skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unix is not an IDE. The I stands for integrated. Unix is just a good old development environment...
This is interesting. As someone who has always tons of interview data to transcribe for academic research, what TTS systems should I be looking into to help me save some time? Is Deep Speech adapted for this use?
Local Persistent Volumes and PostgreSQL Usage in Kubernetes
*Was based on profession.
I think it’s also the way people use it. Are you interested in truth or power? It seems Twitter attracts a lot of people who only feel powerful on twitter, and they prioritise that over truth.
Thank you, @antirez! I have a live stock market site that heavily relies on redis for streaming data, tracking leaderboards, and message passing. It would have been difficult without Redis. You really affected my life. Big hug to you, Salvatore! I hope you find your next inspiration, and bless us with your next masterpiece. :)
The comment was actually making a point more insulting than you assumed: they're saying that AWD may or may not make cars safer, but any effect it has is dwarfed by making the owners of those cars into overconfident morons. It's a statement about drivers, not about cars.

Note that your statement could be taken as either confirmation or refutation of the OP's point, entirely depending upon whether the reader believes you're an unreliable narrator. Not knowing you nor having driven an AWD car, I'm not qualified to guess which is true. But as someone who's super interested in the distinction between reality and perceptions of reality, I thought the juxtaposition was pretty intriguing.
Sometimes astrologists make me smile:

> important sources of ionizing photons

Nothing better than a morning with cereal, milk and ionized photons.

Wikipedia says that LVB often form clouds around them from their violent outbursts that are sometimes miss-classified as supernovae. We will probably have to wait if it pops up again.
> Then the drug companies just offload the rest of the R&D cost onto the US consumer. But, almost the entire cost of a drug is in the R&D.

How much do drug companies spend on advertising in EU vs US?
USA buys up world stock of remdesivir
The US had made preparations for a pandemic after SARS / MERS, but the funding was cut and the stockpile was neglected and had to be discarded. The advisories were given, people were aware, the system works, the people did their jobs. But the higher ups decided not to act, causing the biggest wave of deaths in living history.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3322916/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK92448/
Same as you. I've ended up accepting that whatever the features or the plugins, the UX constraints in terminal editors (1-character unit of space, colors, graphical plugins...) will always be a huge limitation. That's reason enough to convince me to use VSCode or Webstorm with a vim plugin
I actually got $work to pay for a new desktop computer to prevent me from going insane because of the slugish JIRA and Google Cloud Web Console, and it actually solved it.

My old x260 was not able to run jira/gcp/slack at a reasonable speed due to javascript performance :(
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Interest point. So whilst COVID-19 leaves us all stuck on twitter... we can expect the quality of debate to get worse until in-person discussions resume and act as a corrective.
If they feared for their life they wouldn't have acted so relaxed and would have been inside the house, not swinging around outside.
You probably heard of Isotopium: Chernobyl. Interesting concept and a solid implementation of a similar idea.

https://youtu.be/TET-xQIgZQE
And yet, one of the largest risks is that our modern society simply assumes that none of those will ever happen.

When I grew up in the 80's, society was built around the expectation that WW3 was pretty imminent, and while I'm quite happy that the cold war is over, modern society would most likely be better of if we stopped taking everything for granted and start preparing for things that we know will happen at some point. Like pandemics.

Some kind of shit will happen at some point. That's about the only thing that is certain. We should use the time we have until then for building a non-fragile society.
Please take a look at the PULSE model card here:

https://thegradient.pub/content/images/2020/06/image.png

PULSE is published as an art project, not suitable for face recognition or upscaling. It can only generate 'imaginary faces'.

They didn't even train the GAN they were using, it was borrowed from another paper. They probably used StyleGAN because it was a nice high quality generator and they invented a novel way to use GANs so they needed a toy model to showcase their algo.
> I never understood what the business interest of the tv stations was in preventing streaming online. They already give away for free the stream over the air. What gives? Do they make money on the antennas or receivers or something?

