skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think people are getting way too upset over GitHub features like issues & PRs, and the desire to please others. If you work on an open source project and you're not getting paid for it, you really need to divorce yourself from the demands of users. You have to assume that literally no one will use the software and just make it for yourself. If it becomes popular and you get feedback and contributions, great! Hopefully you can develop relationships that will lead to co-maintainers and such. But if it starts to feel like a struggle, just re-focus on what you want to get done, on your timeline.
Japan to Release Gundam and Char’s Zaku to Orbit, Ahead of Tokyo 2020 Olympics
Notable is Alan Edelman's tip using Julia at the 36th lecture.
Streaming anything but frames defeats the purpose of a frame streaming service.
Man. I can relate. Open source projects are roller coasters. It's great when loads of people start using it... and terrible at the same time. It's validating to see people using your work, but sometimes you just want to submit your paper to NIPS rather than deal with what you think in the moment (and, frankly, in hindsight too) is a dumb issue: https://github.com/mholt/caddy/issues/1680#issuecomment-3027...

I wrote up my experience from one wave of negativity a couple years ago: https://caddy.community/t/the-realities-of-being-a-foss-main...

It still haunts me to this day, but my attitudes are finally trending more positive about the whole thing.
Tesla’s Autopilot Was Engaged in Fatal Florida Crash, Investigators Find
Wow I see. Props to you... on my end it's so much of a hassle to find a cable and grab my phone and connect it to my computer every single time I update my password database.
How many millions of miles have these cars self driven and people lose their minds about a handful of deaths. I mean don't get me wrong - it's death and I'm atheist. It's a big deal. But how many deaths did people incur in the first years of cars? Hell you could die just from the crank on the front kicking back and crushing your skull - and that was just to turn the things on.

People take risks when new tech comes out. If they wanna be the Guinea pig then let them do it. Everyone sees musk as two faced and playing both sides but honestly - if you're an adult paying for a tesla then I'm fine with it being in your hands to decide if you're willing to roll the dice. Marketing or not, no one should be stupid enough to think ANY device has a 0% chance of killing you, let alone a computer driving.
And all of that would be a fine service if they were honest about it.
It gives you a separate score.. which is graded along with the first score.. so it effectively alters like OP implied.
I agree. I wouldn't have traded 20 hours a week of time spent with my dad for a better neighborhood.
Any particular works that you would recommend starting with?
I believe they would because the press will be worth it for future business. Not all ransomware but certain strains.
buying an electric car with a massive battery back and driving it puts more carbon and carbon dixoide in the air then s normal high mileage gas car does....why? batt mfg is hella dirty
Java guys didn't ship much at my first real gig. Lots of tooling time and watching movies or discussing Star Trek.

I shipped apps in 2 weeks myself that the company got paid ~70k for. And we kept my clients.
Welcome to the world created by faster communication.

At a point where each issue is extremely polarizing, where we connect people around the world - blurring the local and the global - and there’s a new crazy event happening every minute around the world minute - people lose nuance and the ability to stop and compartmentalism events.

Since everything is now part of a never ending stream of outrageous actions, content consumers have adapted by looking at meta identifiers to get a grip on the world around them.

Who is speaking? What are they saying ? Oh? It matches statements used by white supremacists ? Ok, good bye.

I don’t have the time or bandwidth to invest in you.

When everything is accessible and people have only limited processing space - decisions are made on lossy fast information.
Maybe I wasn't clear.

The policy is dumb and dangerous, agreed.

But advantage is real. You can't list all the sacrifices your parents made while in the same breathe implying "no advantage here, this isn't fair".

The devil is in devising a fair system to determine advantage in an objective way that won't be rife with corruption and gaming the system. I highly doubt this will be possible and attempts likely will result in less fair and worse outcomes.

So policy wise, agree with OP. But from the story he tells, I think it obvious he does indeed have "advantages" many people don't and this is worth recognizing.
Learn about Australia’s government like it’s 1991 – on the Apple II
What HDD?

I think the most unreliable part of most computers today is the screen that cracks when you drop it.
They have job listings, information about listings I have applied to, and a copy of my resume with contact information.
Japanese courts to introduce web meetings for lawsuit preparations
Various discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19929793

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19931043

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19932918
1. I've never upped my game enough to contribute to a project, much less put something on github. So, to the vast swath of people who are cooler than I: thank you.

2. TFA really gets at the classic issue of working vs. managing. Technical people tend toward being better at the former. Context switching between doing the work and managing the work is hard. Punting the management and diving into the work almost seems an escape.

3. The code itself makes this point to us. We can define an integer, and there it is. But when we need a list of integers? Look at how the management required just exploded.

