skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm really really loathe to say this ... but in today's climate, "memes are news". I have 100% had the contents of memes thrown at me in a political discussion. I happen to be online a lot, so in many cases, I've seen the meme scroll by and it's easy both to realize what it is (fake propaganda), and easy to debunk ... but to those folks, it's as real as if delivered by Walter Cronkite's lips.
Also had the same question. :)
Source Code Pro, my favorite, is also under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.
Well, it sounds to me like it worked but then they stopped and blame their failure on their success.

People can't stay healthy their whole life if they only eat healthy for a few months.
Are you aware of the classic four-stage traffic assignment model? It's the linear regression of transportation modeling. It's scary that the authors didn't even mention that it exists.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transportation_forecasting#Fou...

My first job was to estimate trip generation models (the first tier) using simultaneous-equations time-series models in Eviews; a transportation engineer with some experience doing surveys (i.e. coordinating teams of people with clipboards) worked on the mode choice. We had additionally some greyheads who had the Matlab codes for trip distribution and route assignment.

Realistically some machine learning type classification could really help in mode choice, particularly if raw data (like turnstile pushes) is available. Trip generation, like most microeconometrics with time-series, is something of a dark art.

Ideally we would all be doing agent-based simulation by now with super-disaggregate data like Waze has, but I haven't seen complex systems simulation really "arrive" for real problems. It'd be fun to train reinforcement learners on them too :)
Almost certainly Aphyr, aka Kyle Kingsbury aka @kingsbu.

https://aphyr.com/posts/284-jepsen-mongodb
Just to be clear, the FSF does not agree with your distinction. The FSF only endorses free software, which means free for all users, commercial or noncommercial ( https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/categories.en.html ):

>Proprietary software is another name for nonfree software. In the past we subdivided nonfree software into “semifree software”, which could be modified and redistributed noncommercially, and “proprietary software”, which could not be. But we have dropped that distinction and now use “proprietary software” as synonymous with nonfree software.

>The Free Software Foundation follows the rule that we cannot install any proprietary program on our computers except temporarily for the specific purpose of writing a free replacement for that very program. Aside from that, we feel there is no possible excuse for installing a proprietary program.
Fifteen years imaging the Red Planet
> It makes sense - they grew up in a time where news was (relatively) reliable/truthful

Many of the elderly become more gullible as they reach advanced age, which is the same reason con-men target them with scams.
No, because a pixel is not a point. Even if not-perfect optics blur the point a bit, it can still be one pixel or less. Ideal optics might be able to focus the light much smaller than one pixel, but that won't change the resulting image because the pixel sensor will pick up the same amount of light.
Hmmm. Sounds like the rationale behind Microsoft's selling Hololens to the Defense Department and Magic Leap immediately pivoting from their lackluster product launch to a defense contract.

Could it be that VR just isn't that big a deal to normal people so these companies have to go after the military now? I read somewhere that most VR devices only get used once or twice before owners put them down for good.
Pretty much any device these days can run some form of standalone SSH software or, worst case scenario, a shell + openssh (heck, even Windows can do that these days).

Setting these up is fairly painless, and they are FAR more flexible than this solution, FAR more secure and the vast majority are open source - which is KINDA important when dealing with security.

Sorry for being blunt, but all I see here is a huge gaping security hole. The $5/month is just adding insult to injury.
You need to use `Py_BuildValue` with the `s` argument to get that into a python string.
The Problem of the Missing Galaxies Gives Way
Overheard during the 2012 campaign in florida, between some octagenerians:
I’m voting for that Mitt Romney because he’s a nice Protestant boy, not like the others. (Not that it matters, but Obama was the only Protestant in that race, Biden and Ryan are catholic, Romney is like the most famous Mormon).
The problem I have with nanoPB, is that the RPC comm between the app over BLE and the server over http is entirely up to me. There are no suggestions, standards, or even great examples of what the pb should contain and how it gets processed at each location.

