skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yup. That's really the only way to take energy out of the ocean. If we could somehow fill the surface of the Atlantic with turbines and wave-energy machines, perhaps we could end destructive tropical storms. But the amount of energy involved is astonishing and difficult to reason about.
> There is still no input methods that beats touch typing in speed and accuracy.

Stenotyping. It's also a win if you're prone to developing RSI (which is a big problem, specifically for touch typing).
This is an interesting reversion to form for the Guardian. Religion as the opiate of the masses is straight from Marx.
The lack of mature libraries in the style of pandas, sklearn or the tidyverse, and the lack of a stable REPL is a major drawback for "production" data science. On the other hand though I've had fun playing with it in a personal capacity precisely because of the rough edges.

If I want to fit a particular kind of model I'll probably have to roll my own, meaning I have to be familiar with what the algorithm is doing and why, rather than just importing something straight from sklearn.

I also need to pay more attention to the code as I'm writing it instead of lazily debugging by trial and error in the REPL like I can with Python.

Basically, I wouldn't recommend it at work, but it's been fun and useful at home.
In the world of affiliate marketing it is indeed more common than not.
Jokes on them--my "location" is on the wrong continent.
Launching a Google-Backed Education Accessibility Startup
Does anyone like having CAPSLOCK to the left of A? Indeed, does anyone ever actually use CAPSLOCK? I loved the CNTRL to the left of A that I grew up with, and have remapped to get that position, ever since. I don't think I have ever used CAPSLOCK; I've used upper-case several times in this, and I simply hold down the SHIFT key while I type ... doesn't everyone do that?
Instead you could just have delete.foobar.com and delete.foobar.net instead, wouldn't need buying a new pricy domain name...
This works well, if you want to reproduce a song and get every single note right, been using mplayer myself so far which also works to slow down songs.
You are adding the goal of turning status quo warriors into activists. Mindfulness is not designed for that and has never claimed to do that
"Would"? Isn't that literally how it happened?
This seems totally reasonable for an actual damn autopilot
CBT and MCBT (which uses mindfulness), has control and "being able to progress" as the goal, not just changing emotional state consciously, which the pure mindfulness as taught can devolve into. (A crutch instead of a fix.)

Acceptance of the present should not mean letting it stay the same forever. It's more "what's done is done". MCBT still has you focus on repeated occasions when you do this, and changing them h this might be by changing yourself but not necessarily the only way you can approach it.

A sane therapist will tell you if the situation you're in is not conducive to therapy.

Acceptance is a tool. If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail, which is why CBT and MCBT have more tools than mindfulness which is taught in a tiny version of ACT.
As if it hasn't long time ago.
Depression can be created by a hostile environment in individuals with no prior issues.

With a background of ever-increasing pressures on the individual to perform, the author rightfully calls out self-help for being "damage control procedures" only: practices that can help individuals cope with an untenable situation for longer.

The manner of the calling-out is hyperbole and full of opinions but in my opinion there is some truth at the core.
The write protected mode[1], if it ever gets merged could have some interesting uses for GCs.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/cover/1033856/
I have used mpv for something like this before. '[' and ']' changes playback speed and 'l' sets the loop-points. Using the --af=rubberband=pitch-scale=<value> command-line option is also helpful if the melody you want to transcribe is too low or too high for you to decipher easily.
It makes sense because a search engine is a vastly expensive thing to run, there aren't enough users like you to be interesting to advertisers, and you aren't willing to pay the huge sums it would require to make such a niche (useless) search engine sustainable.
"Life and style" can still be factual reporting (i.e. interviews, presenting multiple opinions, etc). This is very clearly an opinion piece and should be labelled as such, the author is injecting themselves into their writing.
This is cool, but I think the OP wanted to be able to change a given instance's capabilities rather than allocate new wrappers around it. But it wasn't very clear.
Why are you excusing shitty behavior with a trite phrase?
> Who is disputing that there are clearly worse alternatives?

