skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's a quick history lesson. Long ago Smoke was created by one guy, Richard Dale, to do bindings for Ruby (QtRuby). Smoke was generic enough to be used for other languages like Lisp and also the .Net CLI. Language bindings other than Python didn't really catch on and the community needed to make it all viable and self sustaining didn't emerge. It was mostly one person's passion project and they didn't get any real help. So it died.

PyQt (Python) came from a small one man company in the UK called Riverbank Computing. It is mature and has been around for a long time. It used a custom tool called SIP for the bindings. Last time I checked it was still around.

In the Qt Nokia era, a team was assembled by Qt to create official Python bindings to compete with PyQt. IIRC they used Swig to do it. Then they lost funding for a few years before being revived in some form at which point they were busy moving to their own home grown binding generator.
This is much like people who move into a area and then say their house should be the last one to be built as we now have enough houses in town.

It seems implausible that we have the exactly correct number of humans so you must mean that we should have less of them. If you think we need less humans on earth, lead by example.
Mattress Firm's parent company was up to some sketchy stuff. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-steinhoff-intlnl-ceo/stei... The CEO resigned.
The native desktop application has been replaced for all but the most complex and inertia-driven established behemoths. Was there technical merit in moving desktop applications to the browser in the first place throughout the 2000s? In most cases: no. All of the functionality of the web interfaces could have been written as more performant native desktop analogues, but it's 2019 now and starting on the web is the defacto default while making a desktop application is the exception.
I don't see a problem here. The more people think the Nazi's speech is harmful, the smaller the Nazi's reach is. This is exactly the incentive gradient we want. You're describing the free market of ideas working excellently.
Here's the corresponding issue on Github: https://github.com/electron/asar/issues/123

As you can see from the issue, this exploit has been known for 2 years and probably longer than that. As I said (November 2018) in the linked issue, I believe it's only a matter of time before Skype/Slack/VSCode gets packaged up with malicious code and flies under the radar of SmartScreen and Gatekeeper. It probably won't be downloaded from the official websites but there are plenty of other ways of distributing the software. I get the feeling that the Electron team aren't taking it too seriously. I think this has the potential for a really dangerous exploit.

My startup (ToDesktop[1]) uses Electron and I've put a huge effort into securing certificates on HSMs (Hardware Security Modules). But it's mostly a pointless exercise when a hacker can simply edit the javascript source.

[1] https://www.todesktop.com/
A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin

If you are able to suss a message from fiction, these books are perfect. A (maybe the) central theme in the series is an examination of the muddied qualities that define good leadership. What does it mean to be a good (effective) leader? What does it mean to be a good (moral) leader? What does it take to be both simultaneously? When we negotiate as leaders, what do the people "below" us gain and lose?

Fiction is such an underrated source of knowledge because people tend to forget that the lessons we learn from fantasy, general fiction, or science fiction are often derived through critical thought and the answers are not laid bare for us. The reward in putting in the effort to uncover the answers though is that the lessons we learn stick with us and are more integrated into our worldview.
Yes, and not giving away the money in the first place is even more profitable. When you hear about these schemes they are generally paper losses (depreciation being a big one). It's not in your interest to hand AMC millions of dollars for a tax deduction.
I would much rather see Israel and Palestine at peace, but what's also forgotten is that Israel created its own monster.[1] Israel's right wing government will do anything it can [2] to undermine Palestine's legitimacy so long as they don't have to confront difficult choices.

1. https://theintercept.com/2018/02/19/hamas-israel-palestine-c...

2. https://www.thenation.com/article/how-israel-spies-on-us-cit...
Thanks Brandon!
Adam's Smith invisible hand. It's already taken effect in de facto ZPG countries of north/west Europe and Japan.
This. I didn't get fat because Monsanto knocked my door and shoved cheeseburgers down my throat for 30 years.

Nobody ever gained weight from not eating.

/Has lost 130 pounds in the last year by simply not eating when I wasn't hungry, instead of eating when I'm bored or sad.
Personally I think the photo of her holding the book "Are We Alone?: Philosophical Implications of the Discovery of Extraterrestrial Life” is rather telling - https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/11/us/politics/hillary-clint.... But hey, it could just be some light reading for her.
Oh, so that's why some surge suppressors have a phone jack!
The bar would have to eat the transaction risk, at least until the first confirmation (typically under 30 minutes). On the other hand, if they accept any other form of payment besides cash in hand then they are already accepting that risk in the form of chargebacks—which can occur months after the transaction.

