skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All of the above, and it will cost less to boot, and certainly will cost at minimum half of Apple's ridiculous markup.
This.

The new requirements you will need to implement are probably unknown right now.

If your code has no extra fat, it will be easier to adapt.
I'm sorry-- if I visit for a week, whether I take a bus tour one day or continue to travel like a local doesn't affect these things. You'll have to find different boogeymen to blame instead of a symptom.
It’s not a matter of verifying the accuracy, I’m curious if it was reported on at all. The OPCW was the driving force behind Central European foreign policy on Syria which has included everything from arming militias through to sanctions. This conflict has also exposed Central Europe to dozens of terrorist attacks and threatened the safety of everyone. This is arguably one of the biggest leaks about international corruption in the last decade.

So I’m curious if the media there has made much of a fuss with the exposé of OPCW producing falsified reports. American media hasn’t, neither has British or Australian media. But we already know those groups are corrupt.

With this I’m trying to find out (and so can you) if Central European media is as objective (and independent) as what it’s being made out to be.
To me it seems the point is to have an open engine to be able to create that kind of games; instead of starting completely from scratch, they wanted to emulate a base that is known to be working and actually fun to use, so the moment they reach feature-parity they'll have a solid foundation. After that anyone can create on top of the existing and make it even better.

This feels like people who are passionate about the base game and would like to see it being open-sourced but they don't own the source code, so they do the equivalent
Some of these missed the mark a bit, but broadly speaking I agree with most of these points.

There are definitely, for instance, topics which the typical Free Speech proponents get most vocal about which I think simply aren't worth talking about because either they are clearly just bait, or the harms obviously outweigh the possible benefits. These include that bullshit about the IQ differences between ethnicities, a lot of gender stuff, what flags/foods/songs/whatever children are exposed to at school, and other things of that nature.

Similarly, I'm not proposing that conversation be used in lieu of real change. Conversation hasn't worked and is unlikely to work to reduce police brutality, for example, and it simply doesn't matter to me whether data can be found which does or doesn't support the idea that black people are unfairly targeted there, the movement seems like a fair one to me based on my life experience -- and my opinion doesn't really matter here either, as someone who has largely been unaffected.

My complaint only holds in the extreme. Unfortunately, a lot of our lives are now lived in that band.

Mostly agreed on the ad hominem stuff.
This is pretty awesome. All browsers should do this with malware.

I get that people like statistics, but if you share it with a third party, it can safely be condemned.
>How will they handicap it? How will they maintain their requisite absolute control?

I mean they already allow you to install anything you want on the device with a single click so not sure why you're using this sort of language.

Think they clearly just want a middle ground where indie developers can release something but there isn't a chance of malware.
Google to Microsoft: Help us bring Flutter to Windows 10, 10x and Surface Duo
I've been very happy with Plausible.io for my dinky little blog. It has all the information I need, and isn't as intrusive as GA.
That comparison is like comparing gardening my backyard to agricultural farming. Technically the core concept is similar, but I think we both know that the scale and depth makes them not at all the same.
Does the TSA hold a special grudge against Sikhs? (not that it would surprise me, just asking why you pointed that)
ByteCast with Donald Knuth
Sadly, this kind of engine rewrites need original data files. Alternative art content would be awesome (a la OpenTTD). Could donations help this?
It's funny because the very link you pasted illustrates perfectly that in the last 30 years middle easterners and Muslims are hugely over represented among the deadliest attacks.

Ah yes, let's pretend you can't tell someone is from south Asia or Caucasian.
Interesting, in my experience TDD is easy (it's just that a specific mental process needs to happen, besides learning a xUnit API or something, and also experience tells how to know which tests to write and which not to write, so that maintaining the tests doesn't become a burden) and always provides better ROI on the long run.

With end-to-end tests such as when piloting a browser, it's not really easy to get things like tracebacks into the console output for example.
That's a very cool demo, good job! I have a few questions if you don't mind.

- Could you share the specs of the hardware powering the demo?

