skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Monday-only bugs and similar are not unlikely with code dealing with weekday ordinals, when moving between locales with different conventions (is Monday or Sunday the first day of the week?). Or can cause any number of confusions if different bits of code make different assumptions.

I'm not sure why that would affect something like webpack though (unless the problem was specific to a date manipulation library).

Edit: spotted the post that arrived as I typed the above. Looks like an advertising related function that only ran once per week using something not available on all sorted OS builds for that code, so not a locale related problem. Advertising causing unexpected problems yet again!
Eventually they drop the crapware foisted on us that we complained about when they put it in.

Why won't they listen to us?
That’s an old urban legend:

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/cone-of-silence/
The first thing I did after install was to remove all the launcher shortcuts except for Firefox. This'll make it easier on new installs for me (and perhaps most of us).
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I don't understand the rage. It's a shortcut that opens amazon.com in a browser. It queries location, for opening the local amazon site, but that could be avoided by disabling geoclue.
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This looks really great!

A somewhat related video that your docs reminded me of, "Bret Victor - Inventing on Principle" [], which I think is a really interesting take on inventing and learning. Perhaps some useful thoughts for your principles section.

[]https://vimeo.com/36579366
Hehe the old grey line ftpd :)
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Because money
> Donald Trump would call "fake news" (as he does with news outlets revealing embarrassing facts about him or his administration).

CNN is fake news. Period... there no debate about this fact. Their agenda, their reporting and most importantly their bent--is totally one sided. Unless of course President Trump is Actually A Plant that Putin Knew Would win the election despite Never winning Any other office--a feat which had never been done before. Tulsi is also a "Russian Asset", just ask Hillary... And here I was thinking she was a Patriot who served in a War Zone.

Free your mind. The Matrix Has You... :)
when I finally realized that I could just mount my phone on my desk like I do in my car my quality of life as an iOS dev changed completely. just having it there next to my magic trackpad is soo much smoother than trying to work the simulator.
Good. Lightning has always been a technical disgrace.
The default was to submit all Unity launcher searches to Amazon to populate the desktop search with items sold in Amazon.
My favorite one is the one where engineer notices that he can login on terminal only when sitting down. When standing up, login fails.
Do our best to stop buying or using disposable plastic bottle or cup or utensil
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I’m coming to a Beazley course in Andersonville this spring. Any good polish restaurants to suggest in the area?
Mine's https://apt-get.xyz/. Not much on there: an old-school blog (hosted with BBdiary[1]), and a tiddlywiki at https://knowledge.apt-get.xyz, which I try to use as a reference for everything complex I'm learning/exploring. The rest is hand-written HTML.

[1] https://github.com/yumi-xx/BBDiary
Previous discussion (with 110 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22108890
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No, I would ban cameras for surveillance purposes. This is pretty easy to legislate and the basic rule. There would be some exceptions to this naturally.
I think the issue here is the question that should be being asked is: "is this a postscript file?". `file` answers a different question, "what is the most likely type for this file?"
See YugabyteDB. Reusing postgresql code and adding sharding with transactions & synchronous replication. Source: work there.
Even plugged to my 45W PD monitor, it's fine in practice.

The MBP16 gets so hot and loud when you draw this kind of power anyway, you probably don't want to do that for longer periods of time.
Ok don’t leave us hanging here what was the cause?
Except you have very little context, and you get all of it from a person who's desperately incapable of deciding.
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Not sure why people think they can rely on the pre-installed Unix utilities on macOS.

EDIT:
Apple routinely don't update the Unix utilities for a decade...
The whole reason people use Ubuntu and other free OS's is because they don't come with a bunch of commercial crap & telemetry and whatever other vendors foist on their captive audience. Going down that route is completely against what FOSS should stand for.
Old is entirely a valid critique of crypto; it demonstrates the authors aren't familiar with modern privacy tooling which tells me a lot.
Iirc they only had one eye and one tooth between them, which they shared.
I find all the complexity quite unnecessary. I think the "package managers" attempt to do too much, handling some sort of use case that doesn't affect me. My highest success rate with randomly deploying someone else's software comes from software that just provides a bunch of API objects in YAML form that you just apply to the cluster. My second highest success rate comes from just writing my own manifest for some random docker image. Finally, operators tend to do pretty well if the development team is sane.

