skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see how to reply to a comment. For example, if I go here[0] where there are two top-level comments, I don't see any reply links.

[0] https://news.python.sc/item/73cc2374-210c-4b6a-aca1-bfb98623...
> Regina Ave (Reg-eye-na) comes out as Reg-ee-na, which, ok... but that's the name of the city!

Is it, though? I mean, if a city was named, centuries ago, by people who pronounced that name a particular way—and then language shifted in some way and every modern person pronounces the name differently... are the living people right? Or would it be "more correct" to pronounce the name the way that the people who came up with the name pronounced it?

(The Duchess of Argyll would certainly have pronounced the city's name as "Reg-ee-na", given that she named the city after the Latin word for "queen" [to refer to her mother, Victoria], and the Latin word is pronounced that way.)

It's a bit like asking whether the correct name for Saskatchewan itself is "Saskatchewan", or "Kisiskāciwani."

It's also a bit like asking whether the people of St. Louis are wrong to be pronouncing their city's name with a vocalized S.
And yet, a lot of people have been confused into thinking things like The Cloud are decentralized.

I’m not sure how this got broken, but a few powerful companies seem to be running with it.
In the SEC's defense, they're tiny and woefully underfunded. That's why they always come out swinging hard, and are so intransigent. They want interpretations that make it easy for them to penalize and convict. Big companies have enough legal resources, as well as enough pull in Washington, to wipe the floor with the SEC unless the law is crystal clear in the SEC's favor. The SEC is hardly the only regulatory agency that wants easier convictions, or is fearful of lobbyist pushback, but it's a perpetual issue with the SEC, and the situation is peculiarly and qualitatively unique.

If the SEC gives a small investor an inch, the big financial houses will extend that into a parsec. And those companies are constantly watching for those opportunities. So, yeah, the SEC isn't shy about picking a fight with the little guys because they only pick fights they think they can win, preferably outside court; the consequences of losing a fight are huge. This strategy isn't unique to the SEC, but it's uniquely consequential to their authority and effectiveness in general. It's an unfair situation all around, but at the end of the day responsibility falls on Congress.

In any event, my point was that if the situation seems confusing, it almost certainly is a confusing situation without any obvious answers.
I mean locally, each government keeping track of its own citizens with HAM licenses.
> For example, a school which excluded certain socioeconomic classes of students.

But this is not even an option for what we're talking about.
You're doing god's work
Do you have any sources for that? I have seen zero evidence of that in my travels through China nor online other then some references about Neolithic times (not exactly recent) and the Oroqen people (who believe that marrying within their own tribe is akin to incest).
I was mostly led to believe that up to the cultural revolution people mostly stayed and married in their own village.
> If there is a single manufacturer of a brand-name product, Amazon could make it so that only that manufacturer can sell on Amazon, just like it does with its own products.

-- Or they could at least have a moderated platform where those merchandisers could 'greenlight' distributors of their own products so if they do have 3rd party sellers/distributors they could show who is valid and who is not.
That's such a misguided view. Bitcoin is mostly owned as an asset because of the hype.

Criminals use other less tracable coins.
I genuinely like your argument: although I've seen a few too many managers that exemplified the Peter Principle it's not unreasonable to hope that a "plant manager" is aware that a web of process exists, even if they can't immediately cite it.
California bullet train funds eyed for Burbank-to-Anaheim line
Didn't CTAN predate CPAN?
In the early days, stdin and stdout was a convention of the shell, not the operating system. Eg Programmers Workbench circa 1977: see execute() in
https://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=PWB1/sys/sourc...

In Version 7 (1979), it moved to the kernel - see setregs() in
https://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V7/usr/sys/sys...

The V7 kernel model makes it generic - on exec, Unix will close() any file that has the close_on_exec flag set.

I believe that is the critical concept - stderr is supported by an OS level feature and inherits across various processes through pipes, forks and execs.

