skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s not a monoculture if you can listen to something else. Nearly everyone I know who listens to top hits music also listens to other genres.

Top hits are just designed to be as agreeable to society as possible. That’s what makes them more popular than anything else.

It’s like claiming salt is causing a food monoculture because so many people are using it.
Preaching the convinced
It should have been called Bird Mode, because all the images are obviously taken with birds:
https://birdsarentreal.com/pages/the-history
MacOS: How to Gain Root with CVE-2018-4193 in [pdf]
> The system has not yet caught up for remote employees.

What do you mean by that?
true, because the photos were taken by birds
> [Larry and Sergey's] new experiment was a huge countdown clock. The rule was: the review had to end on time. ... And literally no exec noticed or remembered our review.

I suppose when you're Larry and Sergey, toying with bikeshed product managers can be fun and not actually waste a crap ton of time.
lol DOWNVOTED for this? well, fuck you to.

I hate it when people pick out random quotes from a comment and then argue them. It's like those people just want to argue and pick out snippets to argue with. It's so annoying. But here we go:

> The main feature of the Fahrenheit 451 world is a centralized monoculture which is established through trashy tv shows, advertising, and comics.

That is the world we live in, isn't it?

> Social media is extremely shallow, sure, but we also have historically unprecedented access to almost unlimited information.

This I actually don't know. In theory we do or we ...could. But do we actually have access to all the worlds information? For one, Google and Bing heavily filter search results. It's not hard to find a dark search. Plus a lot of the information is technically there but it's disparate and poorly presented. Really you still need a book for a lot of things.
He’s not the hero we need, he’s the hero we deserve.
People aren’t discussing top 40 songs at the watercooler. You’re very confused about the reason people listen to it. It’s not to absorb culture anymore than playing candy crush is to absorb culture. It’s mindless crap you put on to fill silence.
Abusing Unsafe Defaults in Active Directory Domain Services: A Real-World Case
It would help if tutorials would advise you not to lean more heavily than you must on type inference. They have a second goal of selling you on the language, and inference is an attractive feature, in simple programs.

You often can't avoid relying on type inference in clever libraries, where the author can't necessarily spell the annotation. It is on the library author to keep that from leaking out to users.

Bugs in Rust and modern C++ are fewer and bigger, because they more often result from misunderstanding the problem or library preconditions than expressing the solution. There are plenty of such bugs, but you have those in C, too, on top of the others.
I've been using JupyterLab for a year now, and it has complete replaced Jupyter Notebook for me. I would encourage anyone still on Jupyter Notebook to start using Lab. At some point Lab will supersede Notebook as the official Jupyter.

The UI in Lab is much tighter, with drag-and-drop on cells, tabbed pages, file navigation, console, etc. Lab is fully compatible with Notebook, and is just better all around.
Your very last point should be heavily against R, not in favour. Having multiple ways to do the same thing is fine when you work by yourself, but in a large team it makes the style of the codebase vary a lot based on who wrote each block of code and makes reviewing others' code more difficult. If you want to get anything done, reading code really shouldn't be your daily challenge of how "outside the box" you can think just so you can understand what is going on.
> This is more a basic result of just not having control of the server side stack.

That's software-as-a-service in a nutshell for you. Even if you opt to setup your own server, and develop a custom solution, the US government has the right to ask you to install black boxes on your network and or data centers (read about Lavabit shutting down because of this), if you are on US soil (or operating from the US?).

> No amount of regulation is going to fix that.

I disagree.
Apache NiFi 1.9.0 Release
I almost wonder if these movements are driven in part, or at least encouraged by, foreign state actors within these companies, who have interests in hampering US military dominance.
100% this. It’s exactly one of the biggest of my concerns at the idea of starting a software company.
>Sure sounds like 2019 to me. In fact, far more 2019 than the era when the book was written.

