skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a /really/ hard time believing you wouldn't factor out a couple of POJO's from those properties that belong together and include them to compose your classes. Sounds more like sloppy data modeling.
That can't be true, because then you would have to project light from lots of different angles into the resin all at the same time, rather than from one angle with rotation like they do here.
How do sperm banks not prevent this (sperm donor being the immediate family of the recipient) from happening in the first place? Seems like this woman might have a case against the sperm bank if she wanted to sue.
not necessarily, if it reduces the number of squatted domains.
Same, though i found that it doesnt appear on xcfe4term
Both Inuyasha and Ranma 1/2 were sold en masse and broadcast as anime in Germany between 1999-2009, even with reruns, during times when most of us children came home after school (4pm or so) targetting probably 10-18 year olds, which is why these programs were quite popular. People didn't care much about the nudes, the books were full of it (was also a theme of jokes IIRC).
The Bumblebee tool supports Nvidia Optimus graphics, even without a proprietary driver.
Wow, ok, so it looks like there's a 3rd thing we're discussing: Does meritocracy mean "status based on qualifications" or does meritocracy mean "status based on relevant ability".

Reading that article it looks like the term 'meritocracy' was coined to refer to the former, but we didn't have a word for the latter and so the word has been co-opted and muddied. "Meritocracy is a discredited concept" could thus mean any combination of these statements:

1. We don't / can't currently hire based on collage degrees

2. We don't / can't currently hire based on relevant ability

3. We shouldn't try to hire based on collage degrees

4. We shouldn't try to hire based on relevant ability

People in this extended comment thread seem to be arguing assuming that these stances are interchangeable, or arguing assuming that there is consensus about which of these points we're arguing and they know what it is.

Personally, I believe that we should try our best to hire based on relevant ability. Because I want the most qualified people as coworkers and creators of the products and services I consume. I welcome debate of the idea, but arguing about meanings badly is pointless.

Slatestarcodex wrote a great piece about this whole thing a few years ago. I highly recommend having a read: https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/07/24/targeting-meritocracy/

> The intuition behind meritocracy is this: if your life depends on a difficult surgery, would you prefer the hospital hire a surgeon who aced medical school, or a surgeon who had to complete remedial training to barely scrape by with a C-? If you prefer the former, you’re a meritocrat with respect to surgeons. Generalize a little, and you have the argument for being a meritocrat everywhere else.
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None of this is about trying to prevent the user from using resources. The user is the one who is logging out in the first place. If the user wants to terminate all of their processes except for one daemon they can do that. The security benefits aren't the primary benefit, security wise all you gain is that after you log out there's no chance that anything with any sensitive information is still hanging around. I mentioned ssh-agent as an example but you could also have stuff like maybe chrome didn't close on SIGHUP and as a result maybe this makes your saved passwords accessible to someone who can dump the RAM later by getting physical access to it. It definitely helps security but it's not really that big of a deal.

Ironically enough when I went to Google to search for an example the result that came up was my comments on HN on the same subject from a year and a half ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14735145

Here's a great example of the kind of real life breakage that reaping the user scope on logout actually fixes.

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94508
You can have many types of tests. First you have assertions and unit tests with mocks/injections that runs at compile time together with the type checker and other low level tests. Then you have the integration tests that makes sure your code works together with third parties and other API's. Those tests might seem unnecessary when you already have unit tests, but it's very nice to know if some third party have made breaking changes and that your software have stopped working because of it.
I would attribute that to the substantial Soviet investment in meteorology.
Do you know what whataboutism is?
French artists have influenced modern culture through their artwork intensively. I would even say without Valerian and Laureline [1]. Star Wars and many other science fiction movies would not exist.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Val%C3%A9rian_and_Laureline#Le...
steriolithography[1] is neat, and i think older than deposition style printers.

