skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is mostly an American phenomenon. Outsiders tend to look on with bemusement, but it's actually a very serious problem due to America's historical ethical leadership (despite the failures), and their current global influence. Like it or not, their example has far reaching effects the world over.

I just hope that they can get out of this polar ideological warfare mindset before it goes too far. They may have lost the moral high ground, but they're still far removed from a rogue state. There's a real danger from Russian cyber campaigns to divide and confuse. These are far more dangerous to national security than the IP theft China engages in. Certain nations would love to help America fall from grace.
By connection I mean any relevant/enriching piece of communication. Furthermore, apologies for being a bit flippant but if the only things you see on your Facebook friend feed are empty fluff then maybe you need to find more interesting friends. The medium itself may not be particularly enlightening but it doesn’t fundamentally prevent meaningful interactions.
I moved from NYT to Economist for all of these reasons.

NYT went berserk after the 2016 elections if you ask me. Now every article feels like an opinion piece.
Most people surely would be affected by this. Especially with Facebook apps as WhatsApp and Instagram usage is huge in many places.

The appeal of iPhone will go down significantly.
Ideally you would want to reproduce the experiment without needing to involve a language scholar. And even if unnecessary for linguistics, it may be useful for the other reasons mentioned in the article (new scientific methods, new forms of writing and archival).
Shouldn't it be something like: countries censorship on the app store ?
The 'stuff' of the universe keeps changing
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how can you do that ... via two different registrars?
The temperatures given are usually air temperatures. If the ground is warm enough -- which it is usually is in the cities -- then it doesn't really matter, the snow will melt in both cases.
Static types do complement testing quite nicely; and more involved sorts of verification, for those prepared to do it.

> I'd argue this is more cost effective than tests

It depends on when the types are introduced.

Choosing to write a project in a strong statically typed language might be quite low cost. This often depends on library availability, e.g. pick a language like Python and there might be off-the-shelf libraries to do most of the heavy lifting; pick, say, StandardML and this will probably need to be written in-house.

Trying to add static types to an existing project might be quite difficult, and may give us hardly any confidence in the code. For example, if we're adding optional/gradual types to our code, but that information keeps getting lost when passing data through an untyped third-party library.
The other answers, especially going trough exercises a good book good advice!

You could also write an algorithm to optimize what you have to refresh and when based on your answers to a set of questions you have prepared.
Tim Pool.

He's got both a news channel (https://www.youtube.com/user/Timcasts/videos) and an Op-Ed channel (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCe02lGcO-ahAURWuxAJnjdA).
Debunked: “Socialism Has Never Worked”
At least for the English term this is explicitly the reason it was created: to avoid the bad reputation “comic strips” (and the term has been criticised for precisely this, because it’s seen as pretentious).
The difference between +1 and 0 is the difference between me making the turn on my bicycle yesterday, and me sliding across the road on my side and then spending 15 minutes trying to fix the chain.
How could you miss Tintin?
How about a PR? /s

No, but really, saying things like "I hate the technical decisions made by your project, please change it" without really participating in the project is silly. It is like "why not Rust?" all over again.
Finotes tells you precisely what went wrong during a function execution along with function parameters passed to the function when called.
For example, let's say your function takes a number component from the database, finotes raise a bug report in case the number retrieved from the database is not within the expected range.
Another situation is, finotes raise a bug report if the function execution takes more than an ideal amount of time. This could be because the function might be handling resource-intensive tasks in UI thread.
That's intentional to avoid infinite loops in the graph, I have to add an integer to common titles.
Thanks for the feedback, its obvious now that this may be confusing as I don't explain it.
That's actually intentional to avoid infinite loops in the graph, I have to add an integer to common titles.
Thanks for the feedback, its obvious now that this may be confusing as I don't explain it.
Kimsufi - AFAIK they get their low prices by using second-hand hardware, but I've not found that to be an issue (hard drive failures are a little more common than the leaseweb servers, but "more common" is still only "one failure per server per 5 years" - and that's easily mitigated by setting up a pair of servers with failover)
Purpose of Life
What is the purpose of life? What do you think? Whats the point of suffering even though it is going to be a waste eventually?
My wrists hurt just hovering over the link. I guess if there's cup stacking, there can be speed typing. I definitely won't win. :D
I'm looking at FaunaDb very closely, seems like a nice "all you might ever need", but a bit unfamiliar at first glance.
If I understand this correctly, there's nothing to stop them from...

