skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There’s a slight difference in the sort of abstract evil that Cambridge Analytica poses and the very tangible changes that Amazon and Microsoft are bringing to Seattle. Your average person isn’t going to understand data collection and its role in political manipulation but they will understand rent increases and gentrification.
Quinine for one. There are many more if you are willing to do five minutes of research:
https://www.conservation.org/blog/5-rainforest-species-that-...
OpenBSD, not NetBSD.
Just to give you some perspective on the scale of sea level rise, which has been occurring since the end of the ice age: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Post-Glacial_Sea_Lev...
I once decided that I should spend less time arguing online, so I collected a few pieces of advice for myself that I try to obey.

1. "People are allowed to be wrong on the internet." It's not my job to correct people who are wrong. There will always be more of them.

2. "One and done." Don't get into back-and-forth arguments. I try to limit myself to one post on a topic and then do my best to remain silent. I don't always succeed, but I try. Some people simply cannot be wrong and no amount of back-and-forth will make them change their mind. Let them have the last word.

3. "You might be the one who is wrong". Tying into #2, if you engage in back-and-forth's it easily becomes a game where you have to prove you're right. If you shut up and listen after saying your piece, you might actually find yourself more willing to consider other points of view.

4. "Political issues usually lack easy answers." If you're talking about politics, remember that political opinions are highly dependent on a person's point of view. What may appear dead wrong from your point of view may be correct from another point of view. If an opinion is unequivocally correct from all points of view it's probably not going to be politically interesting or controversial.
I have a library of old (1870's-1930's) books on bacterial and fungal taxonomy, and I'm cautious not to breathe too deeply when I handle some of them. Many of these may have been used in non-sterile microbiology labs, likely including my copy of A Manual of Tropical Diseases (signed by Catellani himself). Bacterial spores (e.g., Bacillus, can survive in dehydrated states indefinitely). Some of the notes in margins, covers, bookplates and stamps show snapshots of where these have been.
In the US at least, no release form is required of those pictured in a news article.
A small youtube channel I follow just posted a video about these- specifically one next to an unfriendly military base on a street aptly named “ha ha road”.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=pHHGSfd6rPk
‘Breaking Bad’ Movie, Starring Aaron Paul, Coming to Netflix in October
It’s sad that this arrogant criticism of the work involved in maintaining a popular OSS package is the top comment.
Detach yourself from the ideas you argue. That helps. Or get attached to something else that is not related to what you argue with.
Yes. THAAD was the reason.
Rakuten Wallet Launches Spot Trading Services for BTC, ETH, BCH
>Teaching them an abstract field without connections to what motivates it (intellectually or practically) is pedagogically not ideal.

While fair in general, the point is k means has nothing to do with linear algebra besides they both use numbers sometimes. It would be like sandwiching in a chapter on RSA crypto because it's interesting and number-y but still has no connection to linear algebra.
pdf of paper https://arxiv.org/pdf/1905.02868
Are you their friend? "Hey, why are you leaving?"

Not their friend? Why on earth would you think they owe you an answer to any of the questions you listed?
The flawed three-cueing system for teaching reading
Referencing and evidence has never been a benchmark requirement for works of philosophy.
Although it serves something of a similar purpose, a moat interrupts the view and usually doesn’t slope on one side only.
Keep in mind that the JS ecosystem on the whole is a garbage fire, and anything even vaguely configuration-related is likely to catch fire and explode the moment a dependency or a dependency's dependency or a dependency's dependency's dependency changes something.

For example, it recently took me most of a day just to get ESLint, Jest, and Babel working for a monorepo based off the same Babel config,
I’m also curious how it’ll work for hiring new teachers: they’re usually offered worse wages than the retiring boomers saw at the same point in their careers and the housing market is much worse.
It's not correct to say that prices never fall. I purchased 5 mbps fiber from Verizon when it was brand new - $60 / month in 2005, I think. Today, Comcast's bottom tier is 15 mbps, at $30 / month. DSL-speed internet (768 kbps) isn't even available as an option.

