skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you please not take HN threads on flamewar tangents, and please not post in the flamewar style? Some of your comments have crossed into incivility, or at least testiness. That has a degrading effect on discussion.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I suppose you’re excluding alcohol from that pronouncement?
Personal attacks are not ok here, regardless of how wrong or annoying some other comment is. Please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and post civilly and substantively, or not at all.
And my favorite perk - “unlimited vacation”. Nevermind the social stigma is so strong against taking vacation that employees use far less than if they were just given a certain number of vacation days.
Can TFIDF Be Applied to Scene Interpretation?
> What does localized even mean anymore, and who should decide whether someone is sufficiently "local" to qualify as a moderator?

Traditionally, persons who work for the Ministry of Truth, or some equivalent thereof qualify as sufficiently 'local'.

It's either Facebook self-censoring, or said ministry will do that job for them. Pick your poison.

Yes, even in the United States. Especially in the United States, post 9/11.
I agree with the GP that the useful part is that they are difficult to counterfeit, not impossible, just difficult enough.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somali_shilling#Modern_history

> Competition for seigniorage drove the value of the money down to about $0.04 per ShSo (1000) note, approximately the commodity cost. Consumers also refused to accept bills larger than the 1991 denominations, which helped to stop the devaluation from spiraling further. The pre-1991 notes and the subsequent forgeries were treated as the same currency. It took large bundles to make cash purchases, and the United States dollar was often used for larger transactions.

Also, a 1000 Somaliland shilling bill is approximately US$2, so the producer of the counterfeit bills don't gain a lot.
for me it comes down to what is less effort to implement. i could probably delete half of my data (got about 5TB now), but doing that would take more effort than buying new harddisks.
There are many jurisdictions where that’s a no-go.
They connect back to the last manually paired device for me. If that device isn’t nearby, they won’t pair to any other device until I manually go and do it again.
Vagrant is using VirtualBox under the hood, and presumably the default VB config is to let the VM use two-way audio, so it preemptively opens both the output and mic channel in case the VM needs it.
There might be meaning in the timeline actually.

Internet was hardly available in the year 2000. It takes a lot of bandwidth (and probably CPU too) to run a 100 players FPS. It wouldn't do well before broadband got ubiquitous, almost a decade later.
Then you must have been very lucky, I have seen it happening probably hundreds of times in a mere 15 years on the job.
The inconsistencies that I experienced ranged from doc strings stating to pass a parameter that didn’t exist any more, parameters with different names, parameters with the correct names but in different orders.
As per actual comment I have seen plenty of time comments like

//here we go baby!
//do not touch!
//1 ... //2 ... //3 .. //8

The last one apparently was to indicate the order of some overengineered stuff that could have been written properly.

//This happens only for CompletedOrders (while in reality it was the opposite)

//This calculates the notional in the same currency (while it was converting it in GBP)

//This is extremely important, never delete (and after that there was a bunch of commented code)

Honestly I don’t remember all of them, I tend to use my memory for more important things, but I bet that if you had seen only 1/10 of the bad comments that I have encountered you would have a different opinion.
Btw in your post you are explaining exactly why I hate comments:

“For me personally they often helped compensate sloppy code” - the solution is obviously to fix the sloppy code, not to write a comment because you are too lazy to fix it

“(non-obvious) assumptions” - this is probably the only legitimate reason to write a comment.

“and prevented bad solutions because I reconsidered while writing (embarrassing) comments.” - this has nothing to do with the comments given that at the end you didn’t write it. Thinking more about the code instead of trying to comment it gives you the same result, if not even better.
Huh? He's having a conversation. I've heard much, much worse on other podcasts. As if the interviewer has recorded all the questions and sent them to the interviewee who then answers them. I.e. no back-and-forth. No probing, no pushing back.

This conversation is far from that.
Mnuchin Calls Plunge Protection Team; Stocks Soar One Day Later
I’m not convinced that’s true anymore.
Can you use the play widget on the control center? That’s how I pair mine whenever they are acting iffy. Simply 3D Touch the music/play widget. Click on the little triangle on the top right and select your AirPods. That works for me 100% of the time.
By that logic, the only time you could say "shortage" is when there's zero of a thing left anywhere. That's a non-standard interpretation of the word.
Remember you're a Womble.
What is Carmack up to these days? Last I heard he was still fiddling with VR stuff and doing rocket hobbyist projects on the side?
Can you please point me to the paragraph stating this? I have troubles finding it
Massively Multilingual Sentence Embeddings for Zero-Shot Cross-Lingual Transfer
I dearly wish the NY times would share this trove of Excel sheets and PowerPoints as a torrent. Let people view all of them.
> that smallness-of-file or smallness-of-function is not a target to shoot for

I disagree. Unless you are methodical and know what you are doing (like NASA or the authors of Kubernetes), it is hard to create large functions and files by keeping levels of detail consistent and not repeating code.

