skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you write any code? Because that is not allowed on iOS. Do you want to browse see an application and want to use it? Because that is not allowed on iOS. iOS is so far from being a useable OS that I don't think it will ever be anything more then an internet machine with light video and image editing capabilities. The last update to the ipad pro should tell you enough about what apple thinks constitutes a "professional" OS.

That being said OSX running on a higher specced ipad pro CPU could be really awesome but I don't think that is what will happen.
You're going in circles. Dealing with money is why they're regulated. Actually chips are a way to soften the fact that a lot of money is changing hands very quickly, so it's a part of the regulation, no some accident.
And I keep repeating: with the proliferation of IMs, those "zombies watching inside their screens" are likely engaged in a much richer social life than the generations before them. Smartphones and the Internet removed the impact of space and diminished the impact of time on communication. What do you think these "zombies" are doing with their screens? In a big part, they're talking to other people!

Also, the obligatory photo: https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1600/1*U36hBj8i-C7JJJxS4....
thank you ... we thought its good to release it open-source so that people don't have to spend time building software and they can get straight to building business ...

More-over because of being open-source it can also help in the development ... and it can help the new developers learn from the existing source code !!!
I kinda agree that we don't need myriad of browsers. OS and CPU duopoly seems to be kinda ok. But for something that's _supposed to_ be universal it makes no sense to encourage fragmentation...

> chromium-backed Safari

Double whammy. Chromium runs on fork of WebKit which is Safari's engine.
Well, depending on where you are you can also vote for the local green party. If you're in a proportional election system then that the bigger the green voting block is the better. If you're in a country with a first-past-the-post electoral system like the US, UK, or Australia then things are much tougher and you should also be campaigning for electoral reform to make your country more democratic.
The flooding that is (was?) occurring in Miami was largely the result of a poorly designed rain-drain system, one which was installed with little to no back-flow prevention. This new system, which was put in place into allow rainwater to flow into the ocean more easily and so prevent flash flooding, unfortunately also allowed the ocean to easily flow back into the streets when conditions were right and so caused tidal flooding instead.

This was all covered in detail in the press at the time the problem first started occurring, and of course it made everyone involved look really bad. But then someone came up with "climate change" as the cause instead, so now the guilty parties had something to hide behind. The press had a field day with it, too, using it as "proof" of dangerously rising sea levels.

The attempted solution here (which is why I said "was?") was to install drainage pumps much like the type you find in New Orleans, because apparently going back and adding the proper back-flow prevention devices was going to be too involved and too expensive. But, of course, just as soon as those pumps were activated people started complaining about how they were polluting the ocean. In fact, they probably aren't putting anything into the ocean that wasn't already going there eventually anyway; they just made the situation more obvious.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20292892 for some examples.

Also it's not really about sex. It's just an arbitrary division. For example one rare synonym for "a girl" (dziewczę) is neuter in Polish :) Male mouse is still a "mysz" which is feminine (it makes every kid in Poland think Mickey Mouse is a girl), there are more such examples :)

For me it's like articles in English - they have some use, but making them mandatory seems like a lot of boilerplate for little reason. What's wrong with saying "some book" vs "this book" if you care about definitiveness of a noun, and skipping it when you don't :)
It'd be interesting to see usage statistics about that. During my commute, I'm often talking to friends (both from the same city and from other continents) - but I also spend some amount of time on HN and Reddit, the latter being a lot more "time-filler" and less social activity. And even the more personal social networks (like Facebook, excluding Messenger) fell strongly in the latter category last I used them.
Writing everything 3 times: I believe this is not the case for a car or pacemaker. For the Boeing: 5M/3 = 1.3M lines of code. Still makes no sense.

Obsolete languages: Old language (or Latin) does not bloat the size of your code astronomically.

Usability in specific conditions: does not apply to a car or pacemaker. Yes, for an airplane, it can make the design phase lengthy and difficult but the actual size of the code will not bloat astronomically.

From some of the discussions I have seen on HN, writing safety-critical software is not a question of adding millions of lines of code - to the contrary, safe software must be clean and readable.
They certainly care about Mac developers and iOS developers.
Looking at the raw data, I wonder how accurate it is for the early days? Was it possible back in 1880, to measure temperature up to the third digit in accuracy?

I'm not questioning the data per se, as you can tell from looking at 2000 up to today that the median is rising.

I'm just a bit surprised by the accuracy in the late 19th century. I expected less.
Ah, that rings a bell now. You can vary a parameter they call "beta" to allow for more convoluted routes, and I think a larger value gives a little leeway for less frequent fixes.

