skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not very charitable at all.

Can't one be upset at all corruption? Trump's gets coverage plenty of places, wall-to-wall. Yet any mention of Biden gets dogpiled by comments like yours.

For the record, I'm a Bernie voter and reluctant Biden voter.
Absolutely. This was actually something my team brought up—it was much more exhausting than usual, because it places such a heavier mental load on everyone. In my case at least, it’s still better than lip reading in large in-person meetings.
I don't think I am, but I am using the word in a way that is not very common, in order to convey a lesson.

Could you have recited Harry Potter easily before you've heard it the first time?
Our driving force is to make this technology as accessible as possible to as many people as possible. We believe that machine learning will be a huge new way that people interact with computers going forward to better their lives.

Lobe will always let you train custom machine learning for free on your computer. We hope this becomes a vibrant ecosystem, and the business model around the edges can come later for value-add services.
Ah, the self-righteous Google employees that demand to not have a single contract with government agencies.

Meanwhile, they sell/give our data to governments and make us all live in a dystopian world to get some ads $$$$.

Whenever it comes to Google and Facebook employees trying to claim a morale high ground, I only see hypocrisy and double standards.
Sony to Buy Crunchyroll for over $957M
See also ”Rainbow Color Map (Still) Considered Harmful” from 2007.
Ronnie taught me that making people smile should be part of the job. We both learned that you really need to understand the world around you if you want get people to laugh at it.
Public libraries have been a thing since the 1800's, which are equally amazing in terms of bringing tremendous impact to millions of people who wouldn't have otherwise had that benefit.

The key different of course is that mid-80's DOS software is more-or-less obsolete and abandoned for a reason (the computer history community notwithstanding, of which I'm a part), whereas public libraries are filled with books that still retain almost as much value as they day they were written.
It was a lot faster, and sometimes the odds that your data might live long enough for those integrity issues to matter seemed very remote.

Around 2001, the conventional wisdom was that it was worth the risk to take the performance victory, keep your hosting bill down, use mysql, and build some other approach to data integrity. (If memory serves, the integrity downsides were bigger then, too...)

The math is pretty different now. I'm not sure it's fair to hang all of it on Oracle, but it feels like that acquisition derailed some MySQL progress that might've made it a close call today. Now, I use Postgres unless I have a very specific, very compelling reason not to.
From the way this non-apology is written, these NumFocus people seem very full of themselves and their organization. What are their credentials and achievements?

Okay, they sponsor existing projects and then take credit for them, calling them "our open source tools" which are used by everyone "from Netflix to NASA" to "solve the most challenging problems".

Where is the money coming from?

Their site makes deceptive claims:

https://numfocus.org/case-studies

Here, there is a representation made that there is "NumFOCUS stack" that is being used in various industries to solve problems.

"First Photograph of a Black Hole -- Made with the NumFOCUS Python Stack"

This strongly suggests that there is some actual software component by the name of NumFOCUS Python Stack. But when you read the case study in detail, it comes to light that this refers to some tools that have supposedly received support from NumFOCUS:

"Although the HOPS pipeline Dr. Chan helped develop is mainly written in the C programming language, [watch how we're going to take credit for it anyway, as follows:] EHT scientists also developed a lot of Python code around it to drive the analysis. Dr. Chan explained that there is a huge advantage in using Python."

Right ... , we would not have Python without NumFOCUS, the purveyor of Python! Never mind that Guido guy and what he had been up to since, oh, 1988.

"Dr. Chan pointed to NumFOCUS-supported open source tools — Numpy, SciPy, pandas, Astropy, Jupyter, and Matplotlib — as crucial to this iterative scientific thinking process."

I don't see any references to NumFOCUS in the NumPy Wikipedia page. The NumPy homepage makes absolutely no reference to NumFOCUS at all.

The other "case studies" are like his also.

ScumFOCUS is more like it!

They look like a bunch of status-seeking parasites, from where I'm sitting.

