skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are a lot of free on-line materials today related to CS, or AI/ML.
You can check out "Crash Course for Machine learning" by Google - they released all the materials that they use to train googlers about machine learning.
Probably meant "data race" instead of "race condition". https://doc.rust-lang.org/nomicon/races.html
> Also, how did a Register link get through? I thought that site was banned on HN.

What's the reason for it being banned?
One can always copy the photo/video without those (see "analog hole").
You can always do both. That’s what I’m doing, and it has served me well so far (just graduated from MBA with solid job placement and I have a few courses to go for OMSCS).
> I don't find it elegant at all. I prefer to use native language features than inventing unnecessary abstractions.

I prefer languages that allow you to build abstractions like this, rather than being beholden to the standards body.

> Actually this is a good thing, it encourages you to make your code into hierarchical, tree-like structures. Then you have a try-catch at the root of each tree.

That leads to a complete lack of error handling, because you've lost all of the relevant context of what you were trying to do. It's attitudes like this that leave you with a dialog box that says "an unknown error has occurred".
Interesting. I found one problem, though. (Or is it a feature?)

All examples I listened to of "coup de grâce" pronounced it /ku də ɡrɑː/, while the "correct" way (if there is such a thing)is /ku də ɡrɑs/.

This kind of thing must come up in more examples. I'm not usually on the prescriptive side of things, but I think it's important to know the "right" way to do things, at least when you're learning a language. On the other hand, hypercorrection will probably never disappear, so why not embrace it?
‘I feel like a target’: US trade war worries tech workers of Chinese descent
> Though the literature on this question is sparse, giftedness and achievements early in life do not appear to provide an insurance policy against suffering later on

ISTM it's more a guarantee of suffering later for a lot of reasons, aging out of wunderkind territory, a realization that there isn't enough time left to beat the unbeatable foe, and for the pro geeks our industry's rampant ageism.
Wouldn't it make more sense to replace the servers by food, and make the bunkers habitable?
I know someone who lives in subsidized housing. Rent is a percentage of income. Barring additional changes, that percentage of UBI would go directly to rent as a matter of law. That might be less of it than normal unregulated rents.
After the two-scoops debacle, I suspect that'll be the case until at least 2024. ;o )
I'm confused why the guy from Berkley (in CA) originally from Michigan is suddenly referred to as "the New Jersey guy".
Would you care how often you make breaking changes on your API if you control the client and it's your only consumer?
I'd like to learn more. Anything you could link to?
Do you have to pay backtaxes or is it just $100 and move on?
What you’re suggesting is essentially DRM for news, where only an approved subset of sources would be blessed as non-fake. Might as well go back to the days of 3 TV channels.
Facebook's Ban on Crypto Advertising
Open Source Is Critical to Linode, Interview with Founder
BBC homepage returning nothing but JSON
You can choose between US, UK and AUS.
You're right, Facebook is a broken company. Along that point, we should break it up.
I came to Scaleway from Linode since they had very competitive pricing and generally always thought they were pretty nice.

That is, of-course, until they decided to up the price on my tier by almost 60% with very short notice. Same box I'd been running for years, no upgrades or nothing aside from a shiny new price tag...
$500 and then some churn and poof...
You really need to do a stable couple of thousands for a couple of month to “know” you’re paid plans actually provide long term value. Or sell yearly plans.
Good fore you. Agree that practice is the key to success in programming!
A Beached Whale Needs Somewhere to Rot. How About Your Place?
People trusted the news a lot more when it was 3 TV channels, the NYT, and your local newspaper. So maybe yes, it is time to do that.
Sounds cool! Funny thing : the first thing I was greeted with was "How to pronounce coup de grâce in English (1 out of 23)". Being French, I do find that a little hard to swallow :D
>It is from French after all.

And yet the British say "filet" with a hard 't'? I have never heard anything but the French pronunciation in the US.
> is apparently acquiescent about massive population growth in the developing world

Probably because imposing natality rates would be quite unpopular. Humans tend to think having kids is an inalienable right.

