skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If it's "all shades of grey", I feel like that leaves a lot of room for the feelings and discussion for how and what light they want to view their historical figures. I think "Never meet your heroes" is a popular saying for reasons like that.

I'm not American, albeit, so I might be missing something on a deeper level though. My opinion here probably deserves some grain of salt.
Except there's a whole field of statistics called Design of Experiments, which describes the mathematical basis for how to create a good experiment :-)
You are confusing natural selection with kin selection. Natural selection is by the environment, kin selection is by the organism.
Yes, there are white people are poorer than Will Smith. Unfortunately, if we want to do analysis of society at large, we need to look at trends. And leaving race out of class analysis tends to obscure some of the relationships at play. This is because class and our notions of race are forever entangled, not least of all because we are society predicated upon slave labor.
Ironically, I assume it was placed there because the designers viewed it as less likely to be accidentally pressed there than somewhere on the steering wheel or centre console...
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Take that comment almost verbatim, and turn it into a menu in the options/config area, and you can have my money!
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While I am glad to hear it... I've been very happy with mssql and postgres, with little chance of giving mysql/mariadb much in the way of future opportunity. I've just been burned too many times with other open and commercial options that give me what I expect.
How do you determine whether the tree releases pheromones to warn others -vs- it happens to release pheromones and it induces a response in the others?

i.e., the former requires intent, whereas the latter simply evolutionary pressure (since the trees with the response would fare better, thus reproduce more successfully).
Pretty exceptional indeed. Also impressive that he was able to grow from founder-stage tech to that scale, since they're largely different problems.

Especially back in 2010. I feel like I'd have a much better shot of being able to figure out that scale these days than a decade ago. (If I spent my free time studying and not watching Age of Empires 2 on Justin.tv/Twitch).
Another mysterious deep space signal traced to the other side of the universe
Conversation with God
Could they be in your own browser's cache? Or maybe in your ISP's cache?

Considering the type of content Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram host, I'd imagine the cache hit rates to be pretty low for media. They'd be effective for JavaScript/CSS though, which might also be served from the same system
Bob Collymore's Legacy
Free with ads! And we to keep your eye tracking, sweat, weight and breathing sensor data for better ad localisation around the city! /sarcasm
It is possible to have a Youtube like this. Its also possible to have a Youtube that allows porn, or a Youtube that exclusively hosts videos from large media companies because its too risky to allow random people to upload any of these things.

All of these are possibilities. Some of them are more likely than others. But you want to know the least likely possibility? The one with chances so unrealistically impossible that it practically will not happen? Its the possibility that Moderation will land on the point in the Gray Area that you believe is Fair.

Why is that? Its because everyone's point is different, and its insanely difficult to even define that point during day-to-day enforcement. So, Youtube, serving millions of users, having thousands of humans and millions of lines of code running enforcement, will continually become more conservative. Someone is outraged? Ban it. An advertiser is outraged? Oh damn, make a policy. Making a policy is easy. Reverting is is very difficult. At its very foundations this is why the world gets more and more conservative over time.

This is why freedom of speech is such an important thing. The first, best option is to find a gray area that is perfect for everyone... which is impossible. The second best option is to allow anything. Anything is better than nothing, and its also probably better than the conservative, whitewashed world that we're headed toward.

But, then again; they can run their platform however they want. And most people think they should ban violence... and self-harm... and suicide... and directions for making explosives... and hacking? Well, maybe there is somewhere they should stop. No one ever said it was easy. Or that allowing everything is the right move for them. But, the reality is, if they keep changing the rules, then the rules will eventually slide toward gross conservatism. That's the future of the platform. And next decade, a new platform will replace them, and the same thing will happen to them. Freedom of speech isn't necessary in private platforms like this; generally speaking, given enough time, the markets will take care of it.
Lol this is exactly what I imagine. With eye tracking!
I don't believe there was too much pitching involved. Softbank is desperate for stuff to throw money at, WeWork is stuff to throw money at.
I do scientific programming in both Python and Matlab. The two things that to me are major benefits of Matlab are the ease of setting up your installation, and the documentation. The Matlab documentation is amazing when compared to the numpy/scipy documentation, and is almost reason alone for a beginner to use Matlab. FWIW, the Mathematica documentation is also fantastic.
Wait, "Not at all"? Yes, it very much is, what you just said is literally the explanation I would give if someone asked me to explain why a front door lock is a legislative protection, not an actual security feature...

Legislation meaning you don't need to defend against it is actually quite real in meat space (and quite effective), so pretending like it's universally a bad idea is incongruous with your own facts.
That’s also what it looks like to me. The services themselves work and are responsive here. But oh boy, images have been down for the longest time now for being top websites.
Oh, thank goodness.

I consume a relatively large amount of such content, and I can read twenty good articles in the time it takes to watch one video.

