skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Splunk. We spend so much there and we want to process even more data with it. I could retire in short order on the amount of money we spend on them.
I don't disagree, I've run into those dark corners myself. But the ease of use of globals is undeniable - there's a reason the Singleton pattern is still popular after all the ridicule it attracts.
Something I've searched for clarity on but have never been able to find is differentiating between notifications and marketing email.

If you join a social network, does that network need to get your explicit consent to email you notifications about events or actions that might happen on the platform such as a new followers, connection requests and so on? I understand that they would need to for marketing related emails like recommendations on who to follow etc but do event / action notifications fall into that same marketing category?
NYC is not close to any major geological activity. The east coast, unlike the west coast, has been quiet for, what, 60 million years? The Appalachian mountains are worn-down nubs. The closest seismic zones are, what, the Caribbean and the New Madrid area of Missouri, IIRC.
Yeah, does anyone browse subreddits using just imgur anyway?

So long as you can load images on reddit itself I don't see the problem
At some point we’re going to start asking the same questions about humans. Do humans really understand what we read, or have we just picked up weird tricks that happen to work?

(When you read a novel, the experience of reading the novel is different for everyone. It’s like being on a rollercoaster or amusement park ride. Everyone has roughly the same stimulus but a different mental landscape and a different reaction. Our response to the book is largely a response to our own experience of reading the book, and only partly a response to the content of the book itself. This distinction isn’t just sophistry. Are we prepared for machines that react to books in ways that are completely alien to our own reactions?)
Oh. Locales. The remembered pain.

Save a file in Notepad. Open in vi. See that it is different. Find data in the database, no clue the weird characters were originally supposed to be. And so on and so forth.

I once wrote a reasonable program and sent it as a bug report to the maintainer of the Perl module DBD::File. He sent it as a bug report to BerkeleyDB. They said they never thought about it but yes, that would be silent data corruption with no way to recover. The program? Maintain an address book in a BTree sorted in the current locale. Enter names. Change locale and insert something else. Voila! Lost data with no way to recover!
Ubuntu 19.10 Has Two Outstanding New Features for Linux Users
I'm one of those people. I make lots of little commits, it gives me space to really make a mess of coding going down some rabbit hole and performing 'reset --hard' when I get too away from myself, and track what I'm doing locally. As long as each commit isn't causing a problem with CI/CD, and my pull request to master is well documented what is the value added of cleaning up commits?

(Junior developer here, looking to be convinced!)
> Webpages

I've had hit or miss success even when I drop $50 on an O'Reilly book on the topic.
We had an automated feeder with two chambers, each held down by a rotating, ticking timer switch. You rotate the switch to, say, 12 hours in the future, and 12 hours later the slot lines up and the lid pops over.

After many months, my cat learned to stand on top of the lid and use both paws to rotate the switch forward until the lid popped open.

This blew my mind. The switch was separated from the lid. I could imagine the cat attacking the lid itself, but this separate mechanism, requiring a motion completely distinct from the motion of an opening lid, and requiring patience without instantaneous reward or even evidence that it was going to work.... I just couldn't believe it.
So you never want to work with... any junior dev ever? I can't think of a single person we have hired out of college who used Git well.
I don't see how this is true any more than it is for a bank API.

I just want API access to the content --I wrote-- that they are monetizing (even if it's just a lure to get my friends on their platform), and if my friends grant me access to something they have written or shared, the API should allow that.

I agree that there are likely ways this can be used to do all kinds of terrible thing. But so could bank APIs.
How much of Qatar’s 2°C increase is due to urban heat island and how much is believed to be climate change? TFA says it’s a combination of both but does not elaborate.

I was thinking why not just mist water, but with the high humidity that’s not going to work.

Sounds like a good market for personal cooling devices. Cooling certain areas of the skin like your wrists is good at helping shift the apparent ambient temperature. Much more efficient than cooling the streets. There are also those devices you can wear around your neck.

