skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Me too! I think I used a TI85 or 89 but yup! It was awesome learning how to make them after years of playing with them on Fractint, just zooming around.
>Student loans would presumably not be given if the degree program isn't able to get you a "good" job after finishing it.

Er, that's pretty much how we got here, they have been and are being given. Government-backed student loans have no requirement that they be spent on degrees that are lucrative.
It's mindblowing how so many developers are quick to build on the Java ecosystem... an ecosystem backed by a company so hell-bent on stifling innovation.
That's a fair point, small-d-docker should not be a thing.
A more consistent documentation experience. A lot of code examples import various modules, but those modules have no documentation. For example: Docs > Client > Apollo Link mentions `graphql-tools` and schema stitching, with a link to read more. Clicking that link takes you to a page that says it's deprecated, and then links to a blog post about why.

Another example: Is `apollo-link-state` deprecated? The docs for `apollo-link-state` don't mention that, but the Local state management page in Apollo Client sure says it is.
I actually have found that if you are an engineer who displays well-rounded skills in multiple disciplines, like business acumen, communication, writing and conflict management, this causes managers and non-engineers around you to view you as a threat, and they will work harder to undermine you and try to box you into a “engineer only” label.

Above all, you won’t be rewarded for these other skills, despite how vital they are.
Docker containers must run on a vm on Windows and Mac.

So it's an innovation in packaging.
“Defending Against Neural Fake News” (Check Out the Samples in the Appendix)
Texas court orders to proceed sex trafficking lawsuit against Facebook
Yes, and he appears to harbor a grudge against the Guardian, which you can see by the number of inflammatory articles tagged Guardian on his blog.

While it's quite possible that among all news sources, Jonathan Cook seems to have worked for the one horrific news source in the world, and is doing us a service by constantly exposing their acts, Occam's razor would suggest otherwise.

I've read a sampling of his articles, and he seems to be either an extremist, or someone who wishes to profit by appearing to be one. His posts seem mostly to be lacking a bit in rational discourse (with gems like "As far I can tell, none of the facts in the Guardian’s story is untrue. But that does not stop it from being a blatant lie"), and without much diversity in subject.
Radiation is definitely creepy and poorly understood. There was a great video by the Veritasium guy on it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRL7o2kPqw0

Punch line, you definitely wanna stay away from ciggarettes if you don't like radiation.

There's also this crazy woman (I think she's German?) who likes to go play with radiation sources. She has the most dead pan voice that barely changes except to possibly register some excitement when she finds a particularly hot source of radiation. She has a bunch of videos exploring Chernobyl. It's quite interesting for example to watch her pick apart dirt to find the single hot particle: https://youtu.be/C9npqRJ_9P8?t=150
Obligatory quote by Richard Feynman:

"You know, the most amazing thing happened to me tonight... I saw a car with the license plate ARW 357. Can you imagine? Of all the millions of license plates in the state, what was the chance that I would see that particular one tonight? Amazing!"
This is the first time I've read anything in depth about this and I gotta say Oracle's case feels stronger and google is tilting at windmills. Oracle wrote something, google copied it.

Oracle isn't arguing that you can't use java api's in general without a license. Its arguing that if you wanna create a new platform you can't copy copyrighted code. Doesn't matter how small it is, google has demonstrated that it was intentional and instrumental in helping android grow.
All sorts of accidents are expected. We take them into account. For example, if you operate a large data center, you simply assume that a certain number of drives and motherboards will fail, and build it into the plan.

No one planned for Fukushima to be flooded. No on planned for one of Chernobyl's reactor cores to explode. (The phrase "impossible" was tossed around a lot; it took a good deal of thinking to finally recognize the design flaw.)
Why would the thought of DDOSing the supreme court even cross your mind?
The bill explicitly prevents that behavior.

