skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was a joke sometime ago about serial suicider in Poland after several politicians committed suicide.
Neah, the internals are too Windows specific (Win32/DirectX) to be easely portable.

Maybe this will be the basis of a cross platform toolkit in the future , but right now MS doesn't seem to really care....
At the bottom of the article it links to the national suicide helpline.
Don't think it would have helped in the this case.
Life is an eternal struggle between Good and Google
No. This is explicitly not a goal at the moment. This is first and foremost the effort to make it open-source and available in .NET Core 3.
> the battery life lasts a gazillion years

According to the product description, it's more like 3 years.
Does any of that sound like it's even in the neighborhood of what's needed to you?
"Hey everybody, I hate the Trump subreddit" is not a useful comment.
Most of the traffic in Paris actually comes from Paris : https://www.paris.fr/actualites/a-paris-seuls-22-des-conduct...
Well USA is a defacto state of Russia now aka Trump's America
You should take a look at your virtualenvs once in a while. They're not particularly smaller and keep in mind that python has a much larger stdlib.
> GitHub Support does not take any fees and even matches donations... wow!

Maybe I didn't fully understand what "cut" means, but ....

> In the first year, GitHub will not charge any fees, so 100% of sponsorships will go to the sponsored developer. In the future, we may charge a nominal processing fee.

https://help.github.com/en/articles/about-github-sponsors
It's just prioritization. From the available team members (American citizens of all types) the companies are expected to choose those with the most merit. It makes perfect sense if you want your team members to perform well and receive the benefits of that. The sports analogy: put the better players on the field, don't let spectators go on the field, don't score against yourself, and the resulting win should be great for the team.
What in Brave’s history and motives are questionable?
.Net Core is cross platform. So, WPF is cross plaftorm now as well
Author here, I agree 100%. It is just a different way of building software, which is why I find these things so interesting. It challenges my worldview and thus I want to learn more about its upsides and downsides.

CICS and IMS definitely made it easy to create scalable software decades ago. It is not that different from the frameworks we have invented to make distributed systems viable that you mention, which I find insanely cool.

One of the cool things of running e.g. Ceph is that it exposes a familiar API (POSIX filesystem) which makes things easy to integrate with. The mainframe is like that but for hardware. VMware has similar things to some degree where your VM can be kept alive across hardware failure, but not really on the same level.

Anyway, I will stop here but I could go on for hours :-)
Why would they limit themselves to the features of integrating multiple external sites when they can build the features, integration, velocity and product direction they want without being beholden to external stake holders with different values and motivations.

GitHub's effectively the home of OSS development, with great UX and design aesthetics, they definitely don't need to delegate for help in building out their own product.

The only stake holders who would benefit by redirecting to external sites, are the external providers themselves as it would end up with a worse UX and fragmented and limited experience, which is exactly what you don't when wanting to attract sponsorship, it should be as easy, seamless and integrated as possible.
Also, with Mainframe, you’re not only using a different machine but also a different “everything”. You need specialized storage, you need to use an “exotic” programming language, you need people who know JCL, RACF, DB2 etc., for a lot of “middleware” (CD pipeline, access management, version control) you have limited vendors to choose from so you’ll pay a lot for that too. So if you are also running something else (Linux servers etc.) you basically need double the staff and licensing costs...
Why do this if you can just move to a country like London?

I personally live in Germany and chosen to work as a normal employee, but I'm aware that the German government doesn't want people to be freelancers/entrepreneurs.

I think almost every other EU country is better than Germany in that regard. Estonia being #1(in legislation) and possibly UK being the best market.
"A lot" maybe, but I suspect the majority would do the opposite and deny/understate the problem.

Also the parent comment is more about risk management. The sensible thing to do in the absence of information is precisely to imagine the worst outcomes and act with them in mind. The precautionary principle is a statutory requirement in law in some jurisdictions to help avoid the worst outcomes.
Huh interesting. I've been using parsimonious for cases like this, didn't know python had a stdlib for it...
I think you're in conspiracy mode on this one. Boeing has shown incompetence and stupidity, and there's a good chance that someone should be held criminally liable. But I see no reason to doubt what Boeing says about why MCAS was added. What would lead me to doubt it is a more plausible alternative hypothesis, which you haven't provided.

> There have been plenty of flights where MCAS has activated

I'm sure there have, but as I said, it would not activate at all on a typical flight.
I would not classify Brave as anything good.
Would you have liked the project more if the price was not disclosed?
That is like saying C++ is cross platform so MFC is cross platform as well.

