skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my line of work, whistleblower complaints often result in very concrete investigations and mitigative action being taken. One key similarity between these issues is that the problem is dealt with internally as discretely as possible.

Some organizations are looking for a paper trail to indicate they've done something - anything - to remedy the issue. Others try to get the full story and fix the rot.

I think we just don't hear about situations where the whistleblowers do a tremendous amount of good, because those are situations in which the problem has successfully been contained and thus aren't newsworthy.
Going a step newer, the Nexus 5X has common boot loop failure for which the solution is to flash a custom ROM that kills the pair of big A57 cores and use only the four smaller A53 cores. So it's not all sunshine and roses on the Android side either.

A friend of mine had a 5X replaced under warranty and immediately dumped it on eBay and bought something else because there was no sign of an official fix coming for this.

EDIT: I wasn't sure if this is still up to date, but after some research it looks like "custom ROM to disable the fast cores" is still the state-of-the-art solution https://www.reddit.com/r/nexus5x/comments/8pbg5n/my_guide_to...
Why My Chinese Dad Switched from an iPhone to a Huawei
> I've always wondered how much value employers lose via this sort of error.

I suspect nobody can come up with a number that would convince everyone in the chain in a large organization. If that could be done, I wouldn't end up in this situation in the first place.
Bitbucket’s website is slow as hell. I actually physically cringe when I have to do something through the website (e.g. create a pull request) because I know I’ll be staring at slow-loading pages for the next 5 minutes, even for something that’s 3 clicks away.
And you could always cover your lightweight projectile with enough lead it'll not cut through the barrel on its way out.
How does this change by Github make you regret migrating to Gitlab? Do you think Gitlab's offering is in some ways inferior?

I mirrored everything to Gitlab sometime ago, for public repositories and also use them for private repositories. The only real advantage I could specifically name for Github is the organic contribution factor due to their volume of traffic. However, this doesn't really apply to private repositories.

Edit: I see this has been answered below now - time spent migrating.
One solution, though not exactly what you want, is to use "Code block with callouts"(go here https://asciidoctor.org/docs/asciidoc-syntax-quick-reference... and search for callouts)
I recently watched a TED talk by Peter Singer that went into Effective Altruism pretty well
Vaguely related but check out http://ceqea.sourceforge.net/, paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.02478
I usually go with this structure

-Documentation
-Installers
--Drivers
--Games
--Operating Systems
-Media
--TV Shows
---Show Name
----Season
--Movies
--Music
---Artist
----Album
--Pictures
---Year
----Month
-Downloads (keep files there for 30 days max, then categorize or delete)

The whole thing is synced and versionned with Syncthing across several nodes.
They don't have to be the same.
Any "team" working on a private repo cannot be bigger than 3 collaborators.
Why Do Online Discussions Tend Toward Negativity?
Only if you write unidiomatic (Read crap) C++.

In modern C++ it is very much possible to write fast and safe code, but the tradeoff is now put into the amount of stuff the developer needs to know to be productive (Which in my experience isn't as bad as people like to go on about on here/reddit, even if it still pretty shoddy)
This move makes sense IMO. There are a lot of Hello world public repos out there which is actually crowding search results and inflating number of "open source projects" in Github.
Not the OP but I really like the free CI and container registry.
There are so many comments here missing the point saying "why? just use "X" API" or "this is a waste of time when you will need 'X' API anyway" etc. but they miss the point. It's about 'how' graphics work, not building game engines.

Computer graphics is more about producing an image on a computer screen and whether it's for image processing or a game engine renderer it's the same process and very useful to know whichever field you want to pursue.
Trust and Artificial Intelligence
It's pretty commonly for shocks/struts/dampers to be worn out by 50-80k miles. As early as 30k. Sure, the car will still seem to generally drive fine, but the point is that all of these things get worse over time.

Further on down the mileage line, virtually everything is wearing out. Rubber bushings in control arms. Rubber bushings in all your rear suspension points. There's rubber EVERYWHERE on cars, and it all wears out. Motor mounts, transmission mounts, shock mounts. Again, it'll still go down the road, but it won't drive like new. You might have a lot of slop in steering, slop in cornering. The car might pull one way or another under acceleration. It'll be louder, harsher, clunkier.
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Is USB-IF certification any guarantee of quality?
I cannot agree more with this. I love being able to search and see how libraries are being used in real life projects. It definitely helps.
The announcement went out a day early. Roll-out is tomorrow.

edit: just kidding, it's shipped
Same here but now I will probably switch to GitHub because I like their product.
I didn't know this existed, thank you for pointing it out.
Even top VCs need a portfolio of companies to produce a return. If you asked a VC to bet a whole fund on a single company :) and these are people who's full time job is to pick companies
For those of you using GitLab, BitBucket, or <insert-other-git-host-competitor-here>, does this make you consider switching back at all? If so, why?

