skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This feature is built into Jpeg images, though most image editors don't save them with this enabled by default. People call them progressive jpegs.

https://www.thewebmaster.com/dev/2016/feb/10/how-progressive...
The other side argues that climate alarmists are often backed by organizations whose funding depends on the existence of a climate catastrophe. Without a looming catastrophe there would be less public funding and far fewer donations.

I call it a draw.
Nobody updates those ratings, though.
I see this perspective a lot - having only read The Fountainhead, I don't understand it at all, and suspect this is largely based off her other works (including Atlas Shrugged)?

My interpretation of The Fountainhead was as I described previously - the importance of staying true to who you are, even if this results in missing out on riches (or goes against popular opinion).
We would need the transcript of the game to analyse it properly. Here it is :

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Stacks: Ungar: ~60,000; Matloubi: ~40,000
Blinds: 200/400
Hands: Matloubi holds 5-4 offsuit in the BB; Ungar has 10-9 offsuit in the small blind (the button).

Preflop: Ungar raises to 1,600 in the small blind, Matloubi calls.

Flop (pot 3,200): 3-3-7 rainbow
Action: Matloubi checks, Ungar bets 6,000, Matloubi calls.

Turn (pot 15,200): K, board still rainbow
Action: Matloubi checks, Ungar checks.

River (Pot 15,200): Q
Action: Matloubi moves all in for about 32,000 and Ungar calls within a few seconds, declaring, "You've either got 4-5 or 5-6, I call." Ungar then flips up his 10-high to drag the $80,000 pot.
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Not sure what your parent has in mind, but just from the choice of sizings from both sides, I doubt that many people would play either side of the hand this way nowadays. Which kind of make any analysis a bit pointless. But I'll check tonight with a solver if it has anything to say about it.
The other shortcoming is that the way that washing machine manufacturers have achieved those energy ratings is by making their wash cycles longer and slower, effectively making them less useful to consumers.
There are areas where natural radioactivity or chemicals just occur at dangerous levels. So it is certainly not a new problem to spot and avoid those areas.

So in xx years:

Either humans still have technology, and they can find out there is contamination with a Geiger counter or chemical analysis, and stay away as much as possible from the contaminated area.

Either they lost technology/knowledge, and they will over time find out the place is unfit for life, through unborn babies, malformed animals/human, or other signs, just like the ancients did. In this case, our warning signs are of no help either, may actually be counter productive.

I stand by the idea that's the kind of article that's not worth reading past the title.
I am finding the endless outrage about thoughts to be extremely tedious, I can see where the snowflake terminology came from.

At least reserve outrage for actions, thought police are Stasi style.
Hm, sure. Language changes, sensibilities change. The friends I remember using that construction are in their twenties now and it wasn't exactly in a high society setting. I'll ask whether I remember that properly.
I met him around 2002 , he was nuts already . He says shit he would've gotten away in the early days of the internet but he doesn't now . He hasn't change much to be fair it's just now what he says gets echoed in social networks.
UseContainerSupport to the Rescue: JVM Finally Plays Nice with Containers
I would totally play into “frictionless standups” and specialize the hell out of experience. For one, I think it avoids a lot of “creep factor” that other commenters keyed into. Second, companies are paying for non-slack standup conferencing software and it’s all godawful and cumbersome, especially for the tech leads/managers. This would be a no-brainer for standups in every org that I’ve been in. Godspeed to you, I think you’re onto something.
Or they could be the ones we hand over the planet to when we leave.
In math you sometimes see multiple-choice questions that ask for the "hash" of the answer (eg. find the complex root of this polynomial... and tell me the sum of its real and imaginary parts) that are supposed to prevent you from doing this kind of thing. They do take the fun out of having multiple choice questions though :)
For balance, i find around 30% of results to be bad.

One really annoying thing is that python searches keep surfacing the python2 official docs instead of the python3 ones.

