertilizes plants, which filter the water for the fish."

If people should know something about how diseases & parasites appear and develop is that the existence of exactly this kind of "self-sustaining loop" is the essential part. Even in the outside environment, any given organism bares the risk of taking part in development of a new parasitic creature's life-cycle, but that risk is greatly reduced by having an inconsistent pattern of interaction with other symbiotic creatures. Here the people involved are just asking for it (unless they go out their way to sterilize the substances circulating in that plant-fish loop).
This is what kills me: McDonald's doesn't even make good burgers for its price range and speed of service. Plenty of competitors where I live make equally mediocre burgers cheaper and faster. Of course, if you wanted to enjoy a good burger you wouldn't go to any of them, McD's included.

It's all about the brand, unfortunately.
Jobs career was launched by a capitalistic exploitation of Woz's work -- subcontracting his work to Woz for a fraction of the pay. He was similarly ruthless in negotiating pay and IP ownership with his employees and colluding with competitors to suppress employee opportunities and wages. Apple is not a Communist love story.
But what you are describing is already part of the premise of Hanlon's razor. It's true you can't always distinguish maliciousness and incompetence, but incompetence is easier to achieve and so occurs more frequently. That's why any given instance like this is more likely to be incompetence than malice.

It's possible this could be some secret plot disguised as incompetence, but it's also totally reasonable for an event like this to happen from incompetence alone, and I don't think it would surprise anyone if that were the case. So we ought to focus on the reality that this kind of outage is totally possible due to incompetence and implement measures to prevent that.
That is debatable; burning leaves or burning anything can mess you up with extended amounts of exposure.

Firefighters have above-average rates of cancer, including lung cancer. This suggests that inhaling lots of smoke from ANYTHING on the regular isn't good for you. Example: https://www.nbcnews.com/health/cancer/cancer-biggest-killer-...
Oh, holy crap THIS.

I tried with OF for a long time, but I never got it quite right - plus, mobile capture seemed needlessly slow and fiddly, and then they rev'd the tool to include WAY more white space and WAY less information density, and that was it for me.

I ended up in OrgMode, of all places, which is kind of funny since I wasn't really an emacs person before. Obviously, I am now.

I trust it in a way I don't think I ever really trusted OF, and I find myself using it much more consistently and religiously. It's been really good for me.
I only use my bullet journal for summarizing things I did yesterday, to capture screenshots/gifs for sysadmin related tasks, to make an ongoing study about something has changed over time (UX/UI of a few sites), to write about challenges I currently face. It's there if I really need it. It only captures past events so it doesn't become a maintenance task
I suppose it is easy to say that the objective of the card game wasn't money, but yet there's that 25,000 black lotus despite all the attempts to make it otherwise...
5 Takeaways from Facebook’s Leaked Moderation Documents
Most of the ifs are for early termination. Using an else on one of these is wasteful.
I hope nobody is counting javascript as a functional programming language. You can however write pretty decent functional code in C#.

I ported a 10kloc F# codebase to a very alien-looking functional-style C#. The project was processing several hundred thousand dollars woth of transactions per month and the go-live went flawlessly. I have since left the employer but am aware the code is still in production two years later and the C# devs over there almost never had to reach out for my help.

The long list of limitations C# has over F# is lead by: lack of first-class algebraic datatypes.
Is there any case law on this? Given it is a recording of video, not audio, how does the law treat the ability to convert video into audio? This would make most video recordings where audio is illegal to also be illegal, if it is so directly applied.

Another fun legal question is what happens if I add fake audio to a video where the video is legal but the audio isn't, but I use legal audio recordings to fake the voice of the person I videotaped? Does it matter if the injected audio is close enough to what was originally said (say I remembered the words while I recorded the video)?
Looks to me more like another poorly maintained piece of the power grid.
I used Netbeans to develop EJB3 based web applications about 10 years ago on top of JBoss. At that time it was superior to IntelliJ in terms of code generation, templates, config support and others. It is not the most beautiful UX, but it works.
A 19-part interactive neural network course that uses brain.js was posted to HN last week: https://scrimba.com/g/gneuralnetworks
JNI cross-compilation with Docker and Gradle
There are systems with SSH that are not Unix. For instance, Cisco switches support SSH but don't have a grep. (They do have an equivalent, but it's unfamiliar and likely less feature-rich)
Update4j – the Java update/launch framework – now has a cool demo app
As someone who went to Chinese schools, the hierarchy (at least in my city) was:

Kindergarten, Elementary, and Middle school: private schools were better, or perceived as better. People actively vet their schools if they can, my parents went to 3-4 schools before deciding to send me to one. There used to be a test to get into Middle schools (7-9th grade), but they abolished it, so now parents try to "donate" their way in if they can or somehow pass the interview process. Some public schools were good, but some perception was you could not control for quality, so if you can pay a tuition then you should find a school and pay it.