Do you think I can get them to ban video game walkthroughs?
R has interfaces for Fortran, C, and C++ as well. Quite good ones, in fact.
Apt isn't available for OpenBSD, but the rest of the apps you listed are: https://cdn.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.5/packages/amd64/
Hello HN,

After building quite a few node.js projects during the past 6 years, I'm proud to have in place a reusable framework which enables quick prototyping of web projects. Thought about releasing it as a product:
https://nodex.wensia.com/

Looking forward to your thoughts. What would make it even more helpful for you?

Appreciate your feedback & wishing you a good week start!
Marius
Justin Kan goes a bit into Kyle's accelerated learning - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzyatiQrQlQ
It's cool that he identifies with another region where he never lived and his parents never lived. Lots of humans feel a special connection to places from their family histories. The fact that his family hasn't lived there in several generations (he was raised by grandparents in western Ohio) makes his broad statements about the region and about his own family history with respect to the region problematic. There's no need (besides a psychological one, perhaps) to invoke something about eastern Kentucky to explain his mother's addictions. There are addicts all over the world, including (especially, if reports in other media are believed) in Ohio. If a similar book had been written attributing family and personal dysfunction to a distant descent from any other region or nation, it would have received a different reception. Why are the Appalachians different?
:) I wish it were more relevant (YouTube is like Marlo somehow), but I just like the quote lol.
Then you could also say that Earth (and any planet or star), is also conscious, and at a way higher level than we (humans) are.

What's the point of the word "conscious" if it's just a synonym of the word "complex"? If it doesn't add anything, it's not worth having the word.
If that private company has a monopoly like youtube does, they should absolutely be forced to carry your message.
i find car UX very interesting and see them taking more chances with design sometimes. BMW's iDrive is a great example of where they do some cool stuff such in the music/contact search, lots of buttons, heads up display, and lots of customization
when i see an interesting article, i just send it to Pocket (or Instapaper). I do this partially for time-shifting and/or text-to-speech purposes, but avoiding crap like this is a major benefit.
Ultimately, we have only improved upon our two earliest tools: fire and pointy sticks.
I have one K40 as well; you should be fine, even Haas F1 team built a CFD supercomputer full of them fairly recently ;-) Kepler is pretty good in FP64.
> And a 2L of Coke is even cheaper (and heavier and calorific)...

You can buy a 3L of Best Choice Soda with change you found in the parking lot, making it basically free. Coca Cola, what is this, the Hamptons? ;-)
David Chalmers discusses the consciousness of theromostats here: http://consc.net/notes/lloyd-comments.html
> I can’t imagine how Kyle Vogt acquired the necessary knowledge to make this work.

By this point in history, it wasn’t just him anymore and we’d done a few rounds of improvements already out of necessity. As I recall, he got us up and running at PAIX based mostly on research, but most of the other data centers were built out by a network engineer(1) we hired away from YouTube.

While he was working on the network engineering and keeping the original system afloat, I did a lot of the software work for the system described here.

(1) Name withheld out of courtesy
That was never the case in any Mercedes ever - in some automatic models the "P" mode switch is at the top of the stalk(you use the entire stalk to move between R N D modes), correct. But pressing the button while moving does absolutely nothing - you get a beep telling you that you can't do this right now. The actual handbrake button is usually below the lights switch next to the steering wheel on the door side.
I would say pull-ups are far more dangerous than push-ups, on the shoulders if you do wide-grip, on the wrists if you do close-grip.
Really?

"It shall be unlawful for any person... to teach or demonstrate the making or use of an explosive, a destructive device, or a weapon of mass destruction..."[1]

Teaching bomb making is not legal. Passed the senate 94-0, no objections. There are things you can't teach.

[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/842
Mathematical randomness can describe an enormous range of behaviour, including shuffling. Shuffling is sampling without replacement. Rolling a die repeatedly is sampling with replacement (imagine the numbers 1-6 written on cards and mixed together in a bag; to get a die's behaviour you need to put a card you draw out and look at back again before the next draw).
surely "my workstation is now openbsd".

fwiw, didn't mention anything at all that would make me budge from linux...
The biggest gripe I have with matlab is that it teaches absolutely horrendous programming habits. Most of the graduate students that only used/learned matlab in their studies (I'm in an engineering field) program everything into one big script which they copy around and change a couple of parameters. Now obviously you can do things properly in matlab, it's just matlabs structure encourages you not to (who thought that one function per file and no namespaces are a good idea?!) Students who used Python on the other hand typically have much better programming habits (not necessarily good), I think because of it's roots as a programming language first, you get much more exposed to programming paradigms when you learn it.

