skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why would they compare the death rate in just the fourth year between the two groups instead of doing a normal survival analysis?
Your intentions are really good, but this kind of comment is _exactly_ what the person you're responding to was talking about - you're just playing another cat-and-mouse game and not solving the real issue.

The world is hitting a breaking point where this has to be solved by fixing governments/legislation/what have you, not by programming more.

(Edit: a typo)
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From the USPTO:

> The specification must include a written description of the invention and of the manner and process of making and using it, and is required to be in such full, clear, concise, and exact terms as to enable any person skilled in the technological area to which the invention pertains, or with which it is most nearly connected, to make and use the same.

You don't have to provide code, but you have to teach the reader of your patent how to make and use the invention.
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> Blazing fast results

I highly doubt this, given that the query engine is interpreted and non-vectorized. Queries are 10x to a 100x slower on a simple query, and 100x to 1000x slower on a query with large aggregations and joins without compilation of vectorization.

> Full SQL Exploration

Except for window functions it seems. These actually matter to data analysts.
Seriously? Read the article. Especially the later part about, how the UK and the US are... denying him access to his lawyers.
Yes, how do you think automated wire and stunt performer rigs are removed? Think of all the VFX you see; an immense amount of visual effects are animation basic principals applied to scraps of previous and past frames for the composition of the current frame.
I remember reading on the Signal Blog[0] about using domain fronting to hide their traffic from governments. I think we not only need to have a serious conversation about this (hey corps, if you want to do some good, just look the other way or actually embrace this!) but need to push for technology like this and others. India is heavily invested in WhatsApp and we know that it leaks a lot of metadata. We see in HK users being deanonymized through WA/Telegram/Signal because phone numbers are how social graphs are created or through weak encryption.

There's currently a lot of apathy because people feel defeated. But as the tech literate I feel it is our place to lead these conversations.

[0] https://signal.org/blog/looking-back-on-the-front/
nearly half of them voted against it? americans are so amazingly propagandized against anything vaguely construed as 'socialism' it's honestly impressive
Fair point, but that's a different model than "buy a house and watch its value skyrocket". It's more akin to what you'd find in a place like Germany, where you buy a second housing unit, rent it out, and it pays for itself over time and you can sell it off, even if it may not have appreciated in value a bunch.
Nations probably? So Assange is abused because he exposed the cheating of his parents? I don't know, doesn't work well the analogy for me. Or maybe too well.
In Japan, it works a bit differently. People who have a cold go to the local clinic. If the clinic is worried, then they send the patient to the hospital. It's also pretty normal to go to the clinic even if your symptoms aren't severe -- just for a cold. I suspect the "stay at home for 4 days" is meant to stop people from congregating at the clinic.
They have also further modified the shuffle algorithm within the last year or two to favor putting songs at the top that the user hasn't listened to a lot. There are definitely a variety of heuristics involved with their shuffling algorithm.
It's so awesome how moderators allow for a free and open discussion on HN
Yep, I'm familiar with all that.

Yeah, it's that "optional" part that is problematic for ECC in particular. But don't let that be a distraction; there are plenty of other enterprisey features in Epyc that are not present in TR, including registered memory support.

Re: 256GB ECC UDIMM on an 8-socket TR board, that's 32GB a DIMM. I guess you can find 32 GB ECC UDIMMs now, but that's pretty recent and expensive.
Yes, end the torture and medical neglect by simply ending his life. Julian Assange will never be a free man again and there’s nothing left for him to contribute as some rehabilitated member of society. Just kill him off, his story is over.
Yeah, people who drive-by PRs to unnecessarily fix a minuscule style or dependency-version issue is one of my pet peeves. I don't spend a lot of time on it, but this kind of cynical game playing sucks. These kinds of contributions produce a net loss for OSS, not a net win.
If you want to see the power of "basic" operations. Watch this video of Dan Ingalls, co-inventor of Smalltalk, demo his software to do OCR on Devanagari text in 1980!
https://vimeo.com/4714623
Congrats for this work! I haven't read the page far enough before commenting it seems (: Anyway, I hope this offered 13 minutes of fun to some HN readers
You guys should come see how it's done in France, where it's appaling to witness all the bad faith and disingenuosity from both sides — because the regulation is so tight that both sides feel righteous and untouchable, so to speak.

The truth is that ~7% of French workers were unionized last I checked — a dysmal failure for these associations, an all-time low that's been true for decades. And yet they take the right to block the whole country on issue X or Y because, well, they're official unions protected by the law. They are systemically funded by regulation, like social security or any other de facto 'tax'.

