skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Java does indeed have `java.util.Optional`. As a non-primitive type, it can itself be `null`, or be non-`null` but not contain a value.

In other words: I used to have `null` problems. Then I used `Optional`, and now I have two `null` problems!
I also have a problem with highly polluting motorcycles, old or unmaintained cars, and gasoline-powered leaf blowers. I can’t even imagine how bad cities mu have smelled in the 60’s or 70’s.

(This is a separate issue from CO2. Motorcycles are not major CO2 emitters, but they are often vastly worse in terms of toxic and stinky pollutants than modern gas-guzzling trucks.)
>Automatic ads might be x10 cheaper, but x1000 less effective.

what are you talking about?

Lets say you are running SaaS for Azure admins. Do you want to buy the top banner on slashdot.com for the whole month, no targetings at all, for 50K/month, or you only want to show yor ad if user was interested in at least 2 stories with azure tag, for 5K/month?

Automatic (aka highly targeted) ads are more effective, not x1000 less.
This is why I never tried it. I bet I would like it, a lot. And with cigarettes you have to go outside, you smell bad, etc., these things have none of those problems. It just looks very easy to get hooked on them.
> or that everybody needs to go to war to protect their strategic assets in the middle east.

Do you follow news at all?

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-saudi-aramco-fire-trump/t...
I don't know that the evidence - especially in recent history - really supports this conclusion very strongly.

At a minimum, it's probably reasonable to say that political capital is real, and selecting an issue to work on (either in the executive branch or more commonly in Congress) does indeed have costs that impair effort on other issues.
VS 2019 has been integrating lots of new refactorings that were only on R#. It appears that they are more and more between small releases.

I'm happy to never need to use R# anymore.
Anyone else read this as 'soup'? Just me?
The fact that it uses C as a compilation target doesn't have much to do with whether it's as fast as C in practice. It's easy to imagine a compiler that generates C but generates terrible C that runs really slowly. (E.g., imagine it goes via some sort of stack-machine intermediate representation, and variables in the source language turn into things like stack[25] in the compiled code.)

Or consider: Every native-compiled language ends up as machine code, which is equivalent to assembly language, but for most (perhaps all) it would be grossly misleading to say "as fast as assembler".
I think the GP is saying that in most cases, constituents probably didn't ask for (in this case) scooters. They were most likely lobbied for by the companies who offer them or by some extremely small subset of the public.

Your point seems to skip over the fact that policy creation itself should be reactive - sparked by an obvious public need or because of a prediction backed by science.
Part of it may be moving away from the coast. Until we can find a way to stop hurricanes, likely not.
Just FYI, you're looking for "discreet".
IIUC the database is intended to identify the actual contents of images, not collect data about stereotypes. Even keeping the categorized face images in a separate database wouldn't be that useful, since turkers are not a random sample.
> Can you identify a friendly or sick or lazy dog just by looking? No.

?? Obviously you can. Why do you think you can't?
Sigh.

It seems everybody is missing the point.

Travel without a phone and your experience will be different.

What if you don't find the Louvre but find your soulmate?
droid48 or any hp vintage calculators available on ebay are doing the same job, first solution for free on android devices second for some bucks
It all depends on the tone of the question, which is hard to discern in writing, so the clarification is helpful.

Edit: Yes, those are very valid and reasonable questions. Clarifying that it's not meant as trolling is also valid and reasonable, because writing is easily misunderstood in exactly that way - which is the reason smileys were invented. (And, to be clear, I'm not accusing anyone of missing smileys or of trolling. I am trying to express my agreement with both parent and grandparent.)
> These are the kinds of problems that only exist in the HN audience, sorry ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

And an extremely small subset of that audience, too.

Automatically disabling JavaScript makes sense on first load, but after the website has been established as trustworthy, I don't see why you wouldn't then let the relevant scripts load (the ones you need/desire; not the Google ones.)

So yeah, I'm sorry I can't offer you an alternative.
just received an email from GitHub, the account has been restored.

https://github.com/altcensored

GitHub has been a reference for free speech and transparency:

https://www.eff.org/wp/who-has-your-back-2019#github
https://www.eff.org/wp/who-has-your-back-2019#github
I stumbled onto nim because a sequencing-data (DNA/RNA/etc) library was written for it (https://github.com/brentp/hts-nim). In addition to Go, it's been a great way to learn a compiled language. It's fast, easy to use, and has a friendly community.
I mean you could store some dumbly ciphered information on a sheet too, but I guess it's not as convenient
I think primes make interesting patterns in every base. With all the numbers you must change the filtration rules in each base to get a nice graph. (Also, the primes have the side effect of producing a nice texture.)
Once ecosystem matures (good async db drivers) would be pretty good option for web dev
Why would I as a buyer care what state or country the thing is built in? Seems to me that is makes no difference as in both cases it is thousands of kilometers away from me.
> faster python that prevents typos

This was sort of my use-case and experience as well. I also find it can do what I needed JavaScript-based CLI tools to do with less dependencies/ecosystem bloat, and the resulting code is a lot nicer to work with. People have told me that's because I was using JS wrong, but I felt like Nim was such a huge step up for my use cases.

