skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you. I would love nothing more that to be proven wrong! Some common things that I do in VIM:

* Copy or cut everything between these quotes / parenthesis / brackets.
* Delete up until the next X character. Now delete up until the next X character again.
* Cut these rows then paste them over there.
* Change all instances of "foo" to "bar".
* Show all lines with (or without) "foo".
* Reformat a line like so, now do it to the 351 line following it.
* Reindent this section of text.
* Go to the beginning of this if() / method / loop.
* Go the the file where this Python / PHP class is defined.
* In markdown files, open this hyperlink
* Search for the first occurrence of this token in this method.
* Search for the next occurrence of this word (actually learned to do this today, for the most part)

These were just example off the top of my head in a few seconds, none of which had an easy answer in Emacs. Sure, I could spend ten minutes each to look for how to do each one. I probably did that during the Clinton administration with VIM, before one could just google their problems away. But in VIM, each one has an easy answer and most are actually built right into VIM with no customization necessary. In Emacs, I could implement that stuff but then I'll be implementing everything else I need.

So I use Evil!
What are some common use cases for the voice functionality? Is it mostly for speech-to-text features, or doing calls through the browser?
Can i put another dimension without trying to be judgmental: it seems to me that the younger generations of journalists (and audiences) are a lot more censorious by nature. I don't know the causes of it but it's certainly very prevalent, and it seems all the 'dissenters' are a few decades older. There was for a while a prevalent narrative of "safety" or "safe spaces", but that has passed, and it seems that it has been replaced by a general tendency to hide ucomfortable problems "under the rug".
Thanks and that pong game is a great idea for my next machine, unless someone beats me to it! If I recall correctly the very first thought that led to this project was thinking about how to formalize mechanical devices, they have a language of sorts to describe chess games, same with choreographed dance I think. I was thinking how can I do that for machines without all the extra stuff like heat and friction, but I pivoted a lot since then and ended up with this.
If having ancestors that ran the violent gangs that terrorized, plundered and murdered their way into a protection racket over the locals is "work", then sure.
I think of my comments on forums like this as donations. I don't expect anything in particular back. I really don't have many expectations at all.
I was coming here to say the same.

When you have all of the intelligence agencies you trust saying "Hey there are nation-state actors who are actively trying to sow dis-information in order to affect the outcome of the US elections." as an editor your only response can be "We are going to be really really choosy about stories we publish with respect to either candidate prior to the election."

Maybe it is a big scoop and all legit, and maybe it will like the "Hunter files" that Fox News was touting and have now mysteriously vanished. The responsible thing to do is publish after the election. What ever the story talks about will still be true or untrue then, and the risk of it being an elaborate hoax are non-zero. Nobody wants to be the person who was "duped by a foreign intelligence service into helping them move the election their way." That is not a badge of honor.
I'm also offended by the blame of foreigners.

Core problem is housing shortage. We need more. I don't care how we get there. So I support upzoning, MIL units, penalizing unused (vacant) units, and any other idea for increasing supply.

We just need to figure out what policy mix works. The blame game is just a distraction by the incumbent players.
It's the echo chamber and unoriginal thought.

In a free society, people are free to speak about the world and how they see it. This is practically the job of a journalist: observe, record goings-on and ask insightful questions that generate understanding.

But now people that don't cleave to the consensus opinions of the crowd are essentially discarded based on the post-modern view of dubious "lived experience", suspect motivation, etc.
As someone thoroughly tangled up in said philosophy, I concur. Here be dragons.
How to know a Facebook scam and how you can avoid it
So a competitor isn’t made.
FWIW this seems to be the general challenge of Stack Overflow and Quora which are stuck halfway between "ask questions and get answers live-ish" and "come and look up information that was discussed in the past"

I think the curation piece that separates chatter now vs. published organized information is where forums lie in the middle of
Yes. So much of the Internet is driven by "Everyone should do what I do in this exact, specific situation which may or may not apply to your life ever."
> Economist, FT and the WSJ

I have print subscriptions to the first 2 but I disagree because what I recall from working in blue collar jobs is that people who would benefit from that world view will not bother. they spend their days thinking about basic survival and when they pick up a paper (on the bog) just want to be entertained. Sadly the typical reader of the Economist never had to deal with anyone from the "lower" classes. They consider them as something they need protection from. A minimum wage, social safety net and working health care system usually goes a long way in preventing this divide from growing into a normal (like in the US - or very poor countries that share that class divide as a common property with the US).
Sadly yes, because no one has managed to keep the P2P CoralCache alive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coral_Content_Distribution_Net...
"Hard proof" is different from "evidence". In my opinion, there is some evidence: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24934971

Of course it's not proof, but there's currently some evidence indicating it's real, and currently no evidence indicating it's doctored. Given the circumstances, it'd be extremely irresponsible for any media outlet to assume they're definitely true, but it's almost as irresponsible to assume they can't possibly be true and to not even raise the possibility they could be real.
Steelcase furniture giant hit by Ryuk ransomware attack
Fascism wasn't a strictly conservative ideology until the fascist left redefined it to mean that.

