skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Now you're talking about Unicode issues, basically.

"zero" and "oh" are in fact the same symbol, just like A is the first letter of the Roman alphabet, and the number ten in hex, and just like a slashed circle is the empty set, the Scandinavian letter, or the slashed zero in computing.

In Unicode, we have multiple versions of some symbols which are dedicated those specific uses; there is a dedicated empty set, dedicated Scandinavian Ø and so on. ASCII already splits the O symbol into a dedicated 0 digit and O letter. Those being different codes allows font designers to play games with styling them differently.

OP doesn't like the fact that in some fonts, the slashed computing zero has a stroke that extends past the boundaries, because then they experience an Ø (zero) vs Ø (letter) crisis. I say, it's exactly the same crisis as O (zero) vs O (letter); just suck it up like the rest of the world.

OP claims that it's "no longer a zero"; but according to whom? There is no standard that the slashed zero of computing must not have a slash which extends outside of the oval. the slashed zero is an ad hoc concoction in computing that fontographers style in their own way. The font I'm typing in now renders ASCII zero as having a dot in the middle. Maybe there is a script somewhere in the world where that looks like a letter; oops!

I agree there could be such a rule; whether a stroke touches or crosses another one is significant. These are totally different characters, after all: 由, 田.
In western writing, we don't fuss quite that much. For instance the horizontal stroke of A sometimes extends outside of the frame. The top may be squared off or round.
That would be unreasonable if the parody had been more creative instead of just copying the Washington Post logo. If the threshold is if a reasonable person would confuse this for the real thing, that threshold is crossed.
“The Linux of social media”–How LiveJournal pioneered (then lost) blogging
This sounds like a variation of the "individual actions are too insignificant to matter" excuse for personal irresponsibility.

All the small categories of climate sins can be trivialized when considered one by one, but they make up the whole.
If I'm not mistaken, it refers to the 25th century BC if you're talking about the -25 c.
I wonder how Starcraft2 compares to Dota 2 in terms of difficulty for the AI. Moreover, I'd be interested to see how OpenAI and DeepMind's techniques, models differ in approaching these games.
DHS prepares emergency order to prevent DNS hijacking
> On January 24, at 19:00 CET, head over to...

You looked too early.
The Praetorians were disbanded in 312 [1], while the Janissaries were established about one thousand years later, in the early 1300s. By that time the Roman culture of the early empire had transformed into the predominantly Greek culture of the Byzantines.

While undoubtedly there exist many uninterrupted lines of cultural transmission from the 300s to the 1300s, I'd need to see some historical evidence of any influence the Praetorians had on the Ottoman sultans; in fact, if Murad knew about them, he may well have not created the institution of the Janissaries.

I find it much more likely that there are many flavors of "natural" power structures/dynamics that emerge in societies, dependent on many factors, an important one being the current state of technology (for example, speed of communications).

The organization of Roman and Ottoman society and government, although separated by a millennium of time, were close enough that a similar political/power dynamic developed. It's just a pattern that plays out over centuries (~300 years for the Praetorians, ~500 years for the Janissaries). The originator of the scheme cannot see hundreds of years into the future when everything goes haywire.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praetorian_Guard#Dissolution

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janissaries#Origins
Jan 24th I guess is the publishing date
It won't be an extinction event, it will be a gradual decline where the global poor suffer and die by the millions. "People will need to move" is not a realistic solution for massive amounts of people; they will starve, and drown.

It's not happening because your friends fly to Burning Man, it's happening because global corporations are seeking profit above all else. Climate change cannot be combatted while capitalism is tolerated; we would need a global state that dictates what industries are allowed to do. So in that sense, you're right. It's never going to happen. Enjoy your life and don't have kids.
YES.

