skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In our case it is reading from an antiquated non relational database and usually one of the millions of fields that were being parsed had a "null" value. It is easy to fix, but only if I know which ones the app needs.
That's what insurance is for. When you buy insurance you're making an agreement to socialize risk, so you're never faced with a $1M bill to save your life.
Notepad++ and your other editor show strange text because they always assume that the file you're trying to open is a text file. This isn't the case (some parts of the file actually are meant to be interpreted as text, but not the whole file) but the editor does it's best to interpret the file as though it were text. Those strange glyphs are parts of the file that aren't supposed to be text.

It would be easier to answer your question if we knew what game you were playing. Not many games share the same save file format, so there isn't a single answer which will work well for everything. Some games' save file formats do have dedicated editors made for them, and if one exists for your game, that would be the easiest and safest way to edit your file.

Even if there isn't a dedicated editor, you should be able to edit the file with a thing called a hex editor. You seem to be using Windows, so Free Hex Editor (https://frhed.sourceforge.net) may be a good place to start. This will still show you the strange characters on one side of the screen, but it will also allow you to see and edit the actual numbers, if you know where to look for them (and how to work in hexadecimal numbers).

Can you link us to the Reddit post you were talking about? That would be useful information for answering your question further.
I'd like to know why this is being downvoted.
I think that’s a good idea. Of course, I was a teen right up until that dip (was 20 when the iPhone came out) and didn’t have a cell phone until college. But I was a computer geek, gamer, and script kiddie since middle school. But every other night in high school I was sneaking out to hang out with friends and girlfriends. Played sports every day. Our college years were also when binge drinking was more accepted and there were far more parties - colleges have cracked down hard on that.

Teens today seem very well behaved in comparison. But it seems like they don’t have much fun. We’ve given them outrage culture, a nanny state, and more restrictive schools though, so is this really surprising?
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> I'm absolutely an advocate for free speech

You're also an advocate for the removal of free speech. Let's just be clear.

You can be both, depending on the situation. You are both. Many people here are both.
Bingo....this one I do not have the source for. It is a vendor app. Sadly, I could rewrite everything it does in a fraction of the code and it would be more maintainable and cheaper, but it would never be approved.
I have a browser extension that replaces the phrase "Artificial Intelligence" with the phrase "A bunch of if statements". This might have been one of the top results.
Thanks for the explanation of the LEA exploit.

I should have been clear that I was talking about opennet mode. If you want to use Freenet in darknet mode, among people who know each other well, and trust each other, it's at least safer than (say) using a private torrent tracker. I mean, torrent traffic is also encrypted, these days.

It's true that you're relatively safe from adversaries, if you only use darknet mode. But there's always the possibility that one or more of your peers will get busted through some other exploit. And that they cooperate, and become informants.

But in darknet mode, you can only communicate with your peers, and can only access stuff that you and they have uploaded. If you want to communicate with the global opennet, and share stuff with it, at least one of your peers must have opennet peers. And that exposes them, at least, to adversaries.

If they get busted, and cooperate, others in the darknet are now at risk, because an adversary could use their client to probe its peers. They couldn't add other peers to the darknet, however, without some social engineering.

So anyway, it's whatever nodes that peer with the global opennet which are the main risk. And to do that safely, one can use anonymously leased throwaway VPS as gateways to the global opennet. You reach them via Tor. So if they go down, adversaries don't learn anything actionable about the darknet itself.
Edit:"Echoes of virtue signaling [in] our contemporary social media culture. Very informative book review."

The article shed light on how an intelligent man adapted himself to get along and even thrive within, what seems from todays perspective to be a culture of incomprehensible evil.

The parallel in todays social media 'echo chambers' and the clannish inability, by many of their denizens, to engage their opposition rationally even on any single issue. Instead dehumanizing broad swaths of people as deplorable/elitist, liberal/conservative, sjw/altright.

“History doesn't repeat itself but it often rhymes,” - Mark Twain
I had all the books growing up and it was one of a few comics I really loved. I still do, and honestly just relate to it and Dilbert now.
Or they have done at some point, scrapped it and forgot to remove it from an enum used in an error message. I wouldn't hold my breath.
How do disabled people or elderly people travel around Asmara?
From what I understand, which admittedly is not much, I believe it is actually a database lookup service that references sections of; or perhaps the whole IP that has been previously recorded as from country X.

I think countries themselves have ranges of IPs allocated to them, but again, not my area of expertise.
Do people periodically withdraw all their pay-pal balance?

I can that doing this somehow flags you for further attention and increases risk of blacklist. Sigh...

