skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Metafilter certainly comes to mind. Though I believe it's well below HN in scale.

On Reddit, there are several immensely moderated subs with persistent high quality, and millions of subscribers, notably /r/AskScience and /r/AskHistorians (though also numerous others).

Smaller subreddits are relatively easy to maintain at quality, though sustaining engagement is hard (much of the Reddit dynamic actively works against this). Keeping large subs sane is exceptionally difficult. Getting "defaulted" (being added to the list of default-subscribed subreddits) was long seen as the kiss of death for smaller, quality, subreddits.
How do I get my employer-provided-pension fund to do this, when they depend on these rating agencies to ensure they only invest in safe, AAA rated securities?
> So, the jammers are magic jammers.

I wouldn't be surprised to think military uses different navigation system than commercial ships.
In a very large company I see that role. But what's a CTO in a 20-50 people company that also has a VP Engineering which is something I have seen quite a bit.
Didn't we have something very similar with sidecar, and nobody knew about them? They couldn't compete with Uber and Lyft and went under. That's from vague memory...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidecar_(company)
Agree, although [there's no telling what's new to someone else][0], so if a message is important enough there can be value in its being repeated in different times and places. Just because I've read a hundred and one articles about e.g., strong passwords, doesn't mean my friends have the first clue.

[0]:https://www.xkcd.com/1053/
Link? I’m down to my last few crayons
Source is counting revenue as profit, i.e. nonsense
Thanks, very interesting!

The 2016 OpenBMC presentation I'm watching now says that it's REST+D-Bus, and no IPMI, which actually seems like a good idea to me...
But Gnome and Redhat need to have a brand, or how will they gain marketshare?

I mean, getting everyone's grandma (and her java server, I guess?) on Linux, is the goal - right? Surely the well behaved user will fight for openness?!
Office 365 Tips and Tricks for 2019
In other words, heavy tourism is a problem, no matter what drives it.
Yeah if I don't fall in line with our un-elected SJWs and push out bay area propaganda I get flamed. Very interesting.
I know this is a simplistic comment, but do you suppose it was overfitting? I know the tools try to avoid this, but with so many parameters in ResNet50 maybe it's harder to avoid.
Consumer AR Revenues to Reach $7.9B
Not doubting you, but what's the sample size here? Pretty interesting that regional differences like this do exist in some places. And anecdotally, friend of mine spoke pretty highly of Bavaria after a (very) short trip.
The Go example is getting pretty dated... I wonder if Peter would do a rewrite?
I think of myself (based on commenting/posting history) as more politically-inclined than the average techie, but I find HN’s mix of tech and politics to be generally good. That might be because I can go elsewhere (e.g. Twitter) to discuss more political things, and thus have an implicit preference for HN to be less political. But I’m interested in what others think would be the ideal mix?

For example, here’s the front page from a month ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2019-07-07

I’m on mobile so I’m only skimming, but if you sorted that day list by upvotes, the 4th most upvoted story would be the one about a new African trade coalition (450+ upvotes). There’s also a 200+ upvoted submission about FBI/ICE having access to state driver license photos. And a bunch of other sub-100 upvoted threads that are political, or aren’t explicitly tech — e.g. forest kindergarten, FCC and robocallers, the Durian King. And this doesn’t account for the tech articles in which politics are prominently discussed, e.g. anything to do with the Boeing 737 MAX.

Seems like a solid mix to me, even as at least a third of the tech-focused submissions don’t interest me (e.g. Lisp and RaptorJIT). There’s enough political content for that day that if I wanted to read only non-tech HN threads, I’d have my fill.
Spanish brothel chain leaves internal database exposed online
Ethanol is literally a psychoactive recreational drug.
No. The typical person who is willing to steal a car is not willing to commit violent assault in order to take keys from you.