The scenario in this article is akin to opening a brand-new account at your local bank and then trying to spend from it with a debit card immediately afterward. You're likely to incur an overdraft penalty, if the transaction isn't simply declined. If you want to pay with Bitcoin you need to have Bitcoin—confirmed—at the the time you make the payment. This is not a problem in practice but it can trip up people experimenting with the system for the first time.
In parallel to these (ineffective) steps,

1) Write your politicians about plastic overuse;
2) Vote based on whether they reply and how;
3) Tell your friends how you will vote and why

Without some form of action in support of changing our approach to plastics, you'll continue being exposed to plastics and any potential effects thereof, no matter what steps you try to take to avoid them personally.
Thank you, Glen!
This should be the title.
The link you cite is for Maryland, which is one of the few states to permit private prosecution. As is common, it comes with limitations:

https://www.enlawyers.com/1836/attorney-information/maryland...

> In most counties prosecutors review the charges before they are formally filed.

I can't find any indication TN permits these sorts of private prosecutions.

I suspect you're mixing up filing charges with making a complaint or police report. Being the first to reach out to police/prosecutors may count in your favor (credibility-wise, not on a raw legal level) as the alleged assailant filing their own complaint afterwards looks more like retaliation for fairly obvious reasons.
My grandmother passed away a few years ago, and some of her express wishes were not correctly stipulated in her will - so when things were being sorted out it got messy. Thankfully all the family were really chill and we could sort it out amicably - but I had the idea at the time:

If legal documents have to be parsed and understood almost like source code, could we also have a testing framework?
So I could stipulate things I want to happen as tests (user stories) and then run it against the contract / legal document and confirm that it does actually allow what I want to happen?

You'd be restricted to a subset of legal language - and possibly you'd have to actually write documents in some kind of meta-language (probaby lisp...) and then turn it into English or whatever as an output format in the end...

But would this work?
Well if we are talking tax evasion and money laundering we might as well include conspiracy.
I thought about your comment re: video and I did some more poking around online since I was hoping to avoid having to do a fresh install. I tried updating my video codecs and now Netflix/Hulu works! Hooray!

>> JavaScript coin miners have gotten so bad that I can't run certain sites without ad-blockers anymore

Whoa, is that the reason why some websites are eating a ton of memory?? Is this common?

>> I generally run uBlock Origin + NoScript on every page and manually enable temporary scripts on pages I trust.

Thank you for the recommendations, I'll check those out.
His work on the geometry of numbers. It was like a secret decoder ring for the language of higher math at the time, while being both elegant and tangible. Compare to multiplication, which occasionally still bears strangely shaped fruit for me even today.
Given that there was a court ruling recently that the president cannot block people on Twitter, I think the stature of those communications is more significant than you make out.
Sounds like I’m right then given Heller, but do tell.
How concerned are you about the changing climate?
I think there's a lot of reasons that games aren't modded much anymore that aren't really about locking down content. Like, most of the content in those games is so high-end and produced by huge teams, so trying to do anything new with it is nearly impossible for an amateur. And the people that can do it have much more motivation to use something like Unity or Unreal Engine
The world has become this raging river of dumb money, and it’s a lot easier to simply find the biggest cup you can find and dip it in, than it is to actually create something of value and sell it to actual people.
I've read about that, but I've also heard it's not very competitive. I think part of the problem is that they always use their own shipping, whereas USPS would often be much much cheaper.
The cars are the reason the buses are slow. 22% of LA workers travel to work without a car, which isn't great but it's not zero either. Metro LA added a dedicated bus lane on Flower and they are moving more than one bus per minute in that lane. As soon as you remove the cars everything else gets a lot better.

https://twitter.com/metrolosangeles/status/11538072082299576...
How one developer's side project became the hottest programming language
She's been tried convicted and pardoned. This is a case against Assange where she's a witness.
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There is no great replacement for infinite growth Capitalism. Whatever alternatives you choose you will have to give up lots of things that you take for granted. Humans beings at the current time are like drug addicts addicted to heroin and though its killing them and their environment, they are too pleased with the benefits to consider the costs.

Let me elaborate on this. Infinite growth Capitalism combined with technological development leads to a civilization whose citizens are constantly concerned with more, a nicer way to say this is growth. This in essence means greater and greater levels of consumption. Their entire existence, their brains, are wired for this hit from growth and progress. Buying a new phone, a new car, new clothes, promotions, salary increases, bigger houses, longer vacations, more sexual partners, etc. They are looking to constantly grow. Without that hit, they would very quickly become dejected and depressed.

But this all comes at a great cost. For one thing, people living for that hit don't live in the present, they are always oriented in the future giving up their entire present for a promise of a greater future which never comes, all they get is a hit along the way to that future and anticipation of next hit motivates them. And it's possible to have a psychology that is not set up to constantly seek this sort of hit. Therefore, for a person living with infinite growth capitalism, the transition is probably highly undesirable.
Scientific improvement of decision-making and risk management [pdf]
A similar case involving Kraftwerk was decided recently. https://www.billboard.com/articles/business/8524267/kraftwer... "European Court Rules In Favor Of Kraftwerk In 20 Year-Long Copyright Dispute"
Well, it was still more than a calculator, since it was programmable: a calculator can add or subtract, but can't be instructed to do one and then the other without human intervention.
This is probably the best place to ask with talk of macros for generating documents.

