skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Amazingly there is no upper limit on information that can be extracted. :-) Also, by applying increasingly sophisticated techniques, statisticians can extract increasing amounts of information from the same data. Don't have data? Just add a statistician.
It's a small hole that doesn't really compromise structural integrity, and it doesn't have to hold that much pressure --- remember that sea-level atmospheric pressure is <15psia, and in the vacuum of space it's effectively 0, so the difference is <15psi.
I see SF isn't the only one having those problems. Seems like it's happening all across europe as well.
I tried to learn Forth, and found it to be an obfuscated, write-only language.

Forth programmers give a lot of lip service to writing short, well documented, elegant words (functions) but in real-world programs I've seen the opposite: the tendency has been to long, poorly documented, and convoluted words. (At least that's been my experience with open-source Forth programs. I've heard the libraries for commercial Forths are of much higher quality, but I have not verified this myself)

Forth has been compared favorably to Lisp, but I found them to be like night and day, and Lisp (and especially Scheme) to be far more elegant and easy to both read and write.

Forth might arguably be better than assembly, but unless you have a pressing need to write the tiniest programs possible (like on some resource-starved microcontroller), I'd be hard pressed to find a reason why you'd want to use Forth instead of some higher level language that is far less painful to work with.

In fact, I've even heard some Forth fans themselves say that the point of using Forth is to write yourself something as quickly as possible that lets you program in a higher level language.

Don't get me wrong, I really, really wanted to like Forth and spent a lot of time trying to learn it, but in the end it felt like it just wasn't worth it. I might give it another go if I get heavily in to programming microcontrollers where Lisp or Scheme is not an option.
Only because you're completely unaware of the history of the word "hacker"; It certainly doesn't just mean someone who breaks into other computers.

Reading the old Jargon File entry for the word might clue you in: http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/H/hacker.html
I'm curious how long the legal charade of IP can last before people realise how unworkable and detached from reality the concept is.
I grew up in the east bay, and my experience at school wasn't great, despite being lucky enough to go to one of the most technologically advanced school districts in the state at the time.

Anyway, everything else doesn't follow, because culture isn't a thing that can be just transported from one place to another. Nobody's got a reliable recipe for growing a specific culture. I think culture is instead a result of the environment.

Bend, Oregon has a great craft beer and outdoor culture that is the result of having Mount Hood and other features nearby, and being close enough to some metropolitan areas to get supplies but far enough away from them to retain its own identity.

Moab, Utah has a strong outdoors identity but little economy outside of that, because while they're one of the top destinations for mountain bikers, offroaders, hikers, and canyoneers, they're hours away from anything that anyone on HN would consider "a city".

Seattle's culture is largely the result of its location and history as a sea port and lumber area, and then a home to Boeing before Microsoft and the rest arrived. (And coffee for suffering through the winter.)

San Jose was a vast agricultural area when one side of my family settled in it a hundred years ago. Vast acres of easy-to-transform land, loose environmental regulations, nearby Stanford University, then Hewlett-Packard all transformed the culture there from agricultural to tech-driven.

So this is what I'm getting at: you don't set out to change the culture in an area. I don't think it works that way. I think the culture is an emergent effect of the conditions, and maybe you can change a few of the conditions a little bit, but mostly they work like natural processes. It's not economically feasible to just create a tech culture in a rural area, nor can you simply "change the culture" to make a rural area more tech-friendly.

There are a handful of people here who've had enough money to pay the $50k or more to get fiber lit up on their property. Doing that didn't make them more successful; they were already successful enough to be able to do it, and that success came from elsewhere.
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> this is exactly what the 'left' wing political parties should be doing about now

I could imagine someone like Trump, but smarter, doing it. Big tech and big content are aligned with the Democrats. So why should the Republicans care about pissing them off?
This is interesting. What chip do ESP12F's have for USB?

I did a quick search and nothing came up. Most ESP8266 projects refer to the node mcu board rather than the module.
Those boards usually have a USB <-> serial chip.
Even if you were right about that, Firefox doesn't really have a say. Chrome is intent on rapidly adding more Web features. If Firefox doesn't keep up with the pace, websites will stop working in Firefox because they use the new Chrome-supported features. This is a huge threat to Firefox, and has been made even worse by Edge adopting Chromium. Chromium now has huge market share, making any feature adopted by Chrome essentially mandatory for all browsers.

