skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>If the problem is just repetitive, boring questions how about the power users just use the API to filter them out?

Are you talking about the JSON api? (https://api.stackexchange.com/docs)

If so, there's no obvious API call where one can put a "not boring" filter as a parameter. Do you have source code examples of what you're suggesting?

>The power to ruin someone else's experience is a heavy-handed

Right but there are 2 groups ... not just 1 group representing the question askers. There's also the other group of desirable experts providing answers.

If you tune the site's rules to avoid ruining the experience of the question askers', you've now ruined the experience for the answerers. (Again, refer to the cited threads of answerers' complaining about their experience being ruined because of bad quality questions.)
A lot of people have difficulty trying to organize complex hierarchical data into rows and columns. A lot of places make you go through a dba to create or change a database which rubs power users the wrong way - and admittedly most of the dbas I’ve worked with are a lot more concerned with making backups fast then in your applications performance. Mongodb doesn’t make you do any of that. It doesn’t make you have authentication either. I think that’s a big reason why it got so popular.
Sounds like poor streak design if it never lets you miss a day. Kind of tragic that they'd impose that on humans.
Welp, here I thought that guilt by association was an unamerican sort of thing, that we americans determined guilt by trial, preferably with a jury. Learn something new every day.
For more concrete information about Nvshu see the Unicode proposal [0]. It seems that it's similar to Hirigana, an italicized version of Standard Chinese used as a syllabry. It's amazing how little information the linked article gives in comparison.

[0] https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2009/09155-n3598-nushu.pdf
The growing science of memory manipulation
I think the author is rediscovering OOP or something it's kind of uncanny
The problem with HDDs is rarely the sequential speed but the IOPS; of which you get around 100 per second.

The problem is that since the majority of machines have SSDs now developers no longer optimise the number of IOPS or care about it; or notice it at all - as SSDs have orders of magnitude more IOPS performance than a HDD. Combine that with many people having quite a few background programs that will spew IOPS randomly you'd be surprised how fast the disk gets slow.

Even MacOS which until recently (and maybe even now) sells machines with a HDD as standard; with pretty much no extra software installed is unbearably unusable on a HDD.

SSDs are basically required at this point.
> I have a suspicion that there is an old-boys-club of high-level military guys pushing UFO conspiracies for some purpose. At the very least, muddying the waters can help mask any civilian reports of potential classified aircraft. At the worst it can act as a lightening rod to redirect public thirst for unearthing military secrets.

This is the thesis of the documentary "Mirage Men".
I enjoyed the pre-internet times when it came to programming far more than I do today. This is because of flow states.

I have a hard time getting into a flow state when I'm looking something up, but when I know the language inside and out it's easy for me to get into a flow state.

So much so, when I learn a language I try to know it well enough to never have to google for help. Of course, I still google around at times, but I find the less I have to the happier my day is.

SO is a blessing, but it's also a curse. Younger devs have no idea what they're missing out on.
They're roughly equivalent, but what if B costs a tenth of A?

It's not about the safety of the bet, because from an OSS perspective, the issue seems to be that many are moving away from MongoDB to something even more opaque. I don't follow AWS, but do they publish a roadmap of planned changes in their document DB?
It is orders of magnitude of orders of magnitude less likely.
The first datasheet I found for a Cypress FRAM chip gives a required power down rate of at most 30us/V which allows it to continue to provide normal operation protecting data. It's a very easy limitation to live with and engineers often deal with far more difficult problems in unexpected power loss than this.
That’s why I find it so funny the are waving US flags, along with Pepe the Frog flags. If they tried throwing Molotov cocktails at US cops, the outcome would be very different.
No logo ribbon..

frankly a boring looking store

https://www.google.com/maps/@42.3574429,-71.1149978,3a,75y,1...
For treatments that involve some action on the medical community's part, I can see how they could put up roadblocks. But how can they put up roadblocks to fasting?
Once you've developed a habit, you will just go exercise.

This app is designed to help you develop that habit.
I said nothing about brute forcing.
One of the big corner cases I've noticed is transaction-oriented email-- the password resets, "welcome to your account" emails, order details, shipping notifications. People want these, but they're probably harder to deliver than personal email or much spammier bulk mail sent directly via outsourced experts.

These have a lot of iffy issues.

* Since they're going to be generated by the ecommerce service, it may not be running on the same server or IP block as your main mail infrastructure, so you might have to specially configure around that.

* The content-- hundreds of messages a day, at seemingly scattershot recipients and highly templated-- screams spammy nto the wrong algorithm.

Yeah, there's services like Mandrill, but the whole ecosystem feels broken. It's not serving mailers. It's not serving the recipients very well. It seems designed to please a small, delicate, vocal audience. The people so upset at the prospect of false negatives (spam in the inbox) that they rally around providers who are prone to aggressive false positives. Who are these people and what makes them tick?