- For IoT-type usage, one common access pattern is "get the readings of sensor X from device Y in the given time frame". But unfortunately, the data set in the demo doesn't include something like "cab_id" column that would allow me to simulate such a query. Is there a demo that has such a column?

- Does QuestDB require rows to be inserted strictly in order, or is there some leeway?

- Are you using any sort of compression? Timeseries columns are extremely compressible, and a good compression algorithm can greatly reduce IO wait times. We're using the Postgres-based TimescaleDb at work, and its compression capabilities have been a game changer [0].

- Do you plan on supporting GROUP BY clauses?

[0]: https://blog.timescale.com/blog/building-columnar-compressio...
Definitely try the Quest if you have a chance.

Real VR isn't about the 3D effect it's about having body and hand presence.
> Maybe it’s unclear to policy makers, too.

I think rather than it being "unclear" to policy makers, it's rather that there's a short-term economic imperative to go for 3), or if not, then 2), while 1) upfronts economic cost. This means that while the general desire might be to go for 1) from an ethical/expert/academic-advice perspective, policy makers are doing their best to hedge (while not wanting to appear as if they are).
Computer Says No?
What can a 2,500 year old, vegetarian mathematician teach us about technological solutionism?

A lot apparently.

(2 min read)
Yeah, I raised this on the mailing list almost a year ago. The people maintaining TinyCC know about it but don't care enough to take action.
sound alert really needed there.

I was shocked, but that was a fun one, I laughed too.
The idea behind a real name policy is that you open yourself up for scrutiny and criticism. Since you can be held accountable for what you say you have an incentive to say the truth or at least avoid making mistakes. The reality is that on the internet thousands of people will criticize you for any arbitrary reason even if that reason is actually a fabricated lie or just a personal bias.
"Endlessly derivative" aligns pretty well with Tolkien's idea of the "Cauldron of Story":

> Speaking of the history of stories and especially of fairy-stories we may say that the Pot of Soup, the Cauldron of Story, has always been boiling, and to it have continually been added new bits, dainty and undainty.

> For this reason, to take a casual example, the fact that a story resembling the one known as The Goosegirl (Die Gänsemagd in Grimm) is told in the thirteenth century of Bertha Broadfoot, mother of Charlemagne, really proves nothing either way: neither that the story was (in the
thirteenth century) descending from Olympus or Asgard by way of an already legendary king of old, on its way to become a Hausmärchen; nor that it was on its way up. The story is found to be widespread, unattached to the mother of Charlemagne or to any historical character.

[...]

> The historian would be likely to say that [...] “the Goosegirl Märchen became attached to Bertha.” [But] I think it would be nearer the truth to say that the Archbishop became attached to the banana skin, or that Bertha was turned into the Goosegirl. Better still: I would say that Charlemagne's mother and the Archbishop were put into the Pot, in fact got into the Soup. They were just new bits
added to the stock. A considerable honour, for in that soup were many things older, more potent, more beautiful, comic, or terrible than they were in themselves (considered simply as figures of history).

- from Tolien's essay/credo "On Fairy Stories" ( https://coolcalvary.files.wordpress.com/2018/10/on-fairy-sto... )
Exactly, in the time it would take me to write a proper TDD suite, I've written a skeleton of a product from end to end and can start iterating over it.

If you're working on a very specific box that has well defined, well known inputs and outputs then TDD is an excellent tool.

But for anything with a non-specific "We'd like to do X and display the result on Y" it just gets in the way.
over the past 7 months I've lost 12kgs.

All I did was to make some lifestyle changes:
"IF" between 8pm and 12 pm (basically calorie reduction).
I dont add sugar to any drink and I dont drink sugary drinks, this includes fruit juice, 100% or no.
I gave myself permission to suck at exercise. As long as I got out at least 5 days a week (preferably in the morning before work) then I would class this as mission accomplished.
What ended up happening was it became a habit, so i didn't have to really think about it or argue with myself about it. I also got a lot better at it. so instead of a 20 min bike ride I was going for an hour or more. I didn't feel like I had to do better I just ended up doing better.

