skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really like the article, but I have a different point of view when it comes to the ideal "future book".

They seem to carry on the assumption that a book didn't already exist in an ideal format. I'd posit that what we've learned is too many features is actually a bug.

Reading can be a silent, remote activity that coerces you into reflection without the distraction of immediately commenting and joining a community to battle out barely-set thoughts.

A younger me might have said "well a future book according to this person is a web page—capable of almost anything". Now, however, I think a plain transmission in static form (whether read or dictated) is an ideal form unto itself.

Such a static transmission must be worked on, edited, scrutinized. If it isn't, it won't be well-regarded and it can't just go away.

I really like having my collection of paper books. I also really like my Kindle (and I'm so glad there's no community or comment option).

Just to stamp some book-nerd credentials on the end of this—I'm currently working on software in publishing, took a "Book History" course at U of T (Why?), and I'm rarely gifted things, but my sister bought me a first edition of 1984 for a birthday and for some reason my girlfriend decided to buy me an old box set of Azimov's Foundation series (well, the first three) just last week. So there!
Yeah, but that feels like a square peg/round whole.

What if someone comments in the issues directly, on GitHub?
The point is that local and "natural" is not sustainable. We need scale for a reason.
> This presumes a closed system, and the assumption is demonstrably false in at least two ways. With an open system, you can conceivably have growth for both sides of the market (profit and wages).

Unless you're proposing we print money, it is a closed system. There is a relatively finite amount of money, growth, and consumption in any economy.

We've seen over the last 40 years that without concerted effort on the side of the working class, the owning class will keep and push wages low while keeping the gains of growth to themselves. It's well known that efficiency has increased while wages have barely grown.

No one is going to willingly share their profit with you, especially the lower you are in your income / skill level. That's why the average McDonalds employee in the US creates about $70,000/yr in profit and receives on average $18,000/yr.
I posted an actual quote from someone claiming that this could lead to eviction from someone that posted on the Google blog page, I didn't make it up out of thin air.

Google should refund all direct costs (NSF fees, etc) but they shouldn't be responsible for rehousing someone that was evicted.
I suspect that victims of rape in prison are not chosen through mere association any more than they are outside of it.
Try to find what you enjoy in coding, ex. learn what you want to make and what you're interested in.
P.S. find good ways to motivate yourself while coding, I found that as strange as it sounds making money off RuneScape scripts got me back into it after a long hiatus.
PyDev of the Week: Joel Grus
Startup idea: ultra durable light-sensing box that can survive hundreds of years underground, then emits a horrible screaming noise when unearthed.
The message you're replying to specifically said not vegan. Your points about farming might be good but the vegan stuff is a straw man.

The best diet for health and the environment[0] is high in whole grains, vegetables, fruit, nuts, seeds, with small amounts of meat and sugar. Making meat a treat (as written above) is absolutely right.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jan/16/new-plan...
For a "Benevolent Dictator", social media should be like the schoolyard for a teacher: Let the folks have their talks, their chit-chat. If there is a real issue, it's up to them to voice it. If they question your authority, so be it.

Maybe this is something you have to get used to.
visualization fail though
The Code of Hammurabi explains it all.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_of_Hammurabi

Basically, nobody shall harm someone of higher status and not expect a worse punishment than doing the act to someone of lower status. The law hasn't changed much.
The long term perspective is that the site remains as natural as possible. People who choose to be buried here probably aren't looking for an eternal monument to their existence, but instead are trying to leave this world with as little trace as possible.
Most people take their car in to a service centre for even basic maintenance, which is why I mentioned it. Obviously a Tesla doesn't have engine oil, but it has other wear items. Since you do some basic maintenance yourself this easily explains why you take your vehicle in for service less.

I refer to the maintenance schedule of the vehicle manufacturer, which specifies an interval much less than 30k km in most cases. I replace synthetic oil every 8k km. I was referring to the time interval in my previous comment which is max 6 months for synthetic.

I am aware changing oil is easy. I do it myself during the summer months (I don't have a garage). My vehicle is from 2011 also.
(Yes, it does.)
> sends a clear message to any state or non-state actor that threats promulgated through cyberspace can and will be met with a physical response

As long as that state is Palestine? Would North Korea, Iran, Russia, US (you name it) get the same treatment under similar circumstances?
>> It's Limited Liability in it's purest, most distilled form.

I didn't say what should happen. The company is just publicly waffling about it's own behavior. I find that annoying is all even if it's kind of expected.
Actually it's the opposite. It's the newer people that are this way [0], for in my day, most people didn't even trust computers, let alone buying things with a computer, or always carrying an always-connected computer with a microphone and multiple cameras in their pocket.

