skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure I buy your Judas story, if he believed then he was stupid to sell God. You also have the other disciple Thomas (sorry I am not sure the right name translation) he also did not believe that Jesus could have reviewed, so again a person that knew Jesus in person did not believe in him how should I that I only see the unfair world and the Bible that is full of historical mistakes presented as truth,

Anyway my problem is that I had faith when I was young, I was brainwashed with this religious stories and I even wanted to become a priest , but I lost the faith, I can't believe, I read the Bible and I seen the world, maybe only f I see a miracle or see a devil or ghost I could have some doubts that there are supra natural things. (coincidentally when I was young I was also believing in ghosts, vampires witches )

How would you find the truth about God, let's consider that from the 10+ major religion neither is the correct one, do you try to find something that is common in all religions, or only in major ones? If you believe there is a God is there also a Devil that is all the time tricking you and you need to be paranoid and question everything?

Do you believe? do you have no doubts? Do you try to think about those doubts or you attempt to push the thoughts away so you don't upset God that you are considering what if he does not exists or what if your religion is the wrong one, really bad one.
Which honestly makes sense. Komodo is one of my favourite editors, but Christ working with XUL is painful!
Kids these days. They can't even multiple 6 by 9. And somehow that's the fault of the colleges they attend.
Yes, if people need to work multiple jobs that is an indication of a huge societal problem. The workers in those jobs are being abused by the society and collectively we should fix it.

We should change the law to make sure that every job pays a living wage, so that people are not forced to work 60+ hours per week at irregular hours plus commute time etc. just to survive. We should increase social support for families and children. We should strive to reduce the cost of housing, transportation, healthcare, and education.

Our society is rich enough to dramatically increase public funding for primary and secondary education and adequately train and support career teachers, dramatically increase funding for social workers, mental health professionals, etc.
what have you been doing for the last 8 years? Why did you pick philosophy?
Up Extreme – Intel 8th Gen CPU-Powered SBC
It’s standard OATH. There are libraries for every language that I’m aware of that let you integrate with OATH providers. You don’t have to use Apple’s tools to do it. You could use “sign in with Apple” from any platform.

But what good would “open source tools” do overall if you still have to integrate with Apple’s services/APIs to do anything useful - the same is true with Android/Google Play Services.
Your would need to compare the outcome of a large cohort and not relay on individual experiences maybe you and I where just lucky.
There is probably at least 5 sides to the story :)

And I think one of the most important things to realize is that both the story I told and the one you told can be true (or false) at the same time!
I'm not the parent author, but when I developed Android applications having the source to the widget libraries available to me me was incredibly valuable.
One saving grace is that if a cyber attack was bad enough, it would likely result in retaliation in the physical space, provided attribution could be proven. Superpowers generally have armed forces far superior to asymmetric attackers and would be able to inflict punitive damages far beyond the cost of the initial cyber attack. There is some deterrence against some of the worst attacks eg: knocking out a power grid.

If you look at the pattern of really nasty cyber attacks against infrastructure and industry, they usually are the other way around. Stuxnet was the US attacking Iran, Ukraine was attacked by Russia.
Andy Ko on being reflectively self-aware, deliberately structured, productive
I wonder if image data URIs fly below the radar
Not surprising. If Target has that power in the market to demand that, why not? They are doing $60M/year in sales per store, plus employing 50+ in each store, so it makes sense they want the highest skilled workers to manage so much responsibility. Not saying you learn the necessary skills to do this job in undergrad though.
Sounds like a bunch of boogey man talk to me. None of what you have said has anything to do with the actual practice of genetic modification. It's solely unfounded paranoia. Not a single one of those has ANY relation to biotech companies other than the fact they are companies.

You're first paragraph was also full of falsehoods.