"The 'opt-in' nature...would set it apart from other
state internet privacy laws...

the proposed Maine law also would prohibit any [ISP] from
making the sale of customer data part of its mandatory
[TOS]. It also could not charge higher fees to customers
who refuse to opt in"

https://www.pressherald.com/2019/05/29/maine-on-track-to-pas...
Creating a Starcraft AI – Part 30: Figuring Outing the Hurting
I recommend watching the Turing Award speech by Patterson and Hennessey which covers this topic.

Spoiler: the way out is "Domain Specific Architectures".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LVeEjsn8Ts
> ’Rape' as in he didn't go and test himself for STDs when the woman he had sex with demanded it afterward

This is false. The allegation is he got consent for sex with a condom. He then surreptitiously removed the condom.
second only to reading comprehension
How does it impact us as developers either way? Both are titans that have contributed vital pieces of tech infrastructure as well as committed evil acts in their space. Oracle is arguably more evil here, but is it that big of a tragedy if Google loses? They have obscene amounts of cash; what difference does it make if a pile of cash goes from one evil pocket to another? Please if you downvote give an explanation. I honestly want to know what's at stake here for us.
I like this one: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1811.05441
The Russian puppet claims only started after Wikileaks started acting like a Russian puppet.
Is there are tutorials or training material you would recommend.
I have been hearing "plain writing" more and more...but not sure if it is the right thing.
Pratap Sarangi: India social media hero minister's dubious past
While big media is imperfect and has its large problems, they provide a nuanced filter with regard to things like self-harm, suicide, genital mutilation, etc. I’d prefer not having very personal very dark themes go through a lowest common denominator since many people lack judiciousness and good judgement when it comes to these issues. Is an image informative or is it promoting something further? Exploitative or Journalistic?
Well if you are going to frame it as taxpayers paying off the loans (I don’t necessarily agree with you framing it that way), then the taxpayers are also the ones that extended these guaranteed loans in the first place.

So by your logic, yes taxpayers are responsible to the extent they are guaranteeing loans in the first place which is what allows the schools to charge artificial prices which the data shows can’t be repaid in millions of cases because the jobs and wages aren’t there. The article maybe just a few anecdotes but when the data amounts to 1M defaults a year, at what point are you going to stop complaing about the taxpayers having to make up for the bad decisions of 18 year old kids trying to better their future and question taxpayer funded loans allowing the runaway school costs in the first place?
Stronger, Wetter, Slower: How Hurricanes Will Change
> I'm sorry to hear that, is there some problem with SNAP and Medicaid that's preventing him from taking them? Is housing just so costly where he lives that he's insolvent despite not being below the "poverty plus" lines for those programs?

Nailed it! Seattle is not an inexpensive city. Before expenses he's actually doing quite well for himself, in theory - especially compared to federal poverty guidelines - for a college drop-out. But those guidelines that are probably pretty feasible in West Virginia or Kansas are so far beyond useless to someone in a larger metro, it's kind of insane.

So no dice on SNAP or expanded Medicaid (Apple Health, in WA). It's a shame because without the insurance premiums, he'd actually be able to make all of his loan payments, even without extending them or doing an IBR type thing.
Cloudflare isn't trying to compete with github, You have misread the news.
That is assuming that the bullshitter or another participant doesn't understand what they read.

Also sounds like the Chair did not control the meeting.
Reddit discussion thread:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/bv6q2t/def...

Common theme - the samples look amazing, maybe even better than GPT-2 large.
I recall my technical writing class in collage was actually pretty good and it was a required course. But when i went into industry there was not monetary connection to writing quality. Sometimes it is even better for developers to have convoluted documentation because then they make themselves indispensable to maintenance in the future.
Java was created by Sun. Oracle bought them mainly to sue Google.