I would generally claim that in very different ways, the French and Americans are just as bad at unions — totally fails the point and disturbs (destroys, even) much more than it creates. I've heard great things about the German approach, but I can't substantiate first-hand. It's portrayed as a great synergy between management and unions to increase the value of the company as a whole while redistributing wealth (whether money, time, privileges...) in a fair manner.

It's no rocket science either to treat everyone well, which tells you how uncooperative human beings can become when circle-jerking too hard (we are biologically, socially very protective of "our own" and very hostile to "others", the question being where each of us puts the limit).
> but sadly he died in an car accident

FreeCAD 0.17 release was dedicated to Roland Frank.[0]

[0] https://www.freecadweb.org/wiki/Release_notes_0.17
How is he currently being tortured in prison?

TFA does not answer this question.
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I would recommend Architecture of complex web applications
https://leanpub.com/architecture-of-complex-web-applications
We're on a tech form. We aren't political experts, we're tech experts. While we should be aware and discuss the political issues at the end of the day we aren't experts in that. But being experts in tech, we can approach the problem from that end. This isn't a "I'm a hammer therefore every problem is a nail" this is "It is a complicated problem that involves nails, screws, rivets, welding, etc. I am good at using a hammer, so let me take care of the nails".
I thought that was a strange takeaway for the article to take. His analysis was correct. He was undone by a factor he didn't even contemplate. His confidence in his "analysis" was spot on.

There's definitely a lesson here, but I would not call it over-confidence. If the bank had gone under, would that have been called over-confidence on the part of his friend? At some point, every mistake of any kind whatsoever is called "over-confidence".
> You aren’t doing work given to you by the university or your advisor.

Something tells me you have not been through PhD, or are have not interacted with other PhD students. You absolutely work on what your PI got their grant for.
As I said in cousin comment: his access to lawyers, right now. For starters.
Ask HN: What self hosting services do people recommend?
I've been running a home server and am increasingly trying to migrate all my online services onto a self-hosted framework. Currently I have a media server, ebook server (ubooquity) and OpenVPN as the main services + some very basic home automation (domoticz / hass). My ideal target would be to completely move away from third party services (esp. Google, where I have my main email address). I'm not a techie, but can handle basis linux tasks, so ideally looking for easy deployment and low maintenance.

1/ What services are other HNers self-hosting?
2/ Is there a good road-map for disengaging from big tech?
3/ Uptime has not really been a problem till now but I'm acutely aware I have a single point of failure and thinking of ways to get better reliability - any ideas?
Can the Microsoft Office Ribbon be used by other developers? (2018)
>Clever circumvention technologies such as VPN won't save you when they arrest your for using circumvention technologies.

True, but my question here is: given that VPNs are pretty much essential for the way many large corporations work (they're not going to let employees access sensitive data over the internet in the clear), how does India, a country with a large tech presence and which promotes itself as a good place for software development, handle this?
it is funny to see how public opinion shifted once the narrative of him being a russian agent having helped trump appeared. People hate trump more than they hate being lied to
Relevant post by a former Mifco employee: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22360642
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I did this a few months back and was pleased with the amount of traffic I could see, even with my amateur setup.
It doesn't have a good track record. Nationalism in all its forms is abhorrent.
I actually have this conversation a lot, and the answer is usually "okay" and rarely "nope". Stakeholders have to weigh many more pros and cons.
(I really don't understand this comment, nor the tone that I perceive as quite aggressive, but I may just misunderstand it. So answering anyway)

I understood the comment fine. Even the way you're explaining yourself makes me nervous about the changes you may or not make.

Maybe I have just been burnt so many times.
What do you mean?

Technically speaking, you can build software on an outdated and unsupported framework, sure. But why on earth would you, for example, continue building your software on PHP 5.6 (EOL Jan 2019) when anytime a CVE is identified, you're basically SOL in being able to patch it.
Tail number? That sounds like something interesting to watch!
OP co-author here. It could be worth a shot to try (I'll do when time permits).

However, I am doubting it would help given how often LibreOffice was freezing with it (without crashing). My suspicion is that the formula recalculation is triggering more often that it should, and I could not find any way to prevent it. Excel provides options for manual triggers; if Calc does too, that might just solve the problem.