/s

/s/s?
> Precisely because they are expensive and difficult to get automatically, they can be a an extra protection against phishing.

And the requirement for an EV certificate is that it has to be registered specifically in the corporate name, which isn't necessarily the well-known trade name. Furthermore, anyone could choose to register their company as, say, "Microsoft" if it's not in the same jurisdiction as the actual Microsoft, and you get this lovely verified checkmark saying that the phishing site is, indeed, Microsoft. (Just not the Microsoft they were expecting).
i gotta agree with sibling, google apps are certainly not fantastic and fall squarely in the clunky category
This would be a kind of augmented Soundex code that could be useful is many contexts.

The problem is your browser or DNS cache would basically have to have a copy of the root zones OR contact a special name resolver that would return...what? in the case of a collision.
No, if you actually read the report, they note that Teslas using Autopilot actually had more than 2x the number of accidents than cars driving without Autopilot engaged (but had other advanced driving features engaged), and almost 3x the number of accidents than cars that weren't using Autopilot or the other advanced driving features.

In other words, Autopilot was 2-3x worse than not using Autopilot at all.

In terms of comparing Teslas to the entire US automobile market, they're including luxury cars versus every other type of vehicle, including big rigs, and car models spread over several decades. Of course Tesla is going to be safer than older cars; NHTSA regulations require that.

Notably, Tesla refuses to release comparisons of Tesla to cars of similar age or type. You know why? Because their competitors have the same low accident statistics as Teslas driven without Autopilot or "safety" features enabled, and admitting that would kill Tesla's safety marketing claims for Autopilot.
A few questions I have:

- what happens after you send the email?

- Is there somewhere I can pull that up on sourcehub?

- Does feedback come to the email attached to my git user?

- if the maintainer decides to apply my patch, does it still show up as my patch, or theirs?
Many media organizations care quite a lot about their reputation as well as their effect on society.They want to report honestly and give an accurate picture of the word. Including Glenns paper, that's why he joined it.

Glenn seems to have picked a grudge(against establishment Dems) over commitment to solid truthful reporting
We went from Jira to Tara (with Notion in the middle), and the problem is everyone thinks they need Jira, and a huge swath of people really don't. Jira is a complex product and those complexities are probably needed by some people.

OTOH, Tara's simplicity is godsent, especially as a small team. The comparison makes sense to me.
>Those explorers always have the luxury of going back to civilisation after relatively short excursions into the unknown. I doubt many people are willing to live the entirety of their lives in constant danger and constrained resources.

Yet a very large majority of North America is descended from people who did exactly that.
Are you routinely putting GDPR sensitive information into your ticket tracking system? I'd suggestion most people shouldn't irrespective of GDPR. And if you don't then those terms aren't an issue.
No, it’s just the local government.
The proof follows from this instance of the discovery, with an Oklahoma U student indepently discovering and an OU professor indepently proving. I think that's a perfectly reasonable way to track what happened.

I am unable to open the pdf or follow any of the links from the wiki talk page, so the proof may predate this instance, which would invalidate my point.
Somewhat related question: which book is the modern-day equivalent of the Dragon Book? And does it cover subjects such as JIT, the innards of virtual machines and concurrent garbage collection?
The post's underlying premise is that contributions should remain forever. But why?

I can have a super interesting, deep philosophical conversation with a friend, or a 100 friends - and once everyone leaves the room, its like the conversation never took place.

What's the point then? Well I benefited... Maybe I got some karma points so I feel better too.

I agree with with concept of "keeping every bit of data forever" and having it be freely accessible to others. But I disagree that some forum's data retention policy should dictate when and where I share information.
If the context is relevant, I can usually find an archive of the comments, if they have been deleted.
It is definely true for platforms like Quora which aggressively guards user contributed data and even blocks the internet archive's crawler. But stackoverflow and such have content under creative commons and it is actually good that anyone can easily contribute. Now, I do dread the day when reddit becomes like quora, it won't be surprising since what they did with their website to boost app installs.
Applying for Apple Entrepreneur Camp for Black Founders
Apple is running an "Entrepreneur Camp" for black founders and applications are open. As far as I can tell it's their first go at it. Previously they've run events for female founders.

