skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A full localization is always preferable, but since it does entail quite a bit of work, I can think of at least two scenarios where this would be useful:

1) I played a good amount of untranslated Japanese ROMs for the NES/SNES/GBA, back in the day. Some of them had pretty simplistic gameplay ("Press A to swing your sword. Swing your sword until everything on-screen is dead.") or gameplay that was self-explanatory once it started. Those games didn't really need full translations to get enjoyment out of the game. Except, I recall a handful where I could never even get to the gameplay part because I was stuck in some pre-game menu hell where a non-native speaker would not be able to figure out how to get the game going, short of clicking every menu option and every sub-menu option. This happened alot with sports games, IIRC.

2) A more recent example that comes to mind would be Rhythm Tengoku (a.k.a. Rhythm Heaven) for the GBA. 95% of the game's gameplay is "Press a button in time with the rhythm", making it trivial for non-Japanese speakers to play. But one particular stage had an on-screen text prompt which told the player which button they should press at the right time, making it a random guessing game for the non-Japanese speakers. A quick translation for what is an incredibly tiny component of the full game would make a full localization unnecessary and still allow international players to complete the game.
I am a member of the Digital Division Committee of Prospect/Bectu Committee. We do take cases for existing members.

Unison has few places it represents at (probably more for historical reasons).

How ever apart from the costs we would only take a case to tribunal if it was a good chance of winning - as the pressure on the member going through a case is considerable.
Ask HN: Is Anyone Using Cisco's CloudCenter (Formerly Cliqr)
I'm working with a large client that wants to use this software to administer multi cloud tech. I'm having a hard time finding any information on its use other than some sparse documentation from Cisco. I would like to hear if anyone has any experience with it and has opinions. Thanks!
I am used to it. Mostly. It still throws me for a loop sometimes, like just now when I had to figure out how p/l would be calculated based on the flows.
Fair enough (I was remembering parking being insanely expensive in NYC). What I was getting at is that it's not that public transit is necessarily better in the large eastern cities, but that that personal transportation is (comparatively) worse.
Belief in learning styles myth may be detrimental
What do you use to clean your glasses?
Asking for a friend
It was indeed but I figured they where joking.

Original RoboCop isn't exactly obscure among geeks around my age.
Wow. This is awesome. Esp for s3 management.
this doesn't apply to deep frying, as OP was doing
Anecdotal counterpoint: I was a 1-2 pack a day smoker for ten years. If I'd picked up vaping I'd probably still be smoking. I tried early e-cigarettes and didn't care for them because while I got the nicotine the actual practice wasn't as pleasant. But if that aspect of "this is fine for me" was present I may not have asserted my desire to stop so strongly. I had a hard time quitting until I went all-in with no surrogates.

A resolute mind and a week in bed/at home was what did it. From 100% -> 0%. I've had maybe 2 cigarettes since that time and they were enough to convince me I don't want the habit back. Because of whatever recovery processes were happening with my lungs/esophagus I was all kinds of sick for that week. Staying home let me be as gross as I needed to be to get past the worst of it. And really, the first 3-4 days are the worst of the physical symptoms. Once you make it to a week it gets easier, two weeks even moreso. Years out and it's hard to believe I kept it up for so long. I'm really glad I didn't start vaping.
I didn't even know there was a difference. Thank you to everyone who is clarifying in this thread.
This concept has been proposed by Dwork and Naor in 1992 to fight email spam. [0]

[0] Dwork, Cynthia, and Moni Naor. "Pricing via processing or combatting junk mail." Annual International Cryptology Conference. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 1992.
That'd be a silly argument. By that logic, Ford has a 100% monopoly on F-150s.

It's a very appropriate argument, and Ford does have a monopoly on F-150's. As I've noted elsewhere, monopolies are not by themselves illegal.

The trucks are like the iPhone, so in this context we would be talking about truck parts (i.e., apps). Ford doesn't restrict or attempt to control the market for F-150 parts. If you damage your car, the mechanic can buy parts from Ford or any one of dozens of auto parts makers. In contrast, Apple does restrict and artificially control the market for apps, even to the extreme of drowning out competing apps with irrelevant search results, and Apple is the only market for getting iOS apps.
I use the comment test. It's pass/fail and goes like this: "Suppose I'm reading some code and I see an obvious typo in a comment. What's the process for fixing it?"