How do you test a function that has 100 unique outcomes? How do you safely maintain it to ensure it won't break? How do you even know it's working?
It's difficult for me to imagine a game that 50 million people bought and played for several hours as "crap". It has its warts and there are certainly things I don't like about it, but 50 million people don't accidentally buy Shaq Fu or Big Rigs or whatever is the latest Sonic the Hedgehog game.
Its because they were unlicensed and could be fined up to millions of dollars for unlicensed operations (although not arrested). Licenses are being handed out now though.

https://www.straight.com/cannabis/1180771/evergreen-obtains-...
Actually, that seems to be the opposite. Those are only open during the day (7am-8PM at most, fewer hours than that at most, and only M-F).

Are they just supposed to hold it for 12+ hours overnight?
I wonder if this arises there because people get moved and would otherwise receive lots of clarification requests regarding the implementation from a new maintainer. It is easier than maintaining a separate wiki page that might lose track of changes.
Seems like a pretty challenging task for anyone, also 1500 pages sounds like a good start, it would be nice if anyone who feels really strongly about the problems of this situation and wants to help out in a productive manner to read all of the pages and offer suggestions on how to improve it, maybe even upload some openly contributable global attempt at a “unified” (at least in distribution) agreed upon ethical core. Somewhat like the geneva convention did for conventional warfare, but for discourse through digital platforms different networks could adopt and reference.
Is freenas running on AWS yet? Any interest in this if not?
> I love this! It's the "jazz music" of software development. Something which breaks all the "rules" but does so purposefully and explicitly so that it can become better than the "rules" allow.

I kind of see it as the opposite: “space shuttle style” is code that adheres to heavyweight rules that most software development has abandoned in favor of a more improvisational style.

But in either case it illustrates that code style rules are desirable, or not, based on the context; you need to understand what purpose rules serve and what trade-offs they involve to understand which rules to use; there's no one-size-fits-all solution.
This only works if your vehicle isn't niche or if demand is more than supply.

I guess you could just multiply by X dealers and use the same "time is on my side" approach.
I've seen the same issue, and (at least in my case) it seems to be from audio being enabled on the VM and that getting passed through by Virtual Box. Something like this for your own box should solve the root cause: https://github.com/palantirnet/the-vagrant/pull/60
Somebody hit me at a red light a few years ago and the firefighters suggested I take their ambulance to the hospital. I was really scared that this would turn into a huge bill and almost declined but wasn't in good enough shape to go home so I went but was stressed for days. In Germany I would just have hopped on without worry.

At a minimum the US needs regulation so people can go through most medical situations and know what they are getting into financially.
Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, by Betty Edwards. Learning to draw is actually mostly about learning to see; not seeing the objects as we usually do, but seeing the light and shadow that form them.
From what I understand, Colorado Springs has tried to make an industry out of churches. Unfortunately for the town, churches don't pay taxes for things like roads.
Is it worth reporting a panic over usb3, or is it a duplicate of the others?

What about unusable display flickering, lag, and corrupted framebuffers when switching resolution?
Oh, baby don't hurt me. Don't hurt me. No more.
Legalization also means they can use the existing support structures without worrying about being thrown in prison because of what they may have in their pockets.
" If only we could frame this as a national security issue... "

If you framed it that way you would just end up paying even more without better results. Just look at the high incarceration rates and the prison costs that follow.
So at less than an programmer salary, what you're saying is that there's ample opportunity for enterprising software artists to take over and automate the whole thing.
They're talented sure. This doesn't sound like its to new from what I was listening to 5 years ago. just looked it up, funk blaster came out in 2011. the neuro sound is pretty old too. I was pretty into glitch for a while(ive got signed tracks on beatport under the genre), ppl seem to be having fun doing their thing but idk if its progressed much.

this is 6 years old. sounds similar to those links? https://soundcloud.com/disprove/disprove-rustic-funk

ehh maybe i just need to come to terms im over it :(
I think the point is just making something and somehow make it work to run the business. The latter is anyway the goal - not a flawless piece of software or a state of art deployment pipeline. This is especially a lot more helpful when money is tight and usually time too. Then hire others to do it the “right way” when it takes off and you have the need and money.
I commend Facebook for allocating more resources to enforce its community standards, what's the point in outlining standards if there is no enforcement?

I'm not surprised that the initial implementation has had some rough patches. For this effort to be successful Facebook and other platforms are going to have to heavily invest in building relationships with cultural experts and stakeholders in hundreds of different countries and regions, each region has it's own unique history and flash-points, it's best to understand these from folks who are on the ground rather than overworked moderators and engineers in Menlo Park.