4. Management sucks, but a management vacuum is a void, indeed. Let us be thankful for managers who don't suck.
We do it for beer, so I don't see why not. At least in Ontario, I've seen people walking into the LCBO with cases of empty bottles (I don't drink alcohol myself, so can't confirm how prevalent this is).

But glass bottles are heavy, and I'm sure that makes shipping more expensive and increases CO2 emissions.
> Was RG58 the stuff that had the "vampire taps"?

Close. RG58 was 10base2 (thinnet) and used BNC T connectors. Vampire taps were used with 10base5 cabling (thicknet, similar to RG-8):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10BASE5
Rent Furnished Apartment in Tehran
Let the gamification begin where subpar students move into crime filled areas at least on paper and into rough schools. While paying for private SAT tutors.
Consider how things work if nobody games the system. Each contractor is really being operated by the claimed owner/CEO/president. If the best contractors for a government agency's needs all happen to be run by white males but other less-good contractors exist, some of those better choices need to be rejected. The people running them are hurt by not getting the contracts. The government agency is also hurt by not getting to use the best contractors, and of course this hurts the general public due to government waste.
JR East shinkansen ALFA-X prototype hits 320 kph in test run in Japan
Downvotes are also private. They're probably not that valuable of an asset for either side, but I can imagine unpleasant situations here and there if they happened to get leaked.
I'd never heard of this historical precedent:

> The father of ransomware was Harvard-educated anthropologist Joseph L. Popp Jr. While researching the theory that AIDS originated in green monkeys in East Africa, Popp in 1989 mailed more than 20,000 floppy disks about AIDS education to people interested in public health. When recipients ran the disk, their computers froze, and a message on the screen instructed them to send up to $378 to a post office box in Panama for a second disk that would restore their access.
Haha maybe you should wonder how many Wikipedia editor accounts I maintain. Or maybe reading, you could try that. ITT we're talking about political opinions: vouchers good, vouchers bad. No one with a multiple-digit IQ is going to find such an answer on wikipedia.
Tesla Limits Autopilot in Europe Due to New UN/ECE Regulations
Looks like you can transfer sparse matrices to the GPU and use cuSOLVER to solve least-squares [1] but there isn't a nice interface for it yet (https://github.com/JuliaGPU/CuArrays.jl/blob/master/test/spa...).
Maybe .. the careers/jobs part in particular?
They can also be sensitive for people who ask rather personal questions on the site...
While equalising opportunity is a noble endeavour, I fail to see how this particular initiative would achieve that. In short, it's too little too late. If someone struggled through high school because of environmental factors, they're not going to suddenly be on their A-game because they were admitted into university. At the end of the day, we should still expect the highest levels of excellence from our professionals.

If we want to have a real impact we need to be examining the factors contributing to the disadvantage leading up to this point and find a way to address those.
Not just a feature, it's the reason for bitcoins existence.
What to do with nuclear waste is a solved problem: you reprocess it. That gives you more fuel (since much of the "waste" is actually unburned fuel) and reduces the radioactivity of what's left over to easily manageable levels. Every other country that uses nuclear power does this; the US didn't do it for decades for political reasons.
Redouble efforts to reduce plastic waste
I almost always end up posting in the comments when I see Medium on the front page of HN, basically the same thing every time.

I've found the Medium experience to be quite good, and even world positive.

I'd been running a self-improvement group blog as an ancillary initiative to the rest of my business. The blogging was kind of cool, but not successful enough to think much about.

Then Medium asked if we'd be interested in professionalizing what we do. Medium's CEO and I both worked for the tech publisher O'Reilly early in our careers, so I think that's why he thought we could pull it off.

And so I've gotten to really experience the before and the after of Medium's paywall. Before professionalizing, publishing seemed barely worthwhile. And it only was worthwhile if I could make the posts viral enough and the call to action catchy enough. That's not really my MO, which is why we struggled.

Medium's CEO has made the case that free content has been deeply corrupted by these marketing needs. Maybe some people can opt out, but I wasn't able to. I absolutely was cutting short my effort as a writer and then manipulating the start and end of articles to serve my marketing goals (otherwise, I couldn't justify the time).

In the new system, we just write differently. We know the article is the product people pay for and we don't need to corrupt it with any secondary marketing goals.

I see this as a world positive, where Medium has been able to create an ecosystem that allows for deeper and more authoritative articles. If you're reading self-improvement articles on Medium, a simple judge is to ask yourself if the author has any 1st hand experience. The vast majority of the free side of that topic on Medium is written by content marketers who are experts in virality but are basically just making up or cargo culting the advice. (Literally, much of it is farmed out to Upwork)

Part of what drew in our subject matter experts was enough money to be worth their time. We're going to send more than $100k to authors this year (probably a lot more).