Pretty simple. They money using a tried and true model, why would they bother innovating or rocking the boat. It's much easier to collect the check for most of the money on the table than to bother innovating and collecting a slightly higher percentage with signicant potential downsides.
Contrary to popular techy opinion, short-term memory is not composed of hard, fixed "slots" that fill up and overflow. It's not like remembering one more byte of information will make a variable name fall out of your memory on the other end.

Besides, it might just as well become something you don't need to use memory for at all - just press Esc to make sure. If you're in command mode, nothing happens. If you're in insert mode, you've entered command mode.
It's also true most of the time when using open source software.
You could say the same thing about every business that has installed Zoom.
For example I am a right handed person who is very left biased because of my eyes (I normally see with left eye only).
Apple rejects Down Dog's latest update for refusing auto-charge after trial ends
Fair enough! I think t[#t+1] = x is not as offensive and will get you a few nanos less than the way with two table lookups, but if that's also not to your taste then that's fine.
Oh nice, you know it does have an interesting effect on me of making Obvious a more enticing place to apply... Has this improved the quality of interviews and/or applicants?
See here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism_in_the_United_Kingdom#2...

Especially the part about "Paki-Bashing" in 80s.
It would be; first, spheres are unrealistic because of the stresses involved, so you'd be looking at a dyson swarm instead, and second, (and this is with sci-fi glasses on), even advanced civilizations would need many years to build one, so there would be a gradual fading instead.
Mind you, they're also not getting any money from the people who are currently not interested because the price is too high.
IDE has syntactic understanding of your code, which allows you to navigate your whole codebase as if it's one big hypertext document (invalueable especially when learning new code). Also, the syntactic understanding allows you to do one-click fairly complex refactorings with guarantees that nothing will get broken (at least it works for sane languages, like Java. I don't know how well it works for C/C++, where preprocessor macros complicate things). I don't see how "UNIX as an IDE" delivers this.
Link to the PDF

http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/Classes/739/Spring2003/Paper...
What doubt? The momentary mismanagement of one nation's disease control unit means you'll ignore the globally-realized benefits of the greatest life-saving achievement of modern medicine?

Sounds a bit like you were searching for an excuse for a conclusion you arrived at already for other reasons.
> Ask the lower caste team members of any large IT company in India e.g. TCS, Infosys led by a Brahmin manager(who is not an atheist); you'll hear about discrimination they face.

Is the religious component that large? I'd assume that it's simple ingroup/outgroup, like most discrimination.

You don't need to believe that your group is special by divine ruling, you just need to believe that you'll get a better personal outcome if you strengthen people that are like you, as they'll hopefully do the same for you.
Small nitpick: Unpredictable for the observer. So in a way this pandemic was a black swan for some (naive) people.

On the other hand, I think it's good that someone like Taleb now goes around and pokes all the policymakers and governments that nothing of this was unpredictable and Corona is a white swan event.
>I am always wonder how would these civilizations would be today if they left to grow alone,

There are a few uncontacted peoples left. Notoriously, the Sentinelese kill anyone who try to land on their island. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncontacted_peoples

Left alone, they appear to muddle along like any other hunter-gatherer tribe would: starving often, dying young, making no "progress" as we would call it. The native state of humanity without technology is certainly different from our life, I hesitate to call it "better".
There was a striking example of this in the COVID mortality statistics [1]:

> The data shows those males categorised as black are over 4.6 times more likely to die than their white counterparts from the virus. They are followed by Pakistanis/Bangladeshis (just over four times more likely to die), and then Chinese and Indians (just over 2.5 times).

People of Indian and Pakistani background are not significantly genetically different, but there is a substantial difference in how likely they are to die of COVID.