No one, and neither do I. That's why I added inevitable. Because the problem is the false dichotomy of Capitalism or Stalinism. It's obvious that the people calling for radical change are not even close to supporting Stalinism. But for some reason this is always assumed when just criticism towards Capitalism is presented.

> The disagreement is whether to have a calm conversations and plan for a better future

Moderates never ever find a "good" time for true change. It should always be delayed and slowed down until it eventually evaporates.
I'm sorry but is your argument here that the IRS doesn't have experts in tax law?
On Ubuntu I have 330 processes running.
Thank you for pointing out the bias and the advertising aspect of this article. I just cancelled my Guardian subscription.
> Opinion pieces, no matter how biased and disagreeable, are

> still necessary.

I don't disagree, I just believe they should be very clearly labelled as such.
Margins are really, really bad though. You get like $1 for $10 of keys. Plus it takes a huge amount of time to open all those chests. Plus if you need that many chests you need to buy those from the market. I think it's not going to be worth it for a lot of people.
The intended consequence would have been for the company to cut vegetation around its lines so this can't happen, but apparently turning off power is more profitable.
There are newer approaches where specialising for the problem domain (Go) gets you a 5-100x speedup: https://github.com/lightvector/KataGo/
What I see as a problem from the business perspective is that devs are usually thrown into the surrounding of other tech folks and generally this particular tech bubble world we live in. And as someone smart said, for the man with the hammer, everything looks like a nail. Well in 99% of the cases where we split with my CTOs, in the end, wasn't because they were bad programmers, but because they were only keen to solve the issues that they perceived (DevOps, machine learning devops, cloud, encryption). That being said, there are a lot of amazing tech guys out there solving for completely non-tech related problems such as pigeon diapers but that's what it is in the end. It is the problem/solution paradigm, not whether you use rails, AI or blockchain to solve for it. Thats the hurdle I have seen in the past 10 years but maybe I was just unlucky.
Wildfires Highlight the Divide Between California’s Rich and Poor
It should be pointed out that mindfulness is one of many practices in various esoteric belief systems (typically with a view to complete self-realization) and when taken out of context and practiced alone it can have benefits (depending upon the individual) but is much more powerful when combined with all the practices of a belief system (Buddhism, Taoism, Bon etc).
From a machine translation of the article:
"announced through its Telegram channel that the US company had thrown access to the Tsunami repository from our country. You only need to go to one of their last available web links: tsunamidemocratic.github.io to see that it is true. In a warning message written in English , the system alerts that "the repository is not available in your location"."

I'm not in Catalonia, and was able to click through to the repository. Surely no developer would be deterred by a simple IP ban?
Ghost version 3.0 will help shape the future of this blog
What annoys me is that Creative Labs also had a viable contendor against the iPhone, but killed it right when it seemed like it could have launched and competed. I guess nobody wanted to go up against Google and Android in one corner and Apple and iOS in the other.

Yet, PlaszmaOS could have been a real boon in the industry - especially if they'd licensed it off to all the Asian clone makers. It could've slowed Android, anyway, imho ..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zii_EGG
> finding that their blood sugar is not well controlled

Isn't this everyone with diabetes? Hell of an exception.
Everyone sees the irony that this was written to sell a book?
Welcome to MaddAddam
Because they are not?
While I can understand the reasoning of letting new managers in, it sounds pretty brutal. Imagine you helped the company to make billions and be a market leader and the result is that the CEO starts excluding you from meetings because you represent old success.

Like with age discrimination, a company should be able to judge people by character, not just by CV or age.
Man shatters speed record for scaling the world’s tallest mountains
The world is eating itself
Ask HN: About Creating a Flash Replacement
There have been a couple of popular threads on the demise of Flash.

Its clear Flash had several things going for it, in particular easy to create animation content for the web.

