skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I read that as saying the nose holes on the broken statues don't look "black."
Don’t those facing charges get brought to the court, guilt being decided by the court? Does the court press charges anywhere?
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I imagine some of it has to do with not wanting to be wrong. And especially not wanting to be wrong when that means you have caused/contributed to someone's death. That is a powerful motivator to find alternate explanations.

Everyone here is probably intimately familiar with that attitude, since it permeates software engineering (and probably every other technical field).
Yep, which actually makes it better than most of the Ivy League :)
Really? Why are the espresso machines used in coffee shops so expensive then?
Absolutely. Personally, I like to spam commits while I'm developing, just to make sure I keep track of what I've done while I'm iterating, but none of this is relevant to the final merge. Any individual commit on my feature branch may not even compile, but when that feature is applied to master, I want it to be a clean atomic commit that can easily be reverted or applied to other branches.
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That's a very good point. There's still a use for locale-insensitive diacritic-insensitive searches, but you're absolutely right that in most cases you'd want it to be locale-aware and therefore NFD isn't sufficient (though it may still be easier to do this on NFD than NFC).
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Absolutely. I think free will is a terrible concept that only serves to justify our retributive tendencies. Our entire approach to criminal justice needs an overhaul.
I would expect that about zero of the propositions have ever been serious. It's just a well-known, long-running amusement among programmers.

An IEEE 754 double type has a range from about 10^−324 to about 10^308. You start losing precision once you exceed 2^51, but beyond that it should be possible to add an extra byte or a few as an offset.

So a handful of bytes would get us addresses far in excess of the current storage capacity of the internet (estimated around 10^24 bytes a few years ago) ... if only pi were certain to contain every possible number sequence up to some arbitrary length (which last I heard isn't known yet) and if we had some reasonable way to search and index all of that content (which we don't).
Takata airbags, Ford Explorer tires, GM Cobalt ignitions...
> GoT is a tentpole show with a rabid audience but it's not especially good (it's no The Wire). Deadwood and the Sopranos are from a different era of TV. Veep is great, but True Detective, True Blood, Boardwalk Empire, Enlightened, and The Newsroom would all be in the middle of the pack at Netflix.

As The Dude once said "Yeah, well, that's just, like, your opinion, man"

Objectively speaking, there isn't a single Netflix-original TV show rated over 9 on IMDB: https://www.justwatch.com/us/provider/netflix/tv-shows?ratin...

Compared to 7 titles on HBO: https://www.justwatch.com/us/provider/hbo-now/tv-shows?ratin...

But I think your point is that when we're talking about "The Wire" level production, others have caught up (AMC, FX, etc) and Netflix can simply license those titles. But, there's notable downsides to that (you have to wait, there's a significant cost to purchase, etc). Also, AMC, FX, etc have yet to establish a long-term credibility for consistently creating high quality content...until they do, HBO as the "premium offering" in light of others is still there.

At the end of the day we're talking about whether HBO's content can sustain the justification of paying $15/month. You just need rabid audiences for that to happen, not "one dude on the internet thinks The Wire is greatest thing ever created".
And yet ....
Hmm.. all made in China
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Am I reading your linked chart wrong? No matter how I look at it, it says 100M in 2000 and a negligible amount in 1990 (instead of 100M in 1990 and 1B in 2000).
Agreed, this is exactly how 2FA should work. Allowing support staff to deactivate 2FA is a massive security weakness.
I don’t know that they are bred for this?

I assumed it was natural dog / fox/ wolf / canine behaviour. Probably most wild hunters / scavengers?

Either way, dogs are particularly suited to gorging and fasting. And I was under the impression that’s why dogs shouldn’t have free access to food, and why so many pet dogs are overweight.
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> In order to reach 4.9 million games you'd have to play for approx 280 years.

Humans also benefit from millions of years of evolution which shaped our brain architecture in a specific way, and from a rich environment to learn from - nature and society. AG Zero was doing just self play.
I came on to Discord before hearing about it from HN or other news source. I was invited to a "server" by members of my play-by-post RPG group. I had the impression it was a small and "rebellious" startup with a great product. Word of mouth is the best kind of growth. In a matter of weeks, I moved most of my chat to discord....though for chats with my brother (one of my closest confidants) we still run our own Mattermost server, which has honestly been great.
These were dumb comments for me to make, I wish HN supported deletion at times like these. Oh well.
Snowplow is awesome - it doesn't come with a UI but here's a sample of what data is included:

https://github.com/snowplow/snowplow/wiki/canonical-event-mo...

A pretty common move is to drop this data into redshift/snowflake and query it with Mode/Looker/Tableau/whatever. Athena is a viable option as well, until you get into higher data volumes and don't want to pay for each scan.

