skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just because someone close to you committed suicide doesn't mean your views on it are correct or logical.

Have you considered that there are tons of people out there who grew up being abused and neglected, or have otherwise experienced horrific trauma? How do you think you would fare if, for example, your caretakers sexually molested you for years?
For me, the problem is I have to alt-tab to get to the right window, pause, remember that alt-tilde exists, alt-tab to get to the right program, pause, alt-tilde to get to the right window in that program.

I've only got a half-dozen or so things open. For me, it's just faster to have one shortcut (alt-tab) let me cycle directly to what I want, instead of having to bounce between multiple shortcut commands.
Map search, automatic dynamic pricing, predicting busy periods, predicting user & provider preferences, etc.
> This connection between soil to your gut is a marvelous thing.

Indeed, some research is pointing to the beneficial effects on your microbiome, too. The microscopic critters in the soil where you live may be very well co-evolved to live there, and there's a body of reasoning which says since you live there, too, they can be - sometimes - be very helpful to your own body.

(not that you should eat dirt, of course)
> epidemic levels of serious brain issues in an enormous percentage of the the male population

How would we know? Could it be possible that irrational support for extremists is a result of CTE?
Thanks. I tried it myself with text examples similar to yours. The answers are a bit bewildering.
Thing is, I need NVidia because of CUDA. It's so frustrating to be put in a situation where I have to deal with the sucky drivers because, where else am I going to go? For some silly reason, AMD still has a reputation of "sub-par" to some science circles, and to this day I have no idea why that is the case. I suppose it's hard to market "OpenCL", which is why Khronos is rolling it into Vulkan very soon. NVidia showed up with just as much marketing as they did a useful product.

And (please correct me if I'm wrong) OpenCL support in NVidia drivers is still in the "consideration" phases as far as I understand it.
i was a data scientist so i knew of monorail but never touched that side of things :)
Quickbooks/Xero - We do a compatible data export for them. Which works okay for our bookkeepers (Pilot). We are working on integrating with their bank aggregator. Xero will be done pretty soon. Quickbooks, I don't have an ETA on.

Mobile apps - coming soon. Any particular features you would like to see.

Check deposits - will be live on the website first, early next week.

Limits - For most types of transactions they are $200k/day. With some variances. There are other limits. If you have a specific one in mind or want more details email me!
MMA is unsurprisingly less dangerous than boxing concerning non-superficial injury (no gloves=less likelihood of hard hits to the head, since that will also often result in broken knuckles), “You’re more likely to get injured if you’re participating in mixed martial arts, but the injury severity is less overall than boxing. Most of the blood you see in mixed martial arts is from bloody noses or facial cuts; it doesn’t tend to be as severe but looks a lot worse than it actually is.” [1]

The science on football vs. MMA is murky, and I don't know if a definitive ranking can be established, but aparently it's more common to play through a mild concussive event in football, according to a current MMA fighter & former footbal player when asked which sport was more harmful: "It's football," Saint Preux said. "Obviously anytime you get knocked out, you get a concussion. You get hurt, your bell gets rung, that's a concussion. What usually happens is you play through it. Week 1, you get a minor concussion, you keep going. Week 5 comes around, it's worse." [2]

I would expect that overall the board sports are safer, but that when injuries do occur they tend to be more serious. For instance, I normally don't suffer any injury at all when skiing, and the worst injury I have ever received from skiing is a sprained ankle. However, I don't consider skiing a 'safe' activity, since the consequences of a mistake could easily be as serious as having an accident on my motorcycle, such as hitting a tree or other solid obstacle. But I don't routinely expect to be injured when I ski, while a fighter or football player can reasonably expect at least some injuries every time they play (and oftentimes even practice). I would actually expect that overall sports like non-US football and basketball would carry higher risk of injury than skiing/snowboarding. Skateboarding is interesting, I was friends w/ a group of fairly serious skaters, and aside from superficial injury (road rash, etc) it seemed paradoxically fairly safe (anecdotally, it seemed more common for someone to sprain an ankle playing pickup basketball) and hitting your head was an extremely rare event.

I can't find a link to the full study (this page is focused on the relative safety of shooting sports), but according to [3], the ranking on injuries/100 participants is:

Football > Ice Hockey > Soccer > Basketball > Baseball > Running/Jogging > Skateboarding > Gymnastics

Ice skating is fairly low (0.7/100), and skiing isn't listed, but I would expect it to be higher. Fighting also isn't listed, but I would think it would fall between hockey and soccer.

[1] https://www.fightersonlymag.com/features/boxing-vs-mma-safer...

[2] https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2830774-football-vs-mma-...

[3] http://www.familiesafield.org/pdf/Injury_page.pdf
I’ve been using hot corners for approximately 5 years I think. It works very well.

