skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My point is that there are good reasons that our culture traditionally has treated journalism as a 'noble profession', in that it is a necessary component of a functioning democracy with the ability to disrupt entrenched power structures and make truth known.

I'm highly skeptical of 'new journalism's focus on the emotional reaction people are having to a piece of news rather than context, impact, and analysis. I think that this new style of journalism does not accomplish 'speaking truth to power' and further often serves to amplify voices that reinforce the views of the most powerful. Being a PR-mouthpiece is not noble.

Thus, I think it is harmful to refer to 'new journalism' as journalism because it is quite distinct in both nature and effect, as it blurs the lines between something regressive and something noble.
That is a good point, I would refine my argument a based on your response.

√(Σ(xᵢ²/N) - (Σxᵢ/N)²) is unhelpful on its own, and as you point out a more "human readable" version of this equation would be rather convoluted. The middle ground here would be to use more specific syntax like yours, while also ensuring that each variable is clearly defined and this logic is robustly documented to explain both the why of this function and how this specific function carries out that logic.
This is interesting given that Twitter could be doing this on their own to promote a better platform.

But instead requires trusting a 3rd party. Which, from an open source standpoint could be better with verification and such that seems to be present.
oh and if you don't believe me... https://twitter.com/AndrewStellman/status/107722796317793484...

Never had someone tweeted one my comments before :)
Ikea is releasing a series of smart blinds[1] in a couple months, compatible with HomeKit, Alexa, and Google Home. They're supposed to be ~$100 per shade.

1: https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2019/1/7/18172043/ik...
The nature of fuzzers like AFL is that you get better results by instrumenting your code and writing your own harness, but AFL has a "qemu mode" that runs precompiled binaries in an instrumented VM instead. We'll be adding this to the platform in the near future.

You won't get the same kind of results that you could by writing your own harness, but it would still be possible to find crashes, extreme memory usage or timeout bugs. Using something like libdislocator [1] would allow you to expose certain memory bugs as well.

[1] https://github.com/mirrorer/afl/tree/master/libdislocator
That's exactly where my mind went as well.

You want some amount of inefficiency in your system to accommodate sudden changes.
The founding story does sound a little bit concocted but the reason I submitted this was some of the other details - two founders outside the US, bootstrapping and struggling to get funded in their early days. Yet the product itself is great and has been immensely successful. It highlights to me the shortcomings of our existing funding model for startups. What if TransferWise had died for lack of funding? It's an immensely useful product that saves consumers millions in bank fees on a daily basis. It would be a real shame.
Well, feel free to falsify my earlier statement by utterly doxxing yourself. Until then by the powers of logic and reasoning, for I too am a master, I’m going to reason that given your extremely one sided agenda, repetition of key phrases like “real science” and “falsified”, lack of any actual data, insistence that we need to wait years before knowing anything either way because you can’t actually disprove anything, baiting attempts and now an irrelevant political inflamement that you’re just sucking on the shaft of some corporate interest group paid to spread doubt. Cheers
You're confirming what I just said.

End-user dont'care about splitting hairs. Iwas using Linux in the mid-90's and that kind of stance is what turned me off. The sound card would brek, the networking would break, configuring the modem would be hell after each upgrade.

The attitude that you must not break LibreOffice is not okey but breaking the file-system okay 'because it's a driver!' is just untenable.

Making people's computer fail will turn users away. It's not just a Linux thing. When Windows breaks stuff, all hell break loose on the Internet. The problem with OSS, is that its maintainers have no direct, immediate monetary incentive to amend. The long-term loss of confidence is hard to measure, but it's real.
wait, so do you really believe that all the bekants, after assembly, are perfectly identical so that the only remaining variable is the observer's subjectivity?
It seems very LA to need a car to get to the nearest bus stop.
I find it interesting, the reference to tea, rather than coffee as a stimulant.

It looks like coffee houses became a thing around this time. [1]

I also like that that is basically a list of what we want from drugs today, other than curing disease. (would the concept of taking a pill to cure something have existed then???)

[1] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/unite...
It is not necessarily clear to me that monkey patching (edit: or bit twiddling) is appropriate either. You can insert an expression cassette for a transgene into a plant, predicting that the gene will be expressed. You can then test that prediction, detecting the transgene mRNA. Then you can predict that the mRNA will be translated into protein. You can test that prediction by performing a Western blot. You can then predict a phenotype, for example roundup resistance. You can then perform all sorts of other tests to see if the nutritional content of the plant products are detectably different from the parent strain, and if feeding the plant products to rats results in unhealthy rats. To me, that is very different from making random changes.

