skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Hallucinogenic drugs also make people psychotic on occasion.

its like if prozac was a lab made compound where the anecdotes were that some people experienced cognitive benefits and some people wanted to commit suicide. except thats exactly what happened and instead of keeping this a mystery with a few dismissive anecdotes from people with good experiences and people with bad experiences, many trials were done and it came out with warning labels for some people to objectively avoid it.

hallucinogenic drugs can be treated with the same standard.
Music Composition Languages (1984)
If a piece of industrial environment is so fucked that only extremophile bacteria can live there than it is sterile for all societal purposes.
Murray Hill
We use AWS as a part of our backend but run our own serverless platform on top of it.

We're planning to share more about our stack in future engineering blogs, so keep an eye out for those!
Operating the entry and exit on a circuit is almost as bad as operating the entry, middle, and exit.
Amazing what they can get away with
You shouldn’t need XLA for multi GPU training. Have you tried training without it?
Suppose that SF became 20 meters under sea-level (!), and was protected by a giant sea wall. The city's area is about 122 square km, so the total volume of water displaced by it would be around 2.5e12 liters. The ocean's surface area now is about 362 million square km, so (if I'm calculating this right) the displaced water from SF can be expected to raise the water level by about 7 micrometers. I'm not sure I see the problem here?
The FCC has voted to approve the T-Mobile-Sprint merger
"coercing" how?
I suppose parent poster means that people who haven’t finished high school may take it too much at face value, and not take education seriously.
Canada's Project Convalesce seems to have been related

https://twitter.com/CBCAlerts/status/1184465012204736512
I would much rather donation links than the horrendous ad spam that comes with most apps.

But of course this impact googles bottom line so the sane approach goes out the window
I’ve always sort of wondered why we don’t also manufacture more of the rare types of environments.

Wetlands are hard to come by and getting more rare. Why not make more?

Seattle’s Union Bay Natural Area was previously underwater, then exposed by changing lake levels, then a dump, and now a natural area [0]. It’s partially wetland, partially forest. It’s a popular spot for birders now. Green Herons (rare-ish find in WA) took up the area recently.

It seems like we could, at least to an extent, compensate for clear environmental harm (paving over estuaries) by building up more elsewhere. Obviously not an easy task. Not even obviously possible (there are only so many places substantial freshwater meets the sea).

But at the moment we have substantial suffering in the Bay due to housing availability. We have clear suffering in nature due to habitat destruction (more broadly). Seems like we should at least try to engineer more interesting solutions than “build taller” or “build nothing”.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_Bay_Natural_Area
You can create an EGL context on Linux. I think it still uses Xlib in the background if you are running an X Server, but you would use egl instead of glX calls.
I'm actually not prone to depression, but I am prone to the kinds of observations you describe. It gets me a lot of hatred and I've worked at finding acceptable outlets.

Not only am I not prone to depression, my mother called me Shirley Temple when I was little (in part because of my sunny disposition). I can kind of relate to Sara from Jake Long, American Dragon. She's a Seer or Oracle who only sees all the bad outcomes. Her twin sister, Kara, only sees good outcomes.

Sara is always in a good mood because all of her surprises in life are pleasant surprises. Kara is always in a bad mood because life is a huge disappointment that never lives up to her rosy visions of the future.

https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/Sara_and_Kara

Conclusion: One's own attitude -- whether it is positive or negative -- is not the issue per se. Overly accurate observations about how life works socially are simply unwelcome by most people for reasons unrelated to that metric.
Google's robots.txt parser is misbehaving
Which makes the use of the term "bias" worthless. I do see quite obvious differences in the bias of say fox (not the news section) vs cnn.

Fox just lazily omits facts and arguments that don't fit while cnn presents both sides most of the time. I do not care if the information is framed in a specific way since i have to make up my mind anyway.

Then there are real propaganda outlets like the state owned RT or http://www.globaltimes.cn/opinion/ .

