skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The average voter knows even less about how the EU works than they do about their own country. The press rarely covers EU business, except for ECB policy.

People treat them as some sort of low stakes national election and they generally penalize the governing party (let's send them a message) and the small parties get a boost. They have no idea which parties/coalitions exist at the European level and where the national party they're voting for fits.

In sum, it's a big joke, to an even larger extent than democratic elections usually are (as argued in books such as Democracy and Political Ignorance or Against Democracy).
A simple example would be changing passwords every 90 days. It’s been proven users will choose less secure passwords.

Here is an article from the FTC and one about NIST guidelines.

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/blogs/techftc/2016/03/time-r...

https://qz.com/981941/the-us-standards-office-wants-to-do-aw...
I think I'd take issue with a text "Umm, yeah, your mom died so call me".

And, yes, I do in fact use punctuation on text messages...
Is there any service that let's you pay to play with GANs? I have some art projects but don't want to go through the trouble of setting it all up. Certainly someone would rent me their GPUs?
As someone on the team, that didn't factor into the decision too much, although it's definitely a nice perk.

Switching to Postgres made a lot of sense even when looking at Pulp as a standalone project rather than as a part of Satellite.
He hates Dedekind cuts, not real numbers. Real numbers exist all right, here are some: https://arxiv.org/abs/0805.2438
Recursion Is Difficult: PostgreSQL Edition
Except, I'd argue that most large distributed systems these days are using much more than two types of data stores, especially when you start including name/value keystores (and in memory caching variants), big data pipelines, transactional data, "unstructured" data storage (like Mongo), time series, etc.

I work in FinTech and you'll see several backing our apps, and this isn't uncommon.
Is there any evidence that the driver didn't do the braking here?
The actual festival happened (or rather, failed to happen) nearly two years ago.
So we don't really get to know how it works as there's nothing but vague details. I've known from the beginning that it's mainly done through algorithms.

I'm sorry, I don't trust Google simply because they assure me they can be trusted. I don't have that level of faith in a religion, much less a corporation.
Just a keyboard pattern. Not uncommon enough to read anything into it.
While identical twins share same genes, they also share the environment in uterus. I wonder what would be the result of gestating identical twins in different wombs.
reddit is much a manipulated site. It’s terrible than Facebook but slightly better than Twitter.
Yes -- just search classified ads in northern states for Toyota trucks with new frames.
> I think hospitals/police should really start texting a phone number first, before calling to contact a family member.

Two years ago I got a txt message, "congratulations you won, we'll be calling you shortly." I thought, "NO WAY" (I remembered doing the 'text [band name] to #####' a few weeks before), then a short time later the phone rang. I picked up the tickets and went to the concert [0].

Might not have answered if not for the text.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/Music/comments/53wch8/17_years_ago_...
It's never a good sign when an article on the predictive power of genes manages to talk about Nazis before mentioning DNA.

Among other issues, this seems like yet another case of someone confusing "environmental" with unpredictable or non-natal. An increasing appreciation of epigenetics is not the same as a dismissal of the role of genes. And a lot of the the other arguments are seriously misleading, like implying incomplete dominance is somehow a blow to our knowledge of genetics, or sleight of hand, like saying genes aren't 'primary' because something has to read them and implying that diminishes their effect.
Autocorrect has outed me as a desirer of dips and spreads more so than an urban farmer. The shame and ignominy is overwhelming.
An issue with Go channels and high-performance networking from 2016:

"There was one fundamental mistake made, however, which is that we shouldn't have used channels. ... First, they don't perform well enough. ... Second, they make it very hard to prevent message loss. ... Third, the buffered channels mean that Heka consumes much more RAM than would be otherwise needed"

https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/heka/2016-May/001059.html
I wasn't a developer in the 90s, but generally speaking, the legacy code that still exists from that era is absolute garbage.
I would assume a submitted photo of a robot would go over just as well as when I was once asked to add a picture to the company's internal website of employees by our HR dept. I never add photos of me to anything, so instead, in good humor, downloaded a random anonymous silhouette type avatar. That didn't work for them, and I was told "I need a picture of you". So, I open up photoshop, found a generic picture frame online, and added the word YOU inside the frame. Shortly after this, my supervisor comes in to pay me a visit. Some people just have no sense of humor.
I am curious as to what his view would be on, say, the positive solution to the 3n+1 problem (i.e. every 3n+1/2 sequence eventually becomes a cycle). Some of these sequences may be profoundly long, so long that in his view, they may not exist. Or what if someone proves that 3 appears only finitely many times in the decimal expansion of sqrt{2} (God forbid!). How is the proof of something simple, say the solution of the Koenigsberg bridge problem by Euler any different: after all he did not enumerate all the possible paths! Even if he could, it is easy to find a manageably sized graph with too many possible paths.
Fair point. I make it extremely easy to find me through methods besides a phone call, so I assume if a legit call did not come through because of T-Mobile blocking, I’d find out through an alternate channel (the caller iMessages or emails instead).
Reminds me of when I did an accountancy course and the instructor was talking about engineers being blue collar job as it was very practical and you could work without being a member of an official professional society. Kinda true.
Hmm, I don't think its the same thing though. The US has multiple stock exchanges and many different cities hyper-specializing in different things (e.g. SF- Tech, Chicago-Commodities, NYC-Finance, Houston-Energy). The country itself is a powerful economic engine with all that land and close to 300 million people.

