skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was in Amsterdam once and saw a sign in the floor indicating that was a selfie spot. I chuckled. People were waiting in line to use it. Maybe farmers should put signs of where it is allowed (and gives you the best angle) instead of where it is not.
Religious texts/traditions often suggest that we should limit meat consumption. These suggestions generally predate modern science, yet seem to fairly frequently be rooted in the idea that meat -- or certain meats -- are "unclean."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unclean_animal
A lot of racist statements can be hidden in an obscure arrangement of facts, observations and generalization. In this case, the statement that cheap programmers are less likely to deliver good results isn't inherently problematic. What is problematic is the following sentence:

> Now, competitors in India, the former Soviet bloc, and elsewhere can just as easily use the same tools and techniques at lower cost.

The author implicitly generalizes that all Indian and post-Soviet programmers are cheap and all cheap programmers are Indian/post-Soviet.
About 40%, because if you're comparing relative to the early 2000s, mobile devices are now filling the role that only desktops filled them. Drawing a distinction makes about as much sense as distinguishing desktops and laptops.

Plus, given that when folks like Darl McBride said "He can't have written an entire OS" they were clearly not thinking about just the Linux kernel, I think there's a solid argument for counting macOS and iOS too, both of which depend on the assumption that open-source code is of comparable quality to proprietary, commercially-developed code. Everything from their core kernel to the shell to the database for storing contacts (SQLite) is code developed in ways that the McBrides of the world said was untenable. That bumps it to almost 60%.

(Don't try me, I still have my Slashdot-honed debate skills.)
You really feel you need that for typical car uses or were you joking? I can't see why I'd need a roll cage to do groceries - christ, I drive a motorcycle as my sole vehicle so I think we're on opposite ends of the risk spectrum.
While I somewhat understand and relate to your overall point, Ultima Online and other MMOs that followed were not simply a “rebadging” of previous RPGs - they were a fundamentally new genre that created some of the most important and impressive leaps forward in multiplayer gaming. Even though some companies are using gamer hostile practices such as micro transactions now, the implication that all online gaming was one big conspiracy to “steal PC games out from gamers” is utter nonsense.
At some point in time that wouldn't have installed ffmpeg, but libav instead.
Open Source Success in Schools – Something to Make a “Fuss” About
Right, the problem is the “likes” or “views” and comments, whatever metric.

Anonymize (hide) the metrics and watch this attention seeking plunge.
They only have to check at entry to Schengen zone, which the UK and Ireland are outside.
Nigerian startups raised $24.7M in Q2 2019, 40% higher than Q1
Painless Introduction to Excel and VBA
It is a crying shame that the most common use of Excel is storing and/or graphing of manually input data. The profound power of Excel is completely overlooked. Excel, augmented VBA, is overlooked because it seems hard to learn. There are peculiar terms (e.g. "object", "properties" and arcane syntax of VBA. This problem is compounded by the useless "Introductions to Excel" that spew definitions. Most people, unless forced, give up immediately.

It is easy harness "Excel + VBA" if one simply considers VBA just another programming language with all the common structures and patterns. The beauty is that this language is connected to the spreadsheet. The power of the spreadsheet itself is overlooked
It’s better to begin by promoting the power in the spreadsheet itself. The main notion of assigning values to cell contents is what needs first to be elucidated. The fact that cell content can be a value, relationship or a new cell address is central to Excel’s power. This is easy to convey to someone by using a spreadsheet set up with a simple branch:
USE Cell A2 for User Input
cell content in B2
=if(A2>2,"too Big", "Too Small")
This displays "too Big" or Too Small", depending on input

The next example does the same test but in a different way to provide 3 different outputs
Content in B2:
=if(A2 =2,"just Right",A3)
Content in Cell B3
=if(A2>2,"too Big","Too Small
[Format the font in Cell A3 white so it is invisible}
These examples bring forward the concepts of branching, the use of strings and numericals.
The EU consider the lack of a tax on a specific sector to be a subsidy. e.g. The UK government's reduction in tax on domestic fuel bills amounted to a subsidy. That made the UK the EU's largest subsidiser of fossil fuels in the face of EU efforts to phase them out.

Good enough for me.

Edit: WTO definition of subsidies includes "government revenue that is otherwise due, foregone or not collected (e.g. fiscal incentives such as tax credits)". Pdf: http://www.wto.org/english/docs_e/legal_e/24-scm.pdf
> I started doing that once. After 2 or 3 of those time wasting calls, I got one that the person said "Thank you for playing <my phone number>, you will continue to receive calls" and they hung up.