I also wouldn’t be surprised if it was possible to create a specially insulated shirt that has a personal chiller (perhaps backpack size) piping cool air down your back to bring down core temperature.

200Wh in a 1kg battery can probably provide a decent amount of personal cooling, particularly if it’s built to interface intelligently with specialty clothing using performance fabrics. You need a system than can intelligently disperse the heat in a compact format, even in 50°C ambient, which is probably the hardest part.

It’s not like this place wasn’t always blisteringly hot, if you live in the desert you’re going to want good tech to stay cool.
When “naming things” is done right
Not new, just like organ harvesting has been reported in the (Chinese) news for 20 years.

But only after recent Xinjiang blindfolding Uighurs, NBA & Blizzard kowtowing does the west fully wake up to such news.

It’s late, but better than never.
No, in the same way that an open bank API doesn't mean allowing thieves to vacuum up everyone's money. Open API != open data.
If you want to go with the 5 mSv limit, and a chest x-ray is 20 μSv, that's still 833 chest x-rays per year before hitting your annual quota.
On those machines the old way works fine, but not all machine even have a place to store this data, on top of that people clone VM instances, and you don't want the same number each time.

Read the previous https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21114524 story for more on the problem space and why what you wrote is not considered enough.
This is awesome! I’d missed this news from last week, so I’m glad to see this on the front page. I remember looking at this when it was first released (it was Power BI only at first, right?) and trying to find a way to utilize it in a data journalism project I was working on.

Love that it’s a VS Code extension (and apparently has been for 6 months, shows how in the loop I am) — this looks super slick.

Disclosure: I work at Microsoft but not on this team, as evidenced by the fact that I missed this news (ironically, part of my job is producing a weekly developer news video show — clearly I just missed this).
I run outside the DE because I have had more problems with CUDA stuff hanging the computer during long running jobs when running inside of a DE.
Nothing worse than waking up to check results of some long job in the morning only to realised it crashed 15 minutes in.

You are right, of course, about it not being a problem for those two machines. I didn’t realise Xububtu and Lububtu profiled themselves as low requirements OS’.
Wouldn't the people that call the shots just move to another country they own income producing assets in?
Then the 1% would join the 99% who is suffering, I don't think the average quatari enjoys the oil wealth that much.
Show HN: Rebound – A game that tests focus and concentration
oh well good thing they haven't spent decades amassing an arsenal of weapons to protect themselves.

man people love to bandy about so blithely on shit like this as if they've been in so many civil wars that it's passe.

stop being an internet tough guy and go look at the pictures coming out of Yemen or Syria or Libya. If those regimes to fail as a result of the world moving away from oil they will take many millions of completely innocent people with them.
At the current rate of progress, there's a fair chance you'll be dead before X is completely abandoned.
Good. That gives them enough room to fix operating costs and get to normal industry margins for a $2-4B gain in valuation if they want to try to take it public again in the future. I really hope this rescue includes some kind of clawbacks on Neumann's shares and properties, though.
I am not sure if it's missing or it's part of one of these four, but another very important part for me is the introduction/README. Probably the most important one. Introductions include:

- Project health indicators, all green. [tests | passing] and such.

- Quick general description of the problem the project solves.

- A simple code snippet showing how easy it is to use it. Not the most complex way of using it as many do, please.

- Screenshots and gifs if it's UI-related. Very important if it's UI-related.

- Quick installation guide if using a common way, or a link to an in-depth guide if it's not easy to install.

- Links to other parts, in-depth articles, etc.

Some examples where I think I got it right (feedback welcome!): https://github.com/franciscop/server https://github.com/franciscop/ola

That said, good documentation takes a lot of effort and time.
The Social Value of Abstraction in Lamar Dodd’s NASA Art
Ray Dalio says the world is in a ‘great sag’ and echoes the 1930s
Anything by the group Tafelmusik.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tafelmusik_Baroque_Orchestra
No what Moz does is platform building, and it's strictly worse than the Open Web we used to have.
What tune are we singing the song to?