This is why Mozilla needs a stable source of revenue - both for the engineering work to remain competitive, and for marketing so they can persuade users to use Firefox and lessen Google's influence over the Web.
Some brands/dealers are no-pressure. My wife had very good luck with a Mini dealership in 2014. My impression at the time was that that was part of their corporate approach to sales. I have no idea if that's still the case, but it was pain-free, pressure-free and all very easy. All the features were a la carte. There were packages, but you could also order each feature individually if you preferred.

Individual dealerships and salespeople certainly prefer the in-person pressure-oriented sales model. But offering a showroom and online custom-ordering would certainly make _me_ more likely to buy vehicles more often. As it is, I drive my cars into the ground until I don't feel I can trust their reliability for my typical trips any longer (luckily I _do_ trust my mechanic), but it's usually a few years after I start thinking about replacing them. If it was truly easy to do, I would probably jump a lot sooner.
I vaguely feel like that would be even worse somehow.

It's strange. Sure I trust Visa and my bank with the literal fruit of my labour so far in life, but I don't think I could abide them knowing what exactly I use their financial tools to do (besides what little information a vendor chooses to share).

It probably doesn't make any difference in reality, but I just feel more comfortable with one party having full access to my funds but little to no information about how those funds are used, and another with all that usage information but little/easily revoked access to my funds.

Edit: I also think the current rigorous process around directly contesting transactions with your bank/card provider does more good than harm, and on contemplation wouldn't scrap it for ease of canceling subscriptions.
The difference is people are locked into their iPhones much more so than they are locked in to Costco.
That's a pretty big "despite." It's definitely notable that the first thing people did when decentralized VCSes started to take off was find a way to centralize them.
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Will this rootkit run on Linux?
Kinda odd that so many companies pay money for fairness opinions (M&A, capital raising, major transactions) that specifically identify fairness from solely a "Financial" point of view to shareholders. I always thought it was to avoid lawsuits.
It is a bit confusing that the body text of the site has set Avenir Next as font family.
I think that is why I put these in the 50 year category before we'll know more confidently either way. Where we don't have a direct way to control the outcome because it's hard to simulate real word effects in a short period of time, we might see more causation effects over a 50 year period.

That said, I'm not saying they are carcinogenic, but I'd rather err on the side of caution. Short answer, I don't hold the phone near my head, I leave it out of my jeans pocket as much as possible, and have it on flight mode at night.
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This makes the long trip by the Guatemalans understandable, the lack of interest in politics by the main immigrant father is surprising though understandable - he can't do anything about it. On the other hand, if in the past we just placed juveniles with anyone as described, there's an incentive to risk it all and just send the kids for those stuck in poverty without hope. It's complicated and I can sympathize with a lot of ideas about immigration in this particular circumstance - though the companies moving jobs close to the farms in very rural areas and changing the work and not wanting to pay enough for citizens to take the job bears the brunt of the responsibility and in our political system they almost never do.
I have noticed that spending time on LinkedIn makes me very unhappy. It’s on the same level as Insta or Facebook. It’s either ads, or people posting trivial insights, or, non-substance reading recommendations. It’s depressing. The only reasons I’m not deleting are: it’s a nice address book for business contacts and a good source for finding people/to be found.
> political commentary sprinkled with humor.

I think you're right about their shows, but both Hasan Minhaj and Samantha Bee are comedians, so why are we entrusting political commentary to comedians?
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I suppose. But I would think cabin pressure and such are checked pre-launch.
It failed because i couldn't buy 20k BTC with 1 pizza now.
To back up your more skeptical points, and to hint at the linked study being a symptom of the file drawer problem, here's a study that cites the linked one and which finds no statistically significant difference using a more diverse set of subjects (although still only 21 of them): https://www.researchgate.net/publication/326069864_Affordanc... It does commit the fingernails-down-blackboard sin of talking about "trends" for non-significant results, but otherwise seems relatively sound.

Here's another that effectively finds no significant differences, while subjects perceived flat design as more usable (although full text isn't available so I'm not sure about the methods): https://www.researchgate.net/publication/325563195_A_Compara...

