skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But, grid and/or flex box could still do these things by nesting I assume?

So do you mean this is a less complex, more sane way, or did you mean it enables things that couldn’t be done with grid/flex?

Of course sanity is good but it’s an important distinction, say if a simple scenario could avoid a library dep without much extra complexity.
That's a really good point about pre-rolls. I agree that homegrown
weed is no more of a threat to dispensaries than homebrewed beers are to Budweiser.
In most real world applications, the cost of doing an in-memory data manipulation like this is negligible compared to I/O, waiting for the database etc. It's already the wrong language for someone who wants to squeeze out every CPU cycle, and imo it's a Good Thing for a language upgrade to embrace its strengths ie syntax sugar in the case of Ruby, as long as the perf hit isn't out of control.

I'd agree developers should pick the right data structure for the job and some APIs can obscure the cost to the point of misleading developers into woefully wrong decisions. I just don't think it's the case with array ops like union as it's easy enough to handle them efficiently. I too would be interested to see any benchmarks though.
It's not creepy. Discord tracks mouse movements to tell when you're hovering over something and tracks clicks to tell when you've clicked on something. It's just how the client works.
While I'm not that much into 3d nowadays, tried the beta a few weeks ago and it has some amazing improvements in usability.

Would love to read more about how things get organized behind the scenes to accomplish such a complex and polished piece of open source software
Cool stuff at pine64. Thanks for the tip!
Every change breaks somebody's workflow...

This change also has received some backlash from the existing userbase, albeit you can configure the behavior.
Immediately thought of Bruce Sterling's article on anticonventional objects. I guess this company goes in the buildable, but neither desirable or profitable section. - https://www.wired.com/2013/10/design-fiction-anticonventiona...
> [...] notions of etiquette, self determination and even hygiene [...] will find it kind of gross and embarrassing to be caught up in somebody's disinformation.

This reminds me of the CGP Grey video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE3j_RHkqJc
D'oh! That's what I meant to say.

These days I use AMD, and I just haven't had to think about it. Before this I had Nvidea, and even there the open drivers were fine until I wanted to play games.
I do miss those early days.

I got my first modem in 1985. I racked up a $300 phone bill my first month calling bulletin boards exchanging messages and software with people all over the world. My parents took my modem from me until I paid off the debt.

I’ve been on dozens of forums with topics I’m interested in over the last 3.5 decades. I’ve used every kind of internet communication including Usenet, irc, web, etc.

There’s no reason to miss the early days. Those special interest forums are still out there with lots of activity. Just look for them! I’ll take today’s ease of communication any day over having to dial up with a 300 baud modem to a single-person-at-a-time BBS.
Facebook giving away your data through its api is exactly what got us access to everything in the hands of cambridge analytica and huawei. They shouldn't be allowed to have an open api.
Hundreds? safer to say hundreds of thousands at this point.
Interestingly I heard that 'some media' had published their names yesterday and I thought that was pretty crass. I know several media organisations are that though so its not really a surprise, and I hope they manage to sue them for undue distress or whatever.

Today though, the BBC are saying "<full name> and <full name> from Crawley are saying that they feel completely violated by the media attention". I can't understand what is going through the editors mind when they approve sentences like that.. there is literally no reason any member of the public would need to know their names, and having the BBC repeat them on the hour every hour is just kicking them when they are already down.
It's largely not competitive with photovoltaics.
I haven't seen that particular exhibit, but MSI is one of my favorite museums in the city. Plus, it's free for Illinois residents Mondays through Thursdays in Jan & Feb
Coal power plants also pump out a lot more radiation than a nuclear power plant because coal usually contains a fair bit of uranium.
There is a Target store open inside the Baltimore city limits. I think they may ave only abandoned certain neighborhoods, not the whole city.
What are the signs that make you think Solid will see widespread use, and by whom? I'm genuinely curious.
18 Viral Photos and Videos from 2018 That Were Totally Fake
And one might think that if getting as much pressed duck as one desires were so important, one might choose to dine alone to one's heart's content.
"Politics" is a shaky, fluid concept. For example: Talking about a date I went on would be political to a sizable subset of most communities because of the genders involved. Drawing the line there while others are able to speak about their lives freely would alienate a large part of your community.

Politics is not an innocent team sport with few/no consequences for the losing side. Figuring out where to draw the line requires a deep understanding of what is politicized and why.
The idea that this advice means "don't bother documenting APIs" is a straw man which isn't worth arguing about. The "non-programmers" phrasing is misleading, I agree, but the widely held sentiment that the author was expressing is recognizably the one about comments in source files.

When the algorithm itself really needs verbose documentation, or if the code it's intended to be used for instruction (incorporated into a book, for example), there's always literate programming.

