skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why not balance the usage with moderation that works for you? I would always catch myself picking up the phone randomly and checking Facebook even if I didn't plan to. I decided this was bad and it was distracting me from experiencing the world and spending time with my family in the evening. So I removed FB from my phone. I check FB once or twice a day for a few minutes on my laptop during work and that's all. It works for me. I stay in touch with some friends and at the same time, I am not addicted to checking it over and over again on my phone throughout the day. Has anyone else tried the same?
They only allowed the one with the computer algebra system? How strange.
Depending on how they model the simulation's fields, long range intra-atomic forces, and boundary conditions, I'd still say this kind of molecular dynamic simulation is better than doing nothing and waiting to simulate the whole nucleus. It could have accounted for these sorts of effects in a way that is cruder than whole nucleus simulation, but I haven't read any papers about this simulation.
And people wonder why twitter is popular for politics.
> Maybe people are upset that stereotyping machines are being given harder powers to make consequential decisions about individuals.

Then these people should argue against AI instead of swinging the racism cudgel.
Which api backend shold one use for the books data?
The obvious choice is Amazon, but maybe there are different, better data sources available?
Any insights into better book apis?
Maybe it is just me, but I have never had a job or contract that didn't have some boring component.
Does anyone else get the feeling these shareholders are shooting themselves in the foot by wasting Elon's time with this lawsuit? Or is it that this is fueled by a competitor? Sure it's not great if Elon used his power/influence to push the Solar city transaction, but Elon has created and will continue to create so much value for shareholders, surely it's in everyone's best interest to let him focus on building better products instead of distracting him with this noise?
To begin with: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Register_of_Citizens_...

These are live pictures of the camp being built: https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/assam-detention-centre-insid...

The ruling government has promised a nation wide building of such camps. Including in Mumbai, India's financial capital: https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/after-assam-citizens-list-pl...

Also there is this bill will be almost assuredly passed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizenship_Amendment_Bill_201...

This is very similar to the Reich Citizenship Law. Which will first disenfranchise people, and then when they are stripped of citizenship. They are free to immigrate wherever they like(Which is basically nowhere, given most will be poor and no one will take them), or they can work till death in the labor camps, or.. oh well. The Holocaust.
In the U.S. we already tried to institutionalize racial discrimination. From reading the history, I think that "too much political correctness" is preferable to "separatist paramilitary groups and city police departments having shooting wars in my neighborhood."
If you dont know already:

Azure has started investing heavily in offloading the task from CPU to GPU and FPGA. There are really good framework on .NET to achieve the same.

NVIDIA CUDA GPU - https://devblogs.nvidia.com/hybridizer-csharp/

GPU scripting and CUDA - http://www.aleagpu.com/release/3_0_4/doc/

FPGA - https://hastlayer.com/project, https://netfpga.org/site/#/
It's much easier to reverse engineer the right steps once you know the correct answer.
At scale production numbers, the cost should be much lower than 3000. And for bikes that aren’t as sensitive to weight, cheaper heavier materials can be used.

I believe it can replace the chain in all but the lowest bikes. It will start expensive, but so did many other technologies we now see on common priced bikes.
I see that as a downside, personally. It makes it a lot harder to understand what guarantees there are about with a given piece of code (rather than being able to look at the assembly and the language's own compiler, you would have to also understand C's rather odd semantics and the complex behaviour of many C compilers).
This.

One of the core tasks of the contemplative lifestyle (which can certainly be practiced outside of monasteries) is to be awakened from all of the things we think we need and desire. These are usually the things that the (societally constructed) ego needs to feel secure and comfortable - hence so many contemplative traditions stress the importance of "dying to yourself". This is not 'negative' or even necessarily introverted - in fact, dealing with the insecurities that you have inherited from the expectations of the society around you can make you comfortable both alone and with people. There is no need to impress anyone; no need to feel insecure or alone; you're at peace with yourself and the world.

The contemplative tradition has a lot to teach our world - no manner of scientific or technological progress is going to help us before we're comfortable with being ourselves.
The opposition being dumb/timid doesn't make you right.

>> It is just that the government now seems unable to round
out the rather substantial problems that have come to light.

This is the key. In the hype/fervour these were ignored and those who were pointing it were ridiculed.

To paraphrase Boromir, One doesn't simply tinker with the economy.

Yes you may brute force/propagandize your way (again) out of this, but in the end, the people have to bear it. And they still support the very people who inflict this damage which I cannot fathom why. It cuts across economic/class hierarchy.
I quit for a year. Then figured I’d just use facebook for the bits that work for me: local sales, peloton and fitness groups. My deal is no friends, not even my wife. No posting about me, just the group, just helping/commenting where it feels healthy for both me and the group.
That Joe Rogan video linked in the article has some super questionable statistics and misleading graphs (which are then described badly for the podcast listeners leaving out "details" such as "there are only three data points but they still drew a line through them").

