skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> For instance on what precipitated this particular issue (the Blizzard stuff), many are framing it as an issue of free speech. But that's incredibly disingenuous because there's no doubt that many of the same people outraged ostensibly about a violation of free speech would have been the first ones lining up to cheer and rejoice had Blizzard chose to ban a player who chose to show up in a MAGA hat and screamed "Build the wall!" in an identical venue.

I've seen this argument so many times in relation to this and I don't get it - this isn't what happened and you can't presume to know what "many of the same people" would do. It's such a shit argument because you can state that "many of the same people" would do anything you want to frame as bad and it's impossible to disprove.

Why not just address what actually happened?
AI-enabled human rights monitoring
This is large scale Matrix-like exploitation at its finest like only humans can do.

Copying the genes of a single animal hundreds of thousands of times, killing the males at birth, plugging the females to a milking machine, feed them corn and soy which is totally not their natural diet and injecting them with tons of antibiotics, hormones and god knows what else.

I wonder what could possibly go wrong? All completely unnecessary and with a tremendous environmental impact.

I hope that the 2020 updated new dietary guidelines will reflect the fact that dairy is completely optional for a healthy diet even for infants, and even not recommended for most non-caucasians as they are usually lactose intolerant.
Russian scientist has started editing genes in eggs from a deaf woman
10/10 for accessibility - worth mentioning that at next performance review.
These angle brackets are how R handles printing some Unicode to stdout on windows. In memory it should be regular Unicode though.

The mistake they made is a classic R footgun: the fileEncoding argument to write.table() controls the encoding of the filename, not its contents. You either have to control the encoding of the files by manually creating the connection through file() or ideally just use the readr or data.table libraries.

Base R makes a lot of Unixy assumptions when it comes to text, so it's not pleasant to work with on Windows. The package ecosystem has solved most of these problems though.
There are plenty of places without any particular natural risks, e.g., New York City and London, both of which standard and dull four-seasons temperate climates and dead geology.
I've done the 17h flight across hemisphere several times, how is that going to be significantly different from 20h? What are they expecting to learn that the last few years of these long haul flights hasn't taught us? I imagine it's more about the plane than the passengers.
" Air Force software development hubs like Boston-based Kessel Run or Los Angeles-based Kobayashi Maru"

Is this article a troll, or is the Air Force just trying to be 'cool'.
apple's scotsman is not true either:
https://www.ccc.de/en/updates/2013/ccc-breaks-apple-touchid
The newly updated MyShake app detects seismic events using peoples cell phones, then sends notifications to people nearby 5-10 seconds before the shock waves arrive.

https://myshake.berkeley.edu/
I know of several military systems that still use floppy disks, that comforts me for a few reason:

* Their maintenance is well understood - every fault that is likely to happen has happened and has been recovered/repaired from. It's very unlikely there will be new surprised down the road.

* Their degradation is well understood - it's been around long enough that parts have failed and have been repaired.

* Isn't easily communicated with through modern tech - no USB ports, no network access - people aren't picking up floppy disks in the car park and plugging them in.

* Robustness to electromagnetic interference - the bits are so big that a few electrons being knocked out of the way won't cause an issue.

* Software well understood and tested over time - the only way to _really_ trust software is by having it work without failure.

* Simple implementation - because there's no computational space or power, it only does the minimal it needs to. It's not rendering a GUI, it's not running some complicated neural network.

Old hardware isn't sexy, but it does work. I still use an oscilloscope with a phosphor display and a programmable power supply with instructions on a floppy disk. Floppy disks occasionally fail, but there's no substitute for making good backups over several mediums/locations.
Path of Exile in-game global chat.
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Looks like it is fixed now.

But first it erased all of my solutions that it had failed to register.
Are you serious?

And leave the child hungry? Oversimplifying somewhat, you do realize that the body feels satiated not by calories but by quantity?

