skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm afraid that in the bigger picture of modern media landscape, that's not going to have much of an effect.

Let's say you disbar some John Doe so he cannot be hired by a news media organisation any more.

There is still nothing stopping him from blogging, tweeting, instagramming, and tiktoking. I suspect that the people who really know how to spin stories and get a following don't really need to work for a newspaper at all.

What I'm saying is that the news corporations may not be as influencial as some people believe. Let me take, for example, the Hong Kong protests/riots (whatever you would like to call them). There were plenty of fake news and rumors circling around Twitter, Reddit, Facebook, etc; and those had real influence on how people viewed the protests/riots; none of those fake news or rumors had to come from a "proper" news tv station or newspaper.
Was the Tesla Cybertruck tug-of-war purposeless? [video]
This will help you find type errors if you have good test coverage without explicitly testing for types. Makes tests shorter.
Ask HN: What are you currently reading?
> It is now possible to escape question marks in SQL queries to avoid them being interpreted as parameter placeholders. Writing ?? allows sending a single question mark to the database and e.g. use the PostgreSQL JSON key exists (?) operator.

Good.
See https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/162 and https://gitlab.com/fdroid/rfp/issues/869.
I’m sure, yes.
It might just be me but enabling the option and clicking and the recording button just attempt to reload the page and I get a blank page. Not sure what is supposed to happen.
I come away from reading that completely convinced that the decision to sell .org will be a terrible one for internet users and .org name holders.
Thanks. It's fun.
I also find it insulting that he belittles "leasing domain names" as beneath the mission of the Internet Society. Management of .org is actually extremely important to all of those who are involved in non-profits. So are we to assume that selling off .org to private equity for a quick cash grab is in line with their "mission"?
If you use Swoole, you can implement a performant server in a async Node fashion with your code, PHP and Swoole extension:

https://www.swoole.co.uk/docs/modules/swoole-http-server-doc
That's known as unrealized capital gains, which is a totally normal thing to measure. But what's important is how the value is determined. With a company on the public market you theoretically have millions of actors constantly evaluating the price of something using the same information (10K, etc.). If it's a house you have an appraiser from the government to tell you what it's worth. These two examples are considered securities in the US and so everything is federally regulated. But when it comes to valuation of a private company you can pretty much do what you want (see: "community adjusted EBIDTA"). So it's totally possible for a company to be irresponsible and overvalue itself, to the extent where it might be considered fraud if the company ever went public.
> I wonder if a newer design would really help users or sites with "more shiny" visuals are just following a trend without thinking too much about it.

This isn't about shinny visual, it's about what feeling someone gets when they visit the page.

I get the wrong feeling that it's old, because it use old trends. That impression will make me believe that the software is just as outdated, when actually it has been updated a few months ago.
I found this easier to work with than sketch up
> there is nothing I can see that incentivises good behavior.

Competition with all the other registries?

For the most cost sensitive domain owners, they typically have a presence on social media and contact with users via email. And, of course, they're usually discovered by search engine rather than domain. So the switching costs are quite low and the demand extremely elastic.
Without explicit agreements/laws in place I have to sadly agree, and any natural monopoly will get abused at some point if owned by profit-seeking companies. That's just how it is. Doesn't matter if they are now sweet-talking you into doing this deal, the fact is that once they are in the position of power, they can do whatever they want. Of course there are some limits what the customers can take, but when their end-goal is maximizing profit extraction it's just dumb to assume it will be all butterflies and rainbows.

As an example if you even need any, the government of Finland decided to let government-majority owned electricity company (Fortum) to sell off their electricity distribution (Caruna) to some private investors. I don't know what the investors promised but quickly after the deal was made, the prices started to rise, the company structure was made that the company in Finland is paying ridiculously high interest rates (8.5%) on loans to some Dutch holding company, with an effective tax rate of couple %.

And even in general, why do they have to sell .org? I don't see any concrete benefits whatsoever for the normal user.
The Winnability of Klondike Solitaire and Many Other Patience Games
M.2 to USB converters work just fine and a M.2 drive would be far more reliable than μSD cards, even the high-endurance ones.
There's a tradeoff between type I and type II errors. As long as China's leaders are willing to err on the side of their own safety, and as long as they don't mind locking up way more people than necessary -- which conditions both seem to hold -- I see little hope for the hypothetical destabilizing effects of lousy AI.

After all, dictators throughout history have made their countries horrible with no AI at all.
> And now they're just as misogynistic, but we don't get to enjoy their code.

I'd rather get the code of all the women who were driven out of tech by their bigotry and hate than whatever they'd write, even if it was legendary golden code spewed forth from the fount of all wisdom.
Instagram, Facebook, and Messenger Down on Thanksgiving
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Firefox and Chromium crash constantly on a fresh install of Ubuntu 18 on my Thinkpad T420. Only excuse I can think of is that it's an old machine.