Agreed, the log scale is really important to avoid arithmetic underflow =] I believe OSRM and Graphhopper both do it that way. In my implementation I've flipped from thinking of measurement/transition "probabilities" to "disparities", and I choose the final route that has the least disparity from the trail. It seems to handle trails with around a 30-60s frequency over a 5-10hr period with decent accuracy.
I think it should be illegal to profit from showing other people's work neigh verbatim. For example, taking their content, stripping out some stuff, and placing ads there.

The issue here, as opposed to just stripping ads, is that a totally unrelated party is making money with ads.
Six Arrested as Part of a £21m Cryptocurrency Theft Investigation
What is your own estimate of probability that anthropogenic climate change is real? That is, anthropogenic factors are the most significant contributor to climate change and mitigating them will allow to significantly affect the rate of climate change (to the point where it would make a significant difference to humans).
There was a post about Sage not long ago that it is used commonly among cryptographers.

As an aside, the statistical libraries and conveniences of R ("missing value" is a data type; every object is an array meaning you can call functions on arbitrary arrays) are the only reason that I still use R for some niche applications. I wonder whether pandas or something like Sage will actually take over this functionality. My impression is that the packages in R are so isolated (in a somewhat good sense) for a niche application that they are both difficult to emulate in Python and happen to keep on working long after they were written (and not necessarily maintained).
The paper also suggests that they should turn some customers away altogether to achieve lower MWT, which makes this method even less appealing ("We must drop a small fraction of packets in order to dramatically improve delay for the remaining ones. <...> [Our] experiments, combined with those of [10] suggest strongly that the drop rate scaling may be inconsequential in many real world applications.")
You have to be loud and get in the faces of your politicians. Be a single-issue climate voter, go protest, sit-in at legislators offices, jam up their phone lines.

https://rebellion.earth/

https://www.sunrisemovement.org/

Really, it's stupid, but if the politicians can ignore you, they will. You have to make it so they can't ignore you.
Can you actually still get .su domains?
Not a huge fan of the try built-in spec as proposed but I struggle to understand the reasoning behind people arguing that the current error checking/handling paradigm "at least makes the code readable/understandable". It doesn't. The whole issue with golang error checking boilerplate is that your brain will start seeing it as noise, which may obfuscate issues within the code. This is especially true for code you have not worked on yourself.
Fair enough. I definitely see the potential downside of them doing this. It seems like people are saying this is bad because of who is doing it though. Not what is being done. I find it a tough spot because I think something like Libra (A nation-less currency) is a really good idea. But it will take some sort of large fiat backing to happen. IMO the decentralized model isn't really working.
Finland has mandatory military service for males so the Finnish army gets sample of approximately 25,000 people in year and they are tested in all sorts of ways. It's a good way to get an idea what is happening. It confirms what you suspect.

Clear and statistically significant trends among young males:

* Younger generations have significantly better communication skills and ability to express themselves.

* More mental problems are reported and they cause more releases, but they are not necessarily increasing. Doctors are better trained to specially seek mental problems and take them more seriously. Other studies support this theory.

* On average young men are 7 kg heavier than in the 90's. Aerobic fitness is in rapid decline. Muscle strength has declined but only a little.

* IQ peaked in 1997 and has been decline but decline seems to plateau. Negative Flynn effect has ben observed in other countries as well (Norway, Denmark,Australia, Britain, Sweden and the Netherlands).
How it'd work - ARM SoC expands on what the T2 does today, except it now runs all system threads, any ARM native user space apps, and maybe specialty fixed function blocks that Apple throws on those chips (e.g. media encode). Meanwhile the Intel chip is a co-processor for any x86 specific user space apps, and it otherwise doesn't touch drivers or any system things.

That's not really Apple's style, at least not under Steve Jobs ;). You just throw the old architecture under the bus, provide some emulation to make Microsoft and Adobe catch up, all developers have to adapt and build fat binaries or get left behind.

Apple can do this, since no one has a strong expectation of backwards compatibility anyway.

Of course, ARM might not be competitive enough yet for Mac Pros. So they'll probably start with the MacBook Air or 12", require every developer that submits to the Mac App store to build universal binaries, and have some partners (probably Microsoft) that will provide support on day 1. For a chunk of the MacBook Air audience the architecture will be irrelevant, since they do Office, browse the web, and send e-mails. So, if they get a laptop with significantly better battery life doing that, it will sell. Once the Air has prepared the software market, go up the product line after 1-2 years.

I like the Intel co-processor idea, but Intel CPUs are relatively expensive. So, they'd have to jack up prices, while going ARM directly would increase their margins at the same price points.
There is at least an opt out to Google, there is some benefit to showing up on Google search, and there is a significant transformative action both in aggregating and summarizing, and in providing web-pages based on a keyword search.