I really dislike the insinuation that all those companies could voluntarily change their behavior and stay in business. There's no incentive for them to eat the cost of that negative externality, and their competition would immediately come along and take their customers by offering the same products at a cheaper price. We are the ones buying the cheap crap. It's cheap, we want it, so we buy it. Those companies might be enabling us, but if they didn't provide it, another one would step in.

This is why regulation is so important vs. pure advocacy and technology solutions. Consumers are buying things without paying for the harm that product inflicts on the environment.
I will be giving Linux another go with
R9 380 with Kernel 5.1 later this year

I gave Linux a go for 2 months in 2018 over 11

different distros, in the end I reverted back to Windows 7

AMDGPUPRO Driver -

* Best FPS , 70-80fps in most games

* no control panel centre

* only worked with frist screen (27" HDMI+19" VGA)

* no wattman

Open source driver

* Worked on both screens

* NO HDMI audio

* Sub 60fps fps

* no control panel for settings
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Unfortunately, a lot of people think that if you’re arrested, you’re guilty; regardless of if you’re acquited or not
Pagedraw looks very polished. I can take some wild guesses why it didn't succeed but glad to have it live on as open source.

My best guess would be that it either did too much or not enough. Getting an extra developer's worth of productivity from a tool is great but there could be other ways to make gains as noted in the shutdown page. Visual editing is a different way of programming and can be more or less productive depending on specifics. I recall doing some IBM DirectTalk voice/telephony app dev using a visual flow editor--it was the worst. There are of course success stories like the original Visual Basic 1.0. Xcode and autolayout is less productive but more expressive.

On the doing less side, are there tools for parsing/editing/outputting HTML+CSS rather than a full React integration? I've worked with designers that used Figma or Zeplin but we only tended to export the graphics and copy/paste the styles.
Not all chairs should be comfortable. Really comfortable chairs in the subway would be ridiculous.
Apple's stuff just works (mostly) - but at this point any iPhone that's come out since the 5S does the its job pretty well (mail, navigation, social media, browsing & gaming.) Apple has let off the gas pedal. It's far from dead, but I don't see myself upgrading my iPhone X for several years because there's nothing on the horizon that would make me shell out $1000+. A foldable phone? No thanks, I have a tablet for that. Augmented reality? Another gimmick like 3D Touch, etc.
The timing is a guess. But I do believe that we’re not far away from a point at which computers are much better at generating a CRUD app, or finding the most efficient algorithm, etc, but are still far from crossing the uncanny valley of making a truly moving piece of music, or work of art.

I don’t think programmers will be obsolete; but I think the skill set will shift away from the analytical and mathematical traits that set programmers apart today, towards the fuzzier knowledge of the humanities. (Though my personal belief is that liberal arts educations must include science and mathematics as a core pillar.)

Specialization in algorithmic and mathematical thinking will still be of extremely high value, but the level of achievement required to be successful in that area will likely be crushingly competitive.

But, this is just a fun guess — let’s check back in ten years so we can see how utterly off base I was :)
> it’s 2019 and there are still people who trust online reviews written by people they don’t know!

I feel it's an extension of the old "innocent until proven guilty" thing. In the Western world, especially in the United States, we have this belief of trusting unless we are given a very high confidence level reason not to. It's this belief that is being taken advantage of via online review systems. We do not doubt them by default because it would be mean or rude to doubt the entity behind the review (entity meaning person or bot).
Show HN: Wrapping bash calls to rsync in Python
I usually replace cat with pv and gets a nice progress bar and ETA :-)
My first exposure to line printers was through a Control Data mainframe at a University in the mid '70's. There were a few Control Data printers at centralized locations, and user operated Univac printers more scattered. Both used 14 7/8 paper with 132 columns.
> Telling `virtualized` that they are missing the point — instead of answering their questions — makes the community seem arrogant.

However, virtualized stated that they gave up after five minutes because they couldn't find a hello world example similar to programming languages they're presumably familiar with, because they didn't want to watch a video or read a book. So explaining that the Smalltalk environment is different, and thus it doesn't make a lot of sense for Pharo's website to advertise with a command line example, is appropriate, since that implementation is GUI-based.

