skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Goddamn, that is the stuff of nightmares. I think it makes sense to think in terms of smaller neural networks that can do more.

It makes sense. I don't know how Game AI Enemies are scripted but they seem to use very minimal code.

This should also imply that the spinal cord is more important, as the brain is just 1/10ths ? of the nervous system.
For games i use Lutis (https://lutris.net/) which gives you something similar to "profiles" (they call it runners, pre-configured isolated WINE instances) for each application. Also it includes a bunch of tricks and helpers out of the box.
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"It's not a high enough priority for them" doesn't get us very far. Why isn't it a high priority? The post has several guesses ("They don't think disasters are likely", "It's weird") and I'd be curious what you think?
How does it compare to ublock?
ProtonVPN apps handed to open source community in transparency push
Probably my fifth read through and still love it.
I blog. I can't seem to get significant traction in terms of an audience, but I very often can find some link I want for some reason because I blogged about it. In cases where searching the internet or searching HN is failing me, it's often been a huge relief to turn to my own writing and unearth it in short order.

It's a primary reason I continue to run my big fat mouth on blogs the rest of the world largely seems to have a yawning disinterest in most of the time.
And then you have your corporate-mandated image where Windows is bogged down by a metric crapton of garbage enterprise software. My work notebook takes about a minute to come to a state where I can actually enter my username and password on the login screen. Once on the desktop, it takes about 8-10 minutes to get settled (i.e. CPU load goes to baseline).
My personal website is my therapy. It's an art project. It's an attempt to think much differently about what a personal website should be:

https://n0thingness.com
Well, Amazon got a mouse click patented.
I wonder whether they are making room for an Amazon competitor.
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Your corporate firewall blocks jefftk.com? Does it say why?
Good luck Chubot! If you release in 2020 I look forward to using it.
Mine is https://davinder.net
The environmental cost of keeping mail and files online keeps rising
Most of the equipment & software I work with is owned/licensed by Honeywell and is proprietary, aka pricey. Older equipment can be found on reseller sites, but the developer software is expensive to license & hard to come by outside of the HON ecosystem.

If you go down the rabbit hole, check out Tridium, aka Niagara AX. Most(all?) of the big controls platforms are built on the Niagara framework.

Also, maybe contact contractors of Johnson Controls, Carrier Controls, Novar Controls, etc for more pertinent info.
Awesome work. One of the best travel websites that I have come recenlty across. Solves a very unique problem.
Interspecies transmission and emergence of novel viruses (2013)
A compulsion to express sarcasm out of fear of self-censorship is, itself, a form of self-censorship based on a fallacious premise that sarcasm is somehow more sincere and "honest" than politeness.
Does it still ship with minecraft installed? We had 2 of em full of bloat and gui tools, don't know exactly why
previous discussion from the release candidate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21981908

The new sort api seems like a significant improvement.
That would make sense if efforts were made and posts were written about making the state/city/community more prepared. Of course, one could always prepare for themselves too.

But most I've chanced are mostly ignoring the community/city/etc aspect, and go directly to the "how I, personally me, and my family at most, will survive, and screw the rest of them suckers".

At best they don't think they can influence the community/city/etc preparedness (or think it's already great). At worst, they don't care as long as they are prepared.
I use Emacs org mode capture and syncthing and org-protocol via Firefox.

On a page that I think may be useful I click a menu item in firefox which activates org-protocol sending the URL to an Emacs server, starting Emacs if needed. Emacs prompts me for some tags and then makes an entry in an org file which I sync to all my computers, home and work, via syncthing. I'll then either simply close the Emacs frame or if appropriate leave it open while I read through the page and add notes to the org entry. Later, if I have reason to revisit then I'll search on terms my brain is able to associate and that hits on the tags, text or page title that were stored.

Scripts and configuration are propagated to different computers using Git via a personal Gitea instance and vcsh/myrepo tools.
Yesterday's artisanal for loops is today's functional combinators widely supported in mainstream programming languages.
Thanks, that looks really interesting!

It seems, the Alto just keeps on giving and giving.
Though if you don't know what you are looking for, that stuff can be really hard to find.
Duolingo works reasonably well when used as a supplementary aid to learning a language. I've found that it has reasonable utility when combined with taking a physical class as a low-effort boredom filler for building familiarity with the vocabulary of a language.

What I find pressingly missing is any meaningful way of learning about the grammar of a language. When learning German there was absolutely nothing in the lessons which even hinted at the rules of tenses, cases, conjugations etc and the lack of that content stunts the possibility of building much more than a rote-learning knowledge of a language.

The app does seem to have a great gamification mechanic and is good at driving user engagement, so I guess they have that though.
Mankiw: A Skeptic’s Guide to Modern Monetary Theory [pdf]
> web-connected push in server editions

What's this?
> Perhaps just prominently feature your email address?

