skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Imagine installing node.js and a json parser and 10+ other things just for a cowsay clone. I can't imagine what a clean install of all this crap would be just for this project.
Thank you for your feedback! The light button doesn't look good on white background. I mainly added it for dark backgrounds, maybe I can find a middle ground solution. Do you have a suggestion for an alternative to Raleway? I wanted to try something different from the usual Helvetica and Roboto, but this might not be the best choice.
I’m also with USAA (banking and insurance) for the last 30 years. Very happy (though no longer using them for investments as they’ve just not kept up).

Banking products have been available for a long time. Insurance used to be closed to just the military officer corps, then they offered insurance to some “affiliated” groups, but it was under different terms I think.

I had one auto claim and they were excellent. Parents had a homeowners claim and they were likewise excellent.
> That's different from subsidizing electricity for consumers

No, the only question is the relative subsidies vs taxes, and the revenue from taxes are significantly less than the subsidies. These taxes go right back to the industry and the government adds more to the pot, resulting in a net subsidy. (US telecom’s got some similar taxes passed.)

> orders of magnitude less

Nuclear ends up needing more storage because wind and solar can be crafted to roughly follow load. Yes, peak usage does not exactly match solar, but it’s vastly better than nuclear which produces 1/2 it’s output at night when demand goes way down. Sure, you can buy more nuclear capacity, but buying more wind / solar capacity also reduces the need for storage.

The other option is to vastly over build nuclear capacity which sit’s idle 99% of the year. That’s ridiculously expensive per kWh.

> Of course nuclear isn't the cheapest form of electricity generation, neither is wind or solar

New wind, solar, and hydro are the three cheapest electricity sources. Read up on some of those solar power purchase agreements, it’s hitting under 3c/kWh without subsidies. Solar is not a great fit near the poles, but you can cheaply transport it 1,000+ miles north.
Russia Is About to Send a Humanoid AI Robot to the International Space Station
I too have had several clients recently choose Vue. Not sure if this is part of a greater trend.
It’s actually good news for your grandma: DARPA is relatively keen on turning research into products. Most of their proposals ask about commercialization plans, how you’ll handle regulatory approval, etc. Their goal is to get stuff to a point where the DoD can buy 100,000 of something off the shelf. Other funding agencies (e.g., the NIH) are less interested in that and would rather see more papers and citations.

DARPA is also a bit more adventurous in what they’ll fund. I’m not sure the NIH or NSF would have picked up any of the projects I worked on without preliminary data (which we needed the money to generate so...)
Related https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/46403.html
For the clueless, uninitiated types and people with hearing too poor to pick up on the sound of a dog whistle -- raises hand -- perhaps you could kindly explain it like I'm five.
"Tesla sales are up seven-fold from Q3 2015 to Q3 2018"

Wow. I consider that a good sign. Electric cars are progress.
I also do have a medical condition that impacts the gut.

It's called Crohn's Disease.

Yes, gas correlates to it feeling more severe.

That does not mean that removing the gas (by eating seaweed) is beneficial to anything but reducing gas.

It's a simple correlation causation thing. Removing an effect doesn't mean the cause is removed.

I can get gas reducing pills at my local pharmacy, I have yet to have my doctor take me off immunosupressants for- or even mention them. So I am honestly wondering if there is any evidence for this being actually beneficial for health.
The Invincible – 1964 novel
During a sprint in 2018, Andre Greipel averaged 1,600W, and hit 1,900W peak. Those are the kind of numbers engineers have to take into consideration when designing for maximum torque, although obviously they are not sustained for hours.
Doesn't seem to stop shops from trying. I think the general workaround is "briefly raise prices, then make the sale price equal to original price".
> not only does AT nearly eliminate methane from the bovine digestive process entirely when supplementing between half and two percent of daily diet – we are seeing early indications in research of some amazing additional benefits – improved milk production, increased immunity, improved food conversion ratio

Does this not rather imply that the cows are nutritionally deficient of something that this seaweed provides? Perhaps something in their ancestral environment?
How could they change their service to circumvent apple here? E.g. what if they provided the VMs but the user had to manually upload the OS image?
It's a necessary part of the business, and it keeps rates down for every insurance holder.

I just wish they were more public about punishing the bad ones they catch. It would help people understand the necessity of investigations, and probably discourage some would-be fraudsters.
TLDR: don’t act like a c@&t online. And if you did, delete it.
Getting banned for calling someone (a high rank politician!!!) a whore is the state of the internet in 2019.

Thing is, he's suggesting Mastodon as an alternative... there you would not only get banned for calling a woman a whore, you'd probably get doxxed and then swatted too.
You're not the only one. I too am the less likely to buy something from someone the more they seem to be pushing it.
Honestly it's annoying and does not tell that much. We recruted once a guy that passed algorithm tests on site. We had to fire him 9 month later. He wasn't abble to handle code he had not written and was disappearing every time there was a production issue. Tottally unreliable.
I'm from China, I'm actually shocked to see people in the US or France do that all the time. Usually, it seems private properties are destroyed during the process.

