skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Discussed earlier:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20856836
Who's equating caloric intake with nutrition and satiety?

My point is people who have successfully adopted a particular technique for reducing their caloric intake (fasting, kale, smoothies, veganism, omega 3 acids, etc) are disguising the underlying process that's conferring most of the health benefits they're seeing: which is weight loss.

How many stories have you read out there about Secret Diet X that does all sorts of allegedly amazing things for you? Paleo diet. Veganism. Atkins diet. The Zone diet. The Dukan diet. And on and on.

There are many strategies for reducing caloric intake and if 16:8 fasting works for you: fantastic. But at the end of the day most people will improve their health through weight loss, not some special ritual or ingredient, and I think we should be cautious before crowning specific calorie reduction techniques as having special or more beneficial properties unless there is clear scientific evidence for them.
But the implication is then someone will launch a million tiny satellites doing nothing and occupy a million orbits.

That said, this was in my opinion very bad form for SpaceX, to the point I wonder if, as hinted in the article, they simply can’t do collision avoidance properly.
> If I remember correctly in early Stack Overflow down-voting did cost your own reputation points, so every down-vote reduced your own reputation.

Still does.
That's pretty cool. Erlang interests me, mainly because of what a amazing speaker the late great Joe Armstrong was. I don't really solve a lot of Erlang shaped problems right now, however.

My situation is this - people see my CV, see those languages, and immediately dismiss me for Java jobs. I think it's a short sighted decision, but it's the thinking that permeates the industry.
Intel Global IoT DevFest Video Series
Can't tell you whether to sell or not, but I think there are going to be plenty of companies struggling under Mongo DB for a while (I work for one: we know it sucks, dislike using it, don't have the significant resources needed to get off. And the product is still growing rapidly, so we're getting more locked-in).

At this point I think it's a coin-toss whether we move to an RDBMS or try to use their newish JSON Schema support (and other features) to achieve some sanity.

And, to be fair, Mongo's hosted management console is really good, the support has been excellent, and since we switched over to their hosted solution I don't think we've had a single problem that wasn't of our own making.
As it is now, Applicative is really an applicative functor. In general, if a term covers a subset then there is a property which distinguishes the subset from its ambient set and we can use that property to qualify the term as being such.

On the other hand, obviously Monad should be called Burrito.
Thanks for your question!

1. So far we are saving all the personal data locally. So we don't have access to what you are browsing personally. In the future we are going to save the data to our servers for the sake of synchronizing in case you want to see your profile from another device.
2. We are not selling any personal information.
3. Our extension doesn't use any APIs for copyrights. The only thing our servers receive is a link that the server can scrape for necessary information.
> Why didn’t you set the goal to 30 minutes, if there are days where it’s likely that you miss your more ambitious goal?

Because the goal is still an hour, but there are different levels of failing. A simple binary "pass/fail" means the record shows the same difference between lying in bed all day Vs running a marathon and walking 59 minutes Vs 61. If I'm 2 grams above my goal weight at Christmas is that a simple "fail"?

You are right that setting a goal aligned with what you want to change is the important question, but you want you achieve may not well fit into a clear pass/fail.
How is this news, this was well known over 5 years ago
Never mind the people who think you shouldn't do something, it seems like most of the time when I look up something on SO these days, the solution is terrible or everybody agrees there is no solution, and after spending maybe 20 minutes more searching, it turns out that, yes, there is a way to do it that is infinitely better.

One of the most important things that is needed for finding a solution to any problem is a sense of what a good solution would look like, and a certainty that it exists even before you have seen it, and even if you can't invent it yourself. Not knowing when to settle is the reason people usually go with terrible approaches to a problem.
actually a lot of pro players are streamers, so they at least need a good cpu for game+stream. some even have a setup with two computers.
actually streaming games (especially new ones) still needs at least the i7's.
DocumentDB is still really expensive as there's no pay what you use option.

I stored about 2KB of data for 72 hours and got charged fifteen dollars before I realised the mistake.

They really need to come up with a per mb per hour option.
The majority of people on Earth who use languages that aren't covered by ASCII may also appreciate it, I'm guessing.
"China's per capita disposable income stood at 28,228 yuan ($4,165) in 2018, up 6.5 percent year-on-year in real terms." [1]

Not that great for an economy that's looking to transition to a consumer model.

1. http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/201901/21/WS5c4569f1a3106c65c...
I would love to see open source developers and companies supported because it's not really tenable to replace all the open source we rely on - we probably need 20 million lines of open source to serve a HTML page. If we were actually enabling and empowering open source developers, and especially the people learning, it would be awesome. Enabling people like Torvalds and Stallman to grow into their role of writing stuff that benefits billions of people.