I’m not trying to make a value judgement there about whether we should do all that. I can imagine someone approaching this from the precautionary principle holding the position that there is some currently undetectable, unwanted, and important change occurring in the plant. If you make decisions solely based on that, you would effectively never get any potential benefits from GMOs. Again, to some people the potential political/social/economic risks outweigh the benefits. I just think people should be clear about the rationale for their position. (Edit: grammar and clarity)
There are more dimensions of efficiency than are really covered in that article though.

To continue in the automotive space, building a system to efficiently retool a production line will pay longer term dividends when the consumer market shifts, as it often does. Whereas building an SUV cheaper ends up being a liability every time there's an oil shock.

The main negative consequence of building an efficient CD pipeline is dealing with all the pushback at the beginning from people who think it's 'too hard' or 'not worth it'. All that work is still valuable as your customers shift focus, or you change your market mix.

Meanwhile, learning to build the best React apps possible will end up being a problem when React goes out of fashion.

Both can be painted with the same efficiency brush, if you're not very careful with your definitions.
Do you have a problem with people who think that?
> Shouldn't this be opt-in according to GDPR?

No, because it isn't personal data.
It's not clear why some folks are dredging the self-driving cars, vehicle-to-vehicle, and vehicle-to-infrastructure use cases out for 5G but when the rubber hits the road I suspect vehicles will deploy with dedicated short range communications for the bits that must be low latency and 5G for ordinary cellphone use. The wiki page has some starting places for DSRC info. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dedicated_short-range_communic... . It is terrifying.
Yep, they basically keep your asking once in a while “are you ready?” and let you dismiss it as much as you want until finally you click “yeah, go ahead”.
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Isn't WebSQL deprecated?
U.S. Formally Accuses Huawei Executive of Helping Banks Evade Sanctions
You should use the same time to judge the company. It's not a one way conversation. The interview process should give you an equal opportunity to gather enough information to determine whether or not what they offer is reasonable. I've gone into interviews thinking I want to work at a specific company, then exited the process because they don't meet my standards.
Fix the capital V in the title please.
Agreed, I think there are benefits to either or both... I prefer to have people around, but use noise cancelling headphones when head-down coding (so to speak) and don't want interruptions.

I prefer to work in an office, because for me it isn't even family at home, it's just too easy to distract myself and be away from my desk at home.
The transcript appears to be "highlights" (i.e., excerpts with gaps between), and so it wouldn't be surprising if it jumps around.
They may be separate, but the job cuts have hit them too.
I work from home most of the time and go to cafes for that "people around me" feeling. I will say that working from home has definite downsides. I spend my work time in a different part of the house from my downtime, for the most part, but there's still a weird blend of professional life and domestic life, and I find myself combining activities from both all day instead of having clear separations.

That said, I think the benefits are worth it.
JWT refresh tokens are equivalent to passwords.
(they are active for days at a time).

I do not know of many web apps that store passwords in browser storage.

Unlike passwords, JWT refresh tokens are created programmatically (not entered by user interactively).

Perhaps,I am just missing a link, but I though browsers
do not allow an application to programmatically store passwords securely
There was an interesting panel discussion at Davos about what is being done, and what should be done.

https://youtu.be/IPo3IL2m2Tc
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Yeah, basically the "sudo" commands all over the Internet are just legacy. Historically, root was required (like docker - most people don't understand they are talking to a daemon which has root), but recently we added running as a user (aka rootless). Still the vast majority of docs you will see will refer to running with sudo or as root.

That should change as rootless matures.
This is a very good point, I have missed it earlier when I have read about Ford. Will remember for the future. Thank you.
Right! What I meant is that when you look at perception itself, of thoughts or anything else, you run into turtles all the way down, or up. Who or what actually thinks? I do? except I can't decide what I think entirely, even if I do, how do I know that I'm doing it.

The core of it I think is that thoughts are no more "real" than hallucinations. The major difference between thoughts and hallucinations is that thoughts correlate with something real.
The sibling saying "ship the VM and image" is correct; Note, however, that Pharo is working on making this process more transparent. See https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-launcher for an example of a deliverable that is shipped like a standalone app. I haven't played around with it yet but the docs do mention a way to break into the debugger; Think opening devtools in VSCode but better.
GKE usage metering: Whose line item is it anyway?
My sad realization is that when we elected a governor who wasn't interrelated with the existing cronies, we ended up without a budget for over two years.
A critical issue is that btrfs raid5/6 is officially considered unstable.
The origin story is great because it is relatable and communicates the benefit to customers of using the service. I doubt that the story is false, if anything it has probably been simplified.
I solved that problem by getting an old Ikea JERKER and a draft-height chair. Easier to just sit down than to adjust the desk.
Vanguard didn’t charge a wire fee for a while, but recently they have on my transfers. Retail banks have though.
It's due to the sheer size of the city (it's the largest metropolitan region in the US by area). The "last mile" problem now turns into last 3-4 miles (or more!) often necessitating a vehicle of some sort.
We're closing our seed round this week - this is such a good reference, especially because I have a technical background.

