skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> and people continue to vilify them

That's not very polite; it sure would hurt my feeling if I were Apple.

But happily there will always be people to defend this poor little megacorp should anyone, anywhere have a criticism.
Yeah, that happens to everyone, I think. Web devs forget that everything isn't (some form of) website, Microsoft-ecosystem folks tend to forget that there's a whole world outside of that bubble, GNOME developers... infamously... seem to think no other Linux desktops exist, functional programmers frequently seem to believe that everything should be functional. Honestly, it's probably just a side effect of only having a finite number of hours in the day; to master one system, you tend to forego having enough time for others.
Do you know that this post is actually breaking the JIRA ToS? Seriously, it's in their ToS that you can't complain about how slow JIRA is...

> Except as otherwise expressly permitted in these Terms, you will not...(i) publicly disseminate information regarding the performance of the Cloud Products

https://www.atlassian.com/legal/cloud-terms-of-service

JIRA sucks
Diesel-electric subs are quieter and cheaper, and, yes, some countries still run them.

Here's an article about a new lithium-ion one:

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/37083/japan-just-launc...
That is both a difference and a similarity. Both are way closer to each other than any two random religions on average.
Right, but my parent comment said

> My personal moral code is that lying is bad; this is an article of faith for me, a central tenet of my religion

To which I say it's a big simplification. Rules like this have all sorts of exceptions. If you say you never lie, it's highly likely you're lying or just have weak introspective skills.
Yes. Kafka does not have a concept of a queue. Messages are written to an append only log and the broker does not track the state of the message. The consumer is responsible for tracking the offset. Kafka is not a queue.
Agree with everything but with a different conclusion. Yes.

Regulations need to concentrate on basics that keep you safe and the infrastructure running, however most of local (and central) government these days is to micro-manage everything and produce statistics for how good they are doing.
Yeah, the whole point of looking through the source code is to find undocumented APIs and bugs to exploit.
You are the same people ousting Greek refugees during the Greco-Turkish War of 1919–1922 (considering them Turkish because they also spoke Turkish) (known locally as the Asia Minor disaster) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asia_Minor_disaster For anyone interested I recommend this excellent movie https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0378897/
>IIRC, there are cooler places in Arizona as well (mountains?).

Yes. You get snow in the winter in places like Flagstaff.

As someone who really doesn't like humid heat, I still find the low southwestern deserts relatively tolerable (not that you're going to go for a mid-day hike in the summer). That said, if I were to live in that area of the country, I would probably want to be someplace up higher.
A blind man can see that this was a rigged election. Denial and evasion are progressive liberal personality traits.
If anyone's interested in a modern rethink of SMTP, here's TMTP:

Why TMTP? https://mnmnotmail.org/rationale.html

Protocol draft: https://github.com/networkimprov/mnm/blob/master/Protocol.md

Twitter: https://twitter.com/mnmnotmail
> it's truly a shame we can't get clean/raw video out of a modern smart phone.

https://petapixel.com/2020/09/09/filmic-pro-update-adds-clea...
> not other copyleft licences

The CDDL was intentionally written to be incompatible with the GPL. Which other copyleft licenses do you have in mind, and what advantages do they have over GPL-compatible licenses?

> When GPLv4 is eventually released, the software is now released under it, and GPLv4 might contain provisions one doesn't agree with, but one can't revoke it now.

If you release your code under a permissive license, it's basically guaranteed to be compatible with the future GPLv4, so you're in that situation anyway.
Nobel Prize speech from the inventor of PCR, Kary Mullis (1993)
Aggarwal has a good explanation of backpropagation
Yes, absolutely. Or, at the very least, remove the graying-out of the comment text; it's childish and demeaning and serves no purpose other than to highlight what some people have considered to be "wrong." dang (and whomever else may moderate) already has the ability to collapse comments if the subject-matter is especially egregious.

