skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For some reason I always preferred ARJ in those days
I'll raise (shrink) you an estimated-at-1-week landscaping project for my house that ended up taking just over 2. Wasn't particularly anxiety inducing, though, as we expected some overrun and both parties (re)negotiated in good faith.
I'm starting a consumer union ...
I get the general point of the article, but if I just lost the source code to the app I've worked on for years… It would take me a very, very long time to re-write everything. Sometimes, getting relatively straightforward code to actually work is hard and time consuming.
I'd concede your point if this were a formal forum where precise language is necssary. But it isn't.
Windows 9x TLB Invalidation Bug
Well sounds like your own shit doesnt stink. Case closed. btw theres an awful lot of video out there.
I remember DivJoy 1.0 and wow you have come a long way! Looking forward to seeing where this project ends up in a few years. A couple of questions/comments:

1) postgres is critical but I saw in another comment you were already on that

2) where are the big boys under hosting? I had an imposter syndrome moment when I clicked on that drop down because I didn’t recognize a single name on it...I’ve been at this for almost 20 years now. AWS, Azure, DigitalOcean, and Heroku were some of the things I would have expected.

3) anyway to see a sample code base without paying? I’m not sure how that would work as I don’t know how you can do it without also enabling people to take your work without paying but it’s a non starter for me. I’m probably not your target audience though so take this request with a grain of salt.

Congrats on shipping and best of luck with the product!

Edit:
I went back and noticed to hosting options are all serverless so not surprising a crusty old Rails guys wouldn’t recognize them.
I think the reliance on a single provider is as important of an issue as it is who the provider is and the way they make decisions.
I like how you shutdown the threads (with throw), it was a nice touch. This whole project shows the power of IO.copy_stream imo.
Rails Best Practices – Replace instance variable with local variable
I used to live right in the center of Bordeaux in a nice studio for 400 euro/month, you'd be able to find a nice place for that price in Lyon also.
Yes, this would be much better. Additionally it could return a pallet of N colors instead of just one.
> I think you have an unrealistic view of policing outside of the US.

I live outside the US, dipshit.
- There's no such thing as programming.

- There's only research-programming.
The Argument for Music Education
This is almost certainly a untrue, and propagating such garbage does wild disservice to social workers and foster parents everywhere.

While the UK might be more conservative with regards to child welfare, in the US you generally have to nearly kill a child or be in jail to have them removed.
Better didn't factor in for the doctor at any cost even free.

This tech could be used to replace the function of this doctor making them less useful.
The points are calculated from three inputs: character count (inverse relationship), TLD desirability (average sale price of that TLD), and domain age (how long ago the domain was first registered). Going to drop domain age though (doesn't seem like a good indicator of value) and add in an amplifier based on if you have a real English word in your domain.
FWIW, I agree with your opinion. That includes not letting politicians onto these websites to do campaigning. This was a big mistake. The number of former public servants who have gone to work for Facebook is alarming, IMO. The number of possible future public servants who have worked there is perhaps even more worrisome.
That's the thing, if other departments have a timeline they need that should be the estimate.

I think it's a lot more natural in business software to say something like "we need the best version of XYZ you can do in three months" rather than saying "we need XYZ" and hoping the estimate is three months. That way everyone's cards are on the table and can work together on getting what they need.
jQuery’s API is still (and, probably, forever will be) miles ahead of the native DOM API.

Cross browser compatibility was just one of the reasons the world fell in love with jQuery.
He paid $40K for a real life course on how to do market validation that he’ll never forget.
Eh, some stuff is just off.

https://alexbeals.com/projects/colorize/search.php?q=pink
good question, not sure about the visa but if you at least have a passport from a european country then you can travel and live anywhere there. I know several of my friends who have lived in Asia without actually working there.
> How would they have done that?

There were a number of different, complementary means envisioned, the simplest of which was reflected in the chant “Hang Mike Pence”, which existed because the pro-coup political intelligentsia had proposed that the Vice President could and should simply refuse to open the certificates from selected states, denying the Democrats a majority of counted EVs, or alternatively could choose unilateral to accept “alternate” slates of electors from some of those states, an approach Mike Pence rejected. Removing Pence would result in a different presiding officer who might be more amenable to the plan.

And, sure, that still seems like a pretty dumb plan, but an insurrection doesn't stop being an coup attempt because the plan is stupid.

> In a coup, someone like a general is waiting to hear the signal to throw in with the coup leaders.

You’re thinking of a coup in favor of a faction that doesn't already hold the cheif executives office. An auto-coup, which is what was intended, usually involves some mechanism to provide a pretext to either extend power beyond it's lawful limits or extend it beyond it's legal term, not to seize it from the current holder. The only person you need to ready to do anything is the existing executive, who just needs to accept the offered pretext to retain power. Which Trump already announced his support for this theory and his anger at Pence for refusing it, which was a major contributor to the insurrection.
at that point you are negotiating just how much of your personal time/stress you are going to burn to meet their expectations. Also maybe how many other people you are going to have to short change because they have jumped the queue.
> First Rudy with his trial by combat nonsense and then Trump with his "we're going to walk down Pennsylvania Avenue and we're going to the Capitol and we're going to try and give -".

I encourage you to look up these quotes so you can appreciate them in context rather than repeating garbage lines from left wing cable news.