It may be myopic, but the only major reason I can think of is visibility if you plan on publicizing the repo at some point. But you can achieve this by using GitHub as a mirror for your main repo on another platform (at least for GitLab, I’m not familiar with BitBucket).

Edit:
Personally, I use GitLab (both .com and I've set up/maintain several sefl-hosted solutions). I originally tried out GitLab due to lack of private repos on GitHub, and I don't see a reason I should switch back at this point. The open development and attitude towards the product and community has been part of that.
> work nicely with win32 is probably less effort

Gonna be very hard to do. For the last 15+ years COM is essential part of WinAPI, and too many things in Rust conflict with COM: ownership, OOP, virtual tables, inheritance, they all too different.

Not just in Rust, in all languages, actually. You only have 2 good choices for complex platform-dependent windows development: either C++, or a microsoft's language with COM support embedded deep in the runtime, like VB6 or VBScript or .NET.
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I think you misunderstood the comment. The guy who's shooting dogs for the ATF isn't who's meant by "person running the government". It's the elected/appointed officials who hate government. These don't have to last very long to cause a lot of damage. Look at Scott Pruitt and Ryan Zinke.
Nope, not on the free tier via a private repo.
I'd be willing to bet good money that the number of teenagers who actually read propositions dramatically increases at literally age 18, considering that's when you can vote.

So no, people do actually become politically aware, usually around 18 years of age or older. Until then, sentiment dominates.
Can you link where you see this? I can't seem to find it
well there goes 90% of the reason I still had a BitBucket account. brb migrating my private repos to Github.
Do you need to use the 15V or 20V modes to supply 18W to a laptop or can the laptop just use the 2A@9V?

I can plug my Macbook into a 5V only USB phone charger and it says it's charging (ok, it doesn't really keep up with the power usage, so the battery still drains, but it drains slower than it would if not plugged into anything at all)
Sorry have to delete these, not comfortable with these comments sitting on the internet forever.
Sure, my point is though that it's only in the past few months when Proton was released that the compatibility was good enough it actually mattered to game developers and players.

By making Linux compatible with Windows games it gets rid of that objection "I'd move to Linux if it weren't for my games" which was the remaining objection for a LOT of people.

Because Steam tracks WINE that's a very good thing, so they can detect players who bought their games to play it on Linux.

This helps encourage Linux native gaming growth, because developers can see the chunk of Linux players rising as more get rid of Windows because they no longer have that remaining obstacle.
I started getting MeUndies with my partner, who’d been subscribing since they opened in LA just down the street from where she worked. They make a great product, chose to ally themselves with good causes, artistic collaborations, and the one-design-a-month made it a fun way to rotate new matching underwear with one’s partner.

As someone who’s been a customer of theirs for a long time, I think they’re valuable because of the service they provide.
It's quite simple. Once a tipping point is passed, and clearly apparent, it's too late to stop it. We're not doing anything about the bad. It's right there in our system's designed-in premise that the bad is an "externality". There is far too much evidence to no longer believe in anthropogenic climate change, or that the change is not bad.

Nothing wrong with change per se. Nothing at all wrong with discoveries and inventions that have brought modern levels of health and comfort if we mitigate the costs. Everything wrong with change that makes our planet less able to support biodiversity, or to be slightly more emotive, an unpleasant, marginal, place to be for everyone. Change and develop without triggering the next great collapse. I do not want my comfort to be at the expense of every future generation.

Thankfully, at least in Europe, there are signs that critical mass of public opinion is being reached and there are increasingly strident calls to do something substantive. That's at odds with the general state of political opinion which seems to be trailing public opinion markedly.

> Humans can (and will) get through climatic change events well enough

Based upon what? This appears to be nothing more than wishful thinking or presumption.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/jan/06/katharine-ha...

> We have the power to preserve almost everything we deem worth preserving

Which appears to be nothing unless it is profitable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction

That humanity could survive is moot if it involves going through a millennia long dark age, or effectively bombing ourselves back to the iron age.

