skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is incredibly slow, buggy, most packages aren't up-to-date and the packaging is far more complex overall, lots of bad or missing documentation about silent installs. The package manager itself doesn't really offer a lot. I've seen more spyware in their apps. Windows app installs by default leave configuration files all over your system and registry entries. It is near impossible to cleanly manage an install. There are a lot of tricks for viruses on Windows. Linux is open source and much easier to improve collectively. There is a lot more thought put into these objectives from a system administrator perspective, hence why they use it all over their cloud.
Author here - I built this because I have wanted it for the last few elections. I have no intent to set an agenda or make money from it. It is inspired by form guides at horse races, or really any general sports stat system like trading cards, where you can quickly and consistently compare the stats of all the players.

I know it isn't pretty and I know it isn't the first how to vote guide but it has been a fun side project and an interesting social experiment. Being open I hope it goes some way towards addressing "fake news" as well as general media hyperbole.

Having the data crowdsourced, wikipedia style, has worked out well in both the NSW state election and the current federal election without the vandalism or edit wars I suspected, restoring my faith in the internet and politicians somewhat.

I went with a google sheet as the primary editing interface because it was both technically expedient and pragmatic as well as hoping it would be a simple and familiar interface for the majority of candidates. Unfortunately I have still had to provide a shocking (to me at least) level of technical support to candidates.

While I have had broadly positive responses from candidates an interesting observation is that generally on first response left leaning candidates get it and embrace it while conservative leaning candidates don't understand it and are suspicious. Although generally conservatives come around when they realise that I legitimately have no agenda.
If that were true how come many famous scientists were catholic and went to catholic school? If the church is impressing upon the minds of the young the urge to not pursue science and rationality how could it produce so many (faithful) scientists, mathematicians, philosophers, etc
I believe you’re misunderstanding the incentives and goals of these govt officials, and the people who vote for them. It’s much worse than a mere ignorance of economics, and totally intractable.
There was Red Stone, Atlas, titan, Saturn I, Ib, and V. Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo. multiple contractors at each phase.
This comment is spot on. UWP apps feel gratuitously non-native on Windows, have terrible keyboard accessibility, and exhibit a ton of interoperability issues with third-party utilities like xkeymacs that hook into platform functionality. Even Electron apps that use standard buttons and text inputs end up feeling more native.

The lack of good keyboard accessibility is particularly frustrating, because the ribbon paradigm and even the menu accelerators in old-school Win32 apps both had outstanding, highly discoverable keyboard control.
Dissecting Weird Packets
Not at all. I prefer CLI based tools for system administrators. They are easy and quick to automate. It is just a pretty terrible package manager compared to Homebrew and far worse than Arch.
It doesn’t help that everything is now a landing page, people must be able to skim through. Long text is bad! Must convert to customer!

The internet has been commercialized to the point where it’s no longer exciting to browse. I stay on HN and mostly read reactions to posts without opening the post link.
In the article, I embed AV1 in MP4 container. Does that not work for your scenario?
The system requires people who aren't Engineers to take action. Engineers aren't writing or enforcing the law.

The world view of engineers isn't particularly important, except to cause them to report something.
Private Colleges Offer Record Discounts as Tuition Costs Rise
In openbsd, httpd means their own webserver. In plan9, there is also a webserver called httpd.
I know. I was joking. And I heard this joke too many times ~20 years ago. So I was being corny.
In my ffmpeg AV1 recipe, I exclude the audio
Because I’m sure no one buys a house in Pawtucket or Providence and commutes to Boston.
Retropropulsive landing was the next step for SpaceX. The Moon is two or three or four steps down the line for Blue Origin.
The Zero Trust Paradox
I agree, its completely fabricated.
There's only one believable thing in it - the failure of the school.
Step by step.. day by day..
A guide to setting up Vim for JavaScript development
Sam Adams is quite remarkable, except for the beer they directly produce, probably because they know their market well.
Postgres 12, whose development has reached feature freeze and is in a stability period, has added some support for JSON path as of SQL:2016:
https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=commit...

