skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's an insightful look at today's society, and I'm fond of it. It's a result of the ongoing sex pride and positivity movement in the US.

Anecdotally, recent generations have been raised with sexual repression and frustration. The most obvious example is announcing yourself as gay and being very literally banished from your family household, but it is layered quite deeply -- I can go into detail, but in general, sex continues to be an unspoken and embarrassing topic that you figure out yourself in private.

Since these urges are natural and part of the human experience, the whole treatment is odd and is often seen as uncaring. If you experience it, it puts you in an odd place: The repression forces you to either build a fiercely negative connection with sex, or develop a positive connection while having a struggled and inauthentic relationship with your family.

There is a growingly open sentiment that it is healthy and natural to want to have sex, and to have it safely, and perhaps with multiple partners over the course of your life if it suits you, and perhaps with multiple partners at the same time if that suits you too, and to tell all your friends about what a great (or awful) time you had afterward.

The novelty and "shock value" of this song, if you will, is being able to discuss these topics without consequence. And it reinforces something that is newly ingrained in society: To be more open and encouraging of safe sex for all is aligned with an active social movement that is making a difference to a lot of people, one that brings us closer to inner desires previously repressed.

This song is especially fun for a few reasons but putting the silly absurdist humor aside, I see people get hooked because it strikes this social chord really hard, demonstrating this generation's cultural shift in a comically honest way. A progressive household has both partners happily and willfully cooking and cleaning regularly, so to be a more desirable partner there's pressure to offer something else extraordinary -- "I don't cook, I don't clean, but let me tell you how I got this ring".

On a meta level, it's a comfortable beat for the bedroom and it sets a mood that is more primal. On another meta level, there's also a novelty that this song could only get to this level of popularity right now, realistically. It's not a song you can play on the radio or in stores.
Yeah, QBasic was my first as well. Actually, it was my second. I started with .BAT files on MS-DOS :-) I spent about half a year until I figured out how to write and run a BAT file and about the same time for how to run a QBasic program, so after that I had a really high pain threshold for learning :-D
Can some legal eagle explain why a magistrate is presiding over the case, rather than a judge?

(For those who don't know, in the UK a magistrate is just a layperson volunteer, not a legally trained judge)
This is because 99% of users know only Python, and C++ is too much for them. If the advanced stuff was available in the language they use, larger portion of users would write more advanced stuff.

I prefer Clojure for this. Even simpler than Python, fast, and enables me to match or even surpass the speed expected from mainstream tools.

See this for example: https://dragan.rocks/articles/20/Deep-Diamond-Deep-Learning-...
> you suddenly had to swerve right then left then right at highway speed

Surely you didn't "have to". Didn't it occur to anyone that slowing down might make it less dangerous?

Here's some pictures to help understand what this thing was:

Aerial: https://i.redd.it/cyol33goebfy.jpg
Street view: https://imgur.com/a/mDH0H
Artist's impression of operation: https://i.imgur.com/nIeXbXt.png

(Found in the reddit thread https://www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/comments/5ticw5/til_a_dange...)
wikipedia just does "$some-link-here (Archived $archived-version-link)", and it works pretty well, imo.
Given how vocal anti-snap people are, I just wanted to provide a voice in favour of snap. It's always my preferred method of install for anything not in the default archives.
Yes, if Craig is to be believed it looks like there is a big slice of SNP in-fighting involved.
With Netflix, their catalogue is small enough that I can find what I want regardless of what they suggest. They seem to have nailed the "more of the same" algorithm which is mostly looking at their weird notion of genre. For me that means it recommends me stuff I've already decided that I'm not interested in watching because they've been recommending it for months and I've declined to watch it. This seems in general a problem with recommendation algorithms: they struggle picking up on negative signals and get stuck in t a perpetual more of the same shit loop.

Spotify recommendations vary depending on the context. Their profile of me is probably very confused because I listen to a lot of different things and what I listen to is mostly dependent on context and what I'm in the mood for, which spans 5 decades of music and quite a few genres. I gravitate to a lot of alternative stuff but only the good stuff (for my personal very narrow definition of good). Spotify never figured out that sweet spot. So, I've been ignoring their radio feature because I find it a mix of "I already have that in a play list" or "I hate that song, which is why I don't have it in a playlist". It only very occasionally suggests something I haven't heard that I actually like.

However, I love their "users that listen to X also listen to Y" section. For me that's a main tool to discover new things. They also suggest adding songs to playlists. I've rediscovered a few tunes from the eighties that were somehow stuck in my head but that I struggled to name this way. The eighties were of course the glory days of the top 40 and I listened to it while doing my homework back in the day. I stopped listening to that stuff in the nineties when alternative music became a thing.

