skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
sure, just not the easiest way to convince someone to move to a new version if they cannot carry things over.

It's the same effort to moving to a completely different product/service (which it is in fact).

Haven't found anything on the roadmap but still exploring
So I just glanced over the code, or more specifically https://github.com/MateLabs/AutoOut/blob/master/app/outlier_... - and from what I can see, this is some kind of ensemble (learning) method which votes out the predicted outliers?
I recommend "gron"

https://github.com/tomnomnom/gron

> gron transforms JSON into discrete assignments to make it easier to grep for what you want and see the absolute 'path' to it. It eases the exploration of APIs that return large blobs of JSON but have terrible documentation.

▶ gron "https://api.github.com/repos/tomnomnom/gron/commits?per_page=1" | fgrep "commit.author"
json[0].commit.author = {};
json[0].commit.author.date = "2016-07-02T10:51:21Z";
json[0].commit.author.email = "mail@tomnomnom.com";
json[0].commit.author.name = "Tom Hudson";
For instance, my bank (Lloyds) has a login screen where you have to select letters from three long drop down lists containing all letters and numbers.

With Safari or Chrome, I can select the dropdown (by clicking it or navigating there using the keyboard) and then enter the letter or number on the keyboard.

With Firefox, I have to click on the dropdown, scroll down looking for the right letter/number and then select it with the mouse. It takes at least 10 times as long as with other browsers. So I'm not using Firefox for that site.

Of all the interactive sites I use regularly about 10% have some sort of bug when visited with Firefox. And this is getting worse at an alarming rate.

I think many mainstream sites not created by actual tech companies have simply stopped testing with Firefox.

(I don't use ad blockers, just browser default settings)
You’re not really answering the question. I understand the legislation, but it’s still discrimination. To charge men more for car insurance is to discriminate against them. To charge men and women the same is discrimination against women, by charging them proportionally more than men in regards to the risks they present.

The underlying premise is that men cost more to ensure than women (you could debate that, but it’s a pretty solid premise). In any scenario like this, you must discriminate in order to do business, regardless of how you reorganize all the parameters.
No it isn’t. Firstly: they weren’t the originators of systemd, they simply hired the guy who first developed it to continue developing it. Secondly: it: being open source and GPL, anybody can use it or fork it and not be due anything to Red Hat. Thirdly, it isn’t extinguishing anything as a business strategy; it’s just out-competing alternatives in the “mindshare” arena.
The Single Source of Truth – Really?
It’s not just diameter - Italian pizza is thin and light, American pizza is deep and heavy. Hence why America moved towards “sharing” formats, because eating a whole dish is challenging for a single person.
Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but I'd say "third world" (as much as I despite that term) has issue with waste management overall. Not just e-waste.

Here in "2nd world" e-waste is under control. Big portion of supermarkets have bins for disposing batteries and small electronics. We also have "electronics waste taxi" that comes to pick up large appliance for symbolic fee or even free, depending on exact location and item. Definitely better than collecting abandoned fridges and TVs from forests and roadside...

Fingers crossed 'third world" will get it under control sooner rather than later too. It requires a shift of mentality and some $$$. But it's totally doable.
Thanks for the links. The last one is long, but made it easy to understand how and why alias method works (and it's awesome for providing mathematical proofs along with algorithms).

That said, I'm having trouble understanding the solution you described. I can understand how the alias method can help me efficiently sample an arbitrary discrete probability distribution, but I can't see how adding jitter helps with the problem from TFA - namely, to generate samples that conform to a given distribution long-term, but avoid hitting "annoying" low-probability outcomes like strings of consecutive lower-probability options. Could you please clarify / expand on your explanation?
Here in Germany large industrial customers often get a cheaper electicity price in return for being the first to be cut in a load shedding scenario. If you are something like a steel mill then cheaper electicity quickly pays for slightly more frequent blackouts; and everyone else gets a more stable electricity network.
Even if you grant some sinister motive on the part of Red Hat (which I do not), the analogy doesn't work. EEE requires some existing technology to embrace. Lennart Poettering built systemd from the ground up. And everything is open-source and done with the collaboration of the community anyway.
I'm not sure it's possible to put a price on Rust (probably in single-digit millions so far), but that Godot grant was $50k. That's pocket money for a $500m org.
>> that little "want a better browser" pop-up displayed on Google's search engine?

I actually do not know what you're talking about. Been using Firefox for the last few years and haven't seen this pop-up once.
Chromium based Edge is definitely much more than the rendering engine. Do they use their own networking, process management, Javascript engine, extension system? It is probably still 80-90% chromium.
Can I say please that it's very annoying that Chrome (and everything Blink based) doesn't let you to open a file in an application you can choose and see the size of the file before downloading it?

https://www.ghacks.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/firefox-do...
In case you're not aware, that version won't run in Catalina.
Pseudo-3D shooter written completely in gawk using raycasting technique (2017)
> Claiming people who are interested in some things that get flagged as "news junkies" out for "dopamine outrage porn", utterly dehumanizing them? That's just fine.