>> have no incentive to make sure they are safe on the long run since corporations almost never pay anything for their mistakes

Money and criminal prosecution, those are some good incentives. Also, corporations are constantly being sued. Some don't correct their mistakes because the people suing aren't interested in the global welfare either their interested in money so they settle. Also, I keep seeing the "they said that it would never spread" idea, I never recall any invested proponent say that there was 100% containment. Not once.

Also it is fairly easy though to contain, most of the crops that are modified have very high nutritional demands, they need regular watering, regular nitrates and minerals, near perfect soil. I take it, from the looks of the comments, there are practically no HN community members from a farming background. Most of these plants will die without farmers or being in a field prepared by farmers. That's why weeds are such a problem for farmers, they outcompete their very needy crops. The only real exception I can think of (out of the modified crops) that can thrive on its own is potatoes, the rest of them are very needy and don't do well in the wild. Even with potatoes though they spread best by spuds, the seeds are tiny and die easy. But that's why the others were the first targets for modification, to resist the chemicals required to suppress competition.
publishers probably wouldn't like this feature. There's a dated small js bookmarklet effort (http://ronkeizer.github.io/blendle-bookmarklet/) that apparently still works for the given WSJ example link. Though for my own favourite newspapers there's no identifiable conversion scheme. Blendle maps by the issues date and article page position to the url, while the newspapers cms has arbitrary article ids.
I reckon we are nearly at the end though, as he has just started threatening Twitter - https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/11377022188351365...

I predicted long ago that the Donald Trump Presidency would probably end with him setting fire to the White House in a fit of rage after being kicked off Twitter. With any luck this could be the beginning of that process.
You're right that this is potentially anticompetitive, but

“Companies will regulate themselves” is a cute libertarian bedtime story.

I've never heard libertarians say that. Rather, they say that consumers have the potential to regulate companies if they choose to do so, by voting with their feet. We should do so more often than we do; when there's a free market (monopolies are not free markets) it feels pretty good to tell a company to go screw themselves.

Personally I switched back to Firefox when Chrome tried to force login to my Google account, and I haven't missed a thing (other than some dev tools, e.g. websocket inspection). Firefox Quantum is really good, and their bookmark sync has replaced my previous usage of the now-defunct Xmarks.
If your company requires interview to transfer _internally_, you should consider leaving. Microsoft was like that (maybe still is, I don't know), and it was easier to get a job elsewhere than to go to a desirable team.
Well internally it shows as an extension, you can check yourself. Didn't use to, but does now.
A lot of those folks that are hidden have 0 connections or linked accounts, few reviews, and/or all reviews being the same star rating. I’m not saying it’s a good system but I see a variety of ratings hidden in that section.

All of my wife’s reviews were being hidden until she added established accounts as friends on yelp. Not sure why anyone treats it as a social network but so it goes.
"Spend more time on discussion forums, young Frog"!
Van attacks aren’t limited to Islamic extremism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto_van_attack
Even in the Netherlands, vehicles are not really absent from the city cores although there are more bikes in particular than in many other places.

I'm not sure you contradict my basic point though. Plop down a centrally-designed city that severely limits cars and I think you'll have a lot of trouble attracting either residents or employers.
> LDL-c is bad.

Is it really? For example:

