skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Only because you made it up to spread FUD. Good job.
> fwiw this is the second comment of yours I had to vouch and Unflag, and I wonder who is doing this and why

I'm guessing it's the anti-spam mechanisms of the site. Any account with a low number of comments is susceptible to it.
Ah yes, the "make me" culture. As in, make me do it or get the fuck out. It's as prevalent in corporate America as it is in our government. The problem is, there is no one there to enforce the laws and regulations. Corporations should be subject to the government and the government subject to its own command structure and hierarchy. They are not. The result? The government has given up its monopoly on power. Now you can die in a plane and nothing will happen to your murderer (see 737 max). Now you can commit crimes as a government employee without fear of punishment or retaliation. No one is safe. Without consequences for bad actions, we might as well still be out in the jungle, fearing for our lives daily. In fact, this is the reality for tens of millions of Americans. Money can buy some protections, but most are out of reach of ordinary citizens. I mean who can force Southeast to comply with standards if the FAA and the entire government structure behind it going up to the president can't do it? I think it's safe to say we do not and likely never did live in a country that's ruled by law.
Another way to get there is that, given N shots at a 1/N event, you expect 0 hits 36% of the time (1/e).

You can divide the population up into into 600 groups with 500000 people in them, and each of those has a 36% chance of not ever hitting.

So seeing no cases is like flipping a 36% coin 600 times and hitting 600 times.
Yeah, domain registration seemed like one of the few problems that potentially (lots and lots of handwaving around the details here) could actually have been a good fit for a blockchain solution.

- It's all public
- It doesn't change that often
- It is a data storage issue (as compared to processing)
- On a per record basis it's pretty small (as compared to trying to store PNGs in the blockchain)
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It's currently experimental. When it matures, and if there's enough developer power behind it, it might find its way into the mainline kernel.
You should use the cache or persist call on the spark data frame/dataset. Persist gives you more control.
> Edit: Just noting that `brew install github` doesn't work, it's actually `brew install github/gh/gh` — that's a new format for brew packages I haven't seen before.

It's not new, but what you've perhaps seen is more like `brew install OJFord/formulae/gh` - 'most' (I haven't surveyed, but in my experience) people call the repo `homebrew-formulae`, `homebrew-` gets stripped, leaving:

> `<GH user>/<repo name less 'homebrew-'>/<formula name>`
Hi all, wanted to share illustrated notes I took on the Coursera Machine Learning course from Andrew Ng. This covers weeks 1-5.
100%, I was one of the many vocal devs on the android bug report who complained about the change of scoped storage.

They caved in for the current release, but they are going to force it in android 11.

On the bright side I think this will cause android engineers to become more of a specialty as the platform migrates more and more from just another java implementation to a whole new world of apis!
story time.
I think the problem with checked exceptions was that we got a woefully limited language for talking about them. Checked exceptions with generics (and inference?) might be a very different experience.

For instance, Java's checked exceptions break higher-order functions. A map function should be able to say "I can throw anything my argument can throw". Some wrapper functions might say "anything my argument can throw, minus FooException because I catch it, plus BarException because I might raise that myself."
Hi! I'm on the team building GitHub CLI. We're definitely eager for your feedback on what things feel like they're missing, and especially if something is broken or doesn't feel stable or reliable. Feel free to open an issue if there's anything that stands out.

The different homebrew installation you referred to is because `gh` isn't part of homebrew/core yet as it's very new. So we'll be adding it in the coming months, but for now that's just a way for us to maintain our own tap and still provide an easy install/upgrade path.
One of the issues with Namecoin is the issuance. You can register any name for a set price. This leads to easy squatting behavior and allows whales to buy up all the good names. Handshake built in mechanisms to improve the issuance of names (detailed in danShumway's comment) which is critical when you're working with the issuance of scarce, non-fungible assets. It's like drawing a comparison to bitcoin and bit gold. Both had the same idea, but the specifics matter.
They'd probably be able to co-operate anyway, but it'd require manual intervention by telco employees. What makes these US-mandated lawful intercept backdoors particularly nasty is that they provide an automatic way of exfiltrating data that is designed to conceal its use from employees - in essence, a built-in rootkit that compromises the integrity of telecoms systems even in countries that don't actually want this kind of backdoor. This isn't a hypothetical issue; the US has reactivated this feature to spy on politicians in countries that didn't actually want or need it on their exchanges in the first place.
Were the GitHub devs doing anything before Microsoft bought them? All that comes to mind is Atom. MS seems to have really been a shot in the arm for feature development at GH.
Essential shutting down after failing to launch ‘GEM’ smartphone
Note that this person did not write or receive any of these messages; he was a manager of those who did.
From the article:

Mr. Cooper didn’t send or receive the messages, the latest batch of which Boeing disclosed to lawmakers and the news media in January, this person said. Those messages show Boeing employees mocking airline officials, aviation regulators and even their own colleagues. In one, an employee said the 737 MAX had been “designed by clowns, who in turn are supervised by monkeys.”

