skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i loooove syncthing. something i set up recently is a folder called .home_sync to sync my dotfiles between computers. I have a bash script that sets up the symlinks and then version control turned on for the syncthing folder so i can have a record of any changes if I need to revert something
I think you misunderstand the potential scope of WeWork's business. A third of WeWork's desks are rented by companies with 1,0000+ people. IBM, Microsoft, and a big chunk of the Fortune 500 are all customers.
You might like zsh if you haven't tried it. Has a builtin `zmv` that does this. Check out oh-my-zsh
I can not imagine this headline really. We are talking about private messages.
> be found by performing laborious iterative calculations that have unpredictable and potentially infinite computational cost, due to the system's chaotic nature

This is an exaggeration. This is an undergraduate level problem. It's not difficult to integrate the movement of 3 bodies under the influence of gravity. Sure, it can be tricky sometimes, or you need a small step size, but it's not rocket science.

> provides accurate solutions at fixed computational cost and up to 100 million times faster than a state-of-the-art solver

100Mi times faster is a bit of a stretch.

> Our results provide evidence that, for computationally challenging regions of phase-space, a trained ANN can replace existing numerical solvers, enabling fast and scalable simulations of many-body systems

Yes but extrapolating from 3 to several is exactly where this technique is bound to break.
> the article discusses the issue of a centralised web by stating the russian inference in the US elections

Yes, it mentions:

> since Russian agents used Facebook in an attempt to manipulate the U.S. public in the 2016 election

I strongly recommend people look into the actual substance of these claims.

One Russian ad farm company spent a small amount of money running a small number of ads seen by at most a few thousand people promoting: Black Lives Matter, Jill Stein, the Dakota Access Pipeline protests, and Jesus being able to stop you from masturbating. Clicking on the ad led to link farm sites that were set up to collect revenue from referrals. A common scam. And no sane tech person who has seen this scam would interpret it as election interference, either attempted or accomplished.

Yet this hoax gets repeated over and over and over and over again as if a fact.
To understand why cops get away with this crap look up the origin of the police AKA slave patrol.
What SUVs are carrying enough cargo to justify their mpg? I think commercial transport is of scope of what the commenter meant rather than the swath of empty pickups and jeeps being driven as daily drivers.
Google appears to repeat the mistakes of its predecessors (those which allowed google to surpass Altavista for example)
FWIW. The panels are $0.86/wh each with a micro-inverter that runs ~$160 per panel and 32 panels. So, ~$5000 for inverters, ~$11k for panels, which brings you to ~$16k and your not even tied into the power of the house, or adding the mandatory shutoff, or the new meters, or the Emphase system that tracks by the minute power consumption and usage of each panel, etc etc. So lets call the rest $4k

Total of parts ~$20k. $12k for construction in the Seattle area seems fair for a complex electrical install that includes a 10 year install and 25 year system warranty.

I think like many things, the last mile of work is way more expensive then people realize. Solar is more than the panels themselves

Note: I could have used cheaper panels, but they take up more roof. I could have also saved money by skipping the per-panel micro-inverters, but then the system is more brittle and less efficient
There was a relatively well-known binary edit of the Netscape browser which would disable the looping of GIFs.

Animations would animate, but only play through once.

https://web.archive.org/web/20040116134137/linuxmafia.com/fa...
Software Engineering.

As the tech progresses and individualism in software engineer rises, the 90s/00s software engineering pearls are forgotten by the new generation. Many of these methodologies were mistakenly buried in the criticism in mid 00s and removed from the course list. Some of my favorites and must-haves for an engineers are:
- How to tell a user story (w/ storyboards, flowcharts, mockups, etc)
- How to formalize your designed system (UML, hierarchy graph, sequence graph, etc.) without a tedious/ambiguous "design doc"
- How to write documentation (target audience, minimal examples, etc.)
Not saying I like it, but I think the financial commitment aims at ensuring some long-term involvement, because what matters is not to make an app but rather to maintain it —especially in the Apple ecosystem which breaks things quite often.