Ravnskov, Uffe, Michel de Lorgeril, David M. Diamond, Rokuro Hama, Tomohito Hamazaki, Björn Hammarskjöld, Niamh Hynes, et al. 2018. “LDL-C Does Not Cause Cardiovascular Disease: A Comprehensive Review of the Current Literature.” Expert Review of Clinical Pharmacology 11 (10): 959–70. https://doi.org/10.1080/17512433.2018.1519391.
Taurine found in the RedBull drink and body building supplement will help repair the damage bright light carries out on your eyes, its also a nootropic helping users to lay down memories when they sleep, dream frequency including remembering dreams will also increase, dreaming is a sign that memories and learning is taking place amongst other things. Re no one showing a computer screen is harmful, the blue light from devices can keep people awake for longer including when using F.Lux, and the circadian rhythmes are such that it supresses the release of melatonin the sleep hormone which typically starts to rise from around 21:30 peaking around 01:30 before dropping off sharply. This time various depending on where you live in the world and day of the year as its link to sunset times. Melatonin is also 4x more potent as an anti-oxidant than Vitamin C and also helps increase the release of mesenchymal stem cells which aid the repair process carried out when we sleep. So yes studies have shown computer screens, smartphones used late in the evening and at night can cause damage to the body. Its not exclusively blue light which keeps people awake either, red light can also keep people alert, this is why vehicle brake lights are red, red being associated with danger which arouses the mind and body. One of the problems with the human body is it can also function adversely if expected light is missing from the light spectrum of the source. This will become more common place with the use of narrow band light sources like LED's when compared to the sun. The body has evolved over thousands of years in an environment which we are changing rapidly through technology and evolution can not keep up with man made changes.
> Gays might have the choice not to live a gay lifestyle, but I don't think you will find any gay guys who would say they have the choice not to be attracted to men.

It is not about to be attracted or not to be attracted. It is a choice between different kinds of behavior, not between different states of mind. It is bad to rob a bank. But it is neither bad nor good to be attracted by the money of the bank.

There is neither bad nor good to be sexually attracted by a woman, but it is bad to rape her in any case. I feel attraction to a women regularly, but I'm not raping them.

You know, there is an examples of sexual preferences that are forbidden. Pedophilia for example. But if pedophile keeps his preferences to himself, than it is ok, nothing wrong with it. We forbid pedophiles to follow their sexual desires, but we allow heterosexuals and homosexuals to follow theirs (while they respect legal constraints on an age of a partner). What the difference? Why we allow some people to follow their sexual preferences and forbid others to do so?

Lets clarify: it is bad to forbid human from following his sexual desires. Not just because he would be unhappy, it is bad for his psychological well-being, it might have harmful long term effects for his mind. As Freud taught there is 8 (or 9?) kinds of psychological defense and only one of them isn't necessary harmful to a person -- sublimation. Which one of those will choose the mind of pedophile?

But in some cases we forbid nevertheless despite of damages, why we think that it is ok?

It is all about harm to individuals and to a society inflicted by following a desires. Gays are harmless, they are not saints of course, but they are not worse than a heterosexual. There is no reason to harm gays by a ban to a homosexual relationships. Such a ban would inflict damage for some without benefiting others. But pedophile could do a lot of harm to children, so we accept harming pedophiles to protect our children. We accept harming robbers of banks to protect banks. We accept harming rapers to protect women. We do not accept harming heterosexuals, because they do nothing specifically bad. We do not accept harming gays, because they do nothing specifically bad.
I don't like the idea of putting your whole home directory under git.

First of all for most files manual versioning is overkill; you probably only need to share them and for that something like for Dropbox or Syncthing; this together with a file system that supports snapshots gives you most if not all that you need with much less work (no commits).

There are also some things that I don't want to share between computers for a reason or another (for example, some of my ssh keys). I know I can use .gitignore, but I prefer the opposite approach (state what I want to include, not exclude).

I do version my configuration scripts, but I keep them in a subfolder and symlink them to their proper place. This also allows me to selectively decide what should be shared on a given machine and what not.
Chrome still has the fastest start up times from what I've seen.
U-Net implementation in PyTorch for brain MRI segmentation – data and weights
Ask HN: What makes high performers in technology different?
There is a lot of common wisdom on the net about high achievers: work hard and smart, be consistent, demonstrate energy and drive, increase productivity etc...

Is it the same for high achievers in tech? What are the subtleties, that apply uniquely to tech entrepreneurs / professionals to become highly successful?
ROOTer is awesome. I used the Golden Orb release a couple of years ago for something similar (hooked up to a phone).