I want to switch but every time I kick the tires I'm baffled at how quickly it blows up.
And i dont think this is written on a contract, sounded like a mere intention.
yea. i get the deceased people argument. but this name / brand protection thing is total bollocks. if you are not going to use the precious @firstname or @first.lastname maybe someone who has something important to say would? not fair to be name squatting.
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It's always the network.
Right, so what should we do?
Twitter pauses plan to delete inactive accounts
I admit that I do not have a quantitative measure to support my claim (as you note, constructing one is difficult). But qualitatively:

1) People have learned a lot from new engines: joseki (corner patterns), general strategy (e.g., moves on the side are now considered less valuable, making large moyos (largely empty space loosely surrounded by your stones) is less attractive because AIs have demonstrated that they're more invadable than previously thought) and are able to actually explain the new principles in human terms.

2) All go professionals now play in the new style, to some degree; ones who tried to continue in the old pre-AI style performed badly.

So I am comfortable claiming that human play has improved by learning from the new engines.
I tend to agree, I was just curious where this discussion would end up. So, what should we do?
How did they get to being in a position to make that decision if they are naive about such things?
If anything teslas are safer in this department because of the temperature sensors in the battery pack. There's several stories out there of battery fires in teslas where the fire only occurred after the car warned the driver, and after all the participants got out.

On the other hand you're unlikely to notice a fire in a gasoline car before there's smoke or fire.
The problem is that average poor and middle-class kids don’t make it into college at anywhere near the rates wealthy kids do and it has almost nothing to do with their capability.

There are a lot of capable people that will never have the same opportunities just by lottery of birth. It’s true they could try to be exceptional, but everyone can’t be and that’s a ridiculous way to attack poverty.
I was referring to the Sr. Miriam book, first published 1948. The other seems to be an anthology book, frankly not sure of the quality of the content in it.
Well, I lost brand-colors.com
>Sorry, this site requires JavaScript to be enabled.

For a flat blog post? Like, seriously?
Implying that the news spammers care what you think. They don't as long as you click the button, that's where this ends for them.
Rather C) to keep people who think “treating those different from themselves with common courtesy and decency” is a political view, and that technical prowess exempts them from such from getting involved.

If you can’t contribute without being a dick, why would anyone want your contribution?
For domain names it feels kind of double edged sword.

Higher prices cost you money, but keeps the domain sharks a little further away.

Keeping domain sharks away is nice.
I think it's good. If it's determined to be of historical significance someone like archive.org can archive it. If not Twitter can delete it.
Or you can try to build it from parts of other things you shipped there.
You can use third-party tools to check ahead of time, and you can fall back on the PHP runtime to catch what can't be caught in advance.
> It takes billions of dollars and many years just to construct things like subway systems in developed countries.

Much, if not most, of that being spent on lawsuits, as people block construction projects, hoping to extract maximum value for themselves now that they know the society needs their permission.

Having this in mind, I wouldn't be surprised if building infrastructure on Moon or Mars ended up being cheaper than in the US - there are no land owners up there just yet.
CORBA called, they want their ideas back
Having followed and at times heavily used PHP since the 4.x times, its story seems to be that of slowly (and begrudginly?) accepting modern language features like classes, exceptions, lambdas, GC, static typing, etc., sometimes getting things wrong on the first try but still mostly converging towards modernness.

That begs the question, what's PHP's value proposition for new projects? If PHP mostly chases feature parity with Java/.NET/TypeScript and doesn't attempt to do anything better/different (like Elm/Haskell/Rust/Go/Erlang arguably do), then why choose it?
Unlikely. The assumption is that if you get a Ph.D, you're going to want to use it and get paid commensurately for it. Very few businesses have problems they need a Ph.D to solve.

Depending on where you get your Ph.D from, it may not even get you much respect; academics are very status conscious people.
IMO unless you have a very specific field in mind which you believe will be extremely interested in your skills 3-5 years from now, I'd say "Hell no."

I say this as someone with a PhD (and as someone who's field quickly became irrelevant only a few years after graduation).
Had no idea that existed, super cool, thanks!
How do you contain failures to the roof, or fix them?

Given that a tear would result in catastrophic depressurisation.
How to Compress Images with More Than 90% While Retaining Quality
Automated Machine Learning does seem a thing though?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated_machine_learning

Edit: I was just curious, given the claimed widespread applicability of current ML techniques and the apparent demand for human intervention in the process, to what extent there had been any progress on automating the use of ML itself.
Both of these are equally important. Diet and exercise are 2 sides of the same coin. This is why they are usually mentioned together using a conjunction when one gives health advice.

