skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pseudorandom deterministic tests have their value, presuming you store faulty input and/or seed.

These are not exactly nondeterministic but sometimes people end up with that instead of pseudorandom ones.
I definitely would. You can buy chickens for £2.50 each in ASDA which is less than a pint of beer in my local pub. Something not right about that.
Appreciate the insight. Looks like I see:

tcp4 // 0 // 0 // * . 8080 // * . * // LISTEN

Local address being (*.8080)
Testing MatrixDS capabilities on different languages and tools
Use the web version. No ads. Use the app only when you need to post.
I moved to a house in a rural area that is pretty much surrounded by fields full of pretty happy looking cattle and sheep - I have to say this has actually made me a bit squeamish, particularly about eating lamb (young lambs being some of the cutest animals you could wish to see).
We are not entirely sure
I've told the important people in my life that if they want to message me, they will need do it through Signal. It takes 2 minutes to set up, I show them how, and tell them that I won't reply to any SMS.

Many switched, including the least technical people I know. A few did not. It's really not hard; you just have to draw a line in the sand.

As a result of everyone I know using Signal, it fundamentally doesn't matter to me if the "mainstream" switches. We're already all on board.
With eggs you are probably getting plenty of protein.

I have been mostly vegan for a while and I don't think my bike riding has been affected, but I can tell you it definitely affected me when it came to weight lifting. For the first time in my life I just wasn't improving at all from session to session (and this is in the early stages when you just start lifting again after time off when gains come easy).

I know there are vegan weightlifters out there but from what I know getting all of your protein requirements from plant-based protein powder is a big undertaking.

It's not enough to make me go back to animal products but definitely something I miss from my meat eating days.
In Freiburg/Germany (250k inhabitants), the mean distance between bus stops is 634m, more distant than those of the tram (453m). Freiburg has more trams (72) than busses (65) running on 44 km of rails and the sum of all bus routes is 160 km. [1]

Trams run in short intervals and they are convenient when they're near, but switching from tram to bus carries a high time penalty two out of three times.

[1] https://www.vag-freiburg.de/die-vag/ueber-uns
I believe it was moved to a "Historical" category at that time
This is what I thought too. I generally develop React native apps on an Android device + iOS sim. Then before launch I borrow an iPhone from a friend or coworker for a quick test. This is a nice entry point to a physical iOS device
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Thank you for articulating this. I've noticed these kinds of comments are common on reddit, and since becoming a mod of a reasonably popular subreddit they've irked me, but I allowed them in the interest of free-ish speech/not wanting to be authoritarian, and also because I couldn't articulate exactly what the problem was. After all, I didn't think criticism of a given subreddit was categorically bad.

This:

> It's also a way of keeping one's distance from others: I'm not really part of this icky group—I'm here, but I'm better.

is a brilliant way of putting it. Completely nails the impression. It's a passive-aggressive, condescending way of pushing yourself up by putting others down.
https://whatwg.org/faq#spell-and-pronounce
Is there any sign that Apple will eventually allow development tools on iOS itself? (there's ssh clients, but I mean locally)

What's their motivation for preventing it?
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This seems to be in keeping with Google's "Moon Shot" philosophy — investing in some projects with potentially high payoff, but low probability of success.

If Tesla were pursuing a project like this, they'd probably announce that they were expecting all their cars to ship with cold fusion reactors by 2020 — and then start hiring a team ;-)
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Who was hiring at RailsConf 2019?
Also the differences between American English and British English are significantly smaller than the difference between Italian English and French English or Chinese English.
Here is Buenos Aires average is around 200-300m, which I personally find too short.
I remember one time seeing two bus stops literally 20-25 meters away from each other. The bus needed to take left on a two lane road so it would circle the block, there was a bus stop just before entering the circle and just before leaving it. Driving distance was ~400m, but walking was a few steps.
20% of stops in Edinburgh are less than 200m from the previous stop, 40% between 200m and 300m and 20% between 300m and 400 metres.

From http://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/download/meetings/id/58073/item_...
Are you arguing in favour of MAC-frameworks or capability-based kernels?
Because if you'd like MAC both Linux and OpenBSD have them. The post mentions the unveil[1] syscall, Linux has the Security Modules[2].
If you'd like capability-based kernels instead, then you're wishing for Zircon[3] to get traction.

[1]: https://man.openbsd.org/unveil
[2]: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/LSM/index...
[3]: https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/zircon
It wasn't that long ago that left-leaning commenters were celebrating higher minimum wages in Seattle...

And when they were told this wasn't going to end well for many workers, they even came up with all sorts of proofs that demonstrated they were right.

What's happened, guys?
"Some Linux-kernel-specific software does not work either. Namely, docker."