The market might not function as competitively as it should in the US, but it still functions - new, cheaper tech eventually results in lower prices for consumers.
He's a German Shepherd. Yes, I can get away with missing a single session, but he will be a pest about it, doing stuff like stealing my shoes or intentionally spilling his water bowl. If I make him sit or down to behave, he'll do it, but I'll get big, deep sighs and grumbles.

He is better than a personal trainer about keeping me on his routine. And he is a better dog after he's got his run in. Dogs love routines and are better pets when feel like they have a job to do.
YouTube Mistakenly Bans Robot Battles Citing Animal Cruelty
Beating Trump to the Payroll Punch
I am an Engineer, in that my degree is in engineering, and my job is in engineering.

I am not a Professional Engineer, in that I have not taken the Fundamentals of Engineering exam, passed, worked for at least 4 years under a Professional Engineer, and then taken the Principles and Practice of Engineering exam. So I can't put EIT or PE after my name, stamp projects which require it, or operate as a PE in any state.
If you're not changing the air, then it will already equalize very quickly without your help.
Entropy-Enhanced Multimodal Attention Model for Scene-Aware Dialogue Generation
Buck converters are still widely used in absolutely everything.
It is, because I like widgets that last 10+ years and they are becoming increasingly hard to find (and yes, I would pay much more for them, if only they were made).
Probably referring to this:

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/aug/16/why-adanis-...
Could Mandatory Voting Save American Democracy?
I can’t think of many (any?) other large tech companies that stuck with Rails at scale. The CEO being a core Rails member makes this an edge case, like Basecamp.
Explanation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:127.0.0.1
Such as being cloned shamelessly (and illegally) by Hickok, IIRC.
Seems like some of them are spam, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Toyotomi_Hideyosh...
Does this mean Wikipedia's network was hacked by an unauthorized outsider?

EDIT: Ah, sort of. A network misconfiguration caused this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(techni...
With 0.1 square kilometers of habitat, you can fill a million jars. Seems like a pretty remote risk.
If you want to get the real scoop, sometimes local knowledge is the best.
Oh, I agree completely, and I hope my lame attempt at humor wasn't too offensive.

I only meant it as a caution: it's all too easy to take one point out of a message ("ask questions instead of making assertions") and neglect the many other wonderful points you mentioned about being calm and respectful and all that.
> It may have been a left-over from early versions.

Earlier versions do not have this particular bug, it was introduced in version 7. However they have another bug which causes Delay to simply not work properly (it finishes quicker than requested) and most likely the changes in ver7 were made in an attempt to fix that one.
From hiking enthusiast to on death’s door within days. Doctors blamed vaping
From another source on a vaping story, for those who want to follow the thread of concern even regardless of my bad understanding:

> One exam, though, picked up something unusual — evidence of abnormal immune cells in his lungs — generally associated with a rare, potentially deadly pneumonia seen in older people who accidentally inhale droplets from oil-based laxatives like mineral oil.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/one-mans-near-death-ex...
The tech behind IRMA: https://idemix.wordpress.com/privacy-matters/

They also dabble with identity based encryption it seems.

From what I understand,the issuer still needs to know your information?
I didn't see language which would give the President the claimed authority to order US companies to depart China.
Modern electric guitar pickups are epoxied in place precisely to prevent unwanted vibration and thus the additional noise.
I'm not sure about that specifically, but reporting on politics is much closer to the paper's core competency.

The paper runs articles on politics every single day. The characters and issues don't change too quickly: Quimby was the mayor last week; next week, he'll be the same mayor, dogged by the same scandals and trying to enact the same politics too. A lot of the facts are easy to check, if someone cared to do so. The reporters may have a background in political science or history, or something somewhat related.