Context: I'm a tech lead (data engineering) @ a public company, have set this system up 15+ times @ numerous other companies, and could not live without it at this point. Current co's snowplow systems process 250M+ events per day peaking @ 300k+ reqs/min, on very cost-efficient infra.
There could be, but frequently is not.
>This isn't about an outdated streaming strategy, HBO Go/Now are fine.

This has been my experience for anything that isn't live. I can never successfully watch a "live" episode of Vice without the stream degrading to potato quality at various times. But within minutes of the episode completing I can view that same content without any issue.

I can only speculate as to what their problems might be. But their live streaming experience is quite poor.
Do we think they're all in conspiracy overdrive mode looking for ways to cover their asses and burning all the evidence?

Chances are better that (assuming they don't already know the answer) that a bunch of them are working long hours trying to find the cause and solution to this problem. I imagine every flight simulator at Boeing's disposal is being used to analyze this from every angle.
I have the impression you have been viewing this from a consumer point of view.

These are not for your kitchen, they are machines for commercial use. Even the fully manual ones easily cost mid-thousands.
"we have lots of compute resources and access to software, aren't we awesome?"
It's a shame you're catching downvotes for mentioning ASN1. It's so much better than all these newfangled things that it makes them look like toys.
most of the large media companies need a wakeup call... why is it easier to find pirated content then finding a source willing to take your money for non-drm content...
The young people like Westworld. They may have duds, but their good exclusives are just that, good and exclusive.

So long as they have one above and beyond show every time they will be fine.
The Inner Game of Tennis etc isn't mutually exclusive with "deliberate practice". You're still telling yourself what you want to do, but doing this in the language your unconscious mind understands - that is, images and felt emotions, not words.
I really wonder if this passion oriented coding is not a remain of teenage self absorbing passion.

With age I find myself caring about simple but group-global tasks. It's almost not about how joyful it makes me but how positive it affects you. Maybe nature natural triggering of caring for babies and/or the group.
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I was a long time mobile Chrome user (until my recent switch to Firefox which allows me to block ads). My rule then was to move onto another source if I couldn't find one place on the page unimpeded by ads or spammy shite from Taboola et al. News sites are definitely the biggest offender here.
Ensō: Don't Design Your Programs, Program Your Designs (2012)
First & third are already linked. Haven't seen #2 before.
That's just "services", though, and it's been the way that people have been building software for a very long time. I can attest to have done this in 2007 at a large website, which was at least 7 years before the "microservices" hype picked up (https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=microser...). When people say "microservices" they're referring to the model of many more services than what you describe, and the associated infrastructure to manage them.
They return which is sometimes the source of their undoing - should someone set a trap at the scene of the original crime.
A dog potentially exposed more than 100 people to black plague in Colorado
From his interviews the UBI is not taxed, but the money comes from:

1. Consolidating existing welfare programs with large bureaucracies (500-600BN)

2. 10% VAT on companies which report 0 profits (800BN)

3. Projected economic growth leading to sales taxes (this is like the foot stamp example you shared)

4. Healthcare, prisons, etc (100-200BN)
Which is why we have other communication channels for that type of thing. Instant messaging should be ephemeral.
> AGI stands for artificial general intelligence, a hypothetical computer program that can perform intellectual tasks as well as, or better than, a human.

It shows the article was written by someone who has no idea what he is talking about. It would not be a "computer program" but a model composed of simpler sub-models that contain both code and data. Data is the essential part, not the code. It would be something that learns, not something preprogrammed like computer programs.

> Its intelligence will be limited only by the number of processors available.

I beg to differ. AGI will be limited by the complexity of the environment, it can't get smarter than what is afforded by the problems it solves. This article provides a fascinating insight into this topic: https://medium.com/@francois.chollet/the-impossibility-of-in...
> Never underestimate the power of a cliched thought terminating pithy statement.
To be honest, there will be many companies who will discriminate against you due to a lack of a degree (a lot of big ones that have the most stable environments require it).
However, it's not impossible to get a job at a place that has lax entry requirements. Even some well known companies like Google and Facebook would probably like such experience. You can also get contracting gigs without much trouble, but some contracting houses don't have the best benefits as being an employee at a company.
>and after that, I'd be curious if cancellations start to happen.

100% going to happen in the worst way and they know it.
> Answering Questions Right now the model only generates questions. In version 2 I want to train it to answer questions. If I could get this working it'd actually become a useful tool instead of a fun toy.

Looking forward to that part :D

I mean, those answers are probably not going to be correct, but I wonder how close they will be to something useful.
I subscribe to both Netflix and Hbonow.

Netflix always has something interesting, and a good discovery experience. Every show has a small trailer accessible with just a mouse hover. My wife and I don't watch a lot of casual TV, but when we're looking for a random show to unwind with, we fire up Netflix.

