skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right--most of our support is done via email, but we also use Github issues, chat via our website, and Twitter. Which one gets used depends on the customer and what the issue is. I try to make sure that we respond as soon as possible regardless of the channel, but Twitter usually ends up being slower (unfortunately) because of the notification issues.
Did you draw the pictures yourself? I really like the long final comic story, and several times thought about making some roguelike ascii game with this background (choosing a guild with specific skills, killings various kinds of bugs, etc.), but I am too lazy for having actually written it... Thank you for that!
There is no link. The people who shit on the sidewalk or street have serious mental issues. A large amount of the homeles there are batshit fucking insane and can be very dangrous.

A person in the right mind does not shit in the middle of a street or sidewalk, they'll shit in an alley or something. Or over a storm drain.

It's not like it's tourists urinating in public because there are so few public bathrooms.
Interview with Frank Rietta on Security
I’m probably a glut, but I can’t help but like the transparency features even when working.
> take cheap shots at "lib" cities like SF

Possibly but I'll throw my two cents in. Non-American here with no Dem or Rep axe to grind, SF is the most disgusting western city I've ever been to.
Tensorflow.js is a example of using the fragment shaders I was talking about:

"Tensors are stored as WebGL textures and mathematical operations are implemented in WebGL shaders." https://www.tensorflow.org/js/guide/platform_environment
Our actual great filter is stupidity. Our civilization has every mean to sidestep every other "great filter" that has been mentioned in this discussion, but we're collectively too stupid.
It's not a matter of not holding it until they get home. These people are homeless, and often resort to things like shitting in a suitcase. No joke: https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Neighbors-disgusted...
Biases about mental illness keep people from seeking help
Gene Wolfe, 'magnificent' giant of science fiction, dies aged 87
Perhaps on mobile the experience is missing, but on my desktop the article is able to convey its message through pictures, sentences and short paragraphs.
It did.

It was actually a really sophisticated tool when it was released but it was more aimed at non-programmers in that it's primary usage was code generation. So those of use who prefer to write the code ourselves would have given it a wide berth.
New FastoTV Release
Given how many years of brute forcing through the solution space it took for evolution to pre-train a human brain, I'm guessing we are not intelligent either.
Got a German cookie warning with English content. Strange.
Show HN: GifME – a menubar app for finding the perfect GIF
https://cstack.github.io/db_tutorial/
Noisy autonomous agents improve global human coordination in network experiments
Coincircle. I earn crypto, you can too
Title should be updated to "Does a relational database work?". ;-)
We would get $500, $1,000, or $2,000 if we met certain criteria, deposited into our HSA
UK Sunday hours for e.g. supermarkets is much more restricted in UK than in Ireland, something that surprised and annoyed me when I moved to London.
So now you can spoof a domain as long as you have the private part of the certificate even though you don't have control over the domain?

If I understand this right then this seems to open up some doors for some new email phishing scams.
How does it even have sign? I thought it was a vector.
> From the perspective of now it does seem to mark the end of an era. Thankfully.

I'm not sure about "end of an era". People seem to have an intrinsic need for faith. Now that organized religion is playing a less prominent role in their lifes (at least in Western countries), that hole seems to get filled with esoterics and conspiracy theories.
Most of SsfPack is now implemented in python statsmodels:
https://www.statsmodels.org/stable/statespace.html
Wal Thornhill: Black Hole or Plasmoid?
A wide background experience on computing in general helps greatly for RE; in this case the specific variant of LZ that's used is categorised by an old document I have as "LZ 12/4" (4K sliding window, 16-bit match offsets split into 12 and 4 for offset and length) which was very common in the late 80s/early 90s. A decompressor for it fits in a few dozen bytes of x86, which certainly helped its popularity, and the simplicity meant it was extremely fast.

Unfortunately Google's forgetfulness is infuriating, since the only reference to this variant name I could find is a previous comment I made here about compression algorithms: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14965064
I didn't say that they stayed the same. The point is that you can't say objectively that these arts have progressed any more that you can say that human nature has changed for the better.

