skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, I’m sure that’s because it would be hard to fit in the office, not because of the price.

It’s actually cheap enough that you could buy it yourself if you wanted to. It certainly went into my bookmarks, just in case I ever actually need a literal battlestation.
I generally stick with 'stable' for the first year of it's release (since it's reasonably fresh) then switch to 'testing' (pretty much whenever I start reading about new package updates that I want or need) until the next release. Then I switch back to stable... rinse and repeat. Been doing this since Debian 6 and it's worked out pretty well.

'stable' is the long term release and what you'd choose if you want a minimum of hassles. The packages are usually months (when the stable release initially occurs) to a couple of years old(at the tail end of the release just before the next stable comes out.) It's pretty much like a major OS X or Windows release from a stability standpoints and the .1... .n releases occur (i.e. like the just released 9.7) pretty regularly for at least a couple/few years after the .0 release with security and minor bug fixes. Great for servers and desktops where you want a minimum of drama.

'testing' is fairly stable (in general... Debian 10 testing has been anything but stable for me the last 6 months compared to testing leading up to previous releases) Generally, it's been integration tested (you shouldn't experience broken package dependencies) but there can and will be issues with the individual packages themselves. If you don't mind occasionally diagnosing and fixing issues, this can be a pretty good compromise between stability and package freshness. Good for development servers and desktops. Now that we're in a freeze (for Debian 10) it's reasonably safe to start looking toward testing for desktops that aren't 'mission critical' as most of the major gyrations are done and they're tightening it up for release. When Debian 10 is released, you can just change from 'testing' to 'stable' and you'll hop off the roller coaster for a while. (Note: one thing that might annoy you here is that in testing package can and do pop in and out of existence from time to time. Not frequent, but it does happen)

'sid' is the bleeding edge. You may have broken dependencies and non-functional packages. Pretty much anything can happen here... all sid guarantees is that the package built as this is where a lot of development testing occurs. Packages pop in and out of existence regularly. Not recommended for your daily driver but good for seeing what's coming and testing things out. Regular breakage will occur.
I think this basic fact will push American politics towards more socialist European style programs like universal healthcare. While the boomer generation talks big about some of these conservative values, the basic economic facts will push the drive for leftist policies, even if they are sold as something else in the political world.
Yeah, immigration is now a breeze in Canada if you graduated from a Canadian university/college (given that you manage to find work in related field.)
Essilor used to make them but are closing most of their lines. They are just not that in demand. They also take longer to make.
It’s not that they didn’t name the source, it’s that they (by their own admission) didn’t corroborate the story. They had an unnamed source who claimed documentary evidence existed, but nobody at buzzfeed saw any of it. Combine that with Buzzfeeds pretty obvious slant on the issue, and Mueller’s refutation of the story, and it comes out looking terrible for Buzzfeed.
I so rarely come across a commenter who shares this opinion that I feel like I want to hug you. Hacker news has declined in quality. The most precipitous drop in my opinion was right after all the buzz about Facebook becoming less popular, musk joining mastodon and everyone in the comments brainstorming about alternative social media schemes. After that things really took a dive.

I think it has to do with the influx of new programmers and the growth of programming as an industry. Programming is becoming easier and more mainstream so the natural result is the ratio of excellent people to disappointing people changing for the worse. computer forums no longer intrisincly filter out stupid people.

Googling “reddit alternative,” HN is on of the first results.

I find lobste.rs to still be good. It probably has to do with the fact that you need an invite to post there.

I’m really scared and disappointed by HNs decline. HN is the only good intellectual watering hole on the internet as far as I know, and I have looked. If HN were to continue getting worse or if it shut down, it would be a huge loss for me.

I’ve considered starting a new website, filling it with a hand-curated pool of users gathered from around the internet, and then launching an invite system. Lobsters isn’t good enough because it focuses too narrowly on web development and also people are really afraid to comment there because they might mar their image or get their invite revoked, I think. I believe there is a very large amount of arbitrage when it comes to online communities.