WPF relies on Windows specific functionality.
Surprising how? I've used most of the "batteries" you mentioned in the past year.
In all likelihood Facebook and google will be able to adequately address any issues related to GDPR and judo throw the regulation into allowing them to become further entrenched by suppressing any competition.
I'd like to add, in case you don't know what I'm refering to:

There is a large movement widely called "Fridays for Future" going on lots of european cities (large and small) in which students will go on a school strike to demonstrate for sensible climate policy.
Once, we will be really ashamed that companies like this was even an idea ...

data capitalism at its best
What he's saying is true. I live in Germany for 4 years, and even though I can definitely speak German, only the foreigners are generally willing to(it's a generalisation!).

Now, when discussing friendships, the picture is even more bleak. I have loads of foreigner friends, but 0.5 german friend.
What bad have they done?
Well, actually, yes.
I read somewhere that at some point the prevailing culture in American Police forces changed from putting public safety first to putting police safety first.

Not just in America, in the UK the Health and Safety culture has resulted in drownings where rescue personnel refused to enter ponds to assist victims.
And currently an enquiry into the London Bridge attack has heard of how paramedics, thinking of their own safety, refused to help patients for up to 90 minutes after the attackers had been killed.

The US police increasingly resemble a paramilitary type operation with swat teams and armoured vehicles, all predicated on the protection of officers.

It was probably inevitable in a country where even automatic assault weapons are freely available.
Much like Decathlon's brands: Kalenji (running gear named after a high altitude Kenyan tribe, the Kalenjin); Quechua (outdoor gear named after Peruvian Andes peoples); neither place ever likely to use those products.
From an EU perspective, most interbank communication for SEPA is through XML following PACS or CAMT xsd’s (so there’s a PACS format to transfer money, a CAMT format to inquire on the status of a payment etc.) sent via an intermediary clearing house. Used to be huge XML batches, but now moving to small XML messages.

Internationally also “MT” messages are used, which is also a file with specified format.

So it doesn’t really matter what stack you run, as long as it can create files and send them out :-)
A vest is (a) not as hot as a jacket made from similar materials, (b) easier to add layers over the top of, (c) less restrictive of arm movement, (d) cheaper, (e) packs smaller.

If a jacket leaves the wearer feeling too hot (e.g. because they are doing something active like hiking up a hill), but just a shirt leaves him/her feeling too cold, then a vest would be a natural middle option.

I don’t wear vests, but if I spent a lot of time outdoors in medium-cold climates, I can certainly imagine using one. Have you worn this type of vest before? You might be surprised how much warmer it is vs. just a shirt.
Definitely. I remember at the beginning Climbey would cause minor confusion if I'd unexpectedly fall, now it doesn't faze me at all.

The downside is that I think I used to be more "immersed" at the beginning. Now while I do still enjoy "being" in the 3D environment, at the same time it seems I am more aware of actually being in my room (which at least protects me from motion sickness and from hitting furniture so often).
AIFF is used widely in audio production software; for exporting uncompressed audio many application default to AIFF. It’s the most universally useful lossless format; WAV support is ubiquitous too but AIFF has better metadata. FLAC and ALAC are good alternatives today, but not on the same level of support yet. For example, for purposes of price differentiation, Pioneer reserves FLAC and ALAC support for their most expensive digital turntables.

If you’re writing a Python script that outputs an audio file, outputting to AIFF seems like a save bet. Then again I’m not sure how many people are actually using the module from the stdlib--but neither does the PEP’s author, it seems. His level of research was asking his friends on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/ChristianHeimes/status/11302577994753351...
Not sure how that is the response to a post pointing out one of the many systemic faults in American policing tbh. There might be a difference in motives and with gun laws American police might even be in a unique position but from an outside perspective all this "bad apple" narrative seems pretty drawn out.

A government not acknowledging failures in training, procedure and accountability doesn't seem that much better than one that outright fosters that state in their executive branch.
Seasonality has been achieved in games like Magic the Gathering, League of Legends, Hearthstone, and Path of Exile.

I think the key factor is content leveraging. How much the game's core systems can leverage assets to create varied gameplay. Because with seasons you have to help your customers get excited about relatively small batches of content.

Through that lens you find that narrative driven single player games are the worst candidates for seasonal games. It's more suited to match-based multiplayer games with sensitive meta games.
You could do what the EU does, and make the upper house consist of the state governors. That way, for the upper house to approve an increase in federal authority, they actually have to vote to move power from themselves, as individuals, to the lower house (this is a part of why the EU is relatively unimportant compared to the constituent EU nations).
dstat was basically presumed dead due to lack of upstream activity. I recall the internal discussion was something like

A: "Whoa, there is no dstat in RHEL8? Customers are gonna complain."

B: "Yes, it's because it's Python 2 only and upstream is dead. Tell customers to use PCP"

A: "Srsly? Nobody thinks of the scripts? Besides, dstat output is so nice."

C: "Well, there is some toy example to print pcp data in dstat format."