Not that the thing they're talking about might not be a real effect, but holy hell
Paging mileac: the tmux cockpit (*) is down and my productivity is suffering

http://cockpit.27ae60.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15432986
It probably isn't, given that social media is intentionally designed to be addictive, while tinkering with things (code in your case) isn't.
Just because you spend a large amount of time on something that doesn't mean you're addicted to it. We shouldn't really throw that around willy-nilly. If your hobby isn't detrimental to your life, you're fine.
What I fundamentally dislike about RMS' philosophy and the licenses its inspired, is that it values a developers time as nothing. As if the world has some fundamental right to everything that rolls out of my head.
Today I learned: the word "blanket" also refers to duvets. I always thought the word means the single-layered sheet you of material you e.g. wrap yourself in when it's cold, or put on top of a duvet for extra warmth.
When asked why she is incoherent, he replied: “How the hell do I know?” When chastised for cursing he said: “Well I don't care, ya stupid-ass questions you're asking.”

It's my understanding that some people are particularly sensitive to cursing and aggressive language, while others don't really care much. When we read something like the above, both our worlds collide. The language sensitive people will relate with the dispatcher, while others will think what the hell, because it seems that she was not listening to what was being said, but rather focusing on how it was said.

In society it's each person's responsibility to be civil and courteous, but emergency dispatchers should not expect this from callers. Not everybody is polite, but everyone deserves to expect help when they call for it, regardless of the way they talk. Emergency response is not customer service, where you can just tell a client that you'll have to drop them because they berated one of the phone clerks and that's against company policy.

I'm not playing devil's advocate for bullies, nor saying that people who hate swearing shouldn't do certain jobs. But I believe that if the work is to be a public respondent to emergency situations, maybe learning to not take things so personally should be part of the training.
How is working for a corporation-backed startup like?
What's it like working in a "startup" that's a decade old and with a large corporation as a parent company? This specific one I'm looking at has like 150 employees, not sure if they're profitable.

Based on experience working in startups, I like the flexibility in hours and lax dress code, don't care but don't mind having stock options, and can put up with certain ways of working like 1-2 week sprints, agile...

But have also learned that I prefer a more "big monolith" culture - established processes, defined "SiLoEd" roles where you don't have to be the all-in-one handyman and job/paycheck stability (even at the cost of repeating the same formula of doing work over and over).

Sadly, the only startups that seem to offer that combination are profitable ones - seems like venture-backed, not-yet-profitable or acquired startups only offer chaos and last minute work.

Do startups with big corp parent companies come anywhere close or can they still be chaotic?
It's not driven at all by technology. It's driven by central banks with easy money, further fracturing the divide between the poor and ultra wealthy. Technology just allows you to see evil for what it is.
Same open source discussion again. I’ll try to explain short why it will never happen. Since FPGAs have applications outside hobbyist domain, things are getting complicated. There are lawyers involved, support contracts signed and vendors are liable for their silicon. Now imagine some open source toolchain is used and some problems occur. Who’s liable? No single vendor will invest a penny into something maintained by somebody else. No single manager on this world will allow me to use 3rd party tools without vendor’s support for €1M FPGA design. There is no business case for silicon vendor to open source anything. Maybe brave hackers will reverse engineer bitstream generation, but this knowledge will be used only among hackers and their friends. Personally I don’t see any advantage using these tools and writing this in my resume, because nobody will use them in industry anyway.
Thanks for the hint! I wrote this up a little more explicitly: http://kevinkle.in/jekyll/update/2019/09/23/breaking_pills.h...
Ah bless, I recall that (played at the time), I was fortunate to of had separate drives for programs and temp/swap to the OS and didn't have eve installed upon th C: drive, but knew many who didn't. That said, it was somebody who did the same kind of thing that tested the update and equally had no issue and it rolled out. Though fair play, they put their hands up fast and if needed, paid for peoples to get a tech to fix the issue for users who just gamed and unable to handle the minutiae of fixing themselves.
> the well-to-do educated class have simply stopped looking at the country as a whole

There is lot of misguided guilt-tripping that goes on in India. Misguided because it doesn't produce any outcomes.

I feel India is massive and most people including Indians don't realize how massive.

I worked on project a few years back, which required traveling around/studying just one district. That district alone had a population larger than Norway. And India has 700+ districts. Just think about that for a moment.