This is kinda wacky. Rather than a conceptually simple layer by layer approach, this has this funky convolution. they're getting it for free with the simple rotation. You can kinda see how bulbous that airplane model is, because some finer details get 'overexposed'. i bet, if they could rotate 10x around 1 axis and 1x around another axis, that tumble would sharpen up some of those edges, since you wouldn't be baking the same adjacent space so much.

Think about a 6 sided pencil. if you just rotate around the main axis, it's probably going to look pretty round without the crisp hexagon sides. but if you can also rotate around a minor axis, you could also project just the hexagon shape for a while and still preserve the cone of the tip of the pencil since most of the solidification came from the sides.

There's an opportunity for deep optimization there. Seems tricky. but pretty cool.

it's almost like pca. what projection (or series of projections) maximize hitting the target, and minimize the overbaking, all while taking into account the characteristics of the resin. maybe you can let it cool for a bit, and have more freedom to expose without hardening.

also, not a replicator. this is just one _fabulously special_ super material you mess with, not metal and plastic and cloth and fur and chitin and whatever.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereolithography
Also here’s 15 other gravestones to complete your collection.
You can distribute it on the App Store and only allow customers to use it via a login. This is a solved problem and what my previous company use to do.
Totally agreed.

Sci-fi books and shows often feature a trope of the protagonists unearthing some ancient alien/precursor tech that's many thousands of years old, and still in working condition[0]. Ever since encountering this theme, I too find myself wishing tech was built for longevity. Wouldn't it be cool if in far future, my great-grandkids find some piece of tech I was using, and it would still be working?

Related is my hatred for planned obsolescence and related business moves - often justified by saying that good engineering means minimizing costs, and thus designing for "just right" longevity; somehow this "just right" lifespan always ends up being perfect for generating recurring revenue for the manufacturer. Totally by coincidence.

--

[0] - See e.g. StarGate series, which deals with this a lot - from the stargate network itself to various other ancient doodads they find and repurpose or reverse-engineer.
The U.S. used to do this historically to European companies for sure, mostly in the 18/19th centuries[1].
Now it doesn't need to do it anymore, so it's on a high horse, because another country it's in a position the US was 200 years ago?

1 - https://foreignpolicy.com/2012/12/06/we-were-pirates-too
Hopefully not, unless we speak about some hyper-local businesses.

It's now GDPR + CCPA, so you are cutting off EU and California. Probably, more to come.

For example, seems like LA Times does not block EU anymore.
Instead of Learn to Code, Learn to Hack Sh** Together
> You can't get around the law on technicalities.

Simply out of curiosity, what do you mean by that?

All my life experience and knowledge tells me it's exactly how you get around the law, unless court has its own agenda or strong bias.
Everyone should be able to pool together resources to hire the person if there is enough demand for it. Another company could pick it up, maybe?

Edit: to be clear (I’m concerned about being seen as 100% supporting any position) my position is that if there is enough demand, a presumed minority outcry can be ignored safely (Facebook).
Comic book archive
Do managers have any management experience, or are they clueless and in their positions for loyalty.
What do you mean by "cancelling an account"? The last time my prime subscription expired they just let it happen, has that changed? Or do you mean deleting an account, which is completely different from cancelling a subscription?
Slightly related, came across this addon[0] that allows you to use NVIDIA OptiX Denoiser directly from Blender.

[0] https://github.com/troopy28/OptiX-Denoiser-for-Blender
It does, if you read it properly, but even assuming it doesn't for a second, the U.S. used to do this historically to European companies for sure, mostly in the 18/19th centuries[1].
Now it doesn't need to do it anymore, but China does because it is in the same position the US was 200 years ago, doing vert similar things and you somehow feel morally superior?

1 - https://foreignpolicy.com/2012/12/06/we-were-pirates-too
>Arthur Ganson's "Machine with Concrete"

I'd have called it unstoppable force and immovable object personally.

I can see it having several disappointing failure modes though.
I use the forecast put out by weather.gov that's supposedly tailored

to the square mile because it gets the 12 hour forecast right about 40%
of the time. The others are worse.