I could see this backlash in a situation where it's high risk or cost, but users can manage their own filters in any half-decent mail system, and frankly, clicking through a few pieces of spam a week is not a big deal-- arguably far less a hassle than spending an hour on the phone to get a tracking number that a spam filer ate.
One day when I was homeless, I spent part of the day reading stories about intentional disappearances. I was fascinated by some of the parallels to homelessness in terms of both logistics for how to survive (relying on gift cards and prepaid phones) and that homelessness can be a form of social death to a surprising degree.

I blogged* a bit about it, but rereading the piece makes me feel like I didn't do a good job of really capturing my impressions. Perhaps I'll do an update sometime.

* https://sandiegohomelesssurvivalguide.blogspot.com/2017/05/l...
yes, maybe for you it's clear but perhaps for many other developers, it's not! I don't think he claimed something new, just that you can promote abstractions and use them regardless of the language.

we often, as developers, see something as useful or not only from our point of view, which is fair since you're reading and you want to learn more, but we can't forget that there are many developers out there being formed/mentored that might benefit from this kind of post.
With apologies for linking to TV Tropes: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/StringTheory
These are all arguments against the medical community advising people in cancer treatment to fast.

But what if the patient just fasts? Without asking the doctor's advice, and just politely saying "Yes, I hear you, but it's my decision and I think the risk is worth it" when the doctor explains the pros and cons.
Ha! I live a half mile from the Sedona McDonald’s in the article’s first picture. My grandchildren love junk food, so I have been in there more than a few times when they visit. I have lived in Sedona for about twenty years and I don’t know any locals who dislike the architecture.
I think you got it backwards. A relational schema change is required and probably a data reindex or reload when you change a data model so relational is the least flexible as opposed to something like Mongo nosql?
Electric bikes and other micro vehicles may be the future of transit
It does seem like a bit of an unfalsifiable claim. "We are 100% certain to catch you if you fake your death... of course we might just find out you're not faking."
Seeing how well it’s working for Indoa in Kashmir, I”m surprised China hasn’t done it by now.
Nice job!

On the whole the howtographql series is instructive but results in a ton of boilerplate code. The GraphQL framework[1] from the Manifold project avoids all of that with the "manifold" concept, which is similar to F#'s type providers.

Currently manifold targets Java exclusively, but the framework is designed to support other JVM languages. Perhaps clojure could be on the radar? Food for thought.

[1]: https://github.com/manifold-systems/manifold/tree/master/man...
The target audience? Here is another section of the mag: https://melmagazine.com/en-us/section/dicks
> any form of activism like this is stealing from the community

Depends the actions you’re thinking about, but I would guess that’s likely to be the case, yes.

> On the whole, this is probably one of the least harmful things they could have released publicly.

Could you elaborate?
> top 10% of the world have an easier time changing tech support forums

Surely. I was just saying it is a "little bit like" that. The principle seems to be the same: You can't criticize because ... you chose to use Stack Overflow for help. Go elsewhere if you don't like it.

Surely that is what people who don't like it do. But that doesn't mean they shouldn't express their opinions about it.
I feel that he may be a Go programmer.
I don't have a code example but I think even if the API is inadequate it doesn't really matter - filtering content can be solved in many ways. The browser extension "Reddit Enhancement Suite" I think literally just parses the page you're on to remove undesired content. Reddit's /r/worldnews has content filtering I think might be done with CSS. SO could obviously make a minimal effort to empower such functionality too or build it into their UI. There's search services like the one HN uses that make the content a flexible API.

https://github.com/honestbleeps/Reddit-Enhancement-Suite
Security fixes are backported to Debian stable release packages. Any respectable, production-ready, stable/LTS distro does this.

Obviously you don't get the new features and functionality that may be introduced in an upstream major release, but security patches are covered.
babel, the characterset
The fact that mongo was willing to screw over one set of users makes me worry they'd be willing to screw over all their users. It's a risk I wouldn't take, especially when there are so many other (arguably better) options out there.
> out of many pages of answers only few see one upvote a year^. I helped mostly specific people, not the common knowledge.

I regularly come across helpful answers on SO with 0 or 1 upvotes, so I wouldn't judge your contributions' impact solely on that. You've likely helped many people with your answers, even if there's no proof of it.
Hong Kong Protestors Using Mesh Messaging App China Can't Block
Feature2Vec: Distributional semantic modelling of human property knowledge
Next step, Chinese intelligence hacks their database of verified phone numbers. Anonymity over. Having the resources of a nation state, they could probably do it easily.
I beg to differ. At best, many people just don't really give it much thought. Many others think that when the government does something it is free, not understanding that the people pay for everything the government does.