Does anyone have a preferred method for generating Word documents that is better than mailmerge?
And if it happens often enough you'll get banned from Amazon for being an unprofitable customer.
Google Assistant can now read and reply to messages from WhatsApp, etc.
We certainly need to keep our birth rates stable, though, to make up for those that die for whatever unfortunate reasons.
But it's not a conspiracy, Movie Pass really did pay theaters full price for tickets while charging customers $10 a month. It lost a huge amount of money. No one disputes any of this, it's just someone who doesn't know anything who said "money laundering". They are wrong, it was an obviously bad business, not a money laundering or tax scheme.
It is not the thinking that is the problem, it is the constant need to be productive and for thoughts to have value somehow. There are plenty of people who can think about stuff just for the pleasure of it. I guess living in a hyper competitive place like San Francisco would kill some of that "doing something purely for the joy of it" mentality.
I don't see anything odd about the claim.

There is no "minimum air conditioning" requirement where I live, but pretty much every building I walk into has it. My apartment, like most apartments I've seen, also has it.

Turns out that people don't need the government to tell them what they want. People like AC, so most buildings have AC. Not particularly remarkable, but most apartments in my area also come with refrigerators, stoves, ovens, sinks, showers, and dishwashers, all sans-minimum-appliance requirement.

To me, a minimum parking requirement seems as weirdly dystopian as requiring ACs or dishwashers. Most people like those things, so most buildings will have them, but it shouldn't be illegal to decide you don't need an AC or dishwasher.
Implying that the parent should kill themselves for pointing out the very real truth that humanity is far, far overpopulating this planet is not exactly civil.

I happen to agree with the parent, not because "got mine", and it's not a "culling of people" but forgetting about social issues the world would be better off with less humans.

That will never happen though, because no nation wants to be disadvantaged when it comes to population sizes and many people take it as a god given right that their genes be the ones to proliferate.

But what's the point in having more of yourself if there's no planet left in 10 generations?
As it happens, there kind of is a non-coincidental connection, apart from the obvious 'I was no longer a butchery clerk and needed to make money'.

As an engineer I can afford to buy meat substitutes. I can afford veganism, or at least the kind that is comfortable to someone who grew up loving meat and cheese. One day, these substitutes will be more broadly available, but that day isn't today.

Also, I am re-inspired by the careful meat/egg/dairy simulation work that has been done by Beyond Meat and similar innovators, and now regard engineering as the correct approach for solving this and other ecological crises at scale.

I once again think that my technical training can help save the world, rather than just provide me with savings. I believe in the high-science approach again. This might seem like the obvious solution to the HN audience, but I assure you, lots of folks are drawn to traditional bodies of knowledge and lifeways, and regard them as known-good, and regard the food difficulties the world faces as symptoms of a hasty rush into the embrace of high technology, which in turn entails finance and markets, which in turn entails global capitalism or something like it (e.g. whatever the appropriate term is for the hybrid approach pursued by China.) I myself found this position alluring for quite some time -- "just keep the old ways!" -- but it's a dead end.

Artisanal & heirloom approaches to food production have a lot to teach us, but none of those lessons are 'ok great now let's feed a couple billion new folks'. Instead, they are best at teaching us what we've already lost. That in turn might help us avoid the next loss -- or pursue the next restoration.
Also, please think twice before using OO classes as a license to give all your methods useless names like "get", "add", "open", etc.!
I just spent 30 mins on this site... It's mesmerizing!
This is supposed to be a forum for civil discourse. As someone who lives in Texas but has friends and family all over the country, I don't find banning all my calls from crossing state lines to be a very civil suggestion. How about all the calls that spoof Illinois numbers that call my Illinois-numbered cell phone? How is keeping me from calling my mother going to stop that?

Fuck your ban.
“it's possible the current computing paradigm is also arbitrary.”

I think that’s true. Makes me wonder how things would look if you redesigned things with today’s knowledge if you didn’t have to worry about existing infrastructure.
>Failing to put parking in a place with poor walkability and terrible public transportation doesn't seem like it would encourage much of anything.

The glass half full answer is that it incentivizes economic activity to happen elsewhere.
Tangentially, when counseling clubs and other non-profits clients seem to reach for Robert's Rules. Robert's Rules is very well marketed but IMO are just awful, clubs tear themselves apart following them, and invariably one or two members expertly wields procedural R'sRs to the detriment of minority opinions and good neighborliness and the club founders.

