skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This also opens up the opportunity for a lot of lifestyle businesses. It may, at first, seem like a major downside having a venture backed startup competing directly with you. However, they are likely following an all or nothing strategy and there is a chance they go bust.

If they end up closing down or pivoting they have helped to create the market and all their users will be looking for an alternative.
> China is currently constructing 2 new aircraft carriers (they have 1)

Could this be in response to the U.S. having 11? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_current_ships_of_the_U...

Two of which are in the Pacific now? https://www.navy.mil/navydata/nav_legacy.asp?id=146
I was mostly thinking about "Hello Firstname" and "Mr. Lastname". I know several people who, due to the commonness of their first name, go by their last name. For these people "Hello Lastname" is the correct informal greeting. I know others that go by their initials, and "Hello INITIALS" is the correct informal greeting. For these people, addressing them by their first name actually sounds more formal, and maybe even a little insensitive as it's against their preference. There is just no way for a system to know this without asking.

But yeah, within the universe of ways to handle names, your schema comes pretty close to the ideal. I just think it's worth considering the ways it can still fail. "People consider their first names an appropriate informal greeting" is an assumption that definitely fails in some cases.

Another place I've seen systems get this wrong is generating default avatars using first letter of first and last name as initials. For someone who goes by the initials of their first and middle names, this produces confusing initials. If someone goes by the name H. G. Wells, showing them as "Herbert" or "HW" is confusing. "HG" would be better. It fits the space for 2 letters and is more likely to be recognized as them.

Per Wikipedia, the man most recognized by the name Liberace was known as "Lee" to his friends, "Walter" to his family, but had the first name "Władziu". Referring to the person by first name or by initials is likely to cause confusion. Again, there's just no way to know.

Not trying to tear down your schema here, just provide some context for readers of the thread in general about the additional complexities that can still arise. Thanks for the interesting discussion.
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It doesn't matter if Brave is nefarious or not. Extra data transmission means extra possibility for third parties to gain access to it... hackers, governments, etc.
Personally with spooks - known serial liars I find it best to assume malice in every case - they knew exactly what they were doing and they are trying to use stupid human tricks involving holding authorities to lesser standards.

One doesn't just oopsie into the Statsi's wet dream and it should be regarded with the incredulity of someome claiming they "accidentally" molested an entire elementary school.
The Lenovo deal happened a long time ago. Does it matter much today what the team was like in 2004? People move on, etc. The thinkpad brand itself is quite a bit older, even.
> And instead pay for one off the shelf

If a state actor is sufficiently motivated, even in a physical purchase, your computer will just get switched out for a bugged one at the cashier.

Common OPSEC practice re: buying hardware (or anything you don’t want your name associated with, really), is to pay an unaffiliated proxy to buy it for you.
Yup! Even this "amazing" bug was reported and was ignored by the team before:

https://npm.community/t/npm-6-9-1-is-broken-due-to-git-folde...
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The answer to an aggressive and militant China would be the same answer to any upstart nuclear power threatening the world - we have already seen how effective sanctioning Russia has been in the wake of their aggressive imperialism stints in the past decade. So successful as to inspire them to try undermining US elections to get an apologetic administration in place to remove said sanctions.

Sanctioning China economically though is a moralistic move. It has real absolute costs to the US economy, and such sanctions would need the broad consensus support the Russian ones did - if you don't punish aggression unilaterally and in global unison then the aggressor still has inroads into the global economy to ease any impact.

It is never a solution to spend several hundred billion more dollars on weapons of war that are wholly irrelevant to any legitimate threat of conflict with any other nuclear power. They only serve as a dick measuring contest of how much of your economic productivity you can wholly waste before your economy collapses. That is pretty much exactly how the Soviets fell, and the US is too egocentric to realize its going down that road too.
A shame people push down this comment because they don't like it. It is rational and true. It is also rational and likely true that these temps have happened in the recent past - say within the last 5000 years.

Of course it was much hotter a really long time ago, as others have pointed out. But that fails to contradict the validity of this comment.

You can believe in climate change and be skeptical of the wording around it.
I used to get enraged by people who simply want to gut the military, but after a while I find it’s hard to blame them.

We have lived under the protection of the US Military for so long that most have forgotten what a world would be like without it. Eventually you begin to believe that if the military was simply gone things might still be the same, or perhaps even more peaceful.

But they’d be wrong. They simply have no idea what others will do for power.
That's desert like hot, holy shit.
It's not limited to technology: your observation hit me right in the feels.
Don't mistake your own obstinacy for reasoned skepticism.
>> These are all good things, because people like them, and are happily handing truckloads of their money over to Ive's company for products with these "features".

That's kind of assuming that Apple users are all the same.