There is so much arbitrage! A new Wikipedia that’s actually good at teaching rather than just being a reference book for experts. Social sites that differentiate between curation, storing and fluid, in-flux communication and exchange. And most of all, using new techniques for raising the quality of content and comments. The space of incentive schemes is virtually boundless and there are def some veins of gold out there.
Sure, but here in Australia they can't limit the warranty like that. They tried this and got a massive fine. Hence AppleCare in Australia is different to what you get in the U.S. because we are protected by law.
I had a family member that worked at Target, and I asked about why they have 40ish registers, but normally only <10 of them are open. It's all about the holiday shopping. Those ~8 weeks see so much traffic it is worth the "wasted" square footage in the store the other 10 months of the year.
Collider wall!
Also sometimes packages will just randomly disappear from the repositories.
Everyone I've seen do this takes bottles too, and it's because they can redeem the bottles and cans to collect a state-mandated deposit.
You're both right. Unnamed sources have indeed released big stories on multiple occasions and are therefore useful, but citing them definitely discounts an article's reliability, since neither the reader nor any other news sources can seek clarification or verification.
I've read some of those articles and I found them fairly informative. Could you be more specific about the best practices that invalidate his arguments?
While I don't disagree with any of it, maybe the Hate has gone too far in this thread, so I won't pile on. It is tempting though :p haha.

I don't pay for WSJ, so I could only read 1st 2 paragraphs. It says they want to invest more in the more 'promising' areas of content licensing & e-commerce? What the hell does that mean in this context? Are the going to try to sell their articles to other smaller sites to publish? Not sure what products they sell, so how is e-commerce involved? Selling products for advertisers?

And I also have a question for minimaxir who said he/she is a BuzzFeed employee. What does a data scientist do at a company like that? What kind of data are you crunching and hiw does it affect the companies descisions? Maybe this isn't information you can share publicly? But I'm interested in data science so I'm curious. Maybe you have some insight on what's happening?
This is pretty frequently debated. You can find textbooks that start at L1 and work up the stack, and others that start at L7 and go down.
Clearly, as evidenced by these comments here, buzzfeed is doing massive damage to the reputation of the news section

A few days ago, an independent journalist I like cited Buzzfeed News as an organization with some good journalists in it. I was very surprised, because BuzzFeed strikes me as a garbage site that doesn't care if it's destroying the public discourse with outrage bait.

From my perspective, BuzzFeed clearly did massive damage to the reputation of BuzzFeed News.
> largefiles sliced into small

Yes. Backblaze makes a copy locally of all files larger than 30 MBytes, broken into 10 MByte chunks. They’re stored on your “Temporary Scratch Disk” (which you can specify). One hint would be to put your temporary scratch disk on a fast SSD.

Personally I can get over 150 Mbits/sec upload, but I am on a PCIe SSD and have excellent latency to the datacenter. The worst case is a 5400 RPM drive powered only by USB, located in New Zealand. They would have trouble hitting even 20 Mbits/sec using the newest 6.0 client with the max of 30 threads.
+1 For the above mentioned book, especially if you are looking at computer systems/networks.

For more pragmatic treatment found "Fundamentals of Queueing Theory"[1] really good.

[1] http://mason.gmu.edu/~jshortle/fqt5th.html
Sounds like it needs a router of some sort. I’m sure there are framework-agnostic routers out there. Will need to create bindings for Ionic.

They mention that they are working on Vue and React integrations, so maybe can use that code for inspiration.
Why? There are many, if not the majority, of examples of mobility across outcomes. People don’t have to be born rich to become rich. Nor poor to remain poor. So many millions of people have taken advantage of equal or even unequal opportunities to create better outcomes for themselves and their descendants, why now are those successes all invalid and only by shoveling equality of outcome onto the “disadvantaged” are we able to make things fair?
What is it that the C/C++ development community is catching up to?

(And also, I'm not convinced that programming languages should be treated as having their own isolated developer communities, considering there is often a lot of overlap. Are we talking individual users? Companies? Language designers? Etc.)
After working a checkout counter for a couple years as a teen, I cringe when I see how slow self-checkout makes you scan your items :(
No it's not. The LHC uses as much power as a small to medium sized city [0]. The next generation collider will obviously require a lot more energy.