The thing that is grossly inefficient is the manner in which services are paid for when it involves doing it indirectly via tax authorities. The overhead can't be eliminated when it is done that way - it requires a contingent of administrators and petty bureaucrats.
You sound like a CrossFit person haha. But seriously, there is a place for tools and apps in working out for some people. My Apple Watch has made my exercise more regular and progress significantly more measurable for me.
Mel Magazine is supposed to be an "Esquire meets Vice". The editor-in-chief comes from Playboy.[1]

[1]: https://www.fastcompany.com/90217210/dollar-shave-clubs-mens...
At this moment. There was a piece posted to HN last week that Hong Kong's ISPs have been asked, or fear being asked, to implement a firewall similar to China's.

Hong Kong's ISP association published a public letter of protest about it.

Edit: Found it - https://www.hkispa.org.hk/139-urgent-statement-of-hkispa-on-...
Define production and define HTTP3. The beauty of open source is that you can be already serving pages using QUIC and TLS1.3 while the standard is being finalised.
>We should make up our minds about stuff like this

Why?
Deorbiting is exactly the process I was describing.

SpaceX did not deliberately move their craft to interfere with Aeolus. Aeolus is deliberately placed where every deorbiting craft will interfere with it. It’s like someone setting up an office in the foyer of an apartment complex. Everyone entering or leaving the complex is going to walk through the office. They aren’t deliberately walking through the office, it’s just that your office is where everyone is walking to get to where they are going.

In addition, SpaceX is testing deorbiting satellites with Hall effect thrusters that are barely powerful enough to raise orbit from higher in the atmosphere. At this altitude the thrusters would have little or no effect, so the craft is more or less an inert piece of space junk which SpaceX can possibly rotate using reaction wheels and magnetic torquers.

Words have meanings, and there is a vast semantic gulf between “SpaceX refused to take action” and “SpaceX were incapable of taking action”. The author used “refused” but published the article before investigating further. Expect a better story to come from the likes of Loren Grush in a couple of days once people have had time to get a response from SpaceX and digest just what is going on here (NB: ESA budget under review in November, as per ESA’s entire tweet thread of which this social media shitstorm is only responding to the first because it mentions SpaceX)

This is really just a semantic argument so I will leave it here. Reread the article but completely ignore the inflammatory clickbait title and any of the author’s own (emotive, inflammatory) words on the matter, stick to only the quotes from named sources and you should be golden.
I was trying to use Oauth to log in to an internal SharePoint site with VBA, and I did get some example code to work after a lot of messing around, but then it mysteriously stopped working a week later,* so I gave up and went back to scripting a browser.

*possibly because some system administrator noticed abnormal traffic and blocked it
Having said that - I think it's a great business to make apps for this stuff and there is big money in it.

The reason is simply because people don't want to take action. They want to procrastinate and avoid and find ways of almost exercising and there's absolutely no better way to do that than to delegate all your emotional energy on the subject to some sort of app.

Apps to encourage you to exercise are awesome business - they just aren't a way to actually become an exercising person but who really cares about that.
Disclaimer: this is total speculation from someone completely unqualified to speculate about aviation

Given the violence of the crash due to the total lack of fine control, likely worse.

A fire in the cornfield could have killed many more people as would the lack of emergency firefighting and medical attention.

A plane that broke apart in the water would likely just lead to most passengers quickly drowning. It might work if the plane remained intact, but that requires landing level and slow, something they had no ability to control.
Are you aware that by doing SMS verification (optional or not) you're making your servers a very juicy target for hackers working for Chinese intelligence? They could probably assume that anyone in Hong Kong with the app is a protester
100MB/s of sequential transfers. Change that to 4k IO's and it can drop to 500KB/s on a laptop hard drive easily.
Can you actually check every photo that is up-loaded to social media? And can't you change your appearance to fool the program?
it made me angry too. i got the urge to jump on here and berate the creator for rationalised reasons. it's because the random flipping in response to your reasoned movement feels like an something between an insult and an assault
>> You sound like a CrossFit person haha

No just an inherently sedentary programmer - I'm no CrossFit evangelist - it's just a highly time efficient way to meet the goal of being fitter and returning to programming.

I think the secret to actually exercising is understanding what you do and do not like and finding exercise that suits you. If I go to the gym on my own I get bored and I do not push myself thus I do not get much fitter. So CrossFit is part of the success secret for me because it is effectively a group gym program in which I must do what I am told whilst I am there - unlike going to the gym on my own, getting bored and lazy and dropping it because it's not working for me.

Since I am too lazy to exercise intensively I need to be in a structured environment to do that.

