skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not at all. But maybe an app which asks potential dates to swipe left or right having just seen your height is not the best venue for short men.
> Sometimes I want to directly control a browser to run a test or examine a UI component, but I still want to mock parts of my application.

If you're building a SPA, you can mock out the backend and control the backend mock behaviour in your Selenium test.
Original Apollo 11 landing videotapes sell for $1.8M
IMHO both Norway and Japan fully deserve the public outrage for still slaughtering highly intelligent creatures to satisfy decadent consumerism and bizarre traditions. Unlike in some indigenous whaling communities, no one in Norway or Japan really needs whale meat to survive, it's just a fashion and vanity... and Japan has a bad reputation for long time, not just for whaling (and they killed more whales in total than any other country by far), but also as in 2nd part of 20th century they were the main market for selling poaching items and exotic hunting trophies. True, now China and Vietnam took over as their newly rich want their bloody status symbols, but if you ask why the bad picture, that's why, for a good reason.

Also why would hunting matter as a per capita event, as you say? Absolute number of killed animals tells how much stress we put on their population, it's important metric to spot the danger hunting represents. Per capita kills statistics make sense only in areas where native people depend on whale meat for survival so more people translates in higher need for hunting - which is not case for Japan, nor Norway, nor any of the major whalers' countries. They all use whale meat as vanity delicacy, not as basic food source.
I started to write out this really long elaborate explanation that had very clever metaphors and illustrations including comparisons between religious language and computer science. But the longer it got the longer it needed to be. One explanation begs another so to speak. So I guess what you really need is a believing friend that you trust, so you can discuss it at length. Since I can't be that for you, let me think of one tiny example to give a glimpse of how someone like me thinks.

"In the beginning God created the Heavens and the earth..."

I don't share beliefs with Ken Ham, but what I see the Bible claiming about creation is that it was directed by an intelligent being (or beings, the number is vague in this text). Seven days? Sure. What does the word "day" even mean when there's no sun yet? In that case it means however long it took for the miracles described to happen. There were no words for time dilation or quantum mechanics or background radiation then. I'm assuming there will be more concepts concerning the beginning of time and the nature of the universe that we currently don't have a word for. The people who first wrote down that story weren't stupid. They weren't intentionally writing down contradictions. They knew there was no such thing as a day without the sun. They were describing a miraculous progression of creation. It wasn't science (even such as it then existed) it was religious narrative. The goal is not to get a reader's assent to the facts of the details but to point to a creator with power and purpose.

Your second question could be asked of any human I think. How much of this do you really actually believe is real or important? How often do you act on what you say you believe? I suppose it seems more scandalous for religious leaders because of the nature of their claims, but at the end of the day we're all just people.

Your third question is fascinating to me too. It is fun to read really good authors and historians explain their theories on this, but unfortunately it's all guesswork. The question is good though, because I feel like most people make broad assumptions about the sincerity of other times (and other cultures and religions for that matter). You've even done it to a degree by assuming what was important to the Greeks. Which Greeks? They were at one time a collection of city-states with competing interests. They were at another time an empire lead by a Macedonian. There are so many different peoples and times that we tend to wrap up and summarize as "Ancient Greeks".

I'll end by saying, I got to where I am (faith) by continuing to doubt. I tried to ditch my faith at different times, but I kept having nagging belief I couldn't get rid of. That part I still haven't figured out how to explain.
oh i'm sorry. Apple are lovely. Everything they do is for the best in this best of all possible worlds. Any concerns you have about apple you should address immediately. Best!

edit: lying to avoid obligations then pointing lawyers at a much higher expense than just meeting their obligation is exactly in character for apple in my opinion. You may disagree if you like.
Europe's Most Important River Risks a Repeat of Historic Shutdown
Nobody cared because 1Gb/s from 4G is la la land fantasy bullshit anyways.
> because the costs are probably insurmountable for the islands inhabitants

Huh. I'd expect vast bandwidth to be practically free if you're a tiny population living on the transoceanic cable.

