skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not everyone finds eye masks comfortable. Different people respond differently to all kinds of stimuli, so "now it is not a problem" is not necessarily true. My wife can't sleep without an eye mask and earplugs, even at home. My daughter can't abide either. Some people can't stand the vibration on a plane, even if they can block out noise. Some people find the seats unbearable. Suggestions are great, but assuming people haven't already heard them or that their outcome would be the same isn't particularly helpful. It comes across as preemptively dismissing other concerns they might have.
No money for small companies, only for scale-ups.
It's definitely a lot harder than in the USA. As a consequence companies often opt not to hire engineers directly if they want more flexibility but instead go through third party companies to contract developers (the infamous "SSII"). It's more expensive but you can get rid of them basically whenever you want.

I generally in favor of the French model (over, say, the American one) but I do think that in this case it's probably a bit overprotective for certain more privileged jobs. A software developer these days shouldn't have too much trouble finding a new job if they get fired, I wouldn't mind trading some of that social security for higher pay for instance.
The big advantage of using raw audio is that there's an abundance of data (all the music that's ever been released pretty easily scraped from the internet), whereas "semantic" data is rare, expensive and of lower quality (as in: not as good/catchy). The best solution is probably to extract the semantic representation from raw/pcm form. (Incidentally, I'm working on this very problem. Anyone interested, feel free to contact me)
A Defense of Stallman
You are absolutely right that you could recreate a similar environment to Lambda in Docker. But you would first need to reverse engineer Lambda's environment to discover how it is actually configured and the limits that are set.

Even if you did find a way, you would still need to keep it up to date in case AWS decides to update that environment.
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+1 ! Really good depiction of Station F in your last sentence.
I’ve had fun building software for 30+ years.
My advice would be to:

1. Find a small place, 2-3 developers.
2. Who make critical software for the business.
3. Frankly, not web software.

I know,this sounds like “Eat what I eat and you’ll be as tall as I am.” but think about it.
Gene name errors are widespread in the scientific literature (2016)
It's not dark matter because it blocks light. It's dark matter because its only observable interaction is by gravity.

So aside from being perfect in terms of energy capture so that the underlying stars emit absolutely no EM at any frequency, the proposed Dyson spheres would also need to be completely transparent to any background EM such as visible light picked up by sensors like Hubble.
> they got focus group feedback from millennials they found that most of them didn't want to sit next to a stranger while dining

That's... surprising. The trend in "cantine-style" restaurants is still going strong, isn't it?
A paper that actually talks about the algorithm and a quote that sums it up

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1811.02035.pdf

> The basic maze generating routine had been partially written by a stoner who had left. I contacted him to try and understand what the maze generating algorithm did. He told me it came upon him when he was drunk and whacked out of his brain, he coded it up in assembly overnight before he passed out, but
now could not for the life of him remember how the algorithm worked.’
>>>This assumes that men can only congregate in "spaces" which exclude women, which is obviously untrue.

While male-exclusive bonding isn't men's ONLY option/method, it most definitely yields different results than any gender-integrated environment. Anyone who has spent time in an all-male combat arms unit can attest to this.

>>>That such spaces have declined should have no effect on the ability of men to congregate and form relationships with one another.

Should we eliminate female-only spaces as well? If not, why? A subsection of feminists have fought to keep bathrooms exclusive to biological females. Why does the Girl Scouts still exist if the Boy Scouts has been gender-integrated? Women must be deriving some sort of bonding utility out female-exclusive zones. Why shouldn't men also have such options?
Literally the only other thing to maintain with a Fargate service is what container you run your tasks with. If you have a Nodejs app, use the public Nodejs container. If the container version ends up with a vulnerability, bump the version in the task definition, and do a rolling restart. This isn't some onerous, complex task that only the most cunning sysadmin can fathom. If that alone is what causes somebody to run Serverless I don't think they understand all the other complications that come with it.
Your comment just underscores the religious devotion that alarmists have to their shaky hypothesis that the world faces imminent doom at the hands of man-made climate change.

The sea level has been rising for over 20,000 years. Just to give you perspective on the changes since the Halocene era began, here's more documented evidence for you to snark about: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_Holocene_sea_level_ris...

This shows 20K years of sea level rise since the end of the last glacial period. Numerous centuries in that time contain more rapid sea level rise than present. So, all of that hundreds of feet of rise for the past 20 millenia were natural...except for the past few dozen centimeters of rise? That's all man-made? Give me a break.