Facebook got to where it is by being a centralized social platform, but successful community standards enforcement at this level will take a more decentralized, hyper-local approach.

Also, similarly to how large tech companies publish yearly reports on diversity metrics and data requests from governments, if Facebook is really going to make this effort a priority they should publish a report detailing its efforts.
~42K for a base domestic pickup might be MSRP.

The actual transaction price is much, much less.
Qt is >$5,000 whereas Electron is free
For valuable accounts, it may make sense to require physical contact in any "I've lost all credentials" scenario.

While there's still a balance between convenience and security, this is an effective deterrent, as it generally requires the attackers to risk being identified (and makes it hard for non-local attackers who may rely on effective immunity from prosecution because their local gov't won't care), so the attackers will pick another target.

Depending on what's possible, things like requiring them to actually visit you with an ID (some financial institutions do this), verifying identity and documents over a video chat (much harder to fake than photoshopping a single scan of ID, and in case of fraud, you'd have identifying info - video of face and voice of a fraudster or their associate), delivering new credentials by courier to the HQ of the company who's your customer, delivering new credentials by physical mail to the billing address, things like that - things that tie to the physical identity of the real customer instead of just their online accounts, or things that require a potential attacker to surrender part of their anonymity.
Wow that is a fascinating link, how have I have seen this before.
You can play the different sales managers off each other too. You have room to negotiate if you want to spend the time.
Epic had this working long before PUBG ever existed.

You can start a death match in Unreal Tournament 2004 and check some settings to make it a sort of battle royale.
Pollution is the natural result of weakly regulated capitalism. If you can turn your costs into externalities then you'll out-compete everybody who acts ethically. But if your goal isn't commercial success then you can afford to take more care to minimize pollution.
While maybe not admitting so this is an excellent hedge against the Apple doomsday scenario: trade war goes full vindictive. China already sees that it has with ZTE and Huawei. If China threw Apple out of China just to spite us a trillion dollars of equity could vanish.

Smart move I think.
That sounds great except that people who account for the most spending are the least receptive to pricing pressures.

My dad had the misfortune to suffer from a serious stroke. He needs a lot of medical care, and frankly doesn’t have the ability to broker deals between various medical providers.

There are many many people in similar situations. Even in a world where scum companies didn’t charge usurious prices for drugs like epipens, denying someone care is a moral travesty that should be handled in a fair way.
Looks like they measured his financial resources and grabbed because they could.
There may be separate character designers in big productions, but that's not what this is aimed at. An individual learning to animate for their own purposes will almost certainly be both character designer and animator.

Also, from the article: "The sequence is not ordered by priority."
Space shuttle coding is like preparing code for your future self to quickly make sense of.

A key part of the software lifecycle is being able to easily onboard newcomers to be productive, or coming back to a part of a code base months, or even years later.
if claim.Spec.VolumeName == "" {
// ...
} else /* pvc.Spec.VolumeName != nil */ {

maybe some cleanup actually would be a good thing.
One simplification that might be tempting is to replace the "if !condition" with "if condition".

For example, line 463 shows:

if !found {
// handle missing
} else {
// handle found
}

I would simplify this to:

if found {
// handle found
} else {
// handle not found
}

Or even:

if missing {
// handle missing
} else {
// handle not missing
}

The test-negative style is repeated throughout the file, but inconsistently. Sometimes the negative is tested in the if branch, sometimes it's tested in the else branch. Why?
So you think an editor made primarly to write clojure, extended with clojure and that is aimed first at clojure users, shouldn't mentioned it is written in Clojure and that that is an uninteresting detail to clojure users?

Also, he clearly says way more than that in the readme, so your argument is a straw man.
The canonical “most expensive” spice by weight is saffron, which seems to retail at between $30 and $300 an ounce depending on quality.

FWIW saffron is the dried stigma of the saffron crocus crocus sativa so only a small part of the flower
If only Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube were completely full of willing listeners for hate speech, then that might be applicable. Hate groups aren't sending private forum messages to each other, they're broadcasting

Even John Stuart Mill, a founding philosopher of free speech, postulated that speech needs to be curtailed when the expression harms others.
The fries are great though. Sometimes I go there for the fries, and occasionally I get a burger on the side
Yeah, I remember Randy. After we got enough complaints about the classes he was delivering we assigned technical people to sit in every class with him. I'm sorry, but I've developed curriculum and taught technical classes - and those were some of the worst classes I've ever seen. Everybody was confused, and the instruction was really just a show from a juggler who had memorized a bunch of facts from the doc. Yes, he got great reviews - but students had no idea how much they didn't learn. I think I was the only technical staff there with a real Training background - so nobody understood the obvious - successful training involves skill transfer. Students left after hearing lots and lots of facts about NeXTStep and OOP, but without any real teaching happening. Sadly, this is a lot like most current training, since most companies don't hire people who can actually decompose complex topics and make them teachable and create sequenced labs which can develop real skills. Companies equate presentations with Training.

