skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some things are easier to get familiar with. Culture and innate talent or tendencies can affect that, but that doesn't mean that there is no such thing as good design independent of that.
While I like the intent here, I personally would be really annoyed if a friend gave my email address to a site like this. It is NOT OK to give your friend's private email addresses to third parties.
PS. If you employ locks correctly, you can do regions of mutual exclusion (with holes) in C++ :-)
2020 is absolutely going to be an interesting year.

One thing that might not have come across clearly in the blog post: we're already well on the path to using React everywhere (we started using React a week after it became public… 6 years ago?). We made the decision to move to GraphQL in 2017, so we've already got a lot in our GraphQL schema. Finishing those switchovers will make our move to Go happen more quickly.
And China is nowhere near the standard for freedom of speech we expect in America.
I think he’s referring to the method of ingestion. A lot of supplements come in different forms, including sweetened chewables and drink mixes.
The Earth still exists and yet there are ~7 billion people on it. Is that too many?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllis_Fox
I mean, you do you, but you probably see the pattern in the responses to your comment.

It is theoretically possible that there’s a good use case for storing all fields in a blob. It’s just that none of the ones you mentioned are ones I agree with.

The only thing that makes sense to store in a blob is something that is otherwise incomprehensible (e.g. a jpeg file, doesn’t fit in any other column type), and even that is a bad idea.
If you are expecting to be in a higher tax bracket in retirement (counting traditional IRA/401K income) then Roth IRA/401K may be a better choice, since it is after tax when invested but tax-free when withdrawn. Most workers will have substantially higher income subject to income tax during working years than in retirement even with IRA/401K withdrawals as taxable income, but that's not always the case.
Commander Fravor reflected on his sighting: "I have no idea what I saw. It had no plumes, wings or rotors and outran our F-18s. But I want to fly one"

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/16/us/politics/unidentified-...
It's being worked on. As with anyting in living systems, it's not simple.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6197057/
Under our Constitution, anonymous pamphleteering is not a pernicious, fraudulent practice, but an honorable tradition of advocacy and of dissent. Anonymity is a shield from the tyranny of the majority. [..] It thus exemplifies the purpose behind the Bill of Rights, and of the First Amendment in particular: to protect unpopular individuals from retaliation--and their ideas from suppression--at the hand of an intolerant society.

-- United States Supreme Court, McIntyre v. Ohio Elections Commission
The two projects i migrated were good quality code at the hundreds of thousand lines of code scale. Though I find that metric a bit inappropriate. I agree the statement was a bit generalising and not appropriate for every project and the million lines projects should have been excluded To be honest - I find a year long dedicated migration effort a bit excessive. But who am I to judge.
My experience was smooth with just a few hurdles around byte/string issues and that was it.
There was mentat. Almost.
Wow, that's surprising. I would have bet heavily on those messages being straight out false. I have seen the "3 other guests are looking" message in hotels in quite off-track places and seasons, when booking well in advance. If that message is true, I guess I just underestimate the size of the market and/or the number of hotels that people will browse before booking.
I ran my holiday apartment through booking.com for 18 months, until a week or so ago - 95% of my business comes via Airbnb so the additional channel just didn’t make sense.

One thing I can tell you is that the “x guests booked” absolutely isn’t true, as it would frequently say so about my apartment when I hadn’t had a booking in months.

Maybe it’s true in some cases, but there’s definitely some fudging going on.
I can appreciate the inquiry, but I would expect a senior biology undergrad to be able to write a comprehensive paper on a topic like this based solely on the information that's been published.
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>Can someone explain the difference. I don't think it's solely based on govt vs private industry doing the control.

It's pretty much just that, particularly when it comes to political advertising. Regulatory bodies operate with the full oversight of government and the courts; if they make poor decisions, they can be held accountable. Facebook are already frighteningly powerful and deputising them to be arbiters of truth only makes them more powerful.

Facebook should absolutely have mechanisms in place to facilitate swift and effective intervention by regulatory agencies, but they shouldn't be acting as a regulatory agency themselves.
What about the patent based on this observation filed and granted to the Secretary of the Navy?

https://patents.google.com/patent/US10144532B2/en
"It should be obvious that we don't have any high-level intuition on how to use computer interfaces - how could we have evolved one?"

How could we have evolved <the capability to deal with something new> is a question that applies to everything that's ever evolved since the beginning of time, so the implication must be wrong.

Every new capability is adapted from a different "purpose". That doesn't mean that any new capability is equally feasible.

It irritates me how people observe that smart people say counterintuitive things, so they gravitate towards counterintuitive things as though they were automatically smart. It's a major antipattern in thinking in general.
> Of course the obvious thing missing in the article is how they expect to deliver new business features while recoding everything in a new language.