We might as well be talking about 700 countries when we talk about India. There are many districts doing really well and healthy and many on the other end of the spectrum. Whenever people talk about "India" as a whole they don't know what they are talking about. Get them to be specific about a district and the conversation gets much more productive.
It's tangential, but I hate sentences like:

> Dollar pays him a monthly salary of 12,000 rupees, or about $167, and provides lodging and some subsidized food.

It reads like it's supposed to illicit a 'Cor, just $167?' response, but what do I know of what $167 means to him? How hard would it be to include alongside it the retail cost of the underwear he's contributing to the manufacture of?
It's a level up, now it looks like a tool for processing ingredients rather then collecting the junk :)
FWIW, meatspace doesn't maintain social graphs and push notifications - in physical-world social interactions, you're responsible for holding the social graph in your head. Just like on HN :).
Have never called them anything else even in Russian. It's truly an iconic design.
You can start by providing link here. It might help.
> The government is planning a country wide citizenship register, on the same lines of Reich Citizenship Law, detention(concentration?) camps are already being built.

That's flase. This Government didn't "plan" NRC. It was actually supposed to happen as per the Assam Accord which was signed by Rajiv Gandhi in 1985. Successive Congress Governments didn't act on it due to vote bank politics.[1] It was finally implemented in 2013 when the Supreme Court directed the Government to do so.[2] The current leadership came into power in 2014.

1. https://m.economictimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/rajiv-g...

2. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Register_of_Citizen...
There's been a hell of a lot of manual labour like that throughout history. We should remember how lucky we are that we don't have to do that.
Absolutely. A 25 year old driver who passed their test a day before will pay much much smaller premium than a 20 year old driver who also just passed their test(even if the 20 year old driver already has 2 years of experience and no accidents their insurance will still be more expensive). I obviously don't have access to the actuarial data used by the insurance companies, but it's very easy to check this with many online insurance comparators.
Learning pandas really does feel like learning a new language - new syntax, idioms and implementation details to be aware of. Much more so than other libraries imo.

Given how utterly powerful it is, I think that's OK.

Not sure a large list of optional params (with good documentation) is a bad thing though.
Porting guide from Qt 1.0 to Qt 5.11
I suppose there's a subtle viewpoint difference. You see yourself "commenting on a piece of news". I (and presumably GP) see you socializing with the GP, the way you could casually socialize with a stranger on a bus stop.
previous conversation here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18855029
The Suit is back (2005)
Forgive me for asking a sort-off-offtopic question, but what's the reason terminals - and therefore the programs which run within them - offer such limited scope for ctrl-key usage. A lot of characters are not available for remapping, such as ctrl-numeric-digit, or ctrl-shift-anything etc. What's the root cause of this? Is it telnet related? ssh? And, assuming there's a compromise somewhere, would it be possible for the problem to be lifted with a config option which says "I'm using this shell locally on my chromebook - please don't inflict this 40 year old restriction on me"?
Which grim plans you're talking about?
> Western NGOs are not even remotely comparable

I'm not going to argue that point, but the west does have Hollywood. I don't know of a counter-force to that sort of culture-export engine. It is a powerful piece in the propaganda picture.
Yeah, that’s exactly what the behaviour sounded like to me too, having inadvertently done this to myself a few times over the years, and given that many autoupdaters run with root permission, it’s perfectly plausible.
look at vanilla forums, or discourse. i believe they fit.
Surely the implication is that what's inside is garbage. :P

(which, these days is mostly true, a single socket CPU on a workstation of that grade is a poor design choice)
> One can go and be anonymous in different platforms already, and if it is a really big concern, they can just evade social media altogether.

Anonymity is a hard requirement of free speech. Free speech is a hard requirement of democracy. Some topics can only be safely discussed under anonymity. Some opinions can only be expressed anonymously, especially today in the age of outrage cancel culture where angry mobs seek to shut down and de-platform any views they are opposed to.

Ultimately, de-platforming anonymous speech is a pretty heavy-handed form of censorship.

The tool to combat social media manipulation is education and promotion of critical thinking. Not censorship.
it already happened.

As usual, not trying to be prejudicial here, it happened in the U.S. where different 501(c)(3) formed to attract donation capital, but that actually have been an enemy of large part of the FSF community.

There can't be one strong FSF they want many small feuds, it's like greenwashing, open washing is happening, which, BTW, "misses the point of free software".

Look at what happened to Eben Moglen, a person that nobody can describe as harsh, impolite, unempathetic, creepy or whatever BS they are throwing now at RMS.

And still in 2017 he was declared "no longer a friend of the free software community" by mjg59.

Why?

Because Moglen expressed his lawyer opinion in a way that Garret did not like.

Garret works at Google, Moglen still offers pro bono legal representation at the Software Freedom Law Center, which he founded.