That's exactly what I'm doing right now :). Email address is not exactly as encouraging to reach out as a simple comment box, but I've had a hunch that the small possible upside is just not worth the hassle, and your experience seems to confirm that. Thanks!
Unfortunately Apple "OSes" are ridden with small-ish but nasty bugs and inconveniences which affect only an "insignificant" part of their customers, and in the Apple garden world it means they are never ever going to be fixed.

And not only that, new bugs are getting introduced and the old features removed with every OS release forcing me to look for workarounds, mostly to find out there are none, and eventually the only option is to get used to live with that

I've been using Apple products for 5 years now, but by now I've really grown tired of being forced to "think different" every now and then, and I believe the Apple products I currently own (this includes MBPs, iPhones and ATV) are the last I ever buy
> Why is this more likely to corrupt a DB than having it on local disks, when something goes wrong?

Local filesystems (ext4, xfs) have been designed to run over reliable internal bus and over spinning disk. They are (almost) able to stand most of the outage happening in this context ( powercut, corrupted block, missing flush ).

Put them over a non-reliable "normal" network, where you can get "savage" cable unplugged, faulty controller, paquet loss, out of order delivery, buggy middle box and you explode the number of scenario that can go wrong and will go wrong.

Block level I/O virtualization is amazingly useful, but (in my mind) it should be used with care...

I already heard of case in prod where the Master DB, the Slave DB and backup finished all in the same virtualized block-level storage.... try to guess what happened next.
I speak English (native), French and German. I’m currently learning Dutch with Duolingo. I’ve only used the iPhone app for about 2 months at the free tier.

I’ve already learned similar languages the traditional way and I go to the netherlands at least 1-2x year for work.

Personally, I feel I get enough value from Duolingo to make it worth my time. But I admit I’m a particular use case.

IMHO it is not was way to learn language if it is one’s only tool. But then again neither is only classroom instruction or only books or only tv. I think that is where people get hung up on critiquing it.

I see it as ONE valuable tool in my toolbox.
>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.

Firefox and the RSS situation. Mozilla did not even think 1 second that this might occur.
Having learnt Ruby and a bit of Erlang, I'm interested in Elixir so I fire this tangential question:

How would you recommend to learn Elixir? And a follow-up: some ideas for personal Elixir-based projects?
It was a common "field" trip for kids in the Detroit area. I went as well, and yeah, there was something very pleasant about the trip. I imagine it was notable for the fact you didn't get a ton of field trips, much less to one with giant machinery down a rickety elevator with an element of danger.
In the past, you needed to put effort to fake things. Of course, people still exist that believe the moonlanding videos were faked, but their hypothesis hinges on the government spending extraordinary amounts of money to produce the fake.

Deepfakes are deeply troubling, because anyone with a computer (a requirement that's getting optional as well quite fast) can fake any video almost instantly.

Consider just one sinister motive that's already making women in many countries cower in fear: if you reject a dude he can just make a deepfake porn video with you and release it as revenge. What's the equivalent of this in the distant past? All a guy could have done is "allege" the woman is so-and-so, which to be sure, probably did ruin some women's lives, but it's almost as if our society has devolved back to that same Stone age at best then.

And we live in a time when "facts" already don't matter much anymore and people are just looking to find evidence that supports their claim alone rather than the truth. To not take this technology seriously, to brush it off because "sensible" people will still pursue to seek the truth, is the kind of smug arrogance about questionable tech that has led us to the current overall shit:sandwich state of affairs to begin with. Let's hope we learn some lessons at least.
I don't understand what is so hard about WINEPREFIX and WINEARCH? Instead of a new VM, just use a new wineprefix for each application. Wintetricks works in your prefix, it doesn't take any special setup.
I've used Duolingo to learn Portuguese which is really close to Spanish (my native) for over a year, and it worked pretty well. Now I've done Dutch for over a year and it's a bit harder, I've taken 2 dutch courses as well, but I think the language is just hard for me. Though now I'm a somehow able to hold a small conversation.

I do 10 minutes per day, so it's fine by me, I usually waste more time in social media.
+1

The Alfred workflow makes capture and tagging pretty seemless.

Edit: just read the op properly, not after pinboard. I also would like a visual manager mainly for design refs. I don’t personally use it but Are.na is a cool platform for visual bookmarking of media alongside articles / sites.
This guy has great intentions, but he himself admits that the reason that inflammatory stuff gets spread is because low-effort readers retweet or share things without clicking through and reading the actual articles. And using Ctrl+F is less effort than reading an entire article, but it's still much, much more effort than just hitting retweet. Especially if the thing you're retweeting is something that you want to boost because it reinforces your preconceptions. Why would you want to fact-check something like that?