'Modern Major General' from HMS Pinafore might fit.

Edit:
The internet is for porn and has everything that's sexual.

From web cams, sex tapes, phat ass, big jugs, erotica homosexual.

And if you find a kink absent.... You're one fked up individual.

Edit2: Repeated lyrics repeated. (I'm sure Lennon and McCartney didn't get it right 1st time).
RSS is not dead, it's just not advertised much anymore. It's still the only way I "subscribe" to anything.
> Edit: whoever downvoted you clearly never had a few hours of fun on a Friday night tweaking FVWM only to find out it's 4 AM now and oh crap it's also Monday!

I'm still sorry about my FVWM config. It was almost perfect. I should search for it in backups.
Because it is a jerk thing to do.
I read it too. Made me think how ethical it is to continue using Facebook (and its other major product, Instagram).
Scratch anti-adult and substitute pro-family. Perspective matters, and that's the approach Apple takes.
That commit message may be caustic but there is a lot of knowledge and experience included in it.
I find it interesting that advertising on pornographic content in a lot of English speaking countries seems difficult whereas in East Asia it does not really seem to be an issue, or at least I’ve never heard of it being an issue. Is this a thing or am I just ignorant? If it is true, could anyone fathom why?
Detecting and Geolocating Jammers and Spoofers
What if they used a phased array?
"It's frameworks all the way down"
Mark Hurd Has Died
I have some Swagger-based documentation for a few APIs I've written, and I find it very frustrating because you can see in the renderers for Swagger that nobody actually documents with it. Nominally, several of the fields are specified as Markdown, allowing for useful formatting in your documentation, but what fields are actually rendered as Markdown in a given renderer is semi-random. The top-level description usually is, but a lot of the other fields come out random. In the worst cases, not only is the "Markdown" content rendered as plain text, it also is simply slapped between <p></p>, so the newlines are eliminated.
Sure, it's easy to use. But that isn't the job of standardization bodies, or the right test to use on something as low level as this. It's harder to get right, but it is exactly these sort of failures in standardization that cause the most global pain, because they wend their way through everything.
Show HN: Aggregate Functions in FaunaDB
If they’ve been controlled for, then point me to some data demonstrating it. If they have been controlled for, doesn’t the fact that some places in the world have greater than 50/50 female participation in STEM mean that the controlled data is nearly certain to show there is negligible or no intrinsic sex difference? It seems like you’re ignoring some of the data we actually do have in favor of belief.

Your second non-answer to my question is to point at the updated version of the Myers-Briggs test, right after saying ‘but, science’? Okay, what do personality tests have to do with cultural sex or race discrimination?

This only repeats your previous argument, it shows that cultural differences currently exist. Again, we already know that. It does not show that intrinsic sex differences exist. I recommend reading all of that article carefully before assuming it’s helping your argument in any way. The conclusion of the section you shared on gender differences says:

“It is important to recognize that individual differences in traits are relevant in a specific cultural context, and that the traits do not have their effects outside of that context.”

And Big Five is “established” as a personality test. Personality tests are pseudoscientific, even if Big 5 is ‘more scientific’ than Myers-Briggs.

“Like the Big 5 model, any personality or behavior assessment can’t know things you haven’t explicitly answered in the questionnaire, Stein says. Sometimes commercial personality tests ask odd questions—like, Do you identify with snakes? or How do you react to a certain color?—and try to draw inferences from your answers. Those kinds of conclusions venture into the pseudoscientific, Stein says.“

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-accurate-are-...

https://qz.com/1201773/we-took-the-worlds-most-scientific-pe...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Five_personality_traits#...
Good documentation IMO strongly depends on the project scope. There are many small projects that benefit from having a single, well structured long readme because it's easier to read+use. But there are some other projects that really need the longer format and everything described in this article.
Machines perform tasks that require reasoning the same way airplanes fly without flapping their wings.