For new features, the new parts of the GraphQL schema for those features will be written in Go as part of the new services. Our frontend is already in large part a single page app in React which requests data via GraphQL, so the frontend for the features will look just the same as it would on our monolith.
Joe Rogan also had an interview with him recently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eco2s3-0zsQ
This is from 2006; has there been any attempt in the .NET CLR or JVM to implement this? Haskell on those runtimes sounds like a practical path to wider adoption.
No active radar. All the tracking pods have FLIR/CCDs on them that allow tracking of objects (which I believe is based upon contrasting white hot / black hot returns). A "point track" for example would allow you to track an object on the ground as it is moving (important when using laser guided ordinance where the beam has to follow it).
I suspect that if you're the type to take a bunch of individual vitamin supplements then you know exactly what you're taking and how much, much more so than if you're taking a multivitamin every morning washed down with your coffee. There's also no reason to be lying about that to your doctor.
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I’m blaming it on our lack of response. If you’re mentally ill and can’t afford insurance, ongoing treatment and prescriptions, then what do you do? In every other country that’s not a problem they have.
I can call Chase/Amex/Etc and have someone pick up in seconds or minutes.

I have signed up for some neobank accounts out of curiosity and there’s no phone number just email and chat, and when I’ve asked a question it’s taken at least 2-3 days to get a reply on average.

Reducing cost might be good for the business but as a customer I get no additional benefit (my Chase account is free) and reduced quality of service. Why would I want that?
This is why I believe what they saw was some sort of test of a FLIR defeating tech. Like an IR laser projection from a sub launched drone. It explains why it could move so fast and have no propulsion, it was just a laser dot moving around the sky and he was the cat chasing it around.
But what's the use case?
I'll reply more in depth after my livestream, but it's a very good question. You can hop on YouTube right now to discuss it if you want. There's a bit of banter going on, but I might be able to squeeze in some useful replies in between.
Make a bigger glass...
Wasn’t there an article, recently, maybe for another website, that these were generated client side with Math.random()?
Usually these are waved off as being weather balloons being buffeted by the wind.
There's a difference between the two. I support both. Here's my thoughts:

1) In the former case, the question is: "Who decides what ads can and cannot be shown?"

Is it Facebook? No, people don't trust Facebook to have any clue about neutrality.
Is it government? Of course not.
Is it "an independent agency"? How do you determine 'independent'?

There is no appropriate regulator for what is and is not a fair ad. It's easy to block ads that contain hate speech. It's harder to regulate many types of "misleading".

2) Ads are a form of free speech and outreach to people. You can view advertisements as not even being connected to the service offering the placement. From Facebook/Google ads to billboards and TV, the point is to communicate a message. It isn't really for the host to decide what messages one can show to a very large audience, or to decide on censorship (goes back to point 1), beyond the obvious denial of ads with hate speech, inciting violence, etc.

The point is not the free speech of the advertisement provider. It's the free speech of the advertisers, and their freedom to get their message to people (irrelevant of popularity of the message).

3) The tactics used by Booking.com is fundamentally different. It's a company using deceptive practices to increase its own sales. There are no two parties here, nor is it an open market. It's the same company lying in its product to encourage conversions by deception. There is no advantage to free speech by allowing this to happen.

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I do not support complete market freedom, although I support the two things you mentioned, and I think it may be true for many (most?) people. Companies cannot be trusted to regulate themselves in many sectors. Governments must always involve themselves to ensure fairness, real competitive behaviour and the protection of rights.

Furthermore, most people are incapable of dealing with things like deceptive practices themselves. And that's where governments have to step in. Unfortunately, although it would be an ideal world where people can make their own choices and everything is a free market, most people aren't able to live in such a world and would be exploited dry.
For a lot of people, that's equivalent to tell them not to leave their homes for six months.

It's possible to drive safely in black ice conditions with the right tires and appropriate levels of caution.
because this is a different law and the penalties are (much much) lower. They could just pay the fine daily, it's better to sort out the actual issue.

us-based tech companies have been getting fines for GDPR(data privacy) violations, not false advertising.
I am thankful for this release. It finally fixed two major issues that had plagued Gitlab for us for a long time:

- The "Rebase" button now actually seems to work reliably with no cases of endless spinning to report in the few tens of button presses so far for me (we merge fast-forward only). Hoping this is not a fluke and will not regress in the future.

- The "Hide whitespace changes" button works again after breaking what feels like some time in 2018.

These 2 sound like really basic functionality, so it also represents the sad state of Gitlab development - a priority on useless fluff on top of regressions in each release, while hundreds of bugs that actually affect users go unaddressed.

This is a good release.