In contrast, the science section is pretty small. Maybe it runs once a week and has one or two main reporters, who cover everything from Astronomy to Zoology. No one has a background in all of that, and many reporters don't have a technical background at all. You can try to fact check it, but the experts themselves don't always agree and it's hard to tell whether Dr. So-and-So is really an expert on the topic anyway.

And, despite all that, the science reporting I see does a pretty good job. One of my papers got a bit of media coverage, and pretty much everyone got the broad strokes right. One place made me sound a little too exuberant about the immediate ramifications; another made me sound a bit too negative, but neither was egregiously bad.
Please change `width: 100vw` to `width: 100%` in the header element on your landing page. It results in the horizontal scroll bar in the bottom of the screen (you will see it if you view your landing page on something other than a mac).
There's no explanation there.
Medical ethicist argues life after 75 is not worth living
Yes, these converters go way back, although the AGC used a buck converter not a forward converter. They became more practical in the 1970s as transistor technology improved. I wrote a history of power supplies in the IEEE Spectrum recently: https://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/hardware/a-half-century-...
It says "All edits attributed to this IP (besides those resulting from a server misconfiguration in 2013 and another one in 2015) have been made by one of Wikimedia's system administrators" with links to discussions of the two misconfiguration incidents. What more were you looking for?
Same for GPUs and actually still happens with many games that use delta timing (meaning they calculate the time delta between the last frame and the current frame and use it to update the game world state). For example in Condemned you often get stuck for a few frames to random junk/pebbles/etc on the floor (and the game has a lot of that) if the game runs too fast. Other games have issues like collisions not registering, jump distances being too long/short, etc.

Because of that i always run any games that are more than 5-6 years old with a frame capping tool.
If you access it on a phone you come to a practically blank page.

https://i.imgur.com/xkIkyFB.png
The AGC we restored was used for ground testing, so most of the modules weren't encased in epoxy. This made things much more convenient for us. We did have to dig through encapsulation to fix one module, though.
It seems it's not present on mobile, at least, but on desktop there's a yellow box with an explanation.

a server misconfiguration in 2013 and another one in 2015

2013: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(techni...

Wikipedia appears to have a two-layer varnish cache system, and if the frontend and backend cache is the same host, the edit was attributed to localhost.

2015: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(techni...

A change broke Wikimedia's parsing of X-Forwarded-For and defaulted to localhost.
That's a good analogy.

Unfortunately the young is left on the unfortunate side of the "wall".
I've been told that welding components was considered a common practice in the USSR since it was cheaper than soldering them at some point in time.
> How did you deal with it and break the habit?

You have to learn to not give a shit.

A lot of times I decide it's not worth my time. Not because my time is so valuable, but because I'd rather move on and do something else. I don't always have to make a point even when there's one wanting.

Learning to not give a shit really just requires you stop and ask yourself "do I really care about this?"
South Australia's Ace EV rolls out its first electric cargo van
A few comments are saying that forests capture a lot of CO2.

But how could that be? If a forest doesn't change over thousands of years it cannot be accumulating carbon in any significant quantity. Or else where would that material go?

The Amazon trees are about as tall and wide today as they were 10,000 years ago, and only so many of them fit on a given area. If the amount of vegetation remains the same the only way for a forest to capture carbon would be to accumulate an ever-increasing layer of it under the forest floor. That would be a lot of combustible material accumulated over millions of years that Amazon was around, and I'm pretty sure it isn't there (otherwise certain people would be mining it already).

Amazon is not scrubbing carbon out of the air, and neither does any other forest of static size. The carbon has to go into the ground to remain sequestered.
90% of federal cases end in a guilty plea, and only 17% of federal cases that do go to trial end in an acquittal.

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/06/11/only-2-of-f...