We subscribe to Hbonow when the Game of Thrones season starts, and cancel when it ends. It's not that there aren't other interesting shows (although the selection isn't huge), it's that the UX is so user-hostile it makes me angry to use it. Just continuing with the last show I watched requires multiple navigation steps - and sometimes searching. Shows often have minutes-long non-skippable trailers. Playback is slow to start. Discovery is nonexistent, unless you're counting those minutes-long masturbatory trailers that are clearly ads for HBO, not the shows.

Hbo needs more than just content, it needs to rethink the way it treats users. Right now it feels like going to a movie theatre where they force-feed you advertising for 30 minutes because "hey, captive audience".
I don't understand the logistics but designing a new valve was so difficult that they decided to put their brand name on the line for years?
For someone who has seen a turtle(!) blazingly fast (need sound effects? It was like Vupt!) catch a pigeon by the neck like a camaleon grabs a mosquito...No surprise...I have see chicken following the "master" by the streets like a dog, no string attached, but the "owner" carries a little stick and sometimes give a little vupt! on the chickens side of the body to keep her on its delimited walking area...No analogies here, please...just a story I tell...

The most amazing "bird flock defense" I have seen is that of a group of 30 to 50 scissor-tails , how do you calll.Ah yes...Swallow, almost forgot, how come I almost forgot...memory is shit recently...gosh...

Yeas a small Gaviao, maybe is kind of like a small falcon, but very small specie of falcon...but can knock a Swallow down while having siesta and chewing sugarcane at the same time, but...20 swallows diving at high speed and almost touching the falcons head, the falcon just stay there, standing in the roof, ignoring the swallows almost conpletely, ignore, and the swallow only rarely touch his body only when they are sure a reflex of the falcon will no fuck their acrobatical aerial dive, well, not kids play and the swallow does not enjoy and does not do it for fun...Probably there was a nest of baby swallows nearby and the falcon choose a not good place to be standing at that time...but then at some point of 2 swallows almost hit per second, like 50 swallow dives over him every minute, well...he went to stand on some other roof...

very interesting...maybe more then 30 years ago...dont remember well...

thanks...
But how much is the data mining worth?
having spent some time in the triage & edit queues, this 100% sounds like stackoverflow.
Of cars. But cars are not anywhere near the bulk of IC engine capacity. Between trucks, trains, ships and construction equipment, there is a huge amount of power that will have to come from somewhere. Those devices don't just commute twice a day then sit in a garage charging. They basically run all day, in some cases 24/7 (trucks/trains). They will need a steady supply from some sort of power plant/grid.
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> UCLA, USC and Yale are victims of the bad actors involved

There is a mechanism of law for those who torts against a party are a result of torts by others to seek compensation for their liability, “contribution". [0]

> I haven't seen any indication that any colleges involved were aware this was happening in a way they overlooked.

Tort liability under the deceptive trade practices law used to sue the universities [1] doesn't require that they were are of going on, only that they advertised things that they did not provide, in this case a fair admissions process.

> I would love to hear how this lawsuit isn't frivolous

A frivolous lawsuit is, roughly, one where the facts don't support anything a reasonable person could view as eligible for compensation under the law cited. With regard to the deceptive trade practices law under which the universities are sued (other claims are made in the same lawsuit against the other actors in the scandal), advertising a good or service with features it does not actually have is the core of the offense (this is broader than civil fraud, which tends to require deliberate deception.) This seems to be in line with the other information about the scandal, and so unless the suing students have reason to know that the public information misrepresents the facts, the suit seems, on first impression, to be reasonable.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contribution_claim_(legal)

[1] see https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Co... ; Count II (pp. 21 et seq.)
> I'm okay with this. If a user agent is attempting to block my tracking code (piwik.js), it's likely that the user doesn't want to be tracked.

What users DO want to be tracked????
> This is NOT real git documentation!

YMMD :D
It's always felt as if HN members not only should, but as a rule do, submit links they've found of interest or value. If a member merely and repeatedly submits their own commercial project(s), it feels out of alignment with the spirit of the site.

More explicit rules or code (like limiting the frequency of submissions from a given member to the same domain name, etc) may not be necessary, as the voting system generally seems to work quite well. Or perhaps such code is already in place? which would help explain the high quality content on HN.