In any case, I prefer these non personalized type of suggestions over the more of the same stuff that passes for artificial intelligence peddled by many websites. I hate how you get stuck in recommendation bubbles that way. This also dominates news websites these days, which is something I hate because it's gotten quite hard to get an overview of what is happening in the world with news websites increasingly biased by what works as click bait with shoddy AI algorithms rather than telling me what is happening.

And it's a reason I like HN because here the feed is dictated by shared interest of a technical audience rather than any of our personal preferences or political opinions. That's why it works. No AI recommendations here. That's why people come here.
Thanks, that is more involvement than I expected / knew about!
And pronounce it in NATO alphabet.
What I remember arguing at the time was: it is easier to extradite directly from the UK to the USA than from the UK to the USA via Sweden.

Note also that Sweden only found out that the UK had removed Assange from the embassy because America had begun extradition proceedings against him, even though Sweden still wanted to get hold of him.
Did you have trouble getting past the HR filter? I recently started on a similar journey and am curious how you managed the non coding portion to get your feet somewhat in the door.
I have a hard time understanding why one would care about such things. Just ignore additional query parameters you don't need and be done with it forever, what's the problem with that? Is it really worth writing a rant?
For the purpose of operating a bait and switch on the files, the torrent creators controls the two hashes somewhat, so it's an easier to pull attack.
Programming Is a Losers Game
Heh, I initially read this as "realizing that 90% of programs are unsupported junk".
On the other hand, music has historically been a very social thing that have brought people together. The decline into a sollipsist "service" has been gradual since the dawn of recorded music, but Spotify et al are definitely making it worse than ever. My 11-year old daughter loves music but she and her friends all listen to different things, there is no music that they all know. I may have hated top40 stuff in my day, but at least we all knew it.
I love travelling, meeting people, and learning about different cultures, but I cannot relate to this story. Sailing is nice, but I couldn't self-isolate for so long. Social interaction and physical connection with other humans is important for me. Physically connecting with my friends, my family, my colleagues, and my neighbours makes me very happy.
Disney criticised for filming Mulan in China's Xinjiang province
But if some technology makes it 1000x easier, cheap, and doesn't require the involvement or even consent of governments, then that's a win for science right? And avoids leadership / human nature.
It would be pretty crazy to learn only objective c today, unless you want to go after the legacy market specifically, like someone learning Cobol to get bank contracts.

Maybe it suits some people but for most people it’s sad and frustrating to work with old messy systems in obsolete languages when there’s a shiny new one that’s objectively much better in almost every way.
Meaning of Labor Day in US
Using TiDB as the Hive Metastore Database
So they've essentially done what they have been doing for years. A bit unrelated, but what with the controversy surrounding TikTok and Facebook making a clone making me think the US is on the same track.

Dark times, I'm not sure that scratch even violates their regime, it's almost petty.
Interestingly, Bram Cohen, the inventor of BitTorrent (v1) is currently working on a cryptocurrency called Chia that is trying to solve all of these problems.
Obviously exercise scepticism with all things cryptocurrency, but I'm pretty optimistic about it.
> pretty incredible how you can make working software out of both well crafted code and absolute spaghetti

yup. c.f. James Hague's "Write Code Like You Just Learned How to Program" https://prog21.dadgum.com/87.html
Nothing unusual and also applicable for other manufacturers and petrol cars. You loose warranty of course, but some people still opt for "chip" tuning right after buying. Others might wait the 4 years.
archive.org sends the HTTP header

Link: <https://example.com>; rel="original"

This can be used by search engines to adjust their ranking algorithms.
Mean Absolute Error vs. Root-Mean Square Error (2019)
> like a record label is manipulating me - using my sexuality as lever to increase their stream count.

You mean the same way James Bond movies are "manipulating" you to buy tickets?
This behaviour should be reported to the WayBackMachine as abuse.
Btw, can it be used to build a persistent dictionary that keeps the key in insertion-order?
You have switched the time stamps. The US started their extradition request and then Sweden dropped the case. The exact date was on 2 May 2019 when the first hearing was held in London into the United States request for Assange's extradition. The Swedish prosecution announced that their 7 years investigation had been dropped on 19 November 2019.
Yeah, on the small scale road atlases anything up to mean high water is shown as "blue". On 1:50,000 ("Landranger") maps and larger maps those areas would be shown either as brownish (mud) or yellow (sand) with the mean higher water mark shown with a thick line and mean low water with a thin line. Blue essentially means "this bit is always water" (ie. it's below mean low water).

Maps in other parts of the world will show such places as darkish blue to indicate they are tidal. I prefer the Ordnance Survey way (but I am British).
I heard about a body found in the woods because some unusual plant was growing, germinated from a seed inside their stomach.

Probably apocryphal but hey.
>"* Does sufficient evidence exist that Assange broke US law*"

I don't believe this is the full extent of extradition conditions.
My biggest issue is broad generalization, SaaS is not homogenous. I suspect the author never meant for anyone to take it as universal truth, rather his own observation of his speck of SaaS.
Cool, I was pissed for this originally you couldn't use gmail to sign up!