Someone whose logic is so flawed that they think “oh well, felony” is probably not just stealing cars. At that point they might as well break into your house, murder you for your stuff, and then do the same for every house on the block. “Because felony”, right?
@dominik-space there’s a typo in the link to spacebroswser.io at the end of your article. A trailing . is in the href attribute and it doesn’t open on my iPad unless I edit the link.
New language features since Java 8
Here's a better map, because it breaks down the US by state and is more up-to-date: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legality_of_cannabis#/media/Fi...
I guess it depends.

I was on a business trip in Munich once, took the chance to visit a friend who got me a hand full pre-rolled joints for the remaining days I had to spend in the city. One night after work I went out to the park opposite the hotel and started smoking.

I was suddenly surrounded by police. They are really all over the city and I was stupid. They went through my stuff in the hotel, I gave them the remaining joints and they left. A few weeks later I got a letter saying that they won't follow up on it according to §31a Abs.1 BtMG.
I don't know about full pre and post benchmarks but there is the latest benchmark from Phoronix which benchmarks the latest Spectre "SWAPGS" mitigations [0].

[0]: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=swapgs-s...
I don't think there is a general one anymore.

The original "wouldn't it be better if we just passed data around through simple composable functions" kinda won, you have first-class anonymous functions with support for closures in most languages today in use :-)

I think the next pitch is along the lines of "We can solve the evil of mutable state making your app hard to debug/test" and i.m.o. that took over a bit as well, i.e. with frontend we usually have state in one tree sitting somewhere and what we display is just a function from state to our html.

And I have seen the state being represented as a fold/reduce over events in the application.

So the pitch i.m.o. is along the lines "Hey, we converged on the idea that functional programming is good, why not use language that has good support for it" :D
Interpreting Deep Learning Models
We need a sort of GDPR law but not as... Broad or unclear as it is. The problem is big tech companies would never draft a bill that puts them in a bad spot. For the People has become For the Corporations and it really does suck.
Automatic Cross-Platform Deployments with Electron on a CI Server (Travis)
> Well it's solved in that all mem accesses now uniformly are a bit slower as all have to go through the new memory access hub. Is this a correct reading?

Yes. But the new EPYC chips have doubled their L3 cache, and that new memory-access hub has stupidly high bandwidth.

The larger L3 cache mitigates the latency problems, while the memory-access hub has more than enough memory-bandwidth to feed all the cores.
Yes I wouldn't ever want more than one build system. I use Rake to build Crystal, and haven't even bothered to investigate Crystal's offering.
I would say JSON is a little bit better than XML in some areas but also worse in a some. XML could easily have been extended with a few attributes. there was no real need for doing something completely different.
The last time I used Retool, I ended up wanting to kill myself. But that's mostly because we rely on Firebase and have many collections, with documents referencing other documents,... So loading times ended up taking for ever, and it seemed like the simplest thing to do was to query everything and handle the references 'locally', leading to astronomical RAM usage :/

After a week a scrapped it all and went back to developing the back office's front in React.

Although, in hindsight, maybe I was "holding it wrong". Unless my situation wasn't appropriate for the tool. Or maybe my way of using Firestore collections is just plain wrong. Who knows? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Amsterdam is still clean and quiet compared to other major cities. To be honest, I suspect the main factor to be the red light district. Just visit the Reeperbahn in Hamburg. I'd argue it's much worse and they don't offer legal weed. To be clear, I'm not arguing for or against prostitution, but against prostitution as a tourist attraction.
Yes, an excellent question.

I suppose you have to lobby your legislators to pass food safety laws that prohibit polymers and epoxies based on bisphenol-A to be in contact with foods or beverages, specifically, and generally any other substances proven to leach endocrine disruptors into food or beverage under typical handling and storage conditions.