Some people down-vote when they simply disagree with whatever is being conveyed. This behavior is not conducive to a thoughtful, substantive conversation.

Beyond signaling a post/comment is of low quality or off-topic, I do not see any use for the down-vote; the 'flag' option exists for this purpose. I also believe the bar for the flagging privilege be set higher.
What sci-fi would you recommend if I want to read more about this computronium?
Similiar food, music, habits, look-alikes.
Is that right? I'm in my mid-50s, and certainly in elementary school nearly 100% of the teachers were women. There were two men teaching in my entire school and they were both teaching 5th grade. In middle and high school there were more men but it was still at least 60-70% female teachers.
I'd imagine the answer is yes, viewing the source code would increase the risk relative to an attacker that did not have access to the source code, but the statement is saying that whatever risk assessment Microsoft does already assumes attackers have knowledge of source code. EG, they are conservative and do not rely on source code secrecy when making any security evaluations.
Yes, protobufs are a very interesting and fulfilling technology to work on, but also frustrating because there is so much API exposure that changing any existing API is like trying to run through molasses. A clean break a la proto1->proto2 opens up lots of possibilities on a much shorter time scale, but also creates a heavy migration burden.

There are lot of improvements we can make without touching API, but whenever the API itself is a barrier to further improvements, there are just few good options for managing that.

Your point about incremental changes reminds me of the Linus rant about "bundling", where he argues that incremental changes lead to a better result than a big bang rewrite: https://yarchive.net/comp/linux/bundling.html I very much agree with that approach when possible, but Linux has the benefit of a much narrower API offered to its users. The protobuf API is not only the API of the core library, but of every generated class. The massive surface area just makes any kind of change to generated APIs an enormous challenge (for example, returning string_view from accessors instead of std::string).
Maybe during history lessons you preferred a good beauty sleep instead of paying attention to the class :)
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> At Microsoft, we have an inner source approach – the use of open source software development best practices and an open source-like culture

MS has an "open source" culture? I laughed and remain skeptical ...
> Why is it bad to git clone on a production server? Let's assume
> I'm not an idiot please, just misguided. This isn't reddit.

This cargocult ritual is for those who manage farms of identical servers. If you have a single production server with no load balancing, it's fine.

But be careful, Git does not handle file permissions well by default. If you have a directory or file that needs special permissions (like a cron job script) then you should set `core.fileMode` to `false` in your git config.
Link is broken; asks user to enable remote code execution.
Agreed, the main reason for low cycling uptake in some countries is because it is utterly terrifying. I'm a seasoned cyclist in the UK; there are some roads I just will not cycle on because it is too dangerous to do so. If _I_ am too afraid to cycle on them, then what chance is there of people who have little experience of cycling picking it up?

Cycling uptake starts with cycling infrastructure, very few people have a problem learning how to ride a bike.
> instead of graying after a single downvote.

It currently grays after 2 downvotes. You start at 1, one downvote puts you at 0, then another puts you at -1, and that's when you're grayed.
IGH are not much more complicated than SS.
Ticketmaster also acquires their competition to just shut them down and fire them all. Happened to a friend of mine this year. They all lock up all the promoters into 5-10 year contracts, so they can’t leave for the competition.
Tested recruits.com - skill test based recruiting many years before indeed launch their version of this.

Romylms.com - A learning management system/training website for companies to train their employees with courses and modules and quizzes and such.

I currently used both for my own company coalitiontechnologies.com. Neither has made money commercially on its own though although a few dedicated users love it.

I also launched a website where you could pay someone of any faith to pray for you for a dollar. That never took off either haha.
I worked at bike shops for several years in college. We'd sometimes get the customers who would ask, how is this bike worth $X more than a bike I can get at Walmart? All you'd have to do is get them on the bike for a test ride. The difference is night and day. Given that, I feel like the goal of the Coast project wasn't necessarily to increase ridership, but to increase profits margins with a clever doo-dad.