Ddg is my main search engine, but I find I fall back to g! queries more and more often.
An interesting experience from this history is showing how parasites jump in zero seconds to a handful of other species when its main host is unavoidable.

We were repeatedly guaranteed for years than Guinea worms were exclusive from humans. Thus wiping it would not affect any other species, and could be protected only if some humans would agree to suffer the parasite in their bodies, that is a gross price. Now we know that this was incorrect. Plain false, and nobody see it.

The species is linked with other mammals, could be saved from extinction and is not different to a hundred thousand species of other parasites in the planet.

To decide to wipe an animal just because is ugly and unsentient is a deeply wrong path and a pandora box. Treating the drinking water would suffice to prevent most cases in human patients.

A similar problem could easily happen if we mess with mosquitoes without a full, extensive, complete, knowledge of what we are doing and asuming the consequences of it.
What else have we got other than some people saying it? Some people say the Sex Pistols are punk, there isn't really an objective measure we can measure this against.
The more resign, the better. Maybe they can start afresh, but I doubt it.
What percentage of developers still learn C++? I did a semester of C in college but have been in VB, C#, Java, and JavaScript since, with a brief foray in Objective C on an iOS project. At the time I asked someone who was o to low level languages if it was better to learn C or C++ these days and I was told “C++ 2017” which might be fine if you never have to use legacy C++... or would learning C++ 2017 allow one to be productive in older Code bases as well? The idea of being able to write in a high level language to get something done quickly and then rewrite the areas in C++ that are the performance bottlenecks is very appealing to me.
The hard part is probably calculating where the object is and where it's going. With that information, you could then feed the data to IR missiles.
Or: "je suis calé" (a bit informal). Which also has the meaning "I know about".
In a sense, this was a prelude of the modern day IDE. Allowing one to have a bird’s eye view of the project and helping with coding. Loved it!
Porn is 3d pretty sure?
Oh no the sky is falling!!!!!
It’s not terminal services. We are using VMware horizon. Printing is fine. USB scanning is a little slow but most people don’t seem to notice.
They allow a couple of articles per month before you hit a paywall. It's frustrating because there happens to be a ton of interesting content (esp. machine learning-related) on Medium and the exact same content could be in a Wordpress or other blog (with a Medium-like theme if you'd like that), and it takes a total of 5 minutes to set up a blog.
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As a facts-driven engineer, i can relate to being incredibly annoyed by a John and finding it distasteful to spend time with a person like that. It’s not just that it’s a bother to get through, it’s physically revolting and I find it hard to not get flustered at having my time wasted this way. If delivering politically means kowtowing to a John, I just can’t bring myself to do it and can totally empathize with the author.
Since you mention text editors, Emacs can be used to work remotely by its TRAMP remote access layer. Instead of /path/to/file, you type /ssh:user@host:/path/to/file. Since Emacs has a built-in directory browser, you can use it as if it was an SFTP client this way.
>You don't see cities with bike lanes forcing those lanes to be clear.

Yes, you do (if I understood what you mean correctly): https://www.chicago.gov/city/en/depts/cdot/supp_info/bicycli...
> At the time, I quipped to myself and my friends that they better take the "C" out of their name since AFAIK helping those in need is part of the proverbial "loving thy neighbor" teached by Christianity.

You did admit that you're not a Christian and haven't studied theology or interpretation, which is fair of you. So let me ask a few simple questions which demonstrate the necessity of interpretation and the diversity of views on the topic:

Who are your neighbors? Are they the people in the house next door? Are they the people in the nation across the border? Should you help the people across the border at the expense of the people next door? If so, to what extent? If you decline to let into your country every foreigner who wants in, but offer to help them by other means, are you failing to honor the command to love your neighbor?

Why does "love your neighbor" necessarily mean "admit to your nation every foreigner who wants in, and freely give them everything they want, otherwise you're violating the command"?