I do think that making these distinctions is useful.
Not free as a beer, free as in freedom. Modulo dictatorships.
The article clarifies the difference is interesting in thinking about how these orderings simplify autocorrection. It's less about spoken language (I'm unaware of any research on whether there's anything analogous to IDE autocomplete in human cognition, or even what form that would take) and more about how the order in which data is presented to an interactive editor changes how useful the assumptions the editor makes about context can be.
You may want to start archiving them immediately using the advice from this comment. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21272524

I think there's an important lesson to learn: unlike offline, many online communities only exist because people find it interesting, and there exist many things that no one will take care about. If not now, when? It not you, who?
I've always had to shorten the titles for El Reg. I think they make really long titles on purpose.
The alignment doesn't matter. `index` is not an offset in bytes, it's just an index, a number. The position in memory of the variable also doesn't matter as it is not used, only the value.

`index[arr]` means `*(index + arr)`.

Which is exactly the same thing as arr[index], no matter how you look at it. The type of arr is taken into account for pointer arithmetic.

Whatever works with `arr[index]` will also work with `index[arr]`.
You can also use a constant, for example `2[arr]`.

Damn I hate HN formatting.
Yahoo Groups came from the acquisition of eGroups.com, one of the very early VC-backed pure internet services. Sold to Yahoo for $432m (in stock, sadly for them).
They are implying that the outcome for the girl hitchhiking around Mexico could have been worse had one of the criminals or other bad actors been the one to pick her up. I believe the purpose of the story here is to warn against survivorship bias. Just because something bad doesn't happen to you when you do something risky, it does not mean that the bad thing does not or cannot happen. Someone hitchhiking solo around Mexico (or anywhere) is taking a risk of being picked up by nefarious persons and having bad things happen, such as sexual assault, kidnapping, torture, or murder. The fact that one girl did it for a month with no issue does not necessarily mean that there is no risk in doing it.

The purpose of the Oakland story is to warn that just because something bad doesn't happen, even for a long time, it does not mean that the bad thing does not happen.
Was this not a front-page result, as it was for me?

https://computergraphics.stackexchange.com/questions/340/spl...
As an architect, and one using primarily Microsoft technologies at that, I really doubt Microsoft's 90% figure.

Microservices have their place, but I really think monolithic architectures are far more suitable for the vast majority of cases.

Every time I've seen microservices in use in the enterprise space, it's been a complete mess - no documentation, incredibly brittle services written in a multitude of languages using just as many idioms, devs scared to touch anything lest they break it, no standardised logging... doing microservices "right" requires a highly disciplined team with processes and DevOps enshrined in the company.
1) Are you a native speaker?

Frequency of 'a software' arrived with the growth of non-native speakers on the internet, and is irrelevant to its 'correctness'. Plenty of bad non-native speach patterns are 'frequent', one can often tell the country of origin of a person from speech irregularities and even adapt a pseudo-dialect which may even improve the ability to communicate with them.

Don't have stats to back it up, but I have been involved in computers from the mid 80s and literally never heard this term until ~99 or so, initially typically in the context of text clearly written by non-native speakers, and then gradually gaining some traction among younger users who think it's 'cool' or 'normative'. I have no doubt that a more formal investigation would line up with this, give or take.

2) It's 'discourse' not 'discurs'. It's also 'nonsense' and not 'non-sense', and also 'full stop'. All of which would imply that the anser to #1 is 'no' - which proves a further point - that idioms and patterns of speech matter to correctness and are quickly seen by native speakers, but are not usually obvious to those who learned the language second hand.

Based on these mistakes, the bizarre 'this is both' introductory phrasing, parenthetical '(sorry)' and the general dry, dismissive tone with a petite je-ne-seis-pas of anti-authoritarian mockery that is just begging for a leading 'pfft', my guess is that you are French. Not really germane to the conversation, but, if correct, it underlines my point about the obviousness of idioms and cultural undertones to native speakers (of any language really).