What was with that? Now they only seem to have "42 watching".

Maybe there's another stream for people who got the free tickets.
A language is a tool. Is special-casing the U u to prevent a single case of profanity worth it?

People will come up with many ways to generate profane language. See guids/uuids for example, or l33tsp34k. A major change to hypothetically prevent a single case seems unbalanced.
The images aren't loading on Firefox mobile too, but shows up when switching to desktop view.
I switched to Investment Banking when they where looking for Java people 20 years ago.

So this was a case of the demand for a tech skill outwaying the supply and therefore the banks didn't get to be too choosey.

So perhaps one way to switch would be to learn a tech skill and use that as leverage. i.e. Rust to get into blokchain/crypto.

Julia to get into Bigdata, AI and ML.

Kubernetes to get into DevOps/CI-CD etc.
Maybe I'm just being harsh, but after reading several times and figuring out what was going on, it's an instagrammer's slight inconvenience and detour being dramatized (or implied, given the photos and hour-by-hour narrative) into a life-or-death hike out, yet with "smoked salmon and mussels accompanied by biryani rice".

They had a weeklong backpacking trip planned, hiked to where they thought they would start it, encountered smoke and potential fire, and had to hike back out. Leisurely. Enough to get a solid 9 hours of sleep. Doesn't quite qualify as the life-in-jeopardy kind of event that the polish and presentation of the blog make you think you're in for.

I'm a little more interested to hear about the folks who were actually in danger and barely escaped.
Or you could just grow trees on top of your houses!
Err, from a user perspective you actually spent an inordinate amount of time changing things for the sake of it.

It was really annoying.

Google APIs have always been some of the worst.

It honestly felt like ever time I had to use the maps API for a client, you'd changed the whole thing.
Wonder how tiktok is changing the way pop music is produced nowadays. I'm sure music producers are focusing more on that unique 10-15s catchy tune that is easy to market. This is definitely not good for the future of music.
At the risk of taking this even further off topic: It very much still exists, and I'd recommend against visiting while the pandemic lasts.

We went by, on holiday, a few weeks ago and the authorities simply crammed the entire place full of tourists. It felt like a BLM protest without angry people: every square meter had at least 5 people on it. Corona? Haha! Tourism income please. We ran away minutes after arriving.

Coming from NL, where authorities allowing that kind of madness would be front page news, this really baffled me. It seems that the French think that as long as you wear a face mask, nothing else matters.

I had just blindly assumed that the local authorities would limit parking (it's in the middle of nowhere, pretty much unreachable except by bus or car), or do some sort of reservation system, so tourist counts would be limited and people could keep their distance. Instead, the only sign of government presence were the four heavily armed police officers at the entrance, and they didn't give a damn either.

That said, just like looking at Paris from atop the Eiffel tower is a bad look because, well, no Eiffel tower, the Mont-Saint-Michel is best enjoyed from a distance. So maybe we didn't really miss anything except an overpriced crêpe-au-chocolat.
Not sure if the deepfaking here is necessary step, but I think it could be useful towards creating humanoid robot assisted tennis training.
For me that is the real solution when you know that the archived-link is the one consulted by the author/whatever and the normal one being the content (or its evolution).
Do you code professionally? My gf wants to get a job as a programmer and is about 30 too
Riding a bike I'm still interested in the volume of cars on the road, and probably more interested in the volume of cars than the volume of bikes to be honest.
Hello fellow RME comrade :)
So, I just deleted my account.

15 minutes after I got confirmation of the deletion, I got a "sseneca, welcome to SlideShare!" email, lol.
Stolen by a tourist who wanted something quaint to bring home.
I mean, you can say the same about plumbers, to an extent. Many charge $100-200 an hour, more for the first hour, plus travel fee and service charge, and may skim a profit on the parts they use as well.

Either you're an entrepreneur, and your hourly wage has to pay for all kinds of costs, including time not spent working, getting clients, equipment, training blablabla. Or you're an employee and your take-home pay can be completely detached from the pricing to your clients.

When I started my career in a legal/financial firm as a junior my hourly rate was $200 and my hourly pay was about $15, for example.

In those days I also worked a lot of overtime and chargeability requirements will drive you mad. Also in many firms you quickly specialise leading to sometimes boring work. On the one hand every legal matter is different and has its own quirks, challenges and interesting unique aspects. On the other hand, when you specialise in a certain field, you also constantly work on similar cases with similar references and jurisprudence, and you indeed often end up filling in templates for standard letters, contracts, motions etc, because the bulk of the substance will be the same over and over. Point being, the $15 an hour also came with mind-numbing work with unhealthy workhours and poor work/life balance.