A: "Do we really want to tell customers 'there is a toy example'?"

C: "Give me a day or two to pimp it up."

And then C got a bit carried away. :-)
Doesn't sound like you make a difference. Human always think in terms of benefits. It speaks about complexity of human behavior that you might not see simple facts about it. You can't reduce it to a simple formula, calculating beneficial strategy can go a long way. You may believe that it's beneficial to be a sociopath until you know what it entails.
Didier Drogba part of digital literacy initiative
It's a bit more nuanced IMO.

I would bet on there being a intense internal competition between Github and the Azure dev tool stack right now.

All the new products Github is introducing are exactly designed to increase the value proposition for paying customers and bind/lure them to the platform instead of them going with AWS/Azure/Google dev tools.

This will increase revenue for Github, and is probably in part driven by internal pressure to make Github profitable.
Microsoft have two choices with the direction of GitHub:

Use it as a loss-leader to get developer mindshare and get more people to use what they actually get a profit from, Azure and others.

Or, they can use GitHub to build a open platform for the entire ecosystem.

What of these two options are the best for users of the platform? I'm sure one option is better for the shareholders of Microsoft/GitHub, but I'm more interested in the value for the users, many who are open source developers.

Of course, they don't have to collaborate with the rest of the ecosystem. But if they were truly interested in making the open source ecosystem better, without any compromises, they would have built something different than what was launched today.

> The only stake holders who would benefit by redirecting to external sites, are the external providers themselves

Sure, if you think of it as OpenCollective vs GitHub. But in the end, open source developers are the ones who should be benefiting from whatever choice they make (that's my naive hope at least). And the choice they made was to improve short-term mindshare, in front of long-term open source sustainability.

For me, GitHub have become an essential open source infrastructure project. But, the platform itself is nowhere near open, and every new feature they seem to be launching, is closed-source and _aims_ to fracture the existing ecosystems the feature touches.
Compared to winforms, WPF has an incredibly steep learning curve. Working with it was always painful to me. The vector graphics architecture they mention makes it even harder.

While it's rich capabilities enable you to implement everything you can dream of, doesn't the same hold for JS desktop apps? (+ they are cross platform)

I don't see the use case anymore...
Why We're Craft CMS Developers
There are people who literally believe in completely insane things like q, pizzagate, etc. When I read things like that from people who genuinely believe it it makes me believe that the poster I responded to could honestly believe this was suicide as well.
Or, if you're fine with reading it online, but don't want to run the man bash command each time (for whatever reason), and/or want to strip out the formatting characters once and for all, and/or want to use the search and other editing features of your favorite text editor on the contents of the man page, for faster navigation, copying-and-pasting snippets into scripts, etc., you can use this small shell script:

m, a Unix shell utility to save cleaned-up man pages as text:

https://jugad2.blogspot.com/2017/03/m-unix-shell-utility-to-...

Edit: Also check out the stuff about the word mu in the latter part of the post :)
Introducing: Open-source for alternative Kubernetes dashboard and monitoring
Lot's of conspiracy theorist style comments being made so lets look at this objectively:

1, "inside the car where she was a passenger, "contorted" her body and shot herself through the mouth" So she was able to get her hand cuffed arms in front of herself which would allow for control of a weapon.

2, Where did the weapon come from? Maybe it was in the patrol car, maybe she had it on her person.

Anyway flagged as irrelevant to HN.
Why would shareholders reject something that can make them money? This is not a charity.
This is also about making developers behave.

If you want to get paid on GitHub you shouldn't commit anything controversial and you have to behave on the site. If they go full Twitch then they could take into consideration your actions outside the site. including posts on social media or at conferences.

So we would first see those wikileak dumps, code leaks and vulnerability repos being got rid of first, then we might see right wing bloggers who code being denied monetisation. Who wants to see Nazis get funded? Or even perhaps if your code still uses slave and master and you won't change then maybe repos can't be sponsored.

With monetization comes control. Opaque rules and decisions and no consistency. It won't come in the first year but it will come soon enough after developers are fully invested into using it for their livelihoods.
think autopilot override.
Whatever happened to observation decks open to the public?
Tegel has one, and I remember one in Frankfurt

Looking at this they seem somewhat of a german specialty, but now with entry fees at bigger locations.

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/travel/columnist/hobica/2013/1...
It's not a hypothesis. That greenhouse gases affect heat retention can and has been directly observed. That the rise in greenhouse gases is mostly human-induced can also be pretty directly shown by isotope analysis, which can distinguish CO2 that comes from burning fossil fuels or burning forests from other CO2 sources.
> Rational view would be, no matter what religion (or lack thereof)

I think you have to decide on rational or religion. Religion is based on beliefs, not on rationality (whether they happen to match up or not)

For example eastern orthodox church has very specific rules about preserving the body and still (I think?) doesn't allow cremation.