But we can do Hunger Games too. There's no wrong answers.
> just looking at man sieve is enough to understand why no sane person would give an average end user access to that

You don't have to force an average user to hand edit Sieve files. You can put the same kind of GUI or web interface on top of a Sieve file that current mail providers put on top of whatever hand-built custom non-standard filtering rules system they currently have. To the end user it would look the same.

But for an end user like me, who already has a huge number of filter rules expressed in Sieve and would like to be able to upload them to an email provider, not supporting the Internet standard format for filter rules is a showstopper. I don't want to have to re-input all my filter rules into an email provider's web interface one by one. I want them to be able to understand the rules I already have in the Internet standard format I already have them.
If You Want to Support Hong Kong
MIT CNC AI Future of Computing Conference 9/14 Palo Alto
Ok, well if I visit that url and click links to reddit posts, like [1] under April Fools, they go to www.reddit.com but my preference setting of not seeing new reddit is honoured there. (i.e. looks the same as if I did s/www/old/ on the url.)

Not sure if you're saying that setting's not working for you or you're just annoyed that it doesn't explicitly link to https://old.reddit.com../blah/..

1: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/b7rums/why_d...
SpaceX’s Starlink satellites almost collided with a weather satellite today
Were they 5 dried grams?
I read this as /s but it looks like:

a) I'm wrong and this is literal
b) The crowd is wrong
>Once you start looking for such patterns, they become painfully apparent.

Wouldn't it be great if we could help train others to be able to do that too?
Coinbase comes to mind.
Every frame is still a full HTML document that needs to be generated even if it just contains a single comment. This page has 370+ comments which would mean 370+ additional HTTP requests to load them all as standalone HTML pages. That's a massive increase in server load.

On the client, iframe tags are entirely separate browser windows and can use up considerable resources. It's like opening up hundreds of tabs and is far more intensive than running some javascript code which is quickly parsed, compiled and cached in modern JS engines.
How to Deal with Online Reviews
> There's no need for regulation until bad actors show up.

What a ridiculous statement. I suppose you'd also suggest no need for traffic laws until there's a 50 car pileup?
Likely the fake news were more sensational
Bingo! I am an author with very limited experience and this was an exercise in growing and solidifying my own ideas. To that end, I chose to write about an underdeveloped idea and share it with the world. If you look me up, you'll find a string of unfinished and incomplete projects and ideas. I'm usually not scared about sharing underdeveloped ideas prematurely - I think it helps me grow (I wouldn't have gotten as much feedback on this post if I never shared it)
The ESA isnt a governing authority here. The proper analogy would be two planes in uncontrolled airspace on course to come uncomfortably close. One asks the other to change course, and the other refuses. No FAA involved.

This sort of thing actually happens with some regularity. Airliners and other fancy planes carry TCAS systems which can detect other planes and tell the pilot to maneuver to avoid a collision. If the other plane has TCAS, the two units will coordinate to ensure they don’t both dodge the same way. TCAS can also detect planes that don’t have TCAS, which would be virtually all small planes, and in that instance the TCAS-equipped plane will maneuver to avoid on its own. Airliners routinely fly though airspace where not all traffic is under positive control by ATC. Sometimes they end up on a course that sets off TCAS. The airliner will then maneuver to avoid the collision while the light aircraft pilot remains blissfully unaware, unless they happen to see the airliner fly past.
The Decline of Manta
7 of the 8 authors listed are women, pretty cool.
1) Yes. And Companies might also pay for training.
2) Actually, good forums for this are lacking. WiserState is good step in this direction
3) Yes. First time managers need all the help they can get.
4) Consider if it should be video based or should be a giant tree based questionnaire? Text is faster to read. Much much faster to read. I can read at my own pace, the areas that I do not like. Understanding what I would do in various scenarios will help me understand what I should do in this situation. Write blogs to other resources on the topic to increase your street cred.
5) This is not interactive video. This is pre recorded videos with some input from users.
Thanks for these numbers! Can such pressures be attained by other means rather than permanent confinement? For example, the near wall pressure of a collapsing ultrasound bubble reaches about 100 MPa. Three orders of magnitude too little but can this technology be used to achieve much higher pressures? If so I wonder if maintaining an aggregate of material at high pressure (a high pressure foam as it were) would be sufficient to achieve bulk superconductivity.
#python on freenode is my go-to alternative if I can't find an answer on SO or if I'm more interested in a brainstorming session and can't really ask for one in SO

but then again not every problem I have involves Python, in which case I do feel I'm out of luck...
Almost all of the SMTP over TLS will be opportunistically encrypted only and usually with pretty bad protocol / cipher choices.

It probably means your email to your aunt isn't intercepted and shoved onto an enormous pile of decrypted email to be parsed for keywords. Probably. But that's about all.