Of course, when they say "chance of precipitation is 80%, less than an
inch possible" and it doesn't rain, the forecast is semantically
"correct."

Like the El Nino impact on the SE US, where they forecast a 50% chance

of drier colder weather and a 50% chance of warmer wetter weather, it's
nearly impossible to be wrong.

Maybe this is the sort of obfuscatory probabilistic forecast Mr. Meyer

is counting as "accurate."
The sound heard around some of the possible attacks may have been crickets, but that doesn’t explain the symptoms.
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How to boost your team’s TDD skills?
Billionaires so it the other way round: buy a paper and tell it what to print.
My understanding is that C++ is commonly used in that domain due to the performance requirements, though I don't know how common Java is relatively. C++ is used enough that there is a performance focused Study Group SG14 on the standards committee that explicitly includes trading as a use case: https://groups.google.com/a/isocpp.org/forum/m/#!forum/sg14

I'm from the games programming world where C++ still dominates for performance reasons. Where GC is widely used with C# in Unity, Unity are building their own C# compiler without GC for performance critical code (the Burst compiler) and GC is a major cause of performance issues in existing Unity games.

C++ and another non GC language (Fortran) are also the most used languages for HPC ( High Performance Computing) in scientific computing.

C and C++ also dominate in performance sensitive and resource constrained embedded programming.
The actual research this is based on is: "The Quiet Revolution of Numerical Weather Prediction" Bauer, Thorpe, Brunet, 2005.

"Stunningly Accurate" means that 7-day forecasts are now at the lower boundary of being considered "useful" so the bar is not being set very high here.

Still not a lot to quell the skepticism that some reasonable people have about the ability of scientists to accurately predict weather decades in the future.
This is the HR version of “Nobody ever got fired for bringing in IBM”.

It’s true till it’s not.
In many cases it's the same news organizations getting the story wrong both ways. It's a very interesting case study in bias. (and the power of PR firms)

Also I don't see how it's whataboutism when I'm agreeing with the general thesis.
And Lucky Luke, from the writer of Asterix!
Again as usual people were stealing lots of money (not just the banks), and they aren't even named, and they won't go to prison.

These ,,charges'' are part of the cost of doing ,,business''
Fully agree. The majority of us are writing code with has to talk to a lot of other systems which we didn't write and don't control. These interface areas between systems are huge gathering places for bugs.

Also, mocks are self-deception at best and lies at worst.
What I fail to understand so far is the pricing of the news. Do newspapers really earn tens of dollars/pounds/euros per month per user? I want to pay for the news, but any website I like charges a 2 digit numbers per month, and that is when you subscribe for a year. The way I see it, I should be able to pay them for ads I wont see, maybe some collateral, but current pricing in my mind doesn't reflect reality.
What am I missing in this picture? Please help me understand.
French here. Your description reminds me a hell of a lot of Valerian and Laureline "Sur les frontières" : https://www.amazon.fr/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?field-keywords=978220...

You should check it out.

(Not sure about the actual translated English title, but a literal translation would be "On the frontiers")

Most Valerian comics are great by the way, and they all have been republished recently, at least in France (and probably also US because of the -rather disappointing- Besson's movie)
> If their integrity on privacy is true, they why lie about the PRISM program?

Because they are subject to U.S. jurisdiction.
I'm currently working working with another publicly traded SF company that you've heard of, and yes. They have really big, old, codebases, and yes parts of them are nearly incomprehensible.

The thing is, they recognize the bad parts and work to fix them when it makes sense. Companies with bad technical leadership will ignore the bad parts- like wallpapering over a crumbling wall.
Submitting Xkcd link crashes whatsapp
Every time I try to send https://xkcd.com/303/ over WhatsApp desktop client, it crashes... makes me thing of the Little Bobby DropTables :)
> (Except for those !£$"£$% gigantic title bars which GNOME apps like to stuff navigation things into so you can't really remove, wasting SO much screen estate....)