3) To support 1 and 2: If I am incorrect, which, weighing my thoughts against North American vs British idioms, I'd happy to be incorrect but am fairly certain am not, please show me a single usage of 'bakeware', 'cookware', 'hardware' or any other 'ware' where people say 'a <x>' existent in any piece of literature prior to the existence of computers:

I took a bakeware and baked a lasagna: no.

A pan is a bakeware: no.

I washed a cookware and made a salad in it: no.

A bowl is a cookware: no.

Can you hand me a silverware? I need to cut my steak.: no.

A knife is a silverware: no.

I bought a hardware from the hardware store to fix the fence: no.

A hammer is a hardware: no.

And, even in computers, the (incorrect) 'a software' use is inconsistent w/r/t hardware:

I bought a new hardware to run my application: no.

The new iPad is a great new hardware: no.

4) 'A ware' is singular, but also non specific. X-ware is plural. Whatever this meant in pseudo-proto-germanic is irrelevant to a discussion of English.
Totally agree. PowerShell basically has no discoverability since you have hundred or probably thousands of commands all starting with “Get”. Much better to start with noun or some kind of namespace. “ActiveDirectory-GetUser” is much better than “Get- ActiveDirectoryUser”. Just one of quite a few bad PowerShell design decisions ....
There's no law against it. You just have to pay taxes on it as it's just a normal income if you're not a charity.
It's easy to point out the faults of the communists. Are colonialism, ponzi schemes, sweatshops, pharma human experiments and environmental disasters capitalism's dark underbelly?

Everyone seems to think their ism is the best while conveniently ignoring ills in the past.
a platform for what?

a platform for 'building your system', or a platform for 'distributing and executing binaries'?

the binary only distribution mentality comes from microcomputer culture, which postdates unix/mini culture and is rooted in non-technical users installing purchased 'application' programs from vendors rather than computer users (read: programmers) building their systems to suit their own personal data processing tasks.
you highlight this in your choice of platforms 'getting this right', but really, these are two different mentalities, cultures, and modes of operation.

not saying one is superior to the other, but square peg, round hole.

and besides:

many proprietary programs for unix just ship with static executables.
problem solved.
This made me smile. You sound like a really empathetic less-empathetic person..! And I mean that in a grateful way. (By "less-empathetic" I just mean it sounds like you don't spend a ton of energy constantly doing social navigation of the mental spaces of others, like an empath such as myself might.)

I feel that not many people walk the line you're walking, and so I feel like you're prob bridging the "pessimistic realism" chasm for others, and helping them derive the value of seeing it (but you're recognizing that it can hurt others to be presented it too clearly).
The Navy originally invented the protocol for clandestine communication.

One of the contractors who wrote the software later open sourced it.
I don't really get the point of this list, why it should be on HN or even why it's hosted on GitHub.

But the very first alternative linked is an Amazon owned[0] company. So I am even more confused.

[0] https://www.bookdepository.com/help/topic/HelpId/35/About-us...
And with taking a census for that matter?
IIRC, this was one of the breakthroughs of the XEROX PARC virtual desktop research: the realization of how universal the pattern "select context, then use menus or keyboard accelerators to select verbs applicable to that context" could be.
> One of the heavily marketed advantages of using micro-services is the ability for individual sub-systems to scale independently of one another, which is obviously a cost optimization that matters once you reach a certain scale, but is isolating components to dedicated teams the larger advantage?

It's not like this is a new and unknown opinion... It's been repeatedly pointed out for years now.
> You can ask to be paid to make the soup and then let others take it for free.

But you cannot cry and moan if you give away the soup for free to someone and then find that they are reselling that to someone else for money. Or to make it more apt, I can ask a Softbank for money to build an unlimited soup dispenser and then let others take soup from it for free. But I cannot stop the people that took the free soup I offered to give away/sell it to others
As far as i can tell, NoSQL is a reasonable way to store data that would otherwise go in a directory of files.

If the lookup is anything more complicated than "I know exactly which file I want because I saved the relevant key in a real SQL database," then you're probably doing something wrong.