In other words, you have to think about that before you even release, and as a dev it doesn't really make sense to do a one-off and leave.
Career-Ready
IPv6 saves you from setting up DNS on each instance and will do load balancing?
>(Serverless) I'm skeptical it will.

They'd get more uptake if it was easier I think. Not re-architect your product...but small things here and there.

I wanted to play with azure python functions but despite vs enterprise & lots of credits I can't. Without admin rights on local machine it's basically impossible. (Need VSCode & AZ toolkit)

(Unrelated - that kinda blew my mind - no you can't do that in the 2,000 USD VS enterprise...you need to use the free one)
As a hosted service, yes. You can still self-host though.
Tip of the day (killing animated GIFs) (1999)
In short, yes. Some companies also feel it’s a good idea to house their tech workers in a cooler trendy wework unlike the rest of their employees. But the price is pretty key. At reasonable prices for what they’re offering, quantity demanded would probably go down
How to enable RCS in the Messages app yourself
Brittany Kaiser, Author, Targeted
>And in that case your natural gas plants only have to run for a couple of hours between sunset and bedtime instead of all day long.

Right. So we agree, solar cannot remove carbon emissions. And I thought the entire point is to remove fossil fuels entirely from energy generation, not just reduce it.

>you use nuclear at night

It doesn't work like that. Nuclear can take days to ramp up and ramp down. Solar does not play well with nuclear.

That's one problem.

A more major issue is...if you're using nuclear, why the heck do you even need solar? This is the energy mix of my home province[1] - we're essentially fossil fuel-free because our energy mix is nuclear and hydro. There is no point in increasing investment in solar and wind. But we're doing it, not because it's good for reducing carbon emission, but because it's a fad.

[1] http://live.gridwatch.ca/home-page.html
Amazon, Alphabet and Uber Drones Are Coming
Merely thinking about hiring a hitman is bad, yes, and should be punished, yes.

But I would not equate it with hiring one. That's because the expected damage from planning to hire a hitman is smaller than that from actually hiring one. A year of punishment hurts the criminal the same regardless of which of those two scenarios holds, but the social benefit of punishing them is less. Therefore we should punish them less. (Unless we don't care about the welfare of someone who's been convicted at all. I think that's a sick position to hold -- even setting aside the possibility of false positives -- but it has its adherents.)

A real eye-opener for me regarding these questions of weighing the costs and benefits (i.e. the economics) of punishment was Thomas Friedman's book Law's Order. Until I read that, I thought the whole question was just a political fight. And while it certainly is a political fight, there's a much more objective kind of analysis available -- in fact, it's the norm in economics.
Last I checked we're no longer droning people directly in Yemen Obama-style (although Saudis are, and we're helping them), we've defeated ISIS and are in the process of withdrawing from Syria, there's troop withdrawal (although still incomplete due to Taliban stirring shit in September) from Afghanistan. Importantly, we haven't started any new wars on Trump's watch. Obama started several. So did Bush. Clinton before him started one. So did Bush senior before Clinton.

That's as good a peace record as you'll find in a US president in the last 100 years.
To really solve climate change we need the American population to take it seriously.

Blasting China won't change it since a lot of China's pollution is due to the developed countries exporting their most polluting industries. Europe is seriously confronting the situation, America's denying it (starting by its president).

Here is a good article about it: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/sep/25/lambas...
Yeah, but I can't use the [img] tag to inline a .gifv on a random phpBB-like forum. So I still have to save the unconverted .gif somewhere.
An alternative to z, which I find a little bit "smarter" is autojump.
It sounds like the content is being duplicated, so I think the author can make copyright claims through the DMCA delisting tool:

https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/dmca-dashboard
The point being made is that all observations change the thing being observed, so you have to be very careful what you measure and how you measure it. That is all. This is a basic point in science that is often missed. As here, apparently.
Just tax the employer 1x on H1b workers salary. If employee gets 100k then government gets a 100k. That will probably solve the h1b problem quickly. If employer truly believes this person is that valuable they will have no problem paying the tax.
What like income tax, a "temporary tax to pay for the war"? (Napoleonic then Crimean for the UK, WW1 for the US)

Still there 200+ years later in the UK, 100 years later in the US. Technically in the UK it still is a temporary tax, renewed every April 5th.