* rotating the projector instead of the tube to reduce distortion from resin movement (like in a CT scanner)

* speeding this up, using higher energies to compensate

* using multiple projectors at e.g. 90degree angles, to reduce time (and thus probably distortions through movement in the resin)

* using other wavelengths with e.g. more energy, or just better absorption properties for the resin

or are there any obvious problems with that?
> “Having a socialist government basically in charge right now is incredibly problematic for U.S. goals, and 5G specifically,” Michael O’Rielly, a member of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission, said in an interview.

"socialist"? Who says such things? Is he a trump appointee?
TestFlight doesn't work for b2b. You can't sell or give a private customer a software solution then ask them to register for a test to get the iOS software.
Lots of the media seem to have lost their marbles over Twitter etc. eroding their hegemony.
This anecdotal, but I have observed, in my experience in Europe, that short-term forecasts are really inaccurate in countries like Belgium and Italy while, for example, they are really, really spot-on in mainland Poland. So, my guess is that it really depends on the kind of climate and, perhaps, on the impact of climate change in that area.
These resin printers have been around for a decade. Multiple kickstarters, several commercial models on sale right now.

To classify as a ‘replicator’ it needs to be able to mix different materials (metal, plastic) seamlessly in one print as to be able to replicate itself. Not there yet...
Here in Brazil, publications pretend they are publishing the "truth" while they are controlled by a handful of the richest families of the country. I'd like that they at least recognized their bias. They won't get a cent from my pocket.
This argument is hilarious :)

I'm pretty sure both Google and Facebook have way more webdevs available ;)
Completely disagree. I want the facts, backed by people who know the situation. I do not want “fair and balanced.” Not all sides have equal grounding and I’m tired of this false equivalence.

We are seriously in times where one side denies climate change. There is zero point in giving them time because it elevates their point to being equal to the one backed by actual climate scientists, not industry that has a vested interest, like coal, in continuing to deny it.
This just seems like a discovery board with a few slightly specialised stuff on.

Simple and not particularly good phone oscilloscopes are a thing [1] and virtually any MCU and a few dirt cheap parts could get you the rest.

Not that I think its bad per se, just an order of magnitude more expensive than it needs to be.

[1] https://retronics.wordpress.com/2012/07/14/the-0-android-osc...
She said:

The question is whether we condition our consumption of what artists produce on their moral purity.

Here she answers it

I want the stuff, and in truth I wouldn’t be all that bothered if the director were an axe murderer.

For me things are not black and white like that. Art is a form of expression -that's my opinion. My assumption is that, artist's create art from out of their own convictions. With that mindset , if I find out that artist is a heinous person it automatically makes me think same about his art- may be that's a wrong way to think about it.

If Sorkin wrote a play and a would be serial killer was cast as the protagonist , I will have a hard time liking the play when the actualities play out. This is probably wrong and contradicts what i wrote before because i am attributing the integrity of the play with one single actors behavior.

Its not easy. Does some one have a better way to deal with this.
> Want to Stop Fake News? Pay for the Real Thing

Obviously NY Times has a stake in this, so no need to go further into that angle.

The problem "regular" media is facing today is increased scrutiny w.r.t. neutrality. They're simply not reporting neutrally.

I'm by no means a Trump-supporter (not even American), but when I consistently see traditional media re-reporting internet rumours as truth every time they have the possibility to add a "Look at how bad Trump and his supporters are"-angle... And then often later shown to be wrong, even traditional media is portrayed as spreading fake news. Because they are!

Need an example? How about this very recent incident with MAGA teens and the intervening Indian? This was worldwide reported by "traditional" media as an anti-Trump story. No checks. No verification.

And it was all fake.

So tell me again. Why should I trust them more than, for instance Info wars? Both sides are clearly partisan.
Ask HN: Is it possible to become a product manager as a introvert person?
I tried myself at software development, but for various reasons, I'm not sure I would ever manage to become a good coder. On the other hand, solving problems with technology is something that has always fascinated me. I have tried other jobs, but nothing ever seemed as interesting as the tech space. More than once, I thought if I could possibly become a product manager. However, being on the very introvert side and also decidedly a loner, I never thought I would be a good fit. But in my current situation, I feel compelled to consider any possibilities. If anyone has any insights on this topic, that would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!
What Is First Contentful Paint?
Interesting. I didn't realise that was the game, or how to play. :)

With cabs they've known destination first for ages unless you hail. Kind of hard on the Uber drivers if they don't know if it's a 10 minute or 2 hr drive ahead.
Instead of answering, I am more concerned about the state of mind that produced that thought. Are you in a healthy place right now?
Not sure about spaghetti, but they sure as hell has shit tons of bug in iOS , https://openradar.appspot.com/
There are some who treat the phrase "public interface" as meaning the parts of a class which use the `public` keyword.