Too many people start with NoSQL because "we gotta be cloud scale" without actually thinking about their data model, don't want to redo everything the first time they realize they need to do a join, and end up bolting on a slow, broken, inconsistent query system on top that ends up being orders of magnitude slower and more expensive than postgres running on a laptop.
Why is Google the only acceptable vendor?
This has been tried with safe injection sites to mixed results. There seems to be a reduction in overdoses but also a rise in crime in the areas. Given the choice, it’s rationale that non-users in the area wouldn’t want that bargain.
I have an apple trackpad device (i.e. separate from the laptop) and I believe it uses a fake haptic feedback to indicate a "click" as opposed to a real mechanism. It's indistinguishable from a real click. HOWEVER, it makes my skin crawl when the driver doesn't register my click and there is zero feedback when I press down on it. It's like pressing down on the surface of my desk and it feels absolutely gross. This happens more frequently than I'd like.
Hard agree. Also, realistically, what is this proposing? Should cities be totally artificial environments with bounded growth rings to demarcate human/animal boundaries? Even a totally paved artificial environment is an ecosystem: which animals are okay? If cities are not bounded, how do we justify expansion into "animal" areas?

To be clear, I'm fully onboard with no-build nature areas in countries like the US where we have lots and lots of sparsely populated land. But, environmentally integrated building is almost surely the best way forward for preserving human health and in terms of long-term maintenance of an industrial civilization.
I grew up in New York City (Queens) so YMMV, but none of these are huge blockers.

- more expensive: pre-K is now universally funded by local government and the public schooling system has decent pathways. General living expenses are more expensive, but not so much so if you're comparing with any of the NYC suburbs with decent schools.

- less safe: NYC has become, on a per-capita basis, one of the safest cities in the country, and certainly the safest large one. In general, a massive amount of "eyes on the street" helps keep crime down, whereas in the suburbs being outside alone is not uncommon.

- less space: in terms of living area and backyard, strictly speaking, yes. But I lived fine in a two-bedroom apartment with my parents. There are also houses with modest front and backyards within the city limits, and we moved to one of those with the addition of another child. Do you need 3000 sq ft and an acre of land to raise a child?

As far as outside, the city offers a lot of playgrounds and parks with other people in it. And then as you get older and outgrow the playground, the constant variety of things really helps with boredom, and many attractions like the museums are even free for residents. And the cherry on top is that the mass transit system allows children to travel without a chaperone of legal driving age, so parents don't have to pick between chauffeuring children around or keeping them at home.
Apple warns of upcoming outage of App Store Connect and Notarization service
Well. Ideally I would like an introduction to the mathematics manipulating nurbs surfaces at the top of the search results. That's not too much to ask is it?
> Splitting a NURBS surface "in half" is an insanely complicated operation, and the way you do it almost certainly depends on your intended use case.

It's actually not "insanely complicated", and there are resources around, like https://pages.mtu.edu/~shene/COURSES/cs3621/NOTES/spline/NUR... and https://www.amazon.com/NURBS-Book-Monographs-Visual-Communic...

> It's not like you used to be able to see a menu of rich choices for this, and now they're lost in the noise of companies with a mission.

I mentioned just yesterday that DDG results are better for me, and this case is an example. "NURBs splitting algorithm" turns up a bunch of results.
Same here. In theory it could be a great tool and often is but it just doesn’t feel right. I would much prefer if they had done an interpreted version of C# and added the cmdlets to that.
Again making a case for alternative app stores. Yes having a centralized software repository has its benefits, but it's starting to show it's limits ...
This is extremely ignorant of economics. The innovations and institutions he refers to, like the university, were only made possible by rising levels of productivity allowing more resources to be spent on specialized endeavors.