I am a bit skeptical that the difference is due to differential discrimination. I don't think most British racists are smart enough to distinguish people of Indian and Pakistani background. My hunch is that it's due to different patterns of immigration: if Indian immigrants were more likely to be middle-class, and to move to suburbs and small towns, whereas Pakistani and Bangladeshi immigrants were more likely to be working-class, and to move to inner cities, then that would produce the kinds of demographic difference that could explain the COVID disparity.

[1] https://theconversation.com/coronavirus-its-impact-cannot-be...
Of course not. But what are the posts you're referring to? As far as I can tell, most of the discussion in this thread is by Indians, Indian expats, and people of Indian background, sharing their experiences. But I haven't read the entire thread.
Yes. The overall result was for the software to improve to such an extent that it now overwhelmingly dominates the markets for servers, embedded devices and utility programs (e.g. zip, encryption, file transfer) and is the basis for the most commonly used smartphone operating system and browser. It has also caused alternatives to Office and Photoshop, while not perfect, to exist.

Rome wasn't built in a day, as they say.
> We will do our best to provide a 15 minute break and/or lunch/coffee break during your interviews, especially if you'll be interviewing for more than 3 hours. That said, we are happy to accommodate additional breaks or fewer breaks, depending on your preferences, just let your recruiter or recruiting coordinator know!

I have seen this w/o breaks 5-7 interviews a day, too often. Some candidates suffer from low energy at the (n-1)th interview. The interviewer is baffled and gives a slightly negative feedback. The reason for the interviewee's interaction is not the skill of the interviewer.

So, in short - please keep breaks. You should have a 1h (min.) dedicated lunch break if you have a long 1-day interview. In additional, you should schedule 15m breaks in the morning and afternoon session to let the candidate recuperate. Finally, please ask your interviewers to look through the candidate schedule. Take into account that they have had many interviews, do your bit to make them comfortable. Also, please do not spin this as "If you can't go without breaks in a 7h day, you are not good enough to work here". Kindness, empathy helps and makes you a better employer.
For me, abstract thought comes best when doing abstract things. Particularly reading, camping, cycling, playing/listening to music. As somebody who spends way to much time in front of a computer monitor, I find that anything that takes me away from screens for a few days is really beneficial for mentally tackling big problems.

A great test of how well you understand a (mathematical) concept, is if you can visualise and reason about it when you are away from a desk and doing something else. That said- you can never know all the stuff you want to know, so dont stress about it :)
It’s good to see the command palette pattern gain adoption. I’ve introduced a few people now to command-space in macOS and they’ve all loved it. Why hunt for an icon when you can just type “TextEdit”?

Maybe a future macOS will allow apps to hook into the spotlight search bar and present their command palettes there, in a standard way?
China says India’s ban on Chinese apps may violate WTO rules
> You do not have content like History channel because it lies in that tier of things that many people are kind of interested in watching, but only if it comes with something else more valuable that they already paid for.

This seems like you're saying "bundling mis-serves the customer." If the History Channel would not exist if people could pay for it directly, then why should it ought to exist?
Silhouettes don't have enough information for a neural network to really learn the structural relations. You can do "generative zoology" with full color and get very convincing results-- here's a GAN trained on beetle illustrations: https://www.cunicode.com/works/confusing-coleopterists
They seem to be making a fundamental mistake in calculating their prices?

It seems when they add a new channel that costs say 100M pa to broadcast they divide the cost by their existing number of subscribers and mark up accordingly.

surely everyone else does it by "in five years i will have all the subscribers so divide by that number"
I briefly worked for GSK. It's not like the inefficiencies are limited to only US companies because they can charge more. Nor have I seen the public sector run any more efficiently or effectively (and it's often worse). The reality is that it takes a very large organization to develop a drug and large orgs tend to be run inefficiently.
Thumbs up. Pay for your damn software.
I'm actually vegetarian myself, though I typically don't assume tortillas contain lard (unless the places name is actually in spanish lol). This particular example (because we had a deeper conversation) was definitely about how Brahmins were supposed to be pure.
I hope someone is running statistics on these thefts.