It quickly becomes clear that such demands are, at best, based on a very shallow theology, and at worst, deception by those who couldn't care less about any religion.
A part of me is appalled, but another is amused and intrigued. "The street finds its own uses for things," I guess.
This was my main takeaway from the article. Call a spade a spade. "Square's Government Fear team spoke with Monica yesterday, and she now knows the reason."

It's completely legitimate for a corporation to be afraid of the government, and have a team to manage risks. It's not legitimate to call stealing $14,000 of someone's money "customer success". What Square's team did was fail the customer. That's not success.
It's interesting to see that Google translate will not stay within the Greek alphabet in a single word and will try to insert the closest matching letter from another alphabet. In your example, it matched "ΡΕΓΓΟYKOY" to "ΡΕΓΓΟVKOV", even though there is no letter V in the Greek alphabet.
Except for the 2-way ones
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You certainly can assure me, but that won't do much.

I've been doing it for 30 years, I know how I like it.
How can you miss the point so intently?
The Euro crisis didn't help of course. Many used cheap Euro loans to buy overpriced property in the bubble. That doesn't really go away till the mortgages are paid off in a decade or two.
English isn't even my first language, so if I have no problem parsing that, it's possible. Even if something is "unnecessarily" complex, what necessitates knee-jerk responses or downvotes?
Damn, that article is hard to read.
I think that you're spot-on. Some 2% of the population is neither man nor woman; if Monica doesn't use "they" to refer to them, then how does she refer to them?
How to be a 10x data scientist
There's folly's small_vector.

https://github.com/facebook/folly/blob/master/folly/docs/sma...

High quality, and widely used inside Facebook. It's a shame folly isn't more widely used outside.
Thing is, there's a big difference between eradicated and almost eradicated / controlled - it's that when for whatever reasons the control measures break down (e.g. civil war or natural catastrophes) then whatever is almost eradicated will come back with a vengeance (especially if a generation has passed and e.g. people aren't vaccinated anymore if vaccines apply), but whatever has been actually eradicated won't.

There's also an ongoing health cost - for example, if vaccines apply (not in this particular case but in others) then if it's controlled by herd immunity, then you have to keep vaccinating and suffer any risks and sideeffects while doing so - but if it's eradicated, then you can stop doing so and there's some health benefit in being able to skip unneeded vaccines.
The common wisdom wrt democracy, for centuries, was that this was basically exactly how it would work, if actually implemented. These aren't unforeseen problems.
Your use of weasel words like "plenty of" and "tend to" shows that this is just your biased impression, not necessarily representative of actual populations. As well, your characterization of people who disagree with you using the pejoratives "deniers" and "denial" shows your extreme bias toward one side of the issue.

In other words, you're not considering the issue fairly.
> They want cheap.

The UK had a catastrophic fire potentially caused by a cheap fridge freezer.

White goods cause a few house fires.

This page says 5 a day: https://www.electricalsafetyfirst.org.uk/media-centre/press-...

This page says 60 per week: https://news.sky.com/story/eight-house-fires-a-week-caused-b...

We need white goods to be safer, and people don't chose safer, they choose cheaper, so we need regulations.
Examples of climate-related cherry picking and fraud
I strongly disagree that skin colour has anything to do with it.

In reality the elite school doesn't even help.

It all comes down to wealth and connections.
Long cycles are great for getting stuff out. It's the lukewarm "hot" water that people take issue with.

Energy ratings for washing machines are kind of stupid in the first place since they depend so strongly on how you use the machine and the efficiency of your hot water supply. The electricity used on the motor is fairly negligible.
You're not wrong. The point is that these anti-proliferation arguments are internally inconsistent.

To be honest, I think the anti-proliferation concerns together with the ridiculous million year horizon were made up in order to have an argument against nuclear power.
> EU overregulation

Most of that tends to be misinformation.