PS: I am not deeply familiar with LibreOffice. :-)
My question is, where's the unicode equivalent of this? :)
Elsewhere in this thread, a commenter (actually multiple) mentions that many French banks use 6-digit pins for authentication.[0] Another mentions that in Spain, some telcos do the same thing.[1]

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22360298

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22356534
That is not a deep fake. That is like saying a modified Trump video speaking Spanish to appeal to Latino voters is a deep fake.
I think it hints at psychological torture
tl;dr Write tests, people!
Damn, this is probably the best idea I've seen all week (I have my pi zero with pi sugar and a eink display just sitting around doing nothing.
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/an-important-distinction

Patriotism is love for one’s country. Nationalism is the belief that one’s country (and often ethnic subset) is supreme (and more deserving of prosperity), speaking generally.
It is our opinion that Mr Assange requires urgent expert medical assessment of both his physical and psychological state of health. Any medical treatment indicated should be administered in a properly equipped and expertly staffed university teaching hospital (tertiary care). Were such urgent assessment and treatment not to take place, we have real concerns, on the evidence currently available, that Mr Assange could die in prison. The medical situation is thereby urgent. There is no time to lose.
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Probably not, if it made commercial sense the law of salvage already makes that option available.

It might conceivably matter that the wreck is now in a somewhat more convenient place rather than the middle of the ocean, but probably it's just too low value for it to be economic to volunteer. Somebody will have to get paid explicitly to tidy this up.
Or they have already implemented them cause they consider those measures to be important / effective. Recommending something you don't think is worth the effort would be stupid, just like not implementing good ones. If FB decides against adopting some measure, they obviously will use the same arguments for not recommending it.

As for FB recommending lower standards to govern the competition... would anyone here actually do this unless part of a brand? Evaluating recommendations is a politicians job, and I'd expect them to listen to more than just the few biggest companies.
Sweden? Here (Baltics) we have SmartID or mobile signature or hardwire password generators (TOTP). No stupid passwords.
ECC isn't the only feature, please don't focus on that at the expense of missing the point. They do some market segmentation between TR and Epyc and it is material.
Checkout ScrambleSuit and OBFS4
https://github.com/Yawning/obfs4
https://www.cs.kau.se/philwint/scramblesuit/
It suffers from a similar problem to Wikipedia, namely that the likelihood of your information being prominent is a function of how well you rules lawyer, rather than how good your information is.
That works until the bean counters invade and someone gets the bright idea to reduce the ratio of surplus hardware to reduce CAPEX and boost quarterly profits.

We've seen that in every industry including healthcare. Every health crisis now takes us back to field hospitals.
It is true that purchasing a home in Seoul is very expensive, but renting continues to be more affordable than in e.g. Manhattan or San Francisco

https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/in/Seoul

A 1 bedroom apartment in the city center is about $742.84 USD per month, compared to $3,472.78 in San Francisco. That amounts to approximately ~33% of average net take home in Seoul vs about 50% in SF.

You are absolutely correct that their public transport is excellent, and not only does that parameter not apply to the Bay Area, it doesn't apply to any city in the United States. San Francisco also has a population density less than half that of Seoul. Population density and infrastructure such as public transportation to support it are a difficult chicken and egg problem, and I don't know how to thread that needle in the Bay Area, even if I strongly feel it is a needle which needs threading.
Oh, that's interesting! Do you happen to know if you're using OpenGL ES? (You can e.g. `dpkg -l | grep gles`.)
Lumbering enterprises that spend billions of dollars on IT.
The problem is that having a large body of grad students increases your research output, allowing you to get more grants and raise the prestige of your institution at a relatively low cost. Universities are incentivized to admit more grad students if it leads to these improved outcomes.
Nope I do have a PhD.
Perhaps that's a good thing.
Even better, and sortable. Thanks!
Speaking from experience I wish WPF was based on MVVM, MVC, or even a consistent usage. What it is really based upon is hypocrisy and piles of footguns.
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Larry Tesler has died. Larry was in the middle of many of the most influential of Silicon Valley projects and an insightful contributor. See his Wikipedia biography for a snapshot. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Tesler
On Windows, clipboard items have hidden tags added when they are copied, so the program you are pasting into can make these decisions, instead of the program you are copying from needing to manipulate the copied text. For example, if I copied that code from a Web page and pasted it into the console it would paste just the code, but if I pasted it into Onenote it would check the tags and add a line underneath with the url the code was copied from.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20140721-00/?p=45...
Misleading Title. It is not about using VPN but about propagating rumors.

This is a law in India, as there were instances of riots caused by social media rumor.

Actual News
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The FIR has been registered while taking cognisance of the social media posts by miscreants by using different VPNs, which are propagating rumours with regard to the current security scenario in the Kashmir valley, secessionist ideology and glorifying terrorists, the police said.

I am young Techie from India too and I totally support it.
Democracy has nothing to do with liberty. It's just a flavor of authoritarianism.
That's an incredibly optimistic perspective, as any minority will tell you.