It got us through a couple of months when we couldn't get a wired connection.
Done right there'd be a quota on professions which have negative ROI, i.e. for English majors and philosophers. Until that's in place, "free" college will not have the results you desire and will be a money sink on a truly staggering scale. Besides, even if college is free, room and board is most certainly not free.
Same. Specifically, I the fault is inserted in a way which may never even manifest at zfs level. Any relevant failures could be more reliably replicated by injecting read/write failures and by writing random bytes to the disk. What else would you expect zfs to correct? Whether it worked out not can be read back from the error counters.
> This is in part thanks to the Treasury Department processing 1.5% more individual returns for 2018 than 2017.

so more people working == more people paying taxes, obviously.

> Refunds did increase this year — but not by much. The IRS refunded about $398 billion to taxpayers for 2018. For 2017, it was roughly $386 billion.

12 billion is "not that much" (of the 90 billion dollar total difference in intake)??

> At first, refunds on average were down a staggering 17%, before slowly creeping upward and remaining relatively flat.

Tax cuts == individuals pay less, so they have a smaller refund...

Why is any of this newsworthy?
Google maps reviews are of way lower quality compared to both Yelp and TripAdvisor. Lots of 3-word reviews or barely English reviews. I’m sure there are more of them but I don’t value them at all.

I think there’s a weird culture around yelp reviews especially of people who openly label themselves as yelpers. I haven’t met them but it’s an easy group to mock. I’d bet a lot of those restaurants don’t realize how many visitors end up at their business because they saw something they liked about it on yelp despite not being some kind of power users of the site.

Frankly I like the platform more for discovery than reviewing, but generally most restaurants at 4 stars or above are pretty consistently good, while those between 1 and 3 are pretty consistently trash. It’s also nice being able to search reviews for menu items and things like “happy hour” or “patio”.

Lately I use Eater a lot more than any user-driven service though.
GPS and Ads-B Problems Cause Cancelled U.S. Flights
Strange Fiction in Translation
I switched to Chrome years ago. Recently I switched back to Firefox.

It's changed dramatically. Speed, security, and stuff that you can't do in Chrome, like extensions like Facebook Container.

To me this isn't about Chrome Vs Firefox though. It's about the benefits of a healthy marketplace for software, and the dangers of near monopolies to consumer choice.
> why is it any different for electricity?

Is it really not clear why electricity is different? You can pump water out of the ground pretty much anywhere using very simple and stable technology. Running and maintaining your own power plant is an order of magnitude more difficult and expensive. That's why it's different.
I've used extensively Blender and HAD TO use Gimp. I strongly disagree the correlation. Although it is one you could make on paper, Blender is a fantastic piece of software and highly usable. Gimp is gimp.
Those are all consequences of people opting to use their free will maliciously.

Not letting a child bully a sibling means imposing a limit on said first child's free will. In most societies that is considered a good thing so even if we value our children's free will, we will limit it if they hurt someone else. Most people would agree that limiting a child's free will in such cases is a good thing to do, yet it does limit free will.
> You are safer exceeding the speed limit if that is with the flow of traffic than you are driving the speed limit when the flow is faster.

Are you? I've lived in Texas and Oregon, spent a lot of time in Florida and Arizona.

My gut feel is that the places where people drive aggressively and past the speed limit are less safe and the data seems to back that.

https://safety.fhwa.dot.gov/local_rural/rural_fatal.cfm

I've never felt unsafe by driving the speed limit where others want to go faster in my life, except perhaps by narcissists losing their mind about having to wait a moment to pass.
The world is changing. People are starting to care about things they didn’t before. I think the pendulum is swinging towards privacy and I like it.
Thanks for asking. It's not available for public consumption, unfortunately.
It wasn't immediately clear what sewage sludge was doing on farm fields. It turns out this has been standard practice for many years:

> In March, the state announced that it would temporarily halt the land application of sludge and begin the testing, after milk from a dairy farm in Arundel, Maine, was found to be contaminated with PFAS that had likely come from sludge that the farmers had spread on their land as fertilizer. ...