No, I am not claiming everyone interested in current HK events is a news junkie.

I am saying some posts get upvoted faster because people addicted to 24/7 constant information streams are massively upvoting them before it gets flagged by enough users that want to see different things on HN.

Also, there is a difference between being interested in something and updating a social status. HN news page isn't a community social status page to post our take on current events.

What do you want, anyway ? The whole front page full of links related to HK or your preferences ? There are newspapers, hashtag filters on twitter and RSS to get that. HN is a community-driven tech related link aggregator at its core. If someone really believes he can manipulate entrepreneurs, decision makers from SV or policy makers regarding global political events by tweaking the front page then I have a bridge to sell.
Why not iPhone SE? It was possible to get it real cheap in clearance sales.

Fingers crossed for iPhone SE2 in iPhone5 shape :|
This whole debacle is fascinating.

It doesn't bode well for the future if/when mass immigration due to climate change happens.
"For every life-changing new feature, there are a dozen that end up not going anywhere"

"3D Touch" (IIRC?) would seem to fall in to that camp, no? I've never had a device that offered it, and the folks I know that do didn't realize they had it.
Thankfully, it's still possible to update software yourself. If that's impossible, well, good bye from me. I'm not going to be forced to buy new stuff because the perfectly good old one is not going to be updated.
Kubernetes Web UIs in 2019
It was also an enormous improvement over other browsers on performance, usability and security perspective. People are not mindless drones, they use it because they see a benefit not because of an ad.
You can see it every day in the cities. UPS/Fedex delivery trucks getting tickets every day. What happens? Companies simply pay the fines because it is a daily fine. So at say $100 per ticket it is just $3k/mo per truck to do deliveries. Since the company makes more than that per truck for that period of time it is the cost of doing business.

Want to stop it? Make this cost high enough to make it non-profitable. If a ticket for illegal double parking is $5k and not $100 then a daily ticket means $150k in fines per truck per month, which is definitely higher than the amount of money a delivery company makes per truck, so the company is going to avoid getting fines.
The Measure of DevSecOps
There’s little evidence to suggest adults are capable of deciding what is appropriate in this issue either.
C++ is perfectly able to interface and interact with C libraries. Also it doesn't necessarily produce larger or slower binaries. Virtually everything is optional. The only hard part about C++ is to identify the good parts (those that are useful for your project) and to not use the other parts. Then you can do "C with templates" or "C with simple classes that have proper RAII" but you don't need exceptions. The argument that I keep hearing is kind of the "slippery slope" that if one allows a little bit of C++ the rest will come creeping and with it will come all complexity. This shows that project management is weak and tries to deal with this weakness by selecting tools with limited capability. A method that seems to work reasonably well in cases like the Linux kernel.
Read the paper. Meh, cool, I guess? I appreciate the work that must have gone into it. However, doesn't really add anything to the state of the art, nor improve the usability of any of the popular theorem provers like Isabelle, Coq, lean, acl2, etc.
> with makeup on and her hair done, she can look pretty in a homespun, American sort of way.

Who is the intended audience for this article?
To understand how/why these cascading failures can happen, Grady Hillhouse (Practical Engineering on YouTube) recently made a video about substations and what kind of faults can affect them, interesting if you're not super knowledgeable about our electric grids already: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Q-aVBv7PWM
First-run experience on the mobile web
In Poland, when you order from pizza chains (as opposed to regular restaurants, which tend to have overpriced, undersized and undertopped "italian" pizzas), the "large" size circles around 40cm in diameter (which Google tells me is around 15.7"), cut into 8 pieces. Thickness varies, but you usually don't get very thin pizzas unless you ask specially for that option.

14" is closer to medium size, which depending on earlier meals may just about satisfy two adults, or leave them hungry. With four adults, I can only see it leaving them wanting another pizza.
Building technology (not tech-tech, just plain old building materials) is a lot more advanced and environmentally friendly in Europe too.

Matt Risinger on YouTube has a video series from earlier this year where he was sponsored to visit Europe to see how things are done differently to his native Texas. He was amazed by the European tilt-and-turn windows which have been pretty much standard in colder climates (excluding the UK for some reason) for the past 10-15 years. They can open inwards or be securely locked open in a ventilation position, seal airtight with multiple seals and locking points when closed, and are triple glazed.
Yes, and since these customers are hurting business (by causing higher turnover, more stress on employees, etc) they should also sue those customers and push for the police to lay criminal charges if possible.
> I'm not sure exactly the point with respect to the soil and soil nutrients

If you're referring to the megafauna + phosphorous point, I said "This does not answer your question". It was mentioned as a fascinating point about the interconnection of things, and how consequences can be so unexpected.

