skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really think the whole open source designation Mozilla tries to play off of is sort of slimy. Hundreds of millions of dollars regularly funnel through it. I understand the legality of it all and the technical truth to it, but it seems like the spirit of open source really isn't being portrayed that well as compared to a browser like say NetSurf, which I look at and can actually see a group of likeminded hobbyists supporting something they enjoy without money clouding everything over.
I just saw that your the co-founder of upcodes and spreading blatant lies about your competitor. Pretty sleezy.
You created a throwaway for this?
Did you not read TFA?

The issue is that a) it can be greatly discouraging or impossible to fit in the subject's schedule, b) a waste of time and effort if the requirement isn't that hard, c) there may be a better way: the a, b, a, b pattern, which is to say: do A until you need to do some of B, then go back to A until you need more of B, and so on.

The a,b,a,b pattern is the right answer in at least some cases.
Quantifying the current voter sentiment makes you a entertainer? If anyone should be accused of "entertainment", I'd imagine it's the guy known for writing mass-market books.
You realize that a ton of countries have good or even better building codes than the USA?

Even without for profit firms?
RAF Pilot Goes Rogue over London(1968), Protest vs. Government via London Bridge
What's the practical function of MVP in the era of GitHub and open source where everyone can join discussion with devs and PMs without a need to be part of any elitist group?
Just to keep a handful of folks still proud of their MVP badges they earned in 2001?
I'm curious. Its so hard to be anonymous online. How do they do it?
> I have hard times with drawing more detailed things like human faces, animals and cars even though I can visualise them as if they are present right before my eyes.

That's pretty normal in my experience as someone who went to art school. My best guess is that your "visualization" is a high-level representation that actually isn't detailed enough for the purposes of putting down on paper.

Most artists rely on rules of thumb (head proportions, etc.), practice, and looking at references to be able to draw people, animals, and other "difficult" things.
Well, I mean for homeless people or startups, it's a lot cheaper at the fringes. Cities like Sydney have a "greater" area that extends about 1-2 hours drive away. Which seems like a lot, but if they're driving Uber at night to pay the bills, it might be a better deal.
In Chile, ersatz wine costs $2 a bottle, at the vineyard. That's what Concha y Toro (for one) pays vintners who sell excess supply that is undifferentiated in the wine market. Perhaps without taxes it would be cheaper, but it's somewhat more expensive to make than soda.
I should have said cause rather than effect. Men are not good at spatial reasoning because they play video games, but rather they play video games because they are good at spacial reasoning. Of course I mean the types of video games for which spacial reasoning improves play.
Do some reading for f*'s sake. Take a look at this article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Hamilton_(scientist)

Marissa is a fake computer scientist. There are real female computer scientists out there, and very good ones at that.
A robust IRC client could include integrated image hosting. Or ask you to plug in your Dropbox account, and then upload there automatically when you drag and drop a file or image.
A price set by coin-flips does not revert to any mean. It's a random walk and it diverges. The idea that heads and tails must eventually even out is a common fallacy.
The stuff incorporated by reference has the force of law so should be freely available and resdistributable.

What's interesting is metadata: though court decisions themselves are not copyrightable, pagination and such (which is used by the courts to refer to other decisions) is. Disturbingly, when Malamud tried to publish Georgia's state laws he was accused of terrorism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_law_of_the_United_St...
based on the comments sounds like a great framework, but wow what a bad name. sounds like some kind of mix between bug zapper and a light beer? maybe life insurance also..
A "sin tax" is logical enough -- higher prices discourage the excess consumption of alcohol and the money raised hopefully goes to beneficial government programs. However, I don't see why a minimum price is set. Wouldn't it be better to do away with the minimum price and raise the tax?

Say the cheapest beer is manufactured for $1, the minimum cost of beer is $2, and the tax is $1. Then, when a consumer pays $3 for a beer, $1 goes to the government, $1 for manufacturing costs, and $1 is profit for the producer.

Instead, imagine no minimum cost but a tax of $2. The consumer pays $(3+c), $2 goes to the government, $1 for manufacturing costs, and $c profit. Competition would drive c low, and manufacturers would be rewarded for low manufacturing costs instead of profiting from the minimum price.
>Restricting access to alcohol can actually make society freer if it reduces the number of alcoholics.

That's a pretty scary way of thinking. I don't want to attack a strawman here, but it looks like you're trying to reverse the definition of "freer" to be the opposite of what most would think it is.
Yes, we assumed that too until we got sued! We thought we were all good after reading about Veeck case (in which ICC, whose codes we thought we could very safely put up, lost in the 5th circuit).

I believe the ICC and state governments do reach agreements. For example, the Michigan state government's site instructs citizens to go buy the laws from ICC. Fun fact: the only play to read these Michigan laws for free online is UpCodes. We bought the physical books, sliced, scanned, OCRed, ingested and posted them.