But why? If it is the government people protest, but why do people break shop windows and burn someone's car all the time...

It seems to be a lesser kind of terrorism for me: they don't like a country, they hurt properties instead of people.
The conclusion makes sense to me - that HK is not Taiwan. However, after so many generations I do think that some of the HK people do recognize the irony of how they got to their situation but that doesn't mean their yearning for the situation Taiwan has isn't legitimate.
Yes, that’s the whole point of dependent types: types can depend on (runtime) values.
Seems more like twitter banned the author 9 years too late.
Probably none, we aren't ruminants.
For clarity, Lennart Poettering is an extremely prolific guy that people somehow love to hate. At the end of the day, his critics either use his software begrudgingly, or use somebody else's to their own detriment, just to spite him.

I take some time every year to thank Lennart for systemd and PulseAudio; I remember when the grass was parched brown on my side, green has been a welcome change!
And if you add one or two levels of magnitude of improvement, you will get the insanely good train system in Japan.

Seeing 14 car 300 km/h capable shinkansens arrive on the same track in ~4 minute intervals in Hiroshima station (and elsewhere) is something to behold.

And the commuter system is sometimes ever crazier, with many lines running parallel in the city center, large stations having dozens of lines, together providing huge capacity. No wonder around 8 million people commute to central Tokyo, 1.3 million of them through a single station (Shinjuku).
Robotics in Knee Replacement – Pain Relief and a Normal Life
Egomotion is very useful but relies on being able to reliably extract features from objects which isn't always possible. Smooth, monochromatic walls do exist and it's imperative a car be able to avoid them. It is possible for a human to figure out (almost always) their shape and distance form visual cues but our brains are throwing far more computational horsepower at the task than even Tesla's new computer has available. But perhaps knowing when it doesn't know is sufficient for their purposes and probably an easier task.

An interesting intermediate case between a pure video system and a lidar is a structured light sensor like the Kinect. In those you project a pattern of features onto an object in infrared. Doesn't work so well in sunlight but be interested in learning if someone had ever tried to use that approach with ego motion.
Don't you have programming apprenticeships in your country?
I’m building a simple, markdown-based blogging platform
Best quote ever. When it says 'you', it's literally speaking to you as the reader.
Someone else will make money on the short but it will not be you.
Influential insiders are the ones who have the power to decide the exact timing of when the bubble
will pop and they will choose a time which maximises their profit at the expense of your principal.
They are state capitalists. China's communism was replaced when Mao Zedong died and Deng Xiaoping reformed the economy.

They still call themselves communists, but they are opportunists. Over the past 200 years or so, China has been schooled in political pragmatism.
Same argument as normal: they don't want to platform that kind of speech, and it truly was horrible speech.

Learn from it, remove the post, and move on. Not sure why this is news. It's a little bit of a narcissistic post, I think (A sentiment of "How dare you call me out, I'm an atheist who calls right-wingers names online") and I'm not sure why this is news except some people feel that more right-wing hatred is being suspended than left.
It was me using it as a calculator.
Golang eBPF function tracing (2017)
I'm the GP commenter, so not the person you replied to, but some random areas where I think the US certainly exceeds some/many European countries include air quality and quality of specialty healthcare (not health insurance or financial coverage).

EDIT: To provide a random anecdote, if you've ever known someone who needed an ambulance in the south of Spain you'll know what I mean. ;) The public healthcare services don't exactly have a very positive reputation, though the private ones are relatively cheap.

Random article of an incident in Sweden so apparently it isn't just the experience of my family members: https://www.thelocal.se/20120503/40608

I'd like to find actual data on this but seem to be having difficulty doing so.
Have they modified their terminal in the screenshot or how are they managing to get perfectly square "pixels" in the terminal?
xdotool is the dirty magic underlying my personal voice-control system for Linux. Super-useful for being able to arbitrarily interface with X, without having to learn the insane interface you're supposed to use.
I am presuming that you're from a "better" country, so it should be easier for you to repeat what this guy did, now that he told you how.
A lot of devops positions look like “a sysadmin to babysit developers”.

I’ll be starting a devops role next month, hopefully it will not be like this.
XMosaic - I remember reading about that in '93 and thinking that it looked like a cool hypertext browser but why would anyone want to load documents over a network!
Two million out of seven is nearly half. You have to account for the kids, sick, infirm, etc. It's a mind-boggling proportion of the population to have in a single march.
As a measure of fiber distance, it’s roughly 75 o/w from LA to HK via AAG and the balance lies between LA and NY. That’s before any delays created by layer 2,3 and up.
> the amount of parallax you need to get the same kind of accurate depth using camera is infeasible. Velodynes other common lidar now gets you points accurate at 150m+

I meant they both just provide line of sight depth.