Kotlin from jetbrains is where developer mindshare is today ;)
Since you use both Chrome and Firefox, do you know if it's possible to import saved passwords from Chrome into FF on Mac? I was able to do it on my work PC but the Mac version of FF didn't show that option.
As Alaska Warms, Wildfires Pose a Growing Threat
A lot like Quora, I think a lot of people see their tactics as super hostile to users. Things like bait and switching to force you to sign up to see the content. Tons of spam on the site. I know a lot of people hate that they have just dumped so much trash into Google image results, again, forcing you to signup when you actually want to see the content. A lot of dark UX patterns like those seem to be the biggest complaint I've personally seen and experienced.
That's akin to saying that someone wrote about English grammar and you copied it in your comment by structuring your sentence in a certain way, using punctuation, etc.
What they licensed to BlackBerry, Nokia and Danger was of course the Java ME runtime.
I must admit I have not been following this case too close. But I get the general sense that most people in the CS community is in favor or Google and against Oracle. I'd like to understand it better.

Can someone please explain in technical terms exactly what Google copied and what is Oracle complaining about? Is it just the Java API declarations? Most of the articles I find try to explain the issue in layman's terms which makes it harder for me to understand exactly what was copied.
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The Universe’s First Stars Exploded in Strange Ways
A Ring Buffer for Epoll
The historical roof cannot be preserved anymore. A newly-built roof made of concrete and steel has no more historical value than one made of wood. But the rest of the cathedral does. But it was damaged by the fire and can be damaged again. To protect and preserve the historical fabric of the cathedral, its artwork and artifacts, we should avoid fires in the future. By building a non-historical roof made of concrete and steel rather than an equally non-historical roof made of wood.
It's a really bad decision to lend a kid $30k+ to obtain skills no one wants to pay for.
I see the humor in your post, but I think it misses a little about mainstream Christian theology:

IIUC, the idea is that people should fully enjoy sex for the purposes that God intended, but should limit themselves to that. (There are some secular arguments for/against adhering those those behaviors, but other reasons will depend on premises only meaningful to Christians.)

So Christian theology, in general, isn't to keep your pants on. It's to screw to your heart's desire with your spouse, but nobody else.
You can retire risk and accelerate progress by launching more smaller missions and accepting that some of them fail.

The public must be enlightened enough to understand that occasional failure ia a much faster and better and even cheaper path to success.
And even if you can't publish, but can recommend some other material with close-enough content, that would be great.
I, for one, welcome the end of our Moore's Law overlords.

This race to increase various aspects of performance has long let the fields of architecture and the software on top of it be lazy in their optimizations. When there's no more juice in that fruit to squeeze, I know there is much more to be found elsewhere.

/I can't wait for my non-von neumann SoC FPGA hybrid to use for...I'll figure it out then I'm sure.
I noticed a few languages removing support for octal and binary literals. I wonder why. I find them useful and the parser overhead seems minimal to keep them around.
Many tasks are poorly defined or aren't solving the real problems the customer has. This is the classic problem of a customer asking for something very specific then complaining when it doesn't solve their problem. There are a lot of developers who deliver exactly what is asked for in this way. They would be better served by taking a few minutes to make sure they understand how it serves the customers' actual needs, not just completing another ticket.
Acceleration has its benefits, but the ideal solution would be to accelerate the educational aspects for the child without accelerating the social side.
There are definitely alternatives. For example, https://hcaptcha.com/ (I have not used or evaluated them).

If any of your small business clients might be interested in our new CAPTCHA service that should launch late next month, please let me know (see profile for contact information). Our pricing is projected to be $10 for 100,000 requests.
Is the value of some college degree really the problem or does our system and culture just do a horrible job of matching candidates with open positions?
No one's ever been fired for buying Microsoft/Intel/Cisco. This approach looks cool, but it also seems like a lot to ask from the average sysadmin.
And it is even further strange that you would write a comment about me writing a comment about how uninterested I am about something. A very odd world indeed. How far down the rabbit hole can we go?
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/15/world/europe/notre-dame-c...

> After construction had begun, flying buttresses were added to the design of the cathedral.

IIRC, they also upgraded the first set with sturdier ones in the 14th Century.
>Climate change is causing massive loss of land in the form of shifting climate and rising sea levels. And coal power's contribution to that lost land is far greater than the lost land at Chernobyl and Fukushima.