In comparison: the only reason Singapore did so well because economic activity in APAC needed to be directed from an English speaking country in the region which was stable and had a well established corporate laws/governance.

Now that other countries are catching up, Singapore is rapidly losing that advantage.
You are correct. Incidentally, humus is a delightful compliment to a sound horticultural spread, not unlike it's etymological cousin. It can make things better, but it cannot be the main course.
how do you do this? tie it all the way from the DB to the client?

incidentally I believe this is the difference between being an engineer and being a product person. I straddle the line. in theory I want a strong type system so I can be confident about the future. in practice I don't want to pay the upfront cost and I'm more interested in shipping now and taking on debt.
> Do actual EU citizens want the important legislation to happen at the national or EU level?

Well, when an EU directive agrees with you and overrules your national elites, of course you are all for it; and when it's the opposite, it's "them shady eurocrats"...

We are in the middle of a transition. Consider the history of the European nation-state: it took about three centuries for France, Germany, Italy and Spain to solidify into what we now regard as nations. Still today, we have significant problems with regionalist movements almost everywhere. One could even argue the UK, that shaped the structure of relations between nation-states so much in centuries past, never even reached the full ethnically-defined description of nation-statehood...

We are now trying to further aggregate and streamline these already-shaky constructs, something we have to do if we want to have any hope of resisting demands by global superpowers. It will be a long process and it's clearly not finished yet. It might even entail the deconstruction of the ethno-state as commonly conceived, like the move to statehood did away with things like city-states and regional dialects. Instead of 28 countries, maybe we should have 100 regions. We don't really know yet.

But it's a path we just have to walk, unless we want to be a satellite territory where bigger powers come to clash - which is basically what we had become in the '60s and '70s, when the Cold War happened. We had state-sponsored terrorism across all of Europe; half the continent was literally enslaved and the other half was doomed to nuclear holocaust. Nobody who really remembers how it was, can possibly want that again.
So... college?
Rule #1: Always start with PostgreSQL unless you have a very compelling reason not to.
Or wait for the RSA conference in March and go crazy with Ghidra.
While it could be a concern in some societies with authoritarian regimes or ones with strong social influence on others, making things up to further a cause will in the end weaken it. It’s not a case of fake it till you make it.
It's even more condescending in Russian, if anything.
I don't appreciate the incendiary remarks and you putting words in my mouth. I said none of those things. I pointed out fallacies in an argument and asked what was wrong with leveling the playing field.

You neatly showcased a knee-jerk anti-worker response. I hope your coworkers know how you'd gladly sell them out so that you can increase your salary.

Look, bud, you're fighting against your own interest and you don't even know it. I really hope you find some empathy for people who are less "equal" than you.

Peace, brother.
> There are over 100,000 new accounts created on Twitter every day so we would expect a large and frequent amount of bans if what you are saying were true.

That's in fact true. Every single one of my Twitter account that I've created in the last few years have got banned within a few minutes even before I've had a chance to post anything meaningful with the account.
This is true only because there's a huge range of people who consider themselves front end devs. The barriers to entry are next to zero, but it's a very difficult thing to master.
It’s amazing how much anxiety this would remove from my life. A very significant amount, like, I’m ready for this now please.
Or Java or C# or basically any non-interpreted language.
Oh, the other part of the story... so this is back in the mid to late 90s. They're ERP consultants. These guys at the time were getting billed out at ~$400 a piece to the client even if they were raw. The cut of the firm they were working for was probably in the $270 range.

Turns out the technical consultants were making $15 an hour with no per diem or benefits and their functional people were getting about $22. The company I worked for got blamed for the living conditions of the employees... but we weren't in charge of their living conditions in the first place... that was all handled by their direct employer.
The key is to distinguish between reasoning and data.

