skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can set up a git server to refuse history rewriting pushes (this is a feature of gitolite).

You would still be able to rewrite stuff until it goes to the server, but once it's on the server, you wouldn't be able to rewrite and push to that server.
And this can be used to generate sentences as well as parse them. ;-)
Finding a profitable cryptominer in the first place.

For example, CoinHive shut down.
Sounds reasonable. About the 30m rule, they can be covered in less than 3 seconds by a non-toy drone. If I'm not the owner I wouldn't want it any more near (the privacy implications are another interesting matter).
From the article:

"In 2013, Lake Point sued the county, the water management district and Ms. Hurchalla, claiming she waged an unlawful campaign against the company that cost it its plans to make money off its cleaned lake water.

The court agreed: The litigation found that commissioners conducted public business using their private email and delayed production of those emails — or destroyed them altogether — in violation of public records laws. Three commissioners were charged in criminal court. A jury acquitted one of them in April, and the state attorney dropped the charges against the other two last month.

The county and water management district settled with Lake Point for millions of dollars, and the mine continues to operate. But Ms. Hurchalla fought on, even after Lake Point offered to drop the case if she publicly apologized."

Protected speech as in secretly conducting public business?

Seems to me like Lake Point offered her a way out that didn't cost $4m.
Does not work on mobile, right? How do you handle passwords there? Copy/paste between mac/iphone (might be insecure). And what if you did not bring your laptop?
We simply do not have resources for any quick terraforming plan, even on Earth. Soil recovery is very hard, for example, on manageable timeframes.
Whirlwind: What My First Real Software Engineering Job Taught Me
While streaming is obviously the revenue king, the apples-to-apples soft-media comparison point for vinyl and CD is not streaming but digital downloads, which isn't covered in the OP article but is in the linked RIAA report. tl;dr: Currently digital downloads see about twice as much revenue as either CD or vinyl, but trending downwards while CD revenue is holding steady and vinyl experiencing mild growth.

Personally I like DRM-free digital downloads (as opposed to streaming) as they provide the best advantages of soft media while also being mine to fully control forever.
It can happen here. Neighbors in the former Yugoslavia socialized together and got along well until the day they didn’t. I suggest the graphic novel “Safe Area Gorazde” for an account of this.

Also, it happened here once before.
Maybe it depends on the context of the seemer in question. I can't pretend to unravel the matter of their ecological impact; it seems to me that question has too much nuance for a casual observer of the literature to unravel.

However from the perspective of actually being near these things, I can say for sure that they're worse than I anticipated. The smoke is far more unpleasant than I anticipated. The fires also burn hotter and faster than I expected. Before having some personal experience with forest fires I thought that paved roads (certainly at least highways) would be effective fire breaks and that motorists would be largely unimpacted by a fire on the side of the road, but I now know these fires to be disturbingly powerful. They can stall out your car and roast you so hard you turn into a charred skeleton.
> I just want to know why anyone will personally need 1.5TB of ram in their personal PC today.

Then you can get rid of all disk reads for normal operations. I imagine gamers would absolutely love it, particularly if creating and populating a ramdisk were made really simple.
Opinion on Lockwise?
Version control is mandatory, but it is a tricky question if it could help with that situation much. If I understand correctly, you lost all ways to pick updates and reposition them on a foundation that works on both old and new devices.

But that depends on how you use your vcs of choice, and that depends on how you organize your work. With rushing big updates you could end up with basically vcs’d equivalent of two releases you had, one old and one broken. As organizing work is hard under some circumstances (e.g. demand grows faster than your ability to both control your code precisely and stay on schedule, given time constraints), and it could be even not possible to avoid that problem completely by vcs means.

Moreover, it wasn’t just a bug, right? It seems that it broke new devices by using something that it shouldn’t use at all, and even with logged, well-separated commits it could be non-trivial to rollback and merge. Because otherwise it would be almost trivial to forward-fix the latest release as well.

Of course, that is my blind guess from your description, but I think I got “exactly there” too many times even with proper vcs at hand. Sometimes picking between two distant branches/revisions is as hard as it is with bare diff -ru a/ b/, and involves expert-level vcs skills.
It wouldn't help those who don't make enough to pay taxes as well as the homeless, students, stay-at-home parents, disabled, retired, caretakers, etc.
Do you not have a model of people who disagree with you that includes sincere belief that the policies don't work? Policy is more complicated than wishing for something and having it work out exactly the way you want: people voting against the ACA or free college may think it'll legitimately hurt the economy.