The release is planned for roughly next September/October.
Really grateful for the reply. Thank you. I'll be following up shortly.
Tesla is too unstable to compare it with SpaceX I think.
Prototype of a Future Interstellar Probe Was Just Tested on a Balloon
And yet here you are, sitting in a building supplied by endless electricity, on an electronic device that takes an absolutely insane supply chain to produce, connected to mankind's greatest invention (the Internet), posting on a website that celebrates the most high-tech and capitalist goals imaginable.

All while railing against a civilization that is completely possible to exclude yourself from. Being here, making this comment, explicitly puts you, by choice, into "civilization".
classic trilemma, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trilemma

good, beautiful, real
Your problems 1 & 3 are solved in the article. I compare the size of the GIF to the videos. In one of the scenes it's ~11 MB for GIF and < 500 KB for AV1 video
Because the poor formatting and example (making the code look too much as sql!), some nuance was lost. Consider instead:

let keys = SELECT key FROM BTreeIndex_CustomerCode;

let city = SELECT name;

let groups = GROUP BY (whatever -- And I mean GROUP, not SUMMARIZE!);

let filter = WHERE id = @id;
let query = city + filter(id=1);

for city in query GROUP BY keys
....
Granular Network Segmentation and Host Identity Protocol
Thanks a lot gen220. Still sorting the mess out. I'll definitely check out those positions.
Someone has to fly and troubleshoot the spacecraft when the inevitable failures occur. Most of the astronauts can be basically passengers but there has to be at least one pilot who knows how to switch SCE to AUX without a moment's hesitation.
Hey that sounds great. I'll check this out ASAP.
Regardless of what metric is used, ad platforms get more money by proving they're better at said metric, so measurement is required.
How about APL?
(0=2|x)/x←⍳20

Visit rosettacode.org and try looking up some solutions in SQL and then reference the APL variant. It's night and day.
Then you're not looking at the city proper and we're mixing measures here. The 1.5x I mentioned is at the metro level, while your 1/3 population is city proper. That said, I'm struggling to find any kind of useful data broken down at the city level in terms of economic output, so I certainly wouldn't die on this hill.
tldr!
Which patents is HEIF itself encumbered by and who runs a patent licensing pool for HEIF?
I concur, It has been a very easy and fast platform for me, and it seems like not a lot of developers have caught on to the fact that UWP is great for the end consumer, its snappy and can be updated without having to load the application or an update application first. But hey, developers don't like it so I guess thats forced Microsoft's hand.
Pharmacy is obsolete by computers? Not yet, it's not. I mean, retail pharmacy, maybe, mostly, but all of pharmacy? No.

And pharma companies? You think computers are going to automate drug discovery? Not for a long time, they won't.
Thanks atmosx. I'll have a look and see if they are a good fit.
As if it's possible that some other scenario is not at play. Do you think housing is being erected at a record pace and yet still can't keep up with demand? Is it possible that people just don't want to build in SF, because... reasons that aren't red tap?
Normally, you can specify GIF as a fallback as seen in this article https://www.singhkays.com/blog/detect-rolling-credits-video-...

Even though the first preference is AV1, the 2nd, 3rd & 4th preferences are VP9, H264 and GIF which should play
Excellent advice thanks. I'll have a gander and see if there are any roles that look like good fits.
Unfortunately You’d have to have another launch for the return vehicle.

From an efficiency perspective sending both in one go seems a bit more efficient to me (but I’m not certain, it’s possible it costs exponential amounts of fuel)
> I don't know at what elevation trees stop appearing

This is known as the "tree line", and varies a lot based on particular location (due to sun exposure, climate, and plant species). Here's a wikipedia article which outlines where the tree line: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_line . Summary is that the treeline is rarely above 12k feet (3500m), though in Bolivia it gets all the way up to 17k feet (5200m)!!