The notorious Unix comment mentioned here https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lions%27_Commentary_on_UNIX_... is actually a good example of a situation where a comment is needed to explain the rationale of the code. At the same time, it was clear to the documenter that the situation was too complicated to be made totally clear by the comment alone (or by reading that piece of code in isolation.) That is the kind of situation in which a comment is necessary, but also inadequate. That is the difficult reality behind this advice: comments don't really work that well when you really want them to.
Role playing.
We launched https://eth.events

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Wow these look great! It just looks so...different from what I'm used to? Personally the wood is a bit old school, but with maybe some more modern/sleeker materials, I could definitely see myself putting up a large on of these in my place. Kudos!
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I wonder if some of this could be solved with stricter checks on where an ad-campaign is purchased from and by limiting the reach to that country / region. Say, a company in Overtheristan buys a campaign to target French users it should be prohibited to do so unless it has a physical presence in France which can be sued.

Maybe it would limit the meddling/damage that can be done. Not that this is very elegant, but it seems better then the suggestion often aired in media and politics which discriminate against free speech ...

This sounds silly (probably because it is) but would be interested what the rest of you thinks. Personally I'd have no problem with totally regulating ad-tech in a way that prohibits targeting users in other countries/jurisdictions. Also facebook should be held responsible in that country so that when a genocide like with the Rohinga happens then the CEO of that entity can answer questions in The Hague
I do it by downloading it and building it myself, or trusting a large beaurocracy running the project to audit the source and produce signed packages, on behalf of the third party developers. Debian style.

So, is npm getting a wasm build infrastructure to support this?
> I better handle people angry with me than disappointed.

This, so much this.

I was raised in a hot-headed european household where people would get angry and argue energetically, often using coarse language. It clearly demonstrated care, passion, and a willingness and desire to continue suffering together.

The low-energy disappointed response sends a very different message. It's probably my upbringing, but it leaves me feeling like the collaboration is over and I should pack up my things.
The primary reason I spend more on United (from O'Hare), which is consistently more expensive is the 24-hour change policy. After 50,000 butts-in-seats miles customers are able to change to another flight within 24-hours of the original, free of charge. This has been invaluable over the years, since I can easily add a meeting or buy the cheapest, most inconvenient flight and know (has only failed me once) I can change the ticket later.
If too many people start taking advantage of this, they might reduce the benefits, so might be good to keep it to yourself.
Tuxmath was great to practice mental math with my 5 and 8 year old.
You should probably check out:

- SOLID (Tim Berners-Lee, RDF)

- GUN (ours, graph)
Interesting, I didn't know. It seems to be more subtle though:

> German judges are not bound by precedent (Präjudizien), but, in pursuit of consistency, they are likely to consider previous decisions of the higher court(s).

https://libguides.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/c.php?g=422919&p=2888143
The German courts still try to be internally consistent, they just don't feel as held to that standard as common law systems do. Precedent can still make or break a case under the right circumstances.
Are you asking a rhetorical question? You sort of answered it yourself.

And yes, there was always a push to decentralize. However, network effects lead to some nodes becoming more heavily connected than others until such time that the consolidation of resource in hypernodes starts to have unintended side effects that are deleterious to the system as a whole. That tends to intensify the push to decentralize, while damping pushes to centralize.

Nature as acted out through man.
He was also not under oath so it was basically just a sideshow.
This is circular logic.
By the sheer number of aligned 'co-incidences' at the time, the show merely reflected, and at most mildly accelerated a dip.

Similarly, "Big Bang" is riding/lifting the current importance of tech.
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You said below you wanted the visual lines.

It really looked like you would have been referrring to the text overlapping multiple columns, is that not related to what you meant?
Very nice. Looking at the source code http://gcompris.net/download/qt/src/gcompris-qt-0.95.tar.xz I saw the tech stack is based on QT, so works cross platform. Very nice suite with each game described by concise format, e.g. addition activity is a 6-line file:

import "../../core"
import "../algebra_by/"
Algebra {
onStart: {
operand.text = "+"
}
}

and metadata here gcompris-qt-0.95/src/activities/algebra_plus/ActivityInfo.qml

ActivityInfo {
name: "algebra_plus/AlgebraPlus.qml"
difficulty: 3
icon: "algebra_plus/algebra_plus.svg"
author: "Bruno Coudoin &lt;bruno.coudoin@gcompris.net&gt;"
title: qsTr("Addition of numbers")
...

Interestingly in the case of Algebra, there seems to be some of the logic running in .js files. I didn't you you can have .js code in QT apps. Very cool!

We normally assume to make an app truly cross-platform and reusable we have to use web technology, but this is a good example of a civilized GUI framework helping achieve something super clear and cross-platform.
At least the author knows the correct phrase is "by accident" and not "on accident".
Every time I read about DragonFly I’m never quite sure what it can do that’s different than other OSes that makes it interesting. The best I can tell it’s just that some of the subsystems are different and it’s more of an experiment for under the hood OS features.
Deleted it in 2008 -- before it was cool!