That said, there is an argument to be made here. One that's included in the disputed EU copyright directive in the 'link tax'.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2009-02-04/phantom-expander-targ...
I wonder what priority that ticket got when it found it's way into the backlog.
Boy, is it hard to return to first principles for anyone now. Just my little student room contains thousands of laws I'm not familiar with yet vaguely dependent upon.
Most of those things aren't really worth getting depressed over however. Economic stagnation? Civilisation was economically stagnant for more than 2,000 years and it wasn't a reason to get depressed. Ditto many other things

Anyone who gets depressed because of Brexit is just looking for a reason to be depressed. It is the lowest-stakes political crisis I could imagine.

Maybe people are getting depressed about those issues; but the solution is read less news and need to get better at filtering out things they can't control. If you consider all the things that can go wrong there never has and never will be an era that isn't depressing.

The only things on the list that are problems are antibiotics, global warming and healthcare - all of which are risks of falling out of the golden age of the last century back towards something that could be considered the normal human condition through most of history. They are also all completely solvable problems.
My dad once told me a story how in the 80's he was a manager in an engineering division and wrote up a big spec for a computer system that he wanted IT to develop that would 'solve all their problems' on these newfangled personal computers, with ideas from his earlier exposure to mainframes.

So he gave the spec to the IT manager and described what he wanted. When he finished explaining, the IT manager looked at him puzzled and asked "So you want Lotus?"
We are doing nothing: https://climateactiontracker.org/

National responses range from "critically insufficient" all the way to merely "insufficient".

You are tragically misinformed if you think some responsible people somewhere are taking action.
A hardware wallet is safe even if the computer is hostile. That's why they exist!

However it's possible that some other attack method could be used, e.g. compromising the user's email account and going from there.
What excuse? Advertisers aren't concerned, there will always be advertising inventory available.

And paid alternatives have been tried for decades (ExpertsExchange if you want a specific example here). It's not a revolutionary idea, it just doesn't work for most content.
Every job requires judgement of some kind.
Are you the person behind that list? If so, thank you! I referenced this list quite extensively last month when I was developing my iOS app HACK as it supports pretty much every endpoint referenced there!
It works, it just won’t happen because all the structural incentives point to the status quo. Another reason to love our current crop of monopolists...
If a news article has a question as it's headline, then answer is almost always "no".
> I don't like that it's mutable state that is easy to shadow accidentally.

It can't happen. The compiler forbids it: https://play.golang.org/p/65bFHrgGblb

> Also, in a function with a couple of different error types, do you end up checking the error type manually and reacting accordingly, all in one final defer?

If a function needs to check the error returned by another function and act accordingly, then don't use try() and use a if statement.

If we just need to decorate the errors with proper context before returning them to the caller, then we use try everywhere and a single defer statement for the decoration. We can use a single defer statement because we expect that the error context is the same in the whole function. See this comment by Russ Cox: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/32437#issuecomment-50329...

> this would loose proper backtrace information: the backtraces all point to the defer line rather than separate lines for each error

No. In the deferred function, you can get the line of the actual return: https://play.golang.org/p/7MVZupCLh5F
The point I was trying to make is that history is not direct data and thus not anywhere near as reliable.

This is not to say that direct data from 2 centuries back is necessarily reliable but it's a step in the right direction
Those who would trade freedom for security will have neither.

You're more likely to get seriously scammed in a browser than by an actual malware/virus.
Ok, so you admit that:

1) increase of background radiation is not harmful to "nature" (usually defined as "all living things, arbitrarily excluding humans"), or at least less harmful than human presence

2) nuclear plants, merely by existing, tend to limit surrounding human population, and in case of accident totally eliminate it

3) the presence of humans is worse for nature than literally the worst nuclear plant accident ever

The original argument I was arguing against is "nuclear plants are bad because they're bad for the environment". However all evidence points to nuclear plants being good for the environment. You can't build nature reserves "wherever you damn please" because most habitable areas are already populated by humans. We can however build more nuclear plants, which has a two-pronged effect of reducing carbon emissions and limiting population around them, naturally creating nature hotspots.
>is there anything about my comment or profile that suggests I’m open to receiving hygiene suggestions from a complete stranger on the internet?

It's probably that you're participating online in a discussion about hand-dryers, and, by proxy, washing your hands -- and expressing your disinterest in using them (hand dryers) .

It might even be the fact that you've said that you considered not washing your hands all together when posed with no alternative -- a danger to others besides yourself.

I find your tone to be entirely unwarranted and rude.