Boeing Chief Executive David Calhoun, who has called the messages “totally appalling,” has said he aimed to stamp out such behavior and hold managers accountable. “Awareness in the leadership ranks around whether that’s happening or not is not an excuse if it’s happening,” Mr. Calhoun said in a call with reporters in January, shortly after taking over as CEO. “Disciplinary actions have to be taken.”

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To summarize:

They fired a guy for not knowing about emails he did not send or receive where engineers were voicing their internal concerns that the 737 MAX design was lacking.

Boeing's take away wasn't, "People knew something was wrong and didn't have a way to properly voice that concern."

Boeing's take away was, "Middle management should have sufficiently threatened those under their supervision into self-censoring their concerns."

Seems like a super-healthy corporate culture that would simultaneously be a fun place to work and produce the best products /s
Docker Donates the cnab-to-oci Library to cnab.io
> [Our product] essentially involves enabling reinsurance brokers to create risk programmes and then market them to underwriters, all within our online platform. A risk programme has a fairly complex life cycle, and we model and digitalise all of the steps that professionals in the industry would traditionally have done on paper, which is of course far less efficient and far more expensive.

Sounds like an ideal use-case: complex, well-defined rules and procedures that must be modeled in a fool-proof way. I think the issue for most people who dream about using Haskell at work is that their use-case doesn't have these kinds of needs, and so the tradeoffs (hiring difficulty, third-party API support, etc.) just don't make sense.
From fog to smog: The value of pollution information
Automating the labeling of unstructured text data
Possibly, but some expectation of reciprocity does not equal debt and an 'internal ledger'. That some aspects of some human interactions can be modelled by a transaction model doesn't mean that they are inherently transactional. We may well find that there are important differences and that the actual internal human model is different.

Even your example only really works because you have constructed it in a specific way. Of course if your friend could do you a small favor that helps you greatly, and that you have performed for them in the past, you would expect that they owe it to you, as if you had a mental ledger. However, if the situation is slightly different, say, their father is ill and they are caring for them in hospital, would you still expect them to call their office to recommend you? If they were out of a job at the moment as well, but happened to have some extra money, would you expect them to provide you a loan so you could fund a start-up instead of getting a job?

I don't believe human relationships and gift economies reduce to a kind of barter. There are barter-like aspects to it, but I think they stem from different internal impulses. I may well be wrong, but I don't think we can assume they are not simply because some mutual exchange is taking place.
They don't have a CNAME style option; but it's possible to interact with their API: https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection...
Also Matthias Wandel's gear generator

https://woodgears.ca/gear_cutting/index.html
> Try not to lose sight of the fact that type checking is supposed to be an aid to correctness and not an intellectually satisfying end in itself.

Indeed, loved that closing sentence.
I start a timer on my phone and run it up to ~ 8 hours to mark the end of the day. While the timer is running, I don't do anything too leisurely (e.g., playing video games). If I want/need to do something unrelated to work, I stop the timer.

The idea isn't to work exactly 8 hours per day. It's to get a sense of how much of my time is going towards work-related activities.
Shameless plug - if anyone wants to try using Handshake, we built a registrar for Handshake domains and an exchange for Handshake coins (HNS) at https://namebase.io. We just launched last week but there's already been a lot of usage so it'll be interesting to see what people do with their Handshake domains when they become available.
I wonder how much this will impact or help forge (https://github.com/magit/forge ) , which i have, to my shame, never gotten to authenticate properly.
Forgive my lack of knowledge of the TLDs, but is there then an alternative TLD that can/should be used for personal projects or portfolios?
> Not sure if I would consider it as essential though, because I can always take over and do it all myself. But I'm not planning to do it all myself.

Well, for starters, you should be putting a value on your time if you're doing work. At least the work to support the product should be tracked and valued. And for all the work that you and the freelancer are doing, you should be splitting it into COGS vs. R&D.

The problem comes if you're doing a bunch of support work that you're not accounting for. Then you go to sell the business and it turns out that it takes a whole FTE to support the product. You're talking about $300k/year in unaccounted costs that you'd need to account for if you were to ever stop doing all the support (either because you become full-time CEO or you sell the business).

It's also easy to fool yourself into thinking you have a real business if you don't account for your own time. It's easy to just create a job for yourself and not actually create a business.

> Would a list/graph of recurring costs be sufficient?