There's always been a lot of hand wringing by cycling enthusiasts in the US about increasing ridership, and being more approachable, better group rides may be one way to do it. There are a lot of obstacles here; road conditions (potholes), hilly in a lot of areas (it does not take a steep or long grade to flummux a introductory or casual rider!), but at the end of the day, cycling is just dangerous. American car culture is not friendly to anything else being on the road (talk to motorcyclists for example!). When I think back on some of the close calls I had, and accidents my friends had simply riding around, I'm kind of amazed I was ever that fearless.
On many mirrorless cameras the shutter is open by default (even when the camera is closed), so not even one shutter "count" on this type of usage (the shutter is only used when taking a photo, and not even then if in silent mode is used). Shutter lifespans are in the tens of thousands to hundred of thousands normally. It's good to know the value when buying used (because you don't know what you are buying, some cameras have such a high burst rate that you can reach hundred of thousands in hours if you keep the button pressed).

For many cameras you can find a power line adapter that replaces the actual battery and connects to power (Canon cameras cannot charge their batteries in-camera so this is a must for them).
My setup for this purpose (on Linux Mint) uses that camera, a Lumix G7, which is indeed about $500, compared to a Logitech HD Pro webcam for about $100, it is totally worth it. I can pick up the Lumix, which uses my existing collection of micro four thirds lenses, and bring it on vacation or whatever, as opposed to the Logitech which is useless for any other purpose.

The reason the Lumix is good for this is because of the "clean" HDMI output, i.e. without any camera overlays. I added to this a micro HDMI to HDMI cable ($10), a DC coupler ($22), a cheap Neewer tripod ($35) and an HDMI capture card ($15). I've optimized the card[0] and set up udev rules to use the optimized settings every time I plug it in. If I want fancier settings I use OBS. It looks orders of magnitude better than any webcam.

The weakest link in the whole setup is the micro HDMI cable -- they all tend to be very rigid compared to the size of the connector and I already had to throw away one cable, it helps to attach all wires with velcro to the tripod to reduce wiggle.

[0] http://ciko.io/posts/cheap_usb_hdmi_2/
Yes, but on the other hand, all the Linux source code is publicly available, and it's still considered secure.
Perfect example of when it should have been made of a bunch of smaller fireworks displays, so that people wouldn't want to travel as far but would still be able to watch a fun show.
Sure they don’t do security through obscurity but any pen-tester will tell you that whitebox knowledge is certainly a huge help.
This kind of gets into why I don't think it's worth the tradeoffs. You can get a desk big enough to support a tripod and monitor without sacrificing ergonomics, but then you have to have a massive desk. My current desk is 32" deep, and I'm certain that bringing the monitor close enough to make room for a tripod on the desk would involve bringing the monitor too close for comfort. In my specific case it would also necessitate giving up the gas-arm that my monitor is attached to since it only clips to the back of the desk, and I don't want to give that up.

You can make it work, if you rearrange your entire office space around this requirement. I personally wouldn't recommend it, but to each their own.
You seem to believe that boys never grow up - and a hyperactive 14 year old in need of both intellectual and physical competitive challenges will inevitably be unable to do the steady work required to gain a PhD as a 24 year old.

You may want to reconsider that assumption.
It drives me crazy when in 2020 news articles do not link to sources.
Each state is unique and changing in time. Look at CO for example. Focus on the Family, the USAF Academy and many military bases are all in CO. 20 years ago, it was a solid Rep. base. But over time, things have shifted so that weed first became legal there.

That's ignoring the major issue that all western states have: water rights. All the pish-posh of politics today has nothing on the fights over water in western states. In CO that pits the mountains against the ranchers, in CA that pits north against south; there is no red/blue when it comes to the real (and sometimes deadly) fight over water.
> It breaks my heart

This is all a little dramatic, no? It's a cool app that can be easily updated to fix button accessibility.
It's funny. Rust is a strange beast. It's a low level language. But, in some specific ways, it's more expressive than a lot of popular high level languages: traits are sometimes nicer than interfaces, strong concurrency guarantees are great compared to the nightmare of parallel processing in e.g., Java, discriminated unions with pretty good pattern matching is missing from many popular high level languages.