[0] https://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2019/01/17/generation-z-look...
How global warming has made the rich richer
Ask HN: Would you pay for a web service that lets you manage SSH sessions?
I created a cool app called webmux (https://github.com/ronreiter/webmux) which allows you to manage SSH sessions over a web-based terminal.
I'm thinking about creating a SaaS out of this so you could login wherever you want to your active sessions.

Would you pay for such a service?
Well, it's not built of cardboard and rubber...

Does everyone know this delicious skit? "Clarke and Dawe - The Front Fell Off"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m5qxZm_JqM
If people are confused by a ternary statement I don't want them editing code I have to maintain.
That's what distributions are for: patching out anti-features among other things.
How do you build something people want?
Sort of, mostly. It's an interesting case you bring up, and I think it may be informative about the conditions under which global-scale coordination happens. Note here though, that "collective action" meant government regulating CFCs out of use, and not a bottom-up people movement.

I need to study the details of this case more; from the little knowledge I have on it, the cynic in me would conclude that it only worked as effectively as it did because by the time of the Montreal Protocol, DuPont had figured out and patented a replacement for CFCs.
Yudkowsky's Sequences on Less Wrong (Rationality A-Z is the bookform) has a good claim on being a true future-book as webpage.
The governance model has already been decided, and the steering council elected.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwj9...
Doesn't ZFS consume more resources?
Acceptable to who? Its acceptable to the rapers. Its acceptable to the genociders. You might thing they are wrong but I'm sure they don't. That's the reality of life.
No, why ? Its just not more then a password manager but with an inbuild ssh terminal and the feature to only store ssh credentials? And ofc im sure there are tons of features not available like authorization with a key etc.
it's evident that people are not equal under the law. minors have a different set of rights, women enjoy a different set of protections, minorities have their own special laws (heck, you have a federal law titled "Indian Gaming Regulatory Act")
Like with most things, it depends. Something jumps in and shakes up the simplicity Sometimes it's an eskimo getting his vitamin C from animal organs.
That was a pretty incoherent rant, so not sure where to start.

Meat, especially beef production produces an order of magnitude more emissions than crops do. Rice is quite bad among the crops because of the methane produced but even that is far better than meat. [0]

You can even cut 80% of CO_2 equiv. emissions of beef by replacing it with pork. It's THAT bad.

Half of all people depend on crops produced with artifical fertilizer, so there's no way around that at the moment. But: you could reduce a lot of the production of crops if you hadn't to feed that many cows for meat for dairy products.

I'm not a vegan or vegetarian by the way but have reduced my meat consumption by at least 50-75% without actually missing anything. Don't go into the sacrifice area, nobody likes to be there. Just cut what you won't miss anyways.

[0] https://ourworldindata.org/meat-and-seafood-production-consu...
> People keep on treating GitHub and other corporations as public services. They're not.

Good point! Maybe there should be such a public service as an option.
If it also includes spirits like those that fly out in Raiders of the Lost Ark, I'll pre-order it.
This is going to sound crass, and I don't mean it that way, because the goals of this organization are absolutely worthwhile and something to strive for.

Most Americans are OK with the fact that prison rape happens, if not supportive of it because "criminals are bad". I wish there was more to it, but that's more or less where the moral compass of America is these days. It's pathetic, disgusting, and going to stop any real chance at reform.

Prisons have all the problems the rest of America does (corporate takeover, privatization, cutting any and all possible costs) but no public support for reform outside of organizations like this one.

We can't even address healthcare. Hoping for more moral prisons is such a pipe dream at this point it's almost depressing to think about it.
I know an example. The Aum Shinrikyo, which is known as one of the most violent cults in Japanese history, had many elites from top universities including doctors, lawyers, graduate students and so on.
Self-censorship is a thing. News organizations have sat on stories in the past for fear of rocking some boat too hard.
If someone thinks people can't or shouldn't be confused by a ternary statement, then I don't want them editing code I have to maintain either...
Permalink: https://snarky.ca/an-update-on-pythons-governance/
I can't tell if you're joking or not, but that's not a bug, that's just what happens in some versions of Tetris.
Right I would say and argue that lexical scope is the main thing that makes Functional Programming languages Functional Programming languages.

Why? Because it allows a function to create and return a new different instance of a function-skeleton coded in the inner scope, part of which function-instance is the values of the variables in its outer scope which were the values of those variables at the time the outer function returned.

That means it is easy to create new function-instances. Function instances are "first class citizens" as much part of the machinery of such language as any data-structure.

In this sense the "inner function" coded inside an outer is not a function at all. It is just an encoding, a set of instructions for creating a new function which instructions are executed to create a new function when you execute the outer function.