I would unscientifically break down the users as:

1 - People who love the OS too much too switch to something else

2 - People who love the OS and hardware

3 - People who love the hardware form factors, and don't necessarily care about the OS

4 - People who love the owning an Apple products (loyal to the company more than the products)

I don't know how big each group is, but I tend to think the people in group 1 are the bulk of the people complaining, and are begrudgingly buying new Apple hardware until it eventually stops making sense to.
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Yes but also, people in rural areas should not have a dictatorial say in what those who live in urban areas do.

If democracies like the USA (Canada has a similar problem) simply counted the votes, the majority of the country would be happier with the outcome. From a pragmatic standpoint, this is a good thing.

"U.S. Cities are Home to 62.7 Percent of the U.S. Population, but Comprise Just 3.5 Percent of Land Area"

https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2015/cb15-33....
It's ridiculous that iPhone didn't switch to USB-C when they dropped the headphone jack. Apple used to be so good about consistency and compatibility between products.
How can nanotechnology avoid detection from the immune system?
How can the immune system detect pathogens? Could we possibly use this information to stop the immune system attacking nano tech that enters the bloodstream?
Which databases are you currently using that are written in Elixir?
I also contribute to linux kernel, and tons of open source projects. In this case, I am pushing that users should manage the packages as it gives the distro a bit of independence. this is also the apache way which i am a member of.
How do they “kill” the competition exactly? I understand they have a lot of money, but what do they do with it that makes it impossible to compete? (Honest question)
There's an unmet need for any kind of space in Boston. Depending on where you are, one bedroom apartments can be $5k a month.
...and damage some preserved ecosystem in the process. Great idea!
I have a correspondence written by another human being making observations from that Wednesday, during which they lived and experienced things. Therefore we can be fairly certain the Earth existed on Thursday as well.

We cannot say the same for retroactive, presumed histories, the assumption of which constrains the possible effects that could generate the current-day results we measure.
No it's for the project.
This looks like an attempt to hijack the cred of a Nobel prize winner for the benefit of pushing the agenda of one "Free Market Institute" based at Texas Tech, in Lubbock Texas, the heart of Texas oil country. I would take everything in this article with a large grain of salt. Especially the characterization of positive steps toward addressing climate change as "mitigations" -- one person's mitigation is another person's highly sustainable renewable energy source that will create jobs at time of sale and installation, and pay dividends for decades to come.
Not really; the motivating point of Łukasiewicz's notation was specifically to eliminate parentheses.
> Suggesting something is not ordinary is not the same as using hyperbolic language

If something isn't ordinary it is, by definition, extraordinary. Using hyperbole to highlight the extraordinary in a way that no reasonable person would misunderstand has rhetorical heritage going back to Socrates.
Yes at that scale it may be useful to roll out a custom system. However I'd count into account that large customers probably have different pricing and that maintaining custom systems is always bothersome because you are always the largest customer.
I guess it depends on how easy or hard is it for apple to move its production around. If it's easy, then stability isn't the concern here. There's probably lots of other factors too, so realistically it wouldn't boil down to "Oh, US must be less stable"
I'm just wondering for some expert advice as I'm working on it for a project
Note that Wayland introduces latency between input (you doing something) and output (seeing the result of your action), see my other posts for detail. While this latency wont make a game unplayable, it will make the experience worse for fast paced games (especially games where you control the camera directly with the mouse). However this is an issue if you are running a game in a window, the compositor should get out of the way when running fullscreen (or at least i hope it does, but that is the same with X11, some compositors see a fullscreen window and consider it perfectly fine to keep going on).
Most people don't know this, but evernote was created maybe 15 years ago, as a desktop app (https://lifehacker.com/download-of-the-day-evernote-2-0-wind...). I used evernote before their version 3, which is the one everyone knows today. Evernote 2 was a brilliant note taking app, the first and best of its kind, and it cost a few dozen bucks, which I gladly paid... Then they shifted to the online version called Evernote 3, abandoned their original client base, and started charging a monthly fee in place of the perpetual license (that people already paid...).
All this, to say this wouldn't be the first time evernote disappoints loyal customers. I guess you do what you have to do to survive...
> correspondence written by another human being making observations from that Wednesday

This is anecdote, not objective evidence.
Ahh the last great MBP
What's unwise about $100 million in revenue?
It's literally the first sentence of the article:

> Temperatures in France crossed the 45 Celsius threshold for the first time _since records began_ on Friday.
PyTorch is specifically what I was advised to use, so this is perfect. Thank you. Do you have an ETA whatsoever on the image recognition video? I understand they come out weekly.
Grandparent post moved into a separate topic, and I followed. Two separate points of concern.
You should be able to just inherit from the rnn layer interface, and then use it directly.

https://www.tensorflow.org/api_docs/python/tf/keras/layers/R...
That seems far too simplistic. At some point other factors (e.g. cost) outweigh "stability".
> It is also rational and likely true that these temps have happened in the recent past - say within the last 5000 years

There is zero evidence for the hypothesis that Paris was this hot at any time in the last 10,000 years. There is a lot of evidence for maximum annual temperatures in Paris over every other stage of the Holocene being lower.