False equivalency, as you are measuring the total land mass, to two specific accidents.

This is a perfect example as to why no-body trusts Nuclear power advocacy, because it twists and turns facts into a mush with the aim of pushing the agenda.

Building nuclear plants, & Uranium extraction and processing both release high amounts of CO2 gasses, to build nuclear plants isnt a magic wand that will fix global warming, it is an upfront cost, in the tens of billions of USD per plant, and after that comes the economic costs of constant subsidies. After all, nuclear power is the single most expensive way to produce energy after coal.

>They want reliable constant power, and a large portion of that is going to be coal if they don't have other options.

"They want reliable constant power", except you can deliver that with a matrix of solar+natural gas, or solar+wind+natural gas, or solar+gas+batteries.

Again, you show yourself to not be discussing in good faith. Coal just like nuclear energy is simply not an economic endeavor anymore, it is all in gas, solar and wind. And energy matrices composed out of those can be highly reliable.

>Few problems with this thinking. First this is why nuclear power plants are regulated.

I mean, Fukushima, 3 Mile Island, Chernobyl where all "regulated". "Known knowns, Known unknowns and Unknown unknowns". The risk costs of the Unknown unknowns for nuclear are simply stratospheric.

Also, going once again back to price, the safer you make the nuclear plants, the more the cost, and the higher the subsidies they need to receive from consumers and governments.

Also n2, as other people have mentioned in the thread, nuclear plants are always built by the lowest bidder, same with the staffing, same with the handling of nuclear waste. When you build a nuclear plant, you arent "trusting the best", you will always be trusting the cheapest guys in the business.

>We do know how to dispose of it. Put it in a deep hole. Or burn it more in a breeder.

Except.... We dont, Yuka Mountain isnt really operating, there are like 2 nuclear waste disposal in Europe, Onkalo and another site in Germany, and in the past there have been serious claims of dilapidation and abandonment [0]

[0] https://www.dw.com/en/nuclear-waste-in-disused-german-mine-l...

When it comes to breeders, again, there's not a single one really working in the entire planet[1]. Spent nuclear fuel usually sits idly bye in rusting tanks [2, 3, 4], barrels, or besides the working reactors in the pools.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2012/jul/30/fast-bre...

[2] https://www.dw.com/en/radioactive-waste-leaking-at-german-st...

[3] https://www.thelocal.se/20140224/rust-found-on-vattenfall-nu...

[4] https://www.smh.com.au/national/rusted-barrels-of-radioactiv...

If you want people to actually believe what you say, you need to speak truthfully of how things actually work, not lie and give a rose tinted version of the facts
> the consumer has no choice but to give consent.

The law makes that illegal as well

> the proposed Maine law also would prohibit any internet service provider from making the sale of customer data part of its mandatory terms of service. It also could not charge higher fees to customers who refuse to opt in, or penalize them in any way.

https://www.pressherald.com/2019/05/29/maine-on-track-to-pas...
New evidence links ultra-processed foods with a range of health risks
We should ban collecting tons if info about people, for all companies, period. We won't, because banks and CC companies are very into doing that and the politicians love them, but we should.
How many of those Top 10k Alexa sites are full-blown web applications that need GraphQL in the first place?
Selective Yellow Light
The activity he is accused of meets the Swedish and English definitions of rape. This has been tested in the English court. https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Admin/2011/2849.html
New way to protect against high-dose radiation damage discovered
> But do tell they are smart.

The problem occurs when they incorporate "smart" into their identity, so telling them they're smart is a problem too.

From the article I linked:

> Since Thomas could walk, he has heard constantly that he’s smart. Not just from his parents but from any adult who has come in contact with this precocious child....