From the linked announcement:

> The practice of spreading sludge as a soil amendment has been a common practice in Maine and across the nation for decades. Land application of sludge material occurred long before there was knowledge that it may contain PFAS or the health implications of PFAS.

https://www.maine.gov/dep/news/news.html?id=1186570

The problem appears to be the extreme chemical stability of PFAS and related perfluoroalkyl derivatives. They'll survive biological degradation, high temperatures, and light treatments that would chew up most other molecules.

It seems unlikely that Maine will be an isolated case.
Special offer! Free egg roll for yelper’s!
It's a server in "the cloud" but it's not cloud services. If you're running an OS on bare metal or a blank VM, you're basically just co-locating in someone else's datacenter which is a very traditional model.
I had to stop using IPFS to read websites because it kept crashing my router. It makes hundreds of connections to other IPFS servers. And if you have working IPv6 it makes many of those twice. I'd often see over a thousand, then the router would slowly stop working until it self reset.

There may be a way to limit the number of connections but I never looked too hard. My plan still is to put the cable router into bridge mode and start using my own router with OpenWRT -- but that's been my plan for a couple of years now, so you see that the follow-through is lacking.
When they disbanded the team in 2009 I thought we'd never see a proper replacement for Flight Sim X. The visuals look gorgeous but the real test is whether the airplane models have realistic physics - otherwise this is just a toy like Microsoft Flight.
> all the reviews this place had gotten over the years were really no longer relevant, as it was effectively a new restaurant. Yet all the Yelp reviews remained.

The opposite is also a problem: a property management company I had issues with changed their name three times in the 24 months I was a customer. Each time they get a brand new slate, and can have reviews for the old company on the new page removed under the Yelp TOS, since if you say in your review you're not a customer, you're admitting to violating Yelp's review guidelines.
This should give you a good overview:

China’s Trojan horse: Hong Kong’s new extradition arrangement puts foreigners at risk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUl-J0oh3k0
I saw these in rural New Zealand in 1982.
I watched this with my kid just the other day, I had no idea it was done with Blender.

It has also been used for many of the VFX shots in the TV show "Man in the High Castle".

https://www.blender.org/user-stories/visual-effects-for-the-...
Not sure what the monthly revenue was but I do know there were several multimillion dollar deals every 6 months or so.

Problems come from many areas... like the fact it was in the data management space and the 1500 or so i3's running Cassandra plus the hybrid cloud approach of front end in AWS talking to APIs in GKE which talked to backends in AWS because cool technologies you know.

No architecting was done. Build this and put it in the cloud. The team from RU didn't even know about autoscaling groups and when I tried to bring them in I ran into resistance.

I have many examples of "opportunities to optimize" from this place, needles to say my stress level is much lower not being there.
Unit tests should not be flaky. Integration tests, acceptance test can be flaky by nature of networks but not unit tests.
Me too. But it was the opposite. Guy was barely making any money due to shrinkage so he quit the location.
Yup. In a codebase without static types, large-scale refactors are probably just not practical, which may be why fans of dynamic types don't have this problem; they can't, and thus don't, do substantial refactors without rewriting.
Does it have to be a real reimplementation? What if I made a terrible, low effort 3D modelling application that "officially supports" the same API that blender supports, but isn't GPL. Would non-GPL addons targeting that be legal?
Deep Learning: Definition, Resources, Comparison with Machine Learning
Do you think the 787 MAX 8 has the faulty MCAS system?
Chrome was the first to give each tab its own thread, which helped prevent rogue pages from bringing the whole browser down (not completely, but it was a dramatic improvement).
No blame was on AWS. The TAMs tried to help fix things but no one was listening. Many times I was the only person meeting the 2-3 TAMs we had on the account.

I have many stories about this startup. The idea is great. If the startup succeeds it will be in spite of how its being managed technically