It's really frustrating when history deniers like you try to act like you're more educated than the people you're debating when you have a huge gap in your knowledge.
BTS/DUC are technical diplomas, BAC+2 means (I think) they are 2 years of study after "high school"/"leaving cert" (the BAC)

You go work for a smaller company because they will hire you (and it will probably be more technical and less politics than the main companies)

All the main companies are headquartered in Paris (region) with some exceptions.
I think sitting with a large group of people cantina style is much easier as you’re one in a big crowd. One couple having to sit at a four-person table with just one other random couple? That’s very awkward.
Found one: https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51wlkk6uOCL...

I believe it's marketed also as "anti electromagnetic interference."
Oh and we are a few discoveries away from receiving huge amount of alien spams...
Types of APIs
28.8Kbps dialup was a different time. I think teletext holidays were popular then.
weird- my observation is that people who "get ahead" (into middle management) tend to be unconcerned with what they say at the lunch table (unless someone two+ levels in attending).

In fact they are often highly inappropriate because it will lead others to say bad stuff, meaning gossip they can share with their chosen handler, who can then use that gossip against others to promote themselves and bring their lackey along for the ride.

Maybe we've worked in different environments. :)
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> I'd like to say that he forces nobody and so we should not complain about his creative endeavors.

He doesn't do it explicitly but implicitly by designing Systemd in such a way that it can't be replaced by another init system.

> The market will decide, and you, will decide.

It used to be this way. Then at some point folks at Debian faced a difficult decision: we either don't include SysV Init, or we don't include Gnome since it depends on Systemd. From this point on things ran downhill and here we are fully trapped in Systemd, with rare exceptions confirming the rule.

These days, if someone wants to break away from Systemd (like Knoppix did recently), you need an enormous effort.
No.
It depends on the IoT application. The one I'm involved with (smart metering) produces data at regular 15 minute periods 24/7.

This is a very predictable and constant traffic load and not at all suitable for serverless/lambda.

In fact, its the complete opposite.

Many IoT applications are very predictable (anything with regular sensor-readings for example or with repeatable patterns such as people returning from work and turning things on).
Please stop the FUD, or point to an example of a software dev getting contacted about their software being used by a third party to exploit children
Could you give an example?

The most popular trust-creation mechanism for adults seems to be getting drunk together, which reliably leads to little infractions, which every witness has the choice to exploit or not. The latter option engenders trust.

"I don't trust someone that I didn't get drunk with" is a sentiment I've heard repeatedly, both privately and professionally. The most successful startup that I worked for even asked "What's your favourite beer?" when they interviewed me for a programmer position, and when I asked by this was of interest, they said they took their after work drinking sessions pretty seriously, and "don't want to work with people they can't have fun with".
As somebody who doesn't enjoy being drunk, this was difficult for me to adapt to.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_(web_browser)
If that's the case why does he feel the need to lie about it? Why should I believe anything that he says now? I don't like being lied to- not by my government, and not by Mr. Snowden.

If he had noble intentions he took the worst possible route through this minefield.
That's under the assumption that the economy continues to function normally with a completely destroyed marine ecosystem.
Kyndi’s secret sauce is a decades-old programming language called Prolog
A parent or even school system in a rural state couldn't buy them at all. If you weren't one of their projects, you didn't matter. Their G1G1 was just rubbing salt.
He really needs to setup a monero/bitcoin wallet for which we can donate to.
How did you replace a site that needed rds with s3? Was it a blog that you moved to Jekyll or something?
Agreed with parent and gp. I gave up with the 10 questions, as the sentence comparisons were almost comically incomparable. I fear your model is going to be a random number generator.
Uhhh that assumes alien life has the same intent as current us. Intelligent alien life may just as well have explored a lot, figured "meh..." and build a few Dyson spheres to spend the rest of their existence in a perfectly pleasing simulation.

People already get sucked up by Warcraft and not even 100 years after computers made their breakthrough we fiddle around with haptic dual-4K VR.
The original article can be described as "standard spiel that your old cranky uncle writes in their FB page"?
Writing fantasy novels, fitness programs, games and travel reviews?
Transgenic mosquitoes pass on genes to native species
Yeah but with the used police cars, you might have relatively low mileage (compared to the lifespan of the car) but you might have tens of thousands of hours of curb miles with it just sitting there idling 8+ hours a day 5+ days a week.

I'd personally never buy one, they seem like they'd end up being a money pit with the only benefit being cheap OEM parts because they're common fleet vehicles.
Guide on how to write good proposals for software engineers
I lament this copy/pasting mindset myself but on the other hand we still haven't found a decent alternative to the American model for startups it seems. Maybe we haven't been looking hard enough.

Some of those copy/pasted companies (Criteo, Blabla car, Vente Privée...) actually managed to be quite successful.