Going to a group exercise class requires nothing more of you than turning up - motivating yourself just to arrive somewhere is much easier to do than motivating yourself to self plan and self drive an entire workout.
I like it a lot, thank you.

Quick notes: i couldn’t find a way to delete a task, and the task directory table doesn’t fit on an iPhone 8 held vertically.
Why is this? If Oracle uses SQL why can you not just export the database, make some transformations, and import it into a PostgreSQL db for example?
It's also raging across the right wing internet. Has been for 3 days. Facts don't matter, even here.
Your coffee / awake levels have me interesting. How much coffee do you find wanting?
Would your streak ever have gotten to several hundred days long if the streak mechanic didn't exist? Gamification is about both the carrot and the stick. The stick can certainly be demotivating in the wrong situations, but it also has plenty of motivational force. I have felt the sting of losing a 3 digit day streak too. The Apple Watch is even more unforgiving in that regard than Duolingo. The first time it happened to me it sent me into a week plus of totally ignoring the goals because of what I "lost". What got me out of that funk was revisiting the whole purpose of why I started with fitness gamification. I wasn't trying to get a number on my watch to increment 1 every 24 hours. Who cares about that? I was trying to get healthier. So I got to work on another streak. Sometimes I lose it due to some extenuating circumstances like being sick, getting injured, or having some all day social event and there is occasionally a hangover before I can back into the swing of things with another streak. However there are also days in which I get home at the end of the day, I didn't work out at all, and my choice is to either veg out on the couch for an hour or workout to continue my streak. As long as there are more days like that than days I sulk over a lost streak, I come out ahead.

TL;DR - Your hard work wasn't lost. Your knowledge of that language didn't disappear when that streak ended. You just forgot why you downloaded Duolingo in the first place.
For anyone interested looking into a recent case with some publicity:

Gerald Cotten was the CEO of a cryptocurrency exchange. It was reported that he died while traveling abroad due to health complications and was cremated where he died. He was the only person who had the private keys for the exchange's coins, and the coins went missing.
As someone who is super interested in genetic engineering, are there any survey papers/online courses/intro textbooks that someone could recommend as an intro to either modern gene editing or using probabilistic techniques to determine gene encodings? I always feel more confident taking recommendations from people than I do scouring the internet for random resources...
How much privacy rights do dead people have?
Including Amazon, until recently.
Companies like google are indeed out of control and creating a dystopian future. Amongst other things, Google has already unleashed bots that arbitrarily destroy livelihoods (e.g. automated account terminations, in markets where there are few, if any alternatives to Google). I have found that dealing with companies like Google is eerily similar to dealing with an authoritarian government (e.g. they don't care about normal individuals), and as such companies gain more control over society (and governments) it actually becomes a major political issue, perhaps the political issue of our time. At the beginning of the Internet age, I felt that tech could provide the path to liberation, but now I fear that it also provides a potential path to supression.
Especially when the Wikipedia article the author cites [0] makes it clear that it's only alleged that he's still alive.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_McDermott
Not necessarily. It needs to be a photo depicting you clearly enough along with ideally other photos containing you, and the person has to be able to search by faces on that dataset.

I believe e.g. Facebook will try to automatically suggest tags for faces, but I don't think something like Twitter makes those recommendations.
Mel is Dollar Shave Club's content team. They also produce the bathroom minutes that come in every box.
The front page has a clear design explaining the idea. Working on a product myself the one liner and short explanations are harder to create than most people imagine. Good job.
Is there a max down level here on HN? I feel like if comments didn't fade out I would have lost a lot more points a couple times.
That's how I read being able to do it because you have "the best, largest, fastest, most advanced machines that money can buy".
They still can cut off the consumers ISP and leave commercial untouched.
(sincere) Thank you for making the product that I had as just an idea. I thought about a workout BFF in terms of a good commitment device. My other angle on this kind of commitment device was someone to call me to wake me up in the morning. :) Great stuff!
I’d recommend trying to build a simple ruby rails app. No JavaScript and use all the scaffold stuff that creates basic code templates for you to then edit to your requirements.

I think you be able to build and see something you’ve made working fairly quickly which would be a big confidence boost.
The inability to take a tow truck to orbit is exactly why you need to push the boundaries to find out what works and what doesn’t. Also note that “littering” is an irrelevant analogy in these orbits because of their low altitude. Atmospheric drag will cause anything in these orbits to deorbit in a matter of years to decades.

Just don’t go doing stupid stuff like releasing hundreds of millions of copper needles in a three-thousand-kilometre orbit as part of a misguided attempt to provide a reflective surface to carry military communications around the globe. That would be actual littering, as would any test of an anti-satellite weapon.