There are other people who treat the phrase "public interface" as meaning whichever way that users interact with the system, e.g. commandline arguments, HTTP request parameters, exposed modules of a library, etc.

Sounds like you're using the first terminology and others are using the second.

(I wrote about this at http://chriswarbo.net/blog/2017-11-10-unit_testing_terminolo... )
In case you don't have them anymore and you want a nostalgia trip you can actually download these on the Internet from various sources.
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In the Linux world, you cannot rely on the widget toolkit doing the heavy lifting. The API is defined on the socket protocol level, not on the symbols of the library level, so you have to handle it there. The old xeyes or xfontsel, or other athena, motif, openlook, fltk or whatever forgotten apps, that conform to x11 protocol, must be handled too. The scaling at compositor level is the easy part, Wayland compositors have per-surface flag, how it is supposed to scale in the composition, they are aware also of the scaling needed by each display. The issue is, that the X11 clients - unlike Wayland clients - do not announce what they are capable of. As you noted, both Windows and macOS can fix this in the framework, where Linux cannot. macOS even took the shotgun approach and required a flag in the executable header for the scaling capability announcement part. Such approach is not passable in the Linux world.

But Windows is not a garden of roses either, I still see a fair share of blurry dialogs (until recently, even vscode installer/updater).
> or destroy the industry

I don't think the fine art sculpture 'industry' is affected at all by the ease of making copies.
Ask HN: Startup could be killed with a single feature?
Should I start a startup that could potentially be killed by a big corp if they implement the feature that my product is built on? Its a product based on a strong community around it, which is a plus, but still very risky.
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> It's similar to when people try to claim that journalism without bias in writing is not possible. No, it's very possible.

I couldn't put it better. I'm longing for the day someone creates a website that scans all news, detects and removes anything but the facts, and presents it to me as terse prose with a picture or two if strictly necessary. No ads. No cookies. No commentary. No opinion. Just the facts - all of them.
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First of all, universities are not per se linked to the scientific method as we understand it nowadays. (Also, assuming that the scientific method is the only valid way to achieve knowledge completely ignores almost everything that is not a natural science. But that is an aside, because we're specifically talking about universities as an institution here.)

And I still argue that universities have not changed their fundamental nature, much as their exterior might have. Universities were founded as a universitas magistrorum et scholarium, a community of teachers and scholars (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University), as they still are today. Already in medieval times, their two-fold purpose was to school the next generation of leaders and thinkers, and to provide a place for new knowledge to be discovered. That goal has not changed in any way.

Even when you go into further detail, things haven't changed as much as you make out. Funding continues to come from tuition fees, governments, and other big public organisations with a stake in the outcome of the universities' work. Their students continue to be mostly well-to-do young people aiming for a higher career; be that administrative, educational, theological, medical, legal, or academic. Their organisation in many places still revolves around the core concept of a group of professors, each in charge of their own research group (with attached students), and collectively in charge of the whole corporation. Other things too: the teaching forms of lectures and seminaries, the international community of university scholars, all that hasn't really changed in the last 1000 years.

Book suggestion: James Hannam, "God's Philosophers: How the Medieval World Laid the Foundations of Modern Science", is a good popular introduction into scholarship in the Middle Ages, and specifically talks about the rise of the university in this period. (https://www.amazon.com/Gods-Philosophers-Medieval-Foundation...)
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This seems pretty common with a lot of banks. I've got accounts with several high street UK banks and almost all of them have some kind of reliance on SMS, maximum password requirements (like 10 letters with no symbols) or 'secret words' where you have to pick a few choice letters from an word which is presumably kept in plain text.

I can only assume they are relying more on legal recourse and insurance than data security experts and I assume that if a hack did happen I would be reimbursed but it's a bit of a worry.
Should i mourn about my miseries or a simple no ? Which makes more sense?
He is arguing against building the larger particle collider.

There are too little theory support of such collider can find anything new under the standard model.

IMO, it is not the matter of "science". This is economics.
That’s true, but the other side may have good points in regards to other topics.

If you ignore them altogether because they are a bit crazy in one regard (well, maybe a lot of regards), then you are throwing out the baby with the bathwater.
I agree with this. The 24/7 news cycle ruined us in many ways, even print.

I’d rather have a journalist spend a week on a story (or more) and give more context instead of basically rehashing what was said by both sides.

I like The Atlantic, as it is mostly long form, not breaking news, but the impact of social media and 24/7 news has affected it as well.

Either way, I think the more you focus on the larger picture through long form journalism instead of the daily machinations, the better informed we will be and less spun up all the time.
> I think a huge part of why we so strongly censure these people socially is that most of them skipped the justice system entirely.

