skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not weird at all. The human mind has all sorts of ways of protecting itself from harm or pain. No one likes feeling like a fool or being shown to be wrong. When faced with the (subconscious) choice of either admitting you were tricked and feeling humiliated or a comforting lie that somehow you were right all along, the lie is very tempting.

Con men count on this to keep their marks from balking, and I imagine the bigger the swindle the more powerful the urge to accept the delusion is, since the humiliation and shame are all the greater. Especially when, as in the parent comment's grandfather's case, the man's own son was telling him he was being scammed and he refused to listen. To have to face his son later and admit he'd been had must have seemed far too galling.
> ...The fall army worm, a crop-devouring pest, has spread from the Americas to Africa and Asia...

So, is this like a new version of the Stuxnet worm? But in this case, its delivery mechanism uses almost-nano-size robots, and its target is foreign crops and not centrifuges? </sarcasm>
I found the OPLSS lectures on parallel cost semantics using lambda calculus quite enjoyable, but I don't really know much about it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSc0EtF6_Zk
I agree with your sentiment. I still reach for Python (and Pandas) for a quick and dirty, get-it-done program and then when feasible I move over to Go.

I am slowly ending up with a library of utils from doing this sort of work. In the end it does end up more stable (and more verbose, which is OK with me) and easier to maintain. I've said for a while Python makes me productive and Go makes my whole team productive.
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WHO has details [1] about the carcinogenic impacts of animal meat consumption. There's nothing of that sort for any plant-based burgers. The arguments in these types of articles seem to ignore what I think are more serious health risks from animal proteins.

And animals don't subsist on air. In terms of 'processed', the types of nutrients fed to factory-farmed animals are terrible, including massive amounts of antibiotics. Cows are regularly fed the cheapest carbs available, including Skittles [2]

[1] https://www.who.int/features/qa/cancer-red-meat/en/

[2] https://www.cnn.com/2017/01/19/health/spilled-skittles-road-...
Logic and type systems have been connected since Frege (he coined "functional" and "non-functional" types[1]). Computation friendly is interesting, but not really revolutionary. Topology I'm not an expert in so I can't comment.

[1] On Function and Concept, 1891; http://fitelson.org/proseminar/frege_fac.pdf
You're right. It's the Signal IM app, which seems to use the iOS emoji pack.
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A different git repository has a "manifesto" of sorts explaining why they think it is ethical to release:

https://github.com/deepfakes/faceswap#faceswap-has-ethical-u...
I think you got it right, forests are only carbon sinks as long as the trees are alive then they release their sequestered carbon as they rot.
Typical tree dying is sporadic event and can be taken back up by other trees in a normal situation.

Here the tree death is not sporadic and there are not enough growing things to re-uptake the all the released carbon so it enters circulation.
People shopping for their own items usually don't have a deadline to get to the store and back so quickly that they deliberately endanger the lives of other people on the road by ignoring traffic laws.
Yup. My mother entered school teaching after decades in the private sector. She had held several secretarial positions for CEOS, vice presidents, and other executives at large pharma, travel, etc companies. In other words, she understood corporate america. She entered teaching because that was her dream job, but one she was unable to enter as an immigrant to this country. She loved the idea of teaching and she had done a pretty good job on my brother and I. She wanted to be able to be home with us during the summer.

It took her a few years after getting her credential to see the dysfunction in the system. Old teachers were unable to cope with the young children who need young, able bodied teachers able to deal with their very normal behaviors. Principals would get upset that my mother would allow the kids to go outside, even when recess wasn't scheduled. She had the highest marks in the school when it came to testing, but was denied tenure, because her methods of getting the job done were at odds with her principal. There was a large parental showing at the board meeting, and she ended up being put on administrative leave. Some of her students -- who no longer had to take ritalin to deal with his 'excessive' movement while she was their teacher -- ended up back on the drug. This was all in a lower-income district with a history of terrible results.

From that point on, my entire family has shunned public schools. My brother and I were sent to private schools, and my mother always votes against every issue the teachers union supports. They enable the behavior. They encourage, ineffective, anti-competitive practices which harm students, and enable lazy teachers.
It would be simple to solve that with a breeding population kept isolated. If the genetic modification wipes out the wild population, you reintroduce it.

For species that reproduce quickly, such as insects, this is reasonable.

That said the mosquito trick is that we can produce drones whose babies are also only drones with the same genetic malfunction. The number of drone-only mosquitoes expands exponentially until they are most of the males, then most of the population, and then in a couple of more generations, the population is wiped out for lack of females.

I'm not sure that this would work as well for a species that moves more slowly. Or whether we know how to do the trick for species other than mosquitoes.
See also https://xkcd.com/530/

"Sadly, this is a true story."
wow... 20MB.. I thought my 5MB app was horrible!@
Hmm... all the rich/fanboys downvoting. Even at $450 you get the specs from 3 years ago. Cmon people, wake up.
Cool site Brad.I havent heard of it.
I was rooting for Quindim
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Some friends and I are going to launch a new site soon. I was wondering if anyone wanted to make any suggestions for website analytics? If nothing else, I would probably just drop in google analytics, so we could use that as the baseline? :)
We're programmers, and I am aware that I need to keep that in mind. But I think reliability vs. hackability is a false dilemma.