Some food and beverage companies have identified this as a problem and are attempting to fix it in their own supply, but the majority of canned foods still have BPA-epoxy can linings, and most foods with a cardboard outer packaging also have a plastic inner packaging. Then there are the foods directly packaged in plastic containers. PET (1), HDPE (2), LDPE (4), and PP (5) are probably safe over the timespan you will be using them, but PVC (3), PC (7), and PS (6) may leach plasticizers into your consumables that mimic or interfere with the natural signaling chemicals in your body. The recycling symbol is no guarantee. Organic chemistry can produce a lot of different chemicals in very common environmental conditions; that's why life is based on it in the first place. You can still do things to a "safe" plastic to produce unwanted reaction products.

If you buy foods in glass, silicone (polysiloxane), or stainless steel, you're probably okay. Ceramics and stoneware might leach heavy metal ions, but you're probably safe from any unwanted organic molecules.

Brands that find this to be important will probably advertise as "BPA-free". Just don't touch that receipt printed at the point-of-sale terminal. Brands that sell directly to consumers are more likely to go BPA-free than those who supply food-service companies like Sysco or Aramark. So buying from the grocery store is more predictable than eating at a contractor-run eatery.

It's way too much cognitive overhead for a typical person, though. This is a job for a cartel enforcer. So either a privately-run food-safety testing union that controls an independent trademark, licensed to those who pass the tests--like UL is for electrified appliances--or the heavy hand of government.
I want companies to be held liable for their breach, especially when they are negligence or easily avoidable. I currently have FREE CREDIT MONITORING as my PII has been exposed by multiple reputable companies plus the government. Monitoring x3 doesn't punish them for leaking my data. I doesn't even (in my mind) give them enough incentive to make it much harder to loose. I'd be happy if is was encrypted and regularly tested to make sure it was still encrypted, both at rest and in motion.
Title doesn't match the article, which appears to be about social media manipulation techniques making people feel disconnected and sad.

But "death of social reciprocity?"

According to my own research set to appear in the second clause of this sentence, sad people are apparently still thanking the Fortnite bus driver in record numbers.
ROCm is supported natively in TF 2.0, so they will benefit from that.
I think you can only make a case for the game being pay to win.

"Once you've spent a bit of money on some cards" means I can be the greatest player of all time, but if I haven't paid for the cards, I can't win. They don't just give you these cards for being good. You can't find them scattered around the environment. You have to buy them, somehow.

What is pay to win in your mind? The phrase generally means "no matter how good you are, if you are unable to buy a certain set of cards you can't truly compete in the meta". There are more or less expensive decks, but typically the cheapest of the best decks in any format cost $50+

Edit- This is for constructed formats. Obviously sealed is more of a pure skill, low cost format.
Dev.to went open source one year ago today
A long time ago, galaxies far, far away
South Korean Game Developer’s AI Turns Your Selfie into an Anime Face
10 percent? My teams RDS cpu usage spiked up by 40 percent after the initial patch [0].

[0]: https://m.imgur.com/a/khGxU
Who’s Who? Identity Matching Using Applied Machine Learning
I just had a flashback to living cheaply in San Francisco. I had a room in a Tenderloin SRO. I saw a cockroach in my room about once a week. Until my neighbor the hoarder moved. Every cockroach on the planet had been hiding under his stuff, and when he moved his stuff, they decided to come check out my place. Shudder...
For each product needing to be rated, there's one seller and potentially many buyers.

Sellers need to convince buyers to buy their product. Sellers need to get their product rated in order to appeal to buyers. It's a one time cost to the seller to appeal to a large amount of buyers, and the higher the rating, the larger the pool of potential buyers.

Flip it around. How do you coordinate enough buyers together to pay for rating all the potential products out there to buy?
Man I had such a problem using paper space's notebook system, that I just gave up.