To tie back to the initial case in this thread, this is very useful for the Unix print system because it was/is a maze of squirrelly processes.
This is what I'm talking about wrt bitching and moaning, in summary you tried to use ES but you didn't rtfm or didn't know about jvm tuning or didn't scale test and found out the weekend is a bad time to come up to speed on those, you had a bad time several times, plus you slashdotted yourself with monitoring; then you did a custom implementation for your vertical use case which didn't have the rtfm problem because you wrote it, but also only satisfied your case as opposed to the wide applicability of ES. Ultimately cool story bro because ES is freely available for anyone to use (many people do this) and modify (some people do this too) and your alternative is unknown.

What are the fundamental flaws of ES and what alternatives avoid those flaws, or how do you propose ES could address those flaws?

For example:

- "Algolia is so much better because it is a managed service." (hey whatsup ycombi)

- "Solr is also lucene but necessarily requires significant customization to the workload which avoids the common ES problem of it appearing to work so well out of the box that people neglect the details until it becomes an incident."

- "ES fundamental flaw is that zen disco mcast nonsense, people please stop being clever using mcast it never works in practice because igmp snoop". (hey whatsup we out here using ES since a while now)
I've daydreamed about something like this for non-textual I/O (e.g. audio/video streams), so that each audio channel or display window or what have you would be a pair of file descriptors (for input and output).
They provided one possible example. Exterior signage.

The owner described it as:
"it would “destroy” the popular store."
"I call it a bureaucratic noose that’s been put on my throat now."

Strong words, has she actually had an issue yet? What changes are needed to keep them competitive?
Good point. For now you'd need to click on the "0 comments" link next to the comment you'd like to reply to
Damn you... on one hand I'm very curious what her response is, on the other... I do not want to end up in jail.
What percentage of Android users, or to be generous, Telegram users, are running Fdroid?
I'm sorry. Sometimes goldbugs, and the crypto hardcore, get pretty far out there on the edge. It can be confusing whether something is an interesting point, worthy of discussion... or just outright "alternative reality", like climate change denial, that you should walk away from.

Are you actually saying that:

1. The payment processors joined this consortium to AVOID helping crytocurrencies catch on in the mainstream?

2. The payment processors are lying about pulling out. Facebook secretly pushed them out, because Facebook wants to start over with a more "pure" cryptocurrency?
After watching the trailer, I think I need some!
The Rule 30 Cellular Automaton in One Line of APL
> Strongly disagreed.

Well, I strongly ask why you think that. My logic is that if your government is below average at administering schools, then assuming people perform rather averagely, any other institution or organization has a better chance of providing better schooling than the government. Of course, it is always possible that your private market is even more corrupt and useless than your corrupt and useless government, in which case you probably have bigger fish to fry.
That would only drive things more toward censorship-resistant blockchain-based app stores after Google and Apple's behavior with apps in Hong Kong.
The inverse of this seems to be taking hold now: that it’s socially acceptable to say things which are unreasonable, outlandish or downright factually incorrect, if they’re considered to be in service of a cause that ‘our side’ believes in.

But yes, this has also been discussed a lot here before.
Far better than being an arrogant asshole who asserts that people should only research things where you decide in advance that the answers are sufficiently trivial.
I'll not go too far into CRU, as I have no definitive proof of their funding beyond what is publicly known.

I can't imagine why the Met Office or NRA would have any interest in promoting research with an agenda. They want to forecast the weather accurately, and manage UK rivers respectively. Their interests are served by accuracy, not agenda and incorrect data. DOE was abolished by the Tories which you might well think reveals their stance.

