skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just tried updating XCode and that failed because my latest installed version of macOS was not recent enough.

re: Swift: I am very excited about the Swift version of TensorFlow. I have tried it on Ubuntu and macOS - early days, but I expect it to be awesome.

EDIT: removed a little off topic rant
I don't think the final question is how much do we need to avoid. We are protecting ourselves and the things we want to keep alive in the future. We have to then ask, "Will this permanently destroy us or our living space?".

Also, science determines LD50 all the time. What they often do not check is what amount of pesticide needs to be consumed before your health or intelligence drop by 10%. Those would be excellent numbers to have available.
This is very cool. My personal favorite Aphex track is Donkey Rhubarb if you're feeling ambitious.
Mind that this is just a step in the legislative process not the final thing. Next step is the EU Council where relevant ministers of the individual member states have to find an agreement. Some governments aren't that enthusiastic ..
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I really love Aphex's piano tracks. So intimate that you can hear the pedal shifting in the background.
Do you know a website where there are people listed who voted for what in this case?
>Under the new legislation, governments opting to make summer time permanent would adjust their clocks for the last time on the last Sunday in March 2021.

For those choosing permanent standard time - also called winter time - the final clock change would be on the last Sunday of October 2021.

It's down to the member states to decide but I think most would prefer summer; save for maybe the Nordics, where the vast difference in the amount of daylight hours makes quite a significant difference.

Edit: Removed Iceland, since they froze their EU application.
Americans spent more on Airbnb than Hilton last year
I don't have a strong opinion on whether we're better off with or without the seasonal time change. But I don't like the idea of individual member states opting in or out, which is what this ruling allows.

I've lived the past few years in a border town where many people will live in Germany and commute to Austria, or live in Austria but do their regular shopping in Germany, or regularly go on weekend mountain hikes that may cross the border multiple times. Hopefully the authorities are smart enough to avoid the kind of situation where the two regions would end up in different time zones for half the year and all the ensuing confusion over bus and train times, opening hours and so on.
Don't worry, if such a law would pass here in Switzerland, we'll just make a referendum to get rid of it. I'll start it myself if I have to.
What service of yours am I avoiding now? Phone numbers are terrible pii for reasons enumerated here and countless other posts. Why on earth would you do that?
Jeff Atwood's was the top match in DuckDuckGo for "asperger's and programming". But sure, he can be controversial.

Here is the second top match from 2008: https://www.computerworld.com/article/2536193/it-management-...

From there:

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Asperger's and IT: Dark secret or open secret? Asperger's Syndrome has been a part of IT for as long as there's been IT. So why aren't we doing better by the Aspies among us?

... He loved the tech parts of being a system administrator, and he was good at them. But the interpersonal interactions that went along with the position -- the hearty backslaps from random users, the impromptu meetings -- were literally unbearable for Ryno. "I can make your systems efficient and lower your downtime," he says. "I cannot make your users happy."

... While careful to protect his clients' confidentiality, Becker confirms that he sees many adults and children of adults who work for the region's tech powerhouses -- Microsoft Corp. and The Boeing Co. -- and the hundreds of smaller companies that orbit around them.

Some of the Aspies he counsels are at the very top of their tech game: software and aerospace engineers, computer scientists, Ph.Ds. But for every research fellow with Asperger's, he says, there are a legion of fellow Aspies having a much tougher time in the middle or low ranks of the industry.

"The spectrum of success is much broader than one would expect," agrees Roger Meyer, the Portland, Ore.-based author of The Asperger Syndrome Employment Workbook who runs one of the oldest peer-led adult Asperger's groups in the country. "Adults who have grown sophisticated at masking and adaptive behaviors can either bubble along at the bottom of the market or do very well at the top."

It's that "bubbling along at the bottom" that has Becker, Meyer and other Aspie specialists concerned. Employees with Asperger's might do well for years in data entry or working in a job like insurance claims, where knowledge of ephemera is a prized work skill, only to flounder when they're promoted to a position that requires a higher degree of social interaction."

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And after all those years, you should kinda understand that this is not going to change. JNI is how Java communicates with native code and neither Oracle or Google are going to change that. What's the point of complaining for YEARS about this? Why are you losing energy over that, it makes no sense?
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These three examples:

>To a co-founder: ‘When you said, “I’m not happy with your work,” to me in front of the team, I felt embarrassed because it didn’t meet my need for trust and recognition. Please, could we set up a weekly one-on-one session to share feedback in private?’

>To an investor: ‘I haven’t received any responses from the last three monthly updates. I’m feeling concerned because I need input. Please, would you mind getting back to me with responses to my questions in the last update?’