Non-profit organization, right? Sure, after salaries and expenses are paid out.
I learned recently that Crockford had been a colleague of the Thimbleweed Park core team at Lucasfilm Games.
That's incorrect. We do use glass for large mirrors and it works just fine ([1], [2.1], [2.2]). Do not confuse these two effects:

1. Viscous liquid-like creep (does not occur).

2. Elastic deformation (sagging) under gravity - this of course takes place, and is compensated for by multipoint support and, in larger professional telescopes, "active optics" (actuactors that counter the deformation depending on mirror's orientation; not to be confused with "adaptive optics", which deform a mirror with high frequency to counteract atmospheric image distortion).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hale_Telescope

[2.1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Binocular_Telescope

[2.2] https://www.newswise.com/articles/steward-observatory-mirror...
Odd to post about censorship now the big tech is fully own board with censoring views they don’t like.
for example in the license where it says:

You agree to receive these automatic updates without any additional notice. Updates may not include or support all existing software features, services, or peripheral devices.

This is the part that causes me to assume it will stop working at some point in the future? And when would that be:

a) Term.

The term of this agreement will continue until the commercial release of the software. We also may not release a commercial version.

But honestly unsure if I am just paranoid. Or even if paranoia is the right term for my feeling about it, it's something Microsoft is letting me use and at some point it won't be usable anymore - such is life - might be the more reasonable response to it.
While it's true that a cartel would be the fastest way to raise prices, I don't think that not having one removes all incentive to try.

I think you're also ignoring healthcare networks. This is important for two reasons.

1. The kind of supply and demand works very well for modeling commodities, but the difference in networks means it's very hard to have two completely equivalent insurance products.

2. Insurance companies can incentivize hospitals to behave in certain ways by regularly pruning those who do not behave that way.

Also, most people get their healthcare from their employer. There's not as much ability to actually switch, unless you're so fed up that you're willing to switch jobs.
I do agree with this, and it’s one reason I’m a huge proponent of automated speech to text even if accuracy isn’t perfect. Having to bring in a third party to transcribe is expensive and exceptional and best when accuracy is crucial, or it’s serving a large audience. I’d rather we continue to push for better automated speech to text by default, everywhere.
> I had the impression RPC was seen as a mistake.

For hypermedia/hypertext Fielding made a solid argument for preferring REST over RPC (mostly because of caching). I still recommend reading his very approachable thesis - these days not so much for the web/REST architecture, but for the other ones, which include modern SPAs (they're not great as hypermedia apps, but fine as networked applications):

https://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/top.htm

Apart from caching (and cache invalidation) it's accepted that making the network invisible is a bad idea - it will lead to issues. So remote procedure calls aren't inherently bad, but blurring the distinction too much between local procedure calls and remote ones aren't a great idea. From hung nfs mounts to unpredictable application performance, it is unpleasant.

This Netflix talk on their not-graphql framework gives a very nice summary of when and how you might prefer RPC to REST:

https://youtu.be/hOE6nVVr14c
Yes! Sorry for the confusion. Thanks!
Agreed, his YouTube channel is excellent. Also, I enjoy being called an “absolute legend” each time I watch one.
I could not fit the entire title "From McDonald's to Google: How Kelsey Hightower became one of the most respected people in cloud computing" when submitting the post.
Golden Records creator on the importance of science
I said this before, but Prop 22 is NOT the right solution to this problem.

Uber and Lyft want to dodge Medicare and Social security (estimated in the 100 M$ per year) for their workers. That's really what is going on here.

Prop 22 let them get away with it.

I don't want every Uber driver to be an employee, but I also want to prevent Uber and Lyft using taxpayers money to dodge their obligations.
I didn't cherry pick stats. I pointed out that a number of them are being affected by a GLOBAL PANDEMIC which the rest of the world is currently suffering from too. The ones that have any hope of being separated from that I talked about. If we want to talk about those other stats relative to how the rest of the world is doing on them, I'm happy to do that too. But anything else is unbelievably disingenuous.