I can’t imagine the astounding disconnect it would take for someone to post a comment like that.
4+reasons to hire a website design company in Kolkata
Curious what language you would prefer? Just to trying to understand you argument better. Assembly?
Actually, anyone can download their entire [anonymized] database (or select only some sites) from Archive.org via torrent or directly:

https://archive.org/details/stackexchange
I am reading tech news extensively on different platforms. HN is also a great source. I assume, you would like to profit being ahead of the flock. The trick, though, is to make a judgement of what will come out as a disruption. Bitcoin, before it was cool, was just a crypt currency. Something new, and something that except for few, no one understood. And yet, it became what it is today. Some were lucky because they just decided to try it, others because they made a sound judgement based on experience... and yet some made a big mistake.
It has become my habit too. I never click the links directly, always comments section first.
> I refine it for weeks, as carefully as Rudy Giuliani mixing his old fashioned before he Skypes in to Hannity, because, like Rudy, I’m focused on doing a crime.

Wow did this ever make me laugh out loud, unexpectedly.

> you can be as schematic as James Joyce, notable author of white-hot beach reads,

Another one.
International Birthday of Dedy Day
It's in all professions. In school we studied a case in which a man hired every lawyer in his small town for his divorce. Then he quit them all except one. By ABA procedures, lawyers can't represent a party if they have work for the other party on the same case. His wife had to drive long distances to work with a lawyer from another town.

Oh, and there is the case of the cobbler who made high heels for a living. His agreement prevented him from making high heels for anyone. But that was all he knew. The court ruled against the contractual agreement which effectively made it impossible for him to find work.
that's very close to what SpaceIL did, sending a privately funded craft to the moon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceIL
Sokath, his eyes uncovered!
Thank you! A beautiful article!
The content of this bill seems like it would be pretty important for HN, though.
They live in the same environments and compete with each other for the same resources. Depending on your point of view, this is enough to make them more similar to each other than, say, lions and whales, which are both mammals.

Taxonomic closeness is only one kind of similarity.
'Dark Matter' is physicist code for 'gravitating stuff that we cannot see'.

'Dark Energy' is physicist code for 'anti-gravitating non-stuff that we cannot see'.
> The games showcased are the same complexity as plenty real world commercial games that are making good money in 2019

I mean, fucking todo apps are making "good money" in 2019, it does not mean that they are good examples. These kind of presentations should improve on the state of the art, not content themselves with something that was already possible a few decades ago. No one gets into game dev to make money, the point is to make better things than what is existing - be it gameplay wise, story wise, graphics wise...
The Netherlands Bach Society has done an incredible job capturing his pieces, using stunning camerawork and high quality recordings. It’s such a pleasure.

https://youtu.be/74suFWTO8P0

Also frankly the harpsichord is a much better instrument for WTC Books 1&2, especially with the added focus on video. Something about it just speaks to the soul.
See some other other replies. I have yet to come across anything compelling that supports this.
Have not dealt too much with COBOL but learnt it a while ago. It was one of the easier languages to comprehend quickly. I thought it was well suited for input and data processing focused applications.

I do remember thinking it's odd that a line has exactly 80 characters and putting an asterisk in the 7th or 8th row means the line is a comment.

This is probably not true these days with modern COBOL. But when I saw Python the first time, and that it enforces similar restrictions with intendation and then Golang following suite, I had to smile that such old concepts of enforcing style still are seen as useful today.

Often we just have to go back and see what others have done decades ago to get new ideas!
Don't forget this is the US military, home of the tortured acronym.

I mean (man), this is totally RAD.

They're making Star Wars and Star Trek references, so 'rad' is cool too, right?

Or it's an early/late 1st April story.
My daughter is in 3rd grade (in Greece) and she is the only kid in her class getting packaged food everyday with her without any money in her pocket. All the other kids have money, which use regularly to buy potato chips, beverages, sweets, etc from the school's shop.