It's not hard to take parts for me.
> While RMS may have started with a great idea, I'm not sure he's super influential in actually making progress and writing software.

I had to re-read this to be sure it's not sarcasm. RMS has some of the largest footprints in software among the living people. How can one hold an opinion about his contribution and not be aware of that?
> emergency dispatchers should not expect this from callers

Why should emergency dispatchers not expect a civil working environment?

I do not condone the response of the emergency dispatcher here but I genuinely want to know why an emergency dispatcher must be required to withstand hostile behavior as part of their job?
Are not census and the Domesday book examples of 'citizenship registers' 'working'?
One doesn't need to be fancy for duvet covers - merely live in a country where the duvet is standard and the blanket is secondary.

United States: Duvets are fancy.
Norway: Common, everyday stuff.
And to further confuse people, the graphical interface is also called a shell.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_shell
There's also http://wiby.me, a search engine for finding lightweight pages and sites.
Yeah, I mean the contraption that identifies you at two points of a straight segment of a road and fines you if your average speed between the points exceeded the limit.

Sure, we should have a conversation on speed limits. I know some places use them as revenue sources, and this would have to disappear. But speed limits are sometimes (usually?) set for safety reasons too. And we can't move forward on getting the speed limits set to safety-optimal values while almost all drivers completely disregard them. This is one case when I'm supportive of metaphorically beating the drivers into submission, so that they start following the law, and traffic engineering can be done under assumption that people follow the law.
> we mean that it respects the users' essential freedoms: the freedom to run it, to study and change it, and to redistribute copies with or without changes

With open source but not "free" (sensu Stallman) software, one is free to run it and study it and change it, right? Since one has read permissions on the code. So the only difference is in distribution rights? So his sentence is misleading regarding the extent of the differences?
They work only as long as they don't use any garbage collected types (the compiler will warn you of this when you turn the GC off). Unfortunately this means most libraries are out, and you have to do your own thing. Turning the GC off is more meant as a way to use Nim on micro-controllers and for things like kernels and such. In this case many libraries that aren't written for this use-case doesn't really make sense to use anyways, so I'm not sure how big of an issue this is in reality.
I'm in the same boat. Recently quit LinkedIn too and am working on my github.io page for people to contact me for potential opportunities. Have no idea if it'll work out or not, in the long run but tbh, I feel a lot better not being on these sites than vice-versa. Just my 2c :)
this is happening in the west and is one of the reasons of a wave of authoritarian governments elected in a mostly democratic fashion, with a little bit of a stir from certain nation states psyops divisions.
No windows, but on Linux and MacOS, I use the package manager or brew to install a system Python3, from which I derive venvs
for basically all installations of new tools. I use one of the install flags to include the Python version in use in the prompt.

In addition, I use pyenv (pyenv) for development. I always install the newest Python version with eg `CONFIGURE_OPTS="--enable-optimizations" pyenv install 3.7.4` which IME consistently produces a ~10% faster Python compared to the various package managers. This makes it really simple to include in each project a `.python-version` file that tox will happily use to facilitate testing on multiple versions. As above, each project gets its own venv from the pyenv-based Python (I usually do the development using the most recent stable, but if you wanted to use a different version for the venv and development and just test against the most recent stable with tox that should also work).
Time to Step Up Your Microservices
For someone using i3 WM does Tmux offer any benefits?
Boeing to pay $144,500 to the families of the 346 victims of 737 MAX crashes
Any way to download those images before they get deleted ?
In my experience social justice equates to the opposite of treating people decently.
Hack
sfga
I don't know. The best idea I can think of today is to get rid of advertising-based business model (possibly through regulation) and have all news sites paywalled - but, and here's the trick - make money spent on news stories tax deductible, or even 100% reimbursable.

This preserves the market dynamics and keeps the government from controlling the press, while still effectively making the press government-funded, as it should be, because access to timely and accurate news is a public good.
Women Who Deserve to Be Way More Famous
I think that's wrong. Isn't Fortran's procedure/function distinction between things that return a value and things that don't, rather than between things without side effects and things that might have side effects? The latter is what Nim's func/proc distinction is about.

(Modern Fortran does have a pure keyword meaning "no side effects", but that wasn't there "since the beginning".)

[EDITED to add:] I checked in the Fortran 77 standard. The difference between a FUNCTION and a SUBROUTINE is just that the former returns a value and the latter doesn't; in the code for a FUNCTION you are absolutely allowed to do I/O, modify global variables, etc. Functions (and subroutines) can change the values of the variables passed to them. There are also things called "statement functions" which have to have single-line definitions along the lines of "square(x) = x*x"; these don't have to be pure either because the defining expression may call functions that have side-effects.
Why? Because impoliteness shouldn't be punishable by death.