FWIW, I'm a pretty strong supporter of the ACA (relative to the counterfactual, though single-payer would be nice..), and I'm neutral to warm about free universal college (much of the problem with the way college fits into our economy is that it's used as a blunt employment filter instead of actually increasing human capital, and universalizing subsidies may just exacerbate the problem. OTOH, blowing up that filter and making college the new high school may be useful in and of itself).

Neither of those opinions prevents me from understanding that people may have different models of what the effects of these policies are likely to be. You may argue that it requires a degree of economic illiteracy to believe that, but 1) the majority of supporters for every policy are grossly economically illiterate, 2) there's a core of sound economically-literate arguments for almost every policy, and 3) economic illiteracy is a vastly different charge from "you're in a cult that prefers winning to improving your and others' lot in society".

I suspect that it would be pretty easy for someone to take the confident, unnuanced opinions you likely have on a host of similar issues and make a similar or at least symmetric charge about your motivations.
The simplest explanation is because you already have a lot of functionality implemented this way.

Still probably the library you are using exposes a validation function...
When will they name one "Abby Normal"?
Lean NPM Packages
it's also interesting what have someone learned as a google intern
Aerial Imagery: Assessing Dorian's Damage from the Air
It still seems like a net positive. Environments change an order of magnitude more quickly than ecosystems, and many orders of magnitude more quickly than evolution. But if you build it they will eventually come. Life abhors a vacuum...
Not in my experience on large websites. If "all it takes" is round tripping the audio component through speech-to-text, then it's apparently annoying enough at scale to stop the vast majority of spam.

Also, automating something in a browser extension is basically the easiest place to automate something because it's just done once per user, with their cookies/sessions/ipaddr, very infrequently.

So that a browser extension exists for something doesn't mean it's trivial at larger scale. I doubt Google cares about the usage pattern that Buster gives people since it alone is not abuse, just normal people filling out the someodd <form>.
I, and more than a few others, find the ongoing existence of multiple universes easier to swallow than the concept of new universes being created whenever a wave function collapses. The pre-existence of an infinity is of greater likelihood than the continuing creation of multiple infinities as time moves forward.

This is testable, if not practical atm. If something like an electron exists in ghost forms across multiple universes then they may be linked in those other universes more strongly than ours, a concept that may offer explanations for a variety of quantum behaviors. Proof of this would be the observation of a reliable link between particles not linked in our universe.
My post was about Brazilian beef specifically because it is raised on ex-Amazon forest land. Probably should have said that, but I figured people would get it.
(FTR: I am not downvoting you).

I share your sentiment. I used to be active in a local food buyer group (7-15 people getting together to collect vegetables and food from local producers) and I saw how to the tribe factor plays a huge role in one's allegiance and political stance.

Basically, people gather to be together. The end goal was second to that. Buying local or organic food ? No brainer. Joining the Sunday demonstration against the nuclear plant ? No room for debate. It's assumed everyone will go and it'll be friendly (almost in a kid way) and everyone is in it together. It's about the tribe and mutual reassurance (are we all friends ? are we all okay ?)

Scary thing is when you realize some people fall into the happy gang of buying fresh vegetables from the farm and spend an afternoon or two during summers tending to the crops with the farmer (and then have a nice bbq) but some people, because they were put in classroom A or B in elementary school or anything else really, end up roaming the street at night looking for troubles.

It's all really basic physiological needs: humans like to be together. The political (in the city sense) reasons for that often seem to come second.

So, yes, the exterior signs of belonging to a group have to be defended. And the online discourse make it looks like everyone is a hard-liner and conversations get hot real quick.

It's like the vegan thing on Imgur. I know some hard core vegan. None of them are anything like the straw men I see, the made up extremist version of vegans, being derided on the front page.

There's one guy in my facebook friends who can't let two days past without posting something along the lines of "do vegans think of mama carrot when they eat baby carrots ?". I counter joked once that he must have been bitten by a lettuce or his parents forced him to eat his soup too many times when he was a kid to hold such grudges against vegans.

Now on the other hand I have another friend in the first stage of veganism that can't let two days go without posting outrage cryporn about the beef or chicken industry.

So. They all clash. Social networks are social status validators and all the tribes are mixing in but their core values aren't compatible.

Sorry, I am rambling.
But if the flotation device never rises to the height where it closes the valve, the water will keep on flowing in (?)
I've been at Google for 1.5 years and before that startups. I've learned a lot about working at a large company (getting adjacent teams on board with my ideas, writing compelling design docs, etc). I haven't observed any changes in the quality of my code or ideas.
I have never understood why NIMBYism is a bad thing. It simply means that one is involved with local governance and wants to voice their needs. It’s a good thing, yes?