It almost becomes RESTful where I have a proto that has a request field, response field, and all the optional fields for both, when the server or app sees one of these I need all custom implementation to decide what to do with these ‘states’. It seems wrong and complex to make it all arbitrarily handled at each of three places.

NanoPB is excellent. But it’s the handling of the data (calls, req/res, timeouts, errors, formats, patterns) that I wish there was something for.

And yea, you got it right that with no HTTP layer it wouldn’t be gRPC on the device. But my app and server could still use that, if only the device could process the intention of the gRPC format changes / extensions.
What is that bright blob/nebula thing in the upper right of the zoomable image? That is really pretty. Also, if that's closer than the galaxy how come we can't resolve individual stars in the blue haze?
I think I agree, but you are probably over stating how many of them grew up with television.

Now, the same points generally hold with radio, as well.

I was just saying that propaganda is not new. Of course, I don't know that this research is claiming these folks are the most misinformed. So, I could be taking it in a pointless direction, as well.
Bash 5.0 Released
The Sun font was monospaced but just had serifs. Overall pretty terrible to stare at and very 90s.
I don't understand your bit about "cuteness over familiarity". Can you give an example outside that's not Rails-related (given that Rails seems to be the main source of your concrete complaints)?

Sigils in Ruby actually do have strong and clear meanings. And the difference between symbols and strings is a useful distinction. And contrary to your statement, Ruby's stdlib is far more complete and more internally consistent than what you get from Perl or Python, so I'm not sure what your beef is with that.

It's fair not to like particular decisions a language has made, but from what you say, I'm not getting the sense that you understand the decisions Ruby has made well enough to criticize them effectively. Again, it seems like your experience was colored heavily by Rails, and fair enough if that's the case. But stick to criticizing the actual source of your problems.
maybe a black (or rather orange) swan skewed the results ;)
Given the scale and popularity of DynamoDB and the distributed nature you would think that they could hire multiple teams just to work on improving it, but I guess it isn't as simple as that.

I would love to get a behind the scenes look at the process of gradually improving the components of DynamoDB with better technologies, while still maintaining reliability and performance.
People aged 18 to 30 should vote.
Yeah, the "natural health" thing is an actual religion these days, and lots of younger people buy into it.
Sadly, no one has done a properly licensed, bitmap clone just for OpenBSD console use. It would really make a nice addition to any OpenBSD presentation.
Are there static analysis tools that catch such problems? User controlled buffer length for alloca.
NetData doesn't have any relationship to CNCF, other than being one of the 44 projects and products we track in the monitoring section of our cloud native landscape: https://landscape.cncf.io/category=monitoring&grouping=categ...

(Disclosure: I'm the executive director of CNCF and author of the landscape.)
And in the same vein, The Sacred Rac : http://www.drabruzzi.com/sacred_rac.html
XSLT 3.0 tracking added to Firefox Platform Status
cgroups are essential to properly limit daemons on baremetal servers without the overhead of containers (so more bang for bucks).

For example, you can make sure some poorly written python daemon will never use more than 50pct of the cpu or over 1 Gb of ram - and systemd services will nicely restart the daemon if\when that happens.

By not using systemd you are depriving yourself of essential tools in modern sysadmin (timers alone are worth switching to systems compared to cron anachronistic hacks)
I've only given Crystal a cursory look in the past and I think I'd enjoy working with it but can't speak to whether I'd feel as comfortable and productive as with Ruby (maybe I would). But what I do know is that you would not have the vast amount of Ruby gems available to your project, so if you feel the need for those as I often do then you might find it a bit more slow-going.
Liquid biopsy is an exciting field but to call the current results “promising” seems like a stretch to me. The entire point of doing screening is catching early stage cancers. For these cancers, liquid biopsies miss far more than imaging in every study I’ve seen (even early non peer reviewed results). For this reason there is as of yet no evidence that drawing a blood sample can be a first step before imaging for the high risk populations where screening is done today. You still need to do imaging for those.