It's also just a pleasure to learn something new occasionally.
Opinion: what we need is a better Android mobile app for LibraryThing[1], the already-exists alt-Goodreads. If you're an avid reader, there's a lot to be said for a service such as Goodreads or LibraryThing which handles the ISBN and Edition work to maintain your library along with the copious other features related to book management and their plentiful connections to external sources of information to pull in the data you want/need automagically.

[1] https://www.librarything.com/
One who is especially talented may often have the appearance of not knowing what they are doing, if you watch them closely while they are learning the behavior of a system. I've seen it suggested that there is a certain pattern of inquisitive behavior that can be seen in this kind of person, that has almost the appearance of a "random walk."

This may appear to the untrained eye as incompetence, maybe imagine the dumbest possible way to navigate an interface, but in the thought process of someone who learns a thing inside and out, behaving in this way can actually promote a more complete understanding.

I mean to elaborate on the idea of "baffled slobs" – not sure if this is exactly what you meant.
No thanks.

> I write those scripts so infrequently that I every time I need to re-learn basics. How do I declare a function? How do I write if? How do I write a loop? In bash, simple things are complicated. Finally, writing anything non-trivial is a mess. Bash and PowerShell are not a good languages.

Yeah of course... because you don't know the simplest things in bash,
they are complicated? And the conclusion is, that

cmd := exec.Command("./myapp")
cmd.Dir = getHomeDir();
err = cmd.Run()
must(err)

is more simple than

cd "$HOME"
./myapp
Not to mention that there are different kinds of racism we lump together under one label. Someone can think a certain race is, say, bad at math and still be racist even without disliking that race. Someone can also hate a race without believing they have some inherent inferiority, and that's racist. Similarly, you could simply decide to support your own race at the expense of others out of a sense of loyalty without even disliking other races and that's racism too.
I've used it to develop command-line based utilities. The binaries tend to be small and fast.
When the quality of a school is rhetorically judged on its per-pupil spending, obviously administrators will want to pay more, not less, for whatever they happen to purchase.
> At this point in 2019, with such cheap computation, the school calculator lines are being sold as much on what they don't do as what they do.

Yes, but what is it that a TI-84 can't do that a TI-83 can?
Weeks in Firefox: Issue 64
No. Or not in our lifetime, maybe is the better answer.

My gut says a lot of “chronic pain” that ends up hardwiring the brain to be noticed.

Reinforce a neural pathway often enough and it won’t quiet down.

The buzz will be there and we can’t be sure our sore spot hurts or our brain simply can’t avoid that pathway.

See phantom limb and similar.
South Korea or a reunited Korea - keep in mind that I'm talking about possible future scenarios, decades from now. There has been and still is a lot of animosity between Korea and Japan [1], this goes back centuries.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Japanese_sentiment_in_Kor...
If I remember correctly it also requires windows pro or enterprise.

These 2 requirements make this fundamentally unusable for most.

- Windows 10 64-bit: Pro, Enterprise, or Education (Build 15063 or later).
- Hyper-V and Containers Windows features must be enabled.
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Nicotine is itself a carcinogen. But in general, smokeless tobacco products (including vaping) are much less damaging to your health than smoking.
12 years for a well treated, very lightly used TI calculator seems perfectly reasonable. My high school had a few loaners that were used throughout the year (and not always under supervision) and the only sign of their age (about 9 years old) were a few faded button labels.
> Sway WM also does not have support for drawing tablets. I found this out, by, well, loading up a drawing program and noticing the lack of pressure sensitivity. So, that's what I'm currently working on.

Hey, thank you for working on this! The other day I plugged a tablet in, and found myself quite dumb with it not working properly. I wanted to have a go at implementing the tablet v2 protocol under wlroots, but it sounds like I'll hack on something else : P
Typical of new technologies. You naively start building a startup thinking the new stuff (today that is react and serverless) will be more cutting edge. And then you find out the new stuff adds complexity you don't need especially while starting out with a new product idea. You are misinformed because of the hype and end up paying for it because you are inexperienced.
The Expecting book is kind of good. But I often think of it as "200 things to scare the sh*t out of you when expecting". Most of the book is a long list of things that could go wrong, and most of those have a very, very low chance of happening.

