skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course there wasn’t evidence of bigotry when she mostly lived a private life, before she decided to get hooked into the Twitterverse. An analogy: you don’t have evidence of a crime before it happens.

The article is arguing that we should be doing more to help her understand.

This has been done. All kinds of people have made thoughtful criticisms of her essay (much more level-handed than mine).

Her response has been to double down: https://mobile.twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/127975541862187...

One must be willing to learn in order to be taught. She is not a person that can be reasoned with. She believes this thing she believes and feels the need to broadcast it widely, and she has made up her mind.

This is the hill she wants to die on. If she’s factually on to something, it doesn’t matter. It doesn’t make this less of a stupid thing for her to do.
> but you need to add another feature?

You have to add your feature in such a way that the resulting code meets the rules.

It's exactly the same like when you need to add something to a line that is
already 79 characters long (maximum allowed by your coding convention). Or if you have to add lines of code into a function that is already 200 lines long (coding style max). Or if you need another argument in some API that already has the maximum of 8. You have to step back to some extent and change more of the surrounding program, than just shoving your intended change into it.

> Or, what happens when people combine functions into larger ones to avoid having to define a real datatype

If the code remains under the quantified limit for function size, then it is complying with the document.

> "Don't use a list where you really have a struct" is much more concrete and quantifiable.

There are two answers to "where do you really have a struct?" One is purely opinionated, and one is objective. The objective answer is: "you really have a struct in all situations where the list isn't a variable length container of items of the same type".

So the concrete and quantifiable (and therefore the right) interpretation of the rule amounts to never using a fundamentally characteristic Lisp technique, in Lisp!
...or build a line of sandbags across the map and ring the enemy base.
Ah interesting, is there any workaround for Mac? Otherwise, I may just have to fallback to stripping the man page formatting and sending it to less.
Divines smile on you, friend.
Also a big fan of Screenflow. I find it so much easier to record a quick 5 minute screencast when trying to get a point across.
I understand it's exciting to see introductions of new machine types and new GPUs, but for it to mean anything Google should instead get its house in order on the GPUs they already offer. Getting an n1 instance with a Tesla T4 GPU in any datacenter I've tried has a <50% success rate on any given day ("resource unavailable" more often than not, they just don't seem to have enough of them), which is _hugely_ damaging to our ability to rely on the cloud for our workload. Worse, there's no way for me to work around it: I'd be willing to switch zones, or machine type, or GPU type, but there is no dashboard or support guidance that'll tell me if there's any such configuration that'll be reliably available.

Because of that, seeing this A100 announcement is just a bummer, as I fear it'll be just another "resource unavailable" GPU...
I’m confused by this, can’t you just create the #random channel you wish existed in Teams?
Some do, I know two people who write everything in vim and do so also when working on Java code.
It's memorable in that it's a lighthearted way of describing a pretty disastrous event without using expletives, with at least a dash of cultural significance.

I agree it's a lame title.
"As a technology demonstration, Project Freta is opening public access to an analysis portal capable of automatically fingerprinting and auditing a memory snapshot of most cloud-based Linux VMs; over 4,000 kernel versions are supported automatically. Hyper-V checkpoint files captured from a modern enterprise can be searched for everything from cryptominers to advanced kernel rootkits. This prototype previews an exciting future option for cloud consumers: transitioning from boutique forensic consulting services to automated malware discovery built into the bedrock of a commercial cloud."
> * Bandwidth is not cheap, and while it may be lower than the cost of storage initially, for any chance of survival you'll eventually need some popular content, at which point its cost of delivery will exceed that of storage

If only IP-SSM worked on the open internet. Even some sort of best-effort routing would be a start.
How the commercialization of bug bounties is creating more vulnerabilities
Also not an iOS developer, but I think that apps enter a “suspended” stage when you close them or press the power button to save battery life. If you look at apps’ crash logs, you can see that they are occasionally killed by a system process for using too much CPU or other resources when they’re in the background.
If you have the correct antennas and possibly amplifiers on both ends you can established a Wifi link over hundreds of miles (if you have line of sight). Basically, if you can see the other device you want to communicate with at building level with your eyes then it's not too difficult to establish a Wifi link with it using off the shelf parts.

On the other hand, intercepting a 'normal' Wifi signal (e.g. me browsing HN at home using omni antennas and standard Tx power) from 8 miles away is quite a feat and I doubt that they can do that at will. Probably only in specific scenarios (e.g. line of sight in a not too noisy environment), if at all.
Ask HN: Why Is Linux Better?
I have pretty much used Linux exclusively since getting into software engineering. Recently, I have found myself in the game dev world and people here are convinced that Windows is amazing.

Since I have not directly compared the developer experience for each, I thought I should ask: why is Linux the standard? Does windows have any killer advantages I don’t yet know about? What is it like having a windows based development environment for large projects?