The outcome so far has been great, also I find that if bad weather keeps me from going out and getting exercise I start getting cranky.. i now need it to be happy its a sort of self re-enforcing feedback habit.

Habits are hard to break, so I actively developed good habits... I think this is basically the crux of it. no special and difficult to maintain rules or eating patterns. just eat less in general and do it in a way that is easy to maintain (no eating after dinner, dont eat breakfast, train my palette to prefer non-sweet drinks).
Haha good one

The Orlando shooting + 9/11 as I said earlier covers more than the entirety of right wing extremists in the last 20 years.
Erm, he made an abstract argument in a satirical way, to counter the abstract argument from parent. I don't see judgment to the concrete case.
The guy who made this also made a desktop gui ERP application to teach himself python (or programing general, I forget). He is an inspiration.

Keep doing what you are doing Dirk.

https://github.com/DirkJanJansen/Pandora
I definitely agree with that, and there's an art to getting abstractions right :)
> That was probably a fair assessment a decade ago, but Linux seriously "just works" now.

My anecdotal experience tells me otherwise. During confinement, I tried to install OpenSUSE on an old laptop I had around for the kids to do their classes online. The laptop kept losing wifi credentials. Able, but not wanting to, troubleshoot I proceeded to install Unbuntu. That was all good until I went on the GUI to enable auto-login. Now I cannot log in.
Not big issues, I have the skills to fix it but not the time.

edit: typos
“Learning Hammerspoon” video tutorials
Also noisy and failure-prone.
Well, that's a trick you can pull exactly once. The next time Dean Kamen launches something I'll just ignore it completely until my life intersects with it in a natural way. Consider that burned.
I quite like the geo-specific mastodon instances I have seen (eg cloud island for NZ).

For one thing, their moderation only needs to comply with local norms and laws - no need to ban e.g. “female-presenting nipples” unless your community actually wants to.
I don't think the inclusion of the word "mob" is very helpful. The connotations are both sinister, and organised.

What we have is the logical extension of the social justice, or SJW, movement. Which even 2 years ago, in my recollections, would have been met with utter disdain. Somehow we've arrived at a time when social justice has a new-found legitimacy and few detractors still speaking out about it.

To me this is scarier than a mob, who usually have a figurehead around whom they rally. The SJWs have been building their seat of power on the shoulders of social media celebrities.

This is Huxleyan populism. People 'follow' others from their sofa, they 'like' things without critical assessment, bolstering support for an ill-defined cause based on memetic catchphrases and sound-bite signals.
Flagged to fix the title.

This is the letter that supposedly called it junk science: https://medium.com/@CoalitionForCriticalTechnology/abolish-t...

The central claim that the title of the original paper would suggest is that criminality can be predicted by using image processing (original title: "A Deep Neural Network Model to Predict Criminality Using Image Processing").

This is the press release of the original paper: https://web.archive.org/web/20200506013352/https://harrisbur...

The response letter claims:

> AI applications that claim to predict criminality based on physical characteristics are a part of a legacy of long-discredited pseudosciences such as physiognomy and phrenology, which were and are used by academics, law enforcement specialists, and politicians to advocate for oppressive policing and prosecutorial tactics in poor and racialized communities.

The thing is though, either the claim of the paper is right or wrong, if they can predict criminality with 80% accuracy from faces based on image processing then it can do that.

So either they can, or they cannot. If they cannot, then challenge them on that aspect of their paper, if they can, then no amount of "debunking" changes it.

This seems a bit like some moral panic rather than a well founded scientific objection.