China got away with it because China, but this would not work in other countries.
Not if the hashes are also hidden as pixel structure in the image. Something already done for preventing screenshot leaks (World of Warcraft iirc) or to trace movie leaks.
The authors recommendation seemed to be to change jobs.
That perfectly captures what it does too. Nice one.
> let's agree to disagree that market forces shouldn't interfere with people's abilities to survive (healthcare, housing, justice system).

Fair enough. I mean, market forces do interfere with people's ability to survive whether we care to agree with it or not, at least until we can develop a post-scarcity economy.
It may be better to index it to the percentage of total income tax paid by everybody to prevent feedback loops, when higher ubi increases cost of living, increasing ubi and eventually driving the whole economy off the cliff. Something like a tax return but calculated not as a percentage of the persons tax but of mean tax. It can start as a very small percentage at the start (1% ~ 1K/year) and then grow as other social payments are folded into it.
FL Governor – Physics (What Is It Good For?)
A techno-centric world is an energy intensive world. AI, Humonoid-Robots, Automation and 3D printers need more energy. One of the biggest growth area of Energy consumption are Data centers.
Well, if I'm reading that, I'm wondering what gets returned if I set that parameter to false. Does it return a summary of the message, or does it return the first word or does it return null? Using named parameters doesn't answer that question any more clearly than OP's example.
not finding the requested record is a perfect case for an Either, or something that is potentially (legitimately) null. Thats not an exception generally.
>No, you are extrapolating that based off your understanding. Improved mitochondria might...mean nothing.

No...there are numerous studies on the proven benefits of improved mitochondrial function/capacity. One of the benefits is cellular anti-aging.
Alphabet employees blast policy on contractors and China at shareholder meeting
If you expect humans to keep the servers running, then certainly a majority of space would be required for food, storage, waste, supplies, water, more water, air tanks, air filtration systems, grow lights and green house. You would also need a medical staff and counselors. Oh and lots of books and a place to sleep. :-)
Any ideas for 'trie'?
Looks like it's back to normal now.
These are two analogous issues by major world powers that don't validate each other and can both be addressed. This is a great perspective on a different issue but doesn't pose solutions, thoughts, or further information on the issue in the parent comment.

Think less "all lives matter" and more walk and chew gum at the same time.
> However, be weary of Linode's "backup" service if you intend to store a lot of files...

Huh? Wouldn't it be a lot better to be wary of that service, thus lowering the risk that you'll be weary of it at some point?
I almost can't believe I had to scroll this far to find a sensible comment.

Honest question (as someone very ignorant about the business world), why do people spend money on this stuff? And why do so many people (based on the comments here) act like it's OK to create such products (i.e. products that bring literally nothing innovative or useful to the table)? By OK I mean ethically, considering that there are so many more pressing problems in the world.
Well, it prevents Laplace and Maxwell's demon from predicting and interfering with your random numbers.

Although it wouldn't prevent either of them from breaking any encryption you could care to throw at them, and most realistic threats are bound by the laws of physics, but hey it's something.
That's about 50:50 - probably along regional lines.
I agree it's unsettled! My complaint is that the article treats the matter otherwise: only referring to "experts" who think a rising wage floor is overdue, and only quoting those with pro-price-control beliefs (like representatives of the large-labor-union-funded EPI).

That's in keeping with the article's myopic, misleading, pandering headline that ignores over a century of pre-1938 precedent.
Maybe EU should regulate a new policy of not annoying non EU people with their internet regulations.

The one thing the EU understands is how to add more rules! Forget trying to get them to fix an existing one.
> It compeletely destroyed every bit of enjoyment I took from playing and finishing the game.