But that was a long time ago. Hopefully he has worked with real Trainers since then, and figured out how to get beyond the pure showmanship.
> The core skill of innovators is error recovery, not failure avoidance.

Can anyone expand on this? So far my biggest failure has been unmaintainable spaghetti code.)
I'm really happy they're so successful. My son loves it, and from my perspective it's "healthier" than more realistic games like Call of Duty (for his age, I mean. nothing inherently wrong with CoD). All that said, I really don't get the appeal. Although I come from a gaming history that values deep and lore-heavy CRPG & ARPG games. From that perspective I don't see a lot of depth to fortnite, where success seems driven by twitch reflexes and very similar end-games for most matches. That said I love the temporary special features they do. My son & I had a blast jetting around, sniping each other when rocket packs were available, and The infinity gauntlet tie-in was really fun. Anyway, good on Epic!
> Firstly, stock weapons are typically the strongest among each class.

While this is partially true, there's also a large set of items that are straight upgrades especially in competitive. The Cruisader's Crossbow, Ubersaw, Escape Plan and Gunboats are just a few examples of completely superior weapons and while their usage in casual isn't as wide spread you'd be hard pressed to find to find a serious competitive match where these aren't all being preferred.

There are also an assortment of weapons that are banned by competitive leagues because they practically break 6v6 gameplay. A good example is the wrangler + Rescue Ranger combo. With a good engineer it makes it practically impossible to kill a sentry.

I still agree with you that this doesn't make TF2 PTW for the other reasons you've listed, but it's occasionally been a problem in competitive when players don't have the "required" unlocks or the item servers are down.
The problem is that nothing that Facebook does will actually solve the problem. The solution that will actually solve the problem, having different social networks, with different community standards for each, is antithetical to Facebook's existence. Facebook will continue to make more PowerPoint presentations and hire more outsourced content moderators in a desperate attempt to make the unworkable work... or at least be seen putting in the effort until the the political controversies have blown over.
Seems like Toyota Connected has similar projects in development - although maybe more focused for on-demand capabilities. Electric and self-driving capabilities aside - this sort of service subscription seems to have no major technological barriers; largely an operations + software problem. Seems like a good way to transition dealerships into service outlets towards larger scale fleet management.
But FB doesn’t believe that. They’ve had policies for awhile against content they deem abusive.
That is definitely not how the law works. There are still plenty of dry counties in the US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dry_communities_by_U.S...
It’s impossible to separate censorship from moderation / curation, though. In many cases they are different names for the same thing.

Is there a forum that doesn’t ban people, or remove and reshuffle content, or use algorithms to figure out what to show people? For better or worse, most people are attracted to places that do these things.

False positives are regrettable, but only if you feel that we are each inherently special and deserve to each be treated with the same standards. When there are 100 million people to serve, how can a few thousand moderators hope to do an excellent job in all cases?

Many of these questions are still open. We’re at the dawn of the internet, and it’ll be around for the rest of humanity in some form.
Didn't everyone see Godzilla?
This is pretty awesome. I just set it up for my own IPTV to stream my own servers. Really simple.

Create an M3U of all your servers, i.e. PC1, PC2, PC3 and so on.

Upload the M3U and generate an installer.

Give it out to everyone you need.

Now they can stream your local library. Need to remove a channel? Just remove it from the profile.

Family videos? 1 binary. Educational videos? Another binary.

This is awesome and would be a great STB Alternative for Windows.

I'd presume it would work for M3u Streams as well for IPTV services.
$300 per month strikes me as being quite steep for a shared desk.
Reddit may be coming to it's golden age.
Heh that was some interesting listening...
It drips underneath on a muggy day, so I assume it's draining OK. My main gripe is that they don't auto-run the fan for 3-4 minutes after key-off.
> and I presume a smaller market (most people consume culinary herbs as part of their diet, not everybody consumes weed)

On the contrary, I know plenty of people who consume large amounts of concentrates and don't use much herbs and seasonings with their food. I suppose unless we're counting third party foods, in which case you might be right.
"Epic Games banked a $3B profit in 2018"
I don't know how you're flipping your pages, but it's possible to flip through a book at something like 6 to 10 pages per second. Which is how flipbook animations work.

Even setting aside this specific form of flipping, with a moistened finger and a small book I can leaf through at a rate of several pages per second.

The annoying part with E Ink update speeds isn't the page turn you do when you've finished reading the page - it's the inability to rapidly visually scan the book.
Anyone rent dedicated office space? By that I mean 4 walls and a door that you can close. I was thinking that if I ever get back into full-time remote work I might try to find something like 100 sq. feet to rent.