skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Deep learning vs. machine learning: Understand the differences
Super interesting. Could you say more? Perhaps it depends a bit on the role?
Room for improvement: Golang is missing. Update the copyright statement.
Solar/Wind/Nuclear can easily replace Oil today.
Siteground now operates on Google cloud
Yep. In fact, I get an email notification from my phone/watch a second or two before I get one from my computer running Outlook. That has been basically the case since day one.
Event Crystal, which isn't even 1.0 yet, is easier to build a web server. The rust team just hasn't focussed on web programming as much as systems programming.

Its even the main example on Crystal's homepage: https://crystal-lang.org
No mention of him asking the regulator?

Also, note that this was the Irish national regulator. One big problem with the GDPR is that the quality of protection you get is quite dependent on which regulator has jurisdiction, in practice. As Ireland is the EU headquarters of many multinational tech companies, the Irish regulator has a lot of experience with this stuff and is pretty effective.
Political Satire IoT Machine with Integromat, Blynk, ESP8266
It is perhaps that not all jobs appeal to men? No crap there are more female nurses or more male construction workers. Why is this a problem that causes the sky to fall in the US? Some sexes prefer one occupation over another- quit looking for systemic discrimination under every rock.
Conceptually DNSSEC would help except no one uses it.

Some stats from this April 2019 presentation [1]:

* 91% of TLDs (.com, .org, .edu, etc.) are signed, including root, which was signed in 2010.

* about 20% of internet users are using validating resolvers, mostly thanks to Google and Cloudflare. I'd add Comcast too.

* Over 50% of the zones in .nl, .se and .no are DNSSEC-signed

[1]: https://www.isc.org/docs/dnssec-eco-de-20190410.pdf
I worked on this data in a former life and it is indeed a mess and derived from institutional records. But it’s not any more a mess than most other forms of library-derived metadata because MARC and related formats are essentially pseudo-schemas that are at best haphazardly applied.

From what I recall, there were attempts at regularization by the big universities involved with project, but they’re both not very good at tech projects and especially not good at finding and keeping the high-level talent that would be needed for something of this scale.

But if you think bikeshedding is bad in tech, take a look into some disputes between library cataloguers over their arcana. Much of what they produce is valuable at level of a trained cataloguer who can navigate its inconsistencies and vagaries, but rarely so at the machine level.
Try next-gen interactive book on UI fundamentals
MLA Deadline for Credit Cards
Did you watch the final video? He got the drive to read, play audio CDs through the bootstrap SNES cartridge and then run a home-brew game off of a CD-ROM (no original games exist to test with so the CD format and hardware capabilities were reverse-engineered from the ROM).

"he couldn’t get the drive to read" is completely false. It boots a game off a CD-ROM!
It's incompatiable for a good reason, the reasons just don't benefit us. It makes Windows/various vendors extremely wealthy to have bizarre lock in arrangements.
What telcos wish smaller cities knew about 5G
Inexpensive Professional Hosting Made Easy
Rethinking the Daily Stand-Up
They bought Knight Ridder and a lot of that culture permeated particularly in the DC bureau. I hope they come-out of this okay.
It's non-startups that are having the hardest time finding talent thanks to tech giants (also not startups) getting into bidding wars over talent. Startups are in general fine -- they can sell the "upside" that more established companies can't. And non-profits might be fine too; I don't have much exposure there. But in my experience your average smallish public company has, over the past five years, seen a dramatic drop in level of experience and candidate quality at various IT positions that they haven't experienced in other kinds of engineering roles, despite continuously ratcheting up salaries to compete. Smells a lot like the job market in 2008, right before a lot of talented people wound up unemployed.
> H-P looks upon their Smalltalk-80 effort as an evaluation of the system as a personal computing environment for _non_-accomplished programmers. He also mentioned that they view Smalltalk-80 as a product usable by non-hackers.