Just configure the top right corner to lock the computer (AFAIK it’s new in Mojave) or start the screensaver with an n-second delay for password prompt (configured separately under the screensaver tab). The delay is important because you will trigger it by mistake many times. The new lock option does not have a delay, which makes it a little less convenient.
>At incompetent startups with no expertise in security

Not exclusively.
Maybe the DMAE supplement could help your brain to regain focus.
The new engine is more powerful, and at high angles of attack the nacelles also generate lift. The added power, along with the greater displacement from the center of lift/drag causes the plane to pitch up more easily, and the lift from the nacelle causes the controls to get lighter as you approach stall speed.

The FAA requires the controls to get heavier as you approach a stall. MCAS was primarily designed to address this flaw, which is why the added lift from the nacelles is an issue.
Ask HN: When is a good time to get insurance for Directors and Officers?
I've heard of this topic a number of times. Specially with entrepreneurs who start a venture only to be sued by its investors as a way to overtake the company.

Any experiences out there? I was told D&O insurance can help.
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This is supremely silly. They logged passwords by accident. It wasn't a user acquisition feature.
Well, some of us do like GNOME.

I particularly love the Overview mode when you press the Super key.
The modern 737 is a collection of hardware and software hacks, flying in close formation.
Actually most banks make money on deposits and thats their primary source of revenue. We have a rev-share with the bank on deposits revenue. Most of the time there is no good reasons for there to be any fees in our opinion.
As far as I can tell, the "storage" folder has never been used for a release like this before, so either this is the first public file in a giant folder, or somebody noticed that "storage" was available, and decided to be cute. To be honest .tdl./storage/ is probably available for a lot of companies to utilize if they like.
Facebook has an extraordinarily experienced and well-regarded security team.
Human beings are the apex predator. Should we empower a predator higher than us?
I have a MSc in formal methods, and this is really misleading. Surely you cannot make some proofs easily. However, how did Airbus verify that some errors simply do not exist in their fly-by-wire software (which is ~100 KLOC implemented in a subset of C)? (I'm sure Boeing also employs these techniques internally).

Using abstract interpretation. There are tons of formal methods, ranging from type systems to formal proofs. Lots of compromises can be made to make them practical and useful for a particular domain. Look into [1,2] for some quick introductory examples. Going straight into formal proofs is in general a really bad idea.

I have worked on railway control systems, with really nasty potential race conditions and managed to prove the absence of large classes of errors. Then derived implementations formally. It's really not that hard. There's even a subfield of CS looking into verifying formal properties of biological systems [3], which are really complex.

[1] http://adam.chlipala.net/frap/

[2] http://www.concrete-semantics.org/

[3] http://lucacardelli.name/Papers/Abstract%20Machines%20of%20S...
This anti anti-vaxx is nothing but a lynch mob loving the fact they can hurt people.

One person died of measles last year. It's the least of our problems.

How may died from letting old people drive? Would you use this vitriol against old people who keep their license?

Or even crazier why are people not outrage by the 3rd world not getting vaccinations even though they want them? Are the hundreds of thousands of dead kids of other countries not outrageous?
Google already makes money hand over fist. I am not sure if what you posit holds water.
I could quibble with the word "risk", but this seems fair enough.
Wow. Have read about what they do, but thought it was only in nature / forested / non-urban areas. You live in such an area, or did they enter a citified area?
Recognize that your FOMO (fear of missing out) is greatly amplified by social media and that using it only makes the situation far (far) worse, leading to more distraction, leading to more social media use, which feeds right back into the vicious cycle.

Learn to live without social media -> watch your life improve.

It's as simple as that.

Delete your accounts, including Twitter. Find other ways to stay connected to timely information. Treat it as a good challenge that you _can_ succeed at, as something that will make you stronger and healthier in the end.
it really is messed up. in addition, it creates a bunch of weird spots in the job search space. for example, i have come across many jobs that i am more than qualified for, but they ended up being "post-doctoral fellowships". so they are jobs that i can't get because i don't have a ph.d. but even if i could get them, i would take around a 50% pay cut. it doesn't make any sense whatsoever! the only explanation is the post-doc thing being basically a version of slavery for skilled and educated people.
HN is for technical/scientific discussions. It is quite common for political topics to get removed.

[ Edit ] As PaulHoule mentioned, also business.
Good question.

Yes. Probably not in the next month or so, but definitely soon after that. This is especially useful for credit card transactions since we don't offer one at the moment.
One of the problems with these systems - maybe they've solved it by now? - is that they bundle up virtually everything for a running system, including the GUI - so any custom theme you have outside of the "package" doesn't translate over.

There are other downsides, too.