It would be akin to complaining about RStudio's site because someone couldn't quickly find how to run a hello world R script from the command line, when RStudio is about the IDE.
Nitpick: Unless you're confusing "evidence" and "proof", absence of evidence is evidence of absence. Proof: http://oyhus.no/absence/index.html
> As a Slav myself

And in:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18690617

> As a German, I have to ask

By the occasion, a Slav, or a German, interesting tendency in your replies, to point in them to what "you are."

Still, "what you are" is not an argument for anything you write, but, if given honestly, can give the information about the possible biases. But even the known biases should not make the real arguments less worthy.

One of my biases is: I am an atheist, and I'm particularly sensitive for all religions trying to present their worst acts as something "nice." But I've studied a lot of details from a lot of religions.

Having said that, even the "worst" Islamists today consider the "blood tax" performed by the Ottomans as being against the very Sharia law, which does allow killing infidels, chopping the heads and limbs, and considering everyone by a Muslim male less worthy, but nevertheless doesn't allow forcing the "dhimmis" to serve military and even less enslaving them more than they are already dependent to the owner of the land on which they work (the dependency in the feudal system, in our parlance): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhimmi#The_dhimma_contract_and...

Whereas the Ottoman military regularly went to the children enslavement "collecting" expeditions, year after year, for centuries, creating the military base which counted in at least some tens of thousands of soldiers. And these once "collected" fought the wars and killed for the Empire, including the very people from which they originated.

In short, what the Ottomans did for centuries was even worse than what the Islamists of today would accept to be lawful.
Isn't it wonderful how the car allowed a large number of families to own a home with a piece of land, yet have access to the amenities of a city? Nice and spread out living spaces with concentration for work and culture. Now we just need some tunnels or something to deal with the problems that fast above ground car transport causes (mostly noise, pollution, and using up precious surface land).
Simple yes. viable, no. Tyrannical, yes.
Yeah, thanks. Brain wasn't working well this morning! I usually pride myself on not making typos like that. =/
Why does everything need to be a business? It's a review site. You could run it for next to nothing.
How good or bad is the SqlAlchemy support?
> The way to get in front of your audience on Facebook is money and that is rather expensive and due to amount of ads users have to experience these days only minimally effective.

You're missing the fact that Facebook's Ad platform has made it possible for small businesses and niche products to afford effective advertising at scale.

Previously that was a privilege available to only the wealthiest corporations that could afford to take out an ad in the newspaper or a slot on television both of which required a high minimum spend and had limited inventory.

With targeted advertising at scale, small businesses with limited budgets can run ads that are shown to only the users they care about. It's more effective, for far less money than what was previously available.

This also enables new challengers like Dollar Shave Club to compete effectively with giant established incumbents like Gilette.

> There are millions of websites, thousands at least specific to any niche, that are happy to take your ad money and provide you with highly effektiv and targetted traffic.

So now you're in the business of managing several different accounts with differing, often incompatible features, with wildly varying levels of efficiency and requirements. Not to mention your customer data is spread out across various silos and in various formats.

Or, you can go to Facebook and reach a million people instantly across their properties through a single advertising interface. You get industry standard reporting and metrics along with the fact that you can target exactly who you want without wasting money.

I simply don't think you're giving Facebook enough credit here. They have a phenomenal value proposition and you have to understand it in order to compete with it.
Thank you. Found the post: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/alas-poor-stephen-is-dead/

They have another good idea in there: recording the SMART data before and after the test. Their theory is that even if SMART attributes are still OK after the test, looking for a trend in the attributes may point to eventual failure later. Nice.
That doesn’t really sound like it understands the game... is this not training by playing against itself? How is it not learning the flawed reasoning behind this strategy?
Even if it does stick unless you use it you will likely forget.. but I think it's still useful to have learned since you hopefully retain enough that you know things exist and can look them up
Yes there are people who will be "remembered" for a very long time. People will likely know artist's depictions of Julius Caesar and George Washington for a while.

