skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've lived in GA, SC, and now FL and they seem to be pretty common there. They do seem to carry a negative stereotype, however.
I think "open source (but not really, there's a small restriction)" sums it up better than "source available", so I can understand framing it that way.

OTOH, this is likely to never make it into distro repos anywhere. I also wonder if the author is driving to make a business out of it.

So I'd make three points:

1) It does affect distribution

2) It otherwise doesn't materially affect how I would use it

3) It seems a little like asking for contributions to a proprietary project.
Should lump socal media into this, too.
It's along the same lines as " I don't have money for X because I'm paying mortgage" and then next week, they renovate their backyard for 10K.
From /r/hearthstone

>https://truth.bahamut.com.tw/s01/201910/acd1e702747963b5e6d6... I'm a heartstone player from Taiwan. Just here to share information from another aspect. The picture above is the comment from the official hearthstone account on China social website. (the V means verified) translation:We strongly condemn the player and the casters on what happened in the game last weekend ,and we firmly DISAPPROVE people to state their own political POV in any tournament.The player will be banned from the tournament,and the casters will never be granted the chance to cast any official tournament from now on. Besides,we will firmly PROTECT THE PRIDE OF THE COUNTRY just like what we always do.

——

Remember Blizzard is also the company that prominently feature Pride during many Overwatch events on western streams - but didn’t show the same content on Eastern streams.

I’m deleting anything I have of Blizzard-Activision not because it’ll hurt their bottom line, but so I can know I’m doing the right thing for this particular situation.
I am surprised by the many comments here so critical of the Guardian. I live in the USA, and I find it frustrating trying to find news sources that don’t seem biased with strong agendas.

I pay a monthly donation to the Guardian because I find them better than most other news sources. I also like NPR Nightly News (they give fair time to both sides in contentious issues) and sometimes the BBC.
Thanks. Between my screen cut in half for cookies accepting (with no decline) and an immediate paywall, I was going to skip this.
In my experience, movie plots are usually so shallow that sound doesn't really add to the plot.
And how was that measured?

One of the lessons from the falls of authoritarian governments was how big a gap there was between public expressions of support and peoples' true feelings.
What increased surveillance? Outside of increased security measures (which most which have winded down now) due to the terrorist attacks, I can't really see what you are talking about.

Anything to substantiate your claim would be useful...
To be fair, I consider going on trips and camping to be work.

But I agree, there are ways to balance things, but you have to choose. You can't have everything (work, side project, family, health, hobbies) at 100% and be the best version of your self long term.
I feel like the author of this criticism is screaming into the void. I have no doubt that the study is probably flawed, and likely has not proven beyond doubt any of the hypotheses it has put forward. While FK may not be a great test of linguistic complexity, it is a test.

To truly annul the study, the author needs a smoking gun - for example:

- Take a couple of the source texts that score wildly far apart

- Rework the punctuation such that an objective reader still agrees that the transcription is a valid representation of the original speech

- Show that the readability scores in the re-punctuated texts are inverted - or at the very least, score within a small percentage of each other.

It's a bit like trying to measure the happiness of a city by counting the percentage of smiling people as they walk down the high street. There are many social reasons a person might smile from the depths of misery, different people might classify a smile differently, and different cultures might view walking down the street with a grin as either frowned upon or mandated. Weather, time of day, month of year, public holidays - etc - all will affect the results.

But so long as you work hard to eliminate these biases, you still couldn't use such a measure to test whether Beijing is happier than Belfast, but you might use it as an indicator of whether left handed people are happier than right handed people. You can't tell whether men are happier than women (social pressures will influence facial indicators along gender lines from an early age in many cultures) but you might be able to begin a conversation on whether conservatives are happier than liberals. It won't be conclusive proof, but as a starting point for future research, it still holds some validity.

My point is that nothing in this criticism conclusively proves that this particular measure is unsuited for measuring against the stated outcomes. Even a measure that is the current darling of the linguistics community will have its drawbacks, and the author needs to prove that the weaknesses in the measure present a bias in and of themselves, not just that they are generally deficient.

To my mind, the better criticism is intent. A person can - and should - craft a speech based on the audience. A speech given at a university or research facility should have a different complexity score than one given at a rally or disaster zone. The interesting question to my mind is whether more effort is put into this by conservatives or liberals, and then comparing that to those in power vs their contenders.