Also, from what I hear from other parents, other kids regularly eat out, with the Greek souvlaki being the main food they get (which comes with fried potatos and pita), burgers and pizza.

Parents don't want to face their kids when the kids whine all the time, and in order to shut them up, they buy whatever the kids want.

The above, coupled with lack of physical activity due to various reasons, creates the obesity epidemic for kids, at least in my country.
I think it's not so much a question of material degradation due to humidity. The problem is low outside air temperature (-50 deg celsius?) leading to low inside surface temperature leading to condensation which is also a problem WRT cables routed through cabin walls.

Maybe inside surface temperature on carbon fibre is higher (better insulation), allowing for higher dew point [1], thus higher humidity levels.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dew_point
Opinion: The Mythical Fullstack Engineer
The challenge with the alternatives is that they don’t always open Adobe files. (Last time I checked Affinity Publisher opened PDFs but not InDesign files, for example.)

This means that:

1. You can’t always open your existing work and may have to recreate it.

2. If you work with other agencies or freelancers who use Adobe products you then have to explain that you can’t open their “industry standard” files.

These are very real problems for those in industry making regular tweaks to files and sharing them with other agencies, printers, and freelancers. I spent 2 years as a graphic designer and the studio managers would not switch to alternatives I showed them even though they complained bitterly every time they had to add a new seat to their Adobe subscription.

It would be great if more people used a wider range of Adobe alternatives, though, because it would help to cement the idea that Adobe is not some open standard; it is only embedded in industry by inertia.
Subversive speech can survive despite the efforts of a government. Foreign platforms are one option, another is posters put up at night or materials circulated hand-to-hand.

But it's true that it's going to be a lot easier to remain anonymous when your opponents don't have the resources of a government.
Thanks for the tip. Good to find newer and better organ players and recordings
I think it has little to do with the music and everything to do with the interpretations and the instruments. I realized that when hearing non-traditional versions used by Andrey Trakovsky in his films, e.g.: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=p3SUEWCddsQ
It's great,Thanks!
Batch Norm Patent Granted to Google:AI Ownership the Gold Rush of 21st Century?
Each model is loaded into a Docker container, along with any Python packages and request handling code. The cluster runs on EKS on your AWS account. Cortex takes the declarative configuration from 'cortex.yaml' and creates it every time you run 'cortex deploy' so the containers don’t change unless you run 'cortex deploy' again with updated configuration. This post goes into more detail about some of our design decisions: https://towardsdatascience.com/inference-at-scale-49bc222b3a...
Approximately 30? In the EU, yes, but the continent has 44 to, if one counts ones with limited recognition such as Kosovo and Transnistria, 50 countries (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe)

The breakup of the Soviet Union created quite a few countries in Eastern Europe.

Also, quite a few were formed in bloody war(s) in the split up of Yugoslavia.
> If email worked this way, the whole thing would collapse, because much of the time, you really do want to receive messages from new people.

Of course. But Facebook isn't e-mail. A closed system that thrives on heavily weighted social graphs is just nothing like an open standard for arbitrary message exchange.

> Wrong, it's designed to help people get in contact with each other.

Based on what? Have you used Facebook? Everything they do is about building and establishing communities, that's their business and they know it. They do almost nothing to help strangers communicate one-off. We are literally in the middle of a discussion about how Facebook gives low priority to messages from strangers, which is evidence that they have this mentality.
Instead of hacking the script, you can run it with -n. You can then edit /auto_uograde.conf before reboot to instruct the installer to only install the desired sets.