What I'm saying is not an unusual opinion. I mentioned electronic music, so it should have been obvious that I'm aware that "things have not stayed the same". But the point I'm trying to allude to is the fact that art is an expression of the human spirit, and because of that, it doesn't advance like science or technology.

Here's an example of someone writing in the Guardian:

"It was a year of revelations. The oldest portrait in the world – carved out of mammoth tusk 26,000 years ago in Moravia – had a long slender face, almond eyes and a rueful half-smile: just like a Modigliani. She came to the British Museum along with Ice Age drawings and sculptures so superb they have never been surpassed, proving once again that there is no progress – only change – in art."

From
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2013/dec/22/art-review-2...

Or, on a slightly different point:
"It is obvious that art cannot teach anyone anything, since in four thousand years humanity has learnt nothing at all." (Tarkovsky)

Tarkovsky obviously isn't denying the growth of scientific knowledge. He just thinks there are aspects of human nature that only change slowly, if at all, and that those aspects are more significant than the accumulation of scientific knowledge and all the changes that brings about.
The thing is, the plants that exist naturally in the wilderness are not particular tasty, delicious, or even produce apreciable sized fruits/crops.

Almost all that you are eating are plants, taken from the wilderness tens of thousands of years ago, and genetically selected over hundreds of generations.

If you went back to eating the plants in the state they exist naturally in the wilderness, you would have a very hard time feeding yourself.
Most of wasps are also polinators and in general are considered a boon to the environment: https://www.dw.com/en/good-bees-bad-wasps/a-45555518
It's not in any way an orthogonal debate. The Catholic Church clearly condemns blind faith in the main tenets of Christianity. That is, it condemns the idea that one should believe unreasonable doctrines through faith alone.

>Human reason is able to prove with certitude the existence of God; faith, a heavenly gift, is posterior to revelation, and therefore cannot be properly used against the atheist to prove the existence of God.

>...

>Revelation, indeed, is the supreme motive of faith in supernatural truths, yet, the existence of this motive and its validity has to be established by reason.

Whether or not certain arguments for God are valid or not is beside the point. The point is that rational grounds for believing in God's existence are regarded as a necessary foundation for faith.

Catholicism also condemns Rationalism, so faith is considered essential too, but it's not the blind faith you were referring to in your earlier post. You believe in the trinity through faith but your faith is grounded in a knowledge of the reliability of the relevant revalation(s).
Disclaimer: not an aeronautics expert.

The problem is that airspeed and velocity are not the same thing. Even with an inertial system where you could get the "forward" velocity of the plane, that's not guaranteed to be the airspeed. It has to do with the angle-of-attack and fluid dynamics around the plane.
Do you believe developers think: "I could make a lot of money developing software for Linux but I'm not going to bother because I love walled gardens."?

Or do they perhaps think: "I can build a viable business on MacOS so that's where I'll invest my time and energy.".
I agree with GP. The 'sign' function with a mandatory argument I understand. Making the argument optional I don't understand.
Interesting that the drive has 2 65xx processors, so it's twice as powerful as the PET computer using it.
FWIW, I see human poop on my walk to work in NYC about once per two weeks. But, that walk passes an area where homeless people congregate, so that's probably not characteristic of most parts of the city.
What do you mean with salvaging the instruction set? Since I wouldn't count SGX a part of the instruction set and spectre/meltdown are not IA specific.
Why does entertainment not count? Entertainment is the basis of our entire civilisation. If everyone were content then no-one would be striving to create better movies, cook better food, play sports, create higher definition TVs, increase processor power, communicate and travel across the world.

If we were all happy to sit on our own in silence, eating the same local crop day in, day out, then very little would be developed.
We used to have institutions for the batshit fucking insane. Then came deinstitutionalization and we closed them in favor of the supposedly more humane community-based care organizations. Look how good a job those organizations are doing.
What file sizes did you have issues with?