> thanks to us, the life on our planet has the highest chance of survival in the future

Again, our track record speaks loudly against this.
A lot of data comes from NYC open data:

Massive collection of raw lidar, contour, GIS data:
ftp://ftp.gis.ny.gov

NYC Open Data (GIS related):
https://github.com/CityOfNewYork/nyc-geo-metadata

An example direct download link from the NYC data website:
https://data.cityofnewyork.us/browse?tags=dem

More Lidar links
https://gis.ny.gov/elevation/lidar-coverage.htm

From Cornell, Elevation example, (AWS s3 links):
https://cugir.library.cornell.edu/catalog/cugir-008186?isoto...
Poor people don't move because they lack funds to do so. It's one of the big problems in the US that hits the fixed income people who live in high expense areas. Access to healthcare for the poor is a lot better than in it was in 2005 because of Obamacare that expanded medicaid yet disability rate is at an all-time high. Indicators for health care access like high cholesterol levels and untreated cavities is at a 20 year low.
This! I've been gaming exclusively on Linux since 2009, though it was rough until 2013. I also quite a few Linux gamers are great at diagnosing their own problems. When we do report bugs, I bet the reports are more useful on average.
i think you presented an earnest and unconventional perspective and am dismayed at the lack of engagement here (even if i myself wouldn't want to live in a van).
FWIW, I use a macro processor with markdown. Markdown supports arbitrary inline HTML, which makes it very convenient to use like this. You can create a macro for the warning box. I have another one to insert not just code snippets, but the result of running the code snippet.

I've used asciidoc before, and I don't recall it having arbitrary programmability? I'd be interested in how that works.
On the flip side, the amount of Hello World projects masquerading as useful things in their README.md in search results until you actually click through and look at them properly will hopefully drop off a cliff.
Well that's only a problem if 6GB isn't enough, and for the time being it's more than plenty.
I wonder what you'd think about Rust.
In third world countries we typically don't want to spend $100 a year for something like this when BitBucket and GitLab are free. This change is a big deal for our situations.
Two reasons I use gitlab. 1) Private repos, 2) supporting an open source alternative to Big Git(hub).

This is an amazing move but reason #2 is too important for me ideologically.
> the doctor was not provided...

If someone makes 400000 USD a year, shouldn't we expect him to actually check if he has all the required documents before making a decision?

Of course, then the doctor would need to actually review the case...
C#

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-refe...
Great and now I have to also track security updates and ship those for all my dependencies. libcurl is a great example with a release cycle of 2(!) months and tons of vulnerabilities being fixed each time.
GitLab has had this issue for EVER and I just switched to bitbucket a few days ago because of it: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/15140

I wish I had waited a few more days now.
Replacing the whole method/function seems pretty straight forward. Any good JS/JVM articles on how code is replaced mid-function?

Edit: I see the article does mention IL deoptimization IDs. I assume those are used as "anchors" to know where to continue with the optimized rest of the loop.
Agreed, the funds will probably only make a difference if each OSS project gets at least enough to sustain a developer full-time. Otherwise the authors still have to maintain their day jobs.

This was a great read: https://www.fordfoundation.org/about/library/reports-and-stu...
Well, the gamma rays produced by fusion can still photo-desintegrate various elements which in turn leads to secondary neutron radiation and unstable isotopes. I don't know what the cross sections of those interactions are but it's not quite zero.
In Belarus there are quite a few of BMW and Audi approaching 30 years or more. According to a person that works in a shop specializing in their repair the biggest issue is rust. The engine and other parts are mostly original with minimal repairs. In Belarus a good mechanic earns 700-1000 usd/month and his time is cheaper then getting replacement parts.
Yeah. It really is complicated.

That's the thing with nuclear, if we really want it, at some point, the government is going to have to kick in some money to do it. With all of the competing generation technologies looking so good as investments right now, it really would almost be financial malfeasance for an investment group to put money into nuclear instead. You have to give those guys something if you want to make it happen. Right now, even with no subsidies, it's just hard to compete with a lot of these other investment opportunities in power generation.

And even government subsidies are going to be complicated, because I'm sure the tax payers would get up in arms about having to finance private reactors. Especially when more and more of them could be getting their energy from wind, natural gas, and hydro or pumped hydro. At that point you'd have people in, say, Iowa, where wind is abundant, paying for reactors for people in New York, or Florida.

I suspect that would likely go over about as well as a fart in church.
@jamil7 what are you working on? I wrote here that I've had pretty similar idea, wonder what's your take on that?
yeah. I'm dropping Bitbucket in favor of this for my private projects. BitBucket's UI is so un-intuitive that I (most of the time) dread actually having to log into the web UIs for it.