As somebody who prefers to work at a lower level my main problem is that we've lost (or are rapidly losing) most of our savoir faire when it comes to the hardware side of things. Could we even make a competitive CPU from scratch in Europe anymore or are we doomed to integrate American and Chinese IPs and ICs? What are the security risks if we just run "black box" foreign-made chips? Can we really trust Intel and AMD all the way for our critical infrastructures?
FDIC deposit insurance coverage limit is $250,000 per depositor, per FDIC-insured bank, per ownership category.

https://www.fdic.gov/deposit/covered/categories.html
> it was the SIF clause that allowed them to block the deal

Not that I know of. The SIF didn't have any ownership of Dailymotion anymore. Their shares had been bought by Orange.

Montebourg just said publicly he wouldn't let Orange sell, and it killed the deal.

Only slightly related: why do French startups need to take State money? Because we have much less private investment, in part due to our social model. We don't have many pension funds because most of the retirement system is state-owned, we have few private universities because the best part of the higher education is state-owned... So basically we have no LPs.
I use the Dvorak layout, been using it for 20 years or more
Most of these are for education and not real work.
> Recently i bought a used EeePC 701 from eBay for a few dollars...

That's the nice thing about those netbooks still - they're available used for a few bucks (a lot less than $100!) often in very good condition, and a mainstream Linux distribution will run fine on them, even booting from SD card storage (which a lot of modern hardware will fail at)! Sure, you do need 1GB RAM and quite a few gigs of storage space, so the original eeePC 700 series is a no go, but everything else in that class works reasonably well.

We do see projects like pmOS that aim to do pretty much the same thing for modern mobile devices (tablets and smartphones), but the difficulties there are huge due to all the bespoke hardware - there's just no comparison.
i just like how 'dark web' turned into 'Tor' at some point :'). there's tons of others... :s guess ppl forgot
If you've got issues that are this particular then I think you just have to accept that an economy-fare ticket is not going to give you the privacy you want and you're going to be uncomfortable. You may have some genuine unique issue making it impossible to sleep with the blind up but someone else may have some genuine unique issue making it impossible to sleep with the blind down. If people have needs this specific you are never going to find a compromise, are you.
It's still a market where companies can decide which projects to fund and developers can decide which projects to work on.
Lambda is the recommended way to host an Alexa Skill:

https://developer.amazon.com/docs/custom-skills/host-a-custo...
> May be decades before we find out.

You mean just like in the US?
A platform where everybody can create a rapidly growing monetized media resource
> some potential buyers were dubious of anything that wasn’t Microsoft Windows. They wanted students to learn an interface they’d be using for the rest of their lives

Haven’t found a screenshot of Sugar OS in the article, but I assume it’s not that different conceptually? Still files, apps, windows?
Redhat certainly didn't force systemd on anybody. People liked it enough that they started using it in their distros too.
Individual Contributor I believe, ie someone who doesn’t have direct reports
This article is mostly about the release schedule of music (TLDR: one song at a time, once every few months), saying very little about how the actual music has changed. For more on this, music journo Liz Pelly has written a lot about what she calls "Spotify-core", a new-ish genre of music which works as both background and foreground music. https://thebaffler.com/downstream/streambait-pop-pelly
I meant server side, not client side. I can also install browser plugins, but that does not help.
The advantage is quality of life. Paris is expensive, noisy, not always clean or safe.

BTS/DUT are short higher education degrees that focus on practical and professional skills, with selective admission (but not as selective as actual engineering schools).
Basically in France you have: Grandes Ecoles ("great schools"), elite engineering schools that operate outside of the university system; you also have selective 2 or 3-year degrees inside high schools and universities (BTS, DUT, etc.) and then you have the universities. Where post-graduate degrees can sometimes be decent but undergraduate tends to be crap, and its pretty much a zoo or a jungle outside of STEM (fortunately, French universities tend to separate STEM campus from other disciplines filled with political activists).
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Good point - if we are able to detect gas clouds, we would be likely able to detect such swarms as well simply by all the blocked light.
Nit pick: Bill Gates achieved his mission of a computer in every household long before iPhone. Jobs just changed the paradigm to a computer in every pocket.
Environmental apocalypse predictions have failed for half a century
Uh Google is one of the most obvious examples of a company spending a ton of money to boost the non-financial rewards of being an employee. In fact, Google is one of the best examples of this research being applied successfully in the real world...

I don't think you have a very open mind in this discussion. People who aren't struggling to pay their bills prioritize things like autonomy, happiness and purpose above cash all the time.
> Its not a competition.

No one said it was, and nothing said detracts from SV. I think it's an interesting question I wouldn't have otherwise thought about. Fifty years from now will China be talking about the same environmental issues we're talking about now? Will it be better or worse?
My story telling preference is little-endian and the type of exchange you’ve just described drives me bonkers
Why not then have lambda run the same container you can run and test locally?