I'm kind of glad I read it, but it did a job on me, worrying about about so many things that never came to pass.
Thank you so much. And yes, I agree. It's also vendor agnostic and you only have to learn HCL once to apply Terraform to those vendors :-)
What Our Selfies Are Doing to Ourselves
I have an app I want to write. It would need crowd-sourced data as well, and there seem to be only a couple of ways to make it worth someone's while to enter that data.

One is soapboxing. Medium, for an instance. I don't have good feelings about that. The other is recommendations, but I'm not sure if that works either.

Consider the bell curve of average users, where the curve is how widely read (in this case, literally, but also figuratively) the individuals are.

If I'm out on the right end of that curve then my value to the site is high, but the value of the site is rather low to me. If diversity isn't very high, then everyone is mostly entering reviews for material I'm already familiar with. I'm bored. I get nothing except maybe a soapbox.

Perhaps sites like this should consider these prolific people to be their 'whales' and treat them the way other companies treat whales; by going out of their way to do something for them. Could be, and I'm just spitballing here, that a properly run site should be paying a few professionals to add material and make sure there's something substantive for these high value users. Hand-built recommendations, if nothing else presents itself as a solution.
> Or when you do a "service mysql start" and it dies, but there is no output anywhere of what went wrong, and you have to guess that you have a typo in your "my.cnf".

First of all, it's systemctl you want, not service. Service is (was) part of Upstart, which Ubuntu doesn't officially use any more but they still have a bunch of compatibility layers in for it.

Second, do the following not give you the information you need?

systemctl status unit-name

journalctl -u unit-name
> One thing I haven't seen mentioned: 'Friends' in your teens and twenties are often really about having someone to hang around with while looking for a mate. So you won't look like a lone loser at the club, or in social situations, or so that you get to meet members of the opposite/preferred sex through the group.

I have never thought of my friends that way. Nor have I ever met someone who gave me the impression they thought of their friends that way. Maybe not everyone thinks life revolves around "looking for a mate"?
Honestly, I love articles like these. I feel like so much of the time we think in terms of frameworks as opposed to the problems they're there to solve.

I've been in situations where, for reasons I won't get into, I wasn't able to use large tool chains or have tons of dependencies. I had to distill things to the basic problem(s) that I needed to solve and come up with maintainable ways to solve them.
All thoses peoples talking about TI or Casio as real calculators, while real fun was hp48.
TI or Casio were real piece of shit, Reverse polish is the true path.
Many of my generation (+40) learnt assembly, language machine and coding with this model (not even talking about hp41C or hp28S for the oldest of us). Long live to Saturn, and sysinternal.
I often buy refurbished one on ebay or other site, i actually own 6 hp48s, i hope it will be enough for my offspring.
I completely agree. By the way, I'm not convinced it's just a U.S. thing. I went to high-school in France for 1.5 years. I also have some exposure to Japanese high-school math. In both contexts, rot memorization of derivation techniques was at play.
If that were true, we'd be talking exclusively about cars, opioid drugs, suicide, and gang violence. All other causes of death are rounding errors for this age group.
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A stadium camera that can capture thousands of faces
tosdr.org (Terms of service; didn't read) is a website that simplifies website's Terms of Service and Privacy Policy to make it easier for people to read.

Stack Overflow is given the lowest rating (class E) in terms of user rights. (For reference, even Google has a class C rating.) Here are the worst points taken from SE's privacy policy:

* This service allows tracking via third-party cookies for purposes including targeted advertising.

* You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold the service harmless in case of a claim related to your use of the service.

* This service forces users into binding arbitration in the case of disputes.

* Many third parties are involved in operating the service

* The service may use tracking pixels, web beacons, browser fingerprinting, and/or device fingerprinting on users.

* Blocking cookies may limit your ability to use the service

* You waive your right to a class action lawsuit

* This service can share your personal information to third parties

* The court of law governing the terms is in a jurisdiction that is less friendly to user privacy protection.

* The service can sell or otherwise transfer your personal data as part of a bankruptcy proceeding or other type of financial transaction.

* The service uses your personal data to employ targeted third-party advertising

* This service retains rights to your content even after you stop using your account

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Nim's syntax is very similar to Python simply because both are expressive, lean and have no braces.
Naturally Python is dynamically typed and this, unfortunately, affects performance and maintainability.
I can confirm, the book is excellent and worth a read-through.
If your data set was compiled by a single person, well, easy enough.