In retrospect though it was more to do with me not understanding how to use generator functions to better control memory bloating.
note: monitoring X 3 as multiple leakers each are being "punished".
I didn't say it had to be explosive, but at any rate, you know anyone can buy fireworks right?
July Matched, and Maybe Broke, Record for the Hottest Month Since Analysis Began
It got pretty good literally 4 or so months ago with 1.9 I wrote a module that deploys to an (existing aws) instance in about 15 minutes. If I wanted to have it provision an instance too that probably would have taken me only a bit more time (using the exaws module). Containers are easy too (but I only did a one-off in singularity, don't know about docker). Releases are "in language" so I'm basically writing a dynamic elixir script that calls system (Unix) tools as if it were an elixir script, no shell script at all.
Call me cynical but that piece reads like an ad. Normally you see this sort of articles when an entity is trying to raise it's profile for some reason. Maybe a funding round coming up, asset sale, IPO, etc.
Netflix at a Crossroads: Hollywood's Dominant Disrupter Adjusts to Growing Pains
Javascript. There is not much to learn if you come from c. And ‘the javascript way’ is just a tangled mess. Python, because ‘the python way’ is just a bunch of weird idioms for apparently no reason other than making it odd to read for beginners. You have to use both, of course
Back in the 80s my aunt and uncle each owned the same car, though different model years. It didn't take them long to realize that both keys worked in both cars.
I understand that this is true in general but you can add intelligence to the process and filter the noise (even with errors). For example, if there is a disease that is propagating (e.g. flu) you can understand that this trend means something different than a music show trend that sparks around a specufic event.
SOTA means "state of the art"
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Your car probably wasn’t actually worth more to them. Even if your Kia was worth more according to the Blue Book, it’s quite likely that Audis and Jaguars fetch more on the parts market, and many (most?) stolen cars are torn down for parts.
I feel like the full-size two-lane roads go well past clever and into fetishizing suburbia. The roads and car ports take up a huge amount of precious space and force you to drive up and down 10 stories of ramp every time, instead of parking lower in the garage (possibly with reserved spaces, the place is expensive enough for that) and taking the elevator. I guess it's handy when moving in/out, but again, for the cost, they could provide workers with motorized carts to move your stuff for you. Just seems really impractical with no upside, all to make you feel like you're having an "authentic suburban experience" or something.

Especially note the way the road on the right side of the pic runs right up to the dropoff, well past the last carport entrance, with sidewalk and road markings all the way. They're selling the image of a chunk of suburbia sliced out and airlifted into the city.
Not the original parent, but the problem I've noticed most recently with make is when people use it to orchestrate building/running docker containers. I've seen several cases where containers will be pulled/rebuilt on every invocation (even if they don't need to be) because there's no file based dependency to indicate they're actually up to date. While docker's layer caching helps with this, it still can add a fair bit of time in some cases.

I've worked around that in the past by creating empty "target files" that are created when a given target is built and which dependencies rely on, but it's not a perfect solution.

I've looked around for a make alternative, but although I like rake, I don't really use Ruby these days, and so dealing with RVM/rbenv and whatnot is sort of a pain and not worth the effort over make.
> The Churn is losing a day debugging because a transitive dependency changed a function signature. The Churn is spending a week just to get a project you wrote a year ago to even run. The Churn is rewriting your front-end because a shiny new thing came around.

These forms of churn are hardly related besides that they are often self-inflicted. The first 2 examples are really just technical debt, and perhaps they can be referred to as the "grind" rather than churn.

Rewriting your code base to use the framework of the now may happen because of the industry changing to a point where using old-reliable.js is making it difficult to hire new talent, whereas elon-musk.js is the hot new thing that tons of programmers are interested in. Companies can feel obligated to follow this trend because they think they'll become obsolete if they don't. The company I currently work for is going through this at the moment, actually.

The churn that this causes is more novel than the grind because, as an engineer, you are learning to do the same job in a different way. Avoiding the grind isn't likely to fundamentally change the nature of your job, as writing documentation and reducing the number of dependencies aren't very radical ideas. But taking someone from one language and having them learn another, or having them transition from one framework to another, can effectively demote an engineer to junior grade until they've had experience with their new tools. With the churn, your expertise can lose its meaning.