This vision of personal computing has been lost. Today we have the scribes and everyone else, and industry is not at all interested in making systems that permit true "literacy"
Kirsten Gillibrand's new bill would establish a US data protection agency
They don’t make economic sense when the only economic concern is to generate private wealth for the owner of the company and it shareholders at a consistent year-over-year rate.

If your economic concern includes growing a middle class that is motivated to spend money and to take business risks then they make a lot of sense.
It also means that employees can make their own investment decisions rather than being literally at the mercy of pension administrators and their investment decisions. You can also pass on your funds to your family, while defined benefit pensions generally end when you die.
There's huge conflicts of interest with defined benefit pensions. It wasn't until PPA of 2006 that standards really tightened up. But imagine being an employer in 1970s. Instead of paying people higher wages, you could create a pension plan on paper, pay the plan however much you wanted (there was wide discretion on what assumptions could be used to calculate the cost of benefits), and get the recipients of the benefits to work for you today for an unknown benefit tomorrow.

If you're one of the decision makers, you're likely to be on the older side. So you're likely to start receiving the benefits soon anyway, and so any underfunding wouldn't affect you, since there would be a couple decades of money available before it started to run out. So the decision makers can easily choose to shortchange those 20 to 40+ years in the future in exchange for enriching themselves in the now (1970s, 80s, etc).

Seems like society should've seen it coming. Of course, if everyone kept having 4 kids, maybe those fantasy numbers could have been met, but who has the ability to predict numbers decades in the future?
big oof.
That wouldn't even cover the buyer's premium of $58k.
What UX from 1989 can teach us
Go strings are just a sequence of bytes in no particular encoding, i.e they can contain arbitrary data. Converting strings to byte slices and vice versa works always without ever changing a single bit.
The Irish regulator has been more active than most, particularly in investigating multinationals. Overall, though, it's unfortunate that this is left up to national bodies; it should really be centralised.
Thank you - that is an amazing resource you linked!
Somehow my original comment got downvoted, which is bizarre. I can only guess it offended someone that thinks "creating work = creating a business."

There is NOTHING wrong with creating work for yourself if you get paid for it. Half of my time is spent consulting and that is not a sellable or delegateable "business." It's me selling my time. Lots of people do that and it is fine.

But starting a venture where you keep your arms around all of the critical tasks is not building a business. A business is a set of systems and processes that can be performed, managed, and recorded without reliance on a single individual.
>with 10 pensioners for every single active employee

This shouldn't be an issue if the pension was pre-funded, which I thought was supposed to be the case in the US.
I thought the pigeons were the admins, I have been humbled.
Low-latency isn't the only problem, I think. The small-enought latency seems to be worst: you click somehing and wait for the reward just few ms later. Incresing this wait to seconds prevents this effect.
this is a fascinating idea but I had never heard of Charles Proxy
this has nothing to do with the state flag though, as far as i can tell. it seems like a decent branding system... not exactly titillating but better than i've seen in most other states.
> and for the cow and the calf that were required (to be killed)

What? My family had a milk cow during my childhood and we never had to kill the cow or her calves to get milk from her. Patently untrue.
The requester being snarky is obviously not a valid legal reason for Facebook to not follow the law. But the people who fulfill these requests are human, so you should expect that acting like a jerk probably won't help.

Further, Ruben is mostly being snarky to lower level Facebook employees who probably have little say in Facebook policies. Don't shoot the messenger. This is like being rude to phone support staff because the product is bad. It's not the phone support people's fault. Let's assume good faith on the part of the low level employees. Ultimately the people fulfilling these requests are probably not given enough resources to fulfill all valid requests (this is true for FOIA requests in my experience), so they have to think of (literal) nonsense to deny them. They might even have a quota. Do you think snark is going to help in this situation? I don't. And I think reality is close to this situation. Ultimately the higher level people who set the policies and the budget for the GDPR/FOIA/whatever department are responsible. (And I don't think being snarky to the higher ups is going to help either, incidentally.)
Note the buyer's premium, too. Right now it's higher than the top bid.
> Public policy did account for it (ERISA and PPA), and provided for the PBGC to provide a limited backstop, although it's not possible to backstop so many failing pension plans due to erroneous investment return and population growth rate and mortality assumptions.