What's your point anyways? We should only consider the cost and environmental impact of something if it's comparable to the most costly and impactful endeavors out there?

[0] https://home.cern/science/engineering/powering-cern
I don't buy it. Inclusive ranges are much more intuitive than left side inclusive and right side exclusive ranges. And they compose just fine; you just have to add a plus one at the right places. E.g.

function mean(a, l, r)
s = 0
N = r-l+1
for k in l:r
s += a[k]
end
s/N, N
end

function mean2(a)
N = length(a)
lr1 = (1,div(N,2))
lr2 = (div(N,2)+1,N)
v1, N1 = mean(a, lr1...)
v2, N2 = mean(a, lr2...)
N = N1+N2
(v1 * N1 + v2 * N2) / N, N
end

function compose(M1, M2)
v1, N1 = M1
v2, N2 = M2
N = N1+N2
(v1 * N1 + v2 * N2) / N
end

function mean3(a)
N = length(a)
lr1 = (1,div(N,2))
lr2 = (div(N,2)+1,N)
compose(mean(a, lr1...), mean(a, lr2...))
end

You have to think about what is passed in and out anyway. Arguments of elegance etc. are most of the time personal preferences and very biased.
We are already getting the global queue with self checkout, though.
He has a book coming out about it: https://www.amazon.com/Working-Robert-Caro/dp/0525656340/ref...
I've done the same. Did the eye test in English with really big writing on the cue cards :). 40 minutes later my glasses are ready. Real contrast to Australia where you make an appointment for an eye test for a day or two later. The test is paid for by the government (Medicare AUD$56.80) and then select your frames (AUD$150 and up) and then come back a week later. I suppose the delay justifies the cost or vice-versa.
My eye doctors have always told me that we get far-sighted as we age, so if you were near-sighted to begin with, then the aging process is correcting it. In another 20 years I would expect that you might start needing glasses again to drive.
And yet someone relating a swarm of cop cars when they arrived home in: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18984211 .
Maybe it's more like a zombie. Largely, there is no longer a moral creature with agency left inside. What's left is just a ravenous bundle of crude instincts shambling towards the next clickbait.
Ouch, as someone who uses Substance Designer/Painter I'm not sure how I feel about this.

I suppose this means Substance users will be forced to become Creative Cloud users as well.
Surprised not to see mention of 39dollarglasses in this article or the comments. They've been great in my limited experience (two pairs of glasses)

[1] https://www.39dollarglasses.com/
Multiple lines at Trader Joes in Westwood LA.
When I skimmed the cognito docs a bit ago I saw them talk almost exclusively about using it to control access to AWS resources. Would you recommend it for general web app auth as well?

Edit: typo
More You Chase Money, the Faster It Runs
> help hear people in crowded bars.

It's a tall people problem too. You can hear everyone in the bar except person in front of you, 30cm below.
A decent checker usually has the codes for produce memorized, and are much faster than someone looking them up once a week or so. However, I have had some extremely bad checkers that I know I could self checkout faster than. Don't get me started on a bad sacker.

That also makes me think about just how slow the self checkout systems are. The constant yelling out the price of the items I just scanned for confirmation just takes too long. I have to wait for it to stop to proceed. Also, how many times are the systems getting confused about whether you actually put the item in the bagging area or not requiring an attendant to be notified? UGH! </rant> The UI/UX people really need to fix this.

My local grocer has normal lanes with separate lines, express lanes with 6 checkers but a global queue, and the self checkout with a global queue. It seems like it is the family shoppers doing one huge weekly store trip in the normal lanes. Everyone else is looking to avoid them in the other two options.
BuzzFeed is a great example of how focusing on short-term revenue-maximizing metrics (clicks) at all costs can create irreparable long-term reputation damage - a quiet, hard-to-detect debt that can sink a brand.

BuzzFeed is the strongest example of the new generation of shallow, biased, predictable poli-trash media outlets and this will be impossible to overcome.
> What does a data scientist do at a company like that?