An aside: the only reason I’m using windows right now is that unity and unreal don’t work smoothly on Linux. Is that an nvidia issue or something else?
"They're Marxists!". You couldn't make it up. "We want peace"-America will always go down this route it seems.

Haven't you seen the amount of people that are participating in these demonstrations? Of course you're gonna find self-described "Marxists" among them. Doesn't mean that the average protestor is some sort of Stalinist relic from the 1960ths. That's just absurd.
And if there is no path forward to resolve the bugs? How many rough edges and bugs can you tolerate before a system is no longer worth investing in, especially when another newer system does not suffer from any of those bugs? To say there is no tipping point where the cost of continuing to use a system which no longer fits your needs exceeds the cost of migrating to a system which does (and will continue to) fit your needs ignores some amount of common sense.
bought a copy of the vegetarian flavor bible as a kitchen reference

i have found it beneficial to graduate from a “recipe mindset” into cultivating an intuitive, integrated command of tasty, flavorful combinations

flavor bible has been a wonderful tool for training this intuition
If you haven't read the books and haven't played the game and want to do both, do the game first. RTS need a lot of suspension of disbelief, all that units getting created in seconds, then barely move out of visual range from the factory before getting destroyed, it makes no sense in any fantasy world. Familiarity with the source material will only make it worse. I'd say that having faint memories of having once seen the Lynch movie is the best level of preparation for the game.

Having played the game will in no way spoil the books.
assuming the NSA isn't behind it and cutting them a check
The neat thing about not indenting it is that you can make use of your editor's text-width auto-wrapping. For example, if you have it set to 80 columns, indenting it would make the text-width of the help text 76 in your case.

Also, putting the help text in code like this instead of a comment allows one to expand $0 so that the command name in the help text always matches the filename and path used in the invocation.
You can't be a 'World Health Organisation' if you refuse to talk about a crucial region of millions of people that had the best response and most important information. It's clearly rotten at the core.
Under GDPR it essentially is mandatory, or at least it can't be more cumbersome to opt-out then opt-in, and most websites will want a one-button opt-in.

It's just not well enforced yet.
How do you do that strikethrough in markdown?
FTA consensus on unemployment in December is around 10% which is pretty staggering. Right now it is 11% so not a lot of recovery on the horizon according to them
Paper bags are prone to tearing, which probably encourages car use. Having your groceries fall in the sidewalk is no fun.
You will have to sign the nda before they will tell you
But that's not how advertising normally works.

They don't want peanuts from solar charge controller companies, they want big money from say political campaigns whose ads or news articles will read "<opposing-politician> wants to defund solar" or "<our-politician> loves solar".
Does it handle cine images easily?
It's actually great to have a physical confirmation that such a fingerprint is being generated. This so called cookie-less tracking is not legal in some parts of the world because it bypasses consent which needs to be legally obtained.
I don't know. That's the policy. Only those that wear a mask in their profession should do so. Not otherwise, regardless of how you feel. Instead of using masks, Swedes stay home if the feel sick.
Thank you for the feedback! The issue should be fixed soon.

An F-Droid and Google Play Release is planned in the coming weeks.
It's all been reactionary. Individual states and even cities are opening up when people clamor for summertime fun, and then frantically closing back down when the inevitable spike hits a couple weeks later. There is no attempt at cohesion or long-term planning. There is no leadership. They're all just winging it.
Ok, but why is this up to the browser? If it was any other app, how can users be protected? Shouldn't this be enforced by the hardware ideally?
This is cool. I'm just starting out on a similarish idea at the moment to visualise depth data on the great barrier reef - using RTIN (mapbox's demo martini library) to simplify the dataset before render. Have you seen / tried this method at all?

https://github.com/mapbox/martini

Proof of context demo (garbage code!): https://lab.citizensgbr.org/census-map/index-martini.html
click on DC and you'll see that the house has a higher chance of winning
I have a new favourite quote.
Have you had a chance to check out the Screenplay Pattern at all? I have had great success using Cucumber to stitch together common abilities/actions/question types. My step definitions usually consistent of a single line of words grouped by a few parentheses and commas. Groovy/Kotlin make this particularly nice.
Only then you're proving the other point just as much, because the 737 Max is also subject to the bureaucratic regulatory system being held up as an exemplar of something that works.
I think the idea is to have small and well-designed interfaces so that you don't need to change them to insert a layer.
Somewhat related is the language Nim: Pythonic, typed, and compiles to native code so it's super fast.
Finding Goldilocks: My search for a place to live in the year 2100
No, but I am saying that there are differences in population-level intelligence distributions across groups. The data is pretty clear on this.
"[T]the letters patent are held by the Queen's Printer [… T]he Queen's Printer is now Cambridge University Press […] Cambridge University Press permits the reproduction of at most 500 verses for 'liturgical and non-commercial educational use; if their prescribed acknowledgement is included, the quoted verses do not exceed 25% of the publication quoting them and do not include a complete Bible book."
There are definitely constraints on background activity, but I don't know for sure whether that applies to the camera, and I don't know what its precise relation is to the screen being locked
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/28/trump-says-the-coronavirus-i...