Then public policy did not account for it.

> And anytime you enter into a transaction with someone, you are subject to counterparty risk, even the government. The US is lucky it has more capacity to print its way out than most countries.

Print dollars, transfer from the general fund, or have the Fed start buying up equities and using the cashflow to fund any necessary benefits payments (a somewhat more adventurous twist on the Bank of Japan's role in that country's economy). It's the government's job to be the guarantor of last resort, and they have the tools available to do so.
The logo and typesetting is quite ok. But the "Our Photostyle" idea is just plain bad/confusing.
EU and its governments set the tone, though. The USG attacks tech firms only rarely, and only when there's pretty overwhelming evidence of some sort of specific wrongdoing. The EU seems to pretty routinely attack the tech industry even when there's no demonstrable harm. So tech entrepreneurs in Europe receive a pretty strong message that if they get big they're going to meddled with and certainly not celebrated. US founders don't get the same.
They're good for people who have trouble saving themselves, which is a huge proportion of the population.

Just look at all of the people who are excited to get a huge tax refund, then immediately spend it all.
It could be great if we'd start seeing major apps starting to support also alternative channels to interface with them. It can really help the transition to fewer smartphone users and the Digital Detox movement. I do not own a smartphone and such endeavors can really make my (and others) life easier.
Thanks, will fix them in today's release.
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.
Blue trout eating Algae off the floor of the Ocean.
I watched Seabass glitter in the moonlight near the Tannhäuser Gate.
All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to fly.
I've used https://www.ionos.ca/tools/favicon-generator in the past. It has the image upload ability as well as the ability to quickly draw something on a 16x16 pad for when you just want an absurdly simply icon.
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They don't make sense because calculations for pension liabilities require knowing economic conditions decades into the future. I have yet to come across someone that prescient.
I like it more than what we had in the past. I honestly expected a stereotype of an Indian on a horse or some crap like that. I am happy they actually picked something I can easily render in a vector format.
The unfortunate part about this is there now needs to be some relatively easy system laid out for people to plan their retirement. I don't know the exact numbers, but a quick google[1] told me 35% of American's don't have access to 401k's - it's probably those people who also need help planning to retire the most. And of those people, I'm not sure how many are actually on track to ever retire.

I understand there's a general bootstrap mentality, but it's hard to see how 100,000,000 people not having retirement savings is going to work out well.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/12/how-many-americans-dont-have...
Unless the average geothermal heat flux is changing (and nothing about your link suggests this), this has been constant over the time spans in question and changes would be localized and temporary. Mt Erebus and its lava lake have been known to modern science for almost 200 years. The link you sent is talking about glacial motion and to what extent they've been under modeling contributions from meltwater from that existing geothermal effect that is reducing friction with the ground.

Even if that weren't the case, this is simply an article about air temperature. It broke the known record by a full degree celsius in the backdrop of massive, global record heat record setting as part of a long term trend.

Leaving that aside, what point are you trying to do with your comment? Do you think the southern polar ice sheet is melting from volcanoes, or getting larger?
Ooops, an innovative IO workload managing system
It's typically invested in securities such as the stock market. If the market value of those securities takes a nose dive, so, too, will the cash value of one's life savings.

Market value is driven by supply and demand. If, for example, you get a sudden glut of people looking to sell their securities - say, because all the baby boomers start dipping into their retirement savings at about the same time - that isn't matched by a sudden glut of people looking to buy those securities, then a lot of retirees are going to suddenly discover that their life savings is basically just evaporating at the very moment when they started to rely on it.