Edit: Their issue tracker [1] actually lists 37.8k issues with 23.9k "open", which represents 63% of all issues ever created. As a project matures and ages, you would expect this metric to start to go down naturally, as you "plateau" on a sustainable level of open issues. If this were my project, I would be freaking out.

[1] https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/issues
„Long distance“ here includes anything longer than a 1000th of the classical radius of the hydrogen atom, which is to a very high accuracy described by an inverse square law.
The PS4 doesn't require an update if you don't want to go online. The same for a game, you can just cancel the update if it's started. The entire platform can run offline if you want. Any game that requires a system update to run will package the update on the disc.
I'm working on a Chrome Extension that lets you open tabs, navigate pages, click links, dictate emails etc. on the web using voice-control: https://www.lipsurf.com

Many of my users have motor control issues. Depending on the manner of the difficulty, I think this will be useful to you.
I see sources citing 4600m and also 1500m (as normal), but some footnotes and referances to The Deep Sea stats would be nice.
Booking.com is a parasite of the industry. It was widely used in Turkey as well. Once, I booked a room through them but there was a problem with the reservation (hotel's fault) when I called their call-center for help they didn't even have a turkish speaking staff. I had to speak in English in the middle of Turkey to solve the problem.

After awhile government banned them to operate in Turkey. That was a good decision.
For now, but changes in weather will change the places where we can grow crops. This change will happen fast, the question is if our adaptation can keep up with the change.

Don't forget that the high yields are caused by the crops being highly optimized for current conditions..
Very much an American thing. During the first dotcom bubble the company who bought mine turned out to have a habit of getting rid of CTOs who had golden parachutes by ordering other employees to not talk to them and giving them a supposedly nice office on an unfinished, empty floor of a skyscraper where all the lights outside their office were disconnected. One held out long enough to launch his new startup and I was pretty impressed that he put it together in semi-squat conditions while being shunned. When it comes to cheating people on contracts there are a lot of determined, creative people in management and on boards.
One of the most fascinating things about this UFO Navy story is that at least one of the UFO's employed radar jamming after being spotted.[0] To me, this is good evidence that we are not dealing with a currently unknown natural phenomina.

[0] https://abcnews.go.com/US/navy-pilot-recalls-encounter-ufo-u...
>Are these HUD things around the object just visual bounding boxes around something with high contrast, or are the HUDs doing sensor fusion with IR and radar and other things?

All of the above, and probably a bit more we're not really privy to.
Clearly this operating system isn't for you. That's great! We have choice in this world. Enjoy your Arch Linux -- I'm glad it works for you.
I'm having a Baader-Meinhof effect; I recently read about this "Second system syndrome", I think in "The Unicorn Project".
From a lot of what I've heard there is trouble hiring / retaining line-level managers -- engineering managers are usually the ones thinking about and negotiating roadmaps among multiple teams. When you have developers filling this role ad hoc, it can be difficult for them to context switch from low-level technical concerns to operational business concerns. So the low-level technical concerns are the ones that get focused on rather than being focused on some overarching business-led strategy.

Not picking on Etsy here in particular as lots of companies have this problem. But it's not something people often think about as being crucial for good engineering culture.
Sorry if this wasn't clear: Go is 10x faster than Python, yes, but we know that we're not going to reduce our server count by 90%. 50% is quite possible, though, given Go's superior threading and its good resource use. Moving away from the monolith should also give us new optimization possibilities.
YMMV but I don’t mind payment processors knowing my location. I’d choose that anytime over touching physical money (or having people who process my food touch it).
Firstly, well done because (if others accept your take) you've just explained the crux of ZAMM to me better than the book did. I never got that last line of yours from the book. Have another beer :)

I still don't think it's right, though. Firstly we have a problem with defining subjective/objective. For example a decent hammer is a high quality tool for hammering in nails, but a low quality tool for screwing in screws. Does that make the quality of a hammer subjective (depending on the context in which it is used) or objective (independent of human perception provided we can accept an objective goal of joining two pieces of wood) or subjective again (because it takes a human to decide on that goal)? I find it near meaningless to begin this debate without agreeing on terms.

Second, going all the way down to electrons, protons etc - this liking and disliking seems to be confusing different types of process altogether: computing/selecting from possible alternatives vs simple electromagnetism. That's not to deny that our brains might be powered by simple electromagnetism under the hood. But if you define "liking" for an electron as "moving towards a positive charge (momentum and other forces/quantum effects permitting)" and "disliking" as "moving towards a negative charge (similarly qualified)" then the electron will never experience the sensation of "dislike", while we as humans often do, so the parallel seems inappropriate.