I'm trying not to jump in here to market my own stuff. What I'm talking about above is our self-improvement publication. We're also testing two more pubs on different topics, which I think says something about how lucrative we're finding the editing. But it's too early for me to say how those are going. I have a number of other biases here (small amount of Medium stock, Medium's CEO was on my board for a long time and was my boss in 2005), but I'm hoping people see my actions, which are to double down on Medium over and over again, to be an indication that I'm a true fan.
And if Bush could have left a year early, Obama would have taken the fall for the entire financial crisis (well, many Republicans blame him anyways).
>Yeah. People with brains should be more united.

While i don’t disagree on its face. That statement usually means “people should just be on my side”.

As written above; the Overton window has been moving left, and things like not prosecuting female gential mutilation in the US, straight socialism, not settling for anything less than full gun bans, open borders - things that would have got you locked up 50 years ago are being pushed by presidential candidates and congress members.

It’s moved left, and a little too far. So while I agree people with brains should be united, right now many of the balanced beliefs will get you called an alt-right Nazi.
Not just a privacy invasion but also a single point of failure/an account shutdown.
Bush was pretty unlucky. 2 massive crashes during his presidency.
Side note. I didn’t read this post for two reasons. On mobile, the lack of inertial scrolling makes it like pushing hard against some massive slush, and the lack of a scroll bar prevents me from knowing how long the article is and whether I should read it quickly now or check it later.

A criticism on Medium, including its usability (I presume), should do a lot better if it wants to be read.
Off-topic, but why is there no M in FAANG?
Probably something along the lines of: Without accommodation, being able to learn, participate, and demonstrate competency in a series of courses which presume a student's mastery of information presented through secondary education.
Prediction: next week on HN: an article titled "Why Medium is super great"
414M pieces of plastic found on remote Australian islands: Study
Who Cares About Trial-to-Paid Conversion?
> The student body is going to have its own set of values, some of which may challenge the prevailing norms of society or the university itself. Should a university ignore, nurture, or challenge the views of its students? I feel like, as a student, you should be allowed to pick. Because depending on the issue, or the individual, the answer may change.

And what happens when students cease to challenge their own views? They become accustomed to a monoculture and become adverse to views other than their own. In time, the refusal to challenge their own views morphs into hostility towards those that dare challenge those views.

> For example, at one time Gen-Xers and Millennials were significantly more tolerant of homosexuality than society overall (they still are, but society has largely come around). Did universities do them a disservice by either nurturing or ignoring these views, rather than intellectually challenging their pro-gay marriage views?

It did them a service. By being force to challenge these views, these students were prompted to developed effective arguments to refute those challenges. This better equipped them to turn around and challenge the rest of society's views on these topics.
Ok, we'll change it back. (It was "The Selling of Contemporary Art" for a while.)
Fresh from farm food is actually a great way to save money and eat healthier! Search for a local CSA and support it!
Smoking culture in Japan appears to discourage smoking outside. In many places smoking outside is illegal. However some trains, many shopping centers and most restaurants have designated smoking areas.

As such you’re somewhat less likely to see cigarette butts on the street in Japan in any case.
Your second quote implies that the paywall and the partner program are separate.
Wow! Source?
He must be backed up on the other end for days and you half that time stockpile some docusate
It's better to create your own blog, and get traffic overtime. Why they earn money on your content?
Questions, what is the max moves to solve a cube? I mean no matter how you scramble it you can always just reverse the scrambling, but there must be a limit to how far you can scramble a solve-able cube.

So even in you used a thousand moves to try and scramble it, it is possible to solve in fewer moves.
I'm not sure I follow. If your browser is compromised that's it - it's compromised for everything. Your system is compromised. If I have control over your browser, I don't really need your passwords although I can likely get them out of whatever local password manager you have, to boot.
Bosch owns Dremel. I sent-in my five year old Dremel rotary tool for repair, along with payment info, fully expecting to get charged. I even noted on the repair slip "feel free to charge me for the repair".

Instead, Bosch sent back a completely refurbished Dremel in almost brand new condition for free.

I was like, damn they just earned a customer for life.

Anyhow, I know I am biased but I have a little faith this carbon initiative is legit.
Like azure Key Vault? I’m sure AWS and google have something similar.

Or host your own by using Hashicorp Vault.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_secularism

Jewish secularism comprises the non-religious ethnic Jewish people and the body of work produced by them. Among secular Jews, traditional Jewish holidays may be celebrated as historical and nature festivals, while life-cycle events, such as births, marriages, and deaths, may be marked in a secular manner.
Can you imagine how terrible it is on Upwork?
Remote working in the same or similar timezones is nice, and no, not everyone needs to work in the same office.
I've always been more curious about this stat when:

-President and Congress majority are same party (and by party)

-President and Congress majority are different party.