You’re not living in the same world as everyone else then. Look at the two major political parties in the US alone for how we’re no longer agreeing on basic priorities for societal and economic structure.
Any way to exclude companies that participate in user tracking networks? Or are they excluded by default?
Facebook Gives Nod to Secret Pro-Israel Campaign
What’s amazing to me is that what you just described matches how I feel about the world. We are surrounded by vapid bullshit media. When I go pump gas at the gas station, a television in the pump tells me news of Hollywood stars caught in a controversy with their lover. This happens while we bomb foreign countries in operations our government openly lies about. Those lies are then carried on all major news outlets. Information is ‘available’ but it’s like hunting for gold on the beach without a metal detector.

I haven’t actually read Fahrenheit 451 but it’s striking to me how much your presentation of the ideas you present as dismissible actually strongly match my view of the world. Keep in mind, I’m someone who stopped using Facebook years ago and went vegan last year because I found the practice of enslaving animals to be cruel (and also demonstrably horrible for the environment). So I’m not one to buy mainstream ideas, but I think that’s my point here.
What I know for sure does not matter in economics is what people say matters. It's like Palaeontology, a fascinating study of the past with little implications for our future. debt does not matter, until one day it will.
Also, it would be nice to be able to select a geographic region first.
You have heard of Google and Duck Duck Go, correct?
The Penguin Still Shows Through
Anyone here using NiFi? What for? Experiences?

I always have a bit of a hard time placing all those Apache data-something projects and their uses.
> a variable annotation expression could require the right-hand to be a type expression. It's not clear to me why these kinds of moves aren't taken

Because when annotations were introduced in PEP 3107 they were not meant exclusively for type hinting. We're in a period now where non-type usage is deprecated but allowed for compatibility with old code. In 3.8 a non-type evaluation of the RHS will be disallowed.
> There might be deeper trade concerns underlying the change in Delhi's stance ...

Security. Sovereignty.

"Microsoft has been sharing Indian bank customers' data with U.S. intelligence agencies"

=> https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-has-been-sharing-india...
Might be a coincidence but we included it in this week's JavaScript Weekly on Friday: https://javascriptweekly.com/issues/425 .. we probably saw it come up somewhere else though. One of those organic things.
>When the DoD talks about preparing for near-peer adversaries, Russia is not the primary concern.

Are you kidding? Then what's Grafenwöhr for? Entire procurement strategies have been - and are - focused on countering Russian military hardware (the IAV is just one example - there are plenty of others).

>Do you really think we would stop spending massive amounts of money on military technology development if NATO didn't exist?

You should really reconsider that statement, and which clause follows from the other. This has nothing to do with my first point, which no one seems interested in answering. My original question was attempting to tease out why people think NATO is useful in a post-post Cold War world. I don't think it is, and struggle to understand this obsession with Russia that continues to warp people's perception of the global security situation. Instead people pivot to "well it was actually about reducing the amount of nuclear weapons" or "we would spend that money anyway", neither of which address the fundamental question of whether or not NATO in its present form is useful or whether the US should have to continue shouldering the vast majority of the security responsibility in the Western World.
Ask HN: What Are Some Companies That Foster Employee Happiness and Wellbeing?
After recently leaving a toxic work environment and reading the news about experiments in 4 day work weeks and 6 hour work days, I got to wondering how many companies out there actively foster a culture of employee happiness and wellbeing. I'm less interested in ping-pong and free lunches, and more interested in things like:

- Shorter work days / weeks
- Encouraged PTO
- Concern for work / life balance
- Openness to alternative working arrangements
- Mindfulness of personality traits such as introversion / extroversion
- Health / wellness and personal / professional development stipends

I'm not necessarily looking for companies that tick all of these boxes, but instead looking to survey the landscape.