At this point, I think the fundamental problems are:

1) People desire to give you a "works out of the box" experience, so they write a packaging system that can install everything. The app depends on Postgres? Fuck it, we'll install Postgres for you! This is where things start to go wrong because self-hosting your own replicated relational database instance is far from trivial, and it requires you to dial in a lot of settings. And, of course, it requires even more settings to say "no no, I already have an instance, here is the secret that contains the credentials and here is its address."

2) Installing software appears to require answering questions that nobody knows the answers to. How much CPU and memory do I give your app? "I dunno we didn't load test it just give it 16 CPUs and 32G of RAM, if it needs more than that check your monitoring and give it more." "I only have 2 CPUs and 4G of RAM per node." "Oh, well, maybe that's enough or maybe it isn't. It won't blow up until you give it a lot of users though, so you will get to load test it for us while your users can't do any work. Report back and let us know how it goes!"

I also noticed that when security people get at the project, it tends to become unusable. I used to be a big fan of Kustomize for manifest generation. Someone decided to build it into kubectl by default, and that it should support pulling config from random sites on the Internet. So now if you use it locally, you can't refer to resources that are in ../something, because what if a remote manifest specified ../../../../../etc/shadow as the config source? Big disaster! So now it doesn't work. (They also replaced what I thought was the best documentation in the world, a kustomization.yaml file that simply used every available setting, with comments, with a totally unusable mass of markdown files that don't tell you how to use anything.)

Obviously security is a problem, but they should have said "just git clone the manifest yourself and review it" instead of "you can't use ../ on your local manifests that are entirely written by your own company and exist all inside the same git repository that you fully control". But they didn't, and now it sucks to use.
which math package are you using? Mathematica, Macsyma, ...?

also, I have uBlock origin, and the imgur .png link shows me the page without the png... (EDIT: I just used wget on the exact same URL and it just downloads the png, it boggles my mind why firefox doesn't just show the PNG, or is this imgur detecting user agent etc?)

Also, that's a good observation, that the spatial distribution of variance is noticable.

Would you mind sharing the code for the last 2 plots you generated?

For incorporating gamma, and using the original HN post terminology, what prevents you from generalizing your technique to the optical (linear) domain instead of the electronic (gamma) domain?

Is it because you need to devise a new family of probability functions so that the expectation value in the optical domain is linearly proportional to the input optical value while having the bins spread according to the gamma curve?
I point you to this article: https://medium.com/@klintcho/creating-an-open-speech-recogni...

It basically describes the thing you mentioned - matching freely available audio books with the source text and using some tools to preprocess the data suitable for ASR training (alignment, splitting).
Yeah, those idiots! They buy something from Apple, and then find it doesn't work. What did they expect.

This, of course, is passive-aggressive snark. Suffice to say that I disagree with you; why shouldn't people expect software they buy from Apple to work? People buy from Apple because they don't want to have to deal with all this sort of crap; they just want it to work.
This was the shortcut to Amazon website, not the search lens that already died in the transition from Unity to Gnome.

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2020/01/ubuntu-removes-the-amazo...
I ran into another strange doesn't-work-at-this-time issue at my first job, network/systems admin in the early 00s. We had a point to point microwave link that would go down at about 4:30pm every day. It was really bizarre; this was on kit on the roofs of two hospitals, and a pain to physically access.

We spent quite a bit of time chasing down various options for it to be a software issue. Someone went and checked the kit and visually saw that we had clean line-of-sight for the link.

It kept happening.

Eventually, a colleague went out while it was down. It turned out that there was a crane on a building site, and when they parked it stationary it blocked line of sight.
Tldr: Mr. Caulfield is upset that seemingly not enough people use control-F (or command-F on Macs) to quickly check whether a webpage actually says what another person linking to it claims it does.

He claims that 90% to 96% of people don’t know what control-F does; his estimate of 90% is based on the results of a survey done nearly ten years ago (one of those terrible annoying Google surveys that everyone clicks through as quickly as possible with random answers to unlock access to the webpage or video they are actually trying to view), and his estimate of 96% is based on assumptions from looking over the shoulders of his students to witness how they behave, although maybe they’re just nervous because he’s watching them and they want to look like they’re taking the material more seriously so they start reading more intently instead of “cheating” with control-F.