'Just saying.'
Well I learned something new today. But I'm meaning there are many examples of business that will take your money and give some other form of "currency." Like if Libra where called a "facebook gift card" would it be a significant different thing. (Joking)
How something is made can change the market value if a change in the way something is made allows for an increase in supply. This is heavily dependent on there being a competitive market, however, just as the parent went into great detail over in the comment that came before the one you replied to.
US power output from renewables exceeds coal for the first time in history
Mountaineering goes digital.Swiss Alpine Club use case of migration to cloud
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Why is now a critical time?

It seems they have a bunch of production lines already running, with approximately the right capacity to fulfil orders.

New products are still a little way off, and cost reductions are the main thing I'd expect a head of production to be working on right now, but they're very incremental and not very exciting.
What's the problem with the airframe?

The #1 problem with the airframe is that it is not identical to the original 737 airframe. Therefore it shouldn't have been certified as a 737, and it should have required pilot training.

Boeing has been using software to emulate a 737 airframe to avoid the pilot training costs. This approach itself is fraught with problems, and I hope the FAA puts a hard stop to these non-solutions.
It's the magic circle: social services creates a fake reality with fake hyper social activity, then people starts to use it more&more.
My ZBook from 2014 is still working and it's 30C in summer here, until I switch on the air conditioner. Which model did you buy and from which year? I'm asking to know if I should steer clear from newer models.
It actually does this on purpose, if you've watched it once there is a good chance you will watch it again.

This doesn't make much sense to you until you realize one of the biggest groups of video watchers on YouTube is toddlers.
I'm guessing it's some variation of "we know of climate change in the past that was not caused by humans, therefore no climate change is caused by humans".

For the record, we do know of at least one instance of positive climate change in the past caused by humans. Genghis Khan famously went on a huge murderous rampage (some estimate that he directly and indirectly caused the death of ~10% of the world population), causing massive forest regrowth in previously populated areas, which in turn scrubbed CO2 out of the atmosphere.

https://carnegiescience.edu/news/war-plague-no-match-defores...
The UK had a referendum on introducing a different voting system and there was no change as the general view seemed to be that "first past the post" gave strong governments.
When you break it down, for California (a relatively sunny place) it would take more than $3.63 trillion dollars to be 100% renewable.

[1]https://youtu.be/h5cm7HOAqZY?t=709
It is a situation where the who is the what.

It's the way forward to a dystopian sci-fi trope: Corporate-owned and minted money that transcends national fiat currencies. The implications of which have again been extensively discussed in aforementioned media.
Michael Cohen had a law degree, dude. Christopher Duntsch had a medical degree. It's just people. They're not gods because they have some degree.

And that's only the named people. I don't know how many people you know in medicine or in law.

If you're unfamiliar with things being upcoded or out of network doctors substituting in late and then having patients incur massive fees, then maybe it's best to familiarize oneself.

And there are lawyers who specialize in getting the right rich guilty people out. The Razor didn't get the name by chance.
> Was it possible back in 1880, to measure temperature up to the third digit in accuracy?

No, not even close. You were probably lucky to get one-degree accuracy, if that.

This is one of the first red flags that I noted when I started paying closer attention to climate-related stuff about 15 or 20 years ago. I did a little digging, and it turns out that there is a mathematical theorem (I forget the name of it) that allows you to do things like this (derive a higher level of accuracy than the data would otherwise allow) if you know for a fact that the associated errors pretty much all cancel out. But you have to know this, from prior sampling or whatever; you can't just assume it. But that's what these folks are doing - waving their hands and just assuming that the errors mostly cancel out.

To add insult to injury, for other portions of the data they state that they have the right to make routine, automated adjustments because of systematic errors in the data. But you can't have it both ways - assuming that the errors mostly cancel out on the one hand, while on the other hand claiming you have the right to make adjustments because, you know, those errors don't actually cancel each other out after all.

> I'm not questioning the data per se

You should be! Most of the "data" here is either of remarkably low quality, or just pretty much made up.
Have smartphones destroyed a generation?

Has the internet destroyed a generation?

Have video games destroyed a generation?

Has TV destroyed a generation?

Has radio destroyed a generation?

Have novels destroyed a generation?

Each of these have been flogged ad-nauseum by the media in their time of peak popularity so that the older people can sit back with a smug quip "Kids these days..."
And with somewhat standardized components, even the broken devices can get cannibalized for parts and used to upgrade or fix different devices.

(As long as companies don't try to solder it, you can always swap at least RAM and storage. Around friends and family, I had plenty of times where somebody fried their computer (e.g. water damage), and the drive and RAM from it found second or third life in someone else's laptop. My last laptop was a broken one I fixed and upgraded with components from two others. And even if you're not into this level of computer necromancy, you can always sell the parts to those who are.)
Always found it completely insane that the block function doesn't entirely hide the channel from you.
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'Evil' tends to pay very well.