Yeah, I think you need to take all your costs and all your revenue and bucket them as one-time vs. recurring (or COGS vs. R&D, whatever you want to call it). This is the kind of thing anyone is going to want when they're valuing a SaaS business.
I have my own name registered, which I use for email. It would be a pain to give it up, and nobody else wants it anyway. I don't see why I should have to deal with a price increase. If a company can deal with these increases couldn't you also argue that buying from a squatter is not an issue? This has the advantage of pricing the domains based on demand.

You could argue that you don't want to reward squatting, but either way you're going to have to pay off some entity I don't think entirely deserves it.
What are the freelancers doing? Thats quite a big expense.
> But Verisign itself doesn't have competitors; if you want to register a .com address, you have to do business with Verisign.

Sounds like Verisign is a rent-seeking monopoly.
A single terabyte is a few magnitudes from what you need big-data-anything for. You could probably work with that just fine on your average 64GB ram desktop with an SSD.
Is git even a Merkle tree? Git history forms a DAG, not a tree. But I'm not 100% sure about how the hashes are computed - whether they work on the DAG, or on some local subtree.
Ask HN: Looking for a great modern C++ embedded code base to learn from
I've been coding in C for a hobby robot for a long time and have been wanting to learn embedded modern C++.

I would love to get pointers to a few excellent C++ embedded code bases for me to peruse and learn from.
I think it was a combination of that as well as increasing competition from other companies like Gitlab.
that toxic stress also expands neurons near the amygdala,
an area of the brain that promotes vigilance toward threats.

Very enlightening.
Just so we are clear: the approach taken in the studies described is “we looked at a bunch of blind people and couldn’t find a schizophrenic”, and “we looked at a bunch of schizophrenics and couldn’t find a blind person.”

The appropriate question is: can such an approach, in a wildly fractured series of data sets, overlook 600 people?
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Debian Version History
While reasonable, this is a pretty pessimistic point of view. With X-ray images, the attacker has much less flexibility to change the hidden backdoors. You do not have to check every single machine, like no one ever checks every single line of code. It is enough if people randomly check the X-ray images and whenever someone finds anything suspicious, it will get into the news. This is how open source works.

Yes, having a state as enemy is a loosing game, but if we take every possibility to make their life harder, it will shift the game significantly. Giving up never help anyone.
Everyone can put self-signed cert on a blockchain. You need to prove that you control the domain. Easiest way to prove that is to ask your registrar. And if your registrar will sign this fact you don't even need to ask him. So you naturally will come to DNS and DNSSec. And all standards are already here: deploy DNSSec, put TLSA record and it's done. It's a solved problem, just not widely supported.
I would be interested to see what people suggest for this as well
What are these companies concerned about? There are 2 confirmed cases in Spain. Are they concerned attendees from China will bring the virus with them?
I'm another mostly "Home Depot" coder and can glue all kinds of things together without really having to dig deeper. Maybe I could go deeper if I needed to, but that's not what my job demands or requests of me, and what they need is the Home Depot code that bolts all their existing systems together.

I think those of us in roles like this can actually bang out a lot more LOC than somebody working on lower level problems, because we aren't solving hard problems, we're using basic data structures and tossing them between (usually/hopefully) well documented interfaces. If that's the case, LOC is just about the worst metric you could imagine.
Possibly, though if we want to be pedantic "weighting" has shifted from merely meaning "increased in weight" to meaning "biased through manipulation" - colloquially you can describe a situation as "weighted against someone" if you think that person may be unfairly disadvantaged - like in a multi-talent contest a continued draw of activities that favor one party using a hidden method that is suspected to be directed to the end of favoring that party.

You absolutely can manufacture unfair coins either using a two surfaced approach (like a weak magnetic field acting on a magnetized coin) but even a one surfaced approach is possible if you make use of carvings on the surface of the coin to get a favorable result from air resistence - lastly you can even achieve it through density, if one side of a coin is significantly more dense then the other then it will tend to land face down - you can play with this a bit by trying to flip a weighted cylinder and observing the landing pattern - I might suggest taking a coin roll (like you get in a bank) and gluing some coins into one end of it - then try and flip it in the air so it lands coin-side up.

It is, however, very hard to bias a coin significantly without skewing the dimensions or having clear alterations visible on the coin.
> I'd say not wholly unmaintained. It hasn't seen any commits since 2017.

Has it needed any since then? That's the real question.
Chicago Meshnet?
Howdy, folks. I'm interested in setting up a meshnet in the Chicago area but it looks like any existing efforts (https://www.reddit.com/r/ChicagoMeshnet/) are either dead or have gone silent.

Does anybody know of an existing meshnet operating in Chicago or have an interest in collaborating to set one up?
I can think of a few reasons that it might make sense:

- One could believe that, by making man in his own image, God desired that men be able to make their own decisions even if those decisions sometimes displeases him and/or they will eventually answer for.