I'm using ag inside my source directories and cannot remember it not doing the job.
It depends what people mean by "quality". I'd suggest they don't usually mean "enterprise" software or software that is used in industry. They mean software that is nice to look at, pleasant to use, and flexible enough to fulfil their requirements.
If employers want to reduce US health care spending, why don't they band together and lobby Congress to introduce legislation to reduce health care costs?

I have a gut feeling it is the insurance companies that set ever increasing rates which drive up costs overall. And then they cover less forcing patients to pay out of pocket for anything more than a flu shot.

There are other countries with the same quality services for much cheaper costs. Maybe even better quality.

Employers would save more money getting the insurance companies to lower rates (via legislation likely) than trying wellness programs.
D.C. housed the homeless in upscale apartments. It hasn’t gone as planned
Forbes Has Published a List of Billionaire Companies Implementing Blockchains
Whoops s/"can be sensitive with reaped to"/"can be sensitive"
The comparison is best with San Diego as a warning: https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/09/13/550674476...
I had a conference in San Francisco last year. One day as I was walking between Moscone Center and the hotel, a roughly dressed woman was walking on the sidewalk alongside of me.

"Watch out for that shi*!" she exclaimed. I thought she was crazy, shouting at random. Then I saw that I'd stepped in human poop.

True story.
You can already use Greek letter variable names in Python: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17043894/what-unicode-sy...

I've used θ in code dealing with angles before.
Zero: A Brief History of Nothing [video]
Pick a company that is in your industry or uses your business domain AND microservices. Alternately, if you have a specific deep skill (databases, Java performance, AI, whatever), apply to a company that needs those, and also uses microservices. Most companies won't care that you meet 70% and not 100% of the skills they list on the posting.
CJ Cherryh, Cyteen (and then the rest of the Merchanter universe).

Iain M Banks, Player of Games (and then everything else)

For cyberpunk, Neuromancer and the sprawl trilogy have not aged terribly well. I still like them, but they're from a certain context.

Try Greg Egan's Permutation City; Bruce Sterling's Heavy Weather, Islands in the Net, or Holy Fire.

Lauren Beukes, Zoo City.

There are so, so many ... ;-)
Yes, I do believe they have a specific lessons on just using symbols. The nice thing is they also have a typing test which is just a paragraph you can test that once a week to see your improvements. keybr.com is also nice after the lessons from Ratatype because it shows you which letters you are still struggling with. They have a nice stats page.
From the article: "Many key ideas in Fluent have also been inspired by XLIFF and ICU’s MessageFormat."
WiMAX is dead in Japan. You can't get new devices on it, half of the spectrum has been refarmed to LTE (leaving speeds in the single-digit Mbits) and the network is shutting down by next year.

There's a WiMAX brand selling "WiMAX 2+" but that is just LTE.
Intetics Named One of the IAOP’s Best of the Global Outsourcing 100 Companies
UK to introduce porn age checks in July
The definition of "free spirit" is someone that lives their own life on their own means and accord while staying away from societies norms.

Someone that constantly (or most of the time) depends on other people's work to sustain themselves and to have a place to stay, aren't free spirits, they are just piggybacking on the effort of people that live according to society's norms.
Using stack ranking to fire 10-15% of their employees every year selects for people who have political talents. Aren't they now comprehensively failing in every area except microarchitectures, with the next Ice Lake one being held up by the 10 nm node debacle?
>> What were the rewards like? I’ve seen those usually in the range of a
>> fraction of a percent of salary, which isn’t going to motivate anyone.

I worked in this space for a while (the company used Rails to do their apps!), so I'll give some input.

It varied from company to company, but most of our customers gave out tiered rewards. Everyone who participated got a step counter of some sort. Everyone who logged X amount of days recieved a t-shirt or water bottle. And the 'winning' teams would get wellness-related gift cards ($50-$250, again depending on the company). The cards were usually for sporting goods stores or 'healthy' items but sometimes they were for chain restaurants.