As ever, thank you Dan (and Scott) for maintaining this wonderful resource.
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If they got into CMU they're already the cream of the crop. The low rate covers all the other people who never made it to CMU, dropped out of the labor force and got onto disability.
You can block ads in chrome too. Ublock is on both ff and chrome or you could install a chromium based browser with native ad blocking like brave or opera.
>the right incentives

Like, say, not going to prison? You know, the main incentive used for regular people? Just spitballing here.
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Believe it or not, I was actually talking about on Windows. :)
It seems like losing sessions because people closed their browser or unchecked exit events is potentially the weekest point of the setup. Still, very nice and user friendly!
I've had it happen to myself and a family member. If the cat was frightened, there was no obvious reason why. We didn't live there, but it wasn't the first time we visited the house. We didn't harm her, but had to close her in a room.
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I should have added a /seething tag.
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Dropbox free accounts won't work anymore with more than three devices
my group of friends have a 4 year old telegram group chat.

i downloaded all the history, put it into a markov chain library and now we have a bot that can generate random phrases (some, absurdly hilarious) based on our own conversations.
Give a try at playing one of the minor single-county Irish nations, and for your immediate goal, just try to conquer the rest of the island and form the Kingdom of Ireland. It's probably the most toe-in-the-pool area on the game map, since you've only got your immediate neighbors to worry about for the first few hundred years.
have you heard that old pilot joke about twin engine aircraft? The second engine serves mainly to get you to the crash site faster.
>Is there some thrill you get from seeing executives in an orange jumper?

Criminals. The word you're looking for is criminals. And yes, most people like seeing criminals in an orange jumper.
If all the country's cars are charging overnight, do you think that that might come to be considered "peak" or become otherwise more expensive electricity?
> HBO has never been the best place for comedy series

Hey now! The Larry Sanders Show begs to differ.

... also Mr. Show.
I subscribe to HBO Now on an Apple TV. I really wish it could remember that I have enabled closed captions (I have a hearing impairment). Netflix does not seem to have trouble with persisting settings.
>HBO has never been the best place for comedy series and, good as Crashing was, it remains an also-ran there as well.

That might be true in terms of popularity, but in terms of critical success Veep & Curb Your Enthusiasm were pretty dominant.
You may have a point. Maybe we need to draw a distinction between "non-intrusive" and "non-distracting".

Ads should not move, period. No animated gif's, no video. And for $DIETY's sake, no audio. NONE. No audio. EVER.

Slicing up the reading in the middle. Covering with spashes, etc. I just close the tab.

But a non-distracting static ad? It is easy to ignore if I don't care, but if, in fact, it is something I care about I will see it. Ads that relate to my needs at work or to my hobbies will likely get clicked on. Non-distracting will keep me from closing the website, relevant and timely will get me to click on the ad.

The human mind is funny that way. A non-intrusive, non-distracting ad for, say, carpet, I likely won't even notice. But display a non-intrusive, non-distracting ad of exactly the same size for a piece of shiny, new, ham radio gear... it will get noticed. It might even get me to think about my credit card limit. Basic psycho-perception at work.
Props for diving into such a hot topic though. This is a really big deal for companies of many sizes (probably _all_ sizes), and bringing creativity to this conversation is +1
This!

The CSB has the most amazing youtube channel where they outline accidents including 3d renderings. I find it so fascinating how these accidents happen.
If you think it from a non-abrahmic perspective, most of the religious works were actually practical tools or stages to perform worship or sacrifices. Most of the statues were actively used for worship (albeit vanity must have played a role)
The challenge for household items is cleaning and hygiene. If I rent a construction tool, I don't mind if it has dirt and paint spots on it. For kitchen hardware, or many other household items, it needs to be clean. There are a lot of re-intake, cleaning and processing costs that are hard to avoid.
Dividends have a real capitalist connotation, and who doesn't like freedom right? It's a dividend for being a US citizen, in theory you're contributing to civic life.
this is a huge discussion and if seen with a cynic eye would lead to troubling results. For example telling someone to pay more for this flight so that is 1/100000 chance of dying becomes 1/1000001 .. this is a field of psychology even. Put this mixed with capitalism, profit etc. Not taking sides. I just find this extremely complex
Borg et al are specifically made for backups. Tahoe-LAFS is for general use.
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and the clients are not electron (QT on linux and works super well!).

is it as safe as end-to-end? no. but the convenience is just too great.
In a lot of workflows I've used, we _always_ rebase against <parent branch> before pushing a PR, the virtue being that the history is cleaner. I definitely don't think it deserves the huge "NEVER USE" sticker you're slapping on it. I use it multiple times a day.
This was a really interesting read. It makes me wonder though - are other languages affected by this? I haven't heard any similar reports from, say, Java or Python.
How many of those HBO titles are more than 5 years old? Because, comparing 45 years of programming to 5 is completely missing the point.

GoT was low hanging fruit with great source material. Recently HBO’s actual original content has been lacking. Their library is enough to get people to sign up and binge watch old content, but they need to pay for a lot of 3rd party content and or high volume production like Netflix to keep people paying 15$ a month.

In the end streaming needs new content to keep people paying every month. And the economics of that are going to be brutal.
And also, huge props for the creativity! You hit a nerve here, and it's a topic being discussed at pretty much any/all companies.
I imagine it depends a lot on how you ask the question. How many people opt in to "share my crash data with Apple" ?