If the claim is true, would it not be better to know the truth? Why should we hide claims about fact? If the claim about fact is wrong then it is wrong, no need to hide it, just say it is wrong. If it is right it is right, I really don't get the need for moral outrage here.
I'm not sure if its a good idea, but I'm going to link another of my old timer stories here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14120522
Would love for Jepsen to take a stab at Erlang’s Mnesia database as well!
I thought “behaves like a real elevator” meant that it would make stops along the way. Oh well ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Just so we're all on the same page, this is a random GPT-3 sample (I clicked "Random" twice, the first one was a short Wikipedia-like article, this was the second):

https://read-the-samples.netlify.app/sample_1749

As far as I'm concerned, I would probably pick this over a random fanfic in a Turing Test.
Of course they can help, you don’t have to use the existing tests, you can add your own as you learn the system and what its supposed to do
For a fun test, I showed my GF the 2 screenshots.
I tried to avoid involuntary giving any clue, and asked her which one, she was thinking was the old interface and the new one.
She is not a geek, not in tech, and does not know Github.

But, you can bet it, her guess was that the NEW interface was the oldest one, and that the OLD one was the recent rework...

That is an interesting test to rule out the fact that we are "adverse" to changes.
Let's say I am staunchly anti-abortion. I believe any abortion is, unambiguously, murder - the killing of a human being, and, maybe even worse, a child. It's unforgivable- goes against everything I believe in.

I also have a friend named Sammy, who's a doctor. Last night I discovered Sammy got a new job at Planned Parenthood, where a significant part of her time will be spent performing surgical abortions.

How many articles on the web should I read before I'm allowed to stop being friends with Sammy?
Lightweight Structured Logging: How to Use Org-Mode as a Logging Target
Search Engine for Sci-Hub
I agree that people supporting this are guilty, but I don't agree with blacklists of developers for political reasons. These are established in the industry and speaks of incompetence in leadership as it is. That doesn't mean their behavior should be endorsed, but that is a case for legislation.
Top blockchain development in Haskell soon on Cardano... https://prod.playground.plutus.iohkdev.io/
> This reads like sales speak.

I am not a sales person. I have been training people as a volunteer for decades. I have never made a dime (in fact, I am usually out-of-pocket by a fair amount). I am not a professional trainer or orator (or even a particularly good one), but I am an experienced one.

The people I have trained have faced enormous challenges in life, and are trying to get back up, after having been knocked down. I have not had the luxury of an eager, high-functioning audience. In fact, the audience has sometimes been actively hostile, and my training has not been effective (more often than I’d like).

Their enthusiasm is often unlike anything many folks will ever encounter; born of desperation, but so are the challenges. Many are folks with “knee-jerk” reactions to authority figures, which means I have needed to approach them carefully, and my personal demeanor and attitude could have a huge impact on my effectiveness.

The stakes have often been quite high (life and death). It’s been important for me to ensure that people get the help; not that I feel proud.

I simply wrote about my personal experience. This was not a typical “Internet armchair expert” post. Please note that I made a point of stating this was my experience.

"Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment." –Attributed to Nasrudin, but made famous by Will Rogers.

I understand that your experience is different. I appreciate and honor that. I only ask that you provide me the same courtesy.

Please have some compassion. The world needs as much of that as possible, and I feel that social media has been highly corrosive to empathy.
It's not that hard to look up and prove you wrong mate:

https://www.euractiv.com/section/justice-home-affairs/news/f...

>“In 2018, far-right terrorist attacks accounted for 17.2% of terrorist incidents in the West. By contrast, attacks by Islamist groups accounted for 6.8% of attacks, and attacks not attributed to any group accounted for 62.8% of incidents in the West,” the report has found.
That was sarcasm on my side ^^
I fell for it because although I’ve used a computer constantly for over 20 years I don’t think I’ve ever touched that home button. At least not deliberately.

I never use escape or any function keys either.

I still can’t figure out how to get in and out of insert mode in sublime text. When it happens I just quit and restart.

I’m starting to wonder why I tolerate this level of ignorance in myself.

I mean, I use key commands constantly. That’s what is odd about all this.
Open AI Alchemy: Emoji Storytelling
> Please share this article to show Trump’s new racist ad to everyone, because it is disgusting!