As noted elsewhere, the developers recommend installing all sets. I personally prefer to avoid installing the X sets on servers.
Rust crate stdlib inclusion via left-pad index
Tools don't exist in a vacuum. When a tool is a closed platform driven by a business, that business is going to heavy-handidly steer how the tool is used.
There are apps that lead you through a series of questions (pores/gills, cap shape, etc) to try to identify a mushroom. App + book + internet for anything that is remotely uncertain is a pretty good avenue if you don't have anyone to teach you. And yes, it's crucial to inspect every single mushroom before eating it and discard anything that one isn't 100% sure about.
Depends on where in the US. Lyme's disease from ticks is very rare in some parts of the US.
started browsing some of the smaller collaborative reddit communities like /r/ProgrammingPals. It's been a cool way to find other devs to collaborate with.
Do you mean instead of taking on bitcoin? Please be clear.
"What new features do they even need that they don't have now?"

That's not the question you should be asking. The question you should be asking is, what features would the Commander in Chief want?
Same thing in Cyprus here. My daughter is in 3rd grade and nearly all Cypriot kids in the class are fat. While Cypriot ones are of course, a minority these days in Cyprus schools.
Some CICD services such as GitLab already provide docker image registries per project for free, and enable users to create any number of projects.
The Distributed Bloom Filter
> Also frankly the harpsichord is a much better instrument for WTC Books 1&2, especially with the added focus on video.

Maybe. Personally, I love listening to the harpischord but for limited periods of time whereas I can listen to piano all day long.
I have an inbuilt system to handle this: I read the article, and if I later remember it then it was important and if I forget then it wasn't. Works well enough with minimal overhead, can't remember any important thing I've missed ;)
And at the time much safer to drink than water.
Docker-compose is an add-on script that only automates how containers are launched/shut down.
I believe that's for Facebook Inc. and includes Instagram.
For contrast, one of the nicer piano versions out there:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3aI7Oo3GMo
The amount of knowledge required just to have a clean design o the simplest of things, i.e. a few functions that add and delete users is very big; almost all of Haskell's important parts need to be known.

Is that good? for me, it's an obstacle. I can't expect all the developers that come and go to have a perfect understanding of monads in order to use/debug/extend such code.

And what did Haskell actually buys us here? my apologies for being skeptical, but it doesn't seem to buy us anything...in other languages, such things as creating a user, deleting a user, logging actions requires a lot less boilerplate and complexity.
There's this: "Web pages need to be isolated from each other, ideally in the form of stand-alone processes. Thread-level isolation is also allowed."
Usually there's the 1-2 tools you're most comfortable with, unless you're a true generalist. Most people can't be incredible in Rails/Django/Spring/Node/.NET at the same time, you have to pick 1-2 things you excel at. You can be efficient in 5 tools at the same time, but not an expert (for most people. some people are great at everything they put their hands on).
Electric Make has had sandboxing since 2002, no conversion from your familiar make-based builds to a new shiny build tool required, and it can make on-the-fly corrections to execution order if that sandboxing reveals that incomplete dependency specifications caused something to run in the wrong order (relative to a strictly serial build).

"Sandboxing" in a build tool cannot be claimed as Bazel's innovation.
Post your landing page and let others describe what your company does
> I do remember thinking it's odd that a line has exactly 80 characters and putting an asterisk in the 7th or 8th row means the line is a comment.

You should check out IBM RPG and its various iterations, it's a whole lot worse than that.
And even if I ask a doctor to remove a tick he discourages a test of the dead tick, because „nothing would turn up anyways“. This supports a high rate of unnoticed cases.
Golang doesn’t have semantic indentation.
How to Find a Golang Developer
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native-image performance without PGO might be worse than with JIT, at least in some experiments that I did.

See also https://github.com/oracle/graal/issues/979
Hmm, while not for path breaking tech like the above, I go to product hunt or indie hackers to go checkout new products and become an early adopter.
Excusing the commentor's misuse of grammar and punctuation: I'm Not sure why this comment is being down voted.

I haven't done the research, but is @rolltide incorrect in his assertion that you can get certain data from USGS (such as magnitude, depth, and location)? That information is available on the USGS website.

Or are people down-voting him/her because of the claim of making your own seismoter? (rolltitde did misspel seismometer).
> If you've lost the key, and have no intent on recovering the data due to GDPR or whatever, then why not just delete it to avoid any potential future liability?