Most likely he looks at the 20 years he's facing if convicted of wire fraud and decides to take a plea deal involving a couple years in prison.
Sir Patrick Stewart would disagree, having started a new project at 79 years of age.

https://www.cbs.com/shows/star-trek-picard/news/1009254/sir-...
Ok. Can you give me an example of any FP objects/tools which are useful? By useful I mean it would make my life (as a coder of short research oriented programs) easier. Similar to how learning OOP made it easier to keep track of all the moving parts in my code?
https://outline.com/jF4w9X
From a WeChat posting I heard 1.5M LOC is changed. Wow
This is why UBI should be funded by a land-value tax.
Clearly not "in plain English, and repeatedly" if this is news. I mean, when Apple says "What happens on your iPhone stays on your iPhone" [1] in big bold letters, you what do you expect that to mean? I mean, in plain English, that means nothing is sent back to Apple.

[1] https://9to5mac.com/2019/01/05/apple-privacy-billboard-vegas...

Edit: In fact, I went to that link they provided in the billboard, and then followed it to here.

https://www.apple.com/privacy/approach-to-privacy/

Nothing under the Siri and Dictation section says anything about letting contractors listen to your audio. Please show me where it says on these pages in plain English that third parties would be listening to your siri audio?
In plain sight: California illegal pot market booming
Angel, a distributed machine learning platform based on Parameter Server
Anecdotally in Seattle it is absolutely happening. My small business is one of many that is expanding into these short-term spaces due to flexibility. Who knows if it's actually working well, but I've seen many "sub-offices" at the co-working space where I lease two desks for my employees.
The road to Steve Jobs' resignation, and the rise of Tim Cook as his successor
Why four quarters instead of a dollar bill?
IANAL, but the closest I could see (with a friendly interpretation) would be:

investigate, block during the pendency of an investigation, regulate, direct and compel, nullify, void, prevent or prohibit, any acquisition, holding, withholding, use, transfer, withdrawal, transportation, importation or exportation of, or dealing in, or exercising any right, power, or privilege with respect to, or transactions involving, any property in which any foreign country or a national thereof has any interest by any person, or with respect to any property, subject to the jurisdiction of the United States;

So, a factory in China is the "property in which any foreign country...has any interest", and the President could block any transactions involving that property.
Electrify America and EVgo Join Forces to Simplify U.S. Charging Network
It's 5 minutes of research if you know what you're looking for. It can be much more if you don't, and you don't know when and where to stop.

BTW, that's kind of the entire point of a site like HN. Experts from different fields (and hobbyists and laypersons) get together and exchange knowledge. Sorry to go on about this, but I've been seeing too many responses saying to go Google things.
Old growth forests are not carbon-neutral. Models had to be adjusted after this study in 2008: https://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/Global-Warming/2008/09...
To be installed around the Berlin Reichstag
https://www.tip-berlin.de/berlin-considers-security-moat-for...
Not the point, thank you for playing.

John Cleese claimed that a "public school" education netted him a negative impression of christianity. Cleese referred to the received christianity as garbage. Cleese went on to remark that upon looking into the Gospels, one finds that there's a good deal of confusion about who wrote them, when they were written, and even in what language and what city. This is true, by the way. The Bishop of Bath and Wells or whatever brushed Cleese's observations off by claiming that Cleese just didn't pay attention, that all that was laid out in front of everyone. I sincerely doubt that any of that is front and center, because that (after of course, The 7 Day Creation) is the main thing about christianity. Admitting that the foundational documents are of obvious human construction, contain non-unified views of Jesus, and don't even have all the same stories in the same order blows a huge hole in the side of organized christianity. The Bishop of Bath and Wells (or whatever) was definitely lying and trying to cover that aspect of the new testament up.
I'm not sure academic labs are in any better shape. Outside of a few very rarified places (NIH intramural research, HHMI-funded labs, etc), the incentives are such that most projects need to be such that 1-2 main people can produce a publishable result every 1-2 years.