But then, that paper wouldn't have such a catchy title, would it?
I doesn't look like it targets .Net Core yet.
I don't see much about dev workflow -- is there a VSCode plugin for dev/debugging? The Getting Started page is 403. But I'll spend more time in the wiki and give it a try.
You know, I think I learned something today...
Ask HN: Do You Want to Use Your Skills to Save Rainforests?
I've seen quite a few posts on HN where people are asking what they can do to help the environment. One short answer is : donate to an organisation that purchases rainforests for conservation. David Attenborough said : "...it has more effect than almost anything I can think of"

Why? Because keeping rainforests intact not only protects the plants and animals within them but also sequesters carbon, regulates the climate and produces the air we breathe. There is no technological replacement for the multifunctional complexity of rainforests.

Another thing you could do is volunteer your coding skills and join our non-profit "Fend". We are taking land acquisition conservation to the masses by building an interactive site where visitors can purchase half acre blocks of rainforest. For every patch they purchase, they can zoom into our front page, choose a block to turn it green, and post their action on social media. Our goal is to turn the whole front page green, which is where we can leverage media/following interest.

Right now we need developers to help with all aspects of the build. Our most pressing challenge is implementation of the "block picking" functionality on the front page and how to load millions of blocks/cells in the canvas while maintaining a snappy to navigate browser experience. The second challenge will be taking a custom snap shot of the page that highlights the user's block/s, and then making it easy for them to get their snap shot onto their social media.

Can you help?

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Yeah getting some sports during your free time seems to be a good idea. Will alleviate a lot of the physical issues!
This is how China behaves when it's still far away from being #1 superpower.
>>Nothing's going to be as clean and easy as we'd like it to be :(

Very true. I often gloss over that harsh aspect of reality.
>Before this episode I always wondered why they kept making those bad transformers movies, turns out China loves em.

...Which is hilarious, because they are heavily subsidized by the US military for advertising reasons.
Or, maybe even more, recognize that the fun was in the developing, and not in the shipping. Don't stress over it not getting done. I have a ton of abandoned side projects, and I don't regret a single one. I also don't regret stopping them when they stopped being fun.
If this slatestarcodex article exists, I would really appreciate anyone who could provide the link to it. I've tried some basic searching but am not having luck. Also, I'm getting distracted reading old articles.
At least the whole Hearthstone subreddit is ablaze about it, that's more than 1%
The problem seems to be that just because it isn't acutely toxic non-chemist military personal treated it like it wasn't also chronically toxic.
Tencent isn't the problem with Blizzard.

Hearthstone is massive in China. Hearthstone has far more players than all other regions combined. The chinese market is what keeps the game alive.

That is the problem here.
Meanwhile I pay $630 every six months for water no matter how much or little I use. So $100 a month seems right on to me.
dubious - i would not trust bitlocker as it is not open source, and you cannot have it audited.
I was given this advice but could never follow it, I would take the reader by the shoulders and shout into their face.
AI Pioneer, Yoshua Bengio Wants His Algorithms to Understand the 'Why'
It is always hard to learn from people several levels ahead of you. What they do is amazing and impenetrable. What they say seems to make little sense. You lack too much of the common background.

This is why, when I find myself in a situation like that, I try hard to understand the point. Why do these people do these strange things? What do they mean by saying these sentences that seem detached from the practice? Empirically, they are smart, so they mean something.

This is how you start to detect where the common context is lacking, and look for explanations. Eventually, with enough effort, you bridge the gap and understand what they meant, and why. This is how you grow.
I think that's where the "look around" point kicks in. You can look at a successful software project and think of ways that "learning about the users" applies to its design.

With some imagination I think that anyone working with software can take something from these points, but it's obviously not a how-to-expert tutorial. Rather, it's what the title says that it is.
Putting pipes in the ground is not cheap, and it needs to be paid for. There are also pumps, treatment, and maintenance that needs to be paid for. When you have a dense city that isn't a big deal because your share of the above isn't very expensive. However when you have a sparse rural area your share goes up. In a city public water systems are cheaper than drilling a well, but in rural areas a private well is cheaper - but if the ground water isn't safe to drink the treatment can be out of reach.
This is basically CS lifestyle marketing.

There's zero useful, actionable content. There's no evidence the authors have any big-project experience of their own, and the bibliography doesn't help make a case for their expertise.

https://softwaredesigndecoded.wordpress.com/annotated-biblio...

In fact it seems to be academic back-seat driving by a pair of authors who don't understand the difference between reading about a domain and living in it, and are now communicating in platitudes. With cutesy pictures.