(Note: I've actually gotten all of these answers, albeit sometimes only after I joined a group (prompting me to develop this test in the first place)).

Fail: "just edit the file lol"

Pass: "edit the file and check it in"

Pass: "edit the file, send a diff, get a +1, and check it in"

Suspicious: "edit the file, send a diff, get your code and style approvers, wait for presubmit, and check it in"

Hard fail: "file a bug..."

WTF are you even doing: "we can focus on code quality issues after this milestone"
Webdev is where the money is. It's where people with a CS degree or programming experience are most likely to find a way to put food on the table. Everything else requires more expertise and, aside from the most specialized of applications, pays less money. So as it is, webdev is the center of the universe, and RDD is table stakes for being considered a professional in the field.
Deploying Phoenix to Kubernetes from Scratch
Lost all interest when I saw you need to register an account to demo it
I am sorry but, as a Canadian they way I understood it was that those people in our far north have sacrificed a lot of the every day freedoms and luxuries that we have in order for Canada to maintain territorial claim over the land. Our government literally scooped up people and their families and relocated them there and left them there to starve at first. If those communities were not there Canada would have lost claim to it. So we tax payers as you put it have agreed to have a higher welfare system up there for those people and to ship them milk and other supplies even though it cost ridiculous amounts of money. Because one day all that ice will free up and the amount of resources up there will be incredible.
It didn't work three times, then I realised the button shaped green thing with high contrast under 'click here to blah' wasn't the actual button and the low contrast paragraph was the button.
About 12-13 seconds on a top-of-the-line Mac. I'd say that is slow. Besides, I don't really have much of a problem with Google's CAPTCHA.
Why cosmology without philosophy is like a ship without a hull
When you have very smart people, it may be difficult for those people to write simple stupid code.

If they can't write idiomatically, are they "very smart?" Code is a communication medium as much as a functional one, and if someone doesn't understand you when you're talking to them, such that you have to say, "well I use a cutting edge grammar, aren't you familiar with Lakoffian generative semantics? Imre Lakatos has a sick presentation on Vimeo," you're not maintaining communication skills. I imagine this could be what "unshared values" means.

The way I see it, it's like driving: people who don't stop at stop signs, who don't use turn signals, who don't know right-of-way rules are not good drivers. These things are a part of driving just as much as knowing where you're going and trying to run the Nurburgring in under 8 minutes. They also demonstrate a concern and respect for the health and wellbeing of your fellow drivers (not to mention pedestrians, cyclists, etc.).

This is not a matter of education, age, or maturity, it's manners. It's saying "please," and "thank you." It's parenting yourself if your actual parents didn't teach you. I'm not sure any of that can be chalked up to surmounting ego. "Ego" is just an excuse and probably not based on actual psychological concepts anyway.

the main motivation for smart people may easily become "ego" and showing off code that may look clever and supporting a lot more use cases but most likely it did not need to be written, wasting time and adding unnecessary complexity with the risk of introducing cognitive overload.

"Very smart?" ;)
I've used this for some time on a yeelong hosting my personal website dank.systems (currently down due to an issue with the colo). The base system is in excellent working order, though some of the ports are broken on loongson in my experience.
thanks for mentioning this library - looks great, I will have to try it out !
Top Chinese Cities for AI Development: Beijing Ranks №1
The brain-heart dialogue shows how racism hijacks perception
> “I’m a dev and am too important to be paged”

Also sounds too important to be dev.
Yeah, it's crazy to witness solidarity amongst people supporting democratic ideals in the age of the troll farm.
Since vaping flower is similar to smoking flower I would think that the problem lies in the unregulated juice that black markets provide. I haven’t heard of any cases of legal carts being the causes but they haven’t been all that forthcoming with the sources.
Apparently I misremembered slightly: it's actually width + 2 x length + 2 x height.