Talking of, the Telegraph piece you link is after they stopped being a reputable newspaper with a rightwing but honest perspective, but were well along their journey to rightwing bullshit comic of today (ie after the Barclay brothers bought them). Which is a damn shame as I once used to buy Telegraph, FT and Guardian to get the spread of perspective. There isn't much available for honesty on the right from UK newspapers now. Which is not to discredit your link, I simply do not know. They still hadn't quite ditched all pretence to honesty around then. :)

> did you notice Theresa May's last act

lol. OK, I'll bite. The last act of a leader, as a "fuck you" to whoever might follow, after presiding over a famously weak government, coming shortly after the cross-party Select Committee's detailed plan to decarbonise. Greenwashing that was entirely empty words and the sound of kicking the can down the road. As significant as Boris Johnson's "I will lie in front of Heathrow bulldozers" speech. What legislation was brought to require movement towards her very distant targets?

What have the Conservative government done towards meeting that target since? What policy have they? Hint: nowt beyond the vague "so far in the future we don't care at all" target.

On other climate, renewables and efficiency related bills, the Conservatives have very consistently voted them down. They ended onshore wind completely, they removed feed tariffs for home solar - initially with no plan for replacement causing a 90%+ reduction in installations and decimating the industry, approved the Heathrow expansion, approved and promoted fracking - though even their own party membership objected to this so they wound it back somewhat, voted down the climate targets (two or three times), voted down the vehicle emission limits. It goes on, and on. You found one speech with nice words.

Also note that it was Parliament, not the Conservative Government that declared a climate emergency.

Coincidentally just today the Grauniad put up a very nice summary of how MPs have voted on recent climate issues, with an overall summary graphic: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2019/...

The actual voting patterns reveal everything. The data allows me to stand 100% by my claim of UK government's actual stance.
Definitely try CBD oil if you want to avoid the psychological effects of THC. There are also CBD-heavy strains if you do like to smoke.
It should contain information that isn't obvious and not read like a snarky toss-off.
There is a certain scale where the extra cost of the AWS managed offering surpasses the cost of hiring a full time engineer to manage your own. My company is way past that point. Like most things cloud, the answer is "it depends".
I am very happy with a Dell Precision 5510. I bought it as replacement for my MacBook Pro, maxed out late 2016, (MB) when it needs butterfly keyboard service (twice so far). It came with a Xeon processor and 32 GB RAM. for under 1000 USD. I run it with Ubuntu and compile software all day. My MB fans were blowing a lot and once even the battery swelled (service). My replacement Precision beats the MB in any aspect.
This is good for libra(coin)?
Except they're enforced even after the regulations put the original store out of business. The surge of small town historical districts in the US in the 80s-90s froze whatever signage was there at the time.

Now many of these towns have blocks of buildings with expensive and beautiful signs; none match the name of the actual business inside.
Honestly one of the factors leading to my burnout and depression was being required to be 'the face of' and promote the use of a piece of enterprise software that just confounded your expectations as a user at every turn.

I tried my best, I went to conferences and met the woman charged with modernising the UI and submitted the extensive feedback she asked for. She left the company 3 months later.

Training sessions were a constant flow of 'yeah that is a bit weird, but that's how it works!'.

I submitted via the vendor's service portal enhancement requests for everything that came up. Two years later they were all closed.

I knew it was hopeless, but I had to try. I wish I'd just refused and found somewhere else to work.
I'm really interested in how this plays out. It seems to me like the SEC's argument is that Grams aren't a currency because you cannot currently buy or sell goods with Grams. But the currency hasn't launched yet, and that's the whole point of the injunction I suppose: to stop the currency from launching before it becomes a currency. It also seems to me like this is an effort that's easily circumvented. Wouldn't it be trivial to offer something (such as some fancy badge on a Telegram account) in exchange for Grams, thus giving the currency value?