I am emphatically not against income tax. Regardless of whether or not there was honesty.
I am going to sound like an idiot but why May 2020 ? Do you know you will be alive then ? Why not start today ? What is stopping you today ? There is never a good time to do anything tough. I say start now, start today. Even if you do it on the side. Sorry I don't have ideas for you but thought to comment about your very interesting timeline.
Agreed that ghosts being uniquely Christian isn’t a strong claim, but I think it makes sense in the context of considering possible pre-Christian origins of fairy stories. It could have been stated better, but I read it less as a claim that only Christians have ghost stories but rather exploring why fairy stories fit uneasily in Christian cosmology.
> Eventually, a lot of those fail and the Saudis want their money back

I'd wager that in 20 years the Saudi regime doesn't exist anymore, Softbank/Vision Fund or not. They're going to crash hard, the youth worldwide does not want dictatorships and theocracies any more and the old guards are literally dying off.

Besides, the Saudis (and other Gulf states) have lost more money to way stupider efforts than wework, for their scale wework is chump change.
people jumped up and down about Huawei's connection to china's government/military.

now no one gives a darn word about Microsoft's tie with the military?
Yes, this is exactly right. Dependency management is a hard problem, and with Docker you only have to get it right once. I think Docker wouldn't exist if Amazon had shipped a way to build and test an AMI locally.
Mozilla's Approach to Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence (AI)
> I've had this sneaking but hard to articulate suspicion that datacenters, bare metal servers, VMs, operating systems, containers, OS processes, language VMs, and threads are all really attempts to abstract the same thing.

There is a very easy way to articulate it: they are all ways of virtualizing different facilities. Unix processes virtualize the user-mode processor registers and the address space. POSIX threads only virtualize the processor registers and the stack. Linux namespaces let you pick and choose which facilities you want to virtualize (storage, PID namespace, IPC namespace, etc.).

The abstraction is related to what is being virtualized: everything that is virtualized is a namespace (this is what naming things refers to in Phil Karlton's quote "There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things," not to the literal naming of variables in computer programs).

Another way to go instead of virtualization is capabilities.
> homicide in the criminal world only makes up 7%

In Denmark. Another way to see it could be that killing people in the criminal world is getting so efficient that many cases are not being identified as a crime. Is a possibility at least.
“function” for suitably principled definition of function
Kind of both. The takeover was necessary to preserve their investment and any possibility of future gain: improved governance and pivot to profitability instead of growth are the cornerstones of a better IPO valuation in a year's time. In order to make it that year, they have to pump more money in. If they can convince IPO investors in a year that it's a $20billion company by doing so, they might approach break even territory.
We can see then, there are some advantages and disadvantages each one. Clearly, ZX Spectrum has a better included BASIC software; will allow you to make large strings, screen pausing automatically, and the Commodore 64 system software must take up too much RAM that only 38911 out of 64K is available for BASIC (or maybe it is due to bank switching; I don't know). But because they compare disks with tapes we cannot compare the loading speed properly, and do not know which is better.
I think the problem is that this kind of web relies on altruism to work. People have to donate their time, effort, knowledge, and sometimes even personal money (hosting isn't free) to create and maintain these kinds of sites. Meanwhile, there are far more people who would rather attempt to make money doing the same thing, so non-altruistic content ends up outweighing the old-web kind. This has become especially true on YouTube where good content is much harder to make, so the vast majority of creators are pursing some kind of monetary compensation, whether from ads, sponsorship, patrons, merchandise, or something else.
Hiding Complexity with Slack Integrations
I'd be concerned about the lawsuits when this group or that feels discriminated.
Isn't speed a very important factor when addressing climate change?