If your data set was compiled by thousands of mechanical turk workers, well, you got a lot of people to blame a little bit. As it goes, "everybody is a little racist sometimes..." and apparently that shows on a big enough data set.
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Saw there was some interest around this piece on HN last week so I went ahead and unlocked it.
We Need More Doctors Who Are Scientists
Also, only related in name, it made me think of stack magazines, which is actually pretty cool:

https://www.stackmagazines.com/

Get one independent magazine to your door every month for ~$9.

I've gotten 3 so far, and its' been cool to kind of feel what different magazines value, and see such a variety.
Semi-related: Even though it's been 123 years since Cornflakes were patented, generic breakfast cereal just isn't the same. Some of them are downright revolting (e.g. mini-wheat knockoffs) even though they're made in the USA. Many don't even use the same ingredients. I guess their target market is people who don't care about quality? At all?
Not only does this have little impact to ICE, the taxpayer gets soaked. Expensive outrage porn.
You know. When I was in high school, some of the other students would ask History or English teachers if they could use their calculators on the test. The responses were usually "I don't know why you would want to, but fine with me."
There is nothing inherent in any of those that require tracking. Nor scripts that run in the browser.
If the calculators are cheap and standard, the tool is not much different from a pencil. If yours doesn't work you can ask for a replacement.
> ...I don't care about a random small company getting rewarded for its random innovations. Why should I?

Actually, the 800 lb gorilla companies DO CARE about random small companies and their random innovations. That's why they try to buy them, sometimes aggressively. Quite frankly, it's how larger companies can get innovation.

As a company grows, true innovation usually gets squelched in favor of derpy project management bullshit. Creative people get burned out and leave, or, in some cases become "a fellow". The main way these big companies can actually innovate is to buy these smaller companies. It might be good for the owners of the small company, some folks cash-out, some get new jobs, some aren't so lucky. Whatever happens a bunch of folks got some great experiences and the satisfaction of creating something new.

I don't see this stuff as a bad thing-- and especially not for social media stuff.
If you're referring to the 'Samsung Austin Semiconductor' in Tech Ridge, I wonder how well the fab is aging. The last building I remember was built primarily for NAND flash production back around 2007 ( https://phys.org/news/2007-06-samsung-largest-wafer-austin-t... ).

Though chipdesign and not fab, also worth remembering Apple acquired Austin-based Intrinsity in 2010 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intrinsity)
Because ~95% of the populace is bad for some definition of bad. We should really only be punishing exceptional badness.
> The issue is that as a society we've (mostly) decided that unfairly classifying someone based on correlated but non-causal characteristics is wrong, EVEN in the extreme that you're right more often than you're wrong if you make that assumption.

Sorry, but it's not a decision. Science has found repeatedly that using outward characteristics does not work as a good classification measure. Society simply enforces not making bad judgements. See:

Phrenology, Racism -- "appearance implies certain things about someone's character and intelligence" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrenology)

Sex -- "A person's gender presentation determines their gender or sex" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgender_history), "A person's genitalia determines their chromosones", "A person's chromosones determine their sex and their ability to give birth" (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2190741/).

Wealth -- "That person is wearing bad clothing/living an unassuming life therefore they must be poor" (https://www.npr.org/2018/12/29/680883772/social-worker-led-f...)

Intelligence -- "This person scores badly on intelligence tests therefore they must not be worthwhile" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Feynman, https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/sudden-genius/201101...), "This person appears to be unskilled or incapable of many tasks therefore they must be totally unskilled" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savant_syndrome)
Yeah to actually correct my initial comment, I think pen & paper are still very important & powerful. Nothing quite like deriving Euler's formula on blank pages to see the beauty in it :)

But pen & paper shouldn't be the only medium. That's more along of what I meant.
What I want from a Goodreads alternative:

Curated lists of books from people I respect.

Lists of books that are not all dominated by Harry Potter and other trash.

The ability to follow people and keep track of the books they recommend.

A faster website that doesn't constantly error and crash

Better data with fewer duplicated books.

Easy to use API
Not yet U2F, which I'm hopeful they get real soon
Thanks for checking out the tutorials. Please reach out with any feedback so I can improve it.

> Just a brief note, Terraform 0.12's linter is broken in VSCode for HCL2

If you hit Command+Shift+P (or Cntrl+Shift+P on Windows/Linux) to bring up the command box and enter, "terraform enable", you'll see an option that reads: "Terraform: Enable/Disable Language Server" - this loads a language server that has 0.12 support.
My brother likes his job making truck parts.

Anecdata, but in line with what you said.