The amazon is not a cloud forest as the tiniest bit of knowledge would have told you. I gave that as an example of when an ecosystem is damaged it can't recover.

WRT the dustbowl, from the wiki link

"In many regions, more than 75% of the topsoil was blown away by the end of the 1930s. Land degradation varied widely. Aside from the short-term economic consequences caused by erosion, there were severe long-term economic consequences caused by the Dust Bowl.

By 1940, counties that had experienced the most significant levels of erosion had a greater decline in agricultural land values. The per-acre value of farmland declined by 28% in high-erosion counties and 17% in medium-erosion counties, relative to land value changes in low-erosion counties.[25]:3 Even over the long-term, the agricultural value of the land often failed to recover to pre-Dust Bowl levels. In highly eroded areas, less than 25% of the original agricultural losses were recovered"

If you can't see the relevance, that's on you.

> I'm just fucking tired of the doom and gloom

And here we get to the heart of it. You posted originally

> And [bounce heterodox ideas off you is] totally worth it. I'd like to understand why I don't understand the biodiversity concern

So I gave you 25 mins of time to dig up some details and post a useful reply, but what you got wasn't what you wanted and now you're pissed off. Reality doesn't respond to your moods. Like I said, people like you sap my hope.
Any recommendations for a RSS reader for Mac and iOS that syncs, preferably without a third party? Doesn’t have to be free.
Uh? Media keys are supposed to control system volume.
The grid frequency itself doesn't matter much as far as consumers are concerned, the deviations mentioned in this article would not cause any problems for a home user directly (or even generators, but as mentioned below if it is too far out of range generators start to need to cut out) but it is a far better indicator of the general balance of supply and demand of power in the grid than any other metric, because it can be measured very precisely, isn't subject to local effects like voltage, and correlates well with the state of the generators.

One quirk of synchronous generators is you can think of the whole grid like all of the generators in it are geared together. If demand rises, the torque on the generators starts to increase and if the power plants don't feed more mechanical power in then they will start to slow down in unison. Likewise their speed will increase as the demand drops. So the frequency is the main indicator of the health of the grid and so the grid operators will monitor it closely.
That makes me wonder, if you were standing next to these turbines would you be able to here them slow down?
> Helm is one such solution that gets out of your way but is too expensive.

My bodega owner lost interest the moment you said "solution that gets out of your way".

He simply does not care to hear about it. He wants to click on an envelop icon and see his email. He wants to type his message, hit send and know that his message is delivered.

Until the OSS, Protocols not Platforms, "Use firefox and not chrome because its technology is better" advocates internalize that not a single argument other than "does it just work?" matters to users, SaaS, Platforms and Chrome will continue to clean the clock of OSS, Protocols and Firefox.
> it isn't even possible to have one solution, because some of those use cases are mutually exclusive

Could you elaborate? What of systemd’s use cases conflict with one another?
> I've never had issues with Firefox's fonts. Maybe on Linux you have, but font problems on Linux are to be expected.

Not really. On Linux for a decade, fonts have been fine. It's just some distros perhaps don't ship with the best defaults.
Position Independent Code and x86-64 libraries
Thx very much!!
You just puts words on my theorical researches upon making new kind of interaction in our constraint SaaS admin world (from now on Bootcamp CSS like UX is the believed limit).

From my point on view, using classical old school RPG-game type interface will be one of the possible next move ;)
> Systemd actually does ONE thing

Yeah, except that the "one thing" it does is "everything".
Detecting scenes seems incredibly difficult to me. Even in a basic edit you could have back to back shots looking at very different parts of a single set. Take the "Jack Rabbit Slims" scene from Pulp Fiction - Vincent Vega walking through the diner, the car table head to head scene about the milkshake with linking cuts around the diner when they discuss the two Marilyns, and the beginning of the Twist competition are three scenes that use the same location, actors, background, etc. Finding the boundaries would be very hard.
An even more stealth method is to make the system work perfectly if everything is running fine. Like correctly reporting net frequency in the range 49-51 Hz but reporting false values when outside of that range. That way there will be no detectable errors until everything starts behaving erratically.