I thought replacing ICE engines and developing more in renewable energy would be accepted.
Telling Whiskey from Whisky
Maybe, then to be truthful you can display "Approx. 28-45 people are viewing this"
If your goal is to exit early through (acquisition by a company with pre-existing complimentary war chest) then it's in your best interest to file for a patent as they can acquire and defend.
You are right, it does not. But the find command is not too complicated, or different from the one above.
Oh please. That's so ignorant. It's been raining fine, it's horrid people that are new.
Not in significant quantities:

https://apawood-europe.org/products-trademarks/plywood/new/

Cancer caused by formaldehyde exposure is shown to occur at high exposures:

https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/s...
this sounds like a strawman to be honest because I haven't heard anyone rant about illegal music since probably 15 years, and if anything ever only politicians and not ordinary people.

If we'd be talking really malicious stuff like chid pornography then in the context of filesharing these companies already have systems in place to distinguish content, so blanket banning of torrent files seems blatantly unnecessary.
>And now a major browser's UI is built with web components!

Proud that you need to use your HTML/JS engine to render your UI instead of using faster native code? I mean you have the opportunity of getting rid of XUL and instead you change it... for something similar?
Linguistic humor, Headlines (2003)
In this instance, it's hard not to question the intelligence of a police officer thinking a white spot on the outside of a car might be drugs.

But overall, in the War on Some Substances, anything goes. Blame needs to start at the top. It's not like the cop purchased these widely-discredited field tests on their own.
Downvoters please help me understand your angle here
This suggestion is exactly why fd is so helpful. With zmv I can rename files in a directory. Great.

But what if I want to count the number of total files within each directory? Create tarballs out of each directory? Rename files that contain the word "FOOBAR" in them?

I can do this with fd and similar tools with slight modifications. With zmv I can rename files.
But the funding is backwards. We need genuine engineering genius and/or fundamental scientific breakthroughs to have more than a laughable impact with industrial sequestration techniques. The return on investment will be hugely negative for the vast vast vast majority of efforts.

This is a problem that is very well suited to direct public funding (we all benefit if a solution is found) and poorly suited for private enterprise (privatizing the benefit is unlikely to offset the costs to develop it on an average basis).
>Storage costs are dropping rapidly

Read around, nobody actually believes Li-ion batteries can bridge the intermittency gaps of solar and wind. The production capacity may never be there and cost aren't there today and may never get there (cost for US to store 10-15% of excess summer energy to use in winter with Li-ion batteries would run tens of trillions of dollars). Li-ion batteries leak energy if you want to use them to store excess power for weeks (as you would have to).

That's the problem. There isn't a battery technology now, or forthcoming.
Bits from the book James Mattis doesn’t want you to read
Turns out there's a lot more money in walled gardens than there is in services that are easily accessed by common protocols. Thus there's a perverse incentive at play from the perspective of end users.
I don't know who this guy is, but it's hard to imagine more generic, unhelpful advice.
Mozilla, proudly celebrating the death of user control, UI customization, and truly useful extensions. Don't forget your custom userChrome.css is next on the chopping block.
Patents are primarily about getting a limited time monopoly. Publicly disclosing the invention is just a direct consequence and not a virtue of the patent system. So please stop marketing it like that. In many cases it is completely irrelevant because the invention is sold and can be reverse engineered.

Also:
> Encouraging people to share information so that others can use it to make further advances is the whole point of the patent system.

This is meant as a joke, right? Is locking down a field of engineering for 20 years promoting further progress? Maybe it promotes the invention of sub-optimal solutions to work around the patent but that's about it. The latest example I can think of is all-in-one liquid cooling designs: https://www.gamersnexus.net/hwreviews/3517-swiftech-h360x3-d...
Democracy is not the dictatorship of the majority. All successful democratic constitutions limit what "a majority" can decide on.