So... you didn't enjoy anything at all up to that point? Really? Then why bother playing it at all? Why not let someone else play it and just watch your preferred ending cutscene on youtube? Is it really all just about the destination and the journey means nothing?
You are not an idiot :)
You're quite right - I mistyped.
Thanks for linking to the repo. I just had a look. It's impressive how many github users want to be funny and make bullshit pull requests and nonsense issues. What is the point of doing all that :-(?
I typed in "what is my name?" and it took me to a video of a southern preacher's sermon. lol
Ha, I know what you mean. I’ve been designing building accessible websites for over a decade and only ran into the A11y acronym fairly recently.

I had to look it up.

So stupid the ‘official’ name for accessibility completely obfuscates what it is.
> it can be surprisingly hard to get a job at BigCorp with CEO on your resume

Why do you think that is? It's so common to hear advice that bigco's will always want to hire people w/ Startup experience, but does that not extend to the founders?
Another reason to not support large ticket items on Kickstarter.
I agree with this sentiment. However, there's another threat from deepfakes that someone had to point out to me: generating false memories.

Imagine you're a VIP and someone shows you footage of yourself doing something unacceptable from 30 years ago. There's a good chance that you might believe that footage and accept that as a true memory, even though it is entirely fake.
The main problem with bike shares is the ridiculously short time limit. If you could check one out for a few hours they’d be more useful, instead most are time limited to about 30 minutes. My sister used one once to bike by a lake front and she said she was stressed the whole time about not making it to the next station to reset the time limit before it expired.
It's an extremely common deformation I think, "excetera" is also a very common pronunciation in French. I really doubt it's heavily tied to literacy level at any level, it's probably more comfortable to pronounce.

Remember that basically every word of your language (regardless of the language) was probably at some point considered some low-class corruption of the "proper" language.

When it comes to English in particular look at the mess that's English spelling and the massive phonetic shifts it underwent during the past centuries, it seems a bit silly to single out "excetera" as the one bad pronunciation used by illiterate people.
I mean, afaik the manga/anime style specifically emerged from manga being drawn as fast as possible, as a co-evolution with the thick tomes of magazines. So I'd expect drawing a face to not be a bottleneck there.
that would be great, then they could just the whole thing down and the world would instantly improve by 10%
Not even the Hong Kong protests can get past Chinese censors [video]
I'm not who you replied to, but as someone unfamiliar with the term "a11y", I googled it while reading these comments and the very first hit is https://a11yproject.com/ which I, too, assumed was "the a11y page" -- and after briefly looking at that page again just now, I'm still not convinced that it shouldn't be considered the canonical "a11y page". I now get that "a11y" is a numeronym for "accessibility", but considering I haven't heard it called "a11y" before today, a page calling itself The A11Y Project sounds both fairly authoritative and like it potentially could have been the source of the a11y numeronym. If it's not, it really could use some more explanation on that page.
Wait, some people pronounce herb with the 'h' not silent?
Nasa’s X-59 supersonic jet will have a 4K TV instead of a forward window
I have text to speech read back what I've wrote. You'll immediately notice incorrectly spelled words and doubled up words.
You don't have to store your money in an exchange, so the risk is very low at any given point of time.

Currently people pay for the prolonged version of that risk by receiving a benefit of convenience. But this will stop as soon as somebody creates an equally convenient cryptowallet infrastructure.
> how did a Register link get through? I thought that site was banned on HN

Oh deary me, why should that be? Just because the journos are snarky and sarcastic, or because it's pretending to be a red-top?

... or is it because it's mostly written in Perl?
> Do the downvotes mean there are no justifiable and reasonable questions to ask about climate science?

My downvote was for the "This is not the case with Vaccines" assertion. It is imperfect from a factual and epistemological perspective, at least.
I used it as a base for docker containers, but depending on project Ive found that sometimes the lack of locale support is making it a non-viable option. I read there are ways to get it working, but I never did.
Have heard horror stories about the cheap VPS offered at LowEndTalk and similar outfits. What's your average up time? and can you recommend any service provider?
In Paris, the private bikeshares seem to have been entirely replaced with scooters and a smaller number of e-bikes.