However, it seems like an interesting avenue for increasing the size of the screening population but then false positives become a serious problem within a low risk population.
I can believe this - my old man is a sucker for these.
I've never heard anyone say Ruby "looks just like English". Do you have a source?
I've been thinking of building a 'fake news' app to embarrass people like this who share fake news.

The idea is to have a legitimate looking site.

The link would be something like 'thebostonreporter.com' where it looks like a real news URL and the content ALSO looks like a legitimate news site.

The site would create news stories that confirm the bias of people who tend to share fake news.

For example, "Hillary Clinton Convicted of Money Laundering in Boston Court" or something like that...

Then we push it on social media.

Once the links has gone out and has been distributed across social media we flip the content of the link and say, basically:

"You've been the victim of fake news!"

and explain what they did wrong and how to be more critical of links they share.

PART of this is going to have to be to shame them.

Another part is to make it clear that the next link they share MIGHT be another "fake news time bomb" that could revert and embarrass them again - hopefully making them reconsider sharing fake links in the future.
Still less transparent and offers _some_ plausible deniability, unless you're tumbling the coins.

Monero or some other privacy focused coin would be better. Disclaimer: Not an expert.
that sucks you had to go back to java sorry to hear that.
Hmm well given how essentially all salaried jobs require a degree today it’s hard to see education as being an optional purchase for most people. Maybe 30 years ago but not today.

Hard to say what’s worthless or not - jobs change all the time. Few if anyone would study something like Latin or philosophy if money were an incentive.

Also the idea of human knowledge being locked away for only those who can afford it seems cruel to me
The advice to use -Weverything is very bad advice. See, e.g., https://quuxplusone.github.io/blog/2018/12/06/dont-use-wever...

Using -Weverything other than for a one-off, manual build, is a sure fire way to result in one or several of 1) hacky code that works around some compiler author's style preferences, 2) less safe code because of the workaround hacks, or 3) coworkers quickly learning to ignore or disable (e.g. using inline #pragma's) diagnostics.

For both GCC and clang, -Wall comes close to the line of rejecting objectively correct and good code, but doesn't quite cross the line. -Wextra crosses that line (expect it to reject some correct and good code) but the pros often outweigh the cons. -Weverything blows past the line and wraps around the earth several times.
Details and priors matter here. He seems to have been involved in the "procuring" middleman role, as was Berlusconi (who largely got away with it until one of the girls was underage).

"Male French or Italian politician involved in sexual misconduct" is well within the range of plausible news; the whole pizzagate thing relied on all sorts of alleged implausible details.

Then there's the UK's "Dolphin Square" controversy, which largely went silent after Lord Ashcroft started threatening people with libel lawsuits and in any case is now buried under Brexit news. I've filed that firmly in the "Don't Know, and maybe impossible to know" category. The public inquiry rumbles on and will no doubt not report until all the accused are safely dead. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_Inquiry_into_Child...
Windows GUI is heavily influenced by Mac, so it also must be as good as the Mac version, right?
Setup a 3 Node Docker Swarm Cluster on Ubuntu 16.04
> Hmmm. Time magazine, the morning newspapers and CBS/ABC/NBC evening news was much more middle of the road than today's Drudge/Huffpost, CNN/Fox and google/reddit (and HN) type ideological bubbles. More straight news.

Are you sure? How can you tell?
As a counter point, I personally enjoy using systemd to manage my home servers and PC. And I have written unit files for quite a lot too, and enjoy it.

Surprisingly, it seems as if different people have different tastes/opinions. :)
usrusr said "in my reading" and that pedigree was the factor that made the difference. It is therefore fair to ask for a reference.