Regional government is Big Govt which is inefficient, bulky and expensive. Small units are efficient to run and tighter ships to maneuver. YIMBYism is too close to co-dependency rather than cooperation. Do we want a nanny state?
You should replace Google with "big tech company" or FAANG to get more responses.
Yes, and they require proper accounting.
Wow. Presumably they were no where near passing the sound barrier relative to the jet stream, but that is wild. I couldn't find it with my choice of google words, any idea where you found it?
Let's say I'm some really prestigious organization. By donating to me, a bad actor is in part increasing their own prestige by using my brand. By allowing them to do this I make it more likely that this bad actor can continue to be accepted by polite society and continue their crimes.

There are red lines beyond which a person should be considered socially radioactive and ostracized.
Good thing the media called off the recession.
Why is it narcissistic? Migration happens all the time and it’s an economic issue. It is absolutely normal that people move to places they can afford. Millions of people do it everyday.

What is more important to alleviate homelessness? Placing them in communities built in affordable places to deliver care and services ..or insist on keeping them in unaffordable tier 1 cities like Seattle and Bay Area cities?

All progressive politics seems to be geared towards strengthening and propagating a voter base rather than finding real solutions.
Big memory PC servers [1] were at around 6 TB 4 years ago with 64 GB DIMMMS [2], 1.5 TB is not a lot today for a server.

[1] conventional single motherboard designs that is, larger of the top500 machines seems to be at the single petabytes now

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9582023
According to this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xKJG00-S_c, end velocity was probably around 100m/s (also that the lander started tumbling at the end stage)

I have the impression that would leave a big mark
Maybe things have changed now, but as far as I can remember Google Play does let you deploy older APKs. But it's just from the developer side, it's not like users can choose which APK to download.
Just a satisfied customer, no affiliation. I did the combined basic/advanced course from pilottraining.ca and learned a ton.

A related thing that didn’t occur to me until recently: if you keep your all-up weight under 250g, all of those regulations go out the window and drop back down to “fly responsibly”. I’ve been working on drones professionally for a year now, and am just in the process of putting together a tiny kit for fun. This idea clicked for me when a Transport Canada-certified flight examiner sent me a really cool FPV video that was clearly flying around people. You can do a lot while staying under the weight restriction.
> IIRC, the rates of attempted suicides are more equal between men and women, but women fail more often since they use less effective means.

It's a tricky stat to disentangle, as an attempted suicide gives us slightly different statistical information than a completed one. Namely, the odds that it was a "cry-for-help" attempt vs a serious one are naturally far lower for completed suicides. These are of course important in and of themselves, but it would be valuable to be able to tease out the two separate phenomena.

That is to say, looking only at attempted suicides fails to capture the full picture in the way that looking only at completed ones does, but there's no easy way to disentangle the data we're actually interested in.
Saw an interview a few years ago with madeleine albright where she was asked 'aren't you excited by how social media is increasing political participation' and she used the phrase 'disaggregation of voices' to say 'not really'.

If I understood correctly, she thinks that mass social platforms provide the illusion of participation because you're speaking up, but because people don't coordinate IRL or in blocks, they end up having zero impact. It removes the necessary hierarchy for movements to make decisions and wield power.

Also cannot believe they picked orange for one of the sides, that's hilarious
Ancestral Homes Used Both Design and Materials to Provide Comfort
As typically defined academically, yes. In the real world things might be more complex, but I think it would hold true for many implementations.

Academically a regex is a string of of:

- character literals

- "epsilon" characters (meaning empty string)

- "+" characters (which means either what we see before the + or what we see after the +, in real-world regex these are usually represented as | instead of + as well as used implicitly in constructs like [a-zA-Z])

- "*" characters (same meaning as in real-world regex)

- And parentheses to allow controlling the order of operations
Could have kept going...

The CED offers one hour of VHS quality per side that rapidly degenerates. I own a sizeable collection of them, and while sorta neat, it’s also sorta terrible.

The vinyl offers quality superior to most consumer tape equipment rivaled only by 11 ips reel to reel. CED had no quality advantages, decays rapidly and is non recordable. It was a non-starter.

The fact is that CED was in the works since the 50s when it may have had a short successful life, but RCA couldn’t get off their ass. In fact CED was the last consumer product ever released by RCA. (The RCA of today is just a badge on various crap after being divested by Thomson Consumer Electronics)

Also even though CED uses a stylus, the similarities end there. You can literally run your nail in a phono groove and hear the sound. It is a literal imprint of the sound wave. Video cannot be encoded in such a straightforward manner, NTSC and PAL are not trivially. Also the CED is not vibrating the stylus. Rather the stylus sits on ridges and the signal is depth encoded (therefore varying the capacitance, hence the name). It is much closer to a crappy laser disc in operation (which also encodes in analog.. not digital)
India orders prosecution against top hospitals for clinical trial on infants
Legal definitions of this differ per country.