I assume/guess the airport is subsidized by the British government.
The issue in my mind is that Teller didn't really understand what the challenge was. The author of the article was pretty good in stating that it was a seemingly impossible task with a unrealistic deadline that got pulled off by a lot of engineering heroics.
This is the only proper response to OP's throwaway rant.

If you find a problem with most people you meet, the problem's probably with you.
you can use regex to mine the youtube talks

curl https://github.com/hellerve/programming-talks/blob/master/README.md | grep -oP "http(?:s?):\/\/(?:www\.)?youtu(?:be\.com\/watch\?v=|\.be\/)([\w\-\_]*)(&(amp;)? [\w\? =]*)?"
Great article. FYI: OpenShift 4 uses podman as run command instead of docker.
Before I could afford MacBooks, I bought old ThinkPads off Craigslist and put Ubuntu on them.

I could find ways to do most things. Nowadays it's a lot easier.
Talk less and listen more. Learn to ask good questions. You can have an interesting conversation with anyone and life won't be boring.
Probably a combination of what surface you have it sitting on and which case you use (if any).
One thing which Common Lisp needs the least today is the style guide :)

I'd love to see more apps, innovations, success stories and use cases.
Ironically I find I spend less when shopping online too because I’m less likely to impulse buy stuff. Though I do often break the “don’t go shopping when you’re hungry” rule, which doesn’t help.
I am surprised that the style guide is not written in Lisp. It's very un-lispy.
I sometimes use Micron art pens, and the Sharpie pens aren't too bad either. But I'm a fountain pen user 90% of the time, so I'm spoiled.
Why would they do it? I want a native Slack app, but they have no incentive to do so. Look at where Slack has grown with their current app and ecosystem. I’ve never heard a single company say they’re moving to Microsoft chat because of Electron, or going back to IRC.

It seems Slack has addressed the major issue with their current app with this rewrite — multiple workspaces.
They sure seem to imply it improves things in the product descriptions though. I just found it interesting how that trick works even for selling non-electric interconnects.
I found the book Political Savvy by DeLuca to be quite a good read on this topic. It is very analytical about the political games in a large organization.
"What matters in the end is if there's a positive ROI on the ad spending."

This would make logical sense. BUT! it turns to not be the case. Larger accounts: Pepsi, Johnson&Johnson, Tmobile, etc tend to just take a massive budget and blow it on ads. They don't necessarily care about the ROI or click tracking. They just want to shove banners in front of people's faces before the quarter ends. What is nuts -- is that these large accounts (we used to call it dumb money) are almost all of the ad revenue. Accounts that care about click ROI tend to be low budget -- that is why facebook/google will push these people into self service ad portals.
Smaller. And easier to identify.
NSA Forms Cybersecurity Directorate Under More Assertive U.S. Effort
Pedestrians.
This is just an emotional speculation with no substance. Apple is the best there is at the moment, incomparable to G or MS (which explains the success).

"They're storing it and keeping it and can sell it as soon as it suits them" - mr Nostradamus, thank you for your version of Les Propheties, your rant makes no damn sense.
Here I thought moonshot was an HP product.
Fairly sure this is not true, unless you have a source. Drew did all the client side work in python/librsync to get going.
I just don’t like Rossman. I’m sure there are solid technical criticisms that he makes, and I personally agree that Apple is too draconian re: repairability (both in design and policy). However, I absolutely cannot trust someone who has such a financial incentive, or as deep a history of twisting facts to make Apple look bad.

Beyond that, there is something entitled about earning your entire income repairing another company’s devices while also demanding they make proprietary parts and knowledge available to you.

I wish there were a critic of Apple’s repair policies that had less of an agenda than Rossman.
I like how Stack Overflow, in a market that is ripe to bash everything and anything, has no qualms about discussing running .Net and SQL Server.