That link doesn't seem to explain the why, but my understanding is that it's just a decent heuristic for the general difficulty of handling packages as they go through the system. Volume wouldn't be appropriate, because a really long, skinny box is harder to handle than a cube of the same volume.
Wasm is not sandboxed. Wasm is simply another standard way of writing instructions that can be platform independent. Wasm has no standard library software for sandboxing. Sandboxing is entirely dependent upon software implimenting execution of wasm instructions. Very few do this, there are fewer from reputable sources that do it without a JavaScript engine, and none that put sandboxing first.
I am using actually using Netlify now for a few apps, though they still connect to a single Laravel backend on DigitalOcean at this point.
A thread from 2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7629396
Commissioning and procurement have changed a lot here in Germany, accompanied by stricter and even nonsense regulations regarding for example disguised employment (Scheinselbstaendigkeit), a problem even in other jurisdictions (IR35 in GB for example).

As I wrote, I don't know the current situation in the US well enough to deduce more than guesswork from it. Here, at least, it has a great impact on someone's choice of the right organizational form. Cooperatives are not out of the question, but you have to consider some newer factors to do it right.
Calcium could replace lithium in batteries that store solar and wind power
> Those aren't Chinese punctuation characters.

I know, I meant the actual ones you wrote above.

> I'm confused why SDL_TTF would go out of its way to avoid breaking there.

SDL_TTF doesn't break at all. If you have a long Chinese text which uses proper punctuation characters, it would never break, because it only breaks on ASCII whitespace.

I wanted to avoid breaking lines in the middle of a word, so I added extra "regular" space characters to force breaking the line.
This is not entirely true as of C# 7.2. That version of the language adds "ref structs" - which can only be allocated on the stack and cannot be boxed [1].

This requires some care though, as the struct may still be copied needlessly if it is not also marked as `readonly` [2].

[1] - https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/mazhou/2018/03/02/c-7-serie...
[2] - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/write-safe-ef...
Since smokers use health services much less than non-smokers, your view is that non-US governments should encourage smoking then?
Amazon; thanks. I got my threads crossed.
uhmmmm

okay. I think my compute instances could handle that. the way I pay for them (heroku) usually results in underutilized resources which could accommodate this level of computation.
> this isn’t what Kubernetes is really for.

i'm guessing that writing dyson in Nim is a tacit acknowledgement of that: if this were something geared toward production ecosystems, it would be in golang like kubernetes? although there is the helm luafication, so perhaps dyson is part of a fringe of non-golang k8s auxilliaries.

another way to implement this is with a 'static CMS' where there are still static pages except built into a situated deploy. the 'cultish' (cultic? anyway) aspect of k8s appears to be to phrase all the things in terms of k8s constructs rather than using k8s constructs as a foundation and abstracting out.

i learned about 'rollout' from the CI portion of this post, although initial attempts to search for a comprehensible description of it fail.
Estimates of Bitcoin's energy consumption are around 73 TWh annually.[1]

The global annual consumption for 2017 was 21,372 TWh. [2]

While Bitcoin's energy consumption is notable, it accounts for nowhere close to half of the world's electricity usage, but rather about 0.3% of it.

1. https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption

2. https://www.iea.org/statistics/electricity/
Does the iOS App Store mention if an app uses trackers?
Juul 'ignored law' in US e-cigarette adverts
Not really... it's more of a rate-limiting mechanism than a Turing test.

It's only really efficient for computers to solve hash functions, and not humans.
Hello There, I'm the owner of this repo.
So nice that has ended here somehow.
Gonna answer the upper quests...

- Do you ever find that the Garbage Collector causes noticeable pausing in the emulator?

The GC dosn't cause noticeable pausing on my setup. Even tho it could allocate less.

- Did you do this with 100% managed memory, or do you need to use unsafe code / real pointers?

In fact it was done without unsafe code or pointers till some of the latest commits. Where i switched to unsafe because performance reasons. On my setup that was arround 10 fps more.
Any idea how to do something similiar on Linux? I'm using Plasma 5 on Arch Linux and from time to time I'm seeing mysterious hangs (seconds to minutes) on the Plasma UI - CPU profiling is probably useless and for me it looks like perf record is just way to broad and the hangs are not due to CPU churning but probably something else (scheduler or locks - I have no idea), I'm not a dev but it would be nice to be able to at least produce a proper bug report and searching the root cause.
What does it cost you on your tax coding though, its not free
I've done this recently, I followed(ish) [1], and [2] recipes, but modified them for buster.