BuzzFeed publishes a few things about that on the tech blog: https://tech.buzzfeed.com/

For example, a few NLP tasks such as identifying trending topics (https://tech.buzzfeed.com/identifying-trending-topics-for-bu...) and topic clustering (https://tech.buzzfeed.com/how-we-tagged-14-000-buzzfeed-quiz...).

I haven't written any posts for the blog (due to time), but I do want to write posts there soon :)

Anything beyond what's there I can't disclose publicly.
Right now, corporate tech values the click bait, not actual news organizations that fact check themselves and do actual investigation.
Not sure if all of these downvoted comments are just spamming "liburl media" right-wing talking points like is pretty much the norm now for anything critical of Trump, or just out of ignorance, but Buzzfeed was nominated for a Pulitzer on it's Russia reporting and has many award winning reporters on staff.

https://www.pulitzer.org/finalists/staff-buzzfeed-news

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BuzzFeed_News
I seriously think there are power games being played by employers who give their labor terrible working conditions when the marginal improvement would have such a tremendous morale boost. Perhaps out of worldly impotence, such an employer feels satisfied in seeing the toil of someone subservient.
Scientifically, discoveries of new kinds of particles and their strange behaviour. On the practical side, accelerators and generators of those particles for imaging and radiation treatment.
This is not really a good take. There's reasons why Java was able to do what C/C++ couldn't, and there were also performance implications that kept people from moving away from C/C++.
So the local diner sells an impossible burger on the menu along with a regular burger. The burger with fries is $5.99. The comparable impossible burger with fries is $11.99

If fries cost $2, then the regular burger costs $4 and the impossible burger costs $10 or 2.5 times the cost of the regular burger. That suggest there's a lot of room for profit for both the company and the retailer.

But the key thing is that there's demand. And apparently there's a lot of it. They've created a new market with a new product and have shown there's a huge amount of demand for it.
Braking or a quick lane change causing traffic jams is a well known and refuted myth. Similar to the idea that driving slower on the highway is more dangerous. We have massive amounts of data on both of those. I wouldn't put too much value in that source.
Great, effort-intensive comment.

I was starting to regret my recent-ish purchase of a System76...until I saw even this new XPS maxed out at 16Gib. I specifically bought my Galaga Pro because it was the only 32GiB + matte-screen (well, not _that_ matte) laptop I could find, though it was a bit more expensive than this new XPS.

If you're looking, I think its great, though one big bummer is there's no good dock (single-connection, 2x2k displayport out), in part because its USB-C can't charge it. I literally have 6 things I plug into it at work each morning (power, keyboard, mouse, headphones, HDMI monitor, miniDP monitor). Some docks would cut that down, but I feel like if I can't get down to 1 it's not worth it.
I may be misremembering, then. I had seen different numbers than that. It may also be that what I'm remembering is a comparison from farther back that explains that the pensions of 30 years ago were a brief blip and that what's going on now is we're reverting to the long term mean. Or I'm entirely wrong, which there is a lot of precedent for.
Can we start on some kind of human right to be free of robocalls first?
> I don't pay for WSJ, so I could only read 1st 2 paragraphs.

I'm not arguing you SHOULD pay -- I don't -- but found this unintentionally hilarious in a thread about all the layoffs recently in the online news business.

But more seriously, Google and Facebook take so much of the ad revenue it's not surprising to see so many unable to prosper.
Your review led me to read the article and I was not disappointed.
I have stable on my main box and testing on another. Haven't had problems with either. sid can be a pain once in a while. If you want to try it, you could try it on a VM. For day to day, I'd stick to stable or testing.
Huh? Their story was cooroborated by Rudy Giuliani before he clumsily walked it back. Then they proceeded to show documents supporting the claim that Trump had plans to build A Trump Tower in Moscow.

Mueller may have said it wasn’t true but it’s not uncommon for law enforcement to make comments like that about ongoing investigations.
Is there anyone who can ELI5 what `beta8.Mod(beta8, curve.P)` does?
> No, that's just reflective of how damn difficult it is to distill the body of knowledge required to be a doctor into a brain.