To enhance democracy, referendums need certain precise conditions, which are hard or impractical to achieve. For example: Who decides what goes on the ballot?

What do you do if too many issues make it on the ballot, such that the voters and the election staff (or volunteers in most cases) get exhausted and can't effectively participate? How should campaign financing be controlled? How are democratic norms enforced against referendums if necessary?

Another interesting issue arises when voters decide on the rights of those who are not allowed to vote. Mostly immigrants today. But guess how Switzerland became the last democratic country in Western Europe to get full voting rights for women...
For Fathers of Daughters
I like the syntax. Being able to define a lambda with

f x y = x + y

or define a table with

z.i = x.i + y.i

looks really clean to me. It avoids the stinking loops, but it is more obvious than the implicit names used in APL/J/K.

Function application binding more tightly than infix operators and then having $ for grouping is also an interesting solution.
That the age old failure of leadership could be blamed on the greed of the corporation. They are all complicit, ain't nothin' new.
Well, it ought to...
That would be neat, like something out of Pacific Rim where these monsters come out of the ground and start making a lot of ice! "It's too hot! ROOOOARRRR!"
The British parliament seems to be ignoring Brexit just fine, it's just that only the prime minister can stop it.
Check out Little, Big by John Crowley, another good one that digs into this stuff.
There is no equivalent of course. I guess people are confused on what jails are. Jails, Solaris Zones, lxc, runC, chroot with namespaces and cgroups are all similar technology that are not solving the same problems as Docker. Docker just uses containers underneath to address specific package management problems. Projects that try to do the same are actually just package managers, like nix and guix.
>Do batteries stop working at night?

There is no battery technology (now or forthcoming) that can store enough energy to power a moderately sized city for a few hours, much less days or weeks.

>..and irreparably destroy the planet by doing so

I wasn't making a case for natural gas. I was a case that solar needs to be paired with natural gas.

>But I think we are perfectly capable of utilizing these AND solar, wind, and storage?

Why? If you're using nuclear and hydro, why bother with solar and wind?

Here's a live view of the energy mix of my home province [1]. Almost all clean. Why bother with solar and wind?

[1] http://live.gridwatch.ca/home-page.html
Depends on what you use DNS for. Because the /64 space is so large, and you have a very large, very flexible subnet above that, you can set up an address assignment scheme for non-public facing nodes where you do not need DNS, and you can integrate that scheme with your load balancer. See Coffeen's _IPv6 Address Planning_ for ideas.
So taking funds from someone is designed to ensures their commitment to the taker?

That’s a logic I never heard before.

(It’s a line item in corporate accounting. That’s it’s only justification. It can easily be abolished if there is any motivation to do so)
Since rachelbythebay didn't tell us what the result of these broken sessions was, I assume it wasn't critical. Or at least that's the attitude of the HN crowd complaining about a lack of details. Developers only pay attention to these kinds of stories when the tale involves someone getting fired or money being lost.
Reading things like this article and replies, it seems apparent that physics research, or at least teaching, often blurs the distinction between experiments in thought or otherwise explaining a theory, and those that motivated theory by empirically disproving previously-held beliefs.

Also I’ve noticed a strange form of entropy in physics that tends to show more evidence for models that have the largest number of equivalent formulations based on different assumptions. You could say that this is a result of how physicists work to prove their own theories, but perhaps the gods work the same way.

Waves of probability amplitudes with quantized action is a nice abstraction that works so far, but so was continuum mechanics. Wave-like observations could easily be a simple consequence of the central limit theorem in the same way.
> To be fair, an HTTP GET request should never modify the state of the system

In theory. But that's not how the world I live in seems to work.
This is a net sum loss. We, the species and the Our ecosystems will lose on the whole.

The 'we've always had climate change' argument is bogus. It's the rate of change and the multitude of system's abilities to adapt.

Life will go on, but not as we know it, Jim.