And that's where it loses me. All my development work requires docker. Gotta stick with Arch.
Shipping them like that would probably make it more expensive, lots of wasted space and added weight.
There's an Iron Man story arc lone from a few years ago where Tony Stark starts a car company using his repulsor batteries as the energy supply..
Uber shows that it's possible to redistribute wealth from venture capitalists to customers without aggression.
One recent test that was sometimes failing was ordering a list. It was due to how I made a sequence of my fixtures using numbers as a affix to a string so it was ordering correctly unless e.g. "string 8, string 9, string 10".

I fixed it for me by creating a random selection from /usr/share/dict/words to make a large array of sorted words to choose from. This made the fixtures have better and amusing names such as "string trapezoidal, string understudy"
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What happens if you don't pay? The consequences are aggression, and the fact that threat is hanging over you makes taxes a form of aggression. Coercing is a form of aggression.
For Switzerland, that distance sounds about right, tending more towards 100m (in major cities). There is bound to be a dataset somewhere: being a tiny country means that we map everything in great detail, and the government takes these topics quite seriously. Some links to get you started:

https://www.geo.admin.ch/en/geo-information-switzerland/geod...

https://www.geo.admin.ch/en/geo-information-switzerland/geod...

You can also visualize a lot of the topographic data on map.geo.admin.ch, which is surprisingly useful/flexible, if not very user friendly.
The W3C citations on MDN are a historical artifact by the documentation folks, not influenced by the browser folks. There's a slow movement to consolidate around what's implemented and stop referencing W3C forks, and I think today's news will help hurry that along. See e.g. the discussion in https://github.com/mdn/kumascript/issues/1019 or my previous work in https://github.com/mdn/kumascript/pull/220.
Yes. And do. And so do millions of people. The market is there, but the mechanism is not -- because to trust that the animals are not abused, you must know about the farm, which breaks traditional supply chains where a chicken is a chicken.

I've often wondered if a single-source brand could arise where they simply print a QR code on the package that would let you track the meat from its source and review living conditions (video, photos, etc). Its just a matter of historical record, so its feasible if you're willing to install the technology in the farm. There are independent auditors to assess farm quality for organic, etc -- why not also employ them for cruelty practices.
Listing items for a sixpack of their favourite makes for friendly, casual interactions. And you try out new things!
From chicken to tomatoes, here's why American food is hurting you
I got excited for a second thinking this was a reference to the book Pollen by Jeff Noon and some heretofore unknown embedded program. Anyways the Vurt series was way ahead of its time.
>It's not rocket science, it's no surprise at all to find cholesterol, sodium, saturated fats, etc. are in meat and processed foods.

You say that like dietary cholesterol, sodium and saturated fats were bad for us. (They're not.)
The Goldilocks effect – how much Open Source is just right?
The argument was that the NYT article is not talking about blue-collar jobs.

The NYT article is talking about 121000 contractors.

Either Google has 121000 white-collar contractors, or the article also talks about blue-collar jobs.
>many examples of carvings and paintings were made in places protected from the elements, like caves and overhangs

But how can we know if that was deliberate or a result of natural erosion weeding out the covered carvings from the uncovered?
This book was the catalyst to me going vegan a few years ago. It was easier than I expected. I can't really say that I feel much different. I like the idea that my cholesterol level will likely never be an issue. I'm loving beyond burgers, because something I missed before was a proper burger.
"So my question is why was the article written? "

Because almost any other entity could claim it's economic pressure and financial reality.

Google is sitting on Fort Knox, they're one of the most cash flush companies in thew world ... and they can't be bothered to actually hire people.

At the last G event, Sundar brought out this hyperbolic weeping montage about how their AI helps poor people in India 'read' the cooking directions on food labels, even when they are illiterate (i.e. AI text to voice).

It was gushy and pulled hard on heartstrings.

Well then why can't they just hire people and treat them as human equals?

It's beyond hypocritical.

With a little bit of cynicism, it's understandable from a business perspective - hey, it's money.

But what irks me is the elements of 'social justice' coming out of these entities while they're blind to the very social ills that they are driving.

People wonder why we have inequality, or 'housing affordability' etc. - well - this is it.