We should name and shame those that pay.
Just recently used xq to convert and clean up a bunch of weird xml files to JSON. It was such a breeze.

I love how nested lists inside objects can expand into a particular one with the .[] operator.

For example:

{ a: [{b: 5}, {b: 3}], c: 5} can be transformed into:
[{ b: 5, c: 5}, {b: 3, c: 5}] using jq '{c: .c, b: .a[].b}'

For heavily nested XMLs I can get a nice flat output.
I use vim as a boring config editor in terminals. I don't think it's the best editor by a long shot and even something as basic as Atom is more productive for code editing for me.
The idea of customizing your vim setup for maximum productivity doesn't appeal to me. It always ended up in a mess and over ssh it's pointless.
Damn, sorry, honestly misread your comment. Yeah I actually do agree completely.
Sadly I don’t think this is money laundering. Good cover for it though.
The thought of middle aged Indian dudes flashing white threads at each other just made my day, thank you
Yes they have, and I never trusted any of them.

Not running pirate software is the only valid path for security.
> Or that a-la-carte channel you want, you won't be watching it 24 hours per day so why subsidize programming that's on when you're sleeping or at work?

You have correctly identified the business case for cinema and DVDs.
2PC ?
> Lua itself is a truly beautiful language, though I understand this is not a popular opinion.

I think most people who actually use Lua come away marveling at its elegance and simplicity. The ones that don’t get stuck at “arrays start at 1?! What a garbage language!” In fact, this is a fairly good way to tell if someone has a well-reasoned opinion about Lua ;) (I will put up Go as a counter-example: “hurr durr no generics” is a meme complaint but it remains one once you actually use the language…)
the rest of the world can do the same. stockpile their own products, e.g. ventilators, masks, etc. then everyone dies, cause you need all the parts for a full cure. anyway, it's more about the attitude of the US. I doubt stockpiling this drug has any consequence on the rest of the world. the just bought the first batches I guess. more will be produced.
If you are into these kinds of mysteries, I highly recommend reading Pandora's Star by Peter F Hamilton. (even more so if you want to spend a few days reading this epic space opera)
Myths of Modern Physics (book posted online)
A slight improvement in usability can make all the difference in the world for a user's experience.
Perhaps a mix of choice supportive bias after going through the pain of learning it and stockholm syndrome?

Jokes aside, I don't really work with VIM but understand the concepts and have mastered basic usage of changing text files without too much effort. Never really coded in VIM aside from small scripts. But it is a dependable text editor that survived the ages. Most modern IDE will never reach this because they are far less dependable and far less wide spread. Installing VIM on your system never hurts.
A dying service milking some last few dollars
The media tells us who to care about and by how much. I find the whole thing very irrational and very isolating.

I’m quasi American and I have always hated the people who worked in those towers. The primary business of financialization is to rob the masses of their wealth / pensions. They are a well dressed and well behaved parasitical class.

Osama Bin Laden’s stated intention was to drag the US in to a quagmire and the US obliged.

Despite what MMT people may believe, the US will now have to get used to being a much poorer country. That adjustment will not be easy.
I would also be fascinated to hear how you're using it.
No it still is. It's just not based on YOUR profession that YOU are doing NOW.
I've said this before, but I've come to think of Lisp and Forth as the left-handed scissors of software: for 10% of the population they're significantly easier to use, to such an extent that it can feel like a revelation. The remaining 90% of the population tries it, finds it harder to use, and doesn't get why others are raving about it.