Whereas the outermost function is a function by itself since there can be only one instance of it ever.
There’s a difference between plugins and extensions. Plugins add support for new types of media (think Flash, Java) while extensions are your adblockers and userscripts.
Apparently one in 900 browsers has my list of system fonts, by far the most identifying thing Panopticlick could detect. However, the font list looked completely vanilla to me. I wonder if there's a telltale one in there that I installed manually.
I'm not confident any of the Democratic candidates have a good plan and even if they do, voters would not support it.

Even with mild assumptions about a duty to not harm future generations (say if we substantially discount the livelihood of our children and their children in favor of our own), we would need to take action that dramatically reduces our emissions.

American voters will not vote for anything even remotely of that magnitude. Most Americans would be unwilling to see their electrical bills rise $10 if it meant averting climate change.
Building a Parser for EML
Apple Is the Best on Privacy, but It's Still Not Close to What We Need
I would actually love to be able to publish a blog from Evernote - so my notes and research are on one place while getting the benefit of a WYSIWYG editor.

* Just checked and apparently there's a WP integration with Evernote called 'CoSchedule' for publishing posts from notes.
Yeah, that's jarring - it's not even that Boeing has to put in extra parts or even extra software. It's just flipping a switch in the software.
US rejects Tesla bid for tariff exemption for Autopilot ‘brain’
dupe

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19838229
I'm not disagreeing with you, and maybe this is just my personal experience, but there seems to be a movement that promotes succinctness over all other qualifications. It's as if someone's comp-sci class had a competition for who could accomplish some task with the fewest bytes of code and a whole generation of programmers never got out of that mode.

I've heard comedians talk about a set not having any fat in it... every phrase, every short pause, etc. is exactly what is needed to make the bit funny. To stretch this analogy a bit, you can trim so much fat that you start taking the meat and the audience can no longer follow the joke. We need that kind of philosophy in coding.
The post is about politics though.

>I'm a private citizen, not a politician.

You mean citizens don't bear responsibility for politics? Does it mean that politics is disconnected from society?
How old is this company? How old is the department?
It’s also strange to think people who are specialized enough to keep abreast of pythons development would be online trolling people enough to get his attention.
In the US, there are more trees now than 100 years ago. I believe the law is for companies that cut trees for products, to plant two for every one they cut down.

Now there are problems in the rest of the world with deforestation, and hopefully we can fix that.
It doesn’t make sense that vegans would be short on protein give that there are copious sources of vegetable protein such as beans. B12 is an issue, but you could also make a list of vitamins that an average person doesn’t get in their diet because they eat fast food and ramen.
Started watching Attenborough’s new doc, “Our Planet”, on Netflix. It’s — as you’d probably expect — really good. There’s plenty of his trademark sequences on fascinating wildlife, tied together with a powerful narrative on Climate Change’s effect on the planet. (Tl;dr we’re heading towards a world of jellyfish and deserts unless we change course.)
>What a bunch of bullshit. I'm not a vegan, even though I'm sure you'll label me as having an "anti-meat agenda." I have substantially cut down on my own meat consumption due to the environmental impact.

Do you fly less? Drive less or carpool? Recycle? Live in a small home? Did you decide to not to have children? Wear only used clothing? Do you track your trash and food waste? Do you eat less? Shower less? Do you donate money to environmental causes?

The militant "your opinion is bullshit" on individual issues is precisely why the majority of people don't take climate change seriously. I'll continue to enjoy my meat and do my part in many other ways, thanks.
>General practitioners are simply running off standard checklists for standard ailments. It's no different from reading a car repair manual.

They also have 8+ years of training to "run those lists", know better what to suggest when something is not on the list, can see things the person haven't noticed themselves, and so on -- not to mention that they have more intelligence (to get through med school and all) than the average citizen...

Even the fact that we're seriously having this discussion proves their necessity.

That's how you end up with homeopathy and anti-vaccines, because "what do doctors know anyway"...

(And I'm all for being suspicious of the pharma corporations, medical industry for their profit-driven motives, but "a GP just runs a list so do it yourself off of the internet" is a no-go).
While code of this size and scope can be unclear, it is not where the real problem lies. In general, what's not clear is some version of "what does this do" and "why is this being done" where "this" is often a function call with an arbitrary amount of complexity behind it.

When the code is mostly calls to well-documented APIs, clarity is achievable (though not guaranteed.) if it is more complicated than that, I do not know that there is any way to achieve clarity other than to structure it, internally, in that style.
Every leader throughout history has had to put up with the discontent of the governed. Being thick-skinned and ignoring the barbs is part of the job.

Social media is a red herring here; this sort of thing has happened on all forms of social media since the dawn of computing. It used to be on mailing lists and Usenet. Now it's primarily on Twitter.

