skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The commute isn't too bad especially since I only do it twice a week (and technically wouldn't need to at all). Since I'm not customer facing or anything I have shifted my hours to be from 6AM-3PM so I miss all the morning traffic and the afternoon is just starting to pick up at that time, so it's more of a distance thing than traffic.

For grins I looked at Google Maps and it says my biking commute is 1 hour 47 minutes. Yikes! With an ebike I'm sure it will be less, but it's still significantly longer (which is expected, that's not a criticism). Note, however, that I do live in a Northern climate and have snow during the winter, which would definitely contradict the "more comfortable" claim that some of said.

Also, yes, I could do groceries more often, but I hate to do it which is why I actually tend to have them delivered.
The Bazel team published official rules for managing transitive dependencies from Maven: https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_jvm_external

There are also community created solutions like https://github.com/johnynek/bazel-deps, and https://github.com/square/bazel_maven_repository.

Disclosure: I maintain rules_jvm_external.
Both of those are promising specific things with a specific timeframe.
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> 10.14 is still supported. 10.13 is still supported. 10.12 is still supported. Keep using those if you want.

Unfortunately, not well enough. Catalina contains security fixes that apparently [0] haven't yet been backported to Mojave, let alone the others. I wonder how early or late into the beta those bugs were fixed; potentially, they've been patched for months.

[0]: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT201222

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/10/07/apple_catalina_secu...
What you have to say about monopoly of research about certified professionals is apposite but I doubt there were 10 chuckleheads looking to replicate Barry Marshall’s experiment for kicks
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And your gadget is safe from being stolen? And you can't be forced to give the pin, password, fingerprint, whatever?
I don't know where you are, but from the place where i am this whole paypal thing made no sense because we already had the possibility to 'wire' money relatively fast and cheap. Which can work even faster now with SEPA instant payments. Not to forget: credit cards! I know i'm sounding old and cranky, but most of that new stuff made NO REAL SENSE WHATSOEVER for most people in my region. That is why they are slow to adopt, because they don't need to!

There is no need for something like 'payday loan checks' around here. And no need to plug in some upstarts which are trying to circumvent established infrastructure by going exclusively mobile, while in reality using established credit card companies also. They are just one additional man in the middle, snorkeling up data, and adding fees. What do you think Apple Pay is?

Edit: Of course i don't carry all my money with me all the times. Why should i? I do have a banking account. But when i need it, there usually is an ATM somewhere within 10 minutes max pedestrian distance from a network called 'Cash Group' which my bank is a member of. You know? Physical ATMs, installed in branch offices of members of Cash Group. If not there are others, and i maybe have to pay EUR 1 for drawing EUR 100, or something like that.And not some freestanding suspicious thing, riddled with skimming devices and dirty, operated by some suspicious entity. I'm used to this sort of physical infrastructure and think that is how it should be.
Not out of stubbornness, but after evaluating the pros and cons of alternative systems. Going fully cashless may appeal at first because of convenience, and in theory it may be implemented right. But usually history shows 'worse is better'. Where does that leave the 'unbanked'? Yah, well, with something worse?

Edit: Maybe i'd see it different when i'd have traveled to Sweden, the Megapolises of China, or having used some card for
a public transportation network which doubles as convenience cash for other things as transport. But it wouldn't change my principal criticism of that stuff. If only usable by Smartphone you are F..... when that is without power, broken, stolen, stuck in some digital mess by either Telco/ISP, online banking account by upstart which does banking in a lazy way, or some such.

I repeat: cash is simple. It works. Use it when you can.

Maybe think about antifragility and resilience for a while.
It is surprising to discover that there is actually a market for multiple MySQL Raytracers, much less that this is the best of them. Clever stuff.
If I were you I'd be a lot more comfortable pulling the trigger after reading all of this.

Being worried over what might have been spoilt milk if you had gotten a broken board in the past seems counterproductive.
Ah, I misunderstood. I think it's a little bogus that the income source determines the tax rate, because then the rich just manipulate their income to use the source with the lowest rates which is a luxury the poor can't afford.
the economic (counter-)argument for higher taxes on the wealthy is that our economy becomes more dynamic and creative when wealth is more evenly distributed. you give more people chances to come up with something cool and ingenious with that capital. rich people get complacent and go after moribund ways to keep and expand their wealth.

plus, the wealthy have benefited more from the system so it’s fair for them to pay more for it. no rich person is mortally worried about their lives if their marginal tax rate goes up to 50%, whereas that would be perilous for the poor.
It's like http://80legs.com which, by the way, was acquired.
The whining about Apple is astounding. Nearly everyone complaining about the lack of freedom of choice in here has an android phone and just wants to smarm it up.