"You know you could try to make your abstractions more elegant? How about focussing on the essence? Or seeing how someone else did it?"

Thanks. When our next intern slot turns up, we'll be sure to keep you in mind.
There are zero inferences that can be drawn from the Supreme Court not granting cert on an appeal. The Supreme Court denies the vast majority of appeals they receive, and only take a case in a narrow and not always intuitive set of circumstances. Headline is very misleading.
For many people worldwide, the difference is that China is not bombing them, isn't overthrowing their governments and creating & fueling a civil war in their country.

I'm quite certain that China will do those things if they ever become the world's single global super power, but so far they haven't. Not because they wouldn't for moral reasons, but for lack of opportunity. Still, in practice, the worst China is doing to other countries somewhere across the world is blocking some website or creating tariffs, not level a city.
Yes, but there's still a pretty hard distinction between material privileges and actual constitutional rights. For instance, we don't criticize racialized police brutality because it's some maldistribution of police attention, but because it violates rights that are supposed to be inviolate.
I might be ousting myself as a hick but surely 80%+ of people have seen a cow before, r-right...?
> Experts focus on the essence

I think this is one of the strongest points of a good developer, and what makes them such good problem solvers in many situations. Often you get confronted with problems, from say a client or through user feedback, which don't amount to much more than "wishes" - with no clear and/or conflicting solutions. A good developer is able to distill the problem down to its core, finds out the true nature of the issue, can communicate that back, while also offering solutions.
What is A genuine reason for being against gay marriage that does not include hating the concept of gays, or the concept of marriage?
Two adults want to share their life, with the burdens and rights that non gays get.
Really, why would you care if not because you find the concept of same sex couples bad and harmful?
Well, can we say that people have their feelings hurt by Blizzard's opinion here, and try to make it normal that everyone should boycott them for it?
I think you underestimate just how much of the US's immigrant population and culture was either directly German or German-influenced leading up to and in the early years of WWII.

That's a bond that was not easily severed.
If the workers can't control the means of production, it is not socialism.

Socialism calls for the democracy of the workplace.

What China has done is replace the authoritarian bourgeois with an authoritarian government.

Just because North Korea's name is Democratic People's Republic of Korea doesn't mean it is democratic. Naming stuff their opposite doesn't make it so, but I'll admit it has been pretty effective for convincing people who don't know the true definition.
Ah yes, how dare those black players lift their heads up and 'make a scene'. What grifters they are, taking advantage of their blackness to promote themselves.
Full disclosure, I have a wrapper script to make git log output a lot more readable for me, it columnizes and shortens and colors the output. I’d agree the defaults are not amazing, and even with log’s many arcane options it’s very difficult to make it feel smooth.
Putting ethnic minorities in concentration camps is an early-Holocaust atrocity today.
Because visual storytelling is the whole point of the medium.

Yes, there should be a symphony of sound and visual working together. But the whole point of the medium of Motion Pictures is to tell stories through... motion pictures.
You started a list about musical performers in China?

[EDIT: I see, it was deliberate wordplay from South Park. Sorry!]
You're assuming that those people will actually "look back at their life".

Many don't, never will, and are incapable of understanding what the problem even is.
We fight to make this country what it is so that we can all stand together as one people, not so we can whine like little babies about who’s more privileged or marginalized than everyone else.
>"surely everyone wants to be like us, we are the best country in the world afterall"

To be fair, that's generated from many immigrants who come to the USA with the feeling that "this is the land of opportunities and freedom". Granted, when you come from somewhere like soviet occupied Poland, it doesn't really take much to find a land of opportunity and freedom. But other immigrants from other countries say the same.

If you're an American and a majority of your experience with foreigners are the people that come in saying that, and one of their proudest days is becoming an American citizen, you generally get an idea that America is a pretty good country. As a first gen, I don't see American's having pride in their country as fully unwarranted. It's not like other countries are without their fuck ups.
Sarah Newman from prgmr.com here. It's funny you should ask this - we just kicked off an effort a week ago to work on this problem. We don't even have a website yet for the software, but please feel free to watch audiplot.org for future developments.
I read this often, and since people tend to do overengineering, this isn't bad advice. However: Some things can only be reduced so much.