I'm also just much more comfortable with GitHub since I use it daily in my day job.
It's currently in stark contrast with GitHub. I won't be at all surprised if I see in-your-face ads on GitHub in the near future. It's not like there isn't a precedent for it (hello, SourceForge).
Not really. For a long time rent was universally cheaper because the landlords obviously keep the asset.
Sad but true. Zrue freedom and liberty are hard to find nowadays if they ever were easy that is.
I’m guessing the post had already gone viral.

Wouldn’t it be great though if you could kill content from the internet by simply removing the source. Privacy concerns would probably become less of an issue.
This is the part that is new to me:

> When we look again at the ATUS, happiness and sense of purpose are both at their highest among people working between 21 and 30 hours a week
A pragmatic design approach for early-stage startups
With AWS being the biggest cloud vendor, it means that most people could probably use ACM and still do things right (it's probably even better than LE as it's harder to mess it up). So your 95% above is probably extremely inaccurate :)
Most of the time I see the word people are talking about deployment automations. But DepAuts doesn't sound as good.

A person who specializes in deployment automation, a company that has a culture in investing in deployment, a team that specializes in deployment automations.
Not trying to be snarky, but why would you have to use iTunes to play music you own? Can't you just play it on whatever device with whatever software you choose?

If your player of choice is iTunes then sure, go for it! But I read your comment as a choice between iTunes or Spotify/other streaming.

I also have loads of music purchased from various online stores and (even more) ripped from the many, many CDs I bought over the years. I don't subscribe to Spotify and listen to my purchased music as much as anything else. I still haven't touched iTunes in years.
Pixel 3 is 5.5"
Not sure what you're requesting, but I'm guessing the details about Gitlab's free offerings?

It's on their pricing page at https://about.gitlab.com/pricing/.
> neither of which are as good as the competition

I'm afraid you're mistaken there - Azure DevOps combines Git (or TFVC, if you really must!) repos with CI, CD and scrum/kanban boards.
Well, if you were creating the language you would have to test that the expected output was repeatable. And presumably before someone who was creating the language would advise the end users of that software not to use it in production until the 1.0 version. Basically you would wait until someone smarter than you or I posts it on Hacker News and says it's production ready.
I've done things in the timezone of what's going on here. My method:

- Get the altitude data for the area you want to work with. Pretty sure I had to make an account at the usgs.gov page. They had a peculiar web app where I was able to query locations and download the data. The data came in lots of formats, the one I managed to import into photoshop was an ultra high rez TIFF iirc.

- Optionally convert the grey scale height map into a normal map. I did this with nvidia's tool. I think normal maps made my results look better (probably at the cost of some accuracy, idk. You get more bytes of data using the whole color space, so it's probably better)

- Import the normal map into 3d modeling software. I used blender.

- Set a super sub divided plane's displacement map to the image you created. Dick with the z-axis scaling until it's sufficiently accurate / inaccurate for what you're trying to do.

- Render? Pull back into photoshop? Draw your annotations? You can mess with levels of your original height map (control+L) if you want particular altitudes masked out for coloring water or something. There's about a trillion things you can do from where. In the 3d world, I'm a huge fan of tri-planar materials.
In this post I explain why I think it sometimes makes sense to build your product before doing any user research.
Your comment kind of reminds me of this implementation http://www.rosettacode.org/wiki/Power_set#C for generating a power set in C. The code recursively calls a function that permutes through the members of the power set and creatively constructs linked lists pointing up the call stack.
Nobodies chosen that it should anything yet, thus the rant.
Tesla tried to do the hot swap, and it presented a few problems.

First, the infrastructure cost is massive. You have to keep an inventory of expensive parts (the battery) on hand. Tesla tried to fix this by having you set an appointment, but that eliminated the whole point of hot swapping: convenience.

It's also harder to put a warranty on a battery if you're swapping them all the time. What if you get a dud swapped into your vehicle?
Firefox 64, MacOS 10.14

I've noticed bugs such as the new tab button stops working (command-t still works though), child tabs not being promoted to top-level tabs when their parent is closed and a few other strange cases of tree state corruption. Particularly it sometimes happens when dragging tabs around to reparent them, although I haven't been able to nail down any concrete rhyme or reason to it. My other extensions are umatrix, ublock origin and tampermonkey, I don't think there is any strange extension interaction going on.

Despite all of this, TST is still too useful to not use.