You are probably correct w.r.t. the main flow of the jet stream being far in excess of the highest tree lines in the world. The jet stream's main flow is usually 30k feet (10k meters) or higher.
How does it compare to the new Windows Terminal?
Ask HN: Switching from academia to data science role in a startup
Hi fellow hackers,

I am kind stuck and looking for your valuable input about career.

Background: I am currently working as a research assistant in a university and doing my PhD in data science.

Recently, I got an offer from a fairly stable startup with a nice salary offer wrt to my current salary from the university.

I would like to finish my PhD even though I am not sure what to do in the future. I also want to work in the industry and get some tangible work experience as well.

Tomorrow, I need to tell my decision to the startup whether I accept the offer or not.

To be honest, salary at the university is not much and opportunity cost is getting higher and higher for me. Also, we are planning on having a kid with my wife. So, even though I love working in the research, issue is mostly about the money part.

In the past, I had a couple of work experience in a completely different industry and then switched to academia. I know that I might regret going back to the industry again.

I need your input. What would you suggest? Should I accept the offer?
Any personal experience of yourself?
When was the last time a Commodore 64 received a vendor-issued software upgrade? Because that's what we're talking about. Not how long will the hardware last, but how long will the manufacturer release software updates.
I think you're asking the GP to prove a negative?
That’d be some office.
>The only major problem with PostScript was its Turing-completeness — viewing page 86 of a document means first running the script for pages 1-85. And that could be slow.

1) EPS (which the article just mentioned) is part of Adobe's Document Structuring Convention, which solved the problem of skipping and reordering pages.

https://www.adobe.com/content/dam/acom/en/devnet/actionscrip...

https://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/ulrich/PS/eps.html

>Every DSC-compliant document is indicated by having the comment %!PS-Adobe 3.0 as the first line. This comment is a flag to indicate that the document is compliant. You should never use this comment unless your document really is DSC compliant. There are many other parts to proper DSC. A document which follows the DSC can be manipulated in many ways. In particular, postprocessors can shuffle the pages, print two or more pages on a side, and so on. The printer drivers from some notable companies do not follow the DSC, and their PostScript documents are, therefore, impossible to work with once they've been generated.

2) Inefficiently skipping pages (or being slow) is NOT the main problem with PostScript's Turing completeness!

https://www.loc.gov/preservation/digital/formats/fdd/fdd0002...

>Security Issues: In early 2017, Microsoft took steps to prevent exploits based on Word's import "filter" for EPS. Based on the assessment that "EPS files are a legacy format that has largely fallen out of favor in today’s ecosystem", Microsoft disabled the import filter by default in its April 2017 security update for Office. According to PPTools post I can no longer insert EPS graphics into PowerPoint, this update applied to Office 2010, 2013, and 2016/365. Import of EPS files into Office 2007 has been disabled since 2015. The stand-alone Office for Mac is not affected.

>A Jan 2017 post from The Register, We don't want to alarm you, but PostScript makes your printer an attack vector, publicizes the vulnerability of networked PostScript printers. The potential for damaging exploits based on communication between computers and PostScript printers has been understood for years, but was not a serious threat before PostScript printers were networked and accessible over the Internet. See also PostScript page from Hacking Printers.

http://hacking-printers.net/wiki/index.php/PostScript
I would. The market has not demanded this yet, so why on earth would they waste the resources on building it?

I might wish they did, but my experience of life says that product won't exist it until it looks profitable, and maybe not even then.

That aside, watermarking video from cameras buys you nothing in terms of trust.

Not all cameras will have the feature, so videos without it will not be known to be untrustworthy. For cameras that have it, the owners will be able to forge videos using them one way or another, so videos with watermarks will not be known trustworthy.

Chains of trust are fundamentally about humans, and now that forging videos is trivial, we will never be able to safely assume in a vacuum that one is not forged.

It's back to credible eyewitnesses, like we had to rely on for most of history.
Possibly! I used to live in the UK, and am still authorized to work there, but I'd require sponsorship in Germany.
It'll be easier to stop when the posts stop insisting on coining "new kinds of X".