Are there any mechanics at play that could legitimately stop Telegram from launching the blockchain and distributing the tokens to users who aren't from the US?
But notice that it takes government enforcement to protect Wilderness, otherwise devils will do as they will.
When the Family Safety Net Fails
Then let another community pay the R&D costs of misidentification of criminals while the tech community tries to grease the joints.
Offering is any time the token is issued, like on launch. The word is misleading since TG is not doing another sale. They actually complied with SEC during the sale. This is the launch which requires the tokens to be liquid for the network to function. My guess is that TG will file for a reg-a like blockstack.
Everyone's a conservative once regulation hits close enough to home.
Slumberd, a HTTP service for testing long-lived requests
Yeah, I can attest to this. It sounds easy at first, but suddenly you need to handle items inside virtual lists (e.g., react-window), scrolling, data updating while dragging, ...
If the financials of that make sense, I think it's certainly something they should make part of their portfolio: make a point, gauge interest, increase volume.

I suspect that the laptops are their mass market driver though. Note how S76 has laptops + desktops, Purism has laptops + phone stuff, and Pine64 has laptops, phones and watches.

All of them do laptops plus some excentricity that may or may not translate in good future business: desktop systems are excentric these days and apparently they're not even the most popular pick when branching out, phones are.
I built an HN clone in Django called Educator News [0], but I couldn't figure out how to get meaningful traction. It was really interesting to build, and implementing comments was one of the few times in my life where I've used recursion on a real-world project. I looked at Django-MPTT, and made a note to look into implementing it if the project went anywhere meaningful.

[0] https://github.com/ehmatthes/educator_news
HN in a nutshell lol.
Wow, sir, you are presenting yourself as a little bit clueless. Keybase's whole shtick is thorough end-to-end encryption on all of their products. They're not "rolling their own crypto". They use established, proven cryptography to share keys between your devices without ever having access to your private keys themselves.

Apple, on the other hand, can see everything you upload to iCloud Drive, iCloud Photos etc. Don't believe their marketing, they only do e2e on the Keychain and Messages - and even then the clients have no way of making sure the recipient's key they received from Apple actually matches their private key. So Apple could fool both sides, give them keys generated by Apple and decrypt everything on their servers when requested by authorities like fucking China (a.k.a. MITM).
Visionati releases image/video recognition API that accepts crypto currencies
> It could be that the scientists are simply smarter; most physicists could, if necessary, make it through a PhD program in French literature, but few professors of French literature could make it through a PhD program in physics.

Well having taken a lesson from the article, I think he's purely mistaken with this point. (As well as divisive, insensitive, etc..)

Quite the hubris to make that assumption!
Then let’s have the central banks of the G7 set up a cryptocurrency that’s backed by actual reserve currency. Why put Facebook in the middle?
People who advocate for small government often fail to realize many purposes of government such as this. Another purpose is literally to protect us from enslavement by our fellow countrymen/countrywomen/countrypersons.
Thing is, people have 'good reason' to want drugs: They feel good, and mostly, people get addicted. Moreover, there is much less of a scale requirement for drugs. It is pretty easy to make money on drugs when 0.1% of all people are using your drugs.

Whereas, a currency used by 0.1% of your friends / neighbors is totally useless.

These reasons make it 1) easier to suppress a currency 2) harder to suppress drugs.
Scala Packrat Parser Combinators for DSLs
Is The Strand being compensated? It would be one thing if the the public were purchasing the building or paying for it's use. It doesn't seem like eminent domain or the like where the government compensates for seizure.
You Don't Need GraphQL Anymore Introduce Vulcain
Everything I can find on it, seems that Apple and iOS has around 10-25% market share and units shipped[1][2][3][4] In China specifically, it seems to be around 20%[5]

And the idea of real people, having a real need for something in this very moment, is gonna care if they use a iOS app or a web app is pretty laughable too. Even with a worse user experience.

- 1) https://www.counterpointresearch.com/global-smartphone-share...

- 2) https://www.statista.com/statistics/271496/global-market-sha...

- 3) https://gs.statcounter.com/vendor-market-share/mobile

- 4) https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/worldwide

- 5) https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/china

There is more over at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_syste... as well that shows around the same number above too.
Pretty much my feeling.

