skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can computers be trained to understand body language?
What's wrong with SAP? :-P

But yeah, I agree. For an engineering country, Germany is a bit more "conservative" when it comes to IT. The slow internet is another good example of this. I also just bought a Fitbit and I am still thinking twice if I should try out Fitbit Pay in the wild...
I'd bet that the nervous 10-year-old promptly ignored Bjarne's advice and went on to ask others what to cram.
Yes, it is indicative of societal issues that women outnumber men in lower pay, lower status careers like teaching and nursing whereas men outnumber women in higher pay, higher status careers like tech.
I'd agree that we can only guess at the future - I'd just saying there is almost a fetishism for man made technology, and a blind spot for nature as it is pervasive.

You say we have made little progress in biology technology - yes and no.

Yes - there is so much more that could be done.

No - you are again ignoring the stuff in plain sight - the vast majority of our food comes from 'engineered' animals or plans - very little from wholly engineered chemical processes.

Breeding is low tech engineering - but it's still engineering - the productivity of commercial wheat is vastly superior to wild grasses for example.

Or look at the variety of dog breeds - each one developed for a particular purpose - from sheep herding & rabbit hunting to guiding blind people.

Now it's perhaps too easy, and not intellectually completely understood - but if you are focusing on outcomes - it's bloody effective.

The right virus - a tiny thing much smaller than a single cell - could wipe out a huge proportion of the population - it's happened in the past.

You can imagine a future where Iron Man fights for human survival with rockets, missiles and high tech, but you ignore biology at your peril.
After reading this article and a quick search, I was pleased to find that the NHS in the UK has recently decided to extend Gardasil vaccination to boys too -

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/vaccinations/hpv-human-papillo...
Europe’s Greens Are Growing Up
I fail to see how this is anything but the perfect case for allowing internal API usage.

There was no other way to do what Unsafe did, so people used it for years.

A lot of people used it to do useful things in Java. So much stuff that this article is saying it literally became indispensable for much of what Java is used for. The ecosystem was better for it.

Sun says we want to remove it.

So Sun can provide alternatives that do the same job, or find that it generates so much value that it shouldn't be removed, or remove it and leave people literally exactly where they'd be if it never existed if there's no other way to do what it does. People would gnash their teeth, but the message sent is "Java was never the right tool for the job so we don't want you as a user."

And the article rightly points out, Sun was removing it for the sake of removing it. Having a bad engineering structure where that handwavy rant about Unsafe can justify removing a useful feature has nothing to do with internal vs public APIs.
I tried DocBook a long time ago. Back then the tooling was so terrible that I gave up. However, the XML syntax made sense to me, but was not fun to write.

Today I'm using AsciiDoc with AsciiDoctor. The AsciiDoc syntax is as pleasant as MarkDown, but much more powerful and more consistent. AsciiDoc can be converted to DocBook if needed, but I've never needed this possibility, because all I need is PDF and HTML output.
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I'm not American, and don't follow what Trump says or doesn't say that closely.

Myself, I do criticise my own government, protest on the streets, and also donate money to causes that work in opposition, mostly, to the current government. I've also made business decisions that involve much less interaction with mainland Chinese businesses and customers precisely because I disagree with the mainland Chinese governments way of doing things. Maybe it's cost me some money, but I sleep better at night.
I work in public digitisation and while we don’t build the apps, we’re now required to publish them if we want our name as the publisher. So I’ve had the pleasure of setting up our development account and it’s easily the works service I’ve ever had to go through, and we operate 300 different IT systems, some are old terminal systems that run on mainframe.

I’m not sure why the process was so complicated either. A couple of steps involved Apple calling me, and my superior, to verify that we were real. Except they didn’t actually verify that, because it was a simple conversation and I could have just lied with a buddy of mine... Even adding developers from our suppliers was a tedious process, and of course Apple has no way of integrating with our IDM or local security setups.

They sure are lucky to have a monopoly on iOS devices.
I'm not in the USA, but is it common there for teachers to receive millions of dollars from venture capitalists?
Some prequel of the "initiation" https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:%E6%96%B0%E7%96%86%E7...
One quick way my wife and I use to judge any kind of restaurant or hotel is by watching the manager. We’ve consistently noticed in places where the manager is doing their job in addition to the day to day work, the place has great service and provides quality. We find often at the places we like best, high end or hole in the wall, the manager or owner is serving people, or cooking or generally getting things done.

The converse is also true. At places we get bad service, or bad food the manager is normally in one place bossing the troops.
What in Harry Potter did you think was magic but found out was just British?
Bitcoin's Government Enemies Are Planning Their Revenge
Why a newsletter?
I'd happily just skim through the list.
I have to disagree. Passively staying does not change anything; the fact that they work for this company has not prevented this initiative.
> "Companies don't make decisions based on morality."