We get it, you warned them about the possibility of Apple doing this, only that was never your point before. It's always been about the freedom to develop without having to pay to do so. The fact the end user side was locked on certain settings has never been about the possibility that Apple could remove apps to aid a government agenda.

Personally I use Android too, but I'm a developer and never liked Apple's development ecosystem. My point is the end user signed a terms of use when the bought the phone and the majority of people complaining about this issue didn't buy one because they didn't want to agree to it.

The majority of the whining going on here is no different than straight guys complaining about the existence of gay guys. The issue doesn't affect you, and your opinions are getting annoying.
Wow, TIL. I did not realize it was a subset.
> I find this very strange, .50cal is one of the standard sniper caliber all around the world

As a long-distance paper-punch, the .50BMG has some nice ballistic properties, if your shoulder can take the punishment. Thus its modern use. But the natural enemy of the .50BMG is the engine block. It was optimized for the objectives of the tail-gun crew in a WWII-era bomber.
> collapse of human civilization somewhere on the horizon, and human extinction after that if we don't change course

From what I have read, this is not true. Some humans will potentially suffer, but we are nowhere near mass extinctions. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_global_warming
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That's a step in the right direction. The next thing would be to drop the compiler extensions (signal/slots macros) in favor of modern C++.
Many legal frameworks have an interoperability clause which would allow using that list for the sole purpose of interop.

What W3W seems to be doing is taking down the sites on trademark grounds (that is, "what three words" and "what free words" being too similar).

They might have a case there, and whatfreewords might be better off distancing themselves a bit in naming. Call it "Simple Locator", state somewhere on the website (not the headline) that it's a scheme "compatible to what3words (which is a trademark by ...)" and they lose that angle of attack.
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Tons of youtubers have been deplatformed/demonitized. Anytime a company fires someone, deplatforms or demonitizes for "Hate Speach" that would meet the broad definition of anti-free speech.
Just because you disagree with someone's comments doesn't make them a bot. They look pretty human to me.
Jax, for those that haven't heard of it, is the thing y'all want.
I really like how they have faces painted on them.
Like I said: "bug-ridden, slow" :)
Please Apple remove your Maps app. After all, it enables bad people to navigate roads to reach their target most efficiently.
FB has thrown a lot of random stuff over the wall that they use internally and thought might be useful to other people. I think Hack and Buck fit into this category. Facebook will maintain them forever, because they are core parts of internal infrastructure. Their value to Facebook is completely independent of wider industry adoption.

Whereas PyTorch is intended, from the ground up, to be a widely useful project, and the dev team weights open-source issues at least as much as internal ones.

(Full disclosure: I used to work at Facebook, including, briefly, on PyTorch)
From the article it seems like a reasonable take-down, a developer made a cash-grab app to capitalize on the controversy, which is against policy.

If the app was made as a political statement, it wouldn't have in-app purchases IMO.
> it ought to be an open standard, with a published algorithm and open-source implementation.

That's entirely against their business model. See also the open street map wiki page on it: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/What3words

Or any of the previous HN discussions (just some samples):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8614198

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15579017

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17423251

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20712591
Couldn’t this easily be circumvented by indicating a generic POI.. if there’s no symbolism attached to it then the app is not a position of recommending anything other than a point of interest. As a sidebar, I’m surprised no one has thought of an ingress-style game as an organizing tool. For ex. A blue beacon equipped in a certain way is indicative of one thing while an green beacon another.
Question: who are the people running this? Why are they so intent on staying anonymous? It seems to have bitten them multiple times…
Climate science agrees with him. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_global_warming
Oh, that finally shipped! I saw the Fujitsu chip set for that offered a few years ago.
Hmm, yeah. If I'm sufficiently depressed, things like diet become very negligible. Sense of belonging is much, much more important. I don't recall if anyone ever did a study for that in particular.
Yep on #2 I was assuming benefits don't change and hoping they were covering 100%.
CleanRL: RL library focusing on experimental research (beginner-friendly)
OP here. I never installed Catalina (or any recent beta software in years) on my primary machine that I get work done on. My Catalina testing this Summer was explicitly kept to an old laptop and virtual machines.

My "simpler" comment was about my mistake in signing into iCloud on those test devices. I learned my lesson and either stayed logged out or used a test iCloud account for the rest of the Summer.

And, overall, my post and comments in general are about running Catalina now that it's publicly released. Not about issues I experienced as a beta user.
> However, over the past several days we received credible information, from the Hong Kong Cybersecurity and Technology Crime Bureau, as well as from users in Hong Kong, that the app was being used maliciously to target individual officers for violence and to victimize individuals and property where no police are present.

So just like Snapchat, Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit. They should probably get rid of those too
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Right now, yes, and in the dot com bubble, yes, but from 2002 until probably 2010, six-figure entry-level salaries weren't so common.