>To a teammate: ‘You arrived 10 minutes late to the last three team meetings. I am frustrated because, as a team, we have a need for efficiency. Please, could you help me understand what’s happening?’

I have two problems with them. They're pretty passive aggressive and focus on feelings instead of consequences. Going one by one:

>To a co-founder: ‘When you said, “I’m not happy with your work,” to me in front of the team, I felt embarrassed because it didn’t meet my need for trust and recognition. Please, could we set up a weekly one-on-one session to share feedback in private?’

It gets the problem wrong. It's very unlikely the problem is a lack of opportunity for co-founders to provide one on one feedback. The solution is one that no one really wants and wouldn't fix the issue. The problem is the co-founder poorly choosing words and poorly choosing the venue to deliver them. I also don't think it focuses on the right negative consequence. The negative consequence is being undermined in front of subordinates. Not to mention the relationship dynamics. Co-founders should be equal and it's not really the place of one to be "not happy" with the other's work.

I'd say something like:

‘When you said, “I’m not happy with your work,” to me in front of the team, it undermines my authority and the way it's phrased is inappropriate. I want us to be able to give each other feedback, but it's important that it happens at the appropriate time and respectfully.

>To an investor: ‘I haven’t received any responses from the last three monthly updates. I’m feeling concerned because I need input. Please, would you mind getting back to me with responses to my questions in the last update?’

This one is a bit odd because typically updates don't require responses. That aside, if it's something you need input on:

"Can you please weigh in on X? We can't do Y without your go ahead and it's causing Z problems. I understand that you have a lot on your plate, but this is important and we need an answer by next week."

>To a teammate: ‘You arrived 10 minutes late to the last three team meetings. I am frustrated because, as a team, we have a need for efficiency. Please, could you help me understand what’s happening?’

This one is super passive aggressive. Your intention is to communicate a problem but instead of just doing that this is asking a question. I think this example shows the problem most clearly. These should be statements and not questions. I mean, do you really want or expect an honest answer to the question? Because it's probably something along the lines of "I think these meetings are a waste of my time".
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At some point punishments cease to work. Bigger risks of losing everything also mean bigger incentives to retaliate. A poacher threatened with capital punishment isn't going to stop hunting and turn himself in, he will just shoot the police and anyone who is going to report him, because there is nothing left to lose anyway.

Stricter punishment against drugs means dealers choose drugs that are harder to detect. The smaller the quantity of drugs the better. Higher potency is preferred even if wrong dosage sometimes kills the clients and adding foreign substances like brick dust as cutting agent (which then cause the majority of health issues) becomes practically mandatory.
> nobody can really claim that it wasn't a democratic decision.

#include "vote-leave-broke-the-law.txt"
>So if you travelled vertically within a timezone, you could end up going back and forth by an hour repeatedly, depending on the state’s decision made here?

See: Arizona
Just pop it into paul stretch and convert it into an hour long masterpiece. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1saQ7KLbDUY
Getting date and time correct is already a challenge in some cases, adding multi-dimension time zones does not make it easier.

This is why people don't trust politicians - they don't understand the effects of their decisions (it _might_ be slightly more complicated than that.. but it's still).
There were other consultations though.

In the French poll, 2 million answers were given and 84% were also in favor of ending time savings, 60% wanted to keep summer time rather than winter time. For some reason, people often take France and Spain as examples of countries that would be badly impacted by a decision "taken by the Germans", but France and Spain are very much in favor of staying on summer time.

I don't know if the BBC is trying to push the idea that the decision is somehow undemocratic, but most countries in the EU have had consultations and as far as I know the results were in favor of giving up time savings everywhere.
I've also said it in the other thread about this, Macron is basically a crook, he has just sent the military to guard against some of France's citizens street protests [1], that's not at all democratic. Unfortunately, with the Brexit situation, with Angela Merkel who's on her way out and with Italy which is partly run by a comedian's party France has gained an unrivaled influence over EU affairs and in one way or another we (meaning us, EU citizens) are all under Macron's rule right now.

Btw, this initiative is heavily supported by Macron, from here[2]:

> France’s current batch of national politicians have consistently advocated for the worst parts of the Directive, and the Macron administration may seek to grab an early win for the country’s media establishment.

[1] http://en.rfi.fr/france/20190320-military-be-deployed-saturd...

[2] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/03/eus-parliament-signs-d...
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Humans are producing too much carbon dioxide for forests to absorb
This seems to specifically be aimed at detecting fentanyl and its derivatives, which doctors rarely prescribe.
Sorry, but the Brexit referendum is the perfect example of choices that should not be made directly by the population, because it lacks the competence to foresee the effects or even to distinguish fact from fiction.