Against an adversary determined to intercept:

- They can probably just strip STARTTLS, so that everything happens in plaintext
- Even if they can't do that because of MTA-STS or similar, they can probably just present self-signed certs and it'll pass the mandatory checks
- If they can't do /that/ either (no idea what proportion of email but it may well be in the minority) they can downgrade because unlike in HTTPS nobody is just saying "Old garbage bad, never do that or we'll scream" and so people keep doing it. SSLv3 may even work with a lot of mail servers.

Still, what we have now with opportunistic SMTP encryption is equivalent to what you get with snail mail. The spooks CAN read anybody's mail, but it's a hassle so they mostly don't read yours.
Thrust was applied equally in the cockpit, but jet engines don't respond immediately and don't spool up in sync. Normally that's not an issue because you're not making large adjustments in short spans of time, you can use various control surfaces to compensate for the brief asynchrony, and you're far enough away from the ground to have room to maneuver.

If you remember the Korean airlines flight that crashed at SFO a few years back, the spool up time for the engines came into play as well. The pilots noticed the issue with too little time for the engines to deliver more power before the plane crashed.
I agree. Opinions differ, some people like the Lynch movie better than the mini series, but I definitely liked the mini series while I found the Lynch movie virtually unwatchable.
I was under the impression that most of the constellation would be at such an unusually low orbit that there wouldn't be much to collide with. How crowded are the planned orbit shells?
Tabs Outliner looked interesting. Four things I noticed in a cursory tryout:

* I did not see a way to search tabs.
* I like how the sidebar auto-updates based on the selected window, but it does not do so to the point of always making the current tab visible in the sidebar
* The sidebar window interferes with CLUT,[1] my "Alt-Tab between tabs" extension of choice.
* Most seriously, I notice a slight but perceptible slowdown when opening new tabs and moving between tabs.

Since tab-navigation speed is important, and I need to search for tabs much more often than an always-visible vertical list, I've gone back to Tab Manager Plus;[2] before that I used TooManyTabs.[3]https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/toomanytabs-for-ch...

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/clut-cycle-last-us...

[2] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tab-manager-plus-f...

[3] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/toomanytabs-for-ch...
> why not do “control rebases” immediately, instead of control merges?

In this context the “control” in “control merge” is referring to not checking in the result. So if you don’t push the rebase, it would probably have exactly the same effect as a control merge... you’d save the conflict resolutions in the rerere database for later.

If you’re going to push the merge/rebase, then it depends on whether you’re working with other people in your branch. If you are, especially if it’s more than a few people, rebasing could inflict serious merge conflicts on everyone with any pending un-pushed changes. Rebase should be avoided in this case.
It's always been this way, politics is a zero sum game.
If there’s any comfort to be had, South Africa’s intelligence agencies are a shambles, and unable to deal with real-life threats right under their noses. The idea that they’d be able to do anything actionable with bulk—collected electronic intel is laughable.

The way things are going, wouldn’t be surprising if whole thing is a corrupt scheme linked to procurement of storage media.
Maybe the United Nations (or future world government) could levy an Earth-orbital value tax to ensure orbits are used efficiently.
Maybe they did. This article is awfully light on details and heavy on speculation.
FoundationDB supports mongodb Query syntax.
Hold what you are willing to hold if the market remains closed for the next five years.
Right, names without context don’t have any meaning, but once you’re in the world of everyday workmanlike programming, mappable is a perfectly clear concept, where as functors as they are usually explained do not.

If you were to take someone who is new to programming and talk about mappable datastructures they would look at you blankly, but any random JavaScript programmer should know what you mean instantly.
Serious question: can someone explain why the server side public license is not an open source license, with specific reference to AGPL? Is it because of the provision forcing the source code release of auxillary software used to run the software as a service? As far as I can tell, it meets the FSF's free software definition and the only that seems questionable in the OSI's open source definition is point 9.
It's taken me most of five decades to pick up the skill.

That bodes poorly for generalised skillsets.

There's a generalised rebuttal to calls for greater intelligence / education as a solution to problems: All the children aren't above average. And if your solution to some circumstance is to make them so, or pretend that they are, you are going to be having a bad time.

I'm not against education. I'm against having it be the only suggested remedy. Particularly from a party with a vested interest in both deflecting responsibility and creating the problem in the first place.
I think one of the best counterexamples is The Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll. If names (and more generally English words) conveyed no meaning on their own and were simply keys in a large fuzzy hash table, the poem would be completely opaque. However, despite the fact that almost every word in it is made-up (new, never a be foreseen keys), I'd argue that most English speakers, after reading the poem, would have a reasonably common understanding of what "slithy" meant or what a "borogrove" was.