Is anybody able to shed some light on the key differences between a seed term sheet and this Series A term sheet?
Another upvote from me. Purchased November 2016 for my home office and it's held up very well. I've found the (memory) motor controller a little cheap (it'll just stop and/or switch directions sometimes), but otherwise materials have held up well.
Completely off-topic, but this headline is an excellent example of why we shouldn't let companies stylize their own names and brands. It's unreadable in its current state. "via" should of course be capitalized, no matter what the company's "brand guidelines" say.
Pitcairn Island is (was?) a bit of a mess. It probably sets records for the ISO region with:

* most people with wikipedia articles per capita

* the most sex offenders per capita

* least variety of last names (something like half the people there have the last name Christian)

Tom Christian, the previous .pn administrator, and his wife were apparently both shunned by the community when they spoke out against the sexual abuse of children and the claims of some of the men on the island that it was part of their traditional way of life. Most of the men convicted got off with slaps on the wrist because the island doesn't have the resources to support locking up a substantial part of its adult population.
Not a simple SaaS but my brother (personal finance blogger), best friend (journalist) and I (engineer - P.Eng Ontario, Canada) just started a copywriting subscription for fintechs in Canada.

Please note that we had worked with a few fintechs for about a year on a service basis and made a pivot to a subscription service just last week. This resulted in most of our existing fintech clients coming on board right away after we emailed them even though the website (https://moosecopy.com) is still under construction i.e. no writing samples on it yet. Our mixed background provides an excellent value for our clients and we have been fortunate to work with some great clients as well.

Lastly, as a few people have suggested wisely, it's a good idea to offer a service initially and then look towards building a product out of it (similar to Paul Graham's idea of doing things that don't scale during early development stage).
I'm a bit skeptical of this. It could be used for some rather nefarious means. However, I found this comment from one of the authors of it troubling:

>Twitter users should be able to engage in healthy online discourse without foreign countries and organized groups manipulating the conversation.

This rhetoric makes it sound like only Americans should engage on Twitter.
Yeah, as a frequent user of /best, I have a similar problem. But I still prefer to read /best most of the time.
No word on if or how they plan to improve how they communicate with open source contributors that I could notice, but they are clearly very busy.
I bought the crankable legs only, no top.

The guy at the store did warn me that the legs "might not work with a different top" though, whatever that could mean.
Ah thanks yes, I did look at that website before getting Squeak, I forget exactly what stopped me downloading it. I should have said "The closest I can get", my mistake I guess. Maybe all the talk of licences, ONLY (their capitals) using it for academic use/evaluation purposes ONLY. (Geez, takes me right back to the 80s.) The download page for the "evaluation" version is a "send us all your details and we'll email you a licence tomorrow" page. Maybe my computer is too old (usually the problem).

Looking now, it's not easy to find a price for a do-anything-with-it licence on that site...Eventually I found that a "Cincom Smalltalk Limited Value Add Software License Agreement" is $500, but what that is exactly I'm not sure.
I expect that covering the whole earth in forest wouldn't be enough.

Humanity has reduced forest cover and released fossil carbon. You're proposing to undo the one but it won't undo the other.
Maybe, or maybe we exist within a realm that is more like a video game, where each frame is generated based on the prior state of the game plus the inputs (Thought) from every character in the game? This is what people mean when they say "thoughts are things" or talk about "conscious creation".

Ultimately the topic of Awareness or Consciousness transcends
rationality, so the only way to know what the hell I'm talking about is to try and walk the Path yourself. :)
I do something like this with their CLI to ignore node_modules folders for js dev on mac/linux:

exclude_folders=$(find . -type d -name "node_modules")
dropbox exclude add $exclude_folders
dropbox exclude list # Sanity check
LOVE to hear this! The podman team thanks you for your feedback ;-)
Trees burned in a low oxygen environment (producing charcoal) are carbon negative. I don't know if this is feasible
Any comments on the durability and robustness of different lifting mechanisms? Somehow having the functionality of a piece of furniture depend on electricity feels wrong to me, plus there's the chance of the motor breaking.
The Buying Slow but Selling Fast Bias
Is there a version that lets you look at the pages without forcing you to use that disastrously slow Turning the Pages application? The page turning animates like a tortoise crawling through molasses under a strobe light.
Space Roasters
The answer to both questions is surely "several million dollars"?

This stuff happens a lot. Celebrities don't make money through a business front nor do they get to class it as capital gains. It's all "income", so the incentive to turn it into a cheaper tax category or hide it offshore is huge.