...but ended up creating 2 accounts for businesses in ~2015-2016.

Still on linkedin, reddit, HN, twitter, and tumblr. No whatapp or insta.
I have no idea why you think the US government, specifically, is somehow the basis for a counter-argument.
Nuclear power plants don’t just produce “waste”, they produce uranium that’s mixed with various isotopes that don’t help sustain fission reactions. While all of this waste is “hot” the amount and makeup of the various waste product varies based on reactor design.

There are two things that can be done with the waste.

First, not all of the nuclear fuel is consumed. The fuel is spent when enough waste has built up to slow fission, which isn’t the same as the fuel being gone. You can re-refine spent rods to reclaim usable fuel and put it back into the reactor.

Second, the real dangerous waste isotopes are the cold ones which produce a little radiation but will do so for millennia. So you can shovel those into a subcritical reactor[0] and hurry the stuff along to non-radioactive metals like lead, all while making some electricity to boot.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subcritical_reactor
This is just insane!! that video where the sound takes 13 seconds to reach the camera really helps cement the point of the article.
The EU should really swing its GDPR stick around. Can someone shed some light on why the e.g Oath Family has not been hit with a serious fine yet? The violation is clear as a day.
Ask HN: What are the good-to-read blog post you have read at least twice?
> what sort of C++ dev are you looking for? I'm curious how C++ is being used in industry these days.

Not parent commenter either, but by far the most common answer is: "the sort of C++ dev who is happy with maintaining incredibly clunky codebases that are old enough to drink alcohol in the U.S. If you're in a well-defined, niche sector like gaming, embedded, low-latency programming etc. the code won't quite be old enough to drink, but it will still be really, really clunky, and nowhere near a "modern" standard like C++17.
Should I take cognitive and personality test?
I had a phone screen for a small startup. During the phone screen they let me know that the next step was for me to take a "CCAT" cognitive test and a personality test similar to Myers-Briggs.

Does this seem odd to you guys? It just seems like a red flag and a waste of time.
How does the canvas circles become letters and shapes? Is their source code for this? I've been wanting to know how this is done for some time. Does it use the `fillText` method?
How to build a house alone
What is the procedure if a large flock of birds decide to loiter at an airport? I would think birds are just as dangerous and a drone for aircraft.
provocative and obvious at the same time.

anyone have the talk, if it wasn't just a reading of the slides?
I got for american now. They overbook so much i set my business trips in the morning and happily take a bump for the voucher
China cracks down on Christmas celebrations – World news – The Guardian
I see Shellenberger is still claiming there that PV uses rare earth elements. What a baldfaced lie.
China is cracking down on Christmas. Several cities, schools, and government institutions have ordered citizens not to celebrate the holiday and to instead focus on promoting traditional Chinese culture.
i guess the god emperor trump was right that we need to hold chinas feet to the fire. almost like the globalist cuckservatives and libcucks since nixon who opened them up and sold american jobs to them were wrong.
Yeah, exactly. That seems to be missed in some of these discussions. Is it Facebook's responsibility to stop the spread of authoritarianism? No, of course not—but it sure shouldn't be helping the spread of authoritarianism. And yet it is.
Awesome to see an established OSS project put such a focus on usability (and do it well from the looks of things).
Thinking li-ion battery as a solution for PV electricity storage means confuse marketing bullshit with technology. Today's EV battery in 5/6 years will be good to augment African's and Asian's waste cargo business. Nothing more.

You are right saying that we need and we will need more electricity, not because of EV BTW, but PV is NOT an answers being an inconstant and low efficiency power source.

And I speak not basing my assumption on someone else unverified publication but due a semi-direct experience (few friends of mine in the recent past transform their roofs for PV, myself having recently build my new house I choose solar thermal to heat the house via a MCV and for sanitary water production with a 1000l + 800l cumulus. I have few friends/relatives that bought few EV, including two with a Tesla model S and I see how satisfy they are(n't) and how they'r EV range decrease in a very short time.
How a government shutdown affects America’s cybersecurity workforce
GUN and SSB are production ready, both running now large communities:

- Patchwork has grown & scaled with spanning trees.

- Notabug.io handling large influx of users with daisy-chain ad-hoc mesh-networks (DAM).
Looks like its goal is to provide a built-in support for implementing distributed systems (clustering, NUMA, etc.).
Gee, if only someone would question whether this whole “UB” thing is a good idea.
Am I the only one who's irritated by how they treat 2.8 and 2.80 as if it was the same version number? In any sane use of semver, they are 72 minor versions apart
Is information ever lost? Not a rhetorical question, I genuinely want to know. Once the vibration due to a sound become smaller than a certain level, do quantum effects make it disappear entirely
Can you explain ‘extra’ in this context? #oldfart
If Facebook becomes a haven for nazis and racists, normal people and advertisers will stop using it.
But this requires dealing with BoA who are a terrible company. No thanks.
Actually Turkish food generally of good quality. OTOH, lots of the food items sold in "normal" supermarkets all over the country is made in China. For example, it is like 90% of all apple juice sold in the US made from Chinese concentrate,
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Nuclear reactors are not economically competitive. This is the main problem with nuclear, not waste, safety, proliferation, or mind control by Greenpeace.