The publicly sanctioned bikeshare is in shambles after an operator change.

The only thing keeping the public system alive is it’s offerings outside the city’s core.
but it can be used to trade currencies not offered by centralized exchanges, in a way where you dont have to hand over any funds to risk on a centralized exchange. is useful for me at least
NLP to SQL API
FWIW I believe Instacart hustled their way in post-deadline (not post-rejection though) and did get accepted. Still indicates that YC bends th rules occasionally.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/techcrunch.com/2012/08/18/how-i...

I imagine reversing a rejection is different though. Most people, YC or not, have an ego and will stubbornly maintain their rejection even if it makes sense to change mind. This is just psychology. Colleges, dates, hiring managers all do it.
Seems like the main points are that they are not going to propose again the same rules which were ruled unconstitutional, and adjust how aggressive the targets are.

> “It could foreclose a new administration from doing something more ambitious,” she said.

I think I get what they're trying to say here, but there's nothing the Supreme Court can do during a moderate administration to "foreclose" more aggressive targets in the future. They can only answer specific questions. Just because the last 1A case was on a relatively uncontroversial form of speech or petition, doesn't mean that 1A is restricted in scope, it just means that it's not particularly harshly tested by the present case.

The argument they're making is frankly ridiculous. The Supreme Court not finding a moderate policy to be unconstitutional does not preclude you from trying more aggressive policy in the future in any way.
As a user, open the page in a private window.
It is fairly unusual for American not to Anglicise pronunciations so it seems to stand as odd one out. Then again you kept the original "correct" pronunciation of herb - it was British English that changed for some reason.

Even the poshest Brit will put the H in herb now.
> SuperAwesome, the company that commissioned the PWC report, helps technology companies provide services without violating COPPA or European child-privacy legal restrictions against the tracking of children. “YouTube has a huge problem,” said Dylan Collins, chief executive of SuperAwesome. “They clearly have huge amounts of children using the platform, but they can’t acknowledge their presence.”

I'm trying to make my mind up about SuperAwesome's ethical position here. On the one hand, they're investing their own resources into the groundwork for an investigation that could lead to better protections for children; on the other hand, they could benefit massively from a situation where YouTube is forced to use a product like theirs universally, rather than the current situation where they sell their product to individual channels/brands. On the other other hand, SuperAwesome benefiting from this situation makes them more able to protect children on platforms other than YouTube; on the other other other hand, there's something weird about this not-quite-extortion.

Will we see consulting firms in the future offering "we will find your competitors' obscure GDPR violations and help you form nonprofits to report them to authorities and lobby for the prioritization of those cases"? Is this the world we want to live in? In a world where corporations have the power to shut down competitors with regulatory madness, is this the optimal balance of innovation and regulation to maximally increase [insert utility function here]?
Gold Started It’s Recovery, Expected to Peak
I honestly have no idea what site I got my numbers from but the image I have in my notes shows > 20 USD I don't know what site I used to get that.

Will research.
I live in Denmark and I see 10-15 people ok bikeshare bikes each time I commute. They either use the government ones or rent from private companies.
In mechanical engineering the definition for good quality == fills the spec. Nothing more, nothing less.
Link appears to be dead?
This wasn't a typo. One person makes a typo. When creating a high-profile physical thing with text on it, there are authors, editors, typesetters (or the digital equivalent), copy editors, and proofreaders involved. If this wasn't reviewed by at least four people prior to printing, and if there weren't then test printings reviewed by additional people, then the entire process is flawed. But it still wasn't a typo. It was a failure in quality control.

My dig about education level was too subtle, so I'll be more blunt: too many stupid people were involved. People who don't know how to spell (barring special circumstances like dyslexia or communicating in a non-native language) are stupid. Everyone makes mistakes, but when multiple people whose job it is to produce something like this fail, it's no longer a mistake. It's because they were unable to review it and notice the problem.