We know some ancient people's names. We can imagine some depiction of them. We may even know what they supposedly did.
How much of it is accurate at this point?

Can the average person, off the top of their head, explain who Attila the Hun was, what he did, and why it mattered with any degree of accuracy?

Even the VERY rare few who are remembered for 1000s of years are remembered more as myths than as the people they were and what they accomplished.
I assume that they check the signatures using keys that they've exchanged in person by booping noses.
> I'll add that it's salary survey information as well.

Not really. Here in Germany (where Glassdoor isn't even as popular as in US/English speaking countries) I've noticed the salary skews towards the low end because A) employers are bombing their profiles with fake salary figures and/or B) entry-level to lower-mid tier employees are more likely to drop numbers. Can't imagine how much worse the propagation of false info is in other countries where Glassdoor is more popular.

Specifically in Berlin, where "bErLiN iS a PoOr N cHeAp CiTy So ThE sAlArIeS aReN't HiGh" might as well be a meme because it's the standard welcome message for foreigners, if you negotiate your pay based on Glassdoor info, you're going to be screwing yourself out of thousands of €€€.

None of the non-tech crowd is going to admit they're being paid 55-65k brutto (before taxes) with 3-5 years of experience. I know people like this and have seen their payslips so I know they aren't lying. You only hear about the non-techies making 24-35k from their small startups or Zalando.

Same for dev/tech. You'll only hear the same bit of info that "45-60k is a LOT for a dev with 5-10 years experience, because cost of living in Berlin is low (it's not) so come on over and relocate!". The devs/engineers making 65k starting with 2 years of experience, mid-level devs pulling 70-90k and management/directors pulling 120-200k in Berlin aren't opening their mouths.

If I put my tinfoil hat on, I'd say there's a concerted effort in Europe to keep salaries down by keeping information suppressed/spreading lies (I see this a lot on Reddit/HN too in the form of comments)
I would think SC2 is harder than Dota 2. In Dota you control 5 units while SC2 you can build hundreds.
Are you or your spouse stay-at-home? Does that make homeschooling easier?

Do you pair your kids with other homeschooled kids? If so, how did you find kids/parents with similar enough values that you were comfortable homeschooling your kids with them?
Upgrade, inc CEO asked employees few times to give ratings
I lived in San Diego, and would visit friends in LA somewhat frequently. My interpretation is based off of my experiences in the northern slice of the area, San Bernardino to Venice Beach.
Also I had to drive through LA to go anywhere, which might have colored my experience a bit.
My last job was like that in many ways--kind of small shop, everyone up in my business. I finally decided that since I already have a real family (unlike some of those a-holes) I really don't need theirs at all.
FWIW you can have https today just install apt-transport-https and use this sources.list:

deb https://deb.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
deb https://deb.debian.org/debian-security stable/updates main contrib non-free
deb https://deb.debian.org/debian stretch-backports main contrib non-free
No it's more things like plans to change the fare system to one based on distance travelled, changing bus schedules so they end up more filled up but no longer arrive at offices and businesses for a time when people typically begin work, increasing multiple zone fares while leaving single zone fares the same, new train and bus routes being put in to service already well serviced areas while ignoring outlying areas.

Back in 2001 or so the plan for the next train line was for a heavily underserviced area here. It was delayed and instead a line was put in in an area with multiple busses servicing it. They finally put the line they originally talked about around 2 or 3 years ago. But it still doesn't cover as much area as the original plans were and rather than putting new trains for this line like the did with the other one, they took some from the line that services the farther away areas.

There are two big rushes of people in both directions. The trains and busses are packed always. The only reason I can think of is because they know most people commuting to work on transit have no choice. Where has people taking one time short trips usually do and they're trying to incentivise them to take transit at the expense of commuters.