Some Gen Xers and Millennials might remember having seen a small version of this play out a decade or two ago, when everyone tried cashing out of their comic book collection at about the same time.
(b) has largely already come to an end. And yet still they come (though if you buy something from Amazon these days the money probably goes via their Luxembourg subsidiary, not the Irish one like it used to...)
I think I better understand your point. There's behavior, and there's intent. Seems related to the distinction between syntax and semantics.
I have had my doubts about COS's technical foundations and strategic abilities and this and a number of the comments here do nothing to reassure me, especially in light of the glowing stories about dedication to long term sustainability that I have been told by some of their representatives.
It appears to be a Windows limitation - I'm not an expert, but my understanding is that AMD supports all the same extensions for it (under AMD rather than Intel branding) and it appears the Windows team is (finally) working on it. I understand that other hypervisors do support nested virt on AMD.

To be fair to the Windows team, AMD in the data center / pro desktops wasn't really viable for a very long time, so its understandable that it wasn't prioritized.
If it's so easy to render, why do these assets looks terrible?

https://branding.ok.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/graphic-e...
Further, the submitted article here directly addresses it

"Schaefer said the temperature of the peninsula, the South Shetland Islands and the James Ross archipelago, which Seymour is part of, has been erratic over the past 20 years. After cooling in the first decade of this century, it has warmed rapidly.:
The only time I want latency is when I have diarrhea.
I just use a VPN connecting to a far away server so that the latency does go up and at the same time confuses the sites I’m visiting.
I'm of two minds of this. On the one hand, I think it's a visually appealing logo. I like the look of it and I think their designers have done well.

On the other hand, it is pretty generic, and as a former Oklahoma resident, nothing about it really reminds me of the state. It's also very minimalist and modern, which is trendy now, but I wonder if it will still be appealing in the future, or just look dated.

I'm also not entirely sure of what the role of a state's brand identify/logo is. Just for their tourism website? They aren't changing the seal or flag, or anything that actually looks related to the state government.
This is a funny and particularly well written post that touches on a serious topic. Tech addiction and attention seeking are not yet being self-moderated. We are living out a massive social experiment of sorts because of the rapid advancement of the internet. I believe it is a certain net-positive on society, but we need to pay more attention to the cons.
This field is so vague and lame now. Everyone basically copies the branding language from cable companies and telecom.

Government in particular should have a aura of authority and stability. Making stuff look like a letter from Comcast is pretty meh.
What everybody ought to know about gold and Bitcoin: Part 1: Gold as a product
Their flag is terrible:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=oklahoma+flag&ia=images&iax=images

99% Invisible does a great episode on what makes a good flag, and why cities like Chicago, DC and Amsterdam have iconic, memorable flags:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnv5iKB2hl4

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/vexillonaire/
Losing their income has a greater economic impact than just their own wellbeing. Pensioners might be retired but they are still consumers with debts of their own. Homelessness alone is very costly to the U.S.
Google Earth View
Dude its a government site hosted on a wordpress engine. What are you expecting? I am just happy its not all bitmaps asking for IE6. (My exceptions for my old home state are low)
Secret of Mana has a special place in history as part of its development was cribbed from the Square-Enix work on Chrono Trigger, or rather a different evolutionary path sprung from the same root.
Chrome on iOS

Chrome on Android

Chrome on MacOS

Yes, I need to get off Google.
Is this not true of most difficult things?
They do offer the frustration-minimizing packaging program, which is less wasteful, but manufacturers have to opt in.

Here in the UK, Ocado (a home shopping delivery firm) will take back the plastic bags your shopping came in. Now that Amazon is handling an increasing proportion of its own deliveries, it would be great if they adopted something similar and started using reusable shipping cartons like these when the client opts in:

https://liliputing.com/2020/01/this-box-with-an-e-ink-shippi...
This looks completely terrible. Why are those "Graphic Elements" so pixelated?
No point in switching if they can't give me an opml import... and no point in getting stuck if they won't give me an opml output[1].