Personally, I worry about having to fix something when I'm incapable of fixing it. That's why it stresses me out when my car or washing machine breaks. But true, that breaks all the time just because I can fix it with a trip to the hardware store.

The thing is... well, sure, easily repairable but not reliable isn't necessarily a trade off that needs to happen.

Google could have done what apple did with OsX, but at a realistic price point. An easy to use, affordable and reliable UI with astonishing power right beneath the surface, all based on Unix, in the hands of millions of school aged kids. This could have been the Commodore 64 or apple II times a thousand.

Instead, we have the Chromebook.

Note I deleted the last line which on reflection was excessive and not useful to the discussion.
This would be difficult to enforce, and given commerce laws I'm not sure it would even be legal. That said, you could use some form of congestion pricing for delivery vehicles, but unless those costs are somewhat punitive, any costs would probably just be pushed back into the price of Amazon Prime.

The revenue generated could be used to help pay for other transit and transportation infrastructure though, so on the whole could be quite positive.
> either way, no one actually asked for these clarifications

Which is actually contrary to SO guidelines. You are urged to leave explanatory comments when downvoting. It makes me wonder if adding some kind of free-form or multiple choice "Why did you downvote?" questionnaire would be productive.
That might be the most optimal solution, but I wouldn't take it as a given. You may have less individuals getting things delivered, but then you're giving up prime real estate and causing more decentralization of population, which brings its own inefficiencies.
> Live caption on device: Sounds great. Very useful if you are hearing impaired

Many people use their phone in spaces where audio wouldn't be well received (and headphones weren't worn). Examples where I'd prefer captions over audio: when I'm commuting, in a loud space, at work, waiting in a doctor's office, anywhere where I don't want to silence all outside sounds with headphones, but would like to watch the video and read what's said.

With song lyrics and audio books, I'd like to hear and read.
When discussing a group, we need to stay at a group level. Moving between individuals and a group as a whole is not constructive.
Grade school teachers tend to graduate with degrees in English/History, and haven't had experiences in work outside of teaching grade school.
My solution for this problem is better professional development. Make a 4 day work week, with one day of training in a new career (something completely not related to teaching/pedagogical development).
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In the OpenSSH 8.0 release notes they state that "The scp protocol is outdated, inflexible and not readily fixed. We
recommend the use of more modern protocols like sftp and rsync for
file transfer instead.", which has been widely reported (so if you just searched Google for "scp deprecated" instead of trying to undermine the statement with nothing but a statement of doubt, it would have come up immediately) as an informal deprecation; afaik the only thing stopping them from formally deprecating it is a lack of a direct replacement (such as giving sftp a few more affordances).
Dont forget that a regular tree with N children can be represented with a binary tree. Left points to first child. Right points to next sibling.
Also using a WASD keyboard (Code) with brown switches and o-rings. It's clicky, but not terribly so. Next one will be clear switches with o-rings which I've tested and are even quieter.
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What are the current technologies used to design front end and backend in production scale?
I love dark mode because it hides my eye floaters
Came here to recommend this book! The Audible recording is fantastic too (it’s how I first read it about 12 years ago).

The story is both of Ponzi and the newspaper man that took him down. The two men had a lot of parallels but ultimately ended up very differently.
It also escalates the situation from one where an individual was just using the gun as a show of force but didn't intend to use it, to one where guns are now being discharged in a high stress and crowded environment. The vast majority of "using" a gun by criminals is just brandishing the gun to scare other people.
Can they PLEASE get Android Auto to work over bluetooth? I want to wirelessly charge in my car and wirelessly navigate too.
Another interesting example for those looking for a Forth rabbit hole is the Cannon Cat (http://www.canoncat.org/) from Jef Raskin's (of Mac fame) team.

On the (much) lower end was the Jupiter Ace (https://jupiter-ace.com/jupiterace/). The Ace is a fun what-might-have-been where Forth beat BASIC for the '80s PC soul. There were commercial Forths for other PCs of the time (Apple II, Atari 800, TI99), but I guess because they were extra cost, they didn't become that popular.
I don't think read faults are buffer overflows, definitely different things.
Was wondering about that too - but this seems to be just a Spectre defense, not a change in what extensions can do.

The change[1] only affects content scripts because they run in the same process as the website. You're still able to fetch arbitrary origins in a background page. So GM has to move the fetch to the background page, then send the content to the script via message passing.

[1] https://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-security/extension-co... .
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I don't think that vector would work, as only a single tenant's VM is scheduled on any particular core. That's why the minimum number of vCPUs for instances on hyperthreaded hosts is 2.
Could you elaborate on why you single out Telegram as a privacy deal-breaker as opposed to other similar apps?