Now, when I say winning, there were often many teams that tied for first place. The reason was, for whatever activity you had to log (healthy foods, exercise minutes, steps), there was a daily cap. And we'd find obvious cheaters who would log all their activity on the last day of the program (or even for their whole team). People would call/email with support issues asking why they don't have the amount of points they should have, it's always a big ordeal. Teams accusing others of cheating...
OMG that's amazing, thank you for showing me this product I didn't even know I needed this in my life!
Quixotic Climate activists target public transportation
Yes it's true. Unfortunately I cannot edit my comment any more. I do apologize, as it seems I actually misinterpreted your comment.

You can erase all references to your professor and swimwear tower climbing from the text. Hats off to him! And again, sorry for the mistake.
> If there is clock drift between nodes, then a write W1 against some node may actually "beat" a later write W2 against another node with a slower clock, but in terms of correctness, that doesn't actually matter: the write conflict still resolves deterministically.

That sounds like a great way to produce a bad UX where a computer with clock drift doesn't successfully write. With real world clock drift, this can be on the order of years especially on older hardware with a drained button cell on the mainboard or badly implemented GPS clocks. You should also be watching the newest timestamp you got for a key in each data node, and if it receives a user (not peer) set operation, it should take the max between the timestamps. Conflict resolution between peers is unchanged, but you avoid an entire class of bugs that are near-impossible to debug and yet incredibly frustrating.

From a quick glance at the readme, it doesn't seem that you do this. If the client timestamps come from your web servers, and they're all on NTP, then it won't be too bad, and the effect will only happen for the maximum NTP offset.

EDIT: did some thinking and reread what I wrote
The cellular modem market has absolutely crashed in the last decade. Broadcom, ST-Ericsson, Nvidia and Intel have all left the market. I may be forgetting someone.

That leaves basically just Qualcomm and Mediatek (on the lower end) left. Huawei and Samsung have something too. Apple and Samsung will have to make their own modems now, if they don't want to be dependent on Qualcomm.

This is certainly not good for competition.
Big companies care about how they appear on search results pages, google doesn’t.
While I'm not sure about this specific case, delayed growth due to intense exercising is a thing for gymnasts.

https://www.jpeds.com/article/S0022-3476(00)70094-1/fulltext
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It's a bit more nuanced than that.

Under ETSI, where most of QCOM's SEPs (standard essential patents) are declared, licensing SEPs only to end-device makers is consistent with FRAND terms. It's essentially a contract law under French law. While there aren't too many case laws to precise define what is deemed FRAND, in Dec 2018, judge Gilstrap ruled in support of end-device licensing scheme in HTC vs Ericsson ("District Court Holds That FRAND Commitment Does Not Require Licensing at Chip Level").

Another thing to consider is that most SSO's (standard setting organizations, eg, ETSI) usually don't set out precise terms of licensing rates or basis, in part their fear of breaking local antitrust laws*. Instead, ETSI allows reliance on existing industry common practices and the courts have used "comparative analysis" (ie, licensing practices by similarly situated SEP holders) to determine what is "fair," "reasonable," and "non-discriminatory." So for instance, in Microsoft vs Moto, Moto's patents weren't as large in number or significant in contribution to justify Moto's demand, in addition to being completely out of whack with the common licensing practices embraced by the industry. By contrast, it's widely accepted that Qualcomm is a significant contributor to various wireless standards and holds large seminal/essential SEPs -- QCOM's case is nothing like Motorola's. Further, in the wireless business, it's a common industry practice for SEP holders to collect royalties at the end of the supply chain, ie end-device makers, for simplicity and maximum monetization; and this custom has been embraced and practiced for the past two decades.

In a pre-trial decision last November, however, Apple's hometown judge Lucy Koh, sided with the FTC that under ATIS/TIA FRAND obligation (yes, there are competing SSOs with overlapping FRAND terms apparently). I'm not entirely sure why Koh's novel decision has precedence over ETSI FRAND where QCOM's SEPs are actually declared, but I'm pretty sure it would be appealed and reversed in next year or two.
Thank you for pointing out. I found a comparison wiki article. I think this is an improvement over messageformat. They have tackled many of the issues with mf I didn't even know I had :P
For me, Snow Crash was awesome, but like early Gibson, it's lost a little with the passage of time.