Regardless of whether people actually know about using control-F on websites or not, I think reliance on it for fact-checking will actually start to cause serious problems. All of these terrible Web 4.0 page scrolling hypermanagers that completely remove DOM content located outside of the current scroll view often make control-F fail to find content that is actually on the page. Reddit does this now; you need to use old.reddit.com for control-F to actually work. Twitter does this now; good luck using control-F to scroll back up to that specific tweet in a 300 tweet chain which you only remember a few words from, you can’t do it anymore. A lot of news sites do this now.
Once you discover it (I discovered it by accident a few years back in Safari), you can't live without it :) And apps that break this behaviour (I've found that Telegram is really inconsistent in this regard in chat lists) seem broken as a whole :)
This is a pretty strong starting point:

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=Comb...
I work for an mobile ad company and we would not consider accidental clicks for billing. I wonder how Google handles it. Advertisers would complain if you got a high fraction of clicks where the user closed the window right away or did not engage with the website in a desired fashion.
Thank you very much! That's it!
> Turns out that some joker pulled out two keys from the keyboard and switched their places. [...] They were both relatively good at typing and didn't look down at the keyboard when typing when sitting. But typing when standing is something they weren't used to and had to look down at the keyboard which made them press the wrong keys.
It'$ a my$tery, no one know$
They might have changed it in the last 8 years, but one of the worst things about this change is that the referrer requests were made in HTTP. Anyone sniffing your connection could find out what you were writing on the Ubuntu spotlight.
I remember how bad this was in the early days. The first time I started working on an Android app after a half a year of iOS development, it almost seemed like a joke. If I'm not mistaken back then GC pauses were even a big factor in UI performance, which led to unpredictable hitches in responsiveness.

I agree it's something Android should prioritize, but it also shouldn't be understated how big of a task this will be. Apple has invested a huge amount in this specific competency since the advent of OSX (and just look at the difference between mac os 10.0 and comparable versions of windows in terms of UI smoothness).

Ask a game developer: making computer graphics workloads perform predictably is a very difficult task which requires art as well as science. Building a UI stack which enables that, as well as having a nice front-end to work with for developers, and integrating well with arbitrary application logic is more than just optimizing some systems here and there.
https://www.reddit.com/r/talesfromtechsupport/comments/3v52p...

Not as interesting as initially hoped for :D
It does exactly what the documentation says it does:

"Creates and interns or locates a global var with the name of symbol and a
namespace of the value of the current namespace (ns)."
Let me guess... You are talking about yourself with a lack of realization of your status.

BTW,I lived in California for 5 years and left. I know what's up.
Let's hope that «multi-monitor support» will help this bug [1] go away! I have found that most of the Windows apps I used to rely on have good counterparts working on Linux, but sadly nothing matches Powerpoint (no, LibreOffice does not count).

[1] https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7416
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11717010
Where I come from, the hydroelectric plants are run partly according to the price. There are rules, the rivers can't be dry, but as far as permitted, the operators let the water flow when the price is high. Much of the weather forecasting is paid for by that; the power generating companies model electricity demand for the coming hours and days.

Where I live right now, the farmers are building things like this: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/20... The green things are more or less balloons, because it pays to store the gas until peak time and burn most of it then.
Do you have any links for the implications for commercial use? If I released a game made with PyGame, what's the gamble? I've seen examples of people using it commercially [0].

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/16d5ak/is_pygame_o...
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Interestingly, my cat started to bring pieces of her food to me so I can throw it and she can pretend it's live pray she is catching. This behavior emerged suddenly out of nowhere without prior training.

I bet many pet owners can share same anecdotal evidence of certain level of social intelligence which, I think, is not widely accepted in scientific community.
Not the same one, but very recently, this problem has been cropping up for real all over the place! https://twitter.com/royvanrijn/status/1214162400666103808?s=... People having screens that turn off when you sit down or stand up.

SPOILER: its the gas compression in the shockabsorber causing an EM spike or something like that.
There were no known deaths from accute radiation syndrome[0]. There were deaths from things like the tsunami, the evacuation, and stress, which was essentially the point I was trying to make. The nuclear part of the equation caused a lot of fear, but it was all of the other things (and maybe the fear itself) that caused the deaths. That said, you're not wrong about the long-tail effects being hard to quantify and measure.

> I honestly think people like you should only be able to have this opinion if you live near Nuclear Plants, for a decade at a minimum.