The point of the gigantic titlebars and widgets in GTK3 is to support touchscreens - you can "grab" the big titlebar on a touchscreen and move the window easily, which you wouldn't be able to do with traditional window decorations. Once you're constrained to a bigger titlebar, having widgets in there as well is just sensible. Windows 10 has chosen the alternative of just making the titlebar thicker without stuffing anything in there, which wastes more screen space! (I still think there should be a traditional, mouse-oriented layout for systems which don't support touch-- but guess what, that's quite hard. The default should be touch-friendly.)
You can setup an orbit to always cross over any single point on earth. Molniya orbit‘s are often used by communication satellite’s over Russia, but the US would not care about dwell time so would pick the opposite aiming to be close to the atmosphere over the old USSR.

Likely going for something closer to: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GLONASS
Or it's the societal stigma that is wrong.
The reason I find this interesting:

> Comic book archive files are not a distinct file format; only the file name extension differs from a standard file of the given archive type.

It's a standard that emerged from the need to find a way to store and transfer comic book images in a single file. It is as open as the archive format you choose to use and doesn't need any special software to be viewed. It even can be modified by everyone who obtains it.
How Stifling Debate Around Race, Genes and IQ Can Do Harm (2018)
Yeah of course. Violence, like all traits, is moderately heritable 1. Europeans engaged in a multi century eugenics program after the Christian church took over society 2. They executed 2% of their most violent every generation. This resulted in a severe decline in criminality across the European population group.

1. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10519-011-9483-0

2. http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1474704915013001...
Using Commodity DRAM Devices to Generate Random Numbers [pdf]
Reporting on this reporting: https://www.indy100.com/article/sweden-trip-crowdfunded-righ...

The question is, has he remained independent from his decidedly partial funder?
Maybe its just to keep it in peoples minds. 100+ years means several generations have passed through without interacting with the experiment, so it just gets filed away, and forgotten.

25 years you're likely to have at least 1 old timer (when was Logan's Run set?) that was around the last time a vial was opened.
I'm inclined to say it's just the opposite. In capitalist societies, art tends to be much more diverse, and all sorts of artists make lots of money at it. Not as many as want to, sure, and one could argue endlessly over which artists are under- or overrated, but, regardless, no artist gets as rich as Jeff Koons (or Steven Spielberg) outside of capitalism.

Moreover, art is pretty tightly constrained in non-capitalist societies. In communist ones, it tends to be limited to traditional forms and propaganda. In mercantilist ones, it was traditional forms or, if you could find a patron, whatever would keep your patron happy.
And while we are at it, @SneakyThrows by Lombok.
I helped in the development of a microservice as a third party developer for a big lodgings reservation company.

The infrastructure team of the main company forced us to include Lombok and use it and the code was a mess. Too much automagically generated code that was hard to debug.

My company managed to deliver the microservice with enough quality, but I really hated the experience with Lombok, vanilla Java with the libraries needed for the task is more than enough (more control over your code).
Most professional developers don't really learn to code, they actually just learn to hack shit together.
How can they bury you in legal costs? If their contract is unenforceable you don’t really need a lawyer to tell that to the judge.
I think the Soviets figuring out it was a weapon before it being deployed was key in preventing it from being deployed as a weapon.

It then became a civilian program with military requirements and military operating costs - very inefficient.
Demanding questions are a form of force.

"What do you do?"

"How much do you make?"

"Where do you live?"

"What are you doing?"

Preemptively: "Nothing-to-hide" folks don't live in transparent houses, wear clothes and don't tell their passwords to everyone they meet. Everyone has something to hide or they're dishonest. Information equals opportunities for attack... Publisher's Clearing House and other "contest" identity prostitution scams... no way.
Cool. I thought you were saying that it's OK to lie about bad people but you're not. Totally support reporting on anything that happened (and yes a kid said this)

Edit: it's not me modding you down, I think your second post was quite reasonable. I wish HN didn't downvote civil discussion like this.
Well, the rules also stated that the ECB couldn't buy government bonds and now that's the norm.