If you get in you'll supposedly get access to assistance from Apple engineers. I don't know how extensive that access will actually be, but I'm dying to find out. Here's my application. Wish me luck :)
Is that a bad idea?
That’s easily fixed though, e.g. by using Cloudfront or something similar.
TimescaleDB is purpose built for time-series data on Postgres. We offer native compression on this data and smart, easily adjustable partitioning, continuous and real-time analytics, automated time-series data management (retention, reordering, tiering, etc) and so forth... again, all focused on time-series data. With a few specific commands, we abstract all of the time-series partitioning for you and provide time-series specific functions to make queries more efficient and useful.

Citus is a great product that primarily focused on multi-tenant SaaS analytics, where you typically shard your queries on the tenant_id, but didn't focus on time-series. So, their current documented solution for time-series uses other extensions (pg_partman), doesn't provide for compression, and all the other essential tools to make massive amounts of time-series data useful, which TimescaleDB is hyper-focused on solving.
> Has any investigation happened?

Yes, the FBI has looked into it and have yet to find any credible source. I also assume every reporter from every publication is investigating it too.

> Are the media reporting on how they chased down leads to confirm or deny the report?

The media never reports on the process of chasing leads and inconclusive stories (which is exactly what NYP did). They only post once they have the actual facts.

> by the media sources who suppressed the story

First off, it's the social media site that suppressed the story, not other publications. Secondly, not reporting something until you have it confirmed is not "suppressing" a story, it's actual journalism.

> as is the publicly stated methodology taken by the Washington Post.

Source?
> American citizens need to decide what they prioritize. Is it space exploration or is it a decent standard of living at home?

It's not like we're going to wake up one day, realize everything's awesome and say "HEY LETS EXPLORE SPACE"...it's a long term investment!

An article on gov. spending could better source the question, how to better a "decent standard of living at home"...I have a strong feeling spending on space exploration wouldn't move the needle in the greater scheme of things https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/NA...
Because for starters a huge portion of the world's population lives on the coast so rising sea levels will wipe out a lot of cities. Secondly the entire human civilization has lived in the warming period coming out of the last ice age, we've never lived in that hot weather. Climate change isn't an end all life on Earth but it will drastically change how humans live on Earth.
> We can prioritize both, and frankly, life on Earth will be better the more we priotitize space exploration, not worse.

Why not to start to invest into research and technologies allowing us to terraform planets? We have a climate catastrophe in a near future, why no to try something to do. Like to grow forest over Sahara, I mean no just Egypt trying to do it in a small scale, but as a multinational project, with tons of invested resources? It could allow to try technologies, to learn economics of such projects, to check climate models and so on.

Or maybe there are better ideas than turning Sahara into a rain forest? What they are? Should we try them maybe?
For those on the left who're against free speech and such, I've started using "antiliberal left". I'm not even sure they'd object to the term. (Consider this a try at finding out.)
Alphabet revenue up 14%, crushing expectations
Thank you! I'll check both of those out
Corporations can delete your existence
He was also ordered to argue that position. If he failed to be convincing then Data would lose automatically.
Another idea is to use NNTP with email subscriptions (do any NNTP server software have email subscriptions?) and propagations to other NNTP servers as well as SMTP. It is possible to cancel a article, but some servers (and clients) may ignore the cancel. You can still distribute the messages in many other ways too (does not have to be limited to internet), including but not limited to email and NNTP. Maybe also IPFS.

Another consideration is Fossil. Fossil artifacts are identified by a SHA1 hash or SHA3-256 hash, so you can make a magnet URI involving it. SHA1 hashes are listed in the Wikipedia article for magnet URIs; SHA3-256 isn't, although it would still be possible to do (perhaps "urn:sha3-256"). Fossil also includes a HTTP server (or can run on an existing HTTP(S) server), which the artifacts can be downloaded from. Some Fossil artifacts are structural artifacts; if it is a manifest of a check-in then its data will list the name and hash of each file. (I do not know how Git and Mercurial work; I do not know about how the similar things would work with Git/Mercurial, if any.)
"Their political gain" would still likely bring about changes that would mitigate said "climate change risks".
Inflatable Transparent Structures for Mars Greenhouse Applications(2005) [pdf]
Me too I didn't know there was a game with the same name. My father worked at Robotron which still exists but is a very different company nowadays.
> Give me a break. If there was even an inkling that this story was true, it would be front-page news from now until election day.

Clearly not. Circular arguments aren't a good look.
Same with me and Figma. I was sent Sketch files and I wanted to use them. Myself I prefer paper (or something basic like the Concepts app on iPad) when sketching UIs.
I'm surprised that Stack Overflow/Stack Exchange wasn't in the list of platforms; their policies against eg. duplicate questions are frustrating to users expecting a forum but are explicitly designed to generate content that's useful in the long term. I have no idea how many man-hours (man-centuries?) of effort have been spent by programmers generating post-hoc documentation within the SO platform.