Ctrl+F is nice, but it's definitely not gonna solve the problem he's pointing to.
Not in the US. Everyone just uses what comes on their phone, and a select few use Facebook Messenger.
Very few appear to include New Zealand: https://emojipedia.org/world-map/
same here. the belief is that just using using CI/CD tools will make us efficient.
nothing against CI/CD, but the organization has much larger problems.
Why? That's the period when most learning happens!
I actually have better mileage without lutris - not sure why.
I use Arch Linux. The only linux distro. Zero telemetry. Debian is almost as bad as Ubuntu.
Sand, for traction, is usually the alternative. It's most commonly used in climates where it gets too cold for salt to be useful.
Jelly Sweet: Free Match 3 Game
I'll second this. Another problem is the subscription, which IMHO, is overpriced for what you're getting. They also seem to spend an unusual amount of time redesigning already functional UI's.
This isn't only happening there, a lot of Wikipedia pages basically have someone revert a lot of changes they don't agree with, while you could bring this up on the talk page this takes a lot of time and knowledge about how Wikipedia works, for more controversial pages this often works out that those whom have most time to spend get to decide on the direction and point of view of the article. This might even be just small rewordings and copy edits to put something in a more or less favourable light.
Which then raises the question, how does - if at all - Ubuntu make money for Canonical?
My journey to 9 software engineering offers
Use Arch Linux. Ubuntu took a dive in the last few versions. I used Ubuntu up until the snap fiasco.

Arch Linux for life my Liggers. or GNU/Liggers if it's more correct.
My personal blog, not writing in a while, but some pages still get quite a lot of visits:

https://jordiburgos.com
Onlyoffice is getting there, but it is still missing a few features, such as animations.
One rule there was in old times you always had 2 witnesses with you for any important event to vouch for. Reasoning was that it is a lot more difficult to do any trickery when more people are involved.

Just because we scaled a lot of services in a digital network means our trust services need to adapt as well.
Arch Linux is the only Linux distribution. Why don't people get it through their heads.
I’d personally like to be able to filter by DisplayPort ports.
Still doesn't have European Portuguese.

And yes, I've dabbled enough to know that I could learn Brazillian Portuguese and try to convert, but I've also dabbled enough to know that to do so would be really hard, and leave behind some undesirable remnants.
This is the public SSO provider for the US Government. Interestingly, it supports U2F security keys and other forms of modern 2FA, and is open-source (released under the public domain of the United States).

It’s nice to see the government finally putting out a nice IT project.

Code here: https://github.com/18F/identity-idp
https://juanuys.com

But the really good stuff is in my pen-and-paper journals...
Seems like a Debian pawn downvoted the parent. Choice is good, use Debian my Ligger, or GNU/Ligger, if that's more up to your style.
These are made up rules in your head. If you can deal with OS global state, you can deal with any global state and keep clean BL.
I try to avoid using MS products (not hate, just trying to favour free software), but I had to learn extensively about Office last year and I really enjoyed the UX. It has some powerful features for working with animations, transitions and effects. Take this example [1] -I don’t think it’s even possible to do in Google Slides, which finds its power by being more simple and multiplatform.
So it depends on your needs, which also applies to Beamer.

[1]: https://youtu.be/3wtwVE5injI
Yes, this was my question, thank you!
> Would you mind sharing the code for the last 2 plots you generated?

I just quickly edited my code to have OP's method, but didn't keep it after generating the plot. The code is generally a mess, because I kept experimenting with different methods, but this is the current version: https://www.shadertoy.com/view/wlX3RS

> 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?

Because I believe it is only due to linear effects that 'dither + quantize' is a legal proper operation that does what you want. As soon as you enter a non-linear space this no longer holds, and you must see "dithered quantization" as a single operation, rather than adding independent noise followed by an oblivious quantization.

So the issue is that our quantization must happen in sRGB space - our output space. Yet the probability distribution according to which we'd like to quantize follows rules formulated in a linear space, which requires a non-trivial and non-linear conversion.

There is a very large family of probability distributions that have the appropriate mean (mean computed in linear space), but I believe if we also try to minimize the fluctuation in variance there should pop out a unique solution. In a fully linear world this is the triangular distribution.
I've clicked on a random link out of all of these personal websites and I find someone from my hometown, the second time something like this has happened here on HN! :D
Indeed. Plenty of walk around with jewellery or watches worth significantly more than that too.
I would be surprised if it wasn't
Well, the true UNIX philosophy is that everything is a text file ...