My graph reading needs brushing up? Do you know which years Obama was president? Are you reading the same graph (the one you linked) that I am? The deficit was larger in Obama's presidency in multiple years than it has been at any time in Trump's.

What policies have affected your loved ones? I'd love to talk about them.

How did Trump make education worse? Explicitly please.

How has Trump encourage voter suppression?

In Trump's presidency, there was the lowest black unemployment rate there has ever been. How exactly is it his fault that "race relations" are in the toilet? Did he shoot unarmed black men? Did he applaud it? Has his repeated denouncement of White Supremacy[1] not been good enough for you? The fact that you think race relations are EVEN CLOSE to what they were in the fucking Civil War era makes this the dumbest conversation I've had on the internet this month.

Seriously, stop reading the news, it's rotting your brain.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAfw4bmtxrE
Your example is absurd because it doesn’t exist.

Section 230 and DMCA are special protections that provide blanket immunity from any lawsuits. The protections intentionally exist to shield service providers but indirectly allow online advertising where it could not exist otherwise, there they are special protections.
Broken age is one of the darkest games I’ve ever played... MAJOR SPOILER: The great Mogs stand for pregnancy...
Arca Noae announces GUID for OS/2 Type 1 GPT partitions
Making an investment into serving the needs of those with disabilities serves everyone.
Not sure why I have been downvoted. My parents are french boomers, and I could totally see them buying such vehicle for their common errands. They do not live a dense city, like Paris. While they both enjoy biking, I do not see them going the cargo bike way for their groceries. They would still use a car. But they do not need a big car either. I guess time would tell if the new Citroen Ami would find its niche.
Can you? I can't even get a driver's license renewed.
oh, I remember playing EGA Trek.
>Lobe will always let you train custom machine learning for free on your computer.

ah ok, fine, just the legalese was making me wonder. And of course that we are in a capitalist system so not sure I follow the value for Microsoft in this scenario, but I guess you find making machine learning more available to apps somehow drives value.

So thanks for what looks like a pretty nice tool.
> If the Javascript crowd had to manage data storage,
> nothing persistent would work reliably.

There are different incentives to writing UIs than there are when you're writing a backend. Often a business needs you to iterate very quickly, so people change their practices to suit this. Some are able to get away with never raising the quality bar once they finish iterating and it's unfortunate how the industry allows this. Additionally, there are, of course, teams and companies that want high quality code, but even here quality is defined differently from how it would be for data storage logic. For instance, it often means "high framerate" and "easy to understand", instead of "optimal" and "robust".

There are less JavaScript engineers writing backend code, and most that do this are generally making simplistic CRUD Node.js apps. However, there are companies and people that specialise in high-quality complex Node.js apps, and they try just as hard as backend engineers from other programming languages to do this well. (I'm thinking of projects made by developers on the core Node team. I've seen good backend code there, perhaps because they're more aware of lower-level concerns.)

I personally write a lot of JavaScript/TypeScript code and I try to do a good job, but a "good job" is defined differently depending on the kind of product you're creating.

Edit: I just realised you are _the John Nagle_, so you likely have a more refined taste in certain kinds of programming than I do, however I think my point about incentives probably still stands.
We both can't be right!
> I've even seen a few cases where people had data loss which had either gone unnoticed or been sporadic enough that they assumed it was user error or random corruption.