For high schools (10-12th grade), the public schools reigned king. This is (I think) because you have to take a test to get into. Some private schools are good, but the very very best (multiple kids get into Peiking/TsingHua/Ivy League etc) highs schools are all public and purely meritocratic in terms of getting in.

There are international schools, but those are only open to foreign nationals.
The state of the retail in the UK
It's not the soil but the lack of sun that deprives the tomatoes of their taste.

Greenhouses in the Netherlands are heated with natural gas. The Dutch government subsidises the gas so they can keep their costs low and be competitive.
So that's another reason to eat organic food; it is more sustainable because it uses natural sunlight. And tastier as well!
I completely disagree with you. In practice you probably don't need to be that strict about TDD, but if you're being introduced to it with no TDD experience at all then you should absolutely be doing this.

Dogmatic TDD is the best way to practice and learn TDD. If you don't do this then you _will_ inevitably learn bad habits. Once you learn how to TDD like this you will begin to understand when you don't need to be dogmatic, but that only comes with experience.
Here a close up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WU0u1tE2_RQ and https://streamable.com/2wi38
I played for a few years back in the mid 90s... I really didn’t expect it to last nearly as long as it had. That WotC has kept the game fresh and popular for long is a serious achievement on their part.
That is the reason why I like the Golang documentation; it consists of exhaustive comments, (runnable) examples, explanatory code snippets and links to the corresponding source.

Works as a reference but also for explorative learning.
Canonical Shares the Top Linux Snaps of 2018
Looks really cool, but I find myself thinking about the privacy implications of using this, especially by default. Even if the user gives consent, it still implies recording every single mouse movement and keystroke on the site.

Has this been normalised? Is this the new default?

Food for thought.
Surely our current knowledge of artificial neural networks shows that a single cell is unlikely to encode for a simple disentangled concept like absolute position, or even predicted future position?

I know artificial and real neural networks are only loosely similar, but I would be surprised if real neural networks did not also have distributed representations.
Thanks for open sourcing your work. I had already built something similar to this and other commercial products, but in jQuery.

Really interested to see how this compares.

I did see the IE11 issue. Are there any thoughts on what can be implemented for a fallback?
As the quality of counterfeits improves, I wonder: would you care if your opponent openly used counterfeits? Is the most important part of your enjoyment of M:tG that you and your opponent actually bought or chanced upon the real cards, or is your enjoyment primarily about the gameplay and deck building? If the latter, I wouldn't care where and how my opponents got their cards, as long as they looked good enough and weren't distractingly badly printed.

I understand WoTC going after counterfeits, because it's their business. But players? Who cares how much money your opponent actually spent, as long as you're both enjoying the game? This is WoTC's problem, but it shouldn't be the players'.
Yes, and some larger numbers are not representable at all due to gaps. E.g 16777217 is not representable in single precision IEEE 754. There are handy tables here for the range and precision values: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_754-1985
HSM = hardware security module https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_security_module
If the government is in control of the network or can can order / request the network to do so it would be fairly trivial to send a message to anyone connected to a cell tower.

The thing is if the tower is serving a lot of people you could end up sending the message to people not involved so you could use a IMSI catcher (you can even make them out of a TV Tuner turned SDR receiver[0]) to catch IMSI's in a smaller area or use triangulation to narrow down the pool of devices in an area and then use that list to send SMS from the network itself.

The UK did trails of using location based text messages back in 2013 in order to be used for Public emergency alerts [1]

When you can gain access to the network their is no real need to MITM it, but yeah I believe a sting ray type device could also do the same as they act as a tower and trick your phone into connecting to it.

[0] https://github.com/Oros42/IMSI-catcher

[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/mobile-alerting-t... (link to the info about the trial and the final report)
Do you mean binary fixed point, or decimal? Because for money matters I'll take decimal floating point over binary fixed point.
Will Kellogg: King of Corn Flakes
Using “Last Thursdays” to Discuss Exceptions with Users
A bit like the Mr Robot episodes with Craig Robinson (guess that needs a spoiler alert, apologies!)
Original title is "The world's most nutritious foods". The article doesn't claim anything close to "pork fat is healthier than kale".
You can indeed reattach a session into screen/tmux:) https://github.com/nelhage/reptyr

Also consider using ssh config to make your default command create or attach a tmux session.
That's Germany not Belgium ;)
Something that keeps me from getting an hybrid or electric vehicle is that I can no longer fix them. My '01 Subaru is a simple machine. When something goes wrong there are only a few potential issues and usually it is either something I can do myself or something my mechanic can do for less than $500.