So let's just label every employee with a Foreign/Chinese/Russian background as a spy, because a client says so?
If you are a citizen of a state that is known to coerce its people to work for it, you are not an individual, you're a state-level actor.

If you are known to directly or indirectly provide assets to a government and said assets are a critical part of the infrastructure, you're responsible for the safety of the government in your dealings.

An American company refusing to recruit people from China is just the US government refusing to hire the Chinese government to run the country, not companies discriminating against individuals. This holds true even if you swap the states in the previous sentence.

For the record, I'm not a citizen of either of the aforementioned countries but my home country has a similar relation with its neighbor.
As a chinese, this kind of comment makes me hate the west even more. I have no control over my government. Zero. 0. Do you understand the concept of 0? Thats the amount of influence I have over any government matter. And you people being racist pos because there is nothing I can do about my gov. Wtf do you want?
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You might have misread the issue at hand, this is not discriminating on country of birth, but country of residence. You can choose not to continue living in the above mentioned countries, and this would no longer be a problem it seems.
Seems to me the real issue is giving enough time to it. After studying stats I always found it odd that most of a science course is "the stuff of that subject" rather than stats, which would teach you things relevant to every subject. After all every subject at some point says "we took these observations, and because of that we think..."
This is incredibly good news for the developing world in the short- and medium term, but really bad news for the long term. Cheap energy boosts economic growth and well-being. Oil finds its comparative advantage relative to cheap solar.

Globally liquid fuel production and consumption just goes up year after year https://www.eia.gov/outlooks/steo/images/Fig6.png

Reduced use of hydrocarbons in the west is nice but it's not going to offset the demand in the developed world. The growth will slow down and stop in decade or two.
As with one of the other respondents to your comment, I read it mostly as a fun and occasionally provocative flow of thoughts, rather than any specific call to action. It makes a decent attempt to demarcate the different types of value that the current university experience offers to students.

And of course, to do this comprehensively, one must acknowledge that one of the things that university acceptance and attendance offers is some sort of 'signal' of value, or intelligence, or virtue, or something, to a range of people: from parents and friends to wider society, including future employers.

Anyway, to TL;DR what I believe the message of the article is, you could try:

* A Lambda-school-like model might offer the educational value that major universities offer, but more cost-effectively

* A YC-like model might offer the signalling, relationships and networking value that major universities offer, but more quickly and efficiently

* We need to acknowledge that the non-educational aspects (as offered by the YC model) are important
Apple commits $2.5B to combat housing crisis in California
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It's also quite common here in Germany especially with the elderly... But sometimes: https://www.dw.com/en/seniors-outsmart-con-men-posing-as-pol...
And? That's exactly why internal APIs should be allowed.

The problem isn't the usage of an internal API, the problem is the breaking of an internal API.

Which is already covered by App Store testing and guidelines which already require your app isn't a broken mess.
Plants communicate, nurture their seedlings, and get stressed
Do you imply that actions by the Russian government are always ethical?
I'm generally very ignorant of other job functions, but is remote working (even part time) common for non tech workers yet?
That's not a questsion that should get directed at me.
>Presuming that you are aware of these occurrences, do you agree with your government's positions and actions, and - if not - what actions, if any, do you take to make it clear your opposition?

I'm not from China and I disagree with the action of the China's government you listed above. However I wonder why this kind of opinion (aka the Chinese should be responsible for their government) is not commonly held against the USA?

The USA had invaded countries based on false pretext, toppling legitimate governments, and supported dictators all around the world. Why then, this "the Chinese are responsible for their authoritarian government" argument was not commonly held against the citizens of the USA, who supposedly live in democracy and therefore better equipped to actually change the situation?
I used to run Windows XP SP2 on Pentium 2, 128MB RAM, 1GB HDD. I had to remove and disable a lot of stuff to be able to run Skype and Firefox on it.
S.O. better shouldn't know which is which to avoid influence on them, i.e. double-blind the experiment.
I can't agree. Tailwind is against components like "card" in Bootstrap. We do not use any custom CSS to build our components, only classes from Tailwind CSS. :)
Tried installing Debian 8 or 9 with 128MB a while ago. The installer warned that this wouldn't be enough to finish setup, and sure enough, during installation the OOM killer got in the way. I restarted the installer, spawned a shell and killed some processes that looked non-essential, and this time I managed to finish. Using the actual system was obviously slow given two 233MHz CPUs, but even X11 with i3 worked. I then used it as a secondary screen via VNC. For about an hour. Then I shoved the machine back into the basement.
>The 'rotten foundation' in our mental health system is treating people's symptoms without concern for their cause.