As to whether quality is objective/subjective what's wrong with the explanation that individual tastes vary but there is usually some correlation between them due to the evolutionary forces that shape both us and our memes?

As to whether like/dislike defines subject/object what do you make of the person who dislikes their own body and would rather inhabit a different one?

As to whether quality is essential for definition of subject/object: I'm not convinced it is at all. Sure "quality" might break a crude model of subjectivity/objectivity (which can then be refined as above) but just because something broke our model doesn't make that thing essential to defining the model. I can break some form of logic (propositional? first order? I forget) by asking you to evaluate the truth of "this statement is false" but that didn't mean we needed that statement to define the logic in the first place.

And as to whether quality is undefinable: just because we repeatedly fail to define it doesn't mean it can't be.

Not wanting to be argumentative btw. I'm genuinely interested to get to the bottom of this if you have further thoughts.
Relevant: “Consumers are becoming wise to your nudge” https://behavioralscientist.org/consumers-are-becoming-wise-...
Modern traction control systems available on production cars and motorcycles have a polling rate of up to 1000Hz. You don't need self driving tech to handle most low traction situations.

Black ice is an exception because once you start sliding on it there is not much you can do to regain control except ride it out and hope you don't hit anything before you get out of the ice.
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I was expecting this to be about Wirecard.
I think Occam's Razor says a good lawyer convinced the patent office to make a bad decision. Could be wrong, but this is easily explained by incompetence.
504 again. It sounds pretty cool, though!
Is there a single true technological innovation (not some weekend or IoT gadget) that doesn’t end up with a use case, sooner or later?
You walk into your doctors office and before you even sit down they have a trove of health data before you even tell them anything. If these were readily available just like say blood pressure testing at every pharmacy, we could perhaps catch certain health conditions early on.
Next up, all those airline ticket websites like gotogate.
I cannot stand these companies who have these “we can’t change our decision” and “refuse to provide more info” policies.

These types of policies are bad for customers. They should be banned.
He only speaks 6502 Assembly Language.
Anytime I try to pursue the UFO question I feel like I’m being intentionally gaslighted by government agencies. The public-ish analysis of UFOs, AATIP is an incredible farce. They focused on star trek warp drives and after the funding dried up they started hanging out with Blink 182 to smoke weed and pat each other on the back for being crazy alien believers. These aren’t sound scientific minds that are capable of analyzing the evidence available. Those people exist and I’m certain their analyses do as well, but no one gets to see them.

I struggle to even come up with narratives as to why this specific case would be made public. Perhaps the intelligence agencies knew it wouldn’t be possible to cover up so the best they can do is release the evidence that was expected to make its way to the public and say nothing about it officially. If I put on a tinfoil hat I could say that the AATIP’s purpose was to instill doubt that aliens exist, but that would imply that they do exist. It seems that the intelligence agencies are behaving like they want to give as little information as possible about it. I can’t imagine the AATIP was made top-down. It appears to just be a congressman’s publicity stunt.
No, User-Agent is no longer a forbidden header for Javascript fetch requests[0].

To be fair, both Chrome and Firefox have outstanding bugs where they haven't yet implemented the correct specs. But there is no reason to assume that a spec-compliant browser will block Javascript from setting the User Agent for a request. It's likely to allow it, because allowing it is the correct behavior.

Even if it wasn't the correct behavior, it's silly to assume that a browser that doesn't implement XSS protection is suddenly going to get good security when it comes to implementing UA freezing in request headers. I don't think there's a world where a browser maintainer says, "it's too much work for me to respect CORS, but I really want to make sure I'm following this obscure forbidden headers list".

[0]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/Forbidden_...
JavaScript is cancer and should be disabled whenever possible.
Not a paradox, just an indication that these authors (and you) are not good at thinking like archaeologists. As an archaeologist myself, this whole paper reads like complete nonsense.
I am particular about how I code my builds so they are portable. I like debugging locally, its faster. Gitlab-Ci does not encourage this and I usually end up refactoring my colleagues code all the time to this end.

Not sure if having a runner is the proper solution to this problem. Off the cuff I feel like there are better ways to go about it if I where making a CI server from scratch. Like only allowing single Docker commands per action? Then you would just those and have a nice portable and consistent environment. But Docker isn't very friendly as development tooling as you have to go through length to persist file artifacts and such. Would seem like there is some room in the space...
I didn’t spot that one, though it was almost 10 years ago and I don’t see more recent examples. My point was that a large number of users don’t actually have hyper-threading on the desktop.
I propose that for most people "I'm on chemotherapy" triggers the feeling that their cancer is pretty bad.
Have you ever tried to tell them that you're getting x price on Booking? They have always at least matched the price in my experience.
There seems to be a lot of competition of other people doing this. What is special about yours?