Exercise has direct impact on inflammation markers (initially increases them, but suppresses them over longer timescales), and also helps substantially with nutrient uptake + digestion. You may also find that you crave healthier food options immediately after having just completed an arduous workout.

In my experience, the best approach for keeping inflammation under control and generally being in the best mental state possible is to exercise every morning while fasted, and then eat 1 big meal sometime in the afternoon. This approach ensures your body experiences a shift in metabolic modes on a daily basis, and makes it a much more seamless experience as you shift between them (assuming you stay consistent). I feel that being in a ketogenic state (i.e. right after you complete your fasted exercise session and before you eat your big meal) yields countless health benefits. And, if you can essentially guarantee that you experience this mode for 4+ hours every day, whatever benefits it may confer should be substantially realized.
I never actually stopped to consider why they chose to sell of the TLD. I thought this was just a terrible organizational decision. Call me naive, but it didn't occur to me that it was about the cash infusion. I can't believe they want to jeopardize such an important part of the structure of the internet for a one time cash infusion. Absolutely disgusting.

>If we take Ethos at their word

What a child
I see how it seems like a Chinese Room argument, but I saw it more as a statement about how much more there is to figure out about how the human mind does things, that we need to build such particularly powerful machines to defeat it.
Steel cable with a diameter of 1inch has a breaking strength of 47 tonnes. Give it a safety margin and assume it can hold 10 tonnes. So you need 10 cables per meter. So I assume in case the "lip" being just a sheet of steel it can be way thinner than 25mm.

https://imgur.com/a/h92bLIp
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I used to use the snip tool all the time, but I switched to LightShot since they started indicating it would be deprecated. Glad I did, lightshot is so nice.
> How does watching the news make me more informed of their platform?

The candidate is the "most biased" source on their own platform! Especially as to the important second order questions of "is this actually important, or have they just declared War on Pecans for some dumb reason", and "will this actually fix the problem, or is this just funneling money to their campaign donors"?

The most important issue in the immediate UK election is Brexit. Do you think the candidates' statements about the likely outcomes of their Brexit policies are reliable, or would you like to buy this bridge I have to sell?

You can definitely make the argument that foreign news is irrelevant to you. I have a lot of sympathy with that as a Brit who gets over-exposed to US news. But this only holds true until things get bad enough. Someone blows up a refinery in Saudi Arabia and the price of petrol skyrockets. In the most extreme version, someone starts a war and you get drafted. Until then, sure.

> jobs, health care, food, guns, infrastructure

So there's an important philosophical question here; are those issues important to you only in as much as they affect you personally, or those close to you, or are they important as they affect your fellow Americans?

Why do you care if it wasn't your child in the latest school shooting? Why do you care about 9/11 if nobody you know was in the towers? Why do you care about healthcare if you're healthy? Why do you care about infrastructure other than that specific bridge you drive over every day? If you live in California, do you have an interest in knowing what's up with all the fires, or are you going to wait until they approach your house?
Sounds like what happens with drugs. The big name pharma companies avoid getting their names dirty by selling drugs to corps willing to bump prices past the absurd.

I sure hope the author got a kickback since his decision was not for the benefit of others. Only worse thing than corrupt board member, is a fool given authority.
> In a world where everyone seems to think solutions to problems are always about...

"everyone"? "always"? Your generalisations may be doing as much harm as anyone you're criticising.
Aren't the baseband components typically separated because they are a different regulatory domain?

My understanding is that integators buy the baseband module (with FCC and other licenses) and add it to their device so as to not incur the patent fees and oversight required by developing the radio device into every regional handset.
> The Librem […] doesn't include basic functionality like calendars, calculators and notes.

From what I can see, this is untrue:

Calculator: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esYJSNZrQWc

Notes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34XhhVlmYTU
and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEzRgjHaIZo

It would surprise me if there wasn’t a calendaring program in there, too
What you constantly hear is what you will think about. As long as people watch TV constantly, TV will control people’s minds.
Crackpots can be filtered out using logic, though. But people don’t do that; people filter based on how hard it would be to change in the proposed way.

People might say that they want security, but when some logical person takes this literally and respond “Use PGP”, they might be logically correct (since as bad as it may be, there might not be any secure alternative to PGP), this advice will always be ignored because what people want is not actually security. What people want is to feel secure while not changing anything about what they are doing or how they are doing it.
Did you read that in the news?
Even if they removed the accounts you still would not be able to.

Twitter said many times that the removals would not free up the namespace, those names would still be unavailable for use
No, communism isn't the answer. Some people having an edge over others is not an issue in the first place.
There seems to be a problem with saving, doens't work for me (Chrome)
I am more interested in who would design such fines. One of the great delusions we live in is that complex social problems have simple solutions.