After 30 years of leading a project, anyone is going to get worn down.
The page is very empty, so it's difficult to see if it is useful. Try adding more content.

For this kind of projects sometimes it's better to make a blog post where you explain the technology stack and some problems you have to solve.
It's 2019 and we're all posters now. Even the leader of the free world is involved with the kind of online disputes that internet addicts were having in the 2000s on vBulletin sites. Congress has had hearing from people mad that their posts weren't getting enough traction. It's hilarious but I'm no longer surprised when I find out someone famous is as 'online' as me now.
> I also started releasing my eBooks with a Creative Commons share with no modifications or commercial reuse license - I encourage readers to share my books with their friends.

Thank you!

Over the years I've benefited as much from writers that have generously shared their work as I have from open source. I'm thinking of people like Mark Pilgrim, Robert Nystrom, Michael Hartl, Cory Doctorow, and so many others.

I just bought Introduction to Cognitive Computing and can't wait to dive in.
>…and I did not enjoy it when core developers were sort of sending tweets where they were questioning my authority or the wisdom of my decisions rather than saying it to my face and having an honest debate…

00:13:09.520 --> 00:13:32.820
> Except it's also not. As a continent, Asia is the largest polluter by far.

That doesn't mean that US policy can't address the problem; US policy—on climate as well as most other things—need not be limited to domestic policy.
>> Even if I don't hire someone to manage my property, I still have to spend time managing it, which can have a significant opportunity cost.

I am not a finance person, but it seems you're talking about two possible investments. One in a rental property and one with your time. If you manage the rental yourself then there is an opportunity cost where your time may have been better spent somewhere else. If you pay to have it maintained/managed then you are free to invest your time in whatever you like. You need to figure out the value of your time to make sense of it.
https://wriorg.s3.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/uploads/cumulati...
how many branches/how much depth in a ternary statement would you consider to be too many/too much?

Is there never going to be any level of depth in a ternary statement which you will think is perhaps too great, and want to switch to some more verbose syntax?
> there is no hope that collective action through government pave the way to the solutions we need

I sort of disagree; the governments might be (as usual) the crucial element of the solution - they're the only actors on this planet capable of forcing a decision on masses, even if it goes against the wishes of the market. But getting the government to do the right thing sooner rather than later - that's the hard part. Especially that nations are market players themselves, and doing the right thing in case of climate change means handicapping the whole country on the international market.

I think both the ultra rich and governments can be useful in funding more R&D on clean technologies. The goal here should be developing technologies that ultimately let you go carbon-neutral while sacrificing as little as possible compared to the old methods. Doing the right thing is painful for people, and by extension the governments, so whatever can be done to ease that pain increases the chance that the right things will start being done.
Specifically, the airspeed became too low for the AoA reading to be deemed reliable, silencing the stall warning. Definitely a terrible UX.
> “Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.” ― Ovid

It's not easy to take all the hate and ill-will day in day out. It's not even easy to ignore it, much less to deal with it.

I respect Guido's decision even though I was quite sad to see him step down. It's not difficult to see that, with Pythons growing popularity, things would probably have become even worse for him in the future.
I find #4, exploratory testing far more bang for buck than automated testing. I would argue engineers are paid to make services (software is a service) and exploratory testing is far more valuable towards that goal than automated tests.

a) users do crazy things.
b) eating your own dogfood is worth it.
How to tidy up your merge requests with Git – Gitlab
User agents are not that great of tracking.

If you use a common device and browser kept up to date to the latest versions, then you are not going to be unique. Using Safari on an iPhone will make you similar to 30% of web traffic.

Browsers also update all the time changing the user agent so it isn't that reliable tracking over extended periods of time.

The am I unique websites seem to compare your user agent to a database with outdated browser versions from the past data, making your score look much scarier than it really is. If you keep things up to date, chances are that you are not that unique.
A dictator that can’t stand to others questioning your decisions is a weak dictator. Python is mature enough to have the current governance model, but his exit could have been less noisy.
I assume this is coming up again because it was recently announced that celebrity Luke Perry was buried in a mushroom suit:

https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/04/entertainment/luke-perry-mush...
Show HN: Make the best of your display with beautiful map wallpapers
Hello community, I just finished developing a little side project of my own which I just launched on Product Hunt (https://www.producthunt.com/posts/sphaera-for-android). Nothing pretentious, just wanted to share it with the community since I am pretty happy with the results.

You'll find some promo codes in the comment section.

Here's instead the direct link to Play store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.manco.spha...

I am looking forward to constructive feedback, thank you.
Personally I think that we need to change what it means to be standard vegetarian - add fish, remove dairy. Better for the environment and perhaps easier for people to switch to!

Currently, I have to go around calling myself a "lacto-pescatarian" which is far too much of a mouthful