Reprocessing doesn't reduce the cost of nuclear power, it increases it.
I’m a big fan of DragonflyBSD and for all who don’t know DragonflyBSD well, here’s my summary of the OS when v5.0 was released [1]

It really doesn’t get the recognition it desires. It’s has highly advanced features and performance and frankly more people should be using it.

Given the recent ZFS/FreeBSD news - I’d love more people to adopt DragonflyBSD for its Hammer2 filesysten.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15484735
For all the hype of blockchain (crypto), we’re still in the early stages of Cloud adoption by global companies and integration with machine learning. While AWS and Microsoft are a duopoly of sorts....
This post was thoroughly enjoyable to read. Thanks for the laughs.
If you're not depressed about some of the code you've written, it might be time to take bigger risks.
Agree. Being an American company, if Facebook were to _officially_ edit content it would become a publisher rather than a platform, and having to follow laws that publishers have to follow would make them go bankrupt in no time.
Fewer run time errors. Easier testing, among other things.
That is a pretty shit precedent to set. What's next, suing RIPE because they allocated a /24 to a colo server hosting company that hosted a piracy site?
Not sure why you think this will be down voted.

We learn in junior (or senior highschool) China's legal systems has a few fundamental issues: 有法不依 (laws are ignored), 执法不严 (laws are not enforced effectively). Those basically cover the problem you mentioned about the government.
Intika/Librefox: Librefox, patching Firefox for an enforced privacy and security
Developer here. The cost of running this api is very minimal. Also later I may sell technical indicators for mutual fund. But API will always be free. You can rely on it
The demo video https://youtu.be/EAhRiv-FKbI of the real time renderer is really impressive (see https://www.blender.org/2-8/#eevee)
Congrats to everyone who worked on this -- this is a great step forward for the Blender community as a whole!

Andrew Price did a great set of videos on some of the changes in this release [1] for anyone who's interested in trying it out.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPVpg4_POww.
True, we built NLP/NLU vector representations from the ground up to tackle hypothesis generation and hidden relationship detection connected to genes, genomic pathways and therapeutics related to extending human lifespan, DNA repair and LET radiation chromosomal damage repair at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab from 2002 to 2008 https://www.google.com/patents/US7987191 followed by Tomas Mikolov's/Google's work and preceded by countless others of course.
Pariyerum Perumal.
I think you're being downvoted because it wasn't clear at all what you were talking about, if someone is not familiar with the picture. It just seems like you went on a random rant. Your follow up comment was much more informative about your point of view.
> if I create a new social network, it isn't very useful until a significant number of people are on board.

That's a common misconception. As a social network creator, your job is to create a substantial amount of single player value in addition to multiplayer value, precisely to avoid this sort of chicken and egg problem. If your social network isn't both useful and differentiated (i.e. doing something completely different than FB) even when no other people are using it, then you have a real problem.

That's why when Facebook launched it was basically just a prettier skin over the Harvard student directory, so that way it was valuable even if there were no other people using it.
I see people using Twitter for this all the time.
why do they report every like individually.... why not round to the nearest power of 10?
Yeah, (a while ago) I also tried just having the firmware update on the SD card, it was a bit more reliable but still far from 100%…
I took part in Helsinki University China Law week last spring, with prominent Chinese law scholars taking part.

A professor from Peking University Law School told the audience how he had asked during a lecture is there anyone who cares about the Chinese constitution. Nobody reacted. After a moment of silence a student finally spoke up and said: "That's the wrong question. The question is, is there anyone who cares about the Chinese law in general."
It’s a good time to learn any language if it has any popularity at all.
Can't disagree with you on that one, but it is one of the best deals for consumers. My consolation is that BofA isn't making much money off of me, and for customers with higher $$ the service is actually pretty good.
A Danish startup invented underwear you can wear for weeks without washing
How to Create a Business with WebRTC
This isn't mass psychosis because 'seeing a drone', even when mistaken, is not a symptom of anything. 'Mass delusion' may be closer to what you're referring to. But there's a certain aspect of fear or panic in the concept that just doesn't fit here: presumably, nobody would feel panic at the sight of a far-away drone unless they were about to board a plane?

In general, I doubt the UK is any more susceptible to such phenomena (cf Americans and their panic at the sight of a turban, or beard). You may also just be profiting from the benefits of hindsight, and throwing in a conspiracy theory for what exactly?