IBM knew about Gates, and went to Kildall first (in fact, Gates suggested Kildall to them). Why would they have gone if "pedigree" was what they cared about? Kildall had what they wanted, Gates did not. It dropped in Kildall's lap, and he botched it. IBM went back to Gates, and Gates didn't need to be asked twice.
Rails has an answer for the hashmap keys problem, HashWithIndifferentAccess.
Media distortion and truthfulness are not the same thing.

People and media will always have a viewpoint that distorts their objectivity. That is just fact of live and not necessarily bad thing as long as it's honest belief.
Media used to be more reliable and truthful in the past with the normal distortions that people had. Mainstream media is still like this. Their problem is the lack of money and time that lowers their ability to do original reporting and check facts. They are the victims of dishonest influencing, not the originators. Fox News is the only major mainstream media source that has completely turned news into dishonest influencing operation.

Today the distortions are the same but there is significant increase in intentional influencing with data and arguments that those who propagate them don't believe. Using the same talking point to argue for and against issues is good example of this.

Shady figures like Christopher Blair just sit in their homes and push out (non-mainstream viewpoints) disinformation they know is false.
It was a reference to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_Hungarian_Phrasebook - no idea why I got downvoted ... perhaps Monty Python isn't appreciated outside the UK ?
Do they have 40 years of experience, or one year of experience 40 times?
> were it not out of super credible institutions.

Indeed. And there's a huge war over creditability. It's expensive to maintain and it suits some people to destroy it entirely.
I'm not sure this is fair to all people over 65. It sounds like maybe your relatives are much like mine, and I agree, my relatives shouldn't be voting either.

If we're going to put up a discriminatory barrier to voting, I think it'd be more effective if it was education-based. People with no education make poor voting choices, as we've seen in recent elections.
CES 2019’s Kitchen Tech and Gadgets: Who Really Needs This Stuff?
And GitHub even renders .org files the same way they do Markdown. You can store your notes in a Git repo and see them on any device, even without Emacs installed.
Do You Need a Lawyer to File Bankruptcy
Murdoch propaganda press is not a new thing by a long way. Remember Hillsborough.
I agree with you.

Having said that, when we were working on https://www.torodb.com we discussed how we'd implement the oplog. And actually, based on PostgreSQL's logical decoding (LD), it wouldn't have been a great deal (there are some gotchas, but LD brings much of what you need. So I won't be surprised if this would be implemented sooner than later.
Deploying CloudServer Along with Kubeless to Do Event-Based Processing
Their conclusions don't excite me, and theorising about the reasons doesn't help. I'd like to see a few comparison studies showing the bell curves by:

- age

- IQ

- reading speed

- concentration

- bias

- activism

- non-social-media surfing time

For example, the people I would expect to see rank highly for fake news sharing:

- a person with low reading speed and either a significant bias towards the conclusion or low concentration

- a low-iq non-activist (less likely to have read up on the subject)

- a person who only surfs social media

Of course, between these categories the data will have its own correlations (age + low eyesight, iq + surfing patterns, etc) and so I'd want to see the data both with and without correcting for those correlations too.

I don't know how surprising this data would be - once all the correlations are corrected for, I imagine the graph would look pretty flat.
I find evolutionary and psychology and memetics to be powerful models for understanding my own cognitive biases and limiting their influence. Stylistic cues are not sufficient to determine if something is intended to manipulate me.

Your mileage may vary, of course. I am intrigued that you would discredit such a model without knowing what it means.
Yeah, this is pretty clear. I do assume it will act the same as MongoDB 3.6, since that's what they claim, but it's extremely clear it's _not_ MongoDB.
Scientists seek ways to finally take a real measure of pain
Wikipedia says it came out in 95..?
Launchd appears to actually work. And it isn't Poetteringware.
Wealth is ultimately about outcome. On average more of my non-tech friends had to invest in education, work, housing and family because they didn't have a choice. Those things compounds just like money does. So now my non-tech friends, on average, have more going for them.