As an example pedophilia in Finland is defined in criminal code as having sex with a person under 16. Rape is a different crime.

Sure you can also define it using rape and defining that a minor cannot give consent.

In the end these are just semantics. End result is the same.
Perhaps nice to mention here: "Talks at Google"

https://talksat.withgoogle.com/

Not restricted to just software engineering, though.
Here I am listening to Daniel Barenboim's Beethoven Piano Sonatas spread over 24 sides of vinyl, purchased for under a tenner in a charity shop. A CD would be more practical, but the set of records is a real experience, even the getting up to skip the occasional scratch and turn over the records.

Edit: downvotes over 20 minutes. Do you doubt that I'm really listening to it (I am, before I read this news)? Or that vinyl is a real experience? Or that I'm some kind of "hipster" (I have thousands of records, and an equal number of CDs, collected over 30 years). Please reply, I'm interested what you have to say.

For the doubters, here's a photo: http://oirase.annexia.org/tmp/20190908_183833.jpg
So... things have been bad for at least a decade or two but we have only just started to notice.
The sad reality is that the only folks who actually "suffer" from shame are those that have the capacity to see the world from a perspective other than their own.
So, the main app is not opensource. We are in Beta mode, but do plan on having it be paid for, but most likely, free for developers, but a charge for companies to use the teams aspect. The other part we are doing is that we are open sourcing the Terraform, Serverless, and other templates. We have a plan to then enable the usage of them within the app. So you could just apply a serverless template to your environment, and immediately be setup with let's say an SQS queue, tied to a lambda. That repo is located here https://github.com/commandeer/open . Happy to chat more about it, as we are very excited about this and are working day and night on it.
Age rating is 4+. I am trying to figure out if I can add some restrictions on what type of ads are served.
Building this will increase homelessness as more people will migrate here. This is not a solution. Instead it is better to give housing near farms and other areas that need unskilled labor. Why not build more schools and libraries there instead? It’s a shame that we neglect our future generations at the cost of housing the homeless.
There has to be set ratio on how much commercial vs housing a township can have. Endlessly building office space will make all of our lives more difficult.
Visas are dead simple to get for the US. Some of them are even allocated by lottery. Other countries (canada) have points-based systems, standards, that applicants have to make. The US prefers a rights-based approach, a combination of family links and naturalization based on the leveraging of "temporary" permits into permanent residence permission.
Adjoint Logic and Its Concurrent Operational Interpretation [pdf]
What troubles me about this is the rate of planting. The idea of reforestation is hopefully a net positive. But the rate of planting seems improbable.

350M seedlings/trees. 12 hours or 43200 seconds. This works out to roughly 8102 per second.

So start with 1M people planting these trees, that would be 350 trees per person. Or roughly 29 trees per hour. So a tree every 2 minutes for a million people doing this.

Non-stop. For 12 hours.

I know, many assumptions built into this. If they had 10M people, it would be 35 trees over 12 hours, which I think is far more manageable.

And the people aren't uniform. Some will plant (far) more/faster than others. I'd expect some sort of long tail distribution for the rapid planters, with peak(s) around mode(s).

Just thinking aloud, that politicians may be politicianing, and reality will be somewhat different. Definitely curious about the participation rate of the population. And what the abrupt introduction of 0.35T trees will do to groundwater levels, aquifers, etc.

[edit: to correct a spelling error]
My Lord, I can't even imagine what it must feel like to be so filled with hatred that your reaction to a suicide crisis is that arbitrary victims are due collective punishment from the overall political attitudes of their region. You must be more bile than human at this point. I hope you find a way to be happy some day.

FWIW, I am and always have been in an extremely "urban elite", internationalist bubble, so I have no direct or even indirect exposure to people from rural areas. I'm just, uh, not a garbage person.
I’d imagine the NPS has a better understanding of the parks than people who like drones. I’m glad they’re making it as inconvenient as possible and hope they become empowered to ban drones completely from the parks.
I've wrapped expect scripts around prompt-happy config scripts supplied by third-party vendors. What they intend to be idiot-proof usually ends up as an unwieldy tool that takes no options and/or assumes bad defaults. The vendor didn't intend for it to be run more than once per site installation, but such intentions don't play nice with disposable environments like VMs and/or containers.
https://www.foreflight.com/

An early iOS success story, founded in 2007, and recently acquired by Boeing. They are the dominant software company in this niche, and are well positioned to add a “UAS tier” subscription in the future.
I would loose the big boost the app received with the Apple homepage featuring