The other thing I found weird was the complaint about matrixes objects being deprecated. After the addition of the '@' operator it is really the same as matlab, except their default is a matrix, while for numpy it's an array. As a side note the author complains about the '@', what about matlabs stupid decision to use the most easily overlooked ascii character for distinguishing between matrix and element wise operations. In my experience, almost all the time a matlab calculation returns weird or garbage results, the bug search is a "find the missing '.'
I love this idea so much, I made it an issue on a the Lofi repo -- a somewhat popular Spotify player I built: https://github.com/dvx/lofi/issues/37

I'll work on it when I can get a bit of free time.
Typing Vue
The reported move to pornhub was pretty much just a one-time PR stunt to get some media attention for the issue (it worked.) Full30 seems to be taking a serious shot at it though.
VW seems to have a nice balance between touch and buttons. All of the wheel buttons are useful and in a good spot. Physical buttons for climate also in a good spot. Touchscreen in the newer models is large and tap zones are pretty forgiving - although you shouldn't even need them while driving.
> vaguely-English-like syntax that's completely unlike any other computer language

COBOL is also English like.

I'm not negative about SQL. I'd rather write queries in SQL than having to learn for the nth time how to write SQL in language X with ORM/module Y. I'm doing it with Django, Rails and Phoenix in the same week since a long time now and it feels a bit pointless. But then there is the deserialization in the data structures of the language. I just wish those libraries would be smarter and know how to handle some hypothetical code like

sql("select * from users").each |user| do
something(user)
end

And be able to handle joins.
F5 storm is an awesome name for the venue blip -> refresh reaction. I've certainly contributed my fair share to your storms. It's basically automatic.
What kills me about MATLAB is that it's CLI still doesn't have any terminal shortcuts beyond Ctrl+C. No Ctrl+D, no Ctrl+W, no Ctrl+left arrow or Ctrl+right arrow.

It's also a gigantic memory hog and all the plots are copy-on-write, and the memory usually isn't deallocated afterwards.
The fact that it's even called "armrest" and on the picture the driver clearly doesn't have his arm there might give you some doubts that the picture clearly depicts real life scenario.
Fallback is the main reason. Some webservices even fallback to non-moneymaking ads for charities in the case of a technical fault, because shareholders react badly to an ads outage, but they don't notice an hour or two of charity ads...
You must not work as a model.
My metaphorical tinfoil hat tells me that all the sudden security meetings yesterday (Putin, European Security Council, US VP Pence) were about this.
Shh, don't give them ideas.
It makes me curious to know how much is bad Ux design and how much is simply people not being able to transition into a new set of technology since they have grown acustomed to the previous way of doing things.

It would be interesting to see the experience that new drivers may have with these designs and then ask them to compare it to the older version.
Firstly, I think this is a cool idea. Fractals are fun to look at and play with. Please take this feedback as being positively-intentioned :)

During the tutorial I clicked Add and some boxes were created. I dragged them around on the canvas. I have no concept of how the resulting image [0] relates to what I created. It doesn't look like the kind of fractals (Mandelbrot etc) that I'm familiar with.

I also didn't figure out how to do anything other than move some boxes around. Probably I just missed something.

[0] https://fractal.parts/i-dont-get-it <-- if you click the "Attractor" (what does that mean?) toggle in the top right you can see the "Template" I created in the editor.
I assume the author is talking about user interfaces when he mentions UX, so...

>Which is a shame because the elements of the design that don't have any actual UX are extremely well executed (both the aforementioned cruise control, lane assist and some minor things).

That is UI design. An interface is a much broader thing than just computer interfaces. It most certainly encompasses placement and behaviour of physical controls.

As for the touchscreen, I got a new MP3 player a while back. I could not find anything but touchscreens now. My old player had physical controls, I could do the common things like skip and fast forward without thinking, without looking.

The new one, well, that touchscreen - put bluntly, I hate it.
Yeah; without commenting on any specific CoC, I'm broadly quite in favor of officially discouraging using official project channels to discuss or say anything that's not explicitly about the project. It's not just a question of making people uncomfortable, it's just... irrelevant. You think there's an issue with a proposed refactoring? Great, let's hear it. You like someone else's new haircut? That's nice, but it is at best spam in project-specific channels.
Not needed. They can just do route advertising (car passes by and/or does things at a particular place to advertise a brand) personalised based on your audiovisual biometry. ZF is already working on self-driving stack, including moving parts and full SDV-TaaS infrastructure, and they support such an idea.
- FreshRSS; get all your RSS feeds remotely in one spot.

- OnlyOffice; this is basically an open-source version of Google Docs. It's rather heavyweight - you will need 2 hosts for this to run and the install uses many varied components, so this is a great opportunity to work with virtualization or containerization.

- EtherCalc; a shared spreadsheet, much easier to setup than OnlyOffice.

- WARCproxy; record your web browsing to a WARC archive and play it back later.

- Install nginx, setup a 64GB VM, install a graphical Linux desktop on it, and use NoVNC and nginx websockets to allow external access to it.