You still have languages that can't (really) even do async/threaded computation (Python, PHP, JavaScript/Node can't do threads AFAIK).

I've said this before: "Rust is the highest level low level language I've ever used. Java is the lowest level high level language I've ever used."
I guess the joke is that if one travels faster than light, then time gets reversed. Hence the title "Faster-than-light Travel and Capital Theory" gets inverted too. Oh, and obviously, if time reversal is possible, then you can make reference to articles published in the future.
I also dislike the comment-graying (my opinion is that it should never apply), but it is easy enough to fix by apply user CSS.
Unity, the very popular 3D game engine, can “export” games to run in the browser. WebAssembly is undoubtedly involved.
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Do we really need tens of thousands, or even millions of porn actors? Really? Assuming these people are mostly young and healthy, wouldn't society be better off if they did practically anything else as an honest living?
Seeing fireworks is non-rivalrous, but being somewhere is. So getting a good viewing spot for the fireworks is rivalrous.

BTW, the title doesn't make any sense

edit: typo
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At best, they could require the U.S. to implement STIR/SHAKEN [1], maybe. There will be significant technical and legal challenges in this. Overhauling or upgrading the existing switches is non trivial. This is just my opinion, but I predict this will result in legal battles and legal stalling on the part of the telcos. Even if all the telcos agreed to do this, there would be a period of time that nothing is enforced and even then, this has no impact on anyone outside of U.S. jurisdiction unless laws with teeth require amended agreements between the U.S. and non-U.S. telcos. I am not a lawyer, but I don't need to be one to see some of the ways this will play out and how this can turn into political posturing, deflection of responsibility and saber rattling between the U.S. and other countries.

[1] - https://transnexus.com/whitepapers/stir-and-shaken-overview/
Montessori is not ignored in my country, but:

- Cost more money for the state
- Cost more time to the teacher (its an issue since early grade teachers are already swamped)
- is in "testing" since the late 90's at least and is not quite there yet.

So we took another approach, more like germans. Reduced schools hour and add 2x2 hours of learning something else. Woodworking, board game, wird sports, anything the teacher can put in place (often boring stuff tbh, but i heard really good initiatives from friends that stayed in the social "business").

Well, in the end, it costed more money, took more time from the teachers anyway, was poorly implemented all around and was rolled back in some areas. But weirdly, while rural areas often get the short end of the stick when this kind of change rolls out, in this case, this created a lot of social link and learning opportunities (as they got no money, they had to ask parent/grandparents and people living around for help and this often was a success)
Duh, that's if I build the page myself and I know how to code html. Even then it's not trivial in the sense that it will "just work".
I don't think modern cameras are going to open/close the shutter continuously. That would cause a lot of noise while filming, and they usually record sound too. They rather use "electronic shutter" while filming, which is just another name for ignoring some exposure time. So it would count as one click, or maybe less.

> can you completely avoid using a battery with a power line adapter?

This is going to depend on the particular camera. I just tested a mirrorless camera, doesn't work without a battery, and doesn't use the DC power while on.
Some people think that "roguelike" is a good term for games with no permanent progress, with "roguelite" being the alternative for games like Hades. These people don't say these terms out loud to anyone, they just post on the internet about it, so they haven't realized why the distinction hasn't exactly caught on. Regardless, most people who have played games on both sides of this split can tell that it makes no sense to wish that a game on one side was more like the games on the other side; they're just different sub-genres. It's like saying that Spelunky has interesting platforming mechanics, but you wish you had a lives system and hand-authored level design. It would just be a different game, made by someone else.