In terms of our plan, we're relying a lot on case law. We put 4 very clear examples on our advocacy page. (up.codes/free-law, see "Didn't ICC already litigate this case?" under the FAQ)

> I have a small amount of sympathy for the ICC saying they did work that is now being used without any compensation.

Just don't forget that the codes are written by volunteers who never see a penny AFAIK. ICC organizers the volunteers (which is an important time-consuming task I do recognize).

Also, don't think they have no compensation. The majority of ICC’s revenue comes from program services, including consulting, certification, and training, which do not rely on profiting by limiting access to the law. Their CEO makes $742,000 in salary, which is arguably a bit high for a non-profit.
Neither of them have ever not been daily on building DigitalOcean. Both of them work on it every single day. Moisey moved to a focusing on helping Ben and board structure the business around 2014. Ben started the process of looking for a CEO to do the next part about 2 years ago, and stepped back this year. However, as mentioned, both of them are still very actively involved.
To add another example: one of VS Code's releases has interesting statistics of it's issues (https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_28).

They did some housekeeping for a month and were able to close 3918 issues, but in the meantime 2187 issues were created.

Open source project management at this scale is truly hard indeed.
https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/12/about-aol-announceme...

She said that after the announcement of a partnership with AOL. But I believe it to be very, very unlikely that she was the main force to avoid this change. Since it was a characteristic that had come from the creation of the site. But maybe make the other products have a similarity. Or rather, always remember the central page of google was her responsibility.
Right, but I would argue that this is more explicitly "putting my data on someone else's server." If it was a government server, well, it's there already anyway.
Title is a bit odd. From what I can tell, they did put a ferret in a particle accelerator. :)
Let's make that Apple's problem and not that of the people they kill.

If the phone cannot distinguish driver from passenger, shut it off.
Thank you, glad to get such a supportive response from folks. After keeping quiet about it for a year and a half, it's good to finally get this lawsuit some attention.
Hi, I’m Lenn from Microsoft, and I have responsibility for the MVP program. I appreciate the feedback, and apologize that we didn’t respond to your earlier emails. We will get back to you directly to address your questions and concerns. The MVP program does evolve over time and our goal is to ensure that it stays relevant and meaningful for participants. On behalf of Microsoft, we really appreciate your support of the program and community.
I commented on this down thread but decided it deserved to top level post: when Carl Malamud tried to publish the Georgia civil code he was accused of terrorism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_law_of_the_United_St...
I would have thought that had more to do with Meltdown
Oh! It's great documentation, sucint, clear, to the point...
No, I wouldn't lend credence to a program that serves as an echo chamber to further insulate .NET's bubble.

It's one of the marketing tools used to self-reinforce .NET's mono culture - which I view as the worst thing about .NET.

It stopped being anything remotely to do with technical merit or being an "MVP" years ago. I'd prefer to see the program abolished, then maybe we'll start seeing more tech diversity in .NET.
Next up: people discovering that not everyone hears an internal voice either. And probably many other variations of the same kind. The funny thing is that nobody really talks about their internal experience in such detail, so there's little opportunity for observations like this to surface. A rigorous multidimensional classification of "thinking styles" would definitely be interesting.
> A forecast that really did try to be an option pricing model like that would be interesting to see.

Silver’s election forecast models are exactly that. The nowcast expressly is not, but it's also not the headline model.

> It would have the advantage over a “now cast” that you could actually run the numbers and see how accurate it is.

That's true, and not just in theory: Silver has recently run the numbers for all of 538s forecasts (together and separated by sports vs. elections) and they are relatively accurate but not perfect; the supporting data is available for download, too.

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/checking-our-work/
>For Tax Year 2018, you will no longer use Form 1040-EZ, but instead use the redesigned Form 1040.

1040ez is out, so that stat is gone unfortunately.
Does eating only once a day contribute to kidney stones?
> "Do you need a hat shaped exactly like a golf ball? At Dave's Golf Ball Hats we sell six sizes!"

The implicit message here is buy buy buy. "There's cool hats shaped like golf balls. Everyone's getting one! I need one too!"

Do I really need a hat shaped like a gold ball? Do I need any of the crap our materialistic society says I need?

Ads like this are trying to shape my expectations about myself, the meaning and purpose of my life, and what I need to feel fulfilled; and all for someone else's benefit, not my own. I have made it a personal goal to reject consumerism, and instead live a simple, sustainable, and efficient life. Rejecting ads (electronically blocking where possible, mentally blocking everywhere) is part of how I'm trying to achieve that goal.

Any company trying to sell me something that I didn't seek out myself is my enemy.
>only the crown is allowed to transport liquor between provinces

Coincidentally, that restriction was just removed! The Minister for Intergovernmental Affairs announced it today. [1]

However, provinces and territories can still legislate their own barriers. But federally, the law no longer stands.