This philosophical question keeps on being asked . From my understanding right now I think it should be approached the same way Feynman approached quantum physics.

Just train your models.
The comment you're replying to is joking about the Unicode Technical Committee, which of course exists and really does what was described. So it's sarcasm.

But the Technical Committee doesn't spend very much time worrying about whether it should include Cuneiform (yes), Klingon (no) or Clip Art (mostly no but there are some things you might think of as "clip art" that are in ISO-10646 / Unicode).
Came here for this- musl is a very nice libc and I don’t find the comparison too biased personally.
FYI - I’m seeing a “Github does not respond” message in a lot of the lists.
I've read that people in the past often did not drink alcohol (e.g., beer, wine) straight as we do now. Rather they diluted it with water, but if the water was unsafe, the alcohol killed the bad stuff.

I have no idea how accurate this is.
You have missed out on one of the best youtube videos. https://youtu.be/YRgNOyCnbqg
maybe something like https://www.descarteslabs.com/
Carrier option likely means Facebook cannot use algorithms to recommend and rank posts that would drive engagement.

Algorithms are a great factor as to why a Facebook got users hooked into its service and drives up ad revenue.
I have a basic environment I take with me across distros and across time: Window Maker, xterm, zsh, and Emacs. I have configuration files for all of them, and the combination makes me fairly insensitive to distro as long as it has a reasonable package repository and dependency-tracking package management.
The key is extracting VC money by downplaying the amount of porn. Who can count the numbers? It may be art, for all I know.
I feel it's helpful in these cases to distinguish between "crazy" and "unusual". It might not be unusual; it's definitely crazy.
Technically that would fall under action-based email aka Transaction email. Postmarkapp has good explanation [1]

It means user triggered some action, like recently signed up or message you so you receive notification of new message awaiting you. This would be different than email marketing - when social network decides one day they want to inform you about the newest features. You didn't ask for that email and it wasn't specific to your actions but rather bulk message send en-masse.

[1] https://postmarkapp.com/transactional-email
Mac Pro Puts the Pedal to Metal in Apple's Race with Nvidia
Tumblr is dying fast, because they removed their nsfw content.
Faster Layouts with CSS Grid and Subgrid
Imgur is nice for loading galleries so it's heavily used for nsfw comics on /r/doujinshi
An Open Letter to Sergey Brin
This BLOWS my mind. We have machines that are sorting bull semen PER CELL based on the increased mass of the XX DNA vs XY DNA?! I never would have guessed that this is even possible, let alone that we're already doing it.

From your first link:

> For sex sorted semen, the ability to shift the gender ratio of a calf crop comes from the fact that gender is determined by the sperm cell that fertilizes the egg. Sperm cells that result in a heifer calf (XX) have more DNA than sperm cells that result in a bull calf (XY).

> Of the several attempts to find ways to sort XX and XY sperm cells, the only method proven to be commercially viable is flow cytometry. Before going through the flow cytometer (sorting machine), a fluorescent dye is incorporated into the DNA of the sperm cells. They pass through the sorting machine in drops of liquid containing a single sperm cell per droplet. The machine detects the amount of florescence each cell emits; an XX sperm cell will have more florescence than an XY. A positive or negative charge is applied to the droplet depending on the type of sperm cell in it. Then, the machine can sort them into different collection tubes, based on the charge on the droplet, as it moves through a magnetic field.
The battery size doesn't make up for the size either. My Pixel 1 XL is 5" with a 3450mah battery while the Blloc is 5.8" with a 3000mah battery.
That's a good point. I'd also say that Holstein cows are pretty scary; a cow can flip from "this human is fine" to "I'm going to protect my calf by trampling this human to death" with barely any warning.