That's just one of many stories, of course and all jobs have their issues. Some lawyers have a great job/life. But there's also plenty of people who may enjoy programming much more.
I used to think that "discount grocery shops" are much cheaper than other grocery shops but after doing comparison for products that I buy, I found there is a little difference in price, while the quality/taste is very different.
It is, but maybe start telling op?

"Does this hypothetical situation you describe exist anywhere outside of the hypothetical situation posited by a character in a Neal Stephenson novel"
Public "or" a government entity.
You also need to account for the 350W rating of the 3080. I think its 100W more than the 1080ti's.
Yeah that's fair, I should have elaborated and said "someone should make a privacy friendly one". I don't even care much about long term storage, I just want to be able to scan a QR code generated at check-out and have it loaded onto my phone.

You're likely right about there not being a good reason to provide an honest solution.
> What about using other GPUs for deep learning?

There aren't any.
Client-Side Browser Storage Partitioning
After accidentally losing my first run state 57 minutes in, I finished my second run in 5 hours of game time, +- a minute.
1. Curation is just making a maximally inclusive list of things
The GDPR "obviously" doesn't allow this, and as the blog says, this is a developer in London.
Well dang. I wasn't expecting to be so compelled by paperclip production but...
> Full autonomy attained in 2 hours 32 minutes 5 seconds|

Awesome game. Thanks creator!
Personally I like apps which provide both - a subscription and pay once model. I have no problem paying monthly for an app I use on a daily base. But I don’t want dozens of subscriptions for all my apps to run in parallel.
The problem is that a lot of apps with subscription models don’t provide enough value to justify a monthly payment fee.
The correct order to delete your account is

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Deep Diamond (Deep Learning in Clojure Is Fast, Simpler Than Keras)
The authors writing is quite moving, certainly moved me.

But taking a step back, my read is that the author wants the allegations to be essentially tried in detail here and now.

To what extent is this appropriate in such a hearing?

Other link you shared is useful here. Still I have no real insight into what to ordinarily expect. More neutral reporting source would be valuable.

From the article, Assange's very limited access to his legal team, of itself, seems appalling and very unfair on its face. Surely access is an easy thing to accommodate.
Brython comes to my mind
Tips to Increase Your Conversion Rate
Step 1: Mega Corp buys small company A most of its users don’t give a shit about.

Step 2: Mega Corp shares all its user account info with small company A.

Step 3: Mega Corp sells small company A to ethically questionable company B (yes, I find the entire business model of Scribd very questionable), along with user info of all its users. Now the vast majority of those users who never gave a shit about A nor B are on B’s spam list.

Yes, the casual sales of user info may not mean jack shit to Mega Corp, but it does mean something to B, and users who are completely unrelated to A nor B have a right to be incensed.

(Btw, I haven’t received this as a LinkedIn user, so can’t attest to the accuracy of TFA. Maybe they don’t even have the courtesy to notify non-EU users?)
The Estonian superbattery that is beating Tesla
Making JSON the coin of the realm and putting it at the core of your database design and query language is a little bit more than extra ergonomics :-)
As far as I remember, Sweden did deliver to the US certain wanted people practically without a court procedure (or with less than it's certain it would be needed in the UK). It's not that Sweden or the UK would not deliver somebody to the US, it's that in the UK the procedure is more complex. Apparently, the US would have needed to fulfill less formalities to get him from Sweden, and that is what Assange worried about. But as he spent enough time in the embassy, that advantage of Sweden became irrelevant.
I've dealt with that on a project for Kuwait embassy. The solution was to create a 2 fields (columns) in a separate table that was linked by ID to main "users" table and the UI would ask the user to add whatever wanted and name the field. Then when searching the algorithm would categorize the most used ones and present them from time to time to Admin that would manually add as options for general search UI. As times passed on and more data was entered this way became better and better allowing for a more fine tuning of searchable data.

I shit you not, there were fields added there that our Western thinking would never dream they are needed, for example plenty of old people from Papua New Guinea added "Grandfather initial" to their name. Or others added "tribe name" as a meaning to somehow show that they are part of an extended family.
The proper way is for a site to expose a canonical link to an article via a meta-link (rel=canonical) if necessary, and then have a browser plugin to automatically try archive.org with an URL generated from the canonical one if it is down.
How is that a strength? Why should you need to implement the work intensive logic in one language and glue it together in another?
Their browser extention does exactly that...
It still boils down to "who pays." And we're in the "I won't even pay my taxes since I can just hide them somewhere and the government won't come after me" phase of capitalism.

The world's going to hell fast. If past is prologue, the Rich will pay for their parts of the world being nice and habitable. Everyone else will be left to suffer.

Get ready to see domed city concepts getting more serious and more cities like Vegas with connected tunnels and shafts between buildings to avoid going outdoors for any reason...
How Do I Scrape Customer Reviews from Google Maps?