But I agree that for the last ~7 years, making six figures in tech hasn't been anything notable.
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webscraper.io is free and has more functionality. I've used it for a quick and easy way to scrape data off multiple pages.

Probably has a slightly higher learning curve but once you get past that it's easy.
Good, now do that on a page that uses JS and authentication. Trivial on this extension, not so much using BS.
Not helpful but I had the opposite experience. Sidecar Just Worked with my MBP and 2016 iPad Pro, and drawing on it was extremely smooth. A better experience than Astropad so far, personally.

Did you try connecting to it with a cable?
By law, in the Netherlands, employees are allowed to reduce their work hours. Allegedly, unless there is a clear, critical business need for you to work the entire week, the company is not allowed to deny your request.

I would love to work fewer days per week, and use the extra time to focus more on my personal development & side projects. However, at my current level of discipline, I'd be fooling myself if I said I would use the time productively.

That said, the idea is still very tempting and I intend to do it in the next couple of years. In the meantime, I fully enjoy all of my 24 PTO days and make use of our policy for getting 5 extra unpaid days without justification.
This seems like great practice, despite being extraordinarily fraught with difficult decisions. If we attempt a custom solution to hundreds or thousands of these rapidly dying patients, we may learn a tremendous amount about each disease we attempt to treat. If we don't make strides on the diseases, we will at least learn to quickly iterate on drug manufacturing.

The quoted 7000 rare diseases won't be solved with traditional investment in each one. It seems reasonable that we attempt alternative techniques and learn from each attempt.

I worry about two things: That we will use custom drugs when traditional techniques would be more effective, and that money that would otherwise be effectively spent on traditional research is spent on the custom drug effort.
So, I'm a bit confused.

https://whatfreewords.org seems to be up and running just fine.
So make a binary a available for download?
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That is being fired at top levels of the corporate world. Lots of "resignations" "stepping down", etc. Not a bunch of firing.
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Hi everyone,

Author here. I have created a yet another reinforcement learning library. [https://github.com/vwxyzjn/cleanrl]

This repository focuses on a clean and minimal implementation of reinforcement learning algorithms. The highlights features of this repo are:

* Most algorithms are self-contained in single files with a common dependency file common.py that handles different gym spaces.
* Easy logging of training processes using Tensorboard and Integration with wandb.com to log experiments on the cloud. Check out [https://app.wandb.ai/costa-huang/cleanrltest]
* Easily customizable and being able to debug directly in Python’s interactive shell.
* Convenient use of commandline arguments for hyper-parameters tuning.

Currently I support A2C, PPO, and DQN. If you are interested, please consider giving it a try :)

Motivation:

There are two types of RL library on the two ends of the spectrum. The first one is the demo kind that really just demos what the algorithm is doing, only deals with one gym environment and hard to record experiments and tune parameters.

On the other end of the spectrum, we have OpenAI/baselines, ray-project/ray, and couple google repos. My personal experience with them is that I could only run benchmark with them. They try to write modular code and employ good software engineering practices, but the problem is python is a dynamic language without IDE support. As a result, I had no idea what variable types in different files are and it was very difficult to do any kind of customization. I had to see through dozens of files before even able to try some experiments.

That’s why I created this repo that leans towards the first kind, but has more actual experimental support. I support multiple gym spaces (still working on it), command line arguments to tune parameters, and very seamless experiment logging, all of which are essential characteristics for building a pipeline for research I believe.
Counterpoint: I've worked at SV unicorns that were not public, and did not intend to go public in the near term. And they had a similar "damn the torpedoes! full speed ahead!" attitude. So I think it is more pervasive than just Wall Street.
Sets are clearly defined. The usual formalism for defining a set is ZFC set theory. In fact to a first approximation all of modern mathematics is sufficiently well-defined to be entirely formalized in a computer. This is an approximation primarily because currently the burden to do so is immensely high. With today's technology formalizing a proof can easily take several orders of magnitude more time (if not more!) than writing the informal, but commonly accepted as rigorous, proof.

There are philosophical questions around what it means to "define" something. But if you want to go there, well then nothing is clearly defined.
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> they seem to be doing ok

Japan is not really doing OK. They are literally going extinct, have an awful and destructive work culture and have a ton of problems with sexism, to the point where it is necessary to have gender-segregated train carriages to stop groping. The only reason Japan seems to be doing OK is because their news are mostly inaccessible to the rest of the world.
What is the trade-off between safety/functionality and aerodynamics? How would replacing car mirrors affect mileage in a typical vehicle, say a Honda Accord?
I ditched a Dyson cordless for a corded Miele. Doesn't run out in the middle of cleaning, doesn't clog with hair, much more powerful. I think bagged vacuum cleaners are so much less maintenance.