Also, what qualities are important to all of you in terms of being happy and healthy in your jobs?
> but it certainly breaks with common convention

That depends on which circles you run in. If you're a programmer, yeah, it breaks with common convention. If you're a scientist or engineer, not so much. When writing a programming language for scientists and engineers you have a choice: do I stick with programmers' conventions or do I stick with engineers' conventions? I've had the pleasure of teaching both MATLAB and C++ to freshmen engineers. For them, they get off-by-one errors in C++, not in MATLAB.
I think you need to reevaluate your understanding of Cold War history if the argument you're making is "we started NATO to reduce the proliferation of nuclear weapons".
I'd love to see some examples.
Yeah, right, an incident.
How is that smell of napalm in the morning?
Ask HN: Service to Collect Money You're Owed
Anyone know of a service that provides drip pester-the-shit-outta-people messages until they pay you back?

Just enter the balance owed and contact information. Maybe keeps track of partial payments.

It can use constantly changing numbers and emails, so it can never be blocked.

You can select how aggressive or sweet the messages can be, like choosing the voice of a navigational system. Maybe have it play good cop / bad cop.

And in time you could use machine learning to perfectly time the messages and create the content.

I need this.

And I need to be paid back by many of my friends, who all promised to repay swiftly and most of whom have not paid a dime in a year.

Not to mention my hoodies, coats, boxers, psycho bunny, and socks hahaha.

PS: I refuse to lend money ever again to anyone for any reason. Because too many bad actors. I am highly jaded. Of course, I have never lent money that I couldn't live without. But it stings a lot and I need a solution to this problem. Might build it myself unless someone has one already.

PSS: I was very tempted to tag those that owe me on my Facebook post about this. But alas, I am not savage enough. I am looking for something that doesn't mess with the public reputations of the promise-breakers and maintains a high ground.

PSSS: Maybe my buddies at Pardot / Salesloft could build a side tool for this lol. Or launch a business around it with me.

*Originally posted at: http://notonlyluck.com/2019/02/23/startup-idea-service-to-collect-money-youre-owed "
Black Butterfly
I agree - outreach is probably not the right wording. What we mean is that if our employees know someone great in their network, we would love for them to tell those people to come and work with us. Also, we are a small team (12 people), so we don't regularly work with recruiters.
The Big Money
Does Starbound use this engine?
and when they first introduced it, I think they called it "bird's eye" view.
So have I. But these are exceptional individuals. You can't base such a huge investment on a hope of getting a s##t ton of exceptional self-taught programmers.
This seems unsatisfying. Most of the modern languages are choosing pretty much the same sets of features. I've been using them for years (decades?), and I couldn't tell you significant differences between most of these languages.

There's maybe 3 major islands of languages today. Within each island, they make essentially the same things easy.

The answer to a question like "Python or Ruby?", "C# or Java?", or "Rust or Go or C++?" mostly boils down to historical accident: what system did the original designer pick, which usually means which one just happened to have a good library for the primary goal of the first prototype.
I think the better question to ask is.. who stands to gain from slowing down the pace of innovation in the US military? Basically.. competing nation states. In a world full of liberty loving friendly democracies I might think more parity in military capability is desirable. In the world we have.. we basically have to be able to win a war against major the hostile major military powers.. at the same time (Russia, China, etc).
Indeed it's starting to sound rather more like a church than a bikeshed!

I am curious what people write all day for this to be such a big issue. It's not like you need to re-invent N-dimensional array indexing every morning -- we have abstractions. If translating code then it could be from either convention... or from a mathematics book. (Where you may note that mathematicians are unconvinced by the CS arguments... admittedly not a group of people known for taste in all matters, but taste in notation they have thought about quite a bit.)
I spent half my money on gambling, alcohol and wild women. The other half I wasted.
This is false equivalence bullshit. Representatives can be voted out, and so they have to be responsive to that. Billionaires personally funding things don't have to be responsive to anything. That's the whole difference.
ever heard of the phrase bird's-eye view?
Doesn't compile - header files are missing from the project.
What does "finishing Academia" mean?
EFF advocates for civil liberties, not for Silicon Valley or the US.