I don't use lambda but we have our jenkins spin up the same ec2 to run tests that we would spin up to do development so that we never run into this problem.
Would we hear it even with simple on/off keyed modulation even? The distances are so vast that even a directional link with anything but our nearest neighborhood seems unfeasible. We should have met a von neuman probe though.
DailyMotion can be a strategic asset for a country like France. E.g. if they project a steep decline of broadcast TV and a YouTube monopoly, having a French-controlled video streaming alternative laying around may become important in the case of a USA-EU "cold war".
The chances for this scenario may be very slim, but countries at the level of France would want a contingency plan anyway.
I literally defined capitalism for you. I meant exactly what I said. As for state-capitalism, it is not some archaic historical revisionist concept, it has roots all the way back to the beginnings of Bolshevism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_capitalism
This says nothing about future predictions.

Only that these past predictions have failed.
Could you explain why relays should be stable servers?
I'd say not only the code needs to be local, but it can't make synchronous requests on the network at all until you've completed a task.

One of the underappreciated things about such productive software which enables it to be used without looking is predictable reaction times. Consider the "amazing data entry" video posted elsewhere in the thread, or good old feature-phones. If you have an action that you perform frequently, the key to learning how to do it without looking is to learn how quickly you can feed the input, where do you have to wait for it to be processed, and how long it takes.

It's one of the things I still miss about my last feature-phone (Sony Ericsson K800i). I could do a lot with it without even taking it out of my pocket, because I committed to muscle memory sequences like "up arrow, up arrow, OK, wait half a second, down arrow x3, OK, OK, exit". There's no way I could do this with an Android phone, because input and processing delays are random. Similarly, on the web, if your action shoots out a network request, it can complete anywhere between half a second and half a minute. You can't do actions like these without looking because there's a non-zero chance a delay will mess it up.
Smalltalk is improv. It's yes... and. You take turns with the hot potato. You take your turn and then pass it. It's creating a story. Take whatever what was passed to you, add something quirky and then pass it back. It's fun to add something off the wall, a bit ridiculous.

Doing this takes courage. You WILL make mistakes. At times, you may cringe at yourself. Putting yourself out there, taking small risks is the spice of life. When you fail, embrace it and move on. Don't look back.

If you smile and keep a bright attitude, then that becomes infectious. If showing up is 90%, then the right attitude is showing up. The quickest way to screw this up is to be toxic.

Advanced mode is keeping that positive attitude (don't forget the smile) even when you're feeling attacked. If you can't bear it, then keep a number of exit strategies in your bag of tricks and pull one of them. You have to get going. Someone is expecting you. You need to take a call, etc. If you choose to stay, then you have to stay deft and keep the air light. Don't let someone pin you down into a corner where you have to defend yourself. Continue keeping things light and a bit ridiculous and the air will change. You might even gain some respect.
Have you even read the links you posted:

>He cannot quite make the blanket claim that there are no protections for contractors, but he may have been correct in believing that there appear to be no clear protections, especially from retaliation.

And if you looked at the dates in the third link, you would notice they are from after the leaks.

I would recommend you to read https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/ex-us-official-re...
I think you missed the joke!
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I need a new notebook for work. Running ubuntu.
At least 32GB RAM and LTE. Are there any out there that are not designed for gamers, eg. thin and solid like the ThinkPad's?
It would be an act of war against the UK.
Not at all, it was a rather funky radial menu.

I have no idea why it wasn't just a customised version of something like xfce, lxqt and what have you.
I don't think I'm understanding your question, and maybe I haven't laid down the situation fully.

My company is a Windows shop, and nearly everyone who isn't a developer (so nearly my entire internal customer base) does not have Python installed.

I want to be able to send over single file executables that have everything they need. I don't want to have to think about using pip, or distributing wheels, or making sure they have internet access, or if they have admin or not. And as internal tools, I can afford to deal with relatively large file sizes.

For example, I have a lot of tools that need numpy and scipy to accomplish their goals.

That all said, Gooey + PyInstaller typically does a good job at solving my problems.
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What Snowden made me realize, is that how all countries in the world are fighting for a buck, and their own interest. It's difficult to understand what is at stake because there is a duality between the peacefulness of civilized life, and the distrust between countries, even when they're allies, which we call diplomacy. Civilian life is structured by law, but there are no courts to sue countries when they harm each other.

Snowden highlighted a trivial fact, which is that intelligence agencies will spy. Countries will fight for their self-interest. It's important to remember that countries can do whatever they want if the citizen see that it's in their interest.

Snowden just reminded us to always keep Machiavel in mind. That's how nations operate, and I don't think the UN will change this. It goes for terrorism, oil, climate change, standard of living, electronics, trade. If something is not in the interest of a country, it will probably be dismissed.