If they all are just as bad, is there something coming up on the near horizon thats worth the wait?
I have to agree. I've accepted that the Pokedex part of my brain is never going to be reclaimed. What worries me though is that it will end up being even worse than standardized testing. I fear that these "games" will be nothing more than smaller, more frequent tests that will be used to generate metrics which will be used to "fund" individual students.
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> The GO111MODULE environment variable continues to default to auto, but the auto setting now activates the module-aware mode of the go command whenever the current working directory contains, or is below a directory containing, a go.mod file — even if the current directory is within GOPATH/src. This change simplifies the migration of existing code within GOPATH/src and the ongoing maintenance of module-aware packages alongside non-module-aware importers.

Oh wonderful! This makes switching back and forth between module projects and 'legacy' projects far easier. (Well, at least for me - since I tend to keep all cloned git repos inside the GOPATH. I don't have a problem, really!)
Yeah, I think the big question is if Zao only allows pre-selected "scenes" that they have already done the processing on or if they allow you to upload any video.

From the results, I think you are exactly right in how they are accomplishing those videos.
And now it's time for the show!
I believe Safari stopped increasing the browser version in the user agent some time ago.
Why not just subsidize the discounts with VC money like everyone else?
> Who are these "administrators" that always come up in the context of education in the US?

"Administrators" is generally a generic term used to refer to non-teaching individuals involved in the running of the education.

Who those individuals are is highly varied though. Education is controlled at the state level in the United States, not the federal level[1]. So what you end up with are completely different ways of running/managing things. So state-level bureaucracy has it's say in things. Then there's a state-level department of education with a secretary or commissioner (possibly elected, possible appointed), which manages high level details like enforcing compliance with legislation and certification and whatnot. But they generally further cede control to a local entity which is in charge of the school system for that locality (could be as small as a special district inside of a single city or as large as multiple counties). This is the level that manages local infrastructure, school zoning, shared services like IT, etc. This can also be led by either an elected or appointed figure, depending on both local and state laws. As long as they're acting within the bounds of what the state level legislation and department of education has dictated, the local district can run things how they see fit.

All of these layers are purely administrative, and performs no actual teaching (but likely and hopefully is staffed with people that come from teaching or education backgrounds). Then you get to the actual school level, where you'll have a few administrators that handle the management of that individual school, but is predominantly staffed by actual teachers. Administrators at this level are generally always hired, rather than elected individuals.

[1] While the federal government has no direct control of education, it indirectly wields influence by dangling money in front of states[2]. Which is what it does with practically everything else it doesn't technically have any jurisdiction of. States are free to manage education however they want, but the federal government provides states with subsidies for education that are tied to particular regulations or policies. States that implement and meet the regulations get free federal money, states that don't implement or meet them give up the associated subsidy and have to make up the funding shortfall with more state or local taxes. This has a trickle down effect where teachers ultimately have very little say in what or how they teach, since they have so many different masters they have to please to ensure their school stays funded.

[2] https://www.downsizinggovernment.org/education/k-12-educatio...
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> I'm suspicious of restrict. It seems like playing with fire, and anecdotally it seems common to run into compiler optimisation bugs when using it because it's exercised so little.

On the contrary, I wish C++ had restrict in the standard, for exactly the reasons mentioned: it can help the optimizer in certain cases.
Not to mention OLEDs don’t turn completely off and on very quickly so you get a lot of smearing on full black screens. Gives me a headache.
> GX12 or GX16 4-pin aviation connector (Aliexpress) for decoration.

Aesthetics is subjective of course, but I've never really liked things that are added for decoration but have no functional purpose. It's like fake drawers on cabinets or fake pockets on shirts or blazers. In this case, I imagine that connector even adds weight to the cable for no reason at all. It's got to make it a bit uncomfortable when using the keyboard off the desk which I imagine is the purpose of the coiling.

My kind of beauty is the adminbook[1]. Everything has a functional purpose in that. Nothing is added simply because it looks pretty.

Is there a name for this kind of aesthetics?

[1] https://habr.com/en/post/437912/
You can buy silent switches, they cost about the same as non-silent ones. There's really nothing that special about them.
I never heard anyone say that C++ is a superset of C.

Sure, the first version was a preprocessor on top of C and certainly that is common knowledge. But a superset? Never heard it.

ObjC on the other hand...
If that documentation and forums were so good then why, do you suppose, that SO has been so wildly successful?
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I hope the ad blockers completely abandon Chrome when this change gets pushed through, rather than attempting to work around it.

Google is using a slow-frog-boil approach to re-desensitize their users to ads, and it's working. The only thing that will work here is a big splash of cold water to the face.

Maybe Chrome losing all of its ad-blockers overnight will finally start making a dent.
> a tiered App store

We kinda have one; the tiers are "the public app store" and "your enterprise's private collection of apps, whitelisted by GSuite policy on your GSuite users."

Things are in equilibrium because no big player is complaining; and no big players are complaining because they have all their needs met by just 1. getting custom extension builds from vendors, 2. signing them with their enterprise cert, 3. pushing them to some object store, and 4. telling GSuite to allow them (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pT0ZSbGdrbGvuCsVD2jjxrw-...).
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Or your menu! Even in the age of delivery apps people still keep around takeaway menus.
Have you asked the vendor that sold you your PC for a refund? I don't know if it would work, but that's the avenue you would have to take - including sending your PC back. Then what are you going to buy? Another PC with the same issue?