Folks in the Valley seems to be stoked to solve big problems and work on 'AI' - while kind of ignorant to the fact there are trailer parks all over the Valley. Which is mind blowing.
Go to your local library, find 10 cookbooks and inspect the recipes for making bread and report on how many of them include azodicarbonamide as one of the ingredients. I can't see any reason that an industrial foaming agent needs to be included in human food.
Entry level recruiters would be staff at most companies.
The Wikipedia article on ENQUIRE says it ran under SINTRAN III (the standard OS for many Norsk Data mainframes in the 1970s-1980s). So not a CERN-specific OS, just one not known to many people outside European users of mainframes at the time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENQUIRE
Where is the love for FF
It's not necessary in python (or many other server frameworks), because python doesn't typically follow a model of process-per-request. You can just stick it in memory available to all of your threads.
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Not unrelated to CR, but I'd like to take it further than they do. A more comprehensive effort to cobble together a purchasing block as leverage to encourage better behavior from producers, develop lists of design/production/marketing/sales/support practices that'll earn blacklisting, distribute the costs of trialing new products, hire experts for teardowns, etc.
It's very possible to get egg and dairy from farms with happy animals. You gotta pay for it, but that just demonstrates market desire for non-cruel farm products so I pay happily.
The problem with the ethical argument - that meat production is cruel and vegetable production is not - is that it makes all kinds of assumptions about plant anatomy and behavior that may be wrong.

In fact, the growing field of plant behavior strongly suggests that those assumptions are wrong. That plants aren't unthinking, unfeeling at all, but every bit as alive and aware of their environment as animals. It's a really fascinating field of study.

They've found evidence of an analogous nerve system (that appears to send pain responses), evidence of non-genetic memory, surprisingly advanced communication (tobacco plants communicate using over 3000 chemical compounds that mean different things), environmental awareness (you can perform pavlov's experiment on pea plants using wind for the bell and sunlight for the food), kin recognition, and more.

It's a lot harder for us to recognize the signs of awareness, pain, even - maybe - intelligence of a sort, because plants are completely alien to us. They communicate with chemicals, move by growing, live at a different speed.

For example, most of us would immediately recognize and empathize with any animal screaming in pain or fear. Most of the animals that scream to communicate are social animals. The scream serves as a warning, "I'm hurt or afraid, there's danger, watch out!" Grass plants, when cut, release a chemical that cause other grass plants to raise their defenses. It serves pretty much the same biological purpose as a scream, "I'm hurt, there's danger, watch out!"

But we would never recognize the smell of fresh cut grass as a scream.
There is a semi-valid reason similar, but I think different, from his first point.

Holding on to data provides an option to potential downstream gains. (ie: holding data has an "option value").

Will it be valuable? Who knows? Maybe there is some nugget which will unlock your business or service and bring you victory.

If you get rid of it, you'll never know, until perhaps too late.

If you couple the option-value of holding data to a perhaps unrealistically low expectation of the cost of holding data (ie: a breach), you get an expected value calculation that says, 'hold everything!'

It may be totally rational, even if incorrect.
"not breaking" is an aspirational goal, not remotely a fact. When browser vendors decide to ship a breaking change (and make no mistake, they do this multiple times a year - probably dozens to hundreds) they have to run live experiments to gather data on how many commonly-visited sites use a feature they're going to change or a quirk they're going to remove. Typically if the value is like 1% or above the change is killed unless it can be made compatible, but they will go ahead even if it's over 0%. 1% may sound small to you, but web browsers are used by like... a billion people? More? And 1% of a billion is a pretty sizable number of people.

Pretend if you want, your stuff will probably break eventually. If it's simple enough it won't break and then you can go on with your life - that's certainly the goal of browser developers.

At the moment you start using the DOM or other JS APIs exposed by browsers the odds of your stuff breaking in the next decade go up, especially if you're using things that aren't like 5-year-old parts of the spec. The shelf life of most JS-heavy webapps is like 2 years in my experience.
Cholesterol is not bad for you. You need it to live, that’s why your body makes it.

Eating cholesterol has very little impact on the cholesterol levels in your body.

Salt is also not bad for you.
I think there are severity levels.

I think everyone's typical week has at least a couple of "OMG I hate this place!" moments that are related to a particularly difficult commute, a technical problem that crops up at a particularly frustrating time, repeated runins with a difficult coworker that you usually only have to deal with once a month, etc. But you're able to "talk yourself down" within a few minutes.

But when it's every day much of the day, it's a problem.

So where do you draw the line is the question.
>I would define power as the ability to make other people do what you want

I don't think anyone agrees or uses the word 'power' that way, instead, power ought to be defined as:

>the ability to do something or act in a particular way, especially as a faculty or quality.

Getting this definition wrong confuses the author throughout the article:

>So freedom is a kind of power; but a certain kind freedom also comes with powerlessness

Okay, the definition the author provided literally stated power is the ability to make other people do what you want and freedom is the ability to do what you want. I fail to see how in that mode freedom is a kind of power. I think the author doesn't really believe their own definition.

The author goes on to question if great leaders (e.g. Alexander the Great) have freedom, comparing him to the homeless philosopher Diogenes. That's ultimately a personal question; if Freedom is indeed the ability to do what you like, you have to ask "could I do more of what I like as Alexander the Great or Diogenes?"

>Underlying the pathetic quest for all power is fear: the fear of death.