The only innovation I see here is an unusual attention to constructing visual representations and using them as identifiers in code. Which is cool! But insisting it's new demeans the work of thousands of engineers who do similar and prerequisite work, and who make an effort to situate their work in literature and indusrtry rather than insisting on some kind of exceptionalism.

Arrogance should be called out in every instance, because it's not actually a route to greatest impact.
> Finally WSL2 will be distributed with Windows which raises some licensing questions (IANAL) if not in the letter of the GPL license at least in spirit. I write GPL'ed software myself and I would be somewhat miffed if I saw my software used in a similar manner (i.e. "via a VM", but still distributed with non-GPL code).

Mere aggregation of non-GPL code with (“distributed with”) GPL code expressly is consistent with the GPL, it is contrary to neither letter nor spirit of the license.
I agree, they only copy. But hey, the police state in Xinjiang is really helping them push their development of AI.
Is there any systematic evidence of the oft-repeated idea that homeless are being bussed in from every corner of the country? Besides an anecdotal case or two? If not, why should we believe that it happens with any degree of frequency?

Do you believe that estimates of the total counts of homeless people might be more or less accurate, since there's no supposed incentive for activists to discount it? SF's homelessness per capita is actually not particularly high compared to other major cities, which is not at all what you would expect if homeless were swarming en masse to SF from those other places: https://medium.com/hatchbeat/homelessness-a-tale-of-three-ci... . What's really high in SF and other West Coast cities is the percent of unsheltered homeless. It may be that it only seems like there are more of them because they are more visible because besides SF's dislike of building housing they also don't build sufficient homeless shelters: https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Bay-Area-homeless-uns...
Ironic and hilarious how many ex-Facebook employees call for changes while greatly enjoying the wealth they've received from it. Talk is cheap. When are they going to do anything other than write op-eds?
I think you're spot on here.
I always saw a lot of one-upsmanship in terms of harassment and being offensive, but eventually it got real.
A friend of mine jokes that "weev won the election" and I'm not sure how wrong he is.
Excellent take. The functional model is not too far.
Soaring construction costs are in no small part due to government regulations and NIMBYs. Labor shortage is partly to blame, but labor is short partly because of the housing shortage. [1]

[1] https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/2018/01/24/sf-...
whatever happened to not shopping at stores because you didnt like their terms. kinda stupid at least for the amazon store. the entire point of that model was you didnt need to deal with a register because its got your face and phone tracked. dealing with a register slows the process down.
You're adding to my list of cross-platform apps. I agree that most of the important ones are fine under Linux, but I still haven't seen many (any?) great linux-specific ones.

There are obviously reasons to use Linux (I do), I just don't think unique (end-user, GUI) app availability is amongst them.
Your post title is not a question, it is a title with a question mark at the end.
Just because you are not expecting an answer doesn't mean you don't deserve one....you did ask a question.
Questions also change brain chemistry.
The person asking the questions is in control of direction of the conversation.
I think the questions that you are speaking of are the type meant to lure you in like "Is DDR4 really faster than DDR3?" and then you read a content marketing article from a DDR4 manufacturer.
I once got an article to the top of the front page and it was because it was about what I learned in 10yrs of blogging.

I expected a couple of other submissions of things I made like https://polispulse.org to do great, but they didn’t!

Success on HN cannot be engineered or tricked and content that is genuinely good always surfaces. I’m pretty sure it’s not economically viable to find a hack to rank an average submission. It’s by far easier and more rewarding to produce something worth sharing :)
Lying involves willfully misstating the truth. Unless you have insight into the mental state of the rep, you can't say they were lying.