I keep hearing this horror stories about blocking the account, AND losing all the balance. Which just seems bizarre.
Jakob Shattering v1.0.1 has been released
GRAVITY instrument breaks new ground in exoplanet imaging
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I remember people from Fastspring and BMTmicro being very active in the indie game development forum i was participating at (i think the BMTmicro guy was actually the owner, not sure about the Fastspring guy). That was around 7-8 years ago, but still left me a positive impression for both companies especially since they weren't just bullshitting to appear "involved" in the community, but actually participating in the discussions with useful comments.
Jim Henson's “Paperwork Explosion” (1967) [video]
Sorry if this is off-topic for HN. I thought more people here would be interested in looking back at this advertisement from 1967 for IBM. Not just for the vision of the automated future it promotes, but also because of the presentation style, and a bit because Jim Henson of Muppets fame made it.

I cannot say for sure if it is my modern interpretation of an old video, but my take is that Henson inserted a lot of ominous undertones that were subtly subversive the "official" stance of the advertisement. Certainly would fit his character. Henson also made a video with similar themes for AT&T in 1963, with an automated robot[0].

In retrospect we can see that instead of freeing us up, automation merely lead to more paperwork - an example of Jevons Paradox in action[1]. To me it's a reminder that with many problems we try to improve things by doing it the same way but more efficiently. Sometimes that is appropriate, but sometimes that will not be enough, or even make things worse without also applying first-principle changes that address the root cause of the problem.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivJNNwTGDcw

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
It doesn't make much sense for PayPal to be integrated into Stripe (from PayPal's perspective), as it gives PayPal's Braintree a competitive edge over Stripe.
The cynic in me thinks that everything being said and done right now is because of upcoming elections. I started thinking like this after I learned the whole demonetization fiasco was just to win the UP elections.

Nonetheless it does feel better that India is doing something about upgrading its defence with the recent happenings in doklam and pulwama.
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It's their job, they are really well paid for it.They messed it up(I'm being gentle) but they won't get any consequence for it but the rest of the EU will. They should be paying attention, they should resign immediately for incompetence.
Hats off to this new achievement.
Not sure what you mean with launch full-screen, but you can add a shortcut to any website on your home screen using Safari. https://www.wikihow.tech/Add-a-Link-Button-to-the-Home-Scree...
Strange: I'm sure I got the PDF through that link, but it's not working for me now.
Flat earthers are trolls, but they are very useful trolls.

They give kids great examples of things like falsifiability and scientific method.
I'm interested in hearing if you get different results by using TOR browser instead.
> Debian, Ubuntu and the vast majority of their derivatives use systemd.

Debian doesn't use nss-resolve(8) by default though. I'd be very surprised if RHEL or any other other distros suitable for a "production environment" were to take that step given systemd-resolved's current level of maturity.

(This is not a knock at systemd-resolved; I use it myself on most of my machines, but unless you want to spend a lot of time debugging weird resolver issues I would not recommend doing so until it has matured a bit more.
And Czechia? Slovakia? Poland?
Just for the record, people who claim that mandatory vaccinations are a violation of personal liberty are either really really dumb or are trolling the internet with some sinister agenda, because it simply doesn't make any freaking sense.

We make it mandatory:

- To send kids to school and educate them

- To send soldiers to war to protect our countries

- To carry out any medical procedure which is necessary to save someone's life if they had an accident

- To take driving lessons before we're allowed to freely drive in a motorised vehicle

- To be registered with the government and have a primary post address

- To legally register your marriage in order to be considered married in front of a non existent god

- To apply for divorce in order to legally separate from a spouse

- A gazillion more things...

But making a SINGLE jab mandatory which will prevent you from contaminating a disease and avoid getting some freaking brain damage or dying from it is apparently violating someone's liberty?

Are you kidding me? Enough is enough, there is no reason to be polite anymore, people who think that are literally dumb idiots. We should actually not only take their freedom of "not getting vaccinated", but these people are so dumb we should actually take away all freedoms from them. There's a limit of how much stupidity I can tolerate and I think watching this vaccination drama unfold is just beyond belief.
after 2010 there was also the surge of single page application frameworks a-la Angular.js, my take is that having a JSON-native database with REST interface meant that anybody could whip up a nice angular frontend with Mongo as its only backend.
Sure, business logic in the browser, antipatterns all over the place, security be damned, but if it meant that the business could live at all, then people got on with it.
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Great for prototyping, and cases where you can contain everything in one document, but as soon as you're referencing model2 from model1, it's probably time to switch to a SQL based DB.

I know MongoDB supports references, but it's like using a flathead driver for a Phillips head screw.
More details here:

1. https://www.livemint.com/news/india/what-is-mission-shakti-a...

2. https://m.hindustantimes.com/india-news/explained-mission-sh...
Well, I would like to contest that claim.