For what it's worth, I've lived near nuclear power plants for over 30 years, and have no problem living near them until I die-- which will almost certainly not be from radiation unless we have a nuclear war. I had more radiation exposure from the coal fired power plant in my childhood town than from any of the nuclear plants I've been around.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_Daiichi_nuclear_disa...
How does this action differ from “listening to us”? It looks like they’re removing the app.
> Yes, but it's also a wonderful way to corrupt a DB as soon as anything goes wrong in your storage fabric system.

Why is this more likely to corrupt a DB than having it on local disks, when something goes wrong?
That lack of consistent height across cards is killing me.
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Given how sparse these data points are, then aren't these examples of exceptions that prove the rule?
Sample size one, but that’s not why I use Linux and similar operating systems. I feel like this is probably a decently popular reason, but I’d be hesitant to suggest it’s the “whole reason”.
I'm only interested in friend's parties. Most friends know I'm not on Facebook now, and invite me separately (using WhatsApp, but that's another kettle of fish...).

However it has forced me to be more engaged with my friends, since without Facebook they have to make a concious effort to invite me, rather than spot my name on a list. I've spent more time personally messaging and catching up with friends as a result.

Facebook makes keeping up with people frictionless, but relationships thrive on doing it the hard way, and giving up time for each other. Facebook makes it easy to have a thousand acquaintances regardless of how many deeper friendships you have.
Before anyone is panicking, please remind yourself that whatever medium was used by humans as a form of communication in the last few thousand years, was also used for fakes. You only need a half-decent voice actor to pretend you are someone else on the phone. Fake photographs are as old as photography. Even the probably most immediate form of interpersonal communication, seeing another person, can be faked, which is demonstrated by the many Doppelgängers used by politicians in the past. The power of the house Habsburg basically had its roots in several imperial documents and bulls faked by Rudolf IV. in 1358 (which was only discovered in the 19th century).

This isn't a new phenomenon that now means that we cannot trust anything anymore - it's only that the fakes are finally catching up with live video.
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For those behind a corporate firewall like myself:

https://outline.com/r8KtMw

(I'm not sure this give the entire article)
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Clicky: https://rehanguha.github.io//articles/2019-03/overflow-p-nor...

Post with text instead of a URL have a penalty here, so it's more difficult to get to the front page. Try submitting it again. You can add a comment after submitting, but in this case I think it is not necessary.
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Built with hugo and using mpeg-dash with shaka player for videos (so that they load only when in viewport and pause and stop loading as they leave viewport).
He needs updates, and Clickhouse isn't really made for that. But otherwise I agree.
Clarification to all: "drops" in this context means "gets rid of" rather than "releases".

Ubuntu is getting rid of affiliate links which it originally introduced to generate revenue, but have proved controversial and by the sounds of it unfruitful.

Ubuntu has also previously included Amazon search results in its start menu search (known as 'lenses' or the 'HUD') which were also controversial, but these were removed when Ubuntu switched to shipping the Gnome desktop by default.
Useful! Ths
Hallstatt in Austria has one of the oldest salt mines in the world. It's a really interesting tour that I can highly recommend.
Good point of you. I'm curios what others think about it!
Thx for sharing this with us
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God bless the Institute for Justice. Imagine all the billions our Gov't has thrown away in Afghanistan, and across the world . . . we know who the real crooks are . . . wikileaks taught us that . . .
http://danieljanus.pl

Made with an ad-hoc static site generator: https://github.com/nathell/nhp
> & telemetry

Telemetry and crash reports can be done right so you should not hate the concept but the bad implementation.

First step is that it should all be optional and it should be disabled by default or have it as an option you are forced to decider if yes or no. You should also be informed when data is sent and what is sent and have the option to deny. Like if app X crashes I send the crash report but if app Y crashes I won't send it.

Also about telemetry if all power users turn it off then you can have situations where developers will drop a feature because they don't use it and there is no data to show that more then 12 people are using it.
iOS has been such a better experience than any version of Android that I've tried but I'm really not a fan of the newer iPhone models. Hopefully by the time my SE dies there will another iPhone which has 1) a small body; 2) touch id instead of face id; 3) a headphone jack.
Really? I've done the switch from a Pixel 2 to an Iphone 11 pro and while it seems a bit smoother, I don't get annoyed when I switch back to my Pixel.
beamer slides?
> You only need a half-decent voice actor to pretend you are someone else on the phone.

You can even digitalize this part already. All you need are 5 seconds of recording and a pre-trained model in the desired language/accent.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sR1rU3gLzQ
It scares ma a lot!
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Yeah, it was originally very Windows 10