I guess Australian doctors must suck, given that they do it in five years.
Not everything. Housing and maybe some personal services.

Who is better able to afford to put his kids through college, go skiing every year in the Swiss Alps, buy a Ferrari, or retire in luxury in Florida--a guy who spent his career making $185,000 in Boise or making $450,000 in San Jose?

More money is still more money, the cost of housing notwithstanding.
They have several channels on the roku, not sure why. It's painful to setup, and it forgets the authorization every few weeks. Since there's not much content I wouldn't run it often, but when I did it would pop up a code and ask me to go to a website to approve it. Said website would bounce through the comcast authentication page... but bouncing often didn't work.

When it did work it would take about 5 minutes of futzing around. I couldn't watch it from firefox or google chrome running on my linux box.

The client would hang fairly often, I'd end up resetting my roku to clear it.

Netflix does it right. Auth lasts a long time (at least a year), the client is generally pretty reliable, and I can watch from Linux, Roku, or Android as I see fit. I can even download episodes on Android if I want to save on bandwidth charges.

While Netflix isn't perfect, it does seem way less consumer hostile than HBO.
I have been using Qiqqa for 4 years and it is perfect for me. It allows me to perform full text search on my PDF library, performs OCR when necessary, and supports tagging, annotations, and bibtex.

http://www.qiqqa.com

It is wonderful software. It provides me with my own personal google for my PDFs. I used to use google desktop.
I eat it all. Red meat, white meat, fish, you name it. If it’s not going to kill me I’ll try it and if it tastes good I’ll likely try it again.

I have no qualms about eating anything and my comment is based purely on trying something new and actively enjoying in taste alone. I’d be more inclined to try something new if someone says it tastes good on its own accord vs “tastes just like X”.
I have no doubt that what you say is very common, but it's as illegal as it is hard to stop. I view it as immoral too but that's a far more subjective conversation than legality.

Edit: to clarify, I've checked and either the employer and the employee can bear the financial burden of the I-140 and I-485 filings, depending on the agreement. But the PERM labor certification costs must be borne by the employer and cannot be recovered from the employee, nor can immigration status be a basis to underpay them aside from recovering the permissible costs on a one-time basis.
I ended up testing out within 6 months and getting my degree, with my brain damage on top of it. Rigorous is too strong of a word to describe the shoddy state of CS education today. It was much, MUCH harder in the earlier days when everything was ASM and C.
There's a boatload more the package managers could be doing, but the problem is that it needs to be paid for.
Mic went out of business last year, as well. Seems like an industry thing.
It depends. I have been penalized for negotiating as well as have been rewarded. I do remember distinctly irritating a hiring manager when I responded to her inquiry of "how much do you want to make" with "whatever is the prevailing market rate is" She wanted me to give her a number and I politely played hard ball not wanting to undersell myself. Anyway the hiring manager decided that approach made me difficult.

Women are often penalized for not being "nice" in the workplace as well. It may happen in the hiring process or show up later in performance reviews. It is a delicate dance of negotiating, being strong and being "non-threatening."
Designer here. I spend most of the days with the product owners taking their desires for the web app. They sometimes even like to specify button labels to correspond to language they use in business operations.

Then comes the dev. He changes buttons labels even because he doesn’t agree with what the product owners — the paying clients — want. He even tries to rewrite our user stories to fit what he wants to do. He doesn’t ask what the client’s goals are, he just tries to change the stories to what he wants to develop.

He has a general lack of respect for his colleagues and the clients.
I know if I started to lose my hearing--not all, but maybe 30-40% reduction--I'd probably be quite happy with the turning-down of all that noise I deal with daily. I'd especially like it when spending time with my Cantonese in-laws. Shouting is the default conversational mode there.
Because Backblaze doesn't allow program files I'm forced to upload a backup image of my C drive, and since the scratch disk needs to be bigger than the biggest file.. I don't have an SSD big enough. But not to worry, I'll be up to speed in a few weeks