Even if you learn to solve the grind, solving the churn can be difficult even if your loyalties remain to a single tech stack. With the exception of purely personal projects, the industry will continue to shift its own loyalties to different tools, so you've got a few different games to play when looking for jobs:

- Be the one who knows the legacy tech and can make sense of other people's horrible legacy code. (Which the company will inevitably decide to have rewritten in something like React out of the belief that all their problems are being caused by the old technology.)

- Be the one who knows the hot new thing and can write code that, whether or not the code under the hood is atrocious, will make the bosses believe that they can be like the Googles and the Facebooks.

The vast majority probably pick the latter. But if one wants to avoid the churn as much as possible, the probably need to not only stick to tried and true tools but also find a good company and stay there indefinitely, rather than hopping companies every few years. Of course, that may come with a harsh penalty down the road.
VW exec says 'tipping point is near' for electric vehicles
The left case for why the El Paso gunman is not a terrorist
Complete and utter nonsense. You might as well rant about "general purpose" sheets of paper.

There is a need for general purpose computing, and Linux is one of the very few options there. That won't change.

One major beauty of Linux is its flexibility, so it can also provide niche/embedded products.
I suppose not. Of course one could try to rank every possible cause and then we could all decide to only contribute there. That's unlikely to productive.

I guess I might retract my previous statement as I wouldn't want to see the machine disappear either. But I do often wonder what could be accomplished with such resources. This goes for myself too I certainly spend my time and money in ways that are suboptimal.
"Decriminalization. If you have too much on you, you still end up with a record."

From the article, it sounds like Luxembourg is the same:

"those who break the more generous laws will be hit with harsh penalties under the plan"
Scope and type weirdness and just general lackadaisical design philosophy. Hostility towards functional programming. Its also still really really slow, particularly in this era of JIT languages like Lua.

Also, I generally find the libraries to be amateurishly designed. Big one that comes to mind is Pandas.
Anyone that liked this tutorial should check this course: https://course.fast.ai/

1) It's free
2) Jeremmy is a good teacher and one the library creators.
Top 5 reasons why you should learn Reactjs+browserify+webpack+ES6
WhatsApp vulnerabilities lets hackers take over conversations
> Rake, the Ruby version of Make

That's a common misconception, but people often don't understand what make is. Contrary to the intuition, make is _not_ a build system (like, say, cmake), although build systems can be (and often are) implemented on top of make; nor is it a task runner (like rake).

At its core, make is a declarative expert system (with a very sane design and a very quirky rule syntax). Its area of expertise is updating files. I urge every user of make who hasn't read "Recursive Make Considered Harmful"[1] to do so.

[1]: http://aegis.sourceforge.net/auug97.pdf
Denver City Council Ends Private Prison Firms’ Contracts
Best Practices for Setting SLOs and SLIs for Modern, Complex Systems
You don't have to throw the baby out with the bath water to have sanity. Clojure targets both the JVM and Js runtimes, and you can leverage all the existing ecosystem while using a much better language and tooling. You can even use VS Code for Clojure development, it works great. Here's what this all looks like in practice

https://github.com/ClojureTO/JS-Workshop
React's Lifecycle Is Wrong
Original article (in Spanish): https://transferencia.tec.mx/2019/02/21/resuelto-un-problema...
Agreed entirely on the last points. Playing online gets you an "I just wanted to play" fix, which is fine...but the perk of the game is the social aspect.

Meeting people in person, playing regularly at local shops, competing in tournaments with those same people you meet, trading with them, showing off your collection.

I used to play a bunch in high school and now that my son is older, he's getting into it so I'm toe-back-in-the-water seeing what's changed.

I'm kicking myself so hard for getting rid of my cards. I played from 93-97 and looking at current prices, the stuff I had in high school would be worth $30k+ now. I walked into a local shop and a guy came in who'd be playing forever, brought in all of his cards to sell because he's about to have his first child...and the cards are worth enough to significantly help. It's a cool aspect to the game that's taken for granted.

The game itself has great mechanics though. Obsessing about all of the possible combinations I could come up with was my mental outlet in high school. Translated well to software.