You get a bit of a grace period when starting grad school, and shorter ones when starting a postdoc or a faculty position, but the ability to stumble around a problem and explore it from multiple angles has become an incredible luxury.
You aren't accounting for the trees being living, growing beings. Asking how they capture CO2 is kind of like asking how we grab oxygen- it's in the air, we use it to fuel our growth and stay alive, and then it's CO2 when it leaves our bodies. It's the reverse for trees, I don't know if any significant amount of solid carbon would need to accumulate, as it forms the wood and the varies trees that grow and die.
Continuing the tangent... I wonder why HN isn't open source?
Shehu Sani denies links to Tinubu presidential campaign
> I just want to underline that a good engineer should not blindly trust anything, even if it seems to be written by a well received author.

Doesn't this also apply to the opinions of your friend who works at a FAANG? How do you judge between theirs and Fowler's view points?
Nowhere did I say they were inconsistent - merely that different gospels have different stories, or different versions of the same story, and they appear in different orders. This is beyond dispute. It's also not something that christianity as a whole makes clear. The Gospel of John is radically different than the other 3 gospels. You can see that by reading maybe a page of each one. Beyond dispute.
My mother once asked me why anybody cared about prime numbers - “they’re there, but so what?” I told her that prime numbers are actually an important part of public-key cryptography. It occurred to me that prime numbers had been studied for _centuries_ before somebody figured out a way to use them to secure communications.
Try to change what you can, and recognize that the things you can't are vast, innumerable, infinite.
Don't think of it as an argument.

Think of it as debate, after which either you or the person you're debating with will learn something.

Debate makes for progress and understanding, and we shouldn't be afraid of it. But I completely understand where you're coming from, given the general social media climate today.
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4% sounds like it could be many billions.
I never used any such course, and am still proficient in vim. I would not take, or recommend to take, such a course.
Intel and Rust: The Future of Systems Programming [video]
Someone on wikipedia has "127.0.0.1" for username?
Not suggesting this should be done, but for the sake of practical engineering argument, if a wall like this was used on the southern border, and I guess in areas where there is no hill it would have to be essentially a moat, with this theoretically save a lot of money over into nonsensically expensive concrete wall that offers a similar level of human blocking power?
Yet another bc?
https://www.gnu.org/software/bc/
Safety. It’s light, and doesn’t store a lot of elastic energy, so when it does fail it doesn’t whip. That is a feature for winch lines and webbing bits for climbing.

Usually with these new fibers, the applications are lightness, since for applications without weight sensitivity steel is pretty awesome.
The issue really isn't that they are doing it. It's that they were literally advertising the opposite.

https://9to5mac.com/2019/01/05/apple-privacy-billboard-vegas...

I went to that link they provided in the billboard, and then followed it to here.

https://www.apple.com/privacy/approach-to-privacy/

Nothing under the Siri and Dictation section says anything about letting contractors listen to your audio.

The kicker here isn't that Apple was listening to these recordings. The issue is they advertised something else, and then on top of that, Apple sent recordings to 3rd party contractors.
Which police? Whose jurisdiction would that fall under?
Alas, no; 'go' is a special form — its argument is unevaluated.
50 USC 1702(a)(1)(A) explicitly authorizes the President (under the appropriate circumstances) to "prohibit", among other things, any transactions in foreign exchange with a particular country.

If a US person is doing business in said country (necessarily using that countries' banking system) it would be a violation.

The conditions that would authorize the imposition of penalties have not been triggered. Yet.
> To be fair, I don't think humans have any way of verifying that you're trustworthy. Anyone can send email from your email address. Anyone can fake a driver's license. Anyone can get a phone number that meets their criteria. Knowing who someone is on the Internet is nearly impossible. Knowing whether or not to trust someone once you know who they are is nearly impossible.

American banks seem to have no issue with this.
Maybe my original point was vague: I'm arguing that the "what" is simpler when human actors are involved. Person x said this, did this, accomplished that. The story is for the most part straightforward and understandable. And a lot of the reporting in these areas is just "what".

But people don't even have a good handle on the "what" of a lot of science (what are these new particles? what is p vs np?) which is why we get all these analogical half understandings.