Underlying the pathetic quest for mediocrity is fear: the fear of failure. We can sit here speculating about the psychology of the average and the ambitious all day, but it provides nothing useful other than additional zings for $ECHO_CHAMBER to enjoy.

>The sanest people, I think, are those happily unafflicted with ambition

Cattle are pretty happy, sure. Expounding on the mental health of "the ambitious" (whatever that means to the author) seems pretty disingenuous and like an attempt to control the creative expressions of others.

It's frightening that people actually think this way.
What is this "open source data?"
such epistemic issues apply to all domains of knowledge. also, anecdotal evidence, ie, "what worked for them", is still valid data, and should be valued as such
You are already downvoted into oblivion and rightfully so, but I just wanted to add my perspective as a backend developer (and the one who did post-graduate level mathematical stuff at that) who now manages a team of back and front end developers and plays with front end development for toy projects. The sheer amount of complexity and required knowledge for front end development is simply baffling to me. These folks have to know such disparate technologies as CSS, HTML, Javascript as a bare minimum and it never stops there. Typescript, templating engines, CSS preprocessors, huge and continuously evolving javascript ecosystem, evented concurrency (please take me back to my threads and semaphores), asynchronous state management in complex UIs with non-trivial interdependencies... Compared to this stochastic calculus is a breeze.
Staffers have undeniably more leverage that contractors. So yes, on an 'all things equal' basis, this will come out oddly.

It's one thing to outsource security, another to outsource people who work as part of the organization: admins, executive assistants, developers, recruiters etc..
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It's worth noting that the 9/11 U.S. insolation study showed a human-created mitigating factor, not a causal factor. That is, it showed that high-altitude contrails create clouds high enough to raise the average albedo and reflect solar energy that otherwise would reach the surface. This is, to some extent, "hiding" a portion of the true warming one would expect from the current mix of the atmosphere and solar activity.

That doesn't offer evidence either way for a hypothesis that there are natural processes yet undescribed that could surprise us with their contribution to warming. Discovering one new thing about a complex phenomenon doesn't make it more likely that another new thing is out there to be discovered. If anything, it makes it less likely, on the theory that there are a finite number of factors contributing to a result of given significance in a deterministic system--in this case, global average temperature trend.

And anyway, what we're really worried about is long-term warming, and this paper is not about that. It's about factors that contribute to temperature variance on shorter time scales during the known long-term warming. From the article:

> However, the relative influences of natural drivers of climate change – such as volcanic eruptions, ocean cycles, and the sun – on warmer and cooler phases superimposed on the long-term warming trend is still an area of active research.

There are two levels to the question of global warming. One is the overall, global question--are we making the surface of the Earth warmer by burning fossil fuels? This is a relatively simple question to answer, so simple that it was first proposed over a century ago, basically when thermodynamics was being invented. Very little contemporary research goes toward answering this question; it has basically been answered.

The other level is: can we predict the consequences of this warming at time scales and resolutions relevant to human society? This is an incredibly complex endeavor and where the bulk of contemporary time and resources are spent (including this paper).
That is my favorite Carlin bit.
In the UK the Consumer Association product the Which? magazine and website. which.com
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Exactly. Sadly however some people would still prefer to believe WHO's authority and take their meat-causes-cancer factoid to be a fact.

> Does a low-carb diet improve health outcomes? Or a vegan diet? We just don't know, and anyone that tells you they do know is either selling you something or, at best, telling you what worked for them.

Yup; and the same applies to anyone looking to refute a diet they do not like. For example, a vegan asserting that the carnivore diet is unhealthy and vice versa.
Will have a closer look later today. It's always a pleasure to find useful libs written in TS, thank you!
This is silly. It is like saying that native bipedal humans do not stumble when walking.

There is a well recognized concept of mastering a language, you can claim (and I would agree) that dialects are respectable languages and AAVE is a proper English. Still some native speakers in any language cannot understand long sentences or know how to express complex information.

Otherwise if we go with the truism "everyone speaks their native language perfectly" we simply end up essentially saying that languages are fragmented to the level of individuals and that some language are inherently "better" than others. Both are positions I would not like were they to become mainstream.
"should", sure, but vendors (I mostly run into this w/Chrome but other vendors do it too) happily just ignore the spec because it's inconvenient and sometimes explicitly have no plans to ever align with it. I recently ran into a case where Chrome was intentionally moving away from the spec without making any effort to update the spec, because being correct was... annoying. Not impossible or bad for users, just annoying.

At the time the behavior worked right in Firefox and Edge but now that Chrome is going to ignore the spec I suspect the other vendors might too. (For reference, it was an issue related to the lifetime of javascript objects for frames that have been unloaded or navigated)

This sort of thing will never appear in a compatibility matrix. You find out when it breaks your code.
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Now put that loaf of bread you made in a plastic bag, set it in your pantry, and try and eat it two weeks from now.