Ouch, we've all just been burned by an AI!
In theory, Sikhs must carry five items of faith, one of which is a "kırpan", which is a type of dagger.
Just trying to follow the site guidelines, The Reg' makes that hard, hence the explanatory comment ...
From infection date ~29.February till May the growthrate in Germany is behaving mathematically exact - following a Gompertz-Model.

It's not really clear if actions and visible behaviour changes did much - all of them came way too late - and there is no sign of a trendbreak that indicates any improvement.
Ask HN: Are you syncing the browsers history and passwords accross devices?
I'm old-fashioned, I don't trust people or companies :) but syncing between devices would save me a lot of time, no matter if it's passwords or pages I've visited.
Should I separate important and irrelevant passwords? How safe is it?
Also, which browser do you use for this purpose, if you use one.
Plenty of people wear ridiculous cycling gear (myself included) (helmets look especially dorky, but they're less dorky than being confined to a motorized wheelchair for the rest of your life so wear your helmets, kids.) so I don't buy that. (Nor did I buy a Segway, mind you.)

I think your right on the other part though. The Segway's target market is people that live and work and play mostly within a 1.5 mile radius. Unfortunately the original Segway was too expensive but more critically, far too big and bulky. The target market which stays within a tiny region are able to do so because it's so dense. But that density means that apartments (and stairwells and elevators) are too small to fit the original Segway. Nor did it fit well in the trunk of a car. Leaving very few buyers outside of Segway tours for tourists.
Rift was outstanding at the time and I think I still prefer the shape of the controllers but that said I haven't even touched it since getting the Quest.

Being able to use it anywhere in the house and without a cable just make it a much better experience.

Also when you do use it with a PC the guardian setup process is more reliable and less error prone than having to set up external PC sensors.
I totally agree that MacDonald is not a good fantasy writer. Phantastes are especially horrible (and derivative in their own way). However, he clearly had a strong and original imagination.
Agreed. _Yet Another Sans Face_. Like the world needs, or even could conceivably benefit from, another one.

Goldman Sachs is trying to distract us from something. I wonder what... Something else they are doing, right now? or something they just did?
Techniques to regain control of your Legacy codebase
> Ah yes, let's pretend you can't tell someone is from south Asia or Caucasian.

Its not about the way people look, its about their belief, Islam prohibits very seriously about blasphemy and that's why even the intelligent people can not help but comply. The same is not true about other religions.
Their big feature for the next major release is a Mac version, and until then it works quite okay in wine. Probably better in Linux/Wine, as that tends to have fewer graphics bugs.

My enjoyment factor of both DungeonScrawl and DungeonDraft is a bit different, as with 'Scrawl it's awesome sketching a big event location, whereas with 'Draft I get a Bob-Ross-ian spark when adding minor details. A candle here, a floating corpse there, some cobwebs and fungi…

I can pair DungeonDraft with FoundryVTT, where you can get virtual lighting support imported from the maps. So you don't have to "paint" your walls twice, once for the pure visuals and once to see where vision and movement is blocked.
People who do this get promoted because overengineering results in the manager getting more headcount.

My solution was to work someplace that can’t afford to waste money on bullshit. Has worked well so far.
Relevant point but given that the US is much more diverse, an integration course might not be relevant but such an immersion course might help non-English/non-western candidates feel at home faster.
I prefer data over social media stories.
Superstimulus in 2020
> It wasn't a problem that needed solving, but it was a solution that rich people rediscovered.

Alternative interpretation: It wasn't a problem that you needed solving, but others may have had a different experience.
> good or bad

I think the question, although genuine, has a flaw, that is, reasoning in terms of "good or bad".

"Good or bad" for whom? Is something that is "not good" inherently "bad" and viceversa?

Is something "good" only because is "decreasing a threat to US citizens"? What about the consequences of "decreasing a threat"? Like Guantanamo Bay, Patriot Act, this poor guy (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23625215), bombing a country thousands of miles away?

"Good or bad" is relative, just like right or wrong. It's difficult to correctly grasp a concept or conceal an idea by just defining it as "good or bad".