I believe the rot is based on a commercial desire to ignore the efficacy of placebo's:

https://www.wired.com/2009/08/ff-placebo-effect/

Nobody wants to be told that the only reason the heavy drugs they are taking are effective, is because they believe that they will be better when they take them - but the evidence is mounting that this is indeed the case.
Worldwide observations confirm nearby 'lensing' exoplanet
I'd really strongly recommend not using this in most scenarios. Localstack sits in an uncomfortable no mans land between a mock and the real thing. Most of the functions are stubbed via Boto/Moto, some services run off separate Docker images, while some missing functionality of Moto is filled in.

I can't really think of a situation where this is better than mocking, because of the subtle differences that introduced here.
wow, what a walk down memory lane.

this is a very, very good list. read most of these books in high school. Destoievski is still one of my favourite authors, and i still have dreams of Eco's 1300s abbey.

i would also mention Kafka, and any of the SciFi greats (Asimov, Clarke, P.K. Dick etc). Re-read a lot of these this past year.

and i would also mention Marcus Aurelius "Meditations", a book written 2000 years ago by one of the greatest thinkers of his time.

there are so many good book written throughout history it's absolutely crazy. the only problem i see is the monumental amount of crappy books that have been launching recently and becoming instant hits. combined with a "does this take longer than a 10 minute youtube video" attitude.

otherwise, if you have a modicum amount of patience, any of those books will prove to be an unforgettable experience.
If you're using Firefox, one possibility is https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-firefox
I really don't think this is a contradiction:

First, Tailwind encourages you to use apply to build reusable components,

second, Taking building blocks from a generator like the one posted here, makes at least to me more sense than it would be for Bootstrap: You see a component and can (thanks to utility classes) see how it's built and change the appearance relatively fast. With Bootstrap you would basically just add a component class and that's it - customizing is more complex then.
so basically this is like Firebase but in RDBMS which is quite awesome
We use a text (Lock, Lock, Lock, Lock, and Lock) that teaches Conf Intervals and Hyp Tests via simulation. I understand this is becoming more common. We also get further than those topics than OP says-- ANOVA is very possible.

My degree is in Math but I've been impressed that Stats professional societies take education very seriously. There is widespread, evidence-based, discussion of how to present the materials.

I want to say one more thing, based on prior experience dscussing this kind of thing here: we should acknowledge that some students find this hard. I've been teaching the subject for twenty five years and I really do have some idea of what I am doing. Many students are taking this for their Liberal Studies course and I don't teach at Harvard so those may be factors, but another factor is that different people think differently. For some folks a five-step argument- this is so, and from this we conclude, etc.- is just not how they usually work. I think this course is a help to them, both in developing intellectually and in worthwhile life knowledge, but a person also needs to respect that they are doing something hard.
Is it really inconsistent branding, though?

To me, every one of these Netflixes is the same: the Netflix on my phone, tablet, TV, games console, and the website are all the same product.

For Apple TV, however, the exact same name is used to refer to multiple different products and experiences: the device, the app on the device, the app on different devices, and many of these experiences differ significantly.
>a bit too binary

Every synth manufacturer has to make this conclusion at some point. A surprisingly large number of synth customers never get past the presets - its a dirty little secret of the business.

Not that there's anything wrong with this, of course - but it does make designing a "one UI for all" kind of difficult. It also explains why so many of the 'big manufacturers' focus mostly on player- interfaces, eschewing the work required to make more detailed editing surfaces.

However this is all changing - look at companies like Modal, who led the way with providing as sophisticated interfaces as necessary for both end-user types ..
It’s apparently too much to ask at that particular company, which is that company’s choice.

Not all jobs can be done remotely; not all jobs can be broken up into 6 hours in office and 2 hours async and remote. The article doesn’t provide enough details to make a fair judgment, but casts aspersions against the company.

Further, why is it “worse” that this decision came from a woman? Do we hold women executives to a different standard now? Is that fair or appropriate? Either the decision is right or wrong on balance, but it’s not “wrong by a woman” and “okay” or “wrong but understandable/expected by a man.”
Right. So a rename to iPodOs is due ;)
I love eating at Waffle House and an always humbled by how hard the employees seem to work under what appears to be absolute chaos, but my order always comes quick and the cooking occurs right in front of you, so you can see everything is clean. It's crazy how there is a person who reads off the ticket and multiple cooks who immediately respond (all-star, bacon, drop hash brown covered, scrambled, waffle)
It's not true.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/dryer-sheets-full-of-toxic...
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Win98 didn't have auto-defrafg. IIRC the first one to ship this was Vista. Win98 still had that atrocious defrag program that would restart every time it noticed that any program modified the file system in any way. So you had to make sure to shut down any program or daemon running in the background. Looking back it's quite amazing you could actually shut down everything that was running and accessing the disk.