Taken from Wikipedia, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-satellite_weapon -

>>On February 10, 2010, Defence Research and Development Organisation Director-General and Scientific Advisor to the Defence Minister, Dr VK Saraswat stated that India had "all the building blocks necessary" to integrate an anti-satellite weapon to neutralize hostile satellites in low earth and polar orbits.

Indian scientists were working in this since at least 2010, and this mission has bore fruition only when it was to.

Demonetization was totally current PM’s decision, but the successful testing of A-SAT was in the making since at least a decade.
No, it's not, and these people should be held accountable for that for sure.

On the other hand, we don't know the exact details of how the whole system is set up.

It might be that "they "didn't get the memo" that they were voting for the wrong thing?" is underselling that the whole system is full of bad (if not flat-out dark) UI/UX patterns that increase the chance of mistakes like this. A good run-through of that might benefit everyone.

I will confess that I'm probably a bit biased in my interpretation of the context; I quickly feel overwhelmed by administration stuff and am always scared in bureaucratic contexts that I fill in some form incorrectly. Basically, it makes me feel like I'm in Jim Henson's Paperwork Explosion[0]. So doing that as your job sounds terrifyingly stressful to me (and yes, I do realize it's weird that I don't feel the same about programming, which is arguably the act of writing instructions for an unforgiving literal-minded bureaucratic automaton).

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IZw2CoYztk
It depends how you view McDonald's. If you think it's the biggest employer of burger flippers in the world, then you're probably right... Seems like a weird fit.

But if you think of them as experts in agriculture, farming, supply chain and logistics, kitchen automation, marketing, global scale business build out... Then I could see how an acquisition like this could be synergistic.

Don't forget that the Trump tax cuts have provided big companies with a windfall. They have way more free cash flow than they did just 2 years ago. So they also are desperate to find new ways to deploy cash.
Although the title says UK, this is really an EU initiative. The interesting part is that this would also appear to be a framework for the development and adoption of self-driving technologies. Not sure how restrictive it might be to competition in the sense it levels the playing field in terms of expectations and prevents the first company with a sufficiently good system to run away with the market.
> The cynic in me thinks that everything being said and done right now is because of upcoming elections. I started thinking like this after I learned the whole demonetization fiasco was just to win the UP elections.

You are obviously free to think whatever you want but that's still a speculation.
To elaborate, even a minor conflict in orbit runs a high risk of causing a chain reaction which turns most satellites into a cloud of orbital velocity debris. This cloud will make it impossible for any spacecraft to operate beyond that altitude for hundreds of years. We will have confined ourselves to this planet.

Even with the current situation which is infinitely better than what post-conflict would look like, avoidance of debris is a major concern when planning space missions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome
[Ask HN] Advice to new SREs?
Hi, I am transitioning to an SRE role and as this will be my first time I am quite stressed. I'm coming from a DevOps (CI/CD) role so the mentality is not that far away but still there are significant differences. Most stressful to me is the on-calls duty. When you get paged it means that something is on fire and moreover every second it stays that way there is money lost. So this is not simple troubleshooting but something quite a bit scaled up.

How do you handle on-calls and how do you troubleshoot in that role? How do you deal with stress? Are "blameless" post-mortems really blameless or is this an euphemism? What would you advise a newcomer in the field?

Thanks in advance!!!
I think you perhaps mean a Progressive Web App https://developer.mozilla.org/enUS/docs/Web/Progressive_web_...

At the minute HN is not a PWA. There are some implementations of HN as a PWA try google :)

Would be cool if HN did this though i agree.
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Lack of ability to enforce structure - when using Mongo with C# you’re working with a strongly typed Collection<T> where types are enforced by the compiler when you add records and a strongly type IMongoQueryable<T> when you query the database.

Custom query language - I bet he also hates ElasticSearch. But again, using C# and the first party Mongo LINQ library, you are working with LINQ - the same built in C# query language that every C# developer should be familiar with. One of the requirements I wrote when I was hiring contractors for a Mongo based project was familiarity with Entity Framework. Even though we wouldn’t be using EF, if they knew it, it would be seamless to transition over to Mongo/LINQ.

Edit:

And as a side note, creating your “application defined schema” from a pre-existing JSON document, is a simple matter of copying the JSON to:

http://json2csharp.com/
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The Jepsen tests [1] have been run against MongoDB - while older versions presented edge-case opportunities for data loss, that's no longer the case with recent versions. The Jepsen tests also specifically test sharded clusters. From Aphyr's report:

> MongoDB 3.6.4’s sharded clusters offer comparable safety to non-sharded deployments.

These tests are now integrated into MongoDB's regular test suite. Maybe MongoDB wasn't the right choice for you at the time you were evaluating it, but I just want to point out that MongoDB has matured and improved a great deal.