The best way for a society to prepare is to have a few small incidents that put the safety systems to the test on a regular basis.
Whether Kubernetes will really drive up your server utilization levels depends on how effective your Operations staff were at bin-packing and whether your a Kubernetes cluster uses cpu quotas. There are inefficiencies in how the Linux scheduler deals with cpu cgroups that constrain CPU utilization.
Pretty much the only plants you can get to full power in such a short notice are battery or hydroelectric. Even pumped-storage hydro typically takes 10-30 seconds to full power because of inertia. Batteries are much more expensive, but as close to instant as it gets.
Good - but I wish that change would have been coordinated with Devuan instead of duplicating the effort.

And by the way - if you're doing something Debian-based - make it Devuan-based, it's pretty straightforward. http://www.devuan.org/
Samsung Galaxy S5+, bought used November 2018, running LineageOS 16.0 (Android 9). I don't know, it's a 4/5 year-old model by now?

Enough for browsing, listening to music, texting, I don't play games on my phone (if I ever do, I might consider installing chess, but the need never arose).

I've my sights set on a new Fairphone 3 once my current phone gives up. The ease of repair, stock Android, great software support, plus ethical manufacturing have me sold.
This used to work on Firefox as well with Lloyds, I don't know what changed but it stopped working about a year ago.
Without having much opinion on systemd, hiring the developer sounds very much like “embrace”. Continuing developing sounds like “extend”.
> In fact "the system is a single project" approach reminds me of the BSDs, which is arguably better than Linux as far as usability and security is concerned.

I've had this thought as well. The BSDs aren't afraid to go off and do their own thing, and it works for them. I feel like generally the Linux ecosystem is held back by reluctance to break free from ancient conventions and standards like POSIX and such, so I come into this systemd debate skeptical of arguments that it's not "the UNIX way" or that it's too Linux-specific or that it's stepping on other projects' toes, or that it's not the way things have been done before.

The systemd critics have legitimate criticisms which can be addressed through evolutionary improvements, but I don't buy the philosophical arguments that systemd is fundamentally flawed.
As an end user, meaning a web app developer, I actually like systemd a lot. I perceive the software quality to be good enough. I've used it in production since 2014 and encountered zero bugs. It does seem to me to be vastly simpler compared to the old way of doing things.

I don't really feel strongly either way. I'll be pretty sad if Debian and redhat diverge.
That sounds like ActiveX 2.0 at best, and an utter security nightmare at worst.
Some of the fallocate modes don't make much sense on CoW filesystems anyway. ZoL doesn't support preallocation either, you have to use FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE.

Lack of DIO might be a bigger issue. Then again it's often used by write-heavy workloads which probably don't want to use SMR drives anyway.
> They're separate binaries, and can be easily unbundled.

No, they can't. The fact that they're compiled into separate binaries doesn't mean they're independent - they're completely dependent.
2) It's good data, the graph shows 2008 as an inflection point. I think that's the disastrous austerity programme chosen by political leadership throughout europe. Instead of investing they decided to cut spending in a recession. That's my take anyway.

1) You can't brush off foreign occupation 29 years ago as cherry picking. This dataset starts in 1960s, when all of Eastern Europe were soviet puppets. There is nothing comparable in recent US history.
It seems to me that you're falling into a misconception of assuming that sentence is saying something it actually isn't. As I see it, the misconception is twofold: 1. assuming an intent without contextualising it with the rest of the piece; 2. reading it assuming a 2019 interpretation fit events that happened in 2007.

As for 1, the whole article tries to show there's more to the story than that astronaut being simply an "astronut". As for 2, we have now a distance to those events to ignore how things were being reported back then (the daily noise around the issue) — that sentence being a play with the common conception of the scandal and a hint on how the article tries to go against it (or at least complicate it further, adding many emotional layers).

So my conclusion is that your assessment is not valid and thus misleading.
This where you are wrog and didn't read the author proposition. In the article the presented Sococo products is in 2D, and if you refers at actual usage, like slack, you stay in a 1D (list) of users, so form me (rare) products like sococo are goind in the good direction by adding 1D. 3D is perharps one too far goal, but in the mean time we should explore 2D as much as we can and radically change the ay e make web app, instead of trying to (pale) copy the (master) slack.
Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humans (2018)
The city should not have allowed these medallions to become investment vehicles.

Taxis are unpleasant so I’m not too sad they are dying off, but I’m concerned about other areas where the city creates artificial markets that don’t make sense over time.
Well, there is. FreshRSS and others have settled on the Google Reader API.
;) ;) ;)
I'm pretty sure there is a lot of people who is interested to know if this is someone's fault, and I don't think it has anything to do with how media covers this issues. I think it's a good thing, in fact.

This failure may be within acceptable parameters and it may be simply meaningless to try to find someone truly responsible for it. But you seem to be unreasonably reluctant to believe that maybe it's not.

I understand that it's interesting to analyze what happened from a more technical perspective, but of course a proper investigation has to be conducted to find the responsible if there happens to be one (or more).