I've gotten to troubleshoot this specific condition myself. Amusingly, the big thing that saved us was that we could use lingering redundancy in a poorly normalized schema to rebuild some relationships that should've been enforced by the database.
Too few people recognize how many valuable skills a job like this can teach you, and it feels like too few people I meet professionally have these entry level jobs anymore. I always feel like the interns or new hires that I see that have never had a hard, exhausting non-office environment job are just missing a pretty fundamental experience. Whether it's fast food, waiting tables, washing dishes or other manual labor, it can be formative and instill a great work ethic.
Your example is outdated, MySQL doesn't truncate by default in later versions. Defaults can easily be changed. Choosing one database over another because of defaults is not a good strategy.
Typically people saw Apple as hardware then software company. The. FAANG came along because of some business tv program. And now we dropped apple again.
I assume you saw the video with Plunkett the RPF put out ( https://youtu.be/yiHgmNBOzkc specifically interesting at 10:45 ) - He mentioned he was testing 10GbE fibre and reached 3.2gbit. Now he goes into absolutely zero detail on that, but I find it interesting you've both hit the same ceiling.

(He also mentioned 390MB/sec write speed to nvme, which is suspiciously close to the same ceiling)
Dr. Seuss would have seen today's administration
There was an old Japanese game I found on a BBS. It was a side scrolling (left to right I think) shooter (like Raptor, but left/right) and the graphics felt very anime. I think it was VGA/DOS. There's no way I can possibly look it up because it was entirely in Japanese. I have no idea what it could have been called. I don't remember the name of the ZIP file either.
Fuck. Shit sucks. I myself have dealt with long lasting (> 1 month) pain and it's horrific. Your whole perspective changes, you think life will never be the same. I can't imagine what it's like when these issues stretch into the years.
Only off by 8.5 GB, which is a whole dual-layer DVD...
I suffered with Perl until I stopped assuming I could learn it by reading code, and read the Camel book. At about page 85 it says something approximating: "Everything in Perl happens in a context (scalar or Array) and until you realize that, you will be miserable." It still didn't come easy: I've realized we all have different minds. My mind doesn't find Perl natural, but loves Ruby. YMMV.
I agree that Prop 22 is not a perfect solution. But I think Prop 22 is a better solution than AB5. If independent contractor work is insufficiently protected, then independent contractors should be given better protections.

Gig workers need the flexibility to open up the Lyft, Uber, Doordash, and Instacart apps all at the same time. They need the flexibility to refuse a fare for any reason. They need the flexibility to work whatever hours they want. I don't see how to build that flexibility into the rigid structure enforced by the employer-employee relationship.

Trying to 9-to-5-ify gig workers doesn't make any sense to me.
AI model detects asymptomatic Covid-19 infections through recorded coughs
Fake reviews are killing your Startup
- 61% of electronics reviews on Amazon are fake
- 55,000 fake reviews are generated on Facebook per month
- 92% of 18-34-year-olds have read a fake review in the last year
- 74% of consumers have read a fake review in the last year

Just like you we're tired of fake reviews. It is ruining the customer experience and cheating great companies with low capital out the game.

I've created a service called Product Sixty where you can discover 60-Second Product Reviews.

Would love for you to join us in improving the online experience!

https://p60.softr.io/

- Dominic, P60 Founder & CEO
Is Cyberpunk really an exception though? Isn't it an FPS in an open-world environment just like most big budget releases? Like GTA, Watch Dogs, Tomb Raider, The Witcher, Assassins Creed, Red Dead Redemption, etc, but with a cyberpunk theme instead?
All previews and gameplay bits I've seen are basically just like those games and with nothing really truly unique or new except for the cyberpunky environment. I'm hoping for maybe a fantastic one-of-a-kind story that will make it justice but with all the hype around it, if it doesn't end up becoming the best thing since sliced bread, I'm afraid it may end up being a big disappointment, although I hope I'm wrong.
I pay for IFTTT but mostly use it for controlling Hue bulbs via Google Assistant without any feedback from the device. That alone is well worth the cost (set the response to '¿'.)

On top of that, I've got RSS feeds for some subreddits I run that benefit from IFTTT. I also have some RSS feeds automatically go to Pocket so I can read them on my Kobo.

IFTTT isn't perfect... and I absolutely hate the interface, but for the simple tasks I need, it does them well. And that is easily worth two bucks per month.
("Flagged" does not mean "removed", FYI. People like me with showdead enabled can still see it.)
Awesome project, definitely going to grab the file.