And some of them are charged, convicted, even sentenced, but then get to escape their punishment anyway. See Roman Polanski as a case in point. (What's even weirder in that case is the sheer amount of people in the movie industry who used to support the guy quite overtly, even strenuously-- it's only very recently that they've had to change their tune. I guess this goes to show how cliquish instincts and dynamics can totally overwhelm our shared sense of justice.)
What's the impact in terms of affected people. Hundreds of millions of children being vaccinated, millions of them not dying young, dramatically changing the dynamics of societies where women can now choose not to have multiple children.... or a few hundred people getting measles. I'm not saying the anti-vax thing isn't a problem. I'm saying that the improvements and advancements have a higher impact on society than what a few idiots choose to do. And yet we read much more about the latter.
> There really is a blind spot in the app distribution mechanisms. There is no way to distribute your app only to a selected amount of "customer / partners".

I have a very radical solution for this. I propose to name it "Login". Only the authorized people will get the holy username and password that will grant access to my App and it's functionality.

Sure, ordinary people can download the app, but what are they going to do without the username/password? Nothing.
Indeed. There is way too little news specifically targeted at nr. 4, even though that group is rapidly growing.
Thanks for the tip NYT. I won't pay you anything.
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How much would it cost to launch? How fast could you recoup your investment?
Developer reach in what sense?

Script kiddies writting GNOME extensiosn with 100% CPU use and memory leaks?

As for safety, yes C++ and specially C are quite good at memory corruption bugs. Which I am quite aware, if you look at my comments history.

Exactly because of that I took care to expressly mention "And doesn't need to be C or C++, anything else that compiles to native code AOT would do as well.".

And while JavaScript might be safe in terms of memory corruption issues, there are enough WAT opportunities in the language.
TRNN, Economic Update, Democracy Now, Pacifica Radio, Phily D, Chris Hedges, Journeyman Pictures, Thom Hartmann, The Jimmy Dore Show, Paul Beckwith (climate).

I watch either CBS or NBC about once a month to laugh and smh at corporate BS/lack of journalistic integrity prostituting itself with somatic entertainment, propaganda, a lack of understanding and a lack of well-researched nuance. The only viable form of news is user-/no strings grant-supported. Ad-supported inevitably loses its soul. There's no getting around the reality that ad-supported is fundamentally journalistically unethical and readership immoral.
> Inequality is increasing every year.

This is a non sequitur. Inequality doesn’t need to go down for workers to get better living conditions.

> they would probably be riding a bike to deliver food [...] or being micromanaged by computer programs [...], being cogs in a machine [...]

So Uber does make their life better.

> In a scenario where big companies and rich people are finally forced to pay their taxes and respect human rights

How much money should Uber give to politicians to spend inneficiently or to be lost in corruption before you consider them to be respecting human rights?

> They might be engaged in something meaningful that improves our collective condition

Providing comfort is a service that improves our collective condition.
The chink in the chain for Barclays though is their mobile app on-boarding that relies on bank account information and SMS authentication which turns your phone into a PinSentry too.

Don't get me wrong, Barclays probably does it better than anyone else but I was surprised when I set up a new phone recently.
Tropical Tidbits is a more US focused site with an emphasis on tropical storm season (hence the name) but they keep the models running & updating all year.
In addition to “because it’s the job of the justice department to dole out punishment”: if an artist is receiving dividend on shares bought in a period during which they raped several people, should we take those dividends? The money they earned in a period in which they raped people?

That would be quite a deviation from what the justice system ‘we’ (in the western world, 21st century, …) agreed on typically do: only take the money people get from a crime (frequently with a fine added), not all their money.

(There may be edge cases, for example: if I steal a million, put all it on red in Vegas, come out with two million, and then get caught, how much money should be taken from me? I can see a judge ordering me to return a million to the owner of the original million and a million to the casino. Those are the exceptions, though)
My problem with "100% coverage" is Goodhart's law ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law ).

Keep adding tests as long as they tell us something new, give us more confidence, document some regression, etc.

Keep adding tests if they're exposing edge cases (e.g. MAX_INT), even if those code paths are already covered.

Keep adding tests if they're asserting useful things about the results, even if those code paths are already covered.

Stop adding tests when you're only trying to make the coverage number increase.
Not much at all. Could probably build the MVP in 2 months. But it could take a few years to build a community around it.
Thanks for the public service. I was wondering about doing the same.
From the same authors, as a child, I loved "Barbe Rouge". Who wouldn't? Pirates, age of sail (XVIII century), impossible missions, etc.

Now, I see it's a bit too black and white but at the time I loved it ^^.
I use Firefox nightly, and flick the security.webauth.u2f configuration setting.
TFA is a NYT opinion piece...