I assume the defrag program directly accessed the raw disk and understood FAT, bypassing the kernel, and just used it to get notified about write access to the disk.
> In some sense, this was inevitable when universities opened up to the general population, rather than their original limited participation among the upper classes and very academically-focused individuals.

1. Personally, I consider that step to be a good one. I'll put that off as poor phrasing, because otherwise I'd have to assume you'd prefer it to have stayed an elite game.

2. I don't see how that was inevitable. The opening-up of education to a broader audience inevitably led to an "intellectually-poor culture"? I don't buy that, there's a bigger story to tell here.
I think the question is, how much control do you want over your government? Do you want them doing this stuff? I come from a country with a stronger democracy than the US and governments will fall over stuff like human rights violations, if they don't properly punish the perpetrators.
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Science of chronotherapy offers big opportunities to optimize drug delivery
Oracle DB 19c improves JSON standard conformance
Should being a mother entitle you to privileges for that sort of thing? It's a personal choice after all.
Windows XP is probably the Microsoft operating system that has had the most community tweaks. For example, there is a stripped down version called MicroXP. Once installed, it only uses 200 MB (!) of disk space and 39 MB (!!) of RAM.

It's fully functional, boots in a few seconds, and it feels extremely fast in my experience even on very low-end computers. I have fond memories of this stripped down OS. When I was still a teenager I didn't have unrestricted access to a computer so I salvaged one with 512 MB of memory. The normal version of Windows XP didn't run well on this computer but MicroXP worked like a charm!

If you're interested, the official site is down[1] but you can still take a look at the README file[2], and you can find the ISO very easily using the MD5 from the README.

[1] http://retestrak.nl/board/

[2] https://microxp-readme.neocities.org/
Most decent apps build fine on BSD, electron is for closed crap with bad GUIs.
UX is a stupid neologism for user interfaces. I do think expertise in this field is its own discipline, but I associate the expression with corporate misbehavior patronizing users.

Maybe because the first and most prominent products using this term had profoundly bad UIs.
The State of California will squander it all. I hope shareholders respond in kind.
OK, that's true.
From places with hungry people and newly-arid landscapes. What do you think will happen when they can't get visas? Just happily sit there and starve?
This.

I'm kind of suprised that I can't see any other comments talking about GTM's (I assume you mean F5 Global Traffic Managers)

Where I am at the moment GTM's are used everywhere, and everywhere the TTL is set to 30s.

The only part of this that really annoys me is that the global default configuration, rather than serving up a subset of the list of IP addresses, only a single IP address is returned when you resolve down to the A record.

When I've pressed the issue that _at least_ on our internal GTM's we should just return a bunch of IP addresses every time someone resolves the address, I've been told that it would break load balancing... which blows my mind because who on earth is relying on DNS to load balance traffic with a 30s TTL, I would have thought that the normal thing to do, if you actually wanted load to balance, would be to result a subset of IP addresses in a different order and with a different subset each time. That way other DNS servers which resolvers that will cache that record can at least be returning multiple addresses to all the clients it serves, as opposed to everyone using that resolver getting stuck to a single address for 30 seconds...

But all of that being said, it would make perfect sense to me to just return like 4 IP addresses publicly for every resolution and rotating setting the TTL to like 30s so that clients could spend 30s iterating through the A Records they have cached, then hit your resolver up again and get a different sites addresses back if your site had gone down...
When I was at O'Reilly Media, we worked on an HTML replacement to Docbook called HTMLBook.

https://oreillymedia.github.io/HTMLBook/

As far as I know, O'Reilly Media still uses this for all book production.
I've been using file.pizza for the exact same thing. Can't evaluate sharedrop right now because it is dead, but I find that the aesthetic of file.pizza makes it very approachable for a lot of people, though some people might consider it untrustworthy because of it.
You have to take into account two different things. The ePrivacy directive and the GDPR. The ePrivacy directive is what generated the cookie popup you mentioned, while GDPR is tackling what happens with personal data once it is on someone's server.

You can check this article:
https://gdpr.eu/cookies/

But it basically states that you should give your users the possibility of opting-out from tracking cookies, like the ones used by Google, and this is not GDPR, this is ePrivacy. To comply with GDPR, you should give your users the possibility to see their data, delete the data, etc. Since this is done by Google, it is their responsibility to comply with GDPR, and not yours (more or less... Let's say, it is YOUR responsibility, but you offloaded it to Google, which is compliant with GDPR apparently).

In any case, you should ask yourself why are you giving Google your users' data. Aren't your server logs enough to see who visits you?