Did anyone else think of Ultima 3 when they went to their page?

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61%2Bvy7oGO...
Rangerfox?

Edit:
Oh I now see that it had an English release. The version I had was Japanese or Korean and was tricky to navigate the menus.

Still it was fairly animeish and had a cool soundtrack from what I remember
First time I heard about "minority quotas" I just didn't believe it. But then YouTube got sued for doing exactly that [0]

Do quotas actually help minorities? To me it sends the signal that everyone from a top N school at my FAANG who is a white or asian male is here because he's qualified. The others who knows? Maybe the recruiter was so close to hitting his incentive that he lowered the bar.

[0] https://www.wsj.com/articles/youtube-hiring-for-some-positio...
this link here promises a react based web-app sample, but then it says "You need to get you setup so you can build, launch, and play with your app. These instructions are written for macOS, the only system you can develop iOS apps on." It then proceeds to provide instructions only for mac os. How come? Why does one need mac os to run a web application?

https://github.com/lobe/web-bootstrap
Well, the status of quite some illegal immigrants, who owe the smugglers a lot, who need to work and who therefore cannot refuse a work and who cannot go to the police - is probably quite close to that of original slaves.
We use this for our class, and it has been a breath of fresh air through this year. Sometimes though, I want individual help, and it's hard to get that with such a system.
No, I've paid for courses before, far more than I care to admit. And I've listed an ad-based option that makes money (2), I'm just allowing for the possibility of people who want to get paid in self-promotion (3), although that's perhaps redundant, being a species of advertising.
The fact that you personally dislike something does not make it a mistake.
But that's something that they can continue doing. There are many countries where they have a second round between the two candidates with the most votes, and in those countries, parties generally send only one candidate. And that's what they'll keep doing under this system, because they want their candidate to end up in the top-2.

So unless you actively ban any kind of candidate selection by the parties, that is what would also happen in the US.
First, let me say that I fully support one’s right to take steps that allow them to feel more comfortable in their own skin. I can’t pretend to understand everything transgender people are going through, but as a man who also identifies as bi, (something that took me 20 years to acknowledge) I could not be more supportive.

With that said, I worry about how far the pendulum has swung for issues like this. Too many topics now fall into this category that “if you’re not 100% embracing every aspect of the thing and throwing all other viewpoints away, you’re against that thing and should not be listened to”. This is wrong and dangerous.

It’s generally accepted that teenagers are not fully mature, and some activities are disallowed (drinking, smoking, driving, sex) until a certain age.

But for some reason, on this topic, people lose their minds.

I don’t know what the right answer is. But we need to be having more open conversations about these things, not censoring “dissenting” views altogether.
The European tradition is that if you are not admitted to the guild you must not work in the field without supervision. Nothing wrong with that, tbh. You get something out of it, too, your sponsor is invested in your success.
I think it's unclear whether the technology yet exists but it may not be far off -- and we could de-extinct ecosystems, not just single organisms, potentially.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleistocene_Park#Animals_that_...

Some of the possibilities for animals that could plausibly be brought back are kinda wild. I'd love to see a living moa for example. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De-extinction#Future_potential...
> For example, when a police officer harasses a person on the pretext of enforcing the law, that would be improper law enforcement.

To be clear, in this example, the officer is enforcing a law that doesn’t exist.

> Otherwise, I'm not going to entertain "hidden meanings" for the words that they already spoke, I'm going to assume that they meant what they said.

Be honest with yourself.
I had a geocities website with homemade software. Yahoo removed it before it could enter the archive. It had a page with JavaScript that displayed modal dialog boxes repeatedly in a loop; Yahoo identified this JavaScript as a virus.
Opposing Trump Trade War (TTW?) wasn't going to resurrect TPP wasn't going to resurrect TPP. I doubt Biden has the stomach for that either. Most people hate boondoggles, and we've noticed ISDS.