In Hades, the majority of the emphasis is on the story and characters, which a lot of people seem to have connected with. This isn't a surprise if you look at the devs' previous games (Bastion, Transistor, Pyre). From that perspective, making a game most people who play won't finish would be a bad decision; upgrading your character enough to eventually win is completely intended, it's how you are meant to reach the end of the story.
Like pretty much everywhere in the US, big Texas cities lean (or, in Austin’s case, are quite) left, suburbs are increasingly very swing, and the rural areas are really right wing but have been emptying out. Texas has a somewhat higher proportion of rural to urban/suburban population than New York State which makes Texas overall a “red” state and New York “blue”, but a current Silicon Valley resident is probably going to feel far more at home in Austin, Houston or one of their closer suburbs than they would in rural western or upstate New York.
Different values that diverge from German national unity? Impossibility of integration? Maybe you'd like them marked out somehow? Discouraged from owning property or business? Put on a train to ... somewhere? From which they don't come back?

Bluntly, Europe's laws on refugees date from the time when millions had to flee Germany, and the "military aid" was incinerating Dresden. The options are integration or extermination, and sending people back to Syria where they will quite likely be killed counts in the extermination column. Germany has decided to try the not getting millions killed option for a bit.
It would be interesting if there could be a comment requirement with downvotes.
What a sensationalist, clickbait title of a very short piece written in 2019 and republished now to get some NYE traffic (needs a year in the title).
> All the fields when making a simple ticket, the dozens of sub-tasks, the ticket inside a ticket inside a ticket

that's mostly down to the current JIRA configuration, same with the workflows used. One thing that I found great at my current office was letting the team configure their Jira projects as they wanted
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When corporations are committing crimes of passion we have a huge problem. In the meantime, fine, jail and restructure.
That would presumably be roughly equivalent to send a PR to translate a single dialog to English when the entire interface is in French.

Sure, if an app is not fully translated and there's a lingering French string somewhere, submit a PR. But in this case, I don't see how this can be a serious suggestion.
I thought that was primarily a marketing campaign for ergonomic saddles. I know a lot of people who bike, and there are no lack of children, wanted or unwanted. The only men I know lacking in the swimmer department would be served by more exercising.
I have absolutely seen documentation in Jira. Sometimes the canonical advice for how to do a task is "Go clone JIRA-1234 and follow the steps laid out there".

It's a shitty documentation system because it's extremely hard to find that organically, but people do use Jira as documentation.
Most non-nuclear (==conventional) subs run on electric engines with batteries that are recharged by diesel engines. They are much smaller, which can give some stealth advantages, on top of being quieter.

Conventional subs make superior attack subs, and when a sub yet again "sinks" an aircraft carrier in a training exercise its a (often German-built) non-nuclear sub.

Nuclear subs of course excel in staying hidden for months with multiple nuclear missiles. No conventional sub could ever match them at that. But that's not the only thing subs do.
Not quite.

It means 'If you want peace, prepare for war.'
suckless terminal emulator - https://st.suckless.org/
This was one of this years best talks. I was a bit disappointed by the others mostly. Lots of streaming hickups and bad content.

I did like the Flutter UI talk, the baseband hacking talk by the girl, the horrible state of the Gesundheits IT, the Certified Voting SW (OK-Vote) in Bavaria (how stupid can they be?), and esp. the old UI demo "What have we lost"
I just checked one of my comments at 0 and that is not correct (there are different levels of graying depending on score, but the graying indeed starts at 0).
I don't know much on the topic, but from what I've heard it can hinge on how you define consciousness. If consciousness is defined as processing of information, it can be inherent down to at least photon level.

I'm hoping somebody can chime in who can explain better than me.
That solves it then, you are Greek-American never went to a Greek school. Well Greek history books are available freely online/
When I talked with Patrick Collison about Bitcoin in late 2013 (prior to Stellar's release), he kept asking (paraphrased) "Why use Bitcoin instead of making your own cryptocurrency so you could own the whole thing?"