I'd write it up, but I'm way to lazy^Wbusy right now.

[1] https://markuta.com/how-to-build-a-mips-qemu-image-on-debian...

[2] https://www.aurel32.net/info/debian_mips_qemu.php
Thomas Piketty's new magnum opus published on Thursday
> But all the programs you listed and the eq. program are net transfers from rich (and less politically powerful [1]) to poorer provinces.

Provinces don't pay tax. People do. They're net transfers from rich people (regardless of where they live) to poorer provinces. It just so happens that Alberta has a high per-capita income these days (not always the case). That's not a bad problem to have.
Fukushima might provide some insight as to how likely it is a reactor would experience a "China Syndrome" where a meltdown occurs and forms a mass that is hot enough to break through the containment systems in place through to groundwater and etc.

Fukushima was not a modern reactor with fewer safeties than most modern systems and even there with an uncontrolled meltdown the "China Syndrome" did not occur. The fuel fused to the sand at the bottom and stopped.

I'm not an industry professional but I suspect Fukushima may indicate that the likelihood of a "China Syndrome" type event is less likely than was previously thought.
This sounds like a good tradeoff. Perhaps this could be added to future versions of TS with a flag, if it's not already in there.
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JPMorgan has created a 'Volfefe Index' to track how Trump's tweets move markets
The Rock ’N’ Roll Casualty Who Became a War Hero(2013)
A lot of our north is what is known as the Canadian Shield. It's very bad to develop on, and global warming will only do a little bit to improve that.
Anyone would say they are glad to have the ability to wear headphones when they want to. To be forced to all day just to stay sane? Degrading.
Hope you're also flagging the tons of other non-technical articles that show up hourly on the front page.
Ambients – Peer-to-Peer Programs and Data
Agreed, I found The Indicator via Planet Money and have really enjoyed that too. Another of my favorites is "Smashing Security", which is computer security focused, but it is more infotainment. It is on the longer side though, where the NPR ones above are much shorter.
> I am quite surprised that the Chinese have allowed the crony capitalism that the Hong Kong Government system is based on to continue unabated.

Eh? You have a similar crony capitalist system in mainland China, don't you.

And the understanding in HK is that there is sort of tacit "gentlemen's agreement" between Beijing and the HK elites:

Beijing doesn't interfere too much with the rich and powerful in HK and their (continued) ability to rake in money, while those rich and powerful refrain from supporting or advocating for more democracy etc. In other words, both sides are pretty interested in the continuation of the status quo.
They currently have a small and changing dataset. These are news articles, not peer-reviewed scientific papers. When researchers publish datasets it’s to back up conclusions that they’ve made based on the data, and in this case they haven’t reached conclusions. Implying otherwise to the public would be irresponsible.
In Kyoto half the population of the entire metro area lives within city limits. In a comparably sized American city like Philadelphia it might be a quarter. Or you might have something like Atlanta, with a city that has 1/3 as many people as Kyoto in a metro area that has twice as many.

The net result is that a good subway system in Kyoto can serve a majority of the metro population, while that is not true for Philadelphia or Atlanta. (That is true even though Kyoto is not particularly dense--closer in Atlanta to density than to Philadelphia.)
Evading Machine Learning Malware Classifiers
We Might Not Be Working - WeWhoosh
I think it's instructive to consider bronze. To make bronze you need copper, which is very common, and tin, which isn't. Tin was only mined in a small handful of locations around the world: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tin_sources_and_trade_in_ancie...

So from that, it's clear to see that extensive trading networks were necessary for these civilizations, not just for luxuries like exotic herbs and spices, but their basic industrial needs.
A nicotine patch doesn’t signal how cool you are and doesn’t allow you blow sick clouds behind the high school.
There's usually codemods you fan run to help with updating, and there are tools that add suppression warnings in places that error, which you can run after the upgrade. There's also a tool that removes unused suppressions.
Important followup: "Am I allowed local unconstrained root without a usually-performance-killing daemon interfering with my work?"