To argue that businesses should shutdown current solutions without creating new ones lacks a huge amount of responsibility and will lead to mass chaos. New solutions to be discussed and in place before or immediately after dissolution that could put thousands on the street, in poverty or medical care.
How are they avoidable?
Not just keyboard shortcuts, but keyboard navigation: you can press-and-release Alt and then "walk" through the Ribbon by keyboard: press arrows to switch tabs, move through sections of commands, drill into dropdowns, then Escape to "go back up" a level.

In terms of finding specific things, every version of the Ribbon in Office has had an accompanying search box (today labeled "Tell me what you want to do", and since the beginning labelled with a light-bulb icon, the last remnant of Clippy iconography, RIP). I still think it would be great if search results had an option like "Show me where to find this on the Ribbon next time", but the icons in the search results are the same as on the Ribbon and sometimes just seeing the icon in the search results can help you find it better the next time.
I'm not saying that this rule is the most beautiful rule, or that you're a bad person if you write methods that are longer than 5 lines and don't get permission from a senior architect first. That's something dysfunctional teams might do.

Look at `--auto-gen-config` because you can totally still use rubocop on codebases that have loads of pre-existing violations in them without fanfare. Then each new violation needs a second look, and an addition in this file. And if the rule is too restrictive, you can change the default away from 5 lines to some bigger number. The principle I hope (Rubocop hopes) you will accept is that short methods are easier to understand than long methods, so shorter methods should be preferred, at least absent other pressures... that's all. The point I guess is to establish a standard, and then iterate on it.

I don't want to start name calling, but Sandi does this talk where she starts out "who knows code smells" and everyone puts their hand up, then she says "who can name 5 code smells" and all the hands go down. Watching this talk was eye opener for me.

Can you write a program that is well organized and doesn't have methods longer than 5 lines? I don't know if I can. Does that mean the metric is bad and should be thrown away without looking back? I'm not ready to go that far, I want to learn more and know how to make this possible, because Sandi and many others with 30+ years experience in OOP have taken time out from their busy day to suggest that it will result in more maintainable code for my team.

There is a big difference between cargo culting and listening to learned experience projected outwardly.

Edit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJjHfa5yxlU
This is the talk about code smells! "Get a Whiff of This" by Sandi Metz, RailsConf 2016
I don't think you meant to reply to me. Because I'm asking for examples of these deep fakes...
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I'm not sure what to take away from this article. Sure, knowing multiple languages may be somewhat cognitively beneficial, but is it worth the time investment? I'm not so sure.

An aside, Arrival was an entertaining movie. I'm a sucker for those kinds of "unrealistic" sci-fi films.
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My uncle was a machinist in a large U.S. company back in the early 2000s when the employees decided to end the torture and medical neglect of Julian Assange.

According to him all it ended up doing was stifling innovation and rewarding mediocre lifers over the high performing employees.
Does it matter? He's limping, pale, unable to answer basic questions.

"Oh, it's only waterboarding, that's not real torture..."

Torture is torture.
We had a pretty big experiment with federalism and secession in the 19th century, actually.
How does firekube compare to Kata Containers?
Literacy is key to eradicate authoritarian BJP in India. Because the last standing state is the most literate state in India which is Kerala.
That really is not clear from the statement: "We have yet to see how the US reacts when a massive section of it wants to secede," which is obviously false.
They still have a navy, too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolivian_Navy
I remember when I was working on one of the big4, whenever we were getting "snacks" we would EACH pick from a menu what EACH wanted,and EACH was getting exactly what they wanted. Some were going for the ribs, some for the salad, and we would all sit and enjoy our lunches/late dinner together. Not all perks had to do with junkfood.
For many reasons:

https://medium.com/better-programming/object-oriented-progra...
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I would like to set one of these up. Is there an extensive guide that explains where to put the sensor, how to setup the pi, etc?
It's based on observation in court only.

Also, Assange's health was in strong decline before he was released from the Embassy, which could be a factor: https://medium.com/@doctors4assange/concerns-of-medical-doct...

I'm not saying there isn't torture happening, just that there isn't much evidence to the claim that he's being tortured right now.
Didn't they make a Marvel movie about this titled Captain America Winter Soldier?
If you find this interesting, read up on event-sourced architecture.
You can use webhooks for this. As an example: https://staticman.net/docs/
The article implies that the 7 years he spent in the embassy prior to his arrest amounted to torture.

IMO, at best we could dub his deterioration in the embassy as "self-inflicted", or more accurately institutional neglect on the part of the governments involved.
Didn't know that, thanks for the info!
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