> apart from some remote tribes

You may want to check on the bone washing tradition in Latin America. That's far from "remote tribes".
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-48281463

this is a mistruth, 3 men didn't receive care instantly as the area they were in was deemed "Hot"

"The inquest has heard that the scene of the attack was deemed a "hot zone" under London Ambulance Service (LAS) protocol, which prevents paramedics from entering for their own safety."

""For our own safety we couldn't go forward," he told the Old Bailey, which is hearing the inquests into the deaths of the eight people killed in the attack at London Bridge and Borough Market."
> Is American society really fine with their police murdering people?

I think the only possible answer is "yes"?

It's not even a US-specific phenomenon; lots of people around the world want "something to be done" about crime, and are happy to assume that if the police are after someone "that person must have done something wrong" and therefore "deserved" whatever happened to them.

It's just that most of the first world has managed to build little non-authoritarian enclaves where the police are subject to the law too, and enough of the public accept the idea that all life is valuable.
Amazon Is Working on a Wearable Device That Reads Human Emotions
That's a quote about an entirely different project that hasn't been approved yet. This 1 mile tunnel is much much less ambitious and probably is more about TBC building up expertise than actually deploying any fantastic new tech.
I have several of them, and love each of them. My phone has far more capacity, and could stream effectively unlimited music from Spotify, but there's something unique and special about the Buddha Machine.
Because that consensus is trivial. Probably 100% agree that the climate is changing which is the question people agreed on. Even so-called skeptics agree on that. It's all the other questions that have much more uncertainty and less consensus.

The use of that number is the kind of outright political manipulation that's so prevalent in this debate.

Keep in mind we aren't even talking about scientifically demonstrated conclusions, we are talking about speculated conclusions. The IPCC doesn't do any research themselves and don't check the data, its a meta-study.

What started my skepticism was when I realized they don't actually know how much human co2 emissions affect the temperature. Go try and find that number, you won't find it cause we don't know. Once I realized that and started understanding how the climate models work and saw how much interpretation and fitting and vague language was being used to obstruct the actual science, I realized that worrying about the environment was more rational. There is very very little actually demonstrated science in the climate debate it's almost entirely ideological and used by politicians to gain more power and create something to rally up voters around. In 10 years the climate catastrophism we see today will be laughed at. Just wait and see.
It doesn’t have the same goals as the Ouya. The Ouya wanted to be the next big thing, it wanted to be a platform. This wants to be a nice, fun, arty thing and definitely not be a platform. I don’t think it makes much sense to compare the two.

A possible point of comparison for me would be Fujifilm’s very successful line of Instax instant cameras. They are similar to other cameras (phone, compact, DSLR, mirrorless) in that they take photos but framing them as a competitor to other cameras doesn’t make much sense.

Taking photos with them is much more expensive (given that nobody will give up their phone for an Instax camera and practically all phones today will take better photos than Instax cameras, just purely from a technical point of view, ignoring aesthetic preferences) and the photos you do take are just much more impractical than digital photos. But that doesn’t matter at all since all of that is not the point of Instax cameras.

In the gaming space the biggest actual competitor is still probably Nintendo, but not with their “normal” Games, more with their “weird” experiments like Nintendo Labo. I could actually imagine someone deciding between Labo and this.
Brain can read faster. But you need
The whole point is that the algorithm doesn't know about obstacles or success as a concept baked into the algorithm. Likewise, this is pretty initial research, meant to inform and promote

In other words, this isn't meant to be super useful by itself. It seems tailor made (as many of these things do) to play super-simple 80's video games and literally nothing else, but it's an interesting proof of concept. I'd also be interested in different iterations on this general pattern - for instance, something that didn't translate directly from screen + button -> prediction, and instead had some interstitial systems - translating from screen -> entities, then predicting entity state of entities given button presses. It'd also be interesting to see how this performs with ML algorithms designed to learn on the fly instead of through training from a static set of data (at least, this looked like it learned through back propagation - I skimmed).

But I can see broader practical applications for this in, for instance, recommender systems trying to break users out of the closed feedback loop that people tend to end up in when going down certain rabbit holes (e.g. watch one Flat Earther conspiracy video and suddenly that's all you see for a week because the recommender system knows that people who look at one will look at more). The point being: the real test comes when this strategy is exposed to more diverse problem spaces, it's just that those are harder to model and we need to weed out the pointless stuff first.
It's actually pretty ok now, espacially with .whl for pretty much everything avoiding compilation and venv being provided with recent Python. The problem is the sheer amount of bad information you find online, so that people take hours figuring how things work.

E.G:

- people telling you to sudo pip install

- people telling you to use virtualenv instead of venv

- people not telling you to do python -m

- people not telling you about setup.cfg