Rebuilding the product we ship at $dayjob, and which I enjoy working on, with a comparable feature set would probably take me ~8 years fulltime, assuming I know the whole stuff as well as I think and I don't hit major blockers (e.g. I don't do UI stuff, but most work is in the backend anyway); there is virtually no FOSS to accelerate this. A lot of the features can be dropped to get to a MVP, but I suspect I'd still be working on that for 6 month to a year, fulltime, and I will not be as easily extensible as the current incarnation. So that's 1000 to 2000h with a huge amount of technical debt and magnitudes inferior to the "competition"/$dayjob.

Could I still pull that off if I wanted to? Yes. Would I enjoy it that way? Hell no.
There are lots of legal wrinkles to that "piece of paper", for instance with respect to hospital visitation policies and the ability to adopt. So yes, some of those things are directly impacted.
> hardware

It doesn't have to be real hardware: you can run pihole in a VM (KVM, Hyper-V, etc) on your local machine. It'll eat a bit of RAM of course, but it doesn't need a huge amount to serve one user.

This doesn't solve the setup time of course, and trouble-shooting time if something goes wrong.

For mobile I run OpenVPN at home: all my traffic when on on my phone provider's network or public/guest wifi goes down that including DNS request going to my pihole instance. This isn't perfect of course: there is still some setup and maintenance involved, and some networks block or significantly throttle VPN traffic (throttling can be worked around by running the VPN on port TCP443 if it is done by simple port based rules but that may mean having a spare IPv4 address to hand).
> "I'm a reliable remote worker but I know that's going to put people off, how to alleviate concerns here?"
> Show, Dont' Tell.

Isn't he just saying that he doesn't tend to slack off when he's working remote, like some people do? How is writing a blog going to show anyone you work just as hard remotely as in the office?
An important nitpick for those who are unaware: hopefully you use uBlock Origin, not uBlock. uBlock is owned by AdBlock and allows "Acceptable Ads".[1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UBlock_Origin#uBlock
Wow, this is a lot of work. Thanks a lot for open-sourcing it!
The awkward interplay of man vs. machine
The parent was commenting one the episode linked in that image (S12E8), since that was that GP compared the current episode to.
Unfortunately you're probably right.
This M$ = bad trope is really tired and outdated and not representative of its value to devs.

By all means encourage different hosting platforms, but maybe in a tone more relevent to the current decade.
That's not the reason they have "enormous wealth". I think Switzerland understood early on that it's important for them to invest in science, education and innovation because they don't have any other natural resources.

Incentivizing companies like Google to set up shop in Switzerland of course is related to the low taxes, but also access to talent with great technical schools (ETH, EPFL). Furthermore, companies know that people would love to relocate to Switzerland to work for them.
This in turn leads to more money for research, academia and education in general. It's virtuous cylce.

Obviously, there are many more factors. And yes, maybe it helped that there was the bank secracy law and criminals and the Germans during WWII parked their money in Switzerland, but I would say that's not the determining factor.

Disclaimer: I'm Swiss, so probably biased.
Nobody running a farm is wasting expensive municipal water on irrigation when they have a perfectly functional well on the property. I'm not sure it's even possible to run an economically solvent farming operation off municipal water in the US for any crop other than maybe indoor weed.
Found this cool app that earns you cash and stops junk mail
You might want to check out Arcadia[0], a Clojure library for Unity game development. It's all done with ClojureCLR and it's pretty cool. Not saying you want to do game development, but they've definitely got a working product and you can see how they've set up their project.

They just got a round of funding this year, and they've got several good talks posted on their homepage about the quirks of working on .NET.

[0]https://github.com/arcadia-unity/Arcadia
The part I don't understand is, how would the scissor statements be made real?

E.g. The Russian scissor statement machine spits out a statement about a bakery refusing to make a cake for a gay couple.

What happens next? They somehow identify real people who fit the role and nudge them towards ordering a cake?

Or would everyone involved be paid actors?

Or real people who are bribed / coerced?

I know we're in fictional territory, I'm just curious about how this would work in the story's 'universe'. (And in real life, I guess, considering that some of it seemed dangerously plausible).
Zapier has about 1,000 integrations, more than any of their closest competitors and at a price that is far less than others in their space. What you've done here is great! The UX seems better than Zapier and the extensibility & community approach terrific. The key, though, is going to be adding integrations rapidly. I might also stress:

- Bulk actions.
- Sync actions.

And support for other programming languages (eg. python)

Hope that helps.
How much required reading should a version control tool really need before you can use it competently?
I confess to being a bit surprised but, based on the comments, it certainly seems as if $100/month is within the normal range for water bills, even for light use.
Frederick Douglass pithily summed it all up with “no struggle, no progress” / “Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.”