[1] https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/google-podcasts-data-portability...
3 Years Ago, Kim Jong-Nam, Bro of Kim Jong-Un Was Assassinated at Kuala Lumpur
Apple is finally refurbishing the 16-inch Macbook Pro
That only holds up if X remains constant. Option #1 is already considered acceptable by these low-quality sites, so why wouldn't they instead choose:

3. Automatically write a relatively bogus article to drive clicks.

For a business model that already works for Option 1, Option 3 is the same thing with less overhead.

I do see how this can greatly enable propaganda / fake-news creation however. Time spent editing an article doesn't inherently mean time spent making it more accurate or reality-based; it can just as easily mean time spent twisting words to imply a propaganda goal. This may not be your goal, but it's an inevitable consequence of the technology.
Packages show up on the lawn it is astonishing how they appear.

They are astonishing surprises.

It’s what I ordered the cat food the espresso machine the two new tables.

Ordering things and how they appear basically I am a small-scale sorcerer.

On the road I press the button and the music goes.

Air conditioning gas pedal restaurant take-out etc.

It is my will being perpetually sated.

Pretend we are writing a fable in which a sorcerer always gets what he wants.

Consider what happens to a soul which always gets what it wants.

— Emily Bludworth de Barios, from the preview page for issue #31 of Forklift, Ohio (and, indeed, the issue itself, if you have it):

http://www.forkliftohio.com/index.php?page=freight-31
Such a beautiful game. I recently checked out the book “SNES Omnibus” from the library and it provided for some nice nostalgia:

https://venturebeat.com/2018/08/01/the-retrobeat-the-snes-om...
I kind of looks like a logo for a hotel chain. I like minimal look, but it in no way makes me think of Oklahoma.
The fact that some jobs may appeal more to one gender than another doesn't discredit the existence of systemic gender discrimination so much as support its likelihood. Discrimination doesn't apply to people who conform to traditional gender roles as much as those who don't, to the men who want to be nurses and the women who want to be construction workers, etc.
I love it! Good job!
Well, the "80 lines" was supposed to be a joke, guess it failed... Anyway:

> And with some care and taste, that code can actually be as good as

That's true. Also because modern languages are more flexible than the ones in the 80s - probably, I wasn't around back then, but I remember from learning C that there was "old style" where all variables had to be declared at the beginning of the function, and that "new style" (second half of 90s?) was to declare them at the point of use. My guess would be that this and other similar limitations were the reason for writing CWEB. The order and flow of the presentation is very important to Knuth, so he wrote a tool which allowed him the freedom of putting text and code in the way he wanted.

Modern languages are in general flexible enough to make this a non-issue, as the presentation can be safely included in the source, and you have much freedom in structuring (ordering) the code, too. CoffeeScript is one example of "literate programming in the modern world".

That being said, I think you greatly underestimate how much care is needed to write code like this. I'd guess that not many professional programmers could do this - it's that hard. But yeah, beautiful when executed well.
Like how people used to arrange a taxi \ cab to chauffeur them somewhere? Seems regressive.
You know, it never occurred to me to treat the latency of TOR as a feature rather than a bug.
I honestly expected a stereotype of an Indian on a horse or some crap like that.

Acknowledging that state's history and current legal situation isn't really crap. It would probably be nicer than this generic geometry.
So you downvoted because we agree?
Google closes $2.6B Looker acquisition
Lol, that's ironic considering how prolific spam is in the blockchain world.
What are you superoptimizing?
This is today's best thing. Thanks.
Made in 2008 - everything still working in a modern browser.
A while a ago I realized this and saw myself uncontrollably refreshing some of these discussion sites. One of the reasons I decided not to delete my hackernews account when I deleted my accounts on other sites like reddit was because of the “noprocrast” feature. It’s not perfect but it can help prevent being totally consumed.
Looks like a bid for the 2034 Winter Olympics.