I am up for creating a similar editor. Anyone else interested in joining in?
Thoroughly fascinating, is there more like this? I really like these 'short stories' with this level of detail.
Average time kids spend watching online videos has doubled in 4 years
I actually tried out Vue after I had a production app made using svelte 3 and was amazed how verbose Vue is in comparison. Not to mention Svelte's smaller bundle sizes due to absent run-time library.
Netnod launch one of the first NTS enabled time services in the world
I had over 3k hours on CS:GO and clocked onto this very fast. When they mean fraudulent, I don't think this is carding; due to the fact steam already had measurements in place (i.e. wait 30 days before removal). What you could do is use paypal and make a charge back and steam didn't respond due to their lack of support, meaning you get free keys...
As a human, this behavior does not look like a kid walking into the road. They wait, take a single exaggerated step forwards and immediately back off.

But hey, thanks for reminding me to buy a dashcam.
> In Oberon, safe and unsafe operations are clearly distinguished.

Indeed! To use the unsafe (predefined) procedures you must import the pseudo-module SYSTEM.
No matter who got the better deal, I wouldn't call it a scam if two billion $ companies agree on a price for a business after due diligence. Sometimes both win (because one can use the asset better than the other), sometimes the price is too high or too low. Doesn't mean they got scammed.
"Nokia's collapse turned a sleepy town into creepy town"

Except it has always been creepiest place in Finland thanx to Laestadians: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laestadianism
You could argue that the lack of resources also plays in California, not because of a fundamental shortfall, but due to all the resources being sucked out of the system by extreme capitalism.
Not sure. I'd say they are parallel things. I think both processes are pointing to the same direction to optimize things towards a certain goal.
Right. This is hugely a result of mismanagement and failure to invest properly, combined with disastrous forestry policy.
"Companies want to keep you happy so that you can be exploited more, and if that falls they want you to internalise blame for your own mental state. If you internalise mindfulness, you might be amenable to internalising other values beneficial to the company."

This is as conspiratorial as the article.

"the practice can make odious status quo palatable, removing a source of discontent and thus activism."

Not only are both of these things likely not true, I don't see how they are even related.

Mindfulness, I don't think is really going to change many people's lives, and in the grand scheme it's basically irrelevant. It's a soft nice-feeling meme flowing through the world right now that I think is worth at least considering.
The Color of Protest
> Acceptance of the present should not mean letting it stay the same forever. It's more "what's done is done".

I'm not sure how mindfulness could possibly be construed to intend letting things stay the same forever. Impermanence is one of the pillars of Buddhist thought and mindfulness directly addresses it.
California groups demand UC drop the SAT, alleging it illegally discriminates
XML with only tags and attributes (nothing but ignored spaces between '>' and '<') is a reasonable structured data format.
There definitely are people who toggle Caps Lock every time they want to type a capital letter. That's how my kids were taught to type at primary school, presumably because small hands have difficulty reaching with the Shift key, and it became a habit for a while - they got quite confused by the fact that I map it to Ctrl on my own keyboards and don't have a Caps Lock key anywhere.
Or simply standardize a mandatory "example.com/delete-all-my-data" path on the same domain.
In general, do you need to speak Finnish to work in Oulu?
I do have some, the most interesting ones running in Huginn https://github.com/huginn/huginn

I use it for some data gathering and most importantly, notifications and a 'personal newsletter'.

There are quite a few people in this thread that wrote things that send notifications to them; my setup kinda goes the other direction, because I don't want to be constantly spammed and nagged by my own bots.

So for instance, there are some software projects I want to keep up with, but I neither want to be interrupted by notifications, nor do I want to have a bunch of spam in my RSS reader.
So I set Huginn up to watch some RSSs, some webs and instagrams and things like that, collects them, and then sends me one summary mail every two days.

Similarly, I also get one Pushbullet notification with all the headlines from a news portal every day.