(Disclaimer: I work for MongoDB)

[1] https://jepsen.io/analyses/mongodb-3-6-4
For a more balanced view of the history of deep learning see Schmidhuber‘s review http://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/deep-learning-overview.html and http://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/who-invented-backpropagation....
This is very true. I left Amazon in 2014, by that time I had to explain why (at least twice a year) I had some services that could not feasibly be moved to AWS. At least in the org I was a part of, that they were not running on AWS stood out enough that it raised questions.
Thank you, once I knew the name, it was pretty much just an apt-get to set up.
They could spend more on research today, but don't. From the article:

> after accounting for the costs of all research—about $80 billion a year—drug companies had $40 billion more from the top 20 drugs alone, all of which went straight to profits, not research. More excess profit comes from the next 100 or 200 brand-name drugs.
Who's Behind Outline.com
Some folks were curious who runs outline.com. this is what i found

http://web.archive.org/web/20140223030446/http://outline.com/about
NHS is such a fantastic source of medical information
In a democratic society you don’t control, you elect strong leaders who guide and mentor the people to the positions that are best for society as a whole. We build a culture that believes in reason, science, humanitarianism, and progress. Then we work on spreading this culture and belief to others around us every opportunity we have.
The problem with thinking a library like Mongoose satisfies those constraints is that it only works with a single application. Every database I've worked with that made it beyond a prototype outlived the original application. So you either end up building an RDBMS app/api in front of mongo for every new application to use or you have to translate those constraints to every client.

I'm of the opinion to let the "awesome, heavily-used, heavily-tested" RDBMSs built to manage data and constraints do just that.
Yes. It seems that this could've been done as early as 2012. But the then government didn't give a go ahead[1].

1. https://archive.indianexpress.com/news/can-show-antisatellit...
How do you configure where your push-to-talk transmits? I installed it but can only find one PTT function, and the documentation didn't really help...
You might qualify your argument by clarifying that you're basing your argument on the idea that you wouldn't have had private insurance in the US and that you believe there is no healthcare in the US outside of private insurance.

The first is probably incorrect unless you're totally unemployed as most employers in the US provide private health insurance, and the second is truly incorrect as the vast majority of those who are not employed are covered by things like medicaid. We don't generally just let people die in the US because they don't have health insurance, and in fact hospitals in the US write off millions of dollars in care every year because the bills simply aren't paid -- but they still provide the care, simply shifting the cost to the government and to those of us who do pay the bills (and by extension our insurance companies).

Most of the "facts" people believe about healthcare in the US are badly uninformed and based in the mostly false arguments of those who wish, at all costs, to abolish private healthcare in the US and replace it with medicaid because of their political ideology.
I'm also quite dismissive of AI overuse. My preferred substitution is s/Machine Learning/Machine Guessing.

However, these are 3 people who overcame a lot of nay-sayers to prove some something could actually work. I remember back in university the lecturer said that neural networks couldn't scale because of the vanishing gradient problem.

It was actually very easy to be critical, you want fit a massive number of parameters which are not-very-orthoganal to an under constrained problem? Sounds pretty dumb to me!

I think these 3 deserve recognition for their tenacity and the new world of "under defined gradient decent", sometimes called DL, which they opened up.
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Sounds like a good idea. But I wished the cars would have a limit rather than a warning.
I have the feeling this got so many upvotes because people think this is related to the turing test. And that we have a chatbot now that can trick the average person into thinking it's a human.

It's not.

It's about some incremental progress in making neuronal networks classify stuff.
Turing Award Goes to Deep Learning Pioneers
No, this sentiment is very wrong. 10% of the population is functionally illiterate. Another 10% can't do basic arithmetic. Another 10% has more important things to worry about than vetting all their sources. Another 10% just can't be bothered. There are many more reasons why expecting everyone to just be able to develop the ability to critically gather and evaluate information is clearly a fantasy that can only be entertained when you don't realize how incredibly challenged people are, probably because they don't interact with any.
It's like nuclear power. It's a great technology that is a net positive to society, but you have one accident and people start rioting
Actually, you'd have to solve the physics that is holding back latency on mobile networks to compete with AMP.
A possible solution, but it requires JavaScript enabled, and manual work, is to have a service worker provide such information up to the server.
So popular mainstream statements doesn't need to be backed by sources? This seems kind of strange and anti-scientific to me.

It also makes me believe less in the statements, since there is not apparently any sources that can be used to back the statements up.
Pretty sure the Turing award is at least as well known as the Turing test.
I made a habit of sending replies the next day when composing them in anger. On more than one occasion I didn't send the reply or reworded it considerably.