It's unquestionably useful today, it's somewhat distributed by mirrors and the database export, it has an API, but there's no question that if SO folded tomorrow that a lot of utility and a lot of effort would be lost. However, I am confident that if SO did not exist and those contributors did not become addicted to the dopamine boost from "+10 Karma!" notifications that they would not have instead created permanent, Google-able, individual blogs with an equivalent amount of utility as what SO provides.
the beauty of turchin's equations is that they seem to be universal. what elites are doesn't depend much on details, except that they are possible to exist because there is a surplus produced by the peasants, slaves or in the modern era, supermarket workers or 3rd worlders. today's elites are those who were able to work from home while being served by those people essentially.
It's also possible he's a once great journalist who has gone off the rails. Which seems likely given the fact that the editors at a publication he founded refused to publish this piece.
I'm also getting a timeout. Your mirror worked for me.
I think saying he brokenthe stort is a bit of a stretch. Didn’t Snowden himself contact journalists?

Snowden was tightly in contact with these journalists and showed them undoubtable proof that he did indeed work with the NSA. This story as I understand it is not even close to the level of verification that the Snowden story had.
This sounds horrible from a privacy perspective. DeGoogle!
That's not overly-alarmy; it's a demonstration of the astounding capabilities of climate models to describe incomprehensibly complex phenomena to a remarkable degree.
Yes. We’ve used Timescale with SQLAlchemy and overall everything works.
Nah that’s more like messaging platforms. IRC, Telegram, matrix, etc.

I was thinking about this yesterday actually. I’ve been having a lot of questions about this new linux distro I’ve been using, and piling them on in the IRC channel, but if no one answers it right away it gets buried by the next message after me. So I kept re-asking it for multiple days before realizing, you know what if this is something that only even a few people might know how to help me with, I should probably leave it to “steep” on a proper Discourse topic, or reddit thread, or stackoverflow question or whatever. I hadn’t done that because I was just super impatient and knew it might be a good half a day or 2 or 3 days before I get a reply, but it’s much more likely to get one at all than in the IRC, where someone butting in with a meme or something right after me means my question might as well be nonexistent in the conversation stream.
It is free now, they never say it will be free forever.
> fully-featured APIs and several independent clients

As platforms mature, their APIs become more and more restrictive. E.g. Twitter's current API allows only a fraction of what it used to allow in its early days.

For me the point is that if you use an external platform then you no longer have control over your content; I think it still stands.

Stack Overflow is a nice counter example. Then again, all works fine as long as the goals of content authors and the platform are aligned.
Mars is the size (surface) of the Pacific Ocean. And infinitely less habitable than the Pacific. We could settle a few billion people in entirely self-sufficient and zero-impact communities floating on the Pacific and it would be absolutely cheap and straightforward compared to doing the same on Mars.
Here's a paper I should have linked in my OP considering the idea at a very high level;

https://arxiv.org/ftp/astro-ph/papers/0701/0701513.pdf

That particular paper is considering an Earth-Moon Lagrange Point, which is much more accessible than Earth-Sun points, but the dust cloud would be highly visible in the night sky which IMO is disqualifying as long as other alternatives exist.
>> Media organizations are not interested truth or accuracy of their stories

As someone who works in media (not on editorial side but on digital), I can assure you thats you are wrong.

Most media orgs have a log of rigor and fact-checking that goes into their stories. The editorial side is typically (not always in some places) shielded from the business pressures (for better and for worse).

Its someone else's problem to worry about clicks etc.

Greenwald stopped being a credible journalist awhile ago. Just look at what he was pushing these last few weeks.

I have a lot of respect for his early work but he went on a weird tangent.
...only works for natural numbers...

That proof also works for the rationals with a suitable ordering. Example: 0, 1, -1, 2, -2, 1/2, -1/2, 3, -3, 1/3, -1/3, 2/3, etc....
Ask HN: Django or rails for full stack website on Windows
I'll be developing on a Windows machine (I do know Linux but won't be using it in this case and don't have a mac). Historically I have done the most basic stuff with both python and Ruby but it was often painful to set up on Windows. Which would you recommend? I have a working knowledge of several programming languages but am mainly a database or data guy.

I did consider .Net core as I can already write some basic mvc controllers etc, but I don't know any front end Microsoft stuff and I assume Django or rails would make the front end easier. I can already do html/css/ basic js.
> Take Google Groups as an example.

And speaking of that, because of purported spam problems a number of Usenet groups (and especially their archives) currently aren't available at all via Google Groups.
> Either way your going to need fuel to move the material to earth. Energy to process the material ect..

There is unlimites solar power in the asteroid belt, 24/7.

If you were really desparate, a solar furnace could vaporize mine tailings and accelerate it through a nozzle for thrust. It wouldn't be efficient, but it is pretty much free, (except for shipping and handling). Kind of like that classic black and white movie where they are breaking up the wood of a box car to feed the steam engine pulling the train.