I've been a software engineer for over two decades now and I've seen stuff come and go. The products Microsoft is shipping today are impressive bits of technology and, and the end of the day, do what you want them to do and do that very well. And I've been through the more difficult years where I wish I had thrown SQL Server off a cliff.

Why am I bothering to write this? Because I'm still in technology and I wish people would stop jumping on the next bandwagon or pointing to the next shiny object. There are tried-and-true technologies out there that shouldn't be ignored based on prejudices. Stack Overflow is a great example of a company who understands this.
Carnegie was a big influence (no pun intended) on Charles Manson. But the book itself is 100% effective; I read my personal Cliffs Notes version of it before meeting clients and it absolutely grounds you in the idea that other people just want to be listened to, respected, and successful.
Wow, you're right. It looks so much better.
In this thread:

> Declawing a cat is the equivalent to removing someone's fingers at the individual knuckle level.

Neutering is the equivalent to, well, neutering someone.

> I’d much rather an animal be humanely euthanized due to not being placed in a home than needlessly suffering from humans purposefully mutilating them for the rest of their lives.

> It sucks that we can’t find homes for every animal, but we don’t go purposefully placing animals in households that would abuse them just to avoid feeling bad about euthanasia. Declawing is abuse like any other.

Literally if you replace "declawing" with "neutering" once in this post, it's an argument that it would be better to euthanize than neuter.
Similar story here - I was already interested in tech, so my parents bought me a subscription to Wired. This article was in the first issue I got in the mail, and it definitely nudged me in the networking/infrastructure direction my career has followed.
The Lisp community has moved on from McCarthy's taxonomy. In McCarthy's day, there were two high-level computer languages (Lisp and Fortran) and now there are thousands. Today we have different notions of what constitutes a "Lisp-like" language and what doesn't. By McCarthy's strict definition, Clojure is not a Lisp because it doesn't use real cons cells. But I think most people nowadays would agree that Clojure belongs in the Lisp family more than in the Algol family.

Haskell has (very!) first-class functions and is even more naturally compositional than most "classical" Lisps. It feels to me like a Lisp with static typing, laziness, and automatic currying cleverly incorporated.

Likewise Javascript. Javascript feels like a Lisp to me because it has lexical closures. It gets in my way because its syntax and many other design choices are terrible, but it still feels like it descends from lambda calculus.

I guess my point is that whether a language is a Lisp or not can't be reduced to a simple list of bullet points.
That's something to worry about. The mayhem will give China a card to play in getting deeply involved, and a scenario where the US will again get poetical as in with Taiwan. Picture Trump again claiming "support for the Hong Kong people" just to revive his image and annoy Xi, while intensifying trade talks. We can see here the cons of decentralisation to such an anarchy; there is no common ground and whether it's a peaceful march or sheer destruction of public property, China will all put it under the same umbrella.
23andMe, Glaxo Mine DNA Data in Hunt for New Drugs
There is nothing that you can't express in a kind and constructive manner. Speak objectively, keeping judgments, blame and "you" statements out of it.

"It's been difficult to add new features to the code base because it's grown so much and I think we need to consider a serious refactoring project. The best approach in my opinion is to take the lessons of the past and start over for X and Y reasons."

Will everyone agree with you? Maybe not. Will it work? Maybe it won't. But that's also true if you say "your code sucks," and you won't have to be bogged down in savage internecine code warfare.
Fake accounts aren't a Ponzi
"I find that anyone who isn't a PhD (or could easily have been if they hadn't gone into industry) might as well be a paper shell. I can put on a mask of civility and charm when needed, but all I really want is to talk to deeply self-aware people struggling with the boundaries of human knowledge."

Yikes.
static vs dynamic function
Not sure how this is helpful to the parent comment.

> If you talk to a person, and the conversation is dull, they might be a boring person. If most of the people you talk to seem boring, then you are the boring person.