But for Silicon Valley and US, it's debatable whether trying to maintain continued dominance through stronger IP is a good bet. China and elsewhere are switching to producing more IP faster, even if starting far behind. It's not a simple or binary choice, but consider whether over the next decades it will be more advantageous to make it easier for US firms to copy Chinese firms, or to make it harder for Chinese firms to copy US firms? I'm in favor of whatever lessens potential for non-digital catastrophic conflict.
> fossil fuel

From explosions? Drinking? Sitting near it? Got a source?
I haven't used trackers in years. Have you noticed a "cold DHT lookup" taking a long time recently?
Make Your Own Sourdough (2010)
The Double-Arm Barn Door Tracker
> At some point along this line of though, you have to admit that your leaders aren't working in the interest of the great majority of citizens if what they're doing is not effective and if they don't step aside because of that...

tbh seeing how there actually IS a middle class in china now, and it's in the hundreds of millions now and is growing, it's hard to argue that it's not "effective" for "the great majority". That's quite an accomplishment.
They are not slaves, they aren't bound to Microsoft and Microsoft is not bound to them. Step asside. I don't have any doubt that Microsoft won't have any problem in filling their positions with better professionals. Heck, if I were younger and didn't had yet a family, I would apply for a job at Microsoft and would be ok with moving to the United States, and helping the civilized world get rid of the barbarians would be an honor.
Well, now they can use bird's mode as yet another option for directions. I often wish it was easier to get geodesic distance. It is certainly more useful than that uber and lyft ad.
Apache CouchDB CVE-2018-17188: Remote Privilege Escalations
I don't think liberalism has an answer to this question. It appears to me that as liberal democracies become more democratic the likelihood that an authoritarian can take power, from the left or right, increases. So it's somewhat of a paradox.
I imagine that it’s focal length. With current headsets you’re staring at a screen directly in front of your eyes, only giving the illusion of depth. This appears to be modulating the wavefront so that optically it’s similar to a scene that is actually x distance away from you. Your eyes can tell what distance you’re focusing at, so this should be significantly more immersive should anything come of it.

In other words, with this device, objects would actually be in the distance, rather than being smaller on a nearby screen.
Whoops. Thanks, too late to edit now.
I think we’re splitting hairs here, but words matters, so I went ahead and changed the wording to make it clear what I’m saying.

My whole point is that modern diets are broken, lots of people are healing autoimmune conditions with therapeutic diets such as carnivory (or if you want a less strict but IMO less therapeutic autoimmune diet you can check out the autoimmune protocol — see Sarah Ballantyne’s The Paleo Approach).
I don't think so. I believe the Starbound development was led by someone else. This is an interesting article written by that person. https://kyren.github.io/2018/09/14/rustconf-talk.html
I've never seen that but it's a super interesting case. Reading this makes me start brainstorming ways I can be more accommodating for that situation - that wouldn't fly with certain sites I run due to US-based NPA-NXX validation on the back-end. Hmm.
, which is an entirely value-free assertion from which no understanding can be derived
You are right, that should be done. As I did not place the warning nor know what a fix could be we can just hope someone is up for the task.
Agreed, it doesn't matter if you have a local variant in their trademarked light salmon color :-)
Solid journalism, non biased and self critical. And sure that's not a 100% score but still best paper.
Honestly my biggest bug with Julia was the lack of good programming environment. I detest MATLAB, but I can be very productive in that IDE. PyCharm is pretty good too when using NumPy. For Julia though, the tooling just didn't seem there yet.
I've had that game in mind for a while, ever since I heard about it from them calling out Sony for only enabling cross-play for the big publishers. I think between that and this, it's pushing me to buying it.
It may be proving too much, but it is also arguing the general point. Your objection would be that this example would prove that all strings are programs, which might seem absurd. But in fact, all strings are programs if you haven't specify which interpreter they are supposed to be programs for.