If you told UK citizens that the choice is in fact for a No Deal Brexit and what that will mean, they wouldn't have voted for Brexit. However the population was lied to about the economic benefits and voted against their own interests.

So when the population can be lied to on such a scale, what do you find as being more democratic exactly?

And more importantly, after it was clear that Britain will not get a good deal, why wasn't the referendum repeated?
Looks like the author is going to enjoy RISC-V SIMD (once it is finalized).
I had no idea they were into moving livestock.
Arizona is a hack. This is where the EU is starting from.
So you think the MEPs made a bad decision because they were mis- or uninformed, but then you would trust that the population on average would be more informed?
Yeah, we could have had a sovereign wealth fund - instead we let the corporations exploit our natural resources for free.

I guess the Empire finally colonised itself.
Cultures whose language requires absolute direction awareness ought to yield individuals who can consciously identify changes in magnetic fields.

It seems like an obvious course of investigation. One wonders whether there was any attempt to recruit such individuals. Not all of them live in inaccessible places -- just most.
You might enjoy this game written in a single line of BASIC on a TRS-80:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWyZO-yPnvM

For anyone not familiar with the TRS-80, who finds the code somewhat weird.. the BASIC implementation was written by Microsoft. Only the first two letters of variable names were significant. Although interpreted, the ROM tokenized typed lines, meaning it didn't care about spaces.

This led to such gems as:

FORK=10 TOMATOES STEP LADDER
Local parliaments are closer and have more contact with their constituents so they'll automatically be more transparent and if my local government becomes unbearable I can move 200 KM and be free of it but if the EU becomes unbearable I have to move 2000+ KMs to a new continent.
You mean "It's poorly democratic" and not "It's purely democratic", right?
The power stems from the people, but in a representtve democracy we the people give the power to elected members of parliament, to represent us so that those parliamentarians can devote their time into the different issues and ensure broad support, contrary to more direct forms of governance where the general population can't invest much time into many debates and only engages where particular interests are touched.
Why are you giving an extremist as an example representing the majority? Extremists don't decide the vote.
No, the representatives have a moral and lawful obligation to act in the interest of the people they represent; that is the principle that is holding representative democracy together. They did not do that this time and that is why it feels anti-democratic.
Even if there are people out there who deny climate change, geopolitics like this ought to convince everyone that distributed renewable energy is the way forward.
Sure, maybe now that there's not a lot of fish left in the oceans anyways, you could start convincing the almighty VCs to pay for an army of solar powered submarine drone servers that host IPFS nodes with Starlink satellite uplinks randomly scattered in international waters...good luck engineering the < 1 second time-to-play on those videos!
AFAIK there are several ways to embed LaTeX and mathematical formulas in AsciiDoc such as asciidoctor-latex [1] or ASCIIMathML and LaTeXMathML [2].

AsciiDoc also allows embedding literal paragraphs or blocks of text [3]. I think the mechanism of passthrough macros [4] can be used to copy raw text to the output and allow further processing down the pipeline, though I'm not sure how it's used.

[1] https://github.com/asciidoctor/asciidoctor-latex

[2] http://asciidoc.org/#X3

[3] http://asciidoc.org/userguide.html#X76

[4] http://asciidoc.org/userguide.html#X77
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That’s an outdated article, it has since been made illegal again.
isnt that all out of the gate once the kids press the "Im over 13 y.o"(or input false d.o.b) button to use their app/site?

If yes, then Im not sure what it protects except false sense of security
Who have you seen not reconsider their position?
Stories gaining traction in the form of comments affects the ranking negatively if it's not upvoted at the same tame. It indicates that people are more interested in voicing their opinion than whatever the submission had to say. If you disagree with that reasoning and want to see lively discussions anyway, you should probably browse https://news.ycombinator.com/active instead of or in addition to the traditional front page.

We've also had plenty of China-related flame wars stay on the front page for longer, so I don't think you can accuse the moderators of applying a double standard compared to other political topics. https://hn.algolia.com/?query=China&dateRange=pastWeek
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And there were still British MEPs speaking for it, because it's the "future". I wonder why they can't even abstain or just stay away (like about 13% of the parliament did anyway...) after they engaged in Brexit for decisions which won't affect them (implementation of this directive is still about ~2 years off), but apparently paychecks are stronger than decency and common sense...
Interesting that this follows the Equinor release last June. We've been working on analyzing the Volve Reservoir data, but the data ingestion is getting very difficult because of the non-standard documents and data types in the repository. Should be interesting to see if the UK's data will be the same.
> Isn't that not just a technocracy? I actually think a system like that would make a lot of sense, but I still believe the population should have the power to veto a law that they don't want.