Seek out Thomas Jefferson's Manual for those clubs you'd like to see thrive. It promotes fraternity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson%27s_Manual
I have to ask this - while it is super cool to see such an old computer able to be up and running, isn't this a waste of the school's money? Doesn't just running it take an enormous amount of electricity? Wouldn't a $300 PC have about a million times the processing power, and be easier to service and easier for modern users to use? And doesn't it use about 1/1,000th the electricity?

Don't get me wrong, I'm glad they still keep this thing running for history's sake, but am a little surprised it's worth the time for a high school to do it.
>nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, decreased insulin sensitivity, type two diabetes, and metabolic syndrome

All of these ailments are typically comorbid with obesity, so saying "fat" is a shorthand way of getting at these things in a limited-space headline.
I found a preprint of a study examining exactly that. I haven't had a chance to really read through it in depth though, so I can't speak to whether or not it's actually a good paper.

https://psyarxiv.com/6k3j5/

My naive first skim seems to demonstrate that political slant does have an effect on reproducibility, although it doesn't matter if that ideological slant is conservative or liberal.

It's not much, but it was tricky to find and it is what you're looking for. More research is needed.
The really nasty one is compromising the return supply chain. Many (especially unopened) returned electronic devices go right back into the supply chain. For many retailers it's literally a free attack to carry out, with the only downside being you don't get to pick your target (although you can probably get ok odds on a target population).
This reminds me of Gervais principle. Basically sociopaths use clueless managers as pawn.

More details here: https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...
In the same breath that the owner of 8chan made that claim (literally the same breath, he made the claim in a video), he also claimed that the gunman uploaded the manifesto to Instagram first. Instagram says that's false, the gunman's Instagram account hasn't been active for a year. I'm inclined to take Instagram's word over the owner of 8chan: https://www.cnet.com/news/8chan-owner-says-el-paso-shooter-d...

Also, that claim was by the owner, not founder, of 8chan. The founder of 8chan now disavows it and celebrated on Twitter when Cloudflare took it down.
Amazon Logistics works just fine... when they're delivering to an Amazon Locker. I really get the impression that Locker delivery is 90% of what Amazon Logistics was built to achieve (since anything delivered to an Amazon Locker has to go through Amazon Logistics), and home delivery is just a sideline use-case that they haven't put much optimization work into.

I started getting things delivered to a Locker near my office because delivery to my apartment consistently sucked regardless of carrier (drivers never tried to buzz in; stuff always ended up at the post office or back at the delivery depot.)

Now that I've tried it I'm not going back. Just the fact that I can guarantee where the thing will be (no misdeliveries; no chance of theft from my front door), and pick it up immediately (no waiting in line) at any time of day (since the lockers tend to be street-accessible), makes so much difference.

And that's leaving aside the fact that I've never found anything delivered to a locker to be late (on the last-mile logistics side of things, at least.) In fact, as long as such a shipment enters the country on time, I've found it to arrive faster than its projected delivery time more-often-than-not.

Amazon has a solid experience with Logistics+Locker, but they haven't really marketed it very hard. Kind of surprising, really; the improved delivery experiences might do wonders for their customer retention at a time when fake Marketplace sellers are scaring customers away.
If such a thing were to happen in the US, given the current state of infrastructure, optimistic scenario would be increased demand for UberPool / Lyft Line and carpooling in general. At least in the short term.
I think its been exacerbated significantly by the reporting elsewhere: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/08/skype...

Notably, according to that Ars Technica coverage:

> attackers could backdoor applications and then redistribute them, and the modified applications would be unlikely to trigger warnings—since their digital signature is not modified

That isn't in a claim in the original post, and doesn't seem to be true afaict: every distribution mechanism I can think of signs the entire distributable, so you really can't just modify the ASAR without breaking the signature. Windows & macOS both require you to only install from signed application bundles/installers (or at least they make it very difficult for you to use unsigned software). On Linux you could get caught out, but only if you download and install software with no signing/verification whatsoever, and that's a whole other can of worms.

If that claim were true this would be a bigger concern, but given that it's not I'm inclined to agree this is basically nonsense.
I work close to IT (being software) for a company ~400 people. We were doing a security audit and this is one of the things they tested. USB's were loaded up with curious sounding files that when opened alerted our IT department. It was shocking how many people picked up and used these random USB's they found laying around.
Ask HN: Can an Indian SaaS vendor be held liable for HIPAA BAA non-compliance?
There's a lot more information in the Italian page.
the modern usage of 'regulate' has eviscerated much of the constitution especially the commerce clause which now days is generally interpreted as literally the opposite of its original intent
If this was the case then the journals would not be sold to publishers. They are sold to publishers because EICs and societies that start journals do not want to deal with actually making the manuscript publishable after a year or two.

P.S. Average STEM paper takes about 30 hours to "produce".