[1] https://www.canada.ca/en/intergovernmental-affairs/news/2019...
If it’s a moral obligation, can I mention a problem on a forum without being asked for my bug report or my patch?

Or am I both morally obligated to use the software and either open tickets for any issue I mention or fix those problems myself?
This is my complaint with AWS certifications as well but everyone latched onto them.
Getting killed or maimed is a bigger problem.
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Do you have a recommendation for a map that integrates trams? Thanks.
I’ll accept that.

The other ideas aren’t much better.

- technical roles. The discussion already veered in that direction in the other replies - discussions about 0 marginal costs and how a few people can scale a product to reach millions.

- small business. They don’t earn that much on average, have high capital investments and a lot of times they end up working so much just to keep expenses down their hourly rate is abysmal. Not even considering the number that fail.

https://smallbiztrends.com/2018/07/how-much-do-small-busines...
> A neighborhood I lived in banned alcohol sales past 10pm for those reasons.

Call me cynical, but I would take a good look at how many tavern owners were behind the lobbying for this sort of legislation.
People like to add it to their Twitter bios and be a part of an echo chamber.
The story is a call for middle class welfare: paying an educated, relatively privileged group more than their market value—and more than what we deem the societal minimum—so they can have a higher standard of living than say food service workers and retail. (Who likely would consider the “inhuman” working conditions of being an adjunct professor quite a step up.) That’s not moral. Nothing about having an advanced degree entitles you to a better life than people without one.
OMAD (One Meal A Day) is probably more than a lot of primitive man ate. Unless stopping near some fruit or nut bearing bushes or trees during their season that is, where they likely engorged themselves for a while.

The rest may have been filled with fishing or hunting or otherwise foraging. More time looking for food than eating it. Given the benefits of fasting and time restricted eating, I'd say OMAD is probably very natural.

Dr. Jason Fung is pretty much considered a leading expert on fasting in general, even if his presentation is a bit folksy. There was also a lot of cold war era Russian research on fasting benefits.

When eating paleo and more so with keto, I find a lot of people naturally gravitate to 1-2 meals a day once they stop snacking between planned meals. A lot of people aren't hungry at breakfast, and often will lead to one larger and one smaller meal over time.

For the past year and a half, my advice to most people is eat clean first. Avoid refined sugars, all grains and legumes and avoid refined seed oils (vegetable oils, anything not cold pressed or animal derived). Vegetarian can be an option above that, but will generally include legumes. It's hard to be vegetarian without refined foods or legumes (common allergen).

When cutting starchy foods, and getting a bit more fat, eating lots of veggies or not, once past the hormone driven cravings it's pretty easy. Social queues are much harder though.
Ruby Gem “bootstrap-sass” had backdoor in recently updated version
This reminds me of another story which came out today: Congress Is About to Ban the Government From Offering Free Online Tax Filing. [1] This is a privatization of the government.

https://www.propublica.org/article/congress-is-about-to-ban-...
You can keep the rhythm and still fill the monitor by using multiple columns. Newspapers do it.
Pretty disappointing. It will be a niche car like BMW I3/I8
As was mentioned elsewhere in this thread (and I am aware of from reading 538) during the campaign, Silver updates separately both a probability based on the scenario of "if the election were held tomorrow" and the best prediction of the election on its actual date.
Reading your other comment, I think I sort of agree with it.

I can look at a sheet of paper and imagine something on it, and then draw that (if it's simple enough), but my ability to visualise something precisely enough to draw it rapidly degrades as the image gets more complex.

On the other hand, if I'm not intentionally projecting the image onto something, my visual imagination doesn't occupy the same space as my visual field at all. If anything it's "above" or maybe "inside" my head. I can then visualise an almost arbitrarily complex image, but if I try to focus on the details they shift: I'm "seeing" the whole but not the parts.
I don't think I would characterize "attempting to steal a student election via unauthorized use of other students' accounts to commit voter fraud" as "trying to learn and have some damn fun". This was a malicious, dishonest act. Full stop. I think they're getting off easy: just being disqualified from the election and perhaps losing in-school computer privileges. That doesn't seem like it's going to teach them what they did was wrong. More likely it'll teach them to be better at not getting caught.
Which, IMO, is a failure at the government level.

Either make it so stupid easy a nearly illiterate child could do it, make it unnecessary (just have the IRS file for us), or massively improve the terrible state of the education system in the USA.
The problem is that city limits are not consistently defined internationally. According to Wikipedia the broader urban area of SF is 8 million people.
You don't need the price to revert, you just need to have a better estimate of the underlying probability.
"But the jet's all-important software and programming would likely be hard to reconstruct given not only the likely damage from the crash and salt water in Pacific but also the way that the jet's sensitive systems are designed to be very hard to decipher and reverse engineer to make it more suitable for export."