Huginn is great, you guys.
Facebook/Whatsapp sues spy company NSO [pdf]
it's been so long for me as well that I remapped `caps lock` to `control` and never ever felt the necessity to use `caps lock`
State of Health Among American Men Reveals Death and Despair
It's pretty simple, you have to maintain the right-of-ways along your transmission lines. This is really basic stuff, it's astounding that it could be this mismanaged.
Does it pause the process whose memory it is copying?

Freezing the process can affect its correct operation. (Sometimes when I need a memory dump of a production java app, I can't take it because can not afford freezing a production app)

Without the freeze, the memory copy we get can be inconsistent.
Weight loss isn't really a good analogy. It's much more about trends over time than any individual data point.

When we're talking about diabetics and blood sugar, one data point could be the difference between life and death.
Depends on whether you choose to believe in free will or not.
Do we want a chance of a working system, or just accept fraud all the way down?

At least some of those examples are tied up with one industry spinning up misleading studies to make money by known false messages of margarine over butter or sugar vs fat etc. Chances are Nestle, Kraft and Coke or whoever have dozens of studies they didn't reveal sitting in the filing cabinet before they got the couple that gave the misleading results they needed to make a ton more money.

It's nearly always the case that when we find out years or decades later, "they knew" and actually had extensive investigation on the topic - but chose not to care, or found a way to actively brief against the public interest, rather than it had simply never occurred to them to look or an innocent mistake was made. No, it generally turns out they have pretty extensive science and studies, just very very selective about what they let on about. Maybe there's a high profile spokes-PhD or two and everyone spends decades believing the problem is fat not sugars and apparently there are no consequences.

If the company and execs, and past execs were held accountable, and had a duty of care to customers and public, perhaps their past bullshit, PR lies, and talking bollocks under Congressional Committee oath (I believe one was "We don't believe tobacco is addictive" from assorted CEOs under oath) can come back to haunt them. What would match with 2 years CEO jail time for the corporate-personhood? 2 years delisting and forfeit of dividends or profit? That might focus investors and execs on appropriate board integrity a little more... :)

Is it really that old-fashioned to think there should be consequences for those who cheat even if they hide behind a corporation? Back when I was a director I actually gave a shit about us being honest, offering an honest service, and holding the staff to the same standard - especially when they were talking on the company's behalf.
The Oberon programming language is also a very nice alternative to C - smaller, safer and easier to learn. It can be used without the Oberon operating system.
The Drone Wars Are Already Here and They Are Re-Escalating
Tech Companies Want to Run Our Cities
Not living Oulu but living Finland. Oulu is pretty remote even in Finland's standards so people don't move out so easily. That created a situation where startups had suddenly lots of highly skilled engineers to hire cheaply and that created a boom in the town.
How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables [pdf]
Here it only depends on whether its a zero-sum (winner takes all) market, or whether you can improve an existing model and eat chunk of it (look how many alternatives of Mailchimp spun out, I love all of the incl. mailerlite and EmailOctopus!). So I wouldn't through the towel just because there is competition, but rather look at the opportunity cost, do you really wanna spend time working on this?
> Sounds very much like forth or lisp to me, (and perhaps even erlang etc). Any language that's implemented like a virtual machine internally is suited to being an "integrated" operating system.

Oberon the operating system is written in Oberon the language, but the compiler compiles native code, there is no interpreter.
A card game can help city residents suggest new ideas
Qantas launches inspection blitz after cracks found on Boeing 737 jet
There's a considerable amount of competition in airlines for example, and they're always going in and out of business - prices are competitive. In most other areas, they are as well. Consumer products are cheap in America.

There are some oligarchy problems, ironically, many of them may be in tech, not cars, fuel, groceries or common consumer products.
Australia Accuses Google of Misleading Consumers over Location Data
A program language for people to follow is a great idea. I find that so much easier to read than if it were verbosely spun out into pages of a book. I especially like the product market fit function. I really know what that means now, and it’s quite a high bar. You basically need a booming unstoppable business by the sounds of it.
>the company owns anything you create even outside of working hours.