For example:

> it will be illegal to have voluntary firefighters

Nope. Not even close. A firefighter in Belgium sued because he said that on-call time is work, and the court decided in his favour. This caused concern that generalising this could cause problems. However, the EU was aware of these concerns and apparently this case cannot be generalised in this way:

https://www.ctif.org/news/die-eu-arbeitszeitrichtlinie-infor...

I don't know how it works in Belgium, but in Germany, the voluntary firefighters (which is almost all of them), simply continue to be paid by their main employers when active. The employer can then recover this from the responsible government organisation.

For this, the application of the working time directive changes...nothing. Also for standby times during working hours, for which the employee is working for his main employer, so again no change. I am guessing (but not sure) that the issue is on-call time when the employee is not working for his main employer.

People have raised concerns that this might have the potential to negatively affect volunteer firefighting. But as far as I know, nothing has actually happened, and apparently nothing will.

So as so often, almost complete misinformation:

1. The EU will not make it "illegal" to have volunteer firefighters.

2. It was actually a lawsuit, not a regulation.

3. It was about working time, not about making volunteer firefighters illegal.

4. So at most it would have been an unintended consequence of a good and necessary regulation.

5. However, these unintended consequences were only imaginary, they never happened.

6. The EU bodies were fully aware of the importance of volunteer firefighters.

7. Had there been unintended consequences, they would have mostly been of the formal variety that affect local authorities.

> every single chicken [..] registered, even for hobbyists having a few chickens

Also nope, only if you have 50 chickens or more.

https://www.tsk-bw.de/Melde_Beitragspflicht/Wer_muss_melden....
Having done remote work I completely get what you’re trying to achieve. It’s not the tool which is causing a cautious(?) reaction but knowing how unscrupulous micro-managers might demand this be used. I’m sure we all have stories of bosses acting like fools because we turned off the company’s instant distraction app so we could concentrate and get something done. I totally understand both sides: the tool looks awesome and I could see it being abused by management to impede progress and degrade morale.
I think that is actually a plus. Other scientists can see implications of zero-carbon laws to different aspects of economy and society.
Python's Pallet Project Gets a Much-Needed Infusion of Corporate Cash
>nobody had anything even approaching a plan //

Whoever told Cameron to put the referendum in the manifesto (I've a pet theory that the "fucking a pig's head" revelation was a shot across the bows for this one) certainly had a plan, and 2 PMs down the line they're still pushing for it.
Are they checked for individuals in the US? The only time this would be verified is after construction which is when they'll also be checked in the EU.
Policy Based Authorization in Asp.net Core
History has demonstrated no such thing.

The French are also not laughing, since their attempts to build new nuclear plants have gone disastrously wrong. Their nuclear construction industry is in a shambles, losing billions, and had to be bailed out by the government.
A workplace that’s dehumanizing or that forces you to be your worst instead of your best self in order to survive or succeed.
Interesting article, especially when it's readable using Firefox reader mode.

The comment by Sid about investors seeing remote-only as an additional risk something that never really crossed my mind. Gitlab truly are pioneers in going remote-only at this scale.
That time my husband reported me to the Facebook police
Fashion.com domain will be sold at auction this autumn
I'm skeptical.

(a)When I search "Boris Johnson model," I still get the Jennifer Arcuri results and (b) even if working perfectly, this kind of SEO spamming would be pretty marginal.

People are exposed to the "model" story via so many avenues: TV, radio, news sites, FB feed, other search terms... It just doesn't seem worth it. At best it takes like 10% of the heat off him for a day.

Null hypothesis is that Boris just says a lot of random, baffling shit and everything makes the news.
Allowed? Yes, I suppose so. But new appliances have to be sold with moulded-on plugs.
Those criticisms are really only informative if you'd also give the purported reasons for implementing those regulations, otherwise we can't weigh them.

(General principle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Chesterton's_fence)
The key to choosing smart people for positions of power is that they are predictable, much like car traffic needs to be predictable to be safe. Smart people are consistent and act in a controlled manner when given information to process. However, when someone who should be predictable begins to hide information they become unaccountable and unfit for positions of power.
Looks great on my monitor.