Should have shot back real quick "enjoy shitting into an open hole, Hindu bro".
Too bad Microsoft chose to name their solution "WSL". If they'd have named it Line (Line Is Not an Emulator or LINux Emulator) then we could have called this Wine onLine!
Debian 9 for the Vagrant VM, because it was modern at the time (probably upgrading it to Debian 10 soon). Ubuntu 12.04 because that's what the Steam runtime uses, because it was modern at the time and upgrading while maintaining binary compatibility is Hard. Arch Linux because building a modern cross-compiler on Debian/Ubuntu is Hard.

What, did you want good reasons? :)
Only if you install the games outside "Program Files".
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Thats not a valid analogy because reviewers and authors already work for free for closed-access journals. And open-access journals are not of lower quality, just not as popular. The closest analogy would be the App Store which forces programmers to pay an extortionate tax to have their code 'recognized'.
I wonder why it was released under a different name on Netflix.

There already existed a UK show called Utopia, so it was renamed for its initial UK release. The new name was then subsequently used for all its international releases.
Personalised food nutrition is out
At least for Christians a good way to learn a foreign language is to read the Bible in that language, because

(1) they are probably used to read a chapter or two on a daily basis (thus, the routine is already there),

(2) and they probably remember some passages in their native tongue (thus, already having a translation of the text).

This helped me. YMMV.
seL4 at the moment doesn't have kernel interrupts. The kernel relies on run-to-completion and "incremental consistency" partly because IPC in seL4 is already short so the time window for a kernel interrupt to be needed is also correspondingly small, and because it makes proofs easier. Of course, this means there's possibilities of long tail latency for interrupts to be delivered to userspace if the kernel needs to run a long operation.
Or you could ask what does the top 500 supercomputers all run... Linux. See: https://itsfoss.com/linux-runs-top-supercomputers/

Or servers, or mobile devices in the form of Android phones. Desktop usage is only one many use cases for Linux.
> All I am reading is that the NHTSA has bad tests?

Seems like a testing policy designed to keep people from avoiding buying small cars ever, and/or to keep people from agitating to ban or otherwise legally discourage heavy road vehicles.
If we find one on the moon, can we know if it originates from earth?
A look inside Google’s design lab
> Pwn2Own fell out of the spotlight over time because they managed to piss off sponsors and teams alike

I don't suppose there's any more information - it sounds like an interesting tale.
The other main reason we eat herbivores is that they're social animals that want to live in / are easy to keep in large herds
My point exactly.

Just last night myself and my girlfriend were talking and Alexa decided to activate itself without us saying Alexa first.
Some (not all) of US police are uniquely unqualified to deal with this.

You need to be able to show some compassion in this job and try to actually help people instead of just being a squad of gun wielding weirdos who show up to cart any suspicious people away, guns blazing.

In most other countries police has an active role in settling disputes using empathy and compassion, instead of just arresting people and locking them away.

The way US police tend to operate fits well within a justice system that is focused on draconic punishment instead of rehabilitation and reintegration though.

Some people need a guiding hand to find back into society. In the US you're liable to get kicked into the mud and danced upon instead.
I have no issue with people taking photos, of themselves or otherwise.

What I find irritating are situations where lovely places become semi-professional photo shoots en-masse, where each group are spending hours trying to get the perfect shot, over and over, with lots of time reviewing the footage before deciding again it’s not quite right.
To be clear, you can disable all smart filtering in ripgrep. e.g., `rg -uuu foo` should be equivalent to `grep -r foo`. And if you want to exhaustively search binary files, then you need to add the `-a` flag to both commands.
I also experienced the high-turnover thing.

This was probably about 8 or 9 years ago now but the guys from India I workeded with at a BigCo (i.e. both me and them were at the same BigCo) were saying that as soon as they get some real experience of working hands-on and directly with engineers from the UK (and I presume the US as well) then that is seen as a huge thing in terms of their career and they'd be fools not to cash in on that. So you'd work with someone for 6 months, maybe 9, then they'd move to a competitor for a big promotion and a 50% pay rise for their proven skills in working with people from the UK.

You can't blame them for that. Sometimes you have got to play the system to get ahead, because sure as hell the system won't care for you :)
You are seriously giving authors too much credit. The vast majority of the journal papers require enormous amount of production editing -- that's exactly why the EICs and societies sold those journals to publishers.

Things that I have seen : ( wife was a production editor, I briefly helped an EIC of a society journal that was sold to a publisher )

1. Graphs do not fit the page or space allotment - journal is uses two column format, author decided it did not apply to them. Graphs do not fit the color scheme - the author decided that the graph will be blue and the legend would be green. This is a black and white journal. Graph is a photograph of a graph, not a graph. Photo was taken on an iphone.

2. Sections went out of order. Author did not use the numbering system and numbered them by hand. Author cross referenced sections by hand, changed the ordering and did not update all of them, referring to non-existent sections.

3. Footnotes referred to non-existent papers.

4. Author included someone else's figures. Author did not obtain a permission to use them.

5. Accepted paper is written in a monospace font in WordPerfect for DOS. In 2014.
"Don't pay too much attention to grammar."