I suspect different parties are better, to reign in the excesses of each. But not sure. Maybe I'll do it some time.
Ya, and neither were completely his fault. However, I do fault him for juicing a good economy when stimulus would be more effective during a downturn when not wasted during upturns. Save in good times, spend in bad would do a lot for stability. 2008 could have been handled much better if he was disciplined enough during the recovery in between (besides, taking more money out of the system would have acted against bubbles). In contrast, the Clinton surplus going into the dotcom bust made it much easier to deal with.

Trump is making similar mistakes, and if a problem occurs on his watch, he is going to have fewer tools to deal with it (and pressuring the Fed to cut rates during a boom is unforgivable).

Unfortunately, Americans seem to neither want taxes to go up or interest rates to rise in good times so they can go down in bad. They just want them to go down all the time. So we are the most at fault after all.
stevia should be fine, imo
If they are a UK company with a prominent young leader it seems just as likely to get you investigated or indicted.
And here's the counrer-petiton we truly need.

https://www.change.org/p/people-in-general-remake-the-game-o...
As far as I remember, it is because radar gives you too many points that are usually false positives if you don't discard stopped objects (which include signs, guiderails, anything on the border of the road (which you'll be driving right at in a corner, after all)). This is something that ACC in all radar-using cars does, AFAIK. AEB works differently in that stopped objects are tracked, but it only works well at slower speeds. If I had to guess it's because they have to track a potential stationary object over time to determine that, yes, it's an object that concerns us, it's in the way, and it's not just noise.

In case of the first trailer crash it apparently looked similar to an overhead sign to the sensors, also approaching a stopped object would be AEB territory, not ACC, which doesn't work well at higher speeds.
Jewish race is a term. Different Jewish tribes/shared genetics is more accurate.
Eh I assume medical science will be an exponential curve where this chain would only be a thing for the oldest generation that goes through it. I mean 100ish years ago cocaine was a cure all and now we have a protein that can individually identify and replace genes.
You know, I've been using Firefox Dev Edition since it was Firefox Aurora (or Beta, I guess?), and it's great to hear that they are improving the dev tools! But I have to ask this in the nicest way possible: does anyone else think the tools just don't work a lot of the time?

It's something I noticed especially when they switched to React. A few examples I frequently experience:

1) Stepping through TS frequently switches back to the source JS.
2) Breakpoints don't always go away, and sometimes a page reloads with an invisible breakpoint, that stops the code, but doesn't show up in the list of breakpoints, and doesn't seem to be removable.
3) Breakpoints don't always stop at the the right place.
4) After having the tools open for a while, the tab starts freezing for multiple seconds every few seconds (GC, according to the perf tab, so it's either my code or the dev tools)

This comes from a place of love, and I'll still always use FF over Chrome, but I really have to ask if anyone else experiences the same issues, or if it's perhaps my setup/code that causes the problems?
I bought this book a couple of weeks ago and I've been waiting eagerly for these lectures to be posted.
FF has had more solid console and debugging tools now for almost two years and it's one of the main reasons I switched completely from Chrome. It really is a superior, more reliable experience. And the console is light years beyond chrome. I definitely recommend it.
Not many know but Bosch is owned 92% by a nonprofit, so they are practically a nonprofit company.
Microsoft Launches Decentralized Identity Tool on the Bitcoin Blockchain
Would you have a link on the first one? Would be nice to keep around for later!
Possibly StackOverflow Careers data?
Are you avoiding the question? I'll rephrase it. If I give $5k dollars per year for college to every student in America whose parents make under $100k a year, am I denigrating the hard work of the parents who make more than that?
MDS / Zombieload Mitigations Come at a Real Cost, Even Keeping Hyper Threading
I don't maintain anything as big as Redis, but I've faced many similar problems all the same and I think I have an approach which makes it palatable. I wrote about my approach at length here:

https://drewdevault.com/2018/06/01/How-I-maintain-FOSS-proje...

But the main thing is that almost all bug reports, feature requests, and so on, get sent to /dev/null. Users who care about a problem are expected to work on that problem themselves. In the case of software like Redis, pretty much everyone reporting a bug is also qualified to fix that bug, so it works particularly well.

Then I focus only on helping new contributors get their bearings and making regular contributors happy and comfortable with their work on the project. So far this approach has been very successful for me - I don't get burned out, and neither do my contributors, and we have happy, healthy communities where people work at a pace which suits them best and aren't stressed or overwhelmed.

Sure, lots of feature requests and bug reports get neglected, but I think the net result is still a very positive impact on the project. The occasional drive-by bug submitter provides far less value to the project as someone who writes even one patch. Focusing on keeping the people who create the most value happy makes for a more productive project and a better end result. Some people are put out by the fact that their bug report, feature request, etc goes unanswered, but I can quickly put the guilt out of my mind by reminding myself that ignoring them is doing a benefit to the project. And in practice, I generally have time to give people some words of encouragement and a nudge in the right direction towards writing a patch without burning myself out.