At the same time, the upsides of such systems are really nice; they are very much reminiscent of MacOS apps - and that I really like. If the whole theming and such can be fixed - it would be perfect.
There are far bigger antitrust issues facing the world, but sure, let's focus on people having their privacy slightly intruded upon rather than the destruction of the planet they live on.
I am still trying to wrap my head around a giant monolithic repo model instead of breaking codes into multiple repos.

At Amazon, for example, they have multi repos setup. A single repo represents one package which has major version.The Amazon's build system builds packages and pulls dependencies from the artifact repository when needed. The build system is responsible for "what" to build vs "how" to build, which is left to the package setup (e.g. maven/ant).

I am currently trying to find a similar setup. I have looked as nix, bazel, buck and pants. Nix seems to offer something close. I am still trying to figure how to vendor npm packages and which artifact store is appropriate. And also if it is possible to have the nix builder to pull artifacts from a remote store.

Any pointer from the HN community is appreciated.

Here is what I would like to achieve:

1. Vendor all dependencies (npm packages, pip packages, etc) with ease.
2. Be able to pull artifact from a remote store (e.g. artifactory).
3. Be able to override package locally for my build purposes. For example, if I am working on a package A which depends on B, I should be able to build A from source and if needed to build B which A can later use for its own build.
4. Support multiple languages (TypeScript, JavaScript, Java, C, rust, and go).
5. Have each package own repository.
I see this as their biggest hurdle when trying to sell GCP.

When Amazon and MSFT have decent products and massive reliability, why even try switching to unreliable Google, irrespective of their technical superiority.
Not yet. If you drop me an email I can send you an update when we do. Also let me know what your specific use case is.
Facebook is working on an AI voice assistant similar to Alexa, Google Assistant
Is the lost focus for the work you do as part of the job you described https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18400859 ?
Yep. I'm a slow tinkerer; mostly on the weekends for a couple hours at a time. Im trying to learn React Native and do the courses on fast.ai.

I have a hard time motivating myself to code after work if I think I won't be able to work on a project for at least a couple hours at a time. Its hard to do with a wife, friends, community stuff.
I'll echo this. In the US, having just a MS in Physics means that you failed your quals. Though it may not be true, this is the 'popular' perception.
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Yours seems identical to Bors, just for Gitlab instead of GitHub? That isn't really what's described in the OP.
I would add that _almost anything_ that requires focus for a period of time can actually help you out. This book talks about the benefits of learning to memorize a deck of cards - just you and a deck of cards in the morning (no phone, no computer), can help "repair" your ability to focus.
Nuclear fission creates thermal energy (which is translated into electricity) without emitting carbon AND without dependence on sunlight or wind, something the carbon-free movement should embrace. Yet the same people who are so concerned about the environment are opposed to recycling partially used (incorrectly called "spent") nuclear fuel and then complain about needing to store such an untapped source of energy for hundreds of years. Through recycling, chemical decomposition of truly spent fuel stock, and other technologies the byproducts of nuclear fuel can be rendered fully safe and radiation-free for long-term disposal. I would think anyone truly interested in a carbon-reduced future would embrace the full possibilities of what the latest nuclear fission technology offers (especially since fusion for making electricity will probably remain ten years away for the next several decades).
Not only for gardens, although the term originated from "permanent agriculture". From your link, and from what I've heard from people who do it.
Like everything else, they were maintaining certification. The original avionics worked that way. The same reason that the LCD screens display simulations of the original avionics hardware such as the artificial horizon.
> Like boxing, I simply cannot comprehend why people want to do sports where injury is a routine component of the activity.

football is probably one of the more dangerous sports, and it's getting a lot of attention right now due to CTE concerns. that said, injury is a routine component of pretty much all sports at the highest level. you can't be the best in the world at a physical activity without pushing your body to its very limits.
> the author seems oddly bent on making his protagonist use women for sex time after time, and that says something about the author

All writings say something about their author, so that statement doesn't tell us much. Just because an author writes a flawed character does not mean that they are endorsing the character's flawed traits. There is also narrative meaning behind Severian's sexual behavior. This reasoning is like suggesting that Vladimir Nabokov was a pedophile because he wrote Lolita. I will also point out (as noted in the article) that LeGuin has praised BOTNS as a masterpiece.

> there is a huge difference between Wolfe and the feminist writers of those decades like Ursula K. LeGuin, Storm Constantine, and Samuel R. Delaney.

Differences exist between authors, this is not a surprise and not undesirable.

> the work lacks a female voice that would serve as a corrective to Severian and put his actions in a clearer moral light.

This is intentional. One of the book's primary themes is the exploration of Severian's amoral and immoral behavior and the sterile and sophisticated justifications delivered as a 1st person narrative as a way to explain away his horrifying decisions to the reader; he is a rapist, torturer, and executioner that ascends to the highest levels of power while wrestling with the flaws that are revealed through his own masculinity. Severian's repeated sexual trysts culminate in his near castration as a direct rebuttal to his self-embodied caricature of masculinity and as a representation for all of humanity. A "corrective female voice" would bludgeon us with what we're supposed to extract through analysis of the story. A choice quote from the books:

> Love is a long labor for torturers; and even if I were to dissolve the guild, Eata would become a torturer, as all men are, bound by the contempt for wealth without which a man is less than a man, inflicting pain by his nature, whether he willed it or not.