.. but as one of the other comments says, programs which want specific interpretation should consider having their own heuristics, especially including "precedence". In the Excel example, it should be considering XLS and CSV first before trying other things.
You're asking people to use a much more expensive part (transmission) to reduce their speed.

The days of using the transmission to slow down are over. Brakes are better and more reliable (and cheaper) than ever.
it could be that the UK is mostly dense enough. there are a few very dense parts of the US where you've been able to get pretty much anything delivered (eg, NYC) for a long time.

I don't know much about grocery delivery, but I can think of two reasons offhand why it would be more viable. the first is that the delivery window for groceries is much more forgiving. if you have a cooler, you can keep refrigerated/frozen items at the correct temperature indefinitely. this allows you to load a lot more stuff in the vehicle and plan a more efficient route. the second is just a guess, but I'd bet the typical grocery order is larger than a typical food delivery order, so you make more money per stop.
Yeah there are Debian pawns all over here. If you can't install Arch, then, you're a moron, plainly spoken.

It's easy as hell. Best distribution there is!
> 3) a headphone jack.

Wireless headphones are a $8 billion/year business for Apple. Headphone jacks are dead forever.
I wonder why anyone thought that `file` should have hard-coded custom behaviour on that one very specific type of Erlang file, and how something like that ever ended up getting accepted into the general code base. It sounds like either a very personal workaround for a personal problem, or completely the wrong way to solve a possibly more common problem.

Fixing the bug by properly escaping the string that matches the special file still sounds like the wrong solution to me.
> telemetry

Ubuntu does include optional telemetry (screen during installation, preference can be later tweaked in privacy settings) since 18.04 and it seems to be less aggressive than in other OSes [1][2]. Not sure about other flavors.

[1] - https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/linux/ubuntu-gets-in-t...

[2] - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2018-February...
At university, we once built a networked doorbell system for the offices. Lots of small displays with a button outside the doors, connected on a CAN bus to a controller, that you could configure, and another device in the office to make noise and control the screen.

We had a problem, though: The door display devices would randomly crash and require somebody to go over and reboot them. This was very annoying, and we could never reproduce it. We added monitoring for it, and after a while the problem mostly went away on its own. But half a year later, it was back. It seems the system worked fine in summer, but started crashing in winter.

We finally, after much testing and deliberation, realised it was caused by the devices having a metal front plate which would easily attract static shocks, which would crash the device. And in winter, the dry air and wooly clothing would cause a lot more static discharges.
English is not my first language. We had 11 years of 4-7 hours of English a week, yet this was still not enough to get everyone to be decent at the language by the end of high school. The people who used English to play video games or chat online tended to be much better at it than others.

What I've realized is that experience teaches you to speak, read, and write a new language. You need a lot of experience to become good at it, because the language has to feel intuitive if you want to hold a conversation in it. There's the recommendation that if you want to learn a language you should immerse yourself in it (in real life). I think the reason why that works is because it forces you to figure out how to use the language and gives you an immense amount of experience in it.

I think that Duolingo is just another way to get slightly more experience in the language, but it's probably not going to be enough on its own. You're just not going to be spending hours every day on it to compete with language classes. From my experience, it was a nice way to quickly learn some of the basics of Japanese, but Duolingo really can't make you understand Kanji more easily than other methods.
What the original commenter is saying, and what I will agree will happen, is that the behavior of automatically trusting video as evidence will go away. I think this is actually a good thing if it encourages people to dig deeper into the sources of information.

> If you reject a dude he can just make a deepfake porn video with you and release it as revenge.

This will be troubling at first, but again in the long run it will likely just lead to people not taking these sort of videos seriously and interpreting them as a joke / weird stuff on the Internet. This already essentially happens with Photoshop and celebrities.

> And we live in a time when "facts" already don't matter much anymore and people are just looking to find evidence that supports their claim alone rather than the truth

This is how human beings have been since the beginning of time. There is no "Golden Age of Rationality" that we are exiting.
Thats just the standard noobs card you get with a raspberry, but most shops I know allow you to choose your sd card image (or none at all)
> Do you have testing coverage metrics for exception handling?

I have not personally come into contact with software PA/QA requirements, only with those for FPGA designs (VHDL in particular). In my largest project, I had to meet 100% statement coverage, with documented justifications for any uncovered lines. Typically, in such an environment, exceptions are a no-go for flight software.
I use Firefox Developer Edition as my primary browser and Firefox Sync to store and sync bookmarks across devices.

I have made 95%(2000+) of my bookmarks public on GitHub[0]. I have categorized them and host them on a public repository(110+ forks, ~1800 stars) and push every week. I have also made the entire repo available as a GitBook with search and export as PDF functionality.

[0] https://github.com/rsapkf/goodies
Indeed, we were very lucky at my university, the CS library was full of gems like these.