Breaking that rule is one of the ways my high school failed to teach much German to most of its students.
I'll probably get downvoted to the ground but somebody needs to say it.
The problem is not with climate change deniers. Most people agree that climate change is happening. That's hard to deny when it's all around you. The million dollar question is whether and to what degree is human-made. And that's where science messed up big time. It is scientific bodies that have chipped away their credibility with their malpractices. Reproducibility crisis and flu-scares just to mention a few that come to mind. So - given that the authoritative voices in the matter seem all too often not to practice science but rather a variant of "research" with a lot of strings attached - then it is no wonder that people choose to not trust them at all. Enter hard-core climate change deniers, anti-vaccination and what have you.
The oath doesnt say "dont do any harm at all" it says "abstain from all intentional wrong-doing and harm, especially from abusing the bodies of man or woman" - causing pain in attempts to fix the body has very much been in the realm of medicine since the oath was first coined.
I've also had some similarly bad experiences reporting vulnerabilities to managed HackerOne campaigns. I'm guessing the HackerOne staff is primarily trained to judge web vulnerability reports. Anything beyond that often triggers odd followup questions or even a rejection like in this case.
How was helium extracted to build those reserves in the first place? (Fractional distillation of liquid natural gas?) Is that simply not viable or cost effective anymore?
In a lot of situations blindly breaking will grt the passenger killed, for example a moose or caribou will go through your windshield if you hit them.
government computers are already reading it, let the NSA fix yahoo
Things that scale

Social media is supposed to allow communication and bring people together, I can't mention a social media site that actually does this, theres a need.

Our broken monetary system that makes the rich richer and the poor poorer. But then again theres enough crypto currencies in the world.

Representative democracies are broken there needs to be a distributed cryptographically secure voting system.

Things that don't

Volunteer at local charities, they have lots of stuff they should automate but don't have the skills to do so. Most will get you doing the general volunteer work that can be done by anyone, this is a mistake as they won't understand what you can do you need to make them aware how they should be using you and your skills.

Take your problem solving skills to a new job / career and solve problems with something other than software.
You're being downvoted, but I agree. If you search the word "intelligent" in this page, it is used as a reason not to eat things. It's fine if one makes this a foundation for one's ethics of death, but one must be clear that it is and that it's only one way to look at things. Moreover, one should be clear that using intelligence as a reason to justify or avoid eating an organism leads to the problem that then an assessment of intelligence is vital for decision-making -- and if we happen not to understand an organism's intelligence, then we risk making the "wrong" decision out of ignorance. It can also lead to an essentially eugenicist view in which people as well as other organisms of lesser intelligence are viewed as less valuable. To be clear I'm not saying anyone here is a eugenicist: I'm saying that in history, eugenicists have taken this view.

Ranking animals by intelligence is not the only way to decide your ethics of consumption. If I want to look close to home, I can consider the ethics of the First Nations people who have lived in the area I now live in. They have a sophisticated ethic of consumption that does not rely on intelligence-ranking. Or we can look at other points of view that privilege the land and its health, and direct decisions from there.

Blindness about our assumptions and hypotheses doesn't help the conversation. Let's set out our axioms.
The GNIS data was imported to OSM, and many of the items have not been further updated, so it can be pretty hit and miss.
> A failure of IT systems shouldn't stop the plane flying...

You don't realise how much IT is involved in the process of loading a plane. Just the weight and balance calculation will take a very long time if done manually.
That's not how it works. Arbitraging fuel isn't as easy as driving to another state/indian reservation and buying cheap gas. Planes have maximum rake-off and landing weights. All that extra fuel you're carrying is freight that you couldn't carry. Planes carrying too much fuel (typically because they're making an emergency landing shortly after take-off) have to dump their fuel to meet their maximum landing weight.
A cubic meter of water is 264.17 gallons. So, 50c per gallon is ~2$ per 1000 gallons. 50% more is 0.75$ per cubic meter (not 1$) or 3$ per 1000 gallons. Though if it’s 100% more that’s 4$ per 1,000 gallons.

That paper is also from 2012, but I generally agree with your conclusions.
How to Prepare a Name Change
That is true in the past, and present out of sheer momentum, but it's clear opinion is changing on the value of these journals, especially in light of various absurd failures of their peer review process. I think they are only "high impact" merely out of critical mass, not any intrinsic quality of the journal itself.

You are correct in pointing out it's a significant factor in the perpetuity of these organisations, and hopefully it's an opinion that enough boycotting will topple.
I wonder if Mac users are pulling our legs, or if they are True Believers. Like it or not, a significant number of people doing signal processing, simulation, AI, and even playing games, need or strongly prefer Nvidia and CUDA. And for them, Macs are not an option.
"You like places where millions were murdered by starvation?"