- One could believe that a free society ultimately allows one to better accomplish God's will even if it also means that people are free to do things that you don't agree with.

- One could feel that, since humans are imperfect, it is possible that they will misinterpret scripture or apply it unjustly. Therefore, it may not be safe to force people to follow a given way of life.

- One could feel that judgement is the sole domain of God and therefore human law should not seek to enforce purely moral issues.
I was playing around with an old BlackBerry Bold the other day. Things I miss, compared to the iPhone:

- Long-press a key to capitalize a letter.

- Text auto-correction that's customizable, predicable, deterministic, and easily undoable/re-doable.

- A dedicated widget for moving the cursor around and selecting text, without having to resort to complicated and unreliable gestures.

- Forward delete.

- The many keyboard commands/shortcuts for power users.
Here are some quick numbers:

At the end of 2019, Verisign had 158.8 million domains registered. At a price of $7.85/year, that's about $1.247 billion in expected revenue for 2020.

If we assume that the number of domains remains static forever, this change means that after the next price hike of 7%, they will see an additional $87.26 million of annual revenue.

By the end of the decade, given the same assumptions above, they will see an additional annual revenue of $895.28 million on top of their existing $1.247 billion.

All that extra money without providing any additional value to the customer. I'm sure many a celebration was had when they got the go-ahead to raise prices like this.
> hub was the unofficial GitHub CLI tool.

'unofficial'... https://hub.github.com/

I officially despise how meaningless '[un]official' has become.
Since the internet places no weight on things like "common knowledge to anyone in the field" or "I took a bunch of classes on the brain in college", here's a random quote from someone at MIT: http://news.mit.edu/1996/visualprocessing
Well, that is your opinion.

In my world, extensions are required (at the very least, dash-to-dock). But extensions are a second class citizen and often stop working after an apt-get update.

And Gnome forces my machine into heavy swapping. Cinnamon (which is almost the same thing, but usable) doesn't cause swapping.
Coinbase launches margin trading for some users
So how does the move to iTunes fix that? Aren't they even more opaque w.r.t. audience info?
>Our company has been tracking diversity and reports on "# of non-male identifying employees" and "# of non-white employees".

You don't think this is kind of disgusting?
My spouse and I recently went to a TGI Friday's for the first time in like 2 decades. Apparently these types of restaurants (TGIF, Chilli's, Appleby's etc.) now all have a tablet device at the table where you can instantly order another drink, dessert, pay, or (for a price) let the kids play a game. You can use credit cards, and maybe contactless payments (don't remember off the top of my head). It's a neat innovation for a restaurant like that, but of course they make the experience horrible by having this screen at the table constantly showing ads for either other things you can get at the restaurant, or other random things. We usually turn them around so we don't have to see ads while we're trying to eat. But that's a whole other issue.
Effective threat detection with VPC flow logs
Half of U.S. deaths related to air pollution linked to out-of-state emissions
Why are militaries rarely mentioned as GGG contributors?
Those kids aren’t middle class, and the situation for them is not functional or healthy. The median household income in the communities where New York County (Manhattan) public school kids live is around $40,000, half the median income of New York County as a whole. (For obvious reasons, the situation is reversed in most of the rest of the country—households with kids earn more than households without them, because they’re statistically more likely to have two earners and older heads of the household.) 75% of New York Public School kids are eligible for free or reduced price lunch. The public school system does not serve a representative cross section of the community, but people who are stuck in the city due to availability of service jobs, availability of public housing, etc. Many of whom will flee to the suburbs as soon as their economic situation improves. They’re people like some members of my family, new immigrants who lived in the city while getting established, but moved to Long Island as soon as they got their feet under them.

People have been playing up the “revival” of cities over the past two decades, but it turns out that was entirely due to college educated white people with no kids: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/07/where-have.... From 2000-2017, the rate of urban living for people with school-aged kids actually dropped 5%.
This seems quite patronizing. Better: Make sure everyone is paid right and that any jerks are removed from the team.
My hope is that the refactoring today will pay me back over the next 6 months in saved time / stability
Of course, all drugs, including heroin should be allowed to be sold at 7-11s.
Multi-account containers add-on sync feature
Scoop is more opinionated, in that there is a single, canonical version of each app. My experience with chocolately is very different, as there are often multiple different packaged versions of any given app, and you've no idea which is the "best" one.
Well at least you don't have to worry about package management, all the dependencies are built by the organization either from scratch or with vendored code.

Re: JavaScript, you should take a look at the code in repo, it's excellent. There is a such thing as great Javascript code and bcoin/hsd are prime examples.