The point being made by the first comment is that human eyeballs placed one inch apart are currently the gold standard for the actual looking part. So the right set of cameras is by definition sufficient for the looking part of driving. The cameras just have to replace eyes well enough. The brain replacement is farther down the chain.
I suggest Sikuli, it does fuzzy matching on your screen contents to determine whether to continue with your dirty, dirty hacks.
I've found it written of him, "Danny is a bona fide member of the Flat Earth Society". Is that a joke?
If the author really wants Dependent Haskell to be the future, maybe he should use Pyhon and JavaScript speak to spread concepts.

A world with little handles attached to it slips too fast out of the curious minds.
It simply allows you to go further and/or faster for the same effort.

That might be reason enough, but another very interesting use case is when people of unequal ability wish to exercise or travel together.
Really your arguments make no sense. First security flaws are not secrets. If I put a number in a box in my house and you break in and take it, that is 'stealing' a secret (aka credit card number). But if I make a million boxes with the same number in it and sell them there is no expectation that you will not look inside the box.

Moreso selling "information that you would rather not be public but is not considered a secret legally" is completely legal in the US. There are lots of books published and sold containing information that some company or person would rather keep secret.

>Responsible disclosure is a thing.

Not a legal requirement. More of a gentleman's agreement after companies sent the law after security researchers so researchers sold or released anonymous zero days.
> later realize you're repeating a lot of backend logic on the front

So you mean something like keeping state of forms in something like redux and sending out an event every time you press a button so that state gets update and the change is pushed down the tree of elements so that the letter you just pressed gets rendered in the form?

Or did you mean client side validations of forms that you also have in your back-end?

Obviously you didn't and I am being a bit of an ass, but this is what is the somewhat recommended way of going around this and it is so convoluted.

> doing a lot of manual labour keeping track of all states, events, etc.

The state of most web applications can be kept inside of DOM elements and the url just fine.

> What div is visible, which one to hide, which buttons to disable

This is where CSS-classes and the aforementioned JS libraries come in and they do this job just fine.

> adding new rows into forms dynamically with pre-populated values... that kind of stuff is way (and I mean waaaay) easier when coded in a declarative reactive way.

I don't believe you are right. It is not easier at all to add some DOM elements with React than it is when you use small bits of JS. Let's say you use jQuery, then it is 1 dependency you add with a small wrapper script for your dynamic form, with React you add thousands of dependencies and you have to build your complete application in React just to dynamically add a row in one of the forms. How is that easier?

I don't think I'd build Slack mostly using HTML rendering from the back-end, but most of the things that we build are CRUD applications that can easily be built using things like Ruby on Rails. Let's say the Trello's, Githubs and Amazons of our world.
Jesus. An amazing piece. Thanks
True. But who knows why I can't store the data in this abnormal emergency situation. Maybe I left the only working device with my friends. It doesn't really matter, 3 English words are still easier to remember and communicate than codes.
At the point you inform the service provider you no longer want the service, the next time they charge your account is simple fraud or theft, and that is something your bank better damned well act on.

Just say it like that. "X is stealing from this account. This is a fraudulent transaction." That frames it in a way they understand and they have a box for that.

It's also just like a former employee using passwords they are no longer authorized to use. It doesn't matter that they once had that access legitimately.
The market has spoken.
Not the OP, but I also expect an honest answer. But I'm wary that it might not be, because humans are humans and none are perfect.
>Needless to say, never using a Google service again.

The only Google services I bother with are search, maps, youtube (in a non-logged-in viewing-only capacity, not a posting-my-own-videos capacity) and the android play store (paying for apps via gift cards). I don't trust google not to cancel new services on a metaphorical moment's notice, and I don't have any faith in reaching a human being if I have a billing problem. So I make sure not to tie my life in any way to my Google account.

It feels strange to say, as an old school Linux fanboy who vividly remembers the Halloween document release, but I tend to point "I want to move my business to the cloud" friends/acquaintances to Office 365 instead. Say what one will about Microsoft's scummy behaviour over the years, but no-one can claim they aren't into Office 365 for the long haul. And while it's not exactly easy to get a human being at Microsoft to fix a problem, it's certainly easier than Google.
It is definitely an immature tweet, however I think 9 years can change a person a lot.