It is thus not a rational view to hold in light of the preponderance of evidence. (It is fair to search for counter-evidence, but not to reject the claim.)
I've been hearing about the heatwave since last week, but it's been bearable so far in Paris, helped by a constant wind when outside (and HVAC in the office). Also I think Paris is not getting the worst of the heat, but I've not checked.
Ahh. So the Earth began Thursday, with me receiving correspondence from an entity that only appears to have existed on a day that never happened?
Easy to use Kubernetes port forwarding manager
I have seen those numbers. You could easily afford paying sysadmins with those numbers.
The Incarnation Doesn't End with the Resurrection
The not so ultra lock
> According to the European Environment Agency, 2018 was among the three warmest years on record in Europe.

The five hottest summers in Germany since we have reliable temperature records have been 2008, 2010, 2003, 2016 and 2002. This year also also going strong already.
>Could this be in response to the U.S. having 11?

Or could it be in response to them being very effective platforms for patrolling territorial waters and even providing cover for coastal regions? And because China has 9,010 miles of coast?
For years I've been very happy, productive, and at times stubbornly loyal on my Linux / Lenovo setup, but it seems that so many of my colleagues have embraced Mac that it's gotten harder and harder to not be on the bandwagon. I recently hit the point of deciding maybe I should just have a Mac, but I seem to have done so after Macbook Pros have passed their peak. I don't follow consumer hardware trends much, so what does HN think - is it now too late to be getting on the Macbook Pro Kool-Aid? Will other platforms make a comeback soon?

edit: I'm aware this article is about the desktops, but it seems to be part of a trend that Apple isn't that focused on the workstation-use-case anymore, and is pushing ever more into mobile.
You shouldn't be building anything that relies on a google service unless

A) Google would die without that service

B) You're just fucking around and what your building could burn to the ground without consequence

https://killedbygoogle.com/ has 143 services listed.
Yes, you’re right. I meant late 2016.
Far lower wages and fewer regulations seem to be much more important when it comes to production. As long as they do not want to move their headquarter I guess a little bit of instability and underdevelopment is actually desirable.
It sounds a lot less important that he's a Nobel laureate when you realize he got the prize in economics and econlib is libertarian drivel.
It would break sites that use canvas drawing for actual features like image editors, but it doesn't seem unreasonable to me. Browsers probably don't like breaking essential functionality of sites like that though, and permission prompt spam for every web feature might end up training users to just click "yes" on everything like Vista's UAC did.

Still, an interesting middle ground between "JS can do whatever it wants" and "JS is disabled entirely" might be "JS can send data and styling to the DOM but has very limited access to read anything back."

Maybe include some very basic functionality like ability to read the content inside a tag, but nothing more detailed about how an object is styled, how large it is, where it's positioned on the page, whether its hover or visited state is active, whether there's scroll overflow, etc.

Related - a quick search suggests that Brave's tracking protection feature does kill the getImageData() function. https://community.brave.com/t/getimagedata-does-not-work-in-...
> Apple needs to be out of China, not moving more manufacturing to that country.

Why? It’s better for China ans Chinese for sure and I’m sure for a luxury product it’s better for US consumers as well.
Why do you say China is unstable?

The US is talking about starting a war, had government shutdown issues recently, and has a president that is abrasive on foreign affairs. UK is dealing with brexit.

China may have the issue with HK recently, but to an outsider, they look more stable. Of course, something like Japan or Australia seems better, but China isn't a terrible choice.
True, but I was using String as an arbitrary example.
They could have gone another route than imposing a bogus security audit and have the devs pay for it. I did an integration with QuickBooks a while back, and they paid/conducted the security audit themselves.

Google could have added a contract that would plainly state that any data needs to be wiped out etc and enforce that contract if anything is fishy.

Google could have created a process to clearly inform the dev that the user wants to delete google related data and impose deadlines on it.

Those are simple, but I think Google was just lazy and listened to a bunch of lawyers instead of thinking out the box.

I have an app that allows to link your email account thru Nylas (with google), now I would have to pay the security audit? No way. I told my customers that any google account that is not a GSuite which whitelisted the app (most of my customers corporate) that they might have warning dialog when connecting their gmail account. There is a limit of 100 linked account without verification ;(
If all China was doing was investing in it's own industries and sponsoring them, it would be very different from it's current policy of actually locking out competitors who dont have a local presence and such. There is a steep difference between positive economic assistance and negative legal barriers.
Just curious, what is missing from C# for you?
If only this were out before the fall of Theranos, they could have stuck it in a fancy box with a robot and called it "Einstein".
Had to take another look at the “China Ferrari sex orgy death crash,” and lo it says Dublin right there: https://i.imgur.com/of9ZaGN.jpg
This is a false statement. The NSA does bulk collection of the data you describe.
> There were just numerous places in which you could see that man-hours were being placed in the wrong places.