Perhaps there are a lot of backups of this encrypted data, some of which are not under control of the person asking the question.

Or just consider a tape backup. How would you efficiently delete a part of data stored on a tape?

Deleting data can be a hard problem in some cases.
Can someone please summarize the core issues between SO the company & the community?

I see lot of references to policy changes, lack of empathy & such. But would like to know exactly what actions by the company caused this stir.
This is aarch64 (that is 64-bit ARM), and NixOS seems more 32-bit arm looking at their wiki https://nixos.wiki/wiki/NixOS_on_ARM On the other hand, they do 64-bit too, so maybe there would be some way to do for one, then bootstrap the other?

Other idea, distributions like Debian, seems to build OpenJDK as well, so maybe that would be a way to get the initial package (through an existing distro) https://buildd.debian.org/status/logs.php?pkg=openjdk-11 - see the armel/armhf/arm64 architectures (arm64 equals aarch64).
There was significant flooding in NYC just a few years ago due to Hurricane Sandy.
Lua already is a first class, built in scripting language in Neovim. (it can be disabled at build time)

I think adoption will remain pretty limited though, because plugin authors want to support vim and neo.
Maybe I'm In a slightly unique position because the role I hire for is "Algorithm Developer", but if you've memorised an algorithm I will keep asking you questions until I find an algorithm that you haven't memorised. I don't care whether you know the "correct" algorithm, I care that you can find a working solution to an unknown problem (since that's literally your job) and I care that you know how to assess the good and bad parts of your solution.
> GCE is slow to work on supporting auto-scale, so you have to pay for unused workers.

Can you expand on what you mean here? GCE has had autoscaling for years and it's quite configurable, I don't see why you would need to keep unused workers around unless your build load is extremely spiky.
Scala was familiar enough by 2003 that I referred to it as a known utility (rather than a new thing) in a post to the mailing list for a different project in June that year. It's obviously a niche application, but I suppose within that niche it's probably still more familiar than the language, if not as familiar as the opera house.

From my perspective as a Linux user and developer, one problem with it was the non-commercial-only licence which, while obviously reasonable, prevented it from being packaged in many Linux distributions. If it wasn't for that, your "apt-get install scala" might well be installing this application rather than the programming language.
Introducing bach.js, a highly optimised harpsichord synth.
Are you serious?

And leave a child to suffer from the many thoroughly documented problems of obesity?

I'm not sure what you're getting at. Your proposal is that you should keep stuffing a fat kid with unhealthy food because he wants more? Plenty of poor people living in food deserts manage to raise kids of a healthy weight.

I can’t imagine the astounding disconnect it would take for someone to post a comment like that.
How to Code? – 5
Hi all, wanted to get your thoughts on our Slack app Icebreakers. As a remote/distributed team from all over the world, this is something we wanted ourselves because we found it tough to build more of that personal connection given the time zone differences and everything being digital.

We're currently featured on the Slack App Directory (https://slack.com/apps) and on Product Hunt (https://www.producthunt.com/posts/icebreakers-2-0).
This struck me as well. Snopes says the rumor was investigated and debunked. While there was "unusual" activity it was traced back to an institutional investor who had also placed offsetting trades. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/put-paid/
My very unofficial interpretation of hiring processes like that isn't that what's demanded is that people know algorithms from memory, it's that they are so familiar with algorithms that knowing from memory isn't hard to them.
The big question is if moderation on stackoverflow contributes anything really. Closing questions always seemed such a useless thing to me when there already is a good mechanism (downvotes) to signal that a question is 'bad'. Why add a process on top that just prevents people to interact with a question if they want to?

I guess that Stackoverflow Inc. realized that the mods don't really contribute something of value.
RealmQL
This has been tried with other phones several times. An idea without a market - no one wants to plug in their phone to get a desktop computer.