I can never tell when discussing matters like this if the other party is expressing legitimate concerns poorly considered, or if I’m witnessing some astroturfing campaign.

JBoss was the first astroturfing campaign I learned about (and if you’re reading this, Marc, fuck you. Yeah people still remember.)

I know these sorts of things have been going on forever but it feels like it’s getting worse over time. To the point I’m not sure I know who to believe anymore.
More information is available on the website: https://visionati.com

Docs are at: https://docs.visionati.com
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regression_toward_the_mean#Oth...

"If a business organisation has a highly profitable quarter, despite the underlying reasons for its performance being unchanged, it is likely to do less well the next quarter."

so something similar...if a buisness is featured as number one...it is likely to do less well in the future...
Yep, but that's the "open source" Android app, where the irregular code dumps are often weeks or months behind the released Play Store version...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_effect
Still happens with a variety of operating systems, usually when there's an extra driver or somesuch in between the PostScript code and the printer itself that inadvertently interprets that code as plain text to be printed as such.

Similar thing happens with ZPL/EPL printers as well; I've troubleshot many a workstation where someone expected a shipping label and instead got a long string of "^XA^PW812 [...] ^XZ" across dozens of labels.
The intent is to protect areas from further disruption, along the lines of road building, for example.
Selfishness is devilry, and devils make Truth out as falsehood and spin falsehood as true.
You've already made clear that you feel that only things with extremely huge effects (ones noticeable by you, in particular) should be studied and all other research should be defunded. So who gives a shit what you have to say about this study?

Save everybody time and shut the fuck up.
The Birth of Self Improving Artificial Intelligence
If it's entirely CPU bound, you can use multiprocessing to negate most of the GIL issues, and transparently send inputs/outputs between the parent and child processes. If it's I/O bound, then AsyncIO is a great way to express asynchronous workflows. If it's a combination of both I/O and CPU bound workloads, there are ways to mix multiprocessing and AsyncIO to better saturate your cores without losing the simplicity or readability of Python: https://github.com/jreese/aiomultiprocess
It did, but CTAN was just a network of FTP mirrors. CPAN was that initially too, but quickly got supporting software to automatically download/update packages and resolve dependencies, which AFAIK nobody else did at the time. Even Linux package managers didn't get that until a couple years later.
It’s not far cry from a developer receiving an unwanted and negative code review. Hurt ego is hurt ego
Money laundering and other criminal activities are a very profitable businesses that power an important sector of economy. If Bitcoin enables or facilitates them, it is far from what I would call useless.

Also: it will not be outlawed everywhere, some country will jump on the opportunity. So you earn bitcoins in one place, legalize then in another one, where it is legal. It's not so easy to prevent this, I'd even call an attempt futile.
"Too big to innovate"
This isn't a regulated security, so there's no 'official' name for what they're doing.

Basically, there was a private offering previously where large amounts were sold to selected parties. What is being blocked is the public 'offering' where these tokens can be publicly traded.

The SEC is saying that Telegram Group is clearly offering a security, and thus is subject to regulation. Indeed, what Telegram is doing is significantly different from 'classic' crypto issuance a la Bitcoin. There was no company or legal entity responsible for Bitcoin, let alone one that could control the network while profiting off of it. They have similar opportunities for the sort of financial malfeasance that the SEC is designed to mitigate.

Personally, I find it extremely difficult to argue with the SEC's position.

I strongly support cryptocurrencies, namely Bitcoin, but also recognize that these pre-mine coins are entirely different on many levels. They are hilariously vulnerable to abuse, only just rising beyond the level of an outright scam.
Hi everyone! We write parsers and didn't find a good post showing how to solve practical problems using parser combinators in Scala. Sharing our experience and hoping to learn from yours.
I hope some federated system like Mastodon picks up in popularity, it would make it harder to blacklist all instances and effectively blackhole the entire platform.
Does Python 3 have any operators that transform ordinary method calls into concurrent method calls? Perl 6/Raku does.