Factors like floor material also matter. On wet concrete, work boots have decent traction but bull hooves don't, so a bull with a nose ring is a little bit less of a threat. On dirt or dry manure, though, watch out.
I had a similar issue with zero-width space recently. Why in the world does that character even exist?
this is a great summary. I also like to add proper information about the context, the required knowledge to tackle each part, and the goal of that part of the documentation itself. in most cases, you can write a couple lines at the start of a document saying: "this document explains A. you will be interested on it if B. you should already know about C and D before proceeding. otherwise, you might be interested on E or F instead."

I also noticed an interesting situation when trying to write good documentation: if you start too early, you will have to update it and change it a billion times (both writing the docs and testing the systems will reveal a lot of parts that can be improved). but if you start too late, everything will seem to be ok until you try to write it down. when you have done a few high-level overviews and detailed technical references, that always reveals how the are a number of important parts that could be simpler and/or more harmonic. we always try to make code simpler, but sometimes we only discover simpler ways to express things when we are thinking about them in natural language. or the other way around. perspective++
> I think it’s a shame you can’t get something like i3 on OSX or Windows.

I presume you mean more than just tiling? As Amethyst [1] gives you that on macOS.

[1] https://github.com/ianyh/Amethyst
i wrote something similar a while ago, and it gave rise to a pretty head-scratching bug... my code was doing something like

if type(x) is Foo:

and mysteriously failed for some data around the reload. turns out that Foo objects from before the reload were using a different class object than Foo objects after the reload (which makes sense in hindsight, as Foo was redefined). fun times debugging that!
I'd love to, but I can no longer edit it.
The Firewall Flaw: IoT-Related Lateral Movement
I tried to subscribe for updates but it required me to "prove that I am a human". I could not see any captcha or any other similar thing and it would not allow me to submit the form. I'm using Firefox focus on Android

BTW, there is nothing wrong with intending to advertise. Op (and I) are looking for a call recording app, and you know if one that you can (hopefully) recommend. The fact that you profit if we use it doesn't make your suggestion that much worse
I won't argue the merits of COBOL. I stopped doing it for a living 35 years ago for a reason, but sort is not a good example. COBOL has generic SORT and MERGE facilities built in as verbs. In an IBM environment (i.e. writing real applications) you'd be hard pressed to build something that has better performance than what's provided out of the box.
It doesn't. He's glossing over the problem of antitrust needs. An open API would still leave FB in a near-monopolistic control of social data. The FAANG companies can easily buy up and squash potential competitors because for the last few decades government has taken a very narrow view of antitrust with little enforcement effort.
I have experimented with some tools to generate 3rd party docs for quick reference (didn't get far though). Not for my projects, but to analyze 3rd party project APIs.

Why do you think it's useless? What part is useless? I am considering taking on this project at some point in the future.

Edit: also I am referring to a library's API while I think you refer to a RESTful API. Would your comment also apply to libraries's API?
VS Code extension [0] seems pretty good, tested to be fast and useful on 10k records. I see this as a nice way to explore a new dataset prior to a more extensive investigation.

[0] https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=msrvida....
If you don’t know what consciousness means, is that because the word “consciousness” is vague, or is that because reality itself is vague? It is the word that is vague. By trying to build artificial consciousness, we are exploring, and creating machines that challenge our definition and understanding of the word “consciousness”.

Usually we discover that the machine does not have consciousness and our definition for “consciousness” was wrong. Sometimes we discover that our definition of “consciousness” is so bad that we have to go back to the drawing board and come up with a completely new definition. Same thing happens with the word “intelligence”.
> If those regimes to fail as a result of the world moving away from oil they will take many millions of completely innocent people with them.

I never said that wasn't the case.
> nobody is adding lanolin to your food for it's wholesome goodness.

Most people are D deficient and D3 is fat soluble. That is literally why it's added to milk.
Congestive heart failure can also be detected fairly reliably based on a sudden increase in weight. It causes fluid retention. There are several programs underway to give Internet connected scales to high risk patients and those report weight every day.