All it takes is five minutes of reviewing Facebook posts or comment forums to see just how pervasive this stupidity is. Hacker News is one of the few forums I participate in, because most of the people participating are intelligent, and reading comments here doesn't make my eyes bleed.

As the sibling commenter stated, no one died, and this isn't a big deal. It's still an embarrassment.
again you're missing a key normative word: should. i said should. i'm well aware that they do. i don't think they should. like i keep saying - which is why i will vote always vote for minimum wage increases.
They restrict driving on mountains to stop erosion. These climbers are driving metal bolts into a beautiful mountain face. That's got to be doing some harm as well as not looking very nice.
That is an improvement since the last time I looked. Thanks!

My ideal would be "cargo test --coverage=report/".
You can switch to French.
QT is distributed under LGPl so by statically linking you must also distribute your program as LGPL. My understanding is that allowing a user to link their own version of QT (ie shared/dynamic libraries are acceptable) fulfils the criteria to avoid licensing your project under LGPL.

>on Windows, you need to copy a dozen .dll files until your executable launches

Presumably you're new to Windows development? as long as you place the libraries in the same folder as the executable, add the QT install directory to your path, or add the install direvtoey to your debigging Environment variable, you're laughing - it's as straightforward as DLLs on Windows come.
lol I tried the same :) It is totally ignorant of the context which makes it funny.
I was trying to answer "Dogs are much better at killing rats yet we don't let dogs roam around outside willy nilly.", but I was not as precise as I could be in retrospect.

The objective function that most human beings use is not "what animal kills rodents most efficiently", but "what animal kills rodents most efficiently and poses little harm to human beings most of the time". In my experience, most stray cats will likely run away from children and most stray cats will likely not initiate attacks against children. On the other hand, most stray dogs are more likely to do both of those things. As a result, cats get a pass for being less efficient rodent killers than dogs because they are also less likely to harm human beings.
> Of course these are possible in Rust, but in practice I'vr found they're mucb rarer.

Apparently rarer than the occasional typo (the above sentence contains two).
For a 3-D modelling course at university we were forced to use software that had no undo mechanism (and only ran on Windows). We very quickly learned to create save files after every single modification, because it was so easy to lose hours of work with a single mistake.

In retrospect I wish I had looked for a way to import files from Blender-3D.
Graydon Hoare Talks About Security, History, and Rust
The title has been changed from the original. The original title is "Your Professional Decline Is Coming (Much) Sooner Than You Think"
> Typically we can get most stuff from a European mill cheaper and quicker

For now. Post Brexit that may be a completely different story. It is hard for me to imagine Europe without the single market and its advantages, I recently ordered something from Japan and it has been held up in customs for weeks now.
What happens if I set it to False, and what happens if I don't set it? Does it default to sending a summary, or does it send a null? I don't see how having named parameters eliminates the problem OP is talking about.
Yeah, British people. Not sure about other English speaking nations.
‘If You’ve Built a Chaos Factory, You Can’t Dodge Responsibility for the Chaos’
I program Python, Rust and C and I can assure you that my Rust programs certainly have the least amount of bugs. Not because Rust is a "safe" language, but because certain types of silly mistakes I tend to make in Python and C just wouldn't compile.

Aside from the language, understanding the Rust way of things certainly improved my code in Python and C too. And with "the Rust way" I mean the way you need to structure things if you don't want to end up fighting the borrow checker all the time. The concepts they use there make a lot of sense even in languages that don't enforce them and have been known before Rust was ever invented.

Edit: so in essence subjectively it makes me find more mistakes easier, it provides a beautiful environment for test driven development and working with it is a pleasure if you understood how things are meant to be done. This is all no real proof, but I certainly would feel more secure implementing critical code in Rust than I would doing the same thing in Python or C.
> Makes sense for them,

(i.e. Youtube)