Designers always have the best hardware, perhaps that's why they overlook how their designs are rendered on 'typical' machines.
I want to work! Getting stuff done.

Me too! And I find it much easier and faster to get better stuff done when on a team with smart and creative people rather than locked away trying to solve everything on my own. Working with smart people who know things I don't is inspiring and makes me produce better work, and hopefully they can gain from my areas of expertise.

It doesn't even have to have anything to do with socializing per se. I don't need to know about your kids or what you did on your weekend and we don't even have to eat lunch together or go out for beers after work. But for me having someone I turn to and say "Hey can you take look at this thing, I can't get it to work" and having them understand what I'm trying to do and say "Have you considered this different approach, here let me show you" is a key to me getting my best stuff done.
The milk quota system applied to every country, including the UK: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-32136218

(It's important to be accurate about what the EU actually does and does not do, otherwise you get Brexit)
20,450ms TTFB for me. Which is extremely long.

However the demonstrations are great, and some of the programs are inherently computationally expensive, so its sort of expected.
I guess we need a Project Steve [1] for climate change.

1: https://ncse.ngo/project-steve
Items being sent from the UK to Warsaw will have to run through customs twice, attracting very large tarrifs - at least in the "UK->Poland" direction. That's assuming the airplanes are allowed to fly, and the customs clearence delays will be measured in days.
takes a while, worth the wait.
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Well, ideally, it would lead to stricter penalties and process improvements to prevent it from happening. And it would allow for fraud liability to be placed on ATT causing them to care to fix the issue.
<noscript>
<style>body {
display: none;
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<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; url=https://www.nohq.co"/>
</noscript>

Why on earth is this there? It’s on both the blog post and the front page of the website, so it throws you into a redirect loop.

I’m baffled and curious as to why that got there in the first place.
A smart online newspaper that suddenly sees a lot of hits on their "model bus" article would seize that opportunity.

They could rewrite the URL and show an inbetween page that says something along the lines of "we see you are interested in Boris Johnson & models" you might also like ...

Then they could add another article about SEO poisening.

Now THAT would be great reporting!

Not sure if any of them are keen enough to seize that opportunity..

edit: Of course an even easier way to do so is to edit the model bus article and insert a clickable "news headline"
Ok no pro
the only real negative is that it restricts who can perform the repair, namely "professionals". Will this lead to manufacturers using a certification system to limit who is a professional and who is not? Who determines who is a professional, how is that defined? Is there a limit on how much parts can cost? Won't do much good as in some appliances single assemblies can cost nearly as much as the new appliance
You’re right. I appreciate your comment. I allowed my own frustration with the obvious problems around me to cloud my comments. Here, hoping to clarify my original argument: Adding healthcare services by producing more physicians, costly in training and by their later contribution through a perverse incentive system, does not appear to be the simple answer. In addition, is there a physician shortage [1] or not [2]? I recommended more midlevel providers, who are capable of handling a vast majority of medical problems. To suggest that only professionals with years of training and paid an exorbitant rate can do this, is not to understand what physicians do or midlevel providers’ capability. It is another way of buying into the self-serving mantra promulgated by medical boards and organizations: Only a doctor knows and, furthermore, needs to be board certified.

Depending on the state, multiple nurse practitioners and physician assistants can be supervised remotely by one physician. Add telemedicine and other online tools to this partnership and you’ve got a pretty robust team able to care for a much larger population than one physician could. A zillion other tweaks to the system, and all of a sudden efficiency starts to make an impact. But some artificial barriers must be broken in the process (e.g., coordinated information dissemination between health professionals).

[1] https://www.aamc.org/news-insights/press-releases/new-findin...

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26177529

Edit: For now and the near future, there are procedures that only physicians can perform (e.g., surgery mostly). This is not true in most general medical care and even in specialized care.