Do your own Googling next time.
Quibi is flailing because no one at Quibi understands what Quibi is
I think it's probably more complex than that. It's either unexpected or expected depending on what you're trying to do, as shown by the cases mentioned here in the comments. You want to record something but you want your phone in your pocket (and locked, so you don't accidentally touch something). You want to use it as a baby monitor for a room. Your in a conference meeting call but in your car without a charger, so would prefer to not waste battery on the screen. Those are all cases where if you were were actively using the camera and locked the phone, you might reasonably expect the camera to continue working as it seems a use case people would have.

At the same time, there's the desire to know that when your phone is not in active use (i.e. locked) it's not recording you.

I think this is a textbook case of where our expectations are contextual, and conflicting. A naive adherence to one expectation or the other will leave people unhappy. Perhaps then, a less naive behavior (prompting on lock, a visual indicator of any recording, etc) is sufficient.
Ayn Rand Institute accepts $1m PPP loan from The State
One UK trial is transforming Covid-19 treatment. Why haven’t others delivered?
>that has under the same roof a majority of well-meaning people who simply want to eliminate police brutality and inequality, and a vocal minority of people who view those problems as an indictment of our entire country and it’s institutions

I think that's a false dichotomy; there's plenty of amazing Marxist literature, academic journals, etc. from well-meaning people. It's one thing to say that Marxists are misguided, but it's another thing to describe them in a situation as if they're against well-meaning moderates. It's possible for everyone to be well-meaning, and rather than assuming malice, perhaps it's a better idea to examine their point of view and arguments. I know I've taken the time to do that with right-libertarians and right-wingers online a few times.

Why do these intelligent people (tenured philosophers, sociologists, political scientists, even economists) think Marxism isn't a recipe for suffering? What do they have to say about capitalism, its advantages, and disadvantages? It's worth asking them and reading their modern point of views, which in the past fifteen years have changed a great deal already.
> a large proportion of the deaths were in care homes

… which is no different from other countries. I seem to recall articles comparing the numbers, and the proportions seem similar in many places.

> Also, what will count is not the first few months but the entire lifetime of this pandemic.

Considering only the improvements in treatments made between March and now, it seems fairly evident that a strategy of front-loading deaths was ill-considered. Even if all countries eventually end up with the same percentage of the population infected (which is far from certain), it's likely that those with a late wave will have considerably fewer deaths.
I don't think that is true. In my state the governor shut things down quickly and completely and we haven't started opening back up yet. The result is very very very few cases of Covid-19.
The problem with this approach is that to get enough decimal places to be able to look things up in a dictionary of constants can require a very long simulation.
That's well into tinfoil hat territory unless you have some proof of this.
10. Clicking on an office link always opens in a weird Teams viewer instead of word or excel or whatever. No right click option to copy link.
Try Awesome Table, it's been here for years for exactly that purpose and is one of the very top G Suite Marketplace apps: https://gsuite.google.com/marketplace/app/awesome_table/5608...
> If President Obama had made a statement saying, “Today we are taking the grave but necessary step of withdrawing from the WHO due to their not being an effective advocate for their mandate.” would you have the same instant reaction?

What if: the fact that he wouldn’t have (and didn’t) do that is part of the reason he is so popular?

Otherwise, what you’re saying is: “sure, maybe what he did was bad, but if someone else had done a bad thing, they would be bad, too!” Which, okay, but they didn’t, and imagining someone else doing something bad doesn’t excuse people actually doing bad things.

> Sometimes though it’s right to disband an organization if it isn’t doing the job it is meant to. I don’t know whether the WHO was or wasn’t but maybe this action isn’t anymore “so so stupid” than disbanding the League of Nations at the end of World War II.

Well, part of the problem is that, no matter how much you interpret the WHO to have bungled up things (maybe a lot!), our federal government has still bungled it up far worse. So a lot of the reaction is that, we’re replacing the WHO with a disaster.
I heard the news this morning from a close friend who I know to be a close friend of Ron Graham’s wife. I was pretty upset (still trying to grapple with him being almost 85!) and I wanted to see if there was another announcement, so I went over to Wikipedia and saw that it hadn’t been updated so I plopped over and added it. For my effort I get this screeching achtung warning sign accusing me of vandalism. I tried clearing it a couple times and an “editor” comes back and adds it again. What a bunch of jerks.
I was vegan for 2-3 years. Because I ate more bread, I gained 10 lbs. It was miserable to eat out, having to double check what various ingredients were and finding I could usually only eat fries. I stopped because I was feeling unhealthy, but I was young and I think I could do better these days. Specifically, I think I was actually deficient in SALT, since when I feel the same way these days salty foods fixes it immediately. Interestingly, it is hard to get enough cholesterol as a vegan so I was eating a silly number of avocados
I don't understand what you imagine when you say "reduce their scale".