It is a fictional autobiography of a bad man who is forced to come to terms with his own toxic masculinity in order to bring the new sun (or be castrated and relegated to the ash heap of history)
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LivePatch is a service that offers hot-patching running systems with security updates, so they don't have to be rebooted. It's entirely separate from normal updates.
On a technical level how could Facebook use millions of Gmail passwords?
I don't get how Facebook was able to access millions of GMail accounts using their passwords. It's one thing if the users added some kind of browser app or something like Writely...but how can you access more than a handful of GMail accounts sequencially, from IP's that those users don't use? (Without setting off intrusion captcha's).

Was it done by impersonating the users from their Facebook apps on their phones? (I assume that apps can make HTTP requests).

I'm referring to this story:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19688460

I find it very hard to believe that Google just lets a single IP range sequentially access millions of GMail accounts in a way that doesn't match the users at all, and without getting any suspicious signin messages sent to the users.

What was Facebook's technical scraping means here?
>Why is Hacker News unable to effectively discuss difficult topics?

>(Russian election interference report flagged off front page.)

Why is a tech news/discussion board unable to effectively discuss politics?
It’s a vicious cycle.. the more you distract yourself, the more your brain wants quick hits, so you feel the craving for more distractions. There are many ways to help outlined by other comments here, getting exercise probably one of the most effective. However any solution will involve you making a conscious effort to pull out of the cycle and change your habits.
I tried it with the first phrase on the page "This service uses linguistic analysis to detect joy, fear, sadness, anger, analytical, confident and tentative tones found in text."

response: Fear: A response to impending danger. It is a survival mechanism that is a reaction to some negative stimulus. It may be a mild caution or an extreme phobia.
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Your comment totally reminds me of an article Tim Urban wrote in 2015 about the dangers of AI (Mr. Urban, if you are around these parts I absolutely love your writing!!).

Within that article he describes "a 15-person startup company called Robotica has the stated mission of “Developing innovative Artificial Intelligence tools that allow humans to live more and work less.” It does not end well.

https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artificial-intelligence-revol...
Ubuntu releases a new LTS release for the first release every two years. Ubuntu usually has two releases a year, one in April (.04) and one in October (.10). So 16.04 is a LTS release, as it was the first release in an even year. 16.10, 17.04, 17.10 were all regular non-LTS releases. 18.04 was an LTS release. 18.10 and 19.04 are regular non-LTS releases.

https://www.ubuntu.com/about/release-cycle
What is the availability of the service for countries outside US? Is it supported? If not, what are the plans for supporting it?
You can't bump-allocate 6K contiguous to an existing 2K allocation, and Go currently requires the stack to be contiguous.
"Across many of the proposed breaks in the poem, we see that these measures are homogeneous," said Krieger. "So as far as the actual text of Beowulf is concerned, it doesn't act as though there is supposed to be a major stylistic change at these breaks. The absence of major stylistic shifts is an argument for unity."

I'm imaging this methodology applied across many other literary works. So many insights can be generated throughout the ages!
How good is spaCy for exploratory analysis of a corpus?

I'm thinking, questions like, top adjectives applied to men and women, or top word usage across document classes.

The best I've come across for doing this easily is in R, where they have tidytext[1] which is nice, and very straight forward to understand and work with. However, the data model stores each token and all its meta data (page number, sentence number, document id / title, document class, word type, etc, etc) in its own row, causing the in memory size of whatever corpus you are working on to explode.

[1] https://www.tidytextmining.com
Ah, never miss an opportunity to turn a positive and engaging story into a cynical jab against society.
> No, they have tons of releases

Tons of releases of special counsel final reports?

I don't think so.
You are either ignoring the context of this subthread or agreeing with it. I'll remind you: ashishmalik says "Everything is ok because money!"
It is more like if they don't respond, repeatedly.

Also, it isn't clear if there is PD (Personal Data) there--just a password would not be enough to identify a person. If it were in combination to user ID or email, it would be.
While some do, at least anecdotally IME people are more often fans of the more violent aspects of the game. So while it is possible to enjoy the game purely for the strategy involved, I suspect that isn't the majority opinion. I'm not a fan of the game, but I will freely admit that the violence is one of the main draws to me for hockey. There definitely is strategy & grace of motion involved in the game, but I can't deny that the visceral elements of the game are a big draw as a spectator. I would also feel fairly confident in stating that this is likely the majority opinion among fans of the sport.