It also just so happens those areas tend to have a higher percentage of wealthier people living in the and members of the transit board.
"collective transport" is a great name for it. Has the same root as collective farming and similar problems to that enterprise.
If you are ok with a proprietary driver and all the headaches that come with it, NVidia drivers are better for some 3-4 years after you buy a high-end GPU or 1-2 years after you buy a low-end one. After this time, NVidia drops support and you are stuck with a free driver that is much worse than the AMD ones (not by fault of the free drivers developers, mind you, but because NVidia makes their life hard).

Personally, I do prefer to avoid the headaches from day 1, so it's AMD or Intel.
Reading, Writing, and Proving: A Closer Look at Mathematics
I don't think that comparison is going to go over well for Google though, because we actually do curate contents in libraries and personally assist you in finding the right source for whatever information you seek.

That is what a librarian does, one of the oldest and in many cultures respected professions you can choose. In contrast to Google, which might give you wild conspiracy theories about vaccines on page 1, with no help or indication whatsoever that something funky is going on, a library actually personally assists you.

If Google was a library then that library would have no employees. The books would initially all lie around randomly, and whenever you want a book, you simply shout into the library, and some guy randomly throws 20 books at you. If you take one of the books the next time, the chance will be higher that someone else gets that book as well. Let me just say that I don't think that it would be a great library experience, especially if you try to fit the entire worlds information into a single one.
There are emulators for the old Lisp Machines. The best were Medley (for the old Interlisp-D system from Xerox) and Open Genera from Symbolics. They are philosophical relatively near to Pharo. But Pharo has seen more development in the past decade.

For Common Lisp there are/were many integrated IDEs: Macintosh Common Lisp, Allegro CL, LispWorks, Clozure CL on the Mac, Corman Lisp on Windows upto McCLIM for several CL implementations. A general difference to Pharo is usually that these CL IDEs use mostly native user interfaces. Pharo comes with its own user interface, graphics, window system, display code, event handling, ... Example: Pharo windows on a Mac are not Mac windows. Clozure CL windows on the Mac are Cocoa windows. Similar: most CL systems use native code.

The real commercial Smalltalk machines were underpowered compared to some of the Lisp Machines - for example those from Symbolics - but those were also quite a bit more expensive. It was possible to spend more than $100k for a Symbolics Lisp Machine with accelerated color graphics and HDTV in/out.

The main difference of Pharo with integrated Lisp environments:

1) Pharo uses portable system independent images. Most Lisp systems uses system (OS / architecture) specific images, since code is natively compiled.

2) Pharo code is not native AOT compiled, IIRC. Common Lisp is either source interpreted or AOT compiled - some are even AOT compiled only - with incremental AOT runtime compiler.

3) Pharo uses its own user interface & gui system. Most Common Lisp systems use a native backend for their GUI. Recent exception is Mezzano, which a CL on the metal, which comes with its own GUI.

4) Pharo/Smalltalk usually manages and tracks source code for the user. Most CL IDEs use files and the user works with files and systems of files. CL then more or less tracks the code in these files.

5) Pharo offers to save state in an image between sessions - Lisp systems use that mostly on demand and less as a session state mechanism. LispWorks has some support for sessions.
>How is it not learning the flawed reasoning behind this strategy

If it's playing against the Starcraft 2 blizzard AI, it will learn a lot of "bad habits" because outright bad strategies work against the AI. Thus the worker rushing.
Exactly. In Engineering, you are competing with Silicon Valley and NYC as well as the scrappiest folks in Sao Paolo, Lagos, Novosibirsk, Chennai or Zagreb. The best coders with the best management team wins. But only if they get paid to stick around long enough to reach production. Otherwise folk walk. Human expertise and intellectual capacity has a value; you've got to be willing to pay what the market demands.
I think your point is a bit too pedantic, I also don't understand where you're coming from with your "God" comparison..