Having a cord is no inconvenience to me, I would rather have the power and indurance.

I also have a problem with Dyson himself...
I've messaged you guys a couple times, but never heard anything! I'm a seasoned Django developer, led some teams, and have a bit of experience in public health (mainly disease surveillance) platforms. I'm located in Austin.
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Catalina is definitely the most badly broken release in the last 10 years.

I can't get Chrome desktop notifications to work anymore, but the worst thing is that all my Apple Music playlists have disappeared from my iPhone.

They do exist in the Catalina Music app, but not on the phone where I need them. I suspect it's because my iPhone 6 isn't supported by the latest iOS release and there appears to be some iCloud version incompatibility that was triggered by Catalina. The iPhone Music app has crashed a few times as well.

They do warn me of just such an incompatibility when I open the Reminders app (which now has a far more convoluted user interface for no apparent benefit). I get the feeling that my decision to just keep using my iPhone 6 until it's not longer good enough will be difficult to sustain.

Catalina also randomly stalls for a second or two and some mouse clicks just don't register for a long time until they eventually do. This seems to have gotten a bit better now so I'm hopeful that it was related to uncached data.
How’s Bazel documentation these days for people who haven’t worked at Google?

In April 2018, I tried to do a quick port of a tiny gsl::span-using toy app to absl::span, but I gave up, because Abseil wanted me to build my app using Bazel and Bazel docs seemed to assume that I already have some context that Googlers would have but I hadn’t.

(I emphasize that this was a _quick_ attempt at a toy program and not about making a serious time investment to learn a tool for a serious project.)
Are you referring to https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21889053/what-is-the-run... ? If so: I'm hesitant to put too much weight on an answer from 2015, based on running different builds in/out of docker, sitting right under another answer that shows basically no performance difference on anything except network (and with the ability to fix that by using host networking if you care). And even that post doesn't show "100% performance decrease", it shows a 41% drop (184857.06 / 312836.64 = 0.59).

If that's not the SO post you mean, then please point me to the right one.
It doesn't help that the political leadership keeps telling the population that these wars will take a couple weeks and cost a pittance.
Really? He did?

Anyway, he hasn't done much in Emacs development for years now, I think. As a maintainer, his actual tenure was very brief.

Eli Zaretskii is the acting maintainer now.
Methane breaks down quickly, yes, but it also has a much, much more potent greenhouse effect. Taking both factors into account, releasing 1 ton of methane is estimated to be about equivalent to releasing 25 tons of CO2.
Here is the thing: to you it is incredibly obvious. Despite the clear feedback that other people don't agree, you still insist it is incredibly obvious. To some people it is incredibly obvious that AGW is real; to other people it is incredibly obvious that AGW is a scam.

Just asserting it doesn't advance the conversation, and copping an attitude about something so meaningless as karma points is ridiculous.
Here's one for SQLite https://observablehq.com/@pallada-92/sql-3d-engine
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Sorry, but I'm not interested in peer reviewing the article here if this is what you expected. I was not asked to do so in any case by the editors, and this is not the place for it.

The article is great, but the problem is more complex than that, for several reasons that as you pointed, are out of the scope of the article (so I will not discuss them here). Feel welcomed to talk about the article, and only about the article, if this is what you want. I will listen carefully.
That is almost hilarious would it not be for real. Out of curiosity may I ask what device you are using?
Wherefore the fuck?

Though I'm suddenly curious if this can be done in other SQL engines, too.
I can tell you from the inside that everything I've seen is genuine, even though it makes doing ML-based projects very difficult. That said, I'm very disappointed in this removal as to me it flies against the value.
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Don't know how much it is still true, but HN was originally implemented in arc.

The language homepage[1] says "Arc is unfinished. It's missing things you'd need to solve some types of problems. [...] The first priority right now is the core language."

Perhaps parallelism is still pending. A Ctrl-F on the tutorial doesn't turn up any hits for "process", "thread", "parallel", or "concurrency".

[1]: http://www.arclanguage.org
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I read this here on HN: "using tDCS is like using a sledgehammer to tune a piano".
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To be fair, the way that people in technical roles explain things to those with less technical knowledge can often feel condescending and 'mansplained' regardless of the gender roles in conversation. I ( male ) felt this in my first job out of college from everyone that was senior to me on the engineering team. When I was there, I worked with a girl that was both younger than I and more senior in many areas technically. She, albeit I think unintentionally, would effectively mansplain issues to me.

Point being, in technical roles and roles where you interact with technical people, you will undoubtedly have moments where you feel like information is being disseminated in a condescending fashion. Context is key here as it would be unfair to conflate the general 'prickliness' of many engineers with misogyny.