I think that too, IF they take the time to become experts in the matter of the law they don't want.
> maybe (easy) money is not all it's cut out to be in that context

Where do I get some of this easy money exactly?
Racist hate is still legal speech.
> You can read a forum or a media outlet for days

In other words, nobody is doing it here, in this context.

> And I remember times when they weren't doing so, where coverage was not so one sided, and where people (e.g. 60s and 70s media, influenced by people looking for wider truths, and looking into alternative media and counter-culture) would be critical of all sides, and offer more perspective.

You call it "more perspective", I call it dilution and spam. It could be attached to any discussion, and it doesn't tell us anything new. All the hallmarks of comments that end up flagged and admonished by people piling on, if the context is different. That's the only interesting data here.

> I don't care for all, I care for what most do.

As I said, "You use the people who do that as fig leaf to ignore the people who don't."

> It's of little comfort if most of the people do X and some conscientious minority doesn't.

That doesn't change what you and the comment you found so spot on are doing, which is not responding to the actual article, or any actual comment.

Does "but the US is doing it too" provide comfort to anyone? Nope. So the argument that X doesn't provide comfort falls flat in light of nothing else providing said "comfort" either, whatever that would even mean in concrete terms.
> It also has the highest standard of living in the world as a result.

That's a non sequitur. I believe that these copyright changes will apply in Switzerland too due to international agreements.

There are many types of democracy, each have pros and cons.
> Take for an example the UK referendum to leave the EU. Even though it's overall a complete shitshow, and all sides usually agree on that, nobody can really claim that it wasn't a democratic decision. Was it a smart one? Who knows, I doubt it. But it was democratic, and that's more than I can say about this mess

You are oversimplifying this - that vote was between a definite (the status quo) and a vague future direction (insert personal fantasy about what "leave" actually meant)

Is it any more democratic to make people choose between "definitive choice x" and "the mystery box", than it is to make people vote for a vague bag of promises (a representative) as they already do?

If not, then what you're probably after is a democratic choice between two or more defined options. But who chooses which options are presented to people? Who oversees the ensuing floods of propaganda?

A direct democracy moves even more power to the propaganda machine, not the people.
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> six dozen Apache projects form the foundation of $166B Big Data ecosystem

Happy Bday @TheASF!
That's essentially the question I'm asking. The outrage seems arbitrary. Is it just that Twitter has been around for over a decade and Lime, e.g., is new?

It seems reasonable to me that Twitter can require a phone. Why doesn't that extend to other entities?
> I'm reasonably happy the EU is interested in shifting profits back away from big tech

This is not going to happen. Regulations are very likely to favor incumbents as their high rate of profit can more easily accommodate them. Incidentally this is the reason why sometimes big companies are in favor of laws that seem to be bad for them: they are worse for the competition.
in this context, n = n/2 ... because the performance difference is not that great.
Compared to Volve this is still far better. I'm just worried it'll be all seismics, RMS projects, and .segy files. We're working on a solution for ingestion of well reports/logs with the Volve reservoir but have precious little examples from the Volve field itself. Here's to hoping this dataset is better!
Thanks, OK, I'm glad there's at least a chance it was humor I didn't pick up on :-)
Bitcoin will do 175M payments in 2019. Apple Pay will do 10B
I read the Nonviolent Communication (https://www.amazon.com/Nonviolent-Communication-Language-Mar...) book at the recommendation of a counselor a decade or so back and it really changed my life and how I interact with people.

I think as a programmer I am not atypical in that I sometimes struggle with empathy or how people reacted to things I said, but NVC gave me a framework to communicate in a healthier way. This wasn't just something that helped at work, it had an enormous effect on my personal life as well and I credit it to having strong relationships now.

I think the only frustrating piece is sometimes dealing with other who have not read (or do not subscribe) to the same philosophies. It can be very trying to respond to attacks with empathy but in the end that's still always the best strategy.

Highly recommended and not just if you are a manager, if you deal with other human beings at all, read it.
The part where the parliament voted against the wishes of the majority.
I love this term, thank you! It is so fitting.
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Are there estimates of how long it would take for humans to evolve to regenerate those cells - if specifically selected for it? Are we talking thousands of years, hundreds of thousands of years, or are there likely people alive today already that have the necessary mutations?
Who says they do? What matters is that their vote is power they can leverage to push the stuff they do care about.
Not everyone is lucky enough to have a network that includes google engineers. And it's laughable to suggest this as a remedy for "developer as platform customer service"...
In my experience bees don't really mess with you unless you try to (or accidentally) mess with their nest.
About 1/5 of all economic activity is US. Add the other English-speaking countries, and it is probably more than 1/4.
> For example I am for a "democracy of experts" system, in which any decision must be voted exclusively by those who have expertise on the matter the vote is about.

And who decides who is an expert on what?