In the developing world, whether it's the US in 1880 or Guyana in 2019, rising productivity means people able to afford more capital and consumer goods, like insulated walls, menstrual pads, diapers and toilet paper, which collectively make an enormous impact on human health.
We do this in my Chicago neighborhood. Often it's gloves, mittens or hats, but once a big set of keys sat on my fence for a week.
You can extend this to mechanics/technicians. Manipulating a large screen when your hands are full of grease.
thanks - learning things :)
Why do European developers choose to work remotely for Israeli companies?
If you don't use git authentication and use https, this works better:

git clone https://github.com/andrewferguson/YahooGroups-Archiver.git
> curl https://install.citusdata.com/community/rpm.sh | sudo bash

Yeahh I guess not. Let me know when I don't have to hack it together with a bunch of scripts and the PG team takes availability seriously.
Beyond the standard software delivery performance metrics
This article has cast light upon the fact for me that this is actually what bothers me about CLIs too; they're useful once you know what can be done, but discoverability is basically "RTFM and good luck."
But Google isn't making iformation "universally accessible and useful" anymore. Now they are "slurping up all the information in the universe, and doling out in controlled ways to maximize user engagement metrics and advertising revenue"
GPUs are designed to do massive parallel computations which all branch one way and don't have much (any?) branch prediction logic.

You trade it off with increased code size which might spill the cache but for small tight loops not exceeding the cache line/ size it would still be a good win.
The workflows are Node.js code. If you need to transition away, building an abstraction layer for the stuff they provide that you use shouldn’t be too hard. It would be even cooler if they committed to open sourcing their implementation if they discontinue the service...

The risk here seems small.
People really hate Google here. Look at this thread and the other about Soli. Not a single positive comment about Google. No wonder Google engineers have stopped posting on HN. Maybe Google truly is evil but I fail to see it personally.
HN is just another slashdot. And slashdot looks like it's still going fine: https://slashdot.org/
Remember WMDs? Judith Miller?

Mastheaders like David Brooks carried water for the far right for decades until he couldn’t keep up with them. He’ll still wax philosphical about Reagan, Gingrich or W at the drop of a hat.

But I guess they’re all “centrist” now.
Hey e12e, Dapr is meant for both small or large setups. It's designed to handle your scale as it grows and be highly performant.

Dapr itself is a sidecar - it can be easily autoscaled by external autoscalers like Kubernetes offers, KEDA and others.
Then break-up is still not the solution. Microsoft didn't get split in the late 90's / early 2000's. Anti-trust case against Google / Apple seems far more appropriate and doesn't require new legislation.

All in all, that whole "break-up" argument is just political white-knighting by wanna-be elites (ie. Warren & co).
Did the constitution grant the courts power to be the final decider of all law, everywhere?
The oceans are 1.35 billion cubic kilometers. If you dike off a square kilometer with an average depth of 10 meters you've added 0.01 cubic kilometers. Spread out over the ocean's 361 million square kilometers that will raise the ocean level 30 picometers.

I don't think my neighbors would care.
Au 'voir ma bien-aimée Slashdot.
In related news:

https://www.avweb.com/aviation-news/orville-wright-bust-stol...
TikTok taps corporate law firm K&L Gates to advise on its US content policies
"Thousands of pounds of human waste, close to 14,000 hypodermic needles cleaned out from Santa Ana River homeless encampments" - https://www.ocregister.com/2018/03/08/thousands-of-pounds-of...

They will also need to remove a few inches of topsoil to clean it up. This is the sort of procedure that is used to clean up toxic chemical spills, high levels of pollution, and nuclear waste.
Easy to use wavelet transform for Pytorch
IT Automation – What You Should Know
Bitcoin's pseudonymous, not anonymous.

Since every Bitcoin transaction is public, it's harder for criminals to hide from law enforcement than you'd think.
>In this manner, she traveled around Mexico for a month, and she never had a dangerous ride.

>the consequences for her would probably have been much worse

These are the two linked statements — if she had had a dangerous ride, the consequences could have been worse (abduction in a foreign country etc.) than the consequences of a mugging in your own city.
Hacker news should add a secondary vote button for title accuracy, or any way to validate titles.
It’s deterrent. All else being equal people will do less of an act if there’s a consequence.

Why does it even have to be armed? Why not jail petty theft that furthers a drug habit?