Either way, that seems like a silly approach, IMO.
There's one general point that has to always be considered in these sort of ideas. Resources are not infinite. Of course you realize this, but I think we who come from the software world can fail to appreciate how severely restricting a problem this actually is. There are 325 million people in the US. Let's imagine a very high participation rate and just exclude infants and some outliers, just so see what would happen. So we'll call it 300 million.

That's 300 million tests per day or about 110 billion per year. The cost there is already going to be extreme. Even if you can get the tests down to $10/person, which you probably cannot, that's more than a trillion dollars a year -- upwards of 5% of the GDP. But the bigger issue here is what money represents: resources.

Machinery, maintenance, operation, even the strain on the transportation system would be intolerable. For instance think about the little kit you send over with your sample. I mean you'd think just getting it there would be negligible, but it'd be anything but. The USPS currently handles 20.2 million pieces of mail per hour. [1] Just handling these packages alone would increase the entire postal system's burden by more than 60%!

Or even consider the simple packaging that needs to be produced and disposed of. How small of a kit can we get to ensure sterility, sufficient sample size, and transportation safety? Let's say 100 grams. That doesn't seem like that much, but again think about it at scale. That's 30 million kilograms. For some sort of scale, The Statue of Liberty weighs about 200,000 kilograms. So each day you're talking about 150 Statues of Liberty of packaging and material that needs to be manufactured, distributed, delivered, processed, and disposed.

Big ideas in the physical world have quite tremendous barriers.

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As one interesting aside, imagine you took the market value for literally every single consumed good and service in the US, the sum total of money invested by businesses, and all government expenditure on top of it. And then you divided that equally among every man, woman, and child. How much would it be? It's interesting to compare expectation versus reality there. Conveniently what I described is really easy to measure - it's the GDP/capita. And it's less than $60,000. I always find that number quite bemusing when thinking about it contrasted against our economic ideals in various matters.

[1] - https://facts.usps.com/one-day/
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Privacy Advocate Held at Gunpoint After License Plate Reader Database Mistake
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Key Values' staff is just me, Lynne. (Hi there!) Companies self-select the 8 values that best describe their engineering culture, and then I work closely w/ them to qualify them. All of the content is curated, and it takes a lot of time, care, and thought to put together.

To answer the original question (Who decides whether they meet each of the criteria?), the answer is you, the reader. "Work/life balance" can mean any number of things, and people often forget that there are countless ways to define a given term. The goal is for teams to describe what it means to them and let interested applicants decide whether it resonates w/ them.
Can anyone point me to how to get started on making a renderer for a new file/mime type in JupyterLab?

The https://jupyterlab.readthedocs.io/en/stable/developer/extens... gives me a hint, but I have no experience with node or TypeScript, and only dated experience with Javascript. And the link for 'Instead it exports an interface given in the rendermime-interfaces package.' is broken.

I tried looking at existing renderers. They are all in TypeScript. Is that the preferred way to develop Jupyter renderers?
Julia n-D arrays are stored contiguously in memory. So, you can access the memory by reshaping the array into whatever dimension you want and then access it using the A[i,j,k] syntax.
Patents going back to 7 years instead of multi generational would fix most everything.
This would have opened them up to all sorts of litigation nightmares generally classified under Bird Law, a sector in which Google is notoriously weak.

Why didn't they just call it Photo, or Image, or Detail?
We use Buefy extensively to build moonlightwork.com. Thanks to the maintainers for working so hard on it and being so responsive!
>why not simply define functions in the language rather than using the macro system?

I don't know. Most examples I've seen from people extolling the virtues of lisp macros and metaprogramming wind up just generating more lisp code in the same language with the same syntax and semantics, so I don't know why you couldn't just use functions in that case.

To be fair, I only have a surface understanding of one lisp variant (Arc) so it's entirely likely I just don't get it.