His middle-period work did nothing for me at all. Just overdone, to my taste.

I haven't read anything after the Baroque Cycle put me off.
Also on a desktop, I had to "restart" reading everytime I scrolled through a whole page. Lost interest, which is quite a shame because the content seems actually interesting and some of the pictures are very pretty, but the reading experience is just abysmal.
What Is Machine Learning? Everything You Need to Know
I used to live in the Tenderloin nearish Market and you literally couldn't walk anywhere without keeping your eyes focused on the ground. It only takes a single poop to spoil your day, or at least your shoes.

I don't think it's a cheap shot to criticize SF in this case, and as a liberal city. It takes a woefully unrealistic approach to homelessness. At its core, the problem is the more accommodative you are of homeless people the more you attract. No matter how much money you throw at the problem, you cannot "solve it" as a city. Homelessness has network effects just like the tech industry.

Now I'm all for helping people less fortunate and those down on their luck, and SF does help people, but there are those who are chronically homeless. They fall into three groups: those who prefer the lifestyle, those who are mentally ill, and those who prefer to spend all their money on hard drugs (including drink). You're very unlikely to get these groups off the streets, no matter what you do, but you will still attract them.
OK, but do not these places have those fecal collection bag dispensers (with a bin, of course) for dogs? We do, it is emptied on a daily basis. Homeless people actually use it, apart from going to a homeless shelter which is another option.
As bad as the URLs were, at least you could edit them to get back to the non-AMP version if you were technically literate enough. Now there'll be no distinction, you could get sent to an AMP link from Google which is a lesser experience than the 'real' site and have no way of getting out.
If you're familiar with Usenet, A Fire Upon the Deep has extra good moments.
Different contexts. You can be really driven toward pursuing the things you care about but not things you don't.
But why have I never seen this in Western Europe?

We have mental people here too. (And homeless mental people, it's not like all of Europe is some social democratic paradise.)

I think the root cause in SF is the crisis of homelessness which seems massive compared to what I have seen elsewhere.
There are some built-in commands in Emacs for navigating, cutting and transposing s-exps, but what you want is probably a step further - a package like Paredit[0], that gives you much more sexp-specific actions, and automatically keeps parens balanced for you. See animated examples at [1] and a cheat sheet at [2].

There isn't, as far as I know, a default keybinding for what GP did - navigate up the SEXP, wrap in parens and place point before the inner SEXP. You can get very close to it with two steps: paredit-backward-up [C-M-u] and paredit-wrap-round [M-(], though it gets confused by the hanging quote a bit. To demonstrate on GP's example:

'(some data|)
'|(some data) ; after C-M-u
'(|(some data)) ; after M-(

So the quote is in a wrong place. You could probably whip a command doing OP's thing that calls paredit-backward-up and paredit-wrap-round, with a conditional that backs up a few chars if it detects a piece of syntactic sugar attached to the SEXP (quote, quasiquote, comma, reader macro invocation). Somebody has likely already done it, or maybe there is a less known Paredit command for that - I don't know. If anyone does, please chime in.

Myself, I mostly use wrapping, barfing and slurping.

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[0] - Available in Emacs' package manager on MELPA, or here: https://github.com/emacsmirror/paredit.

[1] - http://danmidwood.com/content/2014/11/21/animated-paredit.ht...

[2] - https://github.com/joelittlejohn/paredit-cheatsheet
This is a great post about a whole deal more than just San Clemente.

It could almost be called a “brief” history of Rome.

But then, maybe San Clementes history IS the history of Rome.
Am I going to get put on a list if I search that?
Not to be confused with the Winchester "30 30" disk drive, which was a hard disk pack, or the Deskstar "50/50" drive, which refers to the likelihood of getting data back off the thing...