As a practical example public train service in Germany was privatized some decades ago; obviously to guarantee quality the contract stipulate some quotas that need to be reached, one of these is that delays needs to be below a certain level; here comes a captcha, if a train is cancelled it does not count as a delay.

So the financial incentives are essentially to have little (but non zero) delays and cancel all trains with a above average delay.

You cannot game the system and expect the system is not going to game you.

Or better, are you going to be prepared for the consequence of a policy like the one you propose in practice?
It strikes me as odd to depict improving soldiers' performance as a distortion of mindfulness without mentioning the long history of meditation in the martial arts.
Extremely cool and full-stack container platform, also open source
>IMO, the best way to avoid issues like this would be to ban private schools

Why should it be illegal to give my child a better education than what the state provides?
Wouldn't the easier path be to rewrite the filesystem table to undo the deletions? You'd need to be very careful to only write necessary tools into memory, but since deleting files typically only changes the filesystem table and doesn't remove the contents of the sectors, you might be able to get enough of a working system to reinstall what is left. I'd reach for photorec since I'm lazy, but you'd need to bootstrap it with glibc and a few other dependencies. Not sure how you'd mount the ramdisk though... just hexdump, less, and dd would be minimally sufficient, though much, much harder.
"How to design a modern Java Swing UI inspiration using Netbeans"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpKANTHXwmo

As mentioned, having a designer on the team matters.
The last time .org was up one of the bidders considered that Oxfam and redx (red cross ) where not valid users of .org

At the time I worked for one of the bidders Poptel, so I got to hear a lot of the inside stories
Reasonable people treat others with respect, humanity and humility.

Reasonable people will have no problem with mandating such treatment of all contributors.

Reasonable people won’t let their ego force them to oppose respectful conduct simply because it’s codified.

Reasonable people don’t believe their technical prowess entitles them to be dicks.

Seems reasonable, eh?
Unless you plan not to pay taxes on it. For me it would be $860 phone. Comparable phones, like Lenovo K9 for example, cost $125-$150 around here, taxes incl.
College education isn't the only way to escape poverty. Trade schools are a thing, for example.
Sidenote: I got my Librem 5 in the mail yesterday! Below is a video of unboxing.

https://peertube.co.uk/videos/watch/55eece8c-2d6c-4da3-8c8c-...

This prototype version is definitely not ready for mass market due to (1) known overheating issue (so far I've observed it get quite warm sometimes, but not uncomfortably hot), (2) a bunch little software things to work on. But it's really exciting to be able to `ls` and `cd` and `ssh` on a phone, and know that the software updates are coming.

Purism's accomplishment already is pretty incredible on both a hardware and software level. For me, well worth the price. Congrats to them even if there is a ways to go yet.
Are there any studies post college to see if there is any correlation between adverse backgrounds and success post college?
Dear commenters on HN. Don't bite or spite the hand that is feeding you. The recession will come soon enough.
This is not about Historical Value.
Quick question - www.internetsociety.org - did you get a sweet heart deal or are you on the same future track as everyone else?
php also has one:
php -S localhost:8000 -t foo
https://www.php.net/manual/de/features.commandline.webserver...

since 5.x (not production ready tough)
It does if you're trying to make an array of anonymous functions...
"At least you’re pretty transparent in projecting white victimhood and racism all at the same time."

The results will be same as what happens now with affirmative action: students get into the university based on inflated scores and then a high percentage drop out/fail out because they can't keep up with the courses.

I predict the next step after this is changing courses and making them easier because they somehow reflect 'white culture' and are 'racist'.

This doesn't help the affected communities, makes our educational institutions worthless, and only serves to help politicians get votes and make liberals feel better about themselves.
I'm getting the information directly from the Librem 5 product page[0]:

"Upon initial shipment of the Librem 5 in 2019, it will offer the essentials: phone functionality, email, messaging, voice, camera, browsing. Your user experience will improve as we incrementally add commonly requested applications and features (such as calendaring, notes, calculator, PDF viewer, etc.) while keeping performance in mind."

[0] https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/
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Yeah, but 2012 was 7 years ago.
Belief it's an accident vs belief it's human agency. Perhaps.
Keeping air in and radiation out aren't concerns on Earth, so other factors prevail in deciding where to build a settlement.
I once got an offer to teach a yoga and meditation class at a company. The stated goal was to give employees tools to handle stress better. I pointed out that the result of mindfulness would most likely be that people would see how harmful a stressful environment Is and either try to change it or to avoid it. Never heard back :)

The same happened with yoga. We picked a very small part of the tradition as in asana and removed most of the spiritual aspects. Almost nobody teaches pranayama or meditation in any meaningful way. It’s basically a different form of aerobics or calisthenics.
A domain only has One registry