And I don´t really understand how you can come to that conclusion. That´s like 2+2 = duck

In fact,

> have limited relevant context outside your very limited definition of what is interesting

If the person in question has a limited (according to you) definition of what is interesting then asking him/her to "expand" the notion of what is "interesting" to match or be as "encompassing" as your own definition is not helpful. It isn´t even a viable solution really because you are not the same person.

And one more thing:

> You dismiss pursuits that have spanned all of human history like sports, family, food, religion as "pedestrian"

Some people are not interested in those pursuits and they are, in comparison, very "pedestrian" in terms of complexity. Now I enjoy all things related to food for example, but I would stab myself in the ears if I had to talk to people about their eating habits for more than 30 seconds once every 13 years.

Some topics are simple, others are more complex. The parent comment clearly enjoys pursuits that are of higher complexity and feels as if people in general do not share that interest and hence to him they seem boring. Asking him to change his personality and what he "enjoys" just so that he can fit in is so absurd to me because it hints at the idea that you should surrender your individuality in order to fit in with the group. An idea that I don´t really appreciate all that much!

Edit: and adding no offense at the beginning of your post does not make it less offensive. It just makes seem passive-aggressive :P
I'd like to see research on this. I have an MA in TESOL and teach ESL, so this is very within my field. While some of what's happening here is basically a self-guided version of classwork, a lot of it seems to rely on very logically precise understandings (defining 'flat' as the shape of unmoving water). I can say from experience that students really struggle with being given a single example like that, even when they know all the words being used; it's just not how most people think. Visual aids and/or multiple examples are pretty essential, and often it requires watching a student to see what's registering and what isn't.
Genuinely curious, what are "the nasty bits he is known for"?
The fact that the word literally means itself and its opposite based on use for emphasis is another good example of this.
I don't think an article with this clickbait headline should be on HN to be honest. Horrible "journalism".
Some basic philosophical disagreements revolve around this. One mans injustice is another's evolutionary survival of the fittest where patience, planning, and low time preference are strongly rewarded by the system. One mans injustice is lack of equality of opportunity, another's is lack of equality of outcome.

There's a quote often falsely attributed to John Wayne "Life is hard; it’s harder when you’re stupid". Some folks see that as good, some as bad. A classic argument of individualism vs collectivism. Obviously the individual is better off if individual stupidity is not punished and obviously the civilization is better off, especially in the long run, if stupidity is punished, so opinions on punishment usually simplify down to an argument about individualism vs collectivism.
Or you could just get a dell and get next day in home service :|
This is a wonderfully insightful connection. You could think of fabric as an early display technology, especially when paired with something like this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacquard_loom
It depends on how success is measured.

Let's suppose that the UK repair operation is manage separately. Let's call that exec Joe. And suppose further that the person in charge measured by metrics like "doesn't spend any more on repairs per sale than the US operation does", implying that spending less is better.

Joe making a rule something like "refuse any warranty repairs if a moisture sensor trips, even if the damage is unrelated" is a pretty easy way to keep repairs down. Some people may sue, sure, but probably not many.

And let's assume further, as is common, that Apple's lawyers are all on staff and under their General Counsel. That means they're a fixed cost, and not directly on the budget of the repair operation. That is not one of the metrics Joe is evaluated by. Maybe they won't need to add any new lawyers to handle the extra load; maybe they will. Further, any relationship between repair rules and legal costs will be hard to spot, given that it's delayed by time and filtered through many people.

So at worst, Joe might down the road have to face some sort of complicated analysis from the head of legal complaining about increased costs. But he can point to repair cost savings, so it'll be difficult to say whether on net he's making or costing Apple money.