- Play with Yacy, a search engine.

- Seed some Debian torrents and help out the community.
Doesn't the "most privileged group" moniker applied in the quote that parent chose to argue against do exactly what you suggest: focusing on those who are rich without race?

Parent chose to explicitly label the most privileged group as white men before arguing that white men aren't actually the most privileged group, when they are in most conceivable metrics.
Without a full stack you're just a Jenga tower.

Deeper!
The object that misbehaved — window.performance.memory
> Downvotes aside, I found this random image as a reference [0]. I'm having a hard time picturing the elbow naturally reaching below that armrest while driving. I'm sure someone can find a way to do it but not in any position that a driver should have. "On the highway. Doing 120Km/h."

Not even to change gears?

On this other image I found[0], would it not be the arm rest (which folds up) the elbow seems so much closer to the button.

[0]https://s1.cdn.autoevolution.com/images/news/gallery/officia...
I believe the issue he's describing is not how random the playlists seem, but rather that it randomizes a list once and uses that as the order instead of each time the list is played. I've definitely seen that behavior in some music players.
I'm just going from my personal experience here, but I think on platforms with SELinux enabled (mostly just RHEL derivatives) most people are using unconfined web browsers. SELinux is tricky because you can enable it and still have it do very little or even nothing, and this tends to be the case on desktop distributions. If you install Firefox manually to get a recent version or install Chrome at all, then you most likely don't have policy for them and they're running unconfined, and so are their files (besides the policy that all other applications are likely to share).

This wouldn't be so much of a concern if they offloaded encrypting the cookies to some kind of security service that would be sensitive and so almost certainly have strict SELinux policy around it, but at least Chrome on Linux implements the encryption itself using a flimsy hardcoded key. It's hard to blame them, because there isn't really an option to offload secret-keeping in Linux that is uniformly available and usable.
Yeah, I've rented latest-model Renault and Peugeot cars in Europe and I cannot believe this stuff. It's probably same in new North American vehicles, but I haven't driven those.

This Peugeot 308 was trying to kill me with its "lane assist" in a construction zone, forcefully steering the car towards the concrete barrier because the painted lines on the road were tapering towards the concrete barrier (due to the construction). I finally found out how to turn that off _after_ nearly being killed.

Make my car less like a desktop computer, please.

My favorite is _waiting for the car to boot up_ so I can turn on the air conditioning in the sweltering heat :)

There's also the joy of fumbling through terribly-designed touch screen menus so you can turn off the radio that for some reason auto-tuned to some nearby station. Since my FM transmitter wasn't broadcasting audio I guess the car just decides it needs to get something pumping through the speakers ASAP.

The other hilarious thing is the cruise control pretty much slamming on the brakes because someone merged into my lane 300m+ ahead (not even slightly at risk of driving into them because they are about the same speed as me). I guess the system that detects an obstruction ahead cannot tell that it's moving at the same speed as me. Not surprising, but regardless, can I please be the driver of the vehicle?

Oh yeah and how about those software-driven dash gauges that feel like they have a full second of latency? The ability to customize the UI skin is something I want for WinAmp, not my car's tachometer and speedometer.
It’s astounding to me that web development is in such a state that it takes google dinging placement for people to start thinking that speed is important.

Speed is a feature. Speed is your most important feature. It’s a gazillion times more important than all the other cool features that developers and product managers think are important.
How good is a coffee shop to work from? I made a website to answer that question
I agree with you. I don't think these combat loneliness. I can't speak for you, but here's what's worked for me: taking various community college classes, volunteering, buying a dog (dog park, puppy classes, etc), and going a random club or two.
I hate the fact that Thinkpads are the laptops with the best OpenBSD support.

I dislike Thinkpads for two reasons:

- They're made by Lenovo. A couple of years ago, Lenovo bundled malware in the BIOS of their laptops [superfish incident]. For that reason, I won't ever again buy a single product from them, since I can't trust them.

- They're ugly. I find most current laptops ugly, so this may be my fault, and by itself it wouldn't be enough of a reason not to buy one. But still.
> the "P" mode switch is at the top of the stalk, correct

You are correct, I am referring to the Parking button, not the handbrake, my bad. However...

> But pressing the button while moving does absolutely nothing

This isn't true. In my case it definitely beeped, but also, jerked the car.
Please watch this video on what’s probably the worst car ever designed: https://youtu.be/Y16ObVRvgOE

I’ve watched it probably two dozen times and crack up every time.
I'm not well versed in anti-trust law, but how does Youtube's popularity (monopoly as you put it) prohibit you from hosting your content on the 100s of other video hosting services available to you? How does Youtube's popularity prevent you from hosting your videos yourself?

You're expecting them to use their own money and their own resources to broadcast messages they don't want to broadcast, for free.