Maybe twitter could have given him a warning about his tweet and ask if he would like to delete it before the instaban algorithm hit
but that is not the point of Haskell's type system, since it doesn't even begin to try to reach that goal.

firstly, the most available `head` function crashes on half the constructors.

more fundamentally, just try using any file or network io method. you just won't have a clue how it can fail, because it isn't even documented.

there's many methods where the best you can do is work out what exception is being used to wrap a C errno and read the appropriate Linux man page.

at least C documents it's functions that can return errors, and usually encodes them in the type. in Haskell, it's just, "if you're dumb enough to use IO (and what alternative have you got), anything can crash all the time. deal with it".

Haskell is great right up to that point, but that's a critical point.

(I've tried to find ways to deal with this, but the most people seen to refer too something else when discussing how horrible exceptions are, so I wonder if I'm insane)
You were at least using actual Apple Hardware.
Yes. Just like with generics, you can parametrize them, for example in Idris you have the type `Vect n a`, being a list of type `a` with length `n`. An append function could look like this:

app : Vect n a -> Vect m a -> Vect (n + m) a
app Nil ys = ys
app (x :: xs) ys = x :: app xs ys

Source: https://www.idris-lang.org/example/
> Getting banned for calling someone (a high rank politician!!!) a whore

Also calling them a 'cunt'.

Attitudes like the above are why ordinary men and women don't want to become politicians - it's assumed to be OK to insult them in any way. Why not just call Palin a hypocrite?

You should be able to criticise politicians. However if you want better politicians, screaming that they're cunts and whores instead of communicating like an adult won't make that happen.

Edit: replying to below due to rate limit

> If someone cant handle a verbal insult over the internet, I don't think they are fit for office

But it's not 'a verbal insult'. It's thousands. Most humans can't handle a thousand insults a week. It wears at you - SEAL training involves simulating humiliating experiences because most people don't have the mental strength to not crumble. I'd take a bet that includes both me and you.

Edit 2: replying to Iamthirsty

OK. You don't think being constantly insulted would have a chilling effect on someone becoming a representative because ... people can insult people in other professions?

It seems like you believe I think it's hard to work a job where you may be insulted.

This isn't correct. I think it's hard to work a job where you may be insulted a thousand times a day.
You can't just reply to a detailed explanation of why something is political with "no, it isn't". That's not an argument and I'm pretty sure it isn't in the spirit of HN's guidelines (whether or not I personally agree with them in general or not).

The word "political" doesn't have no meaning, unless you take it to be understood as purely binary (i.e. "there are politics in this or there are not") in which case it's indeed a useless qualifier because, as I explained, there are always politics in it if there are humans involved. So yes, "x is political" is a useless statement because it is practically tautological in most situations where it is uttered -- but the same is true for "the Earth isn't flat", yet that's a perfectly sensible thing to say when dealing with Flat Earthers, just as "everything is political" is sensible to say when someone claims it very much isn't.

You seem to have a very narrow definition of the word "political". I'd be interested to hear what you think that is.

EDIT: It's also important to understand the distinction between "x has no meaning" and "x is no useful distinguishing quality". "Political" in my book means "involves politics", "expresses politics", "manifests politics" or something to that effect -- which applies to everything humans do, including what humans write, especially when they write about other humans. That's meaningful. But the qualification of something humans do as "political" is indeed useless just as qualifying water as "wet"[0] is generally also useless, because if those qualities are always present for everything in that category (i.e. all water is "wet", all human communication is "political") there's nothing the presence of the quality distinguishes any of those things from (of course water is "wet", hence why we don't talk about "wet water" and just talk about "water" instead, with the implicit understanding that because it is water, it is also wet).

[0]: Using the colloquial definition of "wetness" here. There are other definitions according to which e.g. soapy water is "wetter" than pure water but that's not generally what a layperson means when they say something is wet (i.e. is covered or soaked in water).
IMHE Cap One took security very seriously although security expertise was not diffuse.

Frankly I’m surprised their policy enforcement measures didn’t catch the misconfigured app.
It's just 2 empty space characters
It's still there, and now there's wev, for Wayland.
Also known as Chesterton’s Fence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Chesterton%27s_fence
thanks, that is certainly interesting.
> Do you think it's been proven enough to be sure that plant based diet is better in terms of GHGE than meat based diet?

For me, yes.

> Would you say it's easy to hit all required protein's targets while eating only plant foods?

I find it relatively easy, although most days I also have a protein shake I take to top me up. It's not required but as a runner I prefer to have a little more protein than technically required.
Though that said, most law enforcement has a statute of limitations on crimes except the very worst of them like killing another human being. If you're going to go after a fossilized tweet, just remove it, locking accounts after that long seems rather silly unless they are posting new content against the rules.
Doctor charged with murder in several opioid-related deaths
Exactly, after years and years of interviewing and building teams I learned that the best way to interview about data structures is to do Q&A related to them.

Even if you are going to work in a project that requires building such structures, I demand that you don't do it from memory, but make sure to get help from resources to ensure that your structures are sound.
Can you link to more info about that latency-optimized GC?