I would guess the bigger risk for Joe is not legal expenses but the PR problem from writeups like this or an eventual decline in something like a Net Promoter Score metric as more people feel put off by Apple. Those, however, are also pretty long feedback loops. So Joe gets an immediate reduction in repair costs versus the possibility of a problem a year or three down the road. Many ambitious execs are perfectly fine with that; they're hoping to be in a new position anyway in a couple of years, so it may be the next guy's problem.

And really, Joe may not have a problem at all; as this article makes clear, having to sue the company wasn't enough to keep the guy from buying another Apple laptop. That's not a great incentive for anybody to change behavior.
I think it's fair to say that in certain scenarios they are very useful.

The original unikernel paper used a streaming media device as an example and the numbers they provided were really good.
Well, there are only two ways to respond to such comments:

1. The inky "proper" way (as you say)

2. Complete and utter lack of words to respond.

Is there anything in between? Doubt it.
Ah, this was a good read. Always eye-opening to see how ignorant I am to a lot of stuff in comp-sci :).

Thanks!
America is the only rich country without a law on paid leave for new parents
The easiest fake accounts to block have already been blocked, these ones would've been created with more nuance.
Nice work! I created a couple of charts illustrating similar ideas before (https://sainathadapa.github.io/blog/population-pyramids/). Minor request for change: In the graphs for population, density and fertility rate, you are showing the district boundaries, but it seems the underlying data you are using is for states isn't it? Why then show the boundaries of individual districts?
It's supposed to be a scare tactic, like how Walmart always sues people who steal more than $20. The point isn't to make it more worthwhile in the one case, it's to scare off 1000 other people who would otherwise do the same.
So does the "Stuff you missed in History Class" podcast! Here is a link to the episode: https://www.missedinhistory.com/podcasts/the-great-stink-of-...
I like threads. Especially in busy rooms, or where you need a quick diversion of a topic that only affects some of the participants in the room.

I use it for incident updates internally too so the discussion is grouped. Much easier than paging through the channel.
Boris Johnson Wins Race to Be Next British Prime Minister
Sounds like I need to hook up my 2" Sinclair MTV1 or Seiko wrist TV watch, both of which have just been gathering dust. However, neither have any sort of input -- is there a USB or HDMI ultra low power VHF or UHF transmitter so I can go total Terry Gilliam in the house with multiple displays??
Using Deep Learning to Track Objects in a Video
U.S. Shale Is Doomed No Matter What They Do
It seems like a pretty regular phenomenon in business, that if they believe you can be walked all over, that you will, in fact, be walked all over.
How much did the computer cost at purchase
The point is, we don't need to know how exactly consciousness work to create an AGI. In theory, we can just simulate all the neurons in the brain on a supercomputer cluster and voila, we have AGI. Of course, it's not that simple but you get my point.
Not sure why it was presumed that I thought that toppling Saddam was a bad thing.
One nice thing about refills is that it gets you into a much nicer class of pen body - it's amazing how much difference a nice texture and better weight and balance can make. Of course, then you need to be careful to not lose them!

I habitually carry multiple pens - at very least, a fountain pen and a disposable ballpoint that I like (Uni-Ball Jetstream). The ballpoint is for signing receipts mostly, so I don't have to use whatever they give me, and for loaning to people who suddenly need a pen. I assume I'll never get it back when that happens.

I sometimes carry a fine Sharpie as well, for things where I want a wider line on whatever sorts of surfaces. And if I'm really swinging, I'll have other disposables.

For a while, I was carrying a Retro51 Tornado (beautiful and affordable) with a Monteverde blue-black gel refill that is maybe the nicest-looking ink I've found. But it's a bit broader than I like, and they don't make a finer point.

I also really love the Pilot Hi-Tec-C, but unfortunately, they don't really make proper refills for it, and the disposable bodies are trash, to put it nicely. Absolutely the best fine-line disposable writing experience, though.
It's an OpenVZ virtualized VM. I can run whatever I want on it.
I personally do my versioning on my master backup, which has btrfs. Then I ship a copy to the cloud, which is my machine at time4vps.