Especially if this was after she saw that huge pile of human hair they have in Auschwitz.
I think that’s fair and there’s definitely something to be said for having some courtesy and decency, especially in a crowded place.
I'm not arguing that what Elsevier is doing is good, but I do think desiring terrible things for others however "bad" we may perceive them to be is ultimately not productive.
Worse, Jdeveloper.

https://www.oracle.com/database/technologies/developer-tools...
I'm sure a lot of them are fake. Stories told by tech nerds huddled around the glow of a CRT to convince themselves that they're better than everyone else because they know some computer stuff.
“Microwave Push” – The Need to Go Faster
> It is written in Rust which isn't available on anything other than Linux, OS X and Windows.

That's not true. As ripgrep's README says, it's available on OpenBSD, FreeBSD and NetBSD.
Pretty much. Security wasn't really seen as something developers worried about back then. Maybe it was because there were less bad actors due to it being much harder to make a buck through hacking. I remember setting up a server with an extremely weak SSH password around 2003 and it went for months without receiving any sort of traffic at all, much less login attempts. Nowadays if you set up a server with port 22 open you'll get dozens of hits per day from various bots scanning the entire IPV4 range and trying dictionary attacks to get in. Going through Fail2ban logs can be pretty entertaining.
This is a fair point. I agree that I certainly wouldn't want this machine to just go into the scrap heap :)
I was talking about BA flights. BA check passports at the gate to all destinations aside from domestic UK ones (and maybe London-Dublin -- I haven't done that flight)

I don't believe they run any inter-schengen or other "domestic" flights, and the 5th freedom flights they do run are like Singapore to Sydney so attract passport viewing.

Security is irelevent to BA's problems.
Source?

A minivan has a higher center of gravity so in an example where a minivan is cornering aggressively, say to avoid a collision, the rollover likelihood is higher than that of a sports car. As I understand it safety ratings are generally after occupancy protection and aren't concerned with the class of vehicle which goes against what you've claimed.

From the NHTSA website [0]:

"Can I compare vehicles from different classes?

Side crash rating results can be compared across all classes because all vehicles are hit with the same force by the same moving barrier or pole.

Rollover ratings can also be compared across all classes. Frontal crash rating results can only be compared to other vehicles in the same class and whose weight is plus or minus 250 pounds of the vehicle being rated. This is because a frontal crash rating into a fixed barrier represents a crash between two vehicles of the same weight."

And again they are, generally, looking for impact to occupant, for example for the "Side Pole Crash Test Scenario" under "Test Details" they are looking at "Evaluation of injury to the head, chest, lower spine, abdomen, pelvis".

Just because a sports car is a different class of vehicle does not make it inherently less safe. The driver input can change that for any class of vehicle.

[0] https://www.nhtsa.gov/ratings
Cs is different from many science fields. Many if not most fields rely on published papers on journals not a conference. Many of the post-accepted production work still need to be done by human. think about a magazine, they sort of like that for production work
Whenever I have used BTC, I can pay more for the transaction to happen faster. In a case of a few extra pesos, c'mom man it's just change.
> I would expect of (and would be acceptable for) a 10 person company, not a massive corporation with millions of users.

As it happens, there are only about 10 people [1] working on Steam. [2][3] This is the result of both Valve having only some hundreds of employees total and them being to be able to choose what they want to work on. Not many choose Steam.

--

[1] This is not counting customer support staff that is outsourced.

[2] Steam employees self-report the team size as 10 in this interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atwE-K8y-ws&t=8m35s

[3] Someone who recently visited Valve observed this to still be true. "There are approximately ten people inside" + "This is the Steam cabal," https://www.joindota.com/en/news/84521-my-visit-at-valves-hq...
FedEx is ending ground-delivery contract with Amazon
The El Paso Shooting Revived the Free Speech Debate. Europe Has Limits
> ...I value your opinion...

And I value your work on this book.

I apologize for having said at the beginning that "This makes the book untrustworthy, whatever good features it might have." It was unwarranted, and not substantiated, and much too harsh.

I do however stand by my claim that it is undefined behaviour. (You could help by making the suggested changes to rutils.)
yes because there is no water, air, or food on the moon for a suitable habitat for tardigrade reproduction
I use mailcow[1], which uses rspamd and it just let's through like 1 mail every few days.

[1]: https://github.com/mailcow/mailcow-dockerized/
The Windows kernel is a true micro-kernel, unlike the monolith of Linux, and the Frankenstein mess of Mac "OS". Different API subsystems can run on top of it. There used to be a supported POSIX subsystem.
As with most things you want to learn you need both - immersion as well as deliberate practice.
It's easy to unsafely handle filenames. I've seen it at my job where we do a lot of bash scripting. However, there are good guides on doing it the right way. [0]

[0] https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashPitfalls#for_f_in_.24.28ls_....