Don't get me wrong, I do absolutely have friend in tech that are doing exceedingly well both financially and personally. But mostly because they did something else that wasn't part of "the deal".
Bill gates himself admitted on Reddit that without his parent's wealth, he probably wont be doing what he would be doing without the proper education foundation provided to him.
This app would be a good candidate to integrate a E2EE framework.

Disclaimer: I'm building one based on a API/SDK architecture. https://github.com/wallix/datapeps-sdk-js
How to Do Event-Based Processing with CloudServer and Kubeless
In a similar vein, I remember reading Proust’s novels some time ago and one of the protagonists was explaining to some other protagonist that you could be seen as a very respected member of the society of that time (think France of the 1800s - the 1900s) only if some of your ancestors had taken part in the crusades as noted (meaning non-anonymous) individuals, ~700-800 years before.
Don't worry, they're already opting out on their own[0]

[0] https://www.census.gov/library/visualizations/2017/comm/voti...
Nigerian prince scams and the like are much older than the internet though.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance-fee_scam
The Rising Tide of Civil Unrest Globally – Armstrong Economics
I don't think it's that ridiculous things can sound plausible. No, they sound ridiculous. I think it's when the fake news looks like something someone is inclined to believe anyway. In my little bubble, I'm always chiding young, progressive friends for uncritically sharing memes with fake quotes etc that happen to reinforce their political biases.
I didn't mean it as a call-out at all! :) I've had similar intuitions but been struggling to put a finger on it and wordsmith well on the topic. Thank you for writing!

And yes please do continue to write more, will eagerly read :)
That's a nice anecdote, but it's really bad science.
Some are saying that by introducing statuses Microsoft wants to emphasize the social network aspect of GitHub. The way this new feature was presented suggests something different to me. The emphasis seems to be on team or intra-company communication. If this is true, I expect Microsoft eventually to integrate a Slack clone. They already have one called Microsoft Teams, but if they integrate one into GitHub, it will probably be a separate product under the GitHub brand. It would at least be better marketing given GitHub's user base.
I feel like I tried this on Arch but it was still too small. I ended up using either the sun font or one of the cyr ones, can't remember. I've since moved back to KDE Neon on that machine, so I can't say for sure. I might pop in a USB stick and give it another go...
As others have pointed out, this doesn't really work, for a couple factors such as the lack of direct TCP connections from the browser, and that the ssh client is for node.

But I also wanted to remind everyone, that even with a javascript implementation that works, you're still trusting the server to give you the correct javascript when the site is loaded. In my mind, this doesn't make moving the crypto any more secure, since to attack you, I can just modify the javascript client on next page load to include a back door. So either way, ShellVault has complete access to your server, because they control the implementation that runs in the browser.
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Until they all die off? Go read about the pizzagate incident. The guy who fired a rifle inside that restaurant was 28 years old. Alex Jones, the lying asshole who runs infowars, is in his mid-40s. The alt-right is full of men in their 20s-40s.

The problem in this particular case isn't old people. If you want to point at one broad demographic, it's men, largely under the age of 50.
"We actually looked at a browser-only implementation first."

That leads me to have two questions:

1. Could you do a browser implementation that doesn't send things to you which connects to a proxy on their client or server machine? As in, something they control handled whatever data your machines are handling.

2. If not or as a supplement, could you do paid, shared-source app they could host in arbitrary machine or VM? As in, they could inspect the product, build it from source, and deploy it to trusted hosts. They pay your company mainly for the convenience and updates.
Of course. But it resulted in multi-second pauses while doing such demanding tasks as closing browser tabs.
Definitely look up any of the great talks by "‎Jamis Buck"
I did notice that, and even available in AUR for Arch. I just wasn't sure if their console font format was compatible with "setfont". Looks like I've got some playing to do (although I'd still like an excuse to give OpenBSD a try :))
"Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others."

-- Winston Churchill
GitLab's year 2018 in review
Weird. It doesn't feel jarring for me to make that switch.
"First appeared 1995; 24 years ago" Wikipedia who's right?