Funny I thought the software was repeatedly reported as being its greatest liability.
Use uMatrix to block everything except CSS and images. It makes modern news sites 100x more usable.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/umatrix/
It makes me sad that people continue to put their time and effort into supporting these closed communication systems. If anyone else is considering making something like this, please base your efforts on Matrix. It's so much better for us and so much more deserving of our attention.
This describes my minds eye perfectly. For me it’s kinda like seeing only at the point of focus without any peripheral vision. My minds eye darts around picking up details as I imagine them.
Oh come one. Motorists are driving dangerous killing machines around, distracted pedestrians are just walking.
>My father has a good one for going around blind corners and going up blind hills at night: Check trees and other objects in the direct path of oncoming traffic for light.

Back in high school, I convinced one of my friends that I had a 6th sense for cars approaching on a long drive back home at night. My trick was that the light from a cars headlights slightly reflects off the semi-gloss black rubber of powerlines and we lived in an area where everything was still on poles. I never noticed this effect on tree leaves but the power/telephone line trick worked really well because a ~6 foot section would be slightly lit, presenting a very large (but thin) target for your eye to see.
Kubuntu 18 for desktop, FreeBSD for servers. Laptops are various versious of xubuntu.
He posted the article too. I agree that it's really sleazy to concern-troll when you're really just swaying public opinion towards your company.
This is one of the best examples of the perverse incentives that lobbying from some industries can turn into. Regardless of the arguments, government not competing with business, etc.. this is stupid. It requires a twisted viewpoint to think that making it hard to file taxes is a good thing.
These two scenarios are nothing alike.

Swartz was an adult who decided to do something illegal that he believed was nonetheless moral and the right thing to do. (I agree with his stance, but doubt I would have the balls for such civil disobedience.)

This HS student is a child who committed voter fraud in a student election for his own benefit. Nothing noble about that.
Have you actually stayed in SF for longer than a week? Not intended as snark; the media and the experience are different. I've lived in the USA for a long time. The SF Bay Area has really good PR.

On some level you have it really good in Spain. People value quality of life, so it is easier to enjoy a life of quality. Anywhere in the USA you will pay much more for much worse food. People enable each other's addictions to working jobs. There are fewer "just because" gardens. People are uptight about punctuality and they also show up to your parties exactly on time. The restaurants all close before midnight. People are weird about sex. Health problems can literally make you homeless if your support network is not good. Generations do not interact very much. Riding a motorcycle or bicycle in cities is much more dangerous because there are more cars driving faster on wider roads. And more!

Like, the material quality of life in Spain is what one aspires to in SF after making "fuck you money". The reason one doesn't move from SF to Spain is because one only speaks English, or because one is buried under student and medical debts. If you can meet people that share your goals, maybe try making the changes happen at home?

For reference I've lived in the USA NYC, SF, LA, Texas, Boston, some rural places you don't know, and Southern China. Moving to Spain or Uruguay is my medium term goal after learning the language and being finished with caring for aging parents.
What do you prefer? I can think of a single thing I like more on Slack, maybe two if I'm splitting hairs (it's a dev only thing) but I moved my entire company's internal chats to Discord (where our external chat already was) because I strongly felt the opposite!
They're not convinced that it impairs their driving.

Consider that a plurality, if not a majority of the population is convinced that they're efficient at multi-tasking, and specifically that they can perform each task as well as in isolation. But we know that almost nobody multitasks well, period, and absolutely not with equivalent performance.
> Why doesn’t this website fill 100% of your 1080p or 4K monitor’s screen with text? There’s a very specific reason, and that is text measure.

>> A block of text or paragraph has a maximum line length that fits a determined design. If the lines are too short then the text becomes disjointed; if they are too long the content loses rhythm as the reader searches for the start of each line.

>> Wikipedia entry on “Measure (typography)”, 2019

> The optimal width of a paragraph of text is anywhere from 50–80 characters per line, depending on which of the many studies you cite. If a paragraph is too wide, your eye loses its place when tracking back to the beginning of the next line. This decreases reading comprehension—and increases my irritation when I realize I’m re-reading the same line.

OK, so have the text flow into multiple columns on wide displays.
Will automation get cheaper than paying people basically nothing overseas like the garment manufacturing industry and to a lesser extent the electronics industry - like Foxconn?

I’m not arguing for not making progress, but the more we become a digital economy, the more you will have a few fortunate people who work in businesses with 0 marginal costs and make a lot of money and the rest doing the unglamorous poorly paid work.
Not hearing an internal voice is, if anything, harder for me to imagine than not being able to conjure mental images. While images are a significant part of how I think, it's nothing compared to the constant internal voice narrating my thoughts every moment I'm awake.

If I'm not "seeing" something, I'm "hearing" it.
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max-width: 38rem;
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margin: auto;
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A bit from this discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19607169