It doesn't legal in most countries even if it written in contract. So this is not a problem at all.
Recursive deep learning for natural language processing and computer vision -PDF
Now the Notepad++ website seems to be down. https://www.isitdownrightnow.com/notepad-plus-plus.org.html
I hadn't realised the first iterations of the PC keyboard used the tall Return key even in the US layout. I wonder why they changed it. (In my view the tall Return key is far nicer to use than the little flat one)
Dark mode is everywhere. But it's not better for legibility or usability
For those curious, here are some animations by Drew Berry, https://www.wehi.edu.au/wehi-tv. They're visually stunning, accurate, and highly informative.
Due to HSTS (It maybe preloaded in your browser), the browser internally redirects http://gist.new to https://gist.new. And then receives a 301 from the web server (which is cacheable) to redirect you to your final destination.

Edit: It is (https://hstspreload.org/?domain=gist.new)
The problem of starting again becomes harder with each passing year because you have more hardware to support, more complicated software that needs porting and higher expectations from users about what a modern OS should behave like.

It’s a similar problem with creating new web browser rendering engines.
> As an aside, is there some reason that using the same identifier with different cases is desirable?

I do it all the time, in numerical code. If you have two pairs of points, for example, it is very natural to name them "a,A,b,B"
1984? A constant state of war to consume the output of production.

What has that got to do with this?
The matchmaking system in CSGO almost makes a conscious effort to increase "smurfing". Back in 2013-2015, smurfing was actually a lot harder, because if you won every game, your rank would increase very quickly. This led to a situation where the rank distribution didn't look anything like a bell curve, because people with higher rank had proportionally many more accounts than people in lower ranks.

For some reason, Valve thought that this was a problem. And they modified the matchmaking system in a way that forces the MMR distribution to be a bell curve from the outside. It's not known what exactly they do, but from tracking sites it seems like the distribution starts to "deform" over the course of a week and then gets "squished down" again.

As a player, the effect this has is that 1. accounts at the upper ranks (Global Elite/SMFC) decay really hard, like if you have an account that is GE and you don't play on that account for 3-6 months, you'll be like MGE afterwards. My main account got actually re-ranked from GE to MG2 after they shifted the ranked distribution - after which I won, and this is not an exaggeration, 38 games in a row, and still kept like 75% win rate until the account was GE again. The other effect is that it takes way too long to rank up now, it used to be that if you won 6 games in a row you would very likely rank up, now it can take easily double that.

Put those two together, and you've got a million smurfs obviously. Because anyone who just bought 10 accs for $70 during a sale (and believe me, many, many people did that) can just rotate around accounts and let them decay again once they're too high to smurf on.

Add to that that there is nothing to do once you're GE, there is simply no higher rank, and yeah it's no surprise the game is full of smurfs.

To make things worse, now that Trust Factor exists you can't even compare experiences anymore. If a new player comes to me and says oh I only play against cheaters or smurfs, I can't even give him a way for it to get better. We have no idea how Trust Factor works, and if you're a new player with a bad Trust Factor... what are you gonna do? You have nothing to look forward to. Prime barely even means anything anymore (not that it ever did, but at least it was a small hurdle), and there's no given way for you to increase your Trust Factor.
I first learned about userfaultfd's utility to GC from https://medium.com/@MartinCracauer/generational-garbage-coll...
That's a strangely mixed review, and the same probably applies to your comment.

He seems to agree that regulations are preventing competition and should be removed, yet simultaneously argues that there's no evidence of companies output being affected and so we shouldn't have stronger anti-trust action.

It seems paradoxical to hold both these opinions at once.

Particularly if corporations are paying politicians to enact (or at least not repeal) those laws.

How can foreign airlines entering the market improve matters if the domestic airlines are already being directed by the invisible hand of the market to deliver the best service possible?