At a few places, I experimented with running Windows. Every time, the Windows machine came with Bit9 or some other performance-killing compatibility-breaking security "solution" that made the system unusable. Windows is a great operating system. What IT departments do to Windows turns it into a nightmare.

These same places all had a much lighter touch on Linux VMs, desktops, and laptops, so clearly the invasive "security product" mindset was just contained to the Windows (and in one instance, macOS) groups.
> I'm not sure where the impression that it's easy to find a tech job comes from.

A lot of it is just the usual Internet bragging mixed with the “shortage of engineers” meme that just wont die. Everyone can get a new job in 7 days, just like they all make $250k, drive Porsche 911 GT3s, and have supermodel partners. It’s just part of the Hacker News zeitgeist.

Now back to the real world, my experience is close to yours. My last job took 1.5 years to find, with about 100 applications sent, 10 phone screens, 3 companies seriously interviewing, and 1 offer. So you’re not doing too bad, really.
Worth mentioning: https://github.com/PostgREST/postgrest
“...Moreover, while soldiers do in fact have to work in difficult physical conditions in action, doctors don't.
And I am not even sure what death on itself has to do with it. Conditions of encountering it are incredibly different in both professions.”

Try working in an inner city ER at night when it can often feel very similar to a war zone. Instead of sandbags and soldiers with rifles we’re surrounded by bulletproof glass and police officers.
Google Web Server
pytest has has python 3.5+ support for a while, even 4.0.0 supported it: https://pypi.org/project/pytest/4.0.0/ . although the recent pytest changes are well worth picking up!
> They are sequences of _scalar values_ (all scalar values are code points but surrogate code points are not scalar values). Exposing the scalar value length and exposing indexability by scalar value index is the same as "(guaranteed-valid) UTF-32 semantics".

Sorry. I'm shocked that I tested wrong when researching the article. Python 3 indeed has code point semantics and not scalar value semantics. I've added a note to the article that I've edited in corrections accordingly.

Python 3 is even more messed up than I thought!
Google, Facebook Face Multiple Risks from New State Probes
If you take a look at the studies you'll find old data has issues because of changes in how hurricanes were measured. Hurricanes are now monitored by satellites. Many of them are short lived and never seen by a ship or other system that would record it. Data collection prior to satellites would not have observed these.

A good resource can be found at https://www.gfdl.noaa.gov/global-warming-and-hurricanes/. They talk about normalizing the data and look at the impact of global warming on hurricanes. Numerous studies are quoted.
The Rise of Phantom Investments
Out of curiosity, what is it that you like about Python 2? Not attacking you, just curious. I've never used Python professionally (mostly Ruby and Clojure), so I don't have a horse in this race.
I don't understand the question, likely because I'm not a programmer. Do you mean handle types it represents, or does it show handles from sub-processes? I've found the content to be the same as I get from handle.exe from Russinovich. So using handle -s to get a summary, my system shows this - I would think all would be represented in Procexp:

C:\WINDOWS\system32>handle -s

Nthandle v4.21 - Handle viewer
Copyright (C) 1997-2018 Mark Russinovich
Sysinternals - www.sysinternals.com

Handle type summary:
ALPC Port : 1437
Composition : 19
CoreMessaging : 10
Desktop : 16
Directory : 100
DxgkSharedResource: 2
DxgkSharedSyncObject: 1
EtwConsumer : 1
EtwRegistration : 1012
Event : 3591
File : 889
FilterCommunicationPort: 8
FilterConnectionPort: 9
IoCompletion : 1429
IoCompletionReserve: 63
IRTimer : 123
Job : 229
Key : 808
Mutant : 61
Partition : 3
PcwObject : 4
Process : 2540
RawInputManager : 63
Section : 1705
Semaphore : 1512
Session : 56
SymbolicLink : 369
Thread : 734
Timer : 81
TmRm : 26
TmTm : 13
Token : 979
TpWorkerFactory : 61
WaitCompletionPacket: 1846
WindowStation : 22
Total handles: 19822
> I just want to keep using Python 2.

Honestly curious as to why you would prefer to stay behind?