Central banks, and some banks, have a political side in it which deals badly with rules. And off course, banks and political institutions are always filled with corruption so just looking at rules text doesn't say much about what is really condemned or not.
oh my good I just need something like this!
Toyota's Tri-Ad Division Wants Open Source Maps to Guide the Self-Driving Cars
Weather ≠ climate.
It is also worth pointing out that the author used to use the term "integration tests" in this post, and only changed to "integrated tests" after writing.

So a claim that these are completely distinct/disjoint ideas is not really supportable.

As far as I can tell, he doesn't explain the name change, but having watched the talk before he changed the name, it looks like "integrated" is a somewhat more general term.

Specifically: if you are "testing individual software modules as a group/combination", how are you going to do that without "depending on the correctness of the implementation of more than one piece of non-trivial behavior."

I see exactly one way: your "integration" tests have to be trivial, really more akin to characterisation tests. "When I hit this external API with this value, do I get this reaction?"

As far as I can tell, he doesn't talk about this in the post, but he does in the talk/video. These are interface/boundary tests. So you test each unit in isolation, and you test the boundaries. If your unit tests are sufficient and your boundary tests are sufficient, plugging things together will work.

So no integrated/integration tests.

Now I am actually not that strict, I let my boundary tests leak a little towards integration/integrated tests, because it is possible to just not hook up the components right. So you want to check that with some smoke tests. However, once they are hooked up, the more complex behaviours Just Work™.
Sort of but not really: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/economics/
A business is usually a separate entity, and it's that entity that have made a contract with the domain issuer. It's however possible that a domain squatter would setup bare corporate with only the domain as asset, which can also be done when selling goods to avoid VAT. It is however too much paperwork to be worth it. And if it's abused there can be a specific rule to prevent it. The price can be adjusted for inflation and deflation ... Came to think about my old employer feeling generous for increasing salaries, while he had actually lowered them as inflation had went up more then the pay raise.
> Presenting a climate scientist who advocates a move to solar panels against a conspiracy theorist who thinks climate change is an invention of the new world order to seize control of the manufacturing industry is not a balanced presentation of the available angles.

But this is litterally the position of both camps in the US right now. Donald Trump, Wells Griffith, Jeff Sessions, all have (or had) tremendous power over US energy policies, and they all share (publicly at least) indubitably non-scientific views on the climate change problem.
I just did one using fletcher (https://github.com/xhochy/fletcher), a library that extends pandas arrays with arrow arrays:

n = 2**25
data = np.random.choice(list(string.ascii_letters), n)
df = pd.DataFrame({
'string': data,
'arrow': fl.FletcherArray(data),
'categorical': pd.Categorical(data),
'ints': np.arange(n)
})

for a groupby operation on string/arrow/categorical and sum the ints the results are:

- String: 1.58 s
- Arrow: 886 ms
- Categorical: 406 ms

The base type of this string FletcherArray array is <pyarrow.lib.ChunkedArray, so maybe there is another more convenient arrow array type or the bottleneck is in upper layer around the groupby operation (since it only is twice as fast). Any way, for this kind of operation the Categorical is the winner and double speed is quite a notable improvement.
That has nothing to do with whether or not something is a science.
The issue of people not vaccinating is specifically one which can spiral out of control very easily, as the tools we have to fight the disease don't work once herd immunity is lost, hence sounding the alarm bells is warranted.

Actually, now that I think about it, perhaps if the history of vaccines and the success had been more widely disseminated, then we may not have had this anti vaccine problem. I agree that it would be nice to read more about successes.
YES – that's exactly it, I remember the cover. Thanks!
Could this be used to rapidly store data as a 3d matrix?