> But as Thomas has progressed through school, this self-awareness that he’s smart hasn’t always translated into fearless confidence when attacking his schoolwork. In fact, Thomas’s father noticed just the opposite. “Thomas didn’t want to try things he wouldn’t be successful at,” his father says. “Some things came very quickly to him, but when they didn’t, he gave up almost immediately, concluding, ‘I’m not good at this.’ ” With no more than a glance, Thomas was dividing the world into two—things he was naturally good at and things he wasn’t. [emphasis mine]
"Those whom the gods wish to destroy, they first call 'promising'." --Cyril Connolly
Only somewhat related here, but we recently did a QP where our team came in without previously breaking epics into smaller tasks.

One argument is that we could've done that outside of the meeting, in its own meeting. But that actually wouldn't have saved any time, but would've probably cost more. Basically, we set aside the afternoon to accomplish the task at hand. If we had broke it into multiple days, there would've been memory debt we'd have to refresh.

As an engineer, I feel that requiring pre-homework for a meeting can be detrimental. As other posters mentioned, going through it all together in the scheduled meeting ensures that everyone is on the page. Additionally, it means that an hour long meeting doesn't actually require an hour and a half of my time, so I can better judge and plan my schedule.
People down voting this comment, care to add a comment about why you are down voting it? Surely, it's not because you believe spent fuel is not a problem? I hope not because it is a HUGE problem perhaps bigger even than dumping CO2 into the air if you ask me.
Which is sad, in a way. There was something amazing about a general purpose computer that next generations may not be able to appreciate.
Who would have thought Nashville is where the replica would be. It’s not on my list of things to see.
> How does it impact us as developers either way?

“Treating APIs as copyrightable has a profound negative impact on interoperability and innovation. And it goes against decades of tradition and common practice in the software world.”

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/05/eff-asks-federal-circu...
Playing with Fractint and reading Chaos shaped my world view more than most things in my youth. It formed the basis for what passes for spirituality in me.
A lot of anti-cancer and anti-bacterial drug labs. Probably gene-therapy too..
>A coal plant just isn't capable of making a thousand square miles uninhabitable for centuries.

Neither is a nuclear plant. Cleaning up within a century seems feasible. A lot of Chernobyl exclusion zone is completely safe, it just hasn't been revised in decades. Just compare to how fast Fukushima exclusion zone is shrinking. And you're ignoring loss of land due to rising sea levels.

>Companies just can't be trusted to run nuclear power plants.

If companies can be trusted to run hydroelectric plants, which have a capability to drown everyone downstream, then they can be trusted to run nuclear. I've never seen anyone campaigning to end hydro even though potential for disaster is much bigger (and hydro disasters with more casualties than Chernobyl happened several times).

>We still have no large-scale long-term plan for how to dispose of nuclear waste

Given the amount of nuclear waste that is produces this seems a weak concern. Anything that's heavily radioactive is just an energy source to be reused (and there's a lot of research being done on this). And the alternative is a lot (and I mean a lot) of solar panels and batteries, and these need to be disposed of as well.
It's more akin to someone who wrote a book and I copied the title and each chapter heading and then rewrote each chapter in my own words.
Looks very interesting - would benefit from showing some examples and/or use cases
I don't think this and other so-called "soft" skills are undervalued by engineers themselves. A good writer/communicator brings immediate value to any engineering team and will be treated as such, usually. It's the pointy heads and the business side of the operation who don't value it, because it's not sexy. IT and software engineering are abstract to them, so when they don't see "hands on keyboards" (writing code), they think no work is being done.

Software engineering will remain in its infancy as a "profession" until software engineers themselves organize and better assert their own professional standards. Writing and iterating over documentation is an ISO standard that is ignored 99% of the time. If you ignore your professional standards, you are not a professional, no matter your title or your salary or even your field of work.
Yeah, maybe I should have supplied a better example, since "when r u going to do this?" is fairly unambiguous, so I suppose that that is a failure of writing on my end :).

However, I've seen people us abbreviations that are incredibly difficult to parse, even for people with English as a first language. I can't imagine how difficult some of those emails can be for people that didn't grow up with the language.