Caveat - this is just from a quick search through studies that cited the linked article. There may be more robust studies around.
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I don't think they are completely meaningless: Wikipedia manages to give a definition. However, I think they are often misused, misunderstood, and not very useful in practice.
As a personal anecdote, I've spent quite a bit of time watching toddlers interact with the world. In my experience, if it looks like a button, a toddler can tell it's a button and will be interested in pushing it. (And might even say "button"!) If it looks like a switch, a toddler will be interested in switching it. If it looks like a button on a touch screen, a toddler might still think it's a button. If it's a flat blob that looks like every other flat blob designed by that designer (but looks nothing like a flat blob by other designers!), toddlers don't recognize it as a button. Shocker, I know.

Obviously, the majority of computer users aren't toddlers, but I think there's a lesson here. I really miss the old Windows 3.1 / 95 / 98 days when controls were more or less standardized and you could reliably tell which were buttons, which were radio buttons, which were okay buttons, etc.
~200 nations instead of a single world government

The long run trend is very obviously toward a single government. Consider that until the Sumerians established cities less than 7000 years ago, humanity was just thousands small traveling groups of nomads with no defined borders.

Sovereignty gets a lot of lip service, but in practice most people don't really want it. It's a lot of work.
Hey, let's not overstep and say that dictators are "morally right" to stop free speech. Legally right, perhaps, but come now, Western democracies would laugh at saying decorators keeping peace is "moral". In fact, they'd argue the opposite. That dictators should morally step down and cede power to the people.
I disagree. I would bet they have tooling and jigs to build a Soyuz, and this hole could be the outcome of a poorly clamped and placed jig. Having a jig would explain why they’re using a handheld drill and why there’s no evidence of measurement.
Which means that the hole was not part of any specific fixture/attachment or construction element.

I wouldn't be so sure about that --- "we need to mount an X, it needs to be roughly in this area", while possibly questionable in space, is not uncommon in other construction. It could be a similar scenario, except whoever was responsible identified the wrong area.

as well as determine which person's suit/clothing/outfit/personal belongings (astronaut's or technician) contain the traces of the metal that fall off as a result of the hole drilling effort

If it was done on the ground during construction, where many holes are drilled, I don't think that would work.
Which is to say, they are useless :)
"Ultimately, in such a world, sites only operate on a single bit of information about any registration: was this public-key generated in a certified device or not? The FIDO Alliance wants to run the certification process, so then the problem reduces down to providing that bit to the site."

Are we really building a web where a single organisation gets to decide which devices people can use to access any website securely? I don't know if that's worse than a web where individual sites can say "Only Windows/Android/iOS/WeChat users can create accounts here".

Before long, the requirements for a "secure" device will be one which effectively implements something like DRM (i.e. has secret signing keys outside of your control), probably requiring biometrics (iris scan or fingerprint), and possibly phoning home to a government or corporation, to check for firmware updates or revocation information (i.e. a kill switch, like in AACS).
What's the problem with this comment? Why do you believe this is unsubstantive or inflammatory?

I studied architecture for 4 years so I know how to recognize postmodern architecture and that is it. It's brutalizing people's environment all over the World.
Install free dota2 and goto arcade on the menu.
Thank you for the recommendation. Does the book offer any suggestions on how to practice the ideas that might be presented to the reader?

I know there's a lot of books out there which admittedly I haven't really looked into, but my concern is that in the US, it would be hard for the average person to actually find an opportunity to negotiate.
> Have you ever downloaded a Linux distro installer from a torrent?

> > I already received one for downloading Ubuntu years back
Maybe mlbcryptobaseball.com? Baseball cards do seem like one of the few things it would be cool to “tokenize”, and they’ve made a deal with the MLB to do it.
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If I remeber correctly it was Delphi 3 at the time. I loved Delphi, but I only got proficient on it thanks to Marco Cantu's "Mastering Delphi" book. I don't know what I would think of the book today, but it was a huge help at the time.
If it was deliberate then it sound like someone who doesn't know wtf they were / are doing. That rules out the astronauts, seems to point to someone on the ground, pre-launch, with nefarious intentions but a lack of knowledge on how best to execute that ill intent.