If someone argues that, as a matter of logic, housing prices can't continue increase as a linear percentage of wages indefinitely, that's reasoning. It doesn't matter who they are because you don't have to trust them to validate whether it's true. You can evaluate the reasoning yourself. Then if there are holes in it you can identify them and point them out, and if there aren't, it doesn't matter if they're biased or self-interested because what they're saying is nevertheless the truth.

Whereas if someone says that Android is terrible because they got malware that one time, it still doesn't matter who they are, because they should be ignored/chastised for providing useless information in any case. At worst it's a complete fabrication, but even at best it's an anecdote with no statistical foundation. Because data needs to come from someone who both has enough of it to draw reasonable conclusions from and is known and trusted enough for you to be willing to accept that they aren't fabricating it, which is almost never the case for a rando on a message board, regardless of what disclaimers they provide.
I ran into this with MS as well. However, they explicitly stated that it did not need to be my phone number. So since it was for a work thing, I ask to use my boss' number to get around the lockout. Seemed pretty pointless.
Hacker news is awesome today. "Shun white supremacists" getting downvoted, nice.
Set theory.
I can't find your numbers in the link you provided. Can you point me to the table you referenced?
Who Should You Take Advice From?
That's because the authors' understanding of what blue collar workers are, are largely defined by his stereotypes. And those stereotypes are even worse in Russia than they are in US, because it had a strong class divide around that in the USSR (ironically). I grew up there, and coming from a "white collar" family, the idea of going into trade school was unthinkable, precisely because it was stereotyped as that dirty place full of brainless brutes. And such stereotypes, once they become popular, tend to be self-fulfilling, at least when it comes to "dirty" (lack of funding etc).
What upfront cost?
PlayStation Classic teardown: what's inside Sony's new micro-console? (2018)
I once worked at a place that, at some point in the past, had developed some kind of semantic graph database that never gained market traction.

The author of it had ended up as CTO and kept seeking out uses for his work and ended up finding all kinds of odd places for it to live, including as the auth database in a large scale document analytics system and running part of the payroll.

We were constantly running into all kinds of scalability issues where this 12 year old component was often the source of our pain, but he'd never even entertain a conversation to eliminate it and consolidate or replace it with something better.
What I've specifically found is I miss calls from businesses that I've requested, but did not know would be coming on that day or from that number. And they aren't going to send me emails about the missed call, usually.
This reminds me of: Always bet on Javascript unless you have a very compelling reason not to.
np is implemented as a language code. Subreddits have to change their stylesheets for that language for it to work.
I wish more web apps would give a bit more choice on information density and layout - remember desktop software 15 years ago? You change all the colours, fonts, layouts (sometimes) so it suited you.

White space is great for new users to help not overload them, but after a few weeks of use, most should be able to go to their options and change the layout to save all this pointless mouse wheel scrolling.

I am impressed at the responses in this thread - I honestly thought I was in the minority about this, but hopefully the fashion moves a little more towards functionality
Strava's New Tool Builds Routes Based on Your Finger Swipes
Seems like this guy has serious issues after reading this: https://www.leagle.com/decision/infdco20180828d81
Ex-Broadcom CEO Henry Nicholas Charged with Drug Trafficking
thats pretty cool.

I wonder what the long term lifespan of that material is. lots and lots of potential for this concept.
As usual, one wants all the benefits without its disadvantages, no matter how impossible that is.

I'd like for the EU to transform more into a state, but that will be hard unless the local powerful are willing to give up their power. The concessions that had to be made to get as far as the EU is today are also part of what is holding it back. Thankfully a significant veto power will remove itself from the EU in the coming months.

A huge reorganization such as setting up a proper new state seems easier with help of some disruptive event like e.g. a war or imminent war, something I hope the EU won't have any opportunity to take advantage of.
>I'd always assumed that was noise carefully tuned to throw off one machine learning model or another that was being used to beat the captcha

I was thinking it was trying to dirty up the image just like the lenses on cameras get dirty. What happens to the image recognition when there's water spots, dirt, mud, etc on the lens that keeps parts of the image obscured?
I've always preferred the terms "schema on write" and "schema on read" to schemaful/schemaless.

At some point, you are always going to have to get the data into some sort of consistent model, so that you can operate on it in a predictable and sane way. So there's no question of there being a schema, even if it's only implicit. The question is, do you apply the schema once, when you write to the data store, so that the data at rest is consistently structured? Or do you allow it to be inconsistent in the storage layer, and instead apply the schema and re-validate the data every time you read from it?

There are valid reasons why one might choose either approach.

Which is not to say that valid reasons always play in to the decision to choose one approach or the other.
But MongoDb is web scale! How are they going to scale on PostgrSQL?
Are you talking about 200 dollars or hundred thousands?