My mechanic won't even look at electric or hybrid cars because he isn't certified. My brother in laws hybrid Nissan had an issue over Christmas. I took a look at it and a mechanic took a look at it (friend of the family doing him a favor). Turned out to be an electronic issue, dealer ended up having to replace a controller that cost north of $1200.

When they diagnosed it I did some research and discovered that I could replace it, but much like the market for HVAC parts, I wasn't allowed to purchase the part...

I will probably ve sticking with my Subaru and get my wife (who is looking for a new car after hers died) an early 00s vehicle that I can still repair for less than ridiculous prices.
Significand * 2^exponent so yes. Another way to think of it more naturally is just remember it's a floating point in a fixed number of bits. Since base doesn't really matter for theory you can just think of a decimal point instead of binary. If you move it over to put more digits/information on the left side then you have to take digits/information from the right side.

If you were going to do this though I'd just do 2 ints acting as a single fixed point. Less glue logic and likely more precision. A float using all of the bits would likely be better than int + float as well depending how you configured it.
The US has been volatile for 2 years running. Cherrypicking examples to create the appearance of rare coincidence is bad stats.
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I take this more to mean that the logic you're trying to implement has a fixed, non-zero level of complexity (sometimes called "essential" or "inherent" complexity), which forms the complexity floor of your application. On top of that, your implementation adds additional complexity (sometimes called "accidental" or "incidental" complexity), which is not-zero but not fixed.

So, my reading is that in saying "every application has an inherent amount of complexity that cannot be removed or hidden", the law is referring to the essential complexity. Meaning, the law says "some of the complexity is unavoidable in every application" vs. "the amount of complexity is fixed in every application". I do think the name of the law is a little weird, as it implies the latter meaning.
I would think twice before violating policy like that. YMMV, of course.
Apart from the other good stuff in this release, I think this will make a lot of things much easier:

fish now supports && (like and), || (like or), and ! (like not), for better migration from POSIX-compliant shells
PNC Bank testing dynamic CVV codes to combat online card fraud
Apparently Jobs was not ruthless enough - in 1985 he found himself exiled from his own company, by his hand-picked CEO.
Since comnenter announce does not understand what I meant, it does not matter if design is typical. Functionality still has to be described, so the pattern itself buys you nothing on its own. Then the overarching idea and reasoning also has to be described to make it easier for everybody else to understand.

I've met more than one codebase which tried to use a big hammer pattern to open doors. Heavy indirection to do simple things because of design choices, usually caused by a forced framework - instead of easily factorizable simplicity. Patterns should be emergent not forced. Or more specifically, the choice of appropriate pattern should be based on the problem being solved, rarely one pattern can cleanly solve all problems.

Similarity is very seductive but end result is often complex and hard to reason about when followed religiously.
Cards and videogames are entirely different things. There's a physical aspect to the former that can't be replaced with electronic entertainment.

This is why I love board games and tabletop miniatures games -- both very expensive hobbies -- even though videogames exist. I like videogames too, by the way.
According to the ABC Test, my entire visual effects career (15 years) was illegal.
Chinese Gene-Editing Experiment Loses Track of Patients
> You say conscious beings are obviously just finite state automata. That’s curious to me because it seems strange that I would essentially be a certain mathematical structure

That's a complex topic, touching on metaphysics, epistemology and the philosophy of mathematics. To summarize, explaining the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics without simply adopting a Platonist-type ontology requires making more assumptions than simply accepting the existence of mathematical objects. At that point, it's also more parsimonious to then conclude that our world is simply one such object, rather than positing that both mathematical objects and matter exist.

> but why is it like something to be an automaton?

I think your steelman is pretty close, and you can see exactly this approach in mechanistic theories of subjective experience:

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.0050...

Since this is Hacker News, an apt analogy might be how single CPU computers simulate concurrency via task switching. Our brains undergo similar signal switching between perceptual signals coming from our internal model of the world, and our direct perceptions of the external world, and this creates the illusion.

> Some kind of monism seems reasonable but I don’t see how experience can be assumed to be downstream from the mathematical laws of fundamental physics—that seems like an unproven assumption that’s philosophically tricky and extremely contentious

Absolutely. That's why Dennett has spent 50 years researching and writing on the topic. It's a tangled web that requires what he calls perceptual inversions to make it intuitive. But of all philosophers, he's probably spent the most time with neuroscientists, physicists and other philosophers. A lot of people don't like what he says, but he's definitely worth reading if this a question that interests you.