See also the Glasgow Rangers collapse due to tax fraud.
I think it depends on the chair. I got a Raynor Ergohuman chair and I've really liked it. Not cheap, but a cheaper than HM or Steelcase and I've been very happy with it (it's mesh, and it's hot here in the summer).
Why does reducing the American cost of living never come up? American workers have just become too expensive in many industries, which is why immigrants fill whole classes of jobs. Or maybe that's just Seattle's homeless problem talking.
this is Qeric, I made the RBT to fix my own RSI, ask me anything!
Could be the case for many people. I think the commonality between generations might even be declining in favor of other divides. It is in some ways assumed that many people are starting at the bottom and mostly share paths based on development. But I am not sure that is the case anymore, if it ever really were.
You could try buying an existing very small SAAS which you know you can grow and build into something bigger. Then either keep it running or sell it on again at a higher value.
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Huawei: US charges Chinese telecoms giant with stealing trade secrets
The barriers are mostly cultural, but even the technical ones are huge. Including non-C code into the Linux kernel would require a lot of internal momentum, because of inertia. On the technical side, it would require everyone downstream of the kernel to update their build process.

That said, there is little stopping you from experimenting with writing your own kernel modules in Rust that wouldn't need to make their way into mainline.
We get this question all the time, and I totally understand the frustration. In a nutshell, here's the breakdown. I will highlight this in blog entries as RHEL8 comes out and emphasizes podman, buildah and skopeo, so you will see more :-)

If you break containers down into three main jobs, with a sort of forth meta-job:

RUN (& FIND) - podman
BUILD - Buildah
SHARE - Skopeo

If you think about it, that's what made docker special, it was the ability to FIND, RUN, BUILD, and SHARE containers easily. So, that's why we have small tools that map to those fairly easily.
For VR and AR you really don't need these low latencies over the internet. As long as the visual output matches the users head movement the game assets can have noticable lag. Like most existing games, rubberbanding is an annoyance but not disorienting.

For those use cases it would be better to come up with a full 3d (not just stereoscopic) streaming video format that allows for some local camera movement.
Yes, lets hope they don't alter the terms of the deal (again) at a further date.
There are a few potential improvements here:
1) Use a look up table for 'sin' rather than using 'std::sin'.
2) Tell the compiler what instruction sets to use; for example, tell GCC to use 'skylake' instructions (https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-6.2.0/gcc/x86-Options.htm...).
3) Many of the functions could be 'inline constexpr'.
4) Although 'ofs <<' is buffered, it can still be very slow. Create the output in memory and use a lower level function like 'fwrite' to write it to file.
5) Use 'std::thread' or 'std::async'. It makes the multi-threading more portable and clear.
Woah, that's really cool. I've been meaning to run my own headless browser in the cloud for personal scraping tasks and such, and may now sign up for your free tier. :-)
what kind of desk can't hold up for 2 years?
Coffee houses existed at that time but coffee itself was not thought of in quite the same way as today. It wasn’t taken for granted that it was a harmless stimulant, or even a stimulant at all.

The idea of taking a pill to cure a disease did exist; it would’ve been called a “specific.” Pills were handmade but were fairly common based on what I’ve seen, although cordials, electuaries, and other drinkables predominated.
If one is having a panic attack regarding free will, it might be helpful to remember that if you're able to speak the words "I have no control", then you've proven yourself wrong: you just exerted control over your vocal chords. Helpful reminder that you're not a prisoner in your own body!
Facebook Watch Isn’t Living Up to Its Name
They don't want it to be good they want to feel good about it. Introspection makes them angry. This toxic anti-intellectualism is sadly common and has been promoted by people in power for ages. One would think an advertising culture is to blame but given that it happens even in the absence of it it totally predates it. Probably tribalistic.
Yep, and the effect of having this happen on a mass scale across all major providers/players in the software/IT field is that humanity is collectively left spinning it's wheels aimlessly (literally million of years in lost real time) instead of going from a to b using a set of tools.

If our cars behaved in similar ways (the gearstick is sometimes in one place sometimes in another and the way the wheel works changes at random while the glove compartment could at any one time be found in a new surprising location) we would see the results instantly but because computing is predominantly desk bound the loss incurred is in many ways silent.
Consume REST APIs in Angular with Ngx-Resource-factory
It’s time to start taking the search for E.T. seriously, astronomers say
Off topic but

"Rui Pinto, a Portuguese national"

Now I remember doing a case study on the Ford Pinto in South America, Pinto translates into a rude word in Portugese doesn't it???

Is it like Dick (Richard) in English. Or am I missing some subtlety here.

Edit:
Link for Translation
http://www.youswear.com/sitemap.asp?language=Portuguese+(bra...