I've been asking what to do with our ~100k/yr profit, thinking putting payment toward my 4% interest loan.

I don't know if I can beat 4% next year.
Hi all. I am the one who took over the repo. Thanks for some of you guys reaching out.

I haven't been contributing to open source projects before so I don't have too much public information on my Github account.

Thus I think it would be a good opportunity for me to join the open source community by maintaining the koa-router project.

I will start reviewing PRs and getting rid of issues after I finish going thru the code.

Any suggestions are welcome
Databases are, as their name suggests, closest to the data.

Applications generally can't recreate ACID properties and specifically, they shouldn't be trying to.
Java did it way too slow, and that is a significant contributor to it being relegated to "legacy" in many areas. If it waited for the other languages to prototype stuff, it might have not been the case. The problem is that it waited for them to prototype it, refine it, release it, popularize it, and for their community to adopt it, before even starting to work on it in Java - which means that by the time they had it, most people who needed it were already elsewhere (not necessarily off JVM, just another language).

Lambdas were a very good example - if you look at the closest competitor, C#, it got the first take on them back in 2005. Then a major refinement in 2008, adding type inference. By 2010, lambdas were idiomatic in C#. Java, in contrast, released the first version in 2014. And even then, they're still less powerful.
Facebook’s Future Is Private Groups, for Better and Worse
While I was reading the last paragraph of this story, my phone rang, showing a number in a nearby town. And of course, as I confidently expected, it was "Hi there! This is Stan, from your local air duct cleaning service!"

Nice to get that evening call from Stan, or James, or Dave, wanting to clean my ducts. Every fucking evening.

Yes, FCC. Do it do it do it!
I don't like Russians interfering with USA elections.

But when we do stuff like this to another country, I guess what goes around comes around.
Some of that is due to the national press (the UK for example has a disgraceful sector, the result of a classist society unbefitting of a modern country); some to voters who have forgotten the lessons of the past. Democracy, like most of civilization, has to be earnt anew every day.
On the contrary, RDBMS provides far more opportunity for validation, because it has all the data at its disposal, which can be queried as needed without the expense of crossing the boundary.
They designed it for a winter which means at least 687+ earth days days was considered achievable. Dust was expected to be a larger issue and in many ways they lucked out, but more so as a calculated risk than blind luck.

Distance makes little difference past the first day. Doing the same thing on the moon would not be easier becase it’s closer. It’s local conditions that make this hard more so than simply getting to that point.
I'm not sure, but I've seen things like this: https://twitter.com/hackernewsonion/status/38257854706983731...
>> (Unless if the job description is for front-end development only, in which I'm less qualified to say whether a CS education is needed or not.)

> The browser is an extremely complex platform, at least rivaling an operating system. If you're going to argue that advanced knowledge of a platform is required for non-frontend work, you should be comfortable making the argument for frontend.

I didn't read the quoted statement as a position against front-end devs needing CS knowledge, but rather a lack of position in the matter due to the author's ignorance. FWIW as someone working in both the front- and back-end, the front-end stuff can definitely have the same amount of complexity.
I feel this is wrong. If I make random generative art I instantly lose copyright? Or how about Photoshop? Really I'm asking myself where is the lone drawn.
If the source number is valid that opens up some spam blocklist style options for phone software.
Strong typing and schemas are a bit different. They're often conflated, but once you start thinking about more complicated examples, this makes sense.

Look at Clojure for a good example - it is strongly (but dynamically) typed, but then it also has schemas with automatic validation on top of it (Spec).
I think this is a good point. It's not popular in the ultra-secular tech world, but materialism is not necessarily the only explanation of consciousness, there is very serious non-materialist philosophy. Personally I think Materialism is incoherent -- Daniel Dennett is sort of its logical extension: he argues that consciousness is a myth, a "folk psychology" that doesn't exist, since only material things exist. So we falsely believe that we are conscious. This seems patently absurd to me, but I'm not sure what the right answer is.
> I'm very happy to accept than any length in geometry is a number by definition

Interestingly, that set of numbers is still very incomplete relative to what we expect to be able to talk about in modern math. It doesn't even include the roots of all polynomials (for example, the unique positive solution to x^3 - 2 = 0 isn't the length of any constructible segment in classical geometry).
I have a visceral (possibly undeserved) hatred of C++, so WxWidgets and Qt are out; as it stands it looks like for what I need I'm stuck with Electron for my GUI stuff, since I don't want the JVM dependency.
Neat--I hadn't heard of that. The wave propagation makes me think back to the problem I was working on the first place.
Uh, somebody want to explain this to us riff-raff? All I see is a web page that generates faces. No menus, no "About", nada. WTF is going on?
Go vegan :)