Send 999 out of 1000 viewers away? Delete 999 of 1000 channels? Block 999 of 1000 video uploads? I genuinely don't understand what you are looking for.

And note that this would still be 30 hours of new content per hour. And it would change nothing about the economics of moderating content.
This is something I mentioned before as well (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18858703):

I'm creating an open source todo list + calendar webapp (https://getartemis.app, source at https://github.com/satvikpendem/artemis) made by just me, and I can tell you how I approached the problem.
The video you see on the front page does not exist in code, it is simply a prototype designed with Figma (https://figma.com) and animated with Principle (https://principleformac.com). I created the landing page and video, added a Mailchimp form, and I posted on Twitter, Reddit, and here on Hacker News, the communities in which it made sense. For me, it's a productivity / task management tool, so I would post on reddit.com/r/getdisciplined or reddit.com/r/productivity.

It's all about creating a minimum viable product, as you might well be aware, but what you may not know is that an MVP need not have code. Indeed, it could be a video as I did, and I think for software, a video works best as people can actually see what it looks and feels like, without you necessarily creating the product architecture (full frontend and backend plus devops etc). Now I have over 150 subscribers (edit: now 1100 as of July 2020) in only a month due to rapid creation of this type of MVP, and based on this feedback, I changed my designs, and only now I am beginning to really create the heart of the product.

Using non-code MVPs is the best way in my opinion to sell quickly before building.
Yeah. My security team would really have my hide if I tried that. The other day I had a visitor from security come in and scrub all my addons off of my Firefox installation because they hadn't been vetted through IT. They most certainly wouldn't allow shadow slack rooms.
Geo IP for Verizon Wireless and T-Mobile are close to worthless; they effectively allocate from a nationwide pool.

If not more, hundreds of thousands of users share a single IP on T-Mobile, if you are talking about IPv4. They stopped handing out IPv4 a while ago. It's all v6 + CGNAT.

If it's web traffic and not arbitrary TCP TLS traffic, likely even more users share it as they cache web and run it through shared proxies.
Well, there are scientists who know an awful lot about the chemistry of wine; certainly much more so than people did 2000 years ago. If it were possible to instantly convert water into wine, we'd know about it, or at least have some idea about how it was conceivably performed.

For the fantastical accomplishments of people of thousands of years ago to be believed, there needs to be more concrete evidence than stories passed down for generations. In this situation, it's unlikely that such evidence survived, so the best we could do is replicate what happened in the past and determine whether or not such an accomplishment could have happened given the technology of the past.

I believe that people 5000 years ago could build awe-inspiring structures from stone because there's plenty of evidence of such capabilities (i.e., the great pyramids). I don't believe that someone turned water into wine instantly, because, afaik that is not possible, thus, at best, the event in question was some sleight-of-hand magic trick.
Fraunhofer’s new VVC codec promises to cut cost of streaming 4K video in half
Movement as in general cultural shift with the advent of social media. Not really a specific movement as in #somemovement.

For example. I'd fucking love to have this conversation with a group of people and instead of getting a ^ or (Insert down arrow) see your expression, you either nodding along, or making a slight facial tweak that lets me know I hurt your feelings so I can see, oh crap, I shouldn't have said "movement" and instead said cultural shift. That real-time feedback that build empathy and makes me not want to piss you off, or makes me walk away thinking, we'll we're never going to see eye to eye.

The movement from me having lunch with friends, to losing them on facebook because they support #somemovement and I have a nuanced opinion about it.

EDIT: I'm also not implying I hurt your feelings with the word movement, I'm creating a narrative specific to this thread to create an example of how in a in person setting I might have picked up on that, but in text I have to be super clear instead of being able to have an easy back and forth to get to the nuance of what I meant.
It bothers me that they're intertwining a subscription model for something that shouldn't need a subscription (steering wheel heaters). If the car came with one, it should just be available.

Adding this layer of abstraction complicates things and puts an unnecessary burden on to the user to consider a complex pricing structure of what features they want for what duration of time.

Between healthcare, airlines, music, and now cars, it's becoming ridiculously complicated just to buy things. I don't like it when companies complicate their pricing models to eke out a few extra dollars from those consumers who haven't meticulously studied the pricing models to optimize their purchase; I have other things going on in my life.
They didn't say "they all look alike", they said that white faces have more contrast so are easier to differentiate even with a naïve CV algorithm. It's one more source of systemic bias in the ML literature, especially given the comparative scarcity of source data from non-majority groups.