If names fit well with what a person already knows, they can aid memory and even impart understanding. If names are poorly chosen they can instead confuse.
This site lets you generate faces via neural net and tweak many parameters interactively: http://www.artbreeder.com/
In a lot of first-world countries, too.
> That plane crashed because of an unpredictable freak event.

No, it crashed because of a predictable event that a number of engineers had already warned could happen, based on an obvious design flaw that was not fixed.
What kind of queries? There's LMDB, but it's mostly k/v: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning_Memory-Mapped_Databa...
Experience in a combined product and engineering org?
Anyone work in an org that has a combined product and engineering team? That's to say that there is no discrete product and engineering leadership, and that they all roll up into the same structure.

I have been working in such an org for a while now and it's my first time ever seeing or working in one, and I am starting to have my doubts about the scheme. Mainly it seems as though there is no clear engineering or technology thought leadership and I worry very deeply that it is harming the long term prospects of the org, and possibly the company.

Any experience in such a combined org would be supremely helpful, particularly if you've been in one that has worked well and been successful.
Interesting the name of the function you define in Haskell for a type to use the Functor typeclass is "fmap", so the core library designers must agree with you to some extent.

I can forgive Haskell for using the word "functor" because it came from academic roots, it isn't a language like Go designed specifically to make things easy for programmers to pick up.
You mean other than leak (or sell) that intel to someone who can do something with it?
What?!? I’m a big AWS skeptic for most people but this sounds insane. Details?
Didn’t Stripe go down this road?
You make some excellent points, but your dig at Murdoch undermines your point. The fact is that we live in an age of pervasive advocacy. Everyone has a side and everyone musters the best arguments for their side. It’s something we expect of lawyers—to make whatever arguments on behalf of their client that can be made within the threshold requirements of good faith and plausibility. But now we see it everywhere. News media, public interest organizations, academia, etc. It’s not just WSJ or Fox News, but the NYT, ACLU, EFF, etc. And people find that disconcerting. People don’t really expect when reading content from such organizations, that they’re being lawyered. But every time I read an ACLU blurb in my email and dig into the facts to see how much spin there was on the story, it makes me feel like when I was clerking first a judge and would see the amount of spin with which the trial record was portrayed in the briefs. Even when it comes to organizations I respect a lot (I rag on the ACLU, but I’m a member) it’s tiring. I feel like I’m engaged in a mental joust rather than being educated.

Part of this is, I think, the degree to which electronic media and modern society has allowed us to self-segregate. Increasingly, our communications are directed to people who already agree with us, which allows us to communicate in a code of canned talking points. Given the self-selection in media consumption, that applies to media organizations as well.
Can somebody tell me what is wrong is SSPL? I just don't understand what this hostility is all about. A company creates a crucial infrastructure component which is a database, open sources it, everybody can use it for free, cloud vendors started just installing it on their servers or making clones of it and making profit off it, everybody is using a component that took years and millions of dollars to develop but the company that created it cannot even get profit from its own product. I just can't understand why would a company open sources its products if this is the result. The product is free to use, but for profit entities using this product MUST pay the maker if they are using it as a SaaS which is a zero effort operation.

This just doesn't happen in any other industry, if you go to a baker, you must pay for the bread, you can't in most cases even ask how this bread was made or know for sure that price was fair or not, and mind you this is just slice of bread, while in technology it takes years of experience and knowledge just to create something as crucial as a database, and yet people expect everything to be free, very liberal licensing to even profit from the product without sharing it with the original maker. I don't even like or even respect MongoDB as a database, but the amount of hostility towards anybody trying to make money off a FREE and OPEN SOURCE complex software is totally beyond me.
There's a document layer for FoundationDB that seems to expose a MongoDB compatible API: https://www.foundationdb.org/blog/announcing-document-layer/

No idea how that works as I don't have any experience with either of them.
Can you explain? They aren't a discount retailer or anything like that, which you seem to be implying.
And that's an example of the system working at its best. You were incented to answer questions nobody else could or would answer. In my experience it doesn't work out that way often.
Pretty much every time I search for Stack Overflow type questions online I find a good answer on Stack Overflow.

And pretty much every time I find a good answer on Stack Overflow, it's heaped with derision from Stack Overflow users and the system. I can't remember the last time I landed on a question that wasn't "closed" for "low quality" or whatever the various negative treatments are there, and piled with negative comments and possibly a snarky answer.

This doesn't give me a good impression of Stack Overflow, a site I've never signed up for or felt interested in signing up for.
It surprises me as a South African because I didn't know our government had the technical capability or capacity to store and process so much data, let alone splice undersea cables without detection.
Is that comforting? It just leaves all the risks associated with an invasion of privacy with none of the claimed security upsides.

Just because they can’t use it competently doesn’t mean they can’t abuse it.
The companies shouldn't care but the US public should care who their companies do business with and what those countries intention are towards the US.