This would be down to very fundamental differences in thinking and conceptualisation that are difficult or impossible to "just" teach over. It requires those arguing over "ease of use" to recognise that it's not a property of the tool itself, but a function of both the tool and the user and how well the tool fits the particular, individual, user.
an Eager, Easy, and Exciting company to do business with. :)

edit: MS in general, not GitHub specifically.
Care to convert that sentence into a coherent argument?
The US negotiating as a block would be the logical solution. And the US sorta does, between the megasized insurance companies and Medicare, it's not a single block, but it's far from nothing. But the US isn't going to bankrupt a US company over it. So then it becomes a nation-nation negotiation via trade pacts (which are happening, much to Europe's annoyance).

Pharma is just a zero sum game; for the US to win, someone has to lose.
You're missing the fact that another person's knowledge or experiences could be different from your own.
I straddled a lot of classes growing up in India, and I can assure you that most people don't eat meat "to get their protein". If they are culturally inclined to do so, they'll eat it because it's tasty, it's a delicacy. I know a couple families which used to be able to afford chicken only once every few months. They were definitely impoverished, but when you're impoverished in India you definitely can't afford meat (the government has rations of rice, sugar etc, and you barely afford some basic veggies -meat is typically 5-10x more expensive). Heck, even eggs are too expensive for a large fraction of the poor here.
The problem with making alcohol illegal is that it is so easy to produce it at home, with generally available ingredients like sugar or yeast. That's why prohibition did not work. Banning drugs, especially synthetic ones is orders of magnitude more effective.
The economists are wrong about economics too.

That article is an absurdly oversimplified model. In the real world, the networks would find some way to diversify between the $3 and $10 channel offerings, letting them get $3 from the $3 person and $10 from the $10 person.

edit: Correction, they do mention this common and widespread approach... in a footnote. Without saying anything about why it wouldn't work.
I prefer them asking for money upfront instead of selling ads and becoming controlled by the people who pay for those ads.
For those unfamiliar with French history: the original Charles de Gaulle was born in Lille, France, in 1890, and was the leader of the French government in exile during WW2. Taking his name would be something like an American immigrant naming themselves George Washington.
There's a couple of ways you could tackle editing that depending on what your json looks like.

For example you could use the visual block mode (ctrl-v) and highlight to the end of the line using $ and then use A to edit the end of every line at the same time.
That works with lines of different length.

Or you could use a regex inside of a block selection.

Or there's a multi-cursor plugin available for the same approach as you're currently using in VSCode:

https://github.com/terryma/vim-multiple-cursors

Vim Golf is an excellent resource for seeing how to efficiently edit things in Vim: https://www.vimgolf.com/
I've been using ctrl-[ for years, but have been experimenting with jj. Now I'm not sure which one I like better!

I switched back to vim+tmux (nvim) a few weeks ago from a number of years using vs-code with the vim keybindings.

I'm still trying to configure my plugins so that I don't feel like I'm repeating myself too often.
Apparently it was 22/44 in 2013. By 2016, half-hour shows were already down to ~19mn.

Broadcast was utterly unbearable when I visited the US 20 years back, I can't imagine watching it today.
This mortality question is one that really intrigues me. Minorities have higher rates in the US and the UK for example. I didn't see any numbers for Germany so far, and France isn't collecting data based on "race" (for lack of a better term).

What would really be interessting is to break the mortality down by income and poverty. And than compare it to income an poverty based on race, where such numbers are available (so obviously not France). My hunch tells me mortallity is first related to social and financial circumstances, which are themselves directly related to race / being a minority / being poor. Maybe nitpicking, so, because it still tells us something about discrimination, doesn't it?
IMO Indian parents are some of most sly people to walk earth. They coerce, emotionally blackmail and are obsessive about controlling their child's lives be it professional, educational, romantic decisions. Sometimes I think the quote "Most parents would do anything for their child except let them be who they are" is specifically made for the Indian boomer generation.
There's actually a huge regional aspect to it - western states have a large veggie population that traverses many classes.
It’s crazy: they used to be just music, but when they bought XM they adopted XM’s model of announcements and such. Why?

Of course that company should have cornered “digital music on the internet” but we’re themselves stuck in the radio mindset.