Maybe?
Apple really needs to stop removing documented APIs. If they want to announce that some APIs have been moved to "maintenance mode", that's fine—just make some effort to ensure said APIs keep working.

Apple is the world's most valuable company, and an independent Mac division would still likely rank in the fortune 500. They are much too eager to effectively offload maintenance burdens to much smaller, individual developers.

I'm not even an app developer—just a power user who wants his wonderful mac apps to keep working! Apple seems to think they're protecting users by forcing developers to update their apps, but they're also pushing developers to non-native technologies like Electron, and I'm quite worried about what their iOS portability initiative is going to do to the landscape.

(I will note that legacy compatibility with precompiled binaries seems to be significantly better than with code; I use some apps that haven't been updated in more than a decade.)
Conclusion that the hole was intended is not likely. The hole has its own drift mark, you can still get a drift mark after punching through your piece. There are 3 drift marks, 3 other bit taps, 2 or 3 more bit taps further back where the panel jig-jogs (this was what they were shooting for in the first place, this dead space where the bit could punch through safely.) Most people that drill a lot of holes in metal have the finesse and dexterity to know when you've punched through a piece. Whoever did this drilling does not have those skills.

When you hand hold a piece like this you rely on gravity and can put your weight down firmly against it so it doesn't move, even after punching through. Much tougher to do in space with no gravity, you need to use the frame itself to push against. If this was done on the ground it would have to be by a complete incompetent or drunk individual to make 8-11 damaging marks on the frame. Secondly in the second photo you see a padding that would partially cover this, it looks undamaged, meaning they lifted this padding for the explicit purpose of using that jig jog dead space in the frame as their 'punch through area.'

Lastly, since I've been in this situation many times, whatever they were drilling through would not fit on the frame in the orientation they needed for some of the holes they were planning on drilling, and thus this is likely why they missed their dead space safety area. The debris from this would now be floating where ever so impossible to use that to determine guilt from clothing. The only thing they can use is either preflight photos (the padding covered most the damage perhaps) or send every drill bit on the station back to earth for analysis; drifting your bit even on aluminum alloy will leave a signature. Correlate that with use records for component replacement times. You're also looking for components with holes in them that don't match the blueprints. When you're on a 'boat' though, sometimes these types of repairs are assumed and undocumented though (especially when you screw up.)

50/50 chance this was an astronaut or a very drunk contractor on ground. The most disturbing evidence here is the drift mark before the hole among the other bit tap marks. It implies the person drilling it did not have mental focus.
There are many works that are public domain in death+70 countries, but still copyrighted in the USA, thanks to its 95 year rule and URAA.

E.g., all works by authors who died in 1948 would now be public domain, but the US often requires that they were published before 1924.
With .net core the writing is on the wall that the full .net framework will go the way of .net 1.1 (the .net team highlighted that it is too burdensome to maintain both frameworks in parallel). I am not sure that the new Microsoft has the same commitment to support legacy code than the Microsoft of the last 20 years.
Does it allow me to hit the page count of my essay even easier?
My earlier comment assumes that value is measured in dollars. Denominating value in subjective units like "useful on the societal scale" would lead to different conclusions for anyone but the most die-hard capitalist.
man people are lazy - it's literally right there in the intro:

"Flow-based deep generative models conquer this hard problem with the help of normalizing flows, a powerful statistics tool for density estimation. A good estimation of p(x)p(x) makes it possible to efficiently complete many downstream tasks: sample unobserved but realistic new data points (data generation), predict the rareness of future events (density estimation), infer latent variables, fill in incomplete data samples, etc."
Yeah, I don't get the "hate" for the functional operations, though comprehensions have better syntax

And no, I don't want to 'def' every small function I might need, pep-8 recommendations aside. Key as mentioned is one use, but there are other cases where it's especially useful
While grandparent's comment shows an extreme situation, I agree with the quote.

I occasionally see comments here complaining about the ephemerality of the work we do... but I see no other alternative outside of a few domains. I fully accept that the code I will write next week when I get back from vacation won't exist in less than five years.
It's essentially just building an intranet. That's not illegal
Lightweight and portable come to mind when I see "written in Go". Those qualities are pretty appealing for the self-hosted crowd.