What is the rep was lied to by whoever trained them in the company? Or they aren't a lawyer and just misunderstood the contract?
Conan O’Brien: Why I Decided to Settle a Lawsuit over Alleged Joke Stealing
Yeah great call. Do you know of any good courses to firm up data engineer skills? My training is not exactly formal in this area. Do you know of the most in demand skills for data engineering? Hadoop? Spark? Kinesis? Anything like that?
See, this is what I mean. I posted sources that literally interviewed developers and researched the causes for construction delays on approved projects -- "project was approved in late 2016 as construction costs were escalating more than 10 percent a year and lenders were tightening their criteria for loans." And you responded with unsupported political talking points.

Let's bring this back to a fact-based discussion, ok? That's what HN is supposed to be about.
How to Sink a $3B Dollar Submarine: Forgetting to Close a Hatch
Isn't Chicago more a case of declining population than building? Chicago shrunk ~25% from its peak population in the 1950s. It is lot less of a challenge to have affordable housing with declining population. Add in the massive white flight, and I'm not sure what the Chicago lesson is.
Is there anyone else that feels like Blue Origin actually has a chance of making their own timelines, as opposed to SpaceX?

Don’t get me wrong, I love SpaceX, but the down to earth way in which Blue Origin appears to be working also appeals to me.
I've used Mathematica extensively, and it's very nice. It's better at symbolic algebra than Matlab and much more intuitive than Maxima. Its primary strength is computing purely symbolically with no numerical methods, for when you have no tolerance for numerical error.
How Much Is an Idea Worth? In Uber’s Case, $3.7B
When will a correctly-implemented GC ever alter your program's functional correctness, aside from timing-related bugs that aren't fixed by manual memory management either?
Dog whistling? Food trucks? It’s just convenience and reduces robberies. Also, w/re dog whistle, if the attracted and deterred both “hear” it, it’s no longer a dog whistle.
I didn’t mean to say that nobody uses the software, just that I don’t know anybody who does. Which just makes it hard for me to get a handle on its value.

The question I’d ask those physicists is whether Mathematica does the kinds of things Wolfram claims for it / does things other programming languages can’t do. I wouldn’t be surprised if the answer was “yes,” I’m just not sure.
You realize, I hope, that 56.0.2 is riddled with security holes at this point? I get the attachment to old addons, but 129 CVEs (including multiple severe memory corruption bugs) affect that version now. It's not really reasonable to expect Mozilla to keep maintaining it.
This is exciting as the first "industrially supported" framework for this stuff. There's research code out there, but it really is research code – it was written to publish, not written to build products around.
I haven't made any argument one way or the other.

I will point out that there is an article on the front page of HN right now in which multiple economists argue that "it's supply and demand" provides an insufficient explanation for, and solution to, the problem of affordable housing in San Francisco: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19872015

So arguing that we must accept the "it's just supply and demand" argument by acclamation with no sourcing seems flimsy. Educated minds are arguing otherwise, and providing evidence to back up their claims. It hardly seems unreasonable to expect the other side of the argument to do similar.
Nobody threatens by literally stating "I threaten thou". They say things like "yea but if you do that this bad thing will happen" which is exactly what they said.
SF property tax revenue does not rise when prices do.
According to Apple, the 5 year old Macbook Pro was only offered with "PCIe-based flash storage". So if you had an Acer from 5 years ago and a Macbook Pro you bought at the same time, you have an SSD in the MBP.

https://support.apple.com/kb/sp703?locale=en_US
http://neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com/
Most of the homeless aren't inbound. They're being priced out of the market that they've lived in their whole life. You're just illustrating the lack of awareness tech people have in the city.
Right, I’m assuming the relative ratio is the same for the cities as for the metro areas. Both cities have a lot of their jobs and major companies in the suburbs, so that’s probably not an unreasonable assumption.
You mean the guy that confounded PayPal?

What's this obsession with people seeing some failures and using them to sum up a person? Many of the greatest also failed at times...
When Nassim Nicholas Taleb posts stats stuff on Twitter, it is almost always Mathematica.
I really wish the downvoters would comment as well. I don't know what I said here that was so wrong. I am very open to critique here. I want to learn what other people think to refine how I think about it.