I once read an interview with the founder of Genius, and something he said stuck with me: “I guarantee that 90% of you are working on the wrong things, and you think you’re working hard, but you might as well not be going to work at all."

Spot-on.
Perhaps stability is less a concern when "everyone else is doing it" and you are worried about quarter to quarter results... not longer term.
I loved using Datomic, but I got too used to its features. I'm now back in a PostgreSQL shop and it feels like we're back in 2002. So many times have folks asked for features that would have been available for free in Datomic or another datastore that are just way too complex to maintain on top of a traditional rdbms.
Good to know. Maybe if I got back to it the core is more functional now.

My impression is that it's soo easy to publish to NPM and the ecosystem is newbie friendly - this is good but it also creates a lot of noise and popularity/usage is not a valid indicator of reliability/quality (compared to other platforms). And because the core was so barebones you need to use third party solutions a lot more often so it compounds the issues.
You do realize that ports are holes right? They make your laptop lighter.

The amount of metal removed from the case is heavier than the connector and PCB traces.

Don't carry around the cables if you don't want to, but your argument is ridiculous.
Doesn’t matter if he had the right of way.

If I had a right of way while driving but I was on my phone and someone hits me or I hit them I can be at fault for not paying attention.

Being a pedestrian doesn’t mean you’re absolved of all responsibilities, anyone actively interacting with traffic needs to put the phone down and pay attention.
> kinda open-world

More like a big hub, with the various levels connected to it, but without any loading screen between the hub and the levels.
I would imagine the sales should be pretty successful. $6k is still in the realm of 1 to 3 months earnings for many folks. Even I'm tempted.
From a politician's perspective, a political intervention doesn't have to help to be popular. People just have to think it helps.
- A Personal Viewpoint on Probabilistic Programming https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFXcVlKqPlM by Dan Roy (I think this is the best intro to PP there is)

- Probabilistic Models of Cognition https://probmods.org/ by Noah D. Goodman, Joshua B. Tenenbaum & contributors

- An Introduction to Probabilistic Programming https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.10756 By Jan-Willem van de Meent, Brooks Paige, Hongseok Yang, Frank Wood
Yeah, 1 percent is way too high is the concern. That will generate support calls and customer complaints. (plus, the same domains will always hit the problem, meaning those domains will specifically ask us to fix it - so... We send an extra list of known domains?)
The article reveals that the people working the Mac Pro assembly line in Texas where paid the minimum wage which in Texas is currently $7.25 an hour. When the plant closes, those guys can apply to any fast food place in Austin, and make the same money.
Cool idea! Thanks very much!
Of course, I meant Erlang; these things (Riak, CouchDB, RabbitMQ) always end up getting written in Erlang.

(Though I don’t think there’s been a new major infra component project started since Elixir became a viable contender, so maybe that could change.)
The problem is that you have a large volume of radioactive fluid. The radioactivity is "low-level" but still poses a danger to health and life. If you store it somewhere, you have to be sure it will stay there. Additionally, if it turns out you stored it somewhere silly, you'd want to be able to get it back.

The alternative is to dilute it down so that it's less harmful, but then you have a larger volume, and so containing it is a larger problem. If you dilute it to the point that its volume is the entirety of water on earth, then it's at a safe level (and a fraction of the natural level), and so isn't a containment problem anymore.

Sand will not help the problem; the radioactive component is tritium, which is in the water molecules themselves. The sand will just mix with the water and give you a larger volume that has handling challenges of wet sand and evaporates and sweats radioactive water.
There is no Nobel prize in economics. That does not exist.
Reflexively upvoting everything that comes into a sub is a bad cultural value. It may even break reddits' usage policy.

I'm not backtracking, you're the one who brought up that reflexively upvoting might be indistinguishable from botlike behavior. It's a feature (cultural value), not a bug.
Maybe I’ve misunderstood. Does “driving solution“ only refer to immediate actions taken locally, like lane keeping and obstacle avoidance?
You conveniently forgot to mention that the "Cold War playground" was between USA and USSR, it wasn't USA's alone.
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We all here would agree with the 80/20 rule. Try explaining that to management and/or HR. It would seem to be beyond their abilities of comprehension.

Sure they will provide lip service; however, the moment you try to have an authentic discussion (backed up with evidence mind you) around ways to assuage potential burn-out due to constant on-the-job heroics...good luck is all I can say.

I have unfortunately come to realize that those that have perfected the art of looking busy and/or professional slackers seem to get a free pass.

Frustrating indeed.