For example, if you watch Rudy’s speech or read the transcript you’ll be enlightened to realize he’s talking about putting his and Trump’s reputations up against Biden’s.

You might think the notion of either have a reputation worth wagering is silly, but to interpret it as a suggestion to viewers to commit violence is beyond disingenuous. If we’re going to eliminate all flowery speech and metaphor we might as well stop talking altogether.
This is not a matter of power of cloud providers. This is cloud providers covering their butts so they don't get charged with a felony.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2383
The new mosquito bringing disease to North America
“If You Torture the Data Long Enough, It Will Confess”
Download it now if you are interested. Lol
> Hell, I can't even tell that you 'feel' anything.

Philosophically, yeah. But if you can't prove or disprove anything, then "proving" isn't a useful metric. Being the same species should give you confidence that the grandparent is capable of feeling. (I'm assuming in best faith the commenter isn't a bot)
Completely agree with you there. My objection was to the point around convenience & cost of time i think.

Seeing how much we focus on lowering the friction to onboarding, landing pages and just working in software for a while, i think the private solutions have to be every bit as convenient as the commercial option, otherwise they are not viable. That is just table stakes for mass adoption by a broad audience. Technical users may vote with their feet even when its slightly inconvenient, but its not enough to make a dent in the world.

For example, i cannot even imagine how much longer everything would take if every google search i made was replaced with a visit to the library. It would be 5-10x the time, maybe much more. A ton of information would be completely unavailable even given infinite library time. Luckily, I can (and do) just use DuckDuckGo instead.

There's lots of encouraging progress in these kinds of solutions that are both just as convenient AND private - decentralized web, pinephone, linux adoption, end to end encryption on messengers, personal clouds like NextCloud etc.
a WAL is more like "write the state before committing to it"
Do you remember the shooter who shoot congressmen at a congressal ball game?
The difference, he had a gun these people didn't
The statement you quoted is a good statement, I agree. And maybe the ACLU is re-finding its way. But the ACLU has changed, and it's not just me saying this, it's the former head of the ACLU:

https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/02/14/the-aclu-would-not-...

> ‘I believe that the national ACLU, if the Skokie case arose today, would not take it. They might take the same case for the Martin Luther King Jr Association, but they wouldn’t take it for the Nazis.’

> As Kaminer has long argued, the rot has been setting in for some time. But since Trump’s election, the ACLU has been more noticeably shying away from contentious free-speech cases.
Based on observation, I would guess:

- Alien megastructures visible at long distances are plausibly not a thing, due to material limitations or something.

- But, even very slow expansion into space should have covered the galaxy long ago, so the aliens should be here or in the archaeological record.

A possible explanation for the latter is, what if the aliens are everywhere but they don't go near stars? Once you have a kind of generation ship that can function essentially forever in interstellar space, why would you risk going near a star or whatnot? That would also be consistent with the "dark forest" viewpoint.
No, he’s still deliberately misrepresenting events to draw a false equivalence. The White House was never “stormed” – the Secret Service made the decision to move him into the bunker when some protesters went around temporary barriers in the park space by the Treasury Department but at no point did the protests come closer than the gates to the White House complex. Neither the White House nor the Treasury security perimeters were breached at any point:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/secret-service-moved...

For people who aren’t familiar with the area, this area is normally open and there are often protests. I bike or walk through regularly and you’ll almost always see someone at the fence with a sign about something.

This is in sharp contrast to the coup attempt where the insurgents quickly blew through areas which are never open to the public – think about how many of the videos have alarms ringing in the background.

Note also that I’m not faulting the Secret Service – it’s not hard to imagine someone trying to breach the gate and it’s their job to protect the President. My objection is entirely due to presenting these as equivalents.
> IIRC that took a Matrix-style war that humanity just barely won

Only in the terrible prequels written by Frank Herbert's idiot son, who decided that a rejection of machines replacing humans = literal Terminators.

One of the more interesting things about the Butlerian Jihad is that in the end, without thinking machines, they instead turned humans into machines.
Crossover guy here. I worked as a ChemE for 11 years, then as a software developer for 20. Regardless of terminology, the two fields are very different. If I have to design a process to separate two liquids, I have a few options available, and all are highly constrained by physics and a lot of math and equipment design has gone into optimizing them. But when writing code to solve a problem, the number of possible ways to accomplish it are endless, and other than big-O notation there's not a lot of constraints put on the solution.

I lived through the "design patterns" trend, which seemed like an attempt to create a software equivalent to the "unit operations" we ChemE students all learned, but it was basically a flop because in the end you can use almost any design pattern to solve a given problem.

I don't much care whether you call it "engineering" - but the gap between the smokestack industries and software remains.
Old iPads are plentiful
In this case, free speech was given up on with the 14th amendment, in 1868.
You seem to be assuming that people know make. People don't any longer. People that grew up with C, built their Linux system from scratch etc. know Make. For someone that doesn't know make, none of what you say comes natural or 'makes sense'.

Also, make is a very general purpose tool. You don't have to have a `test` target. I could easily call the target `analyze`. Do you store your compiled files in a `dist` folder? Or do they just end up right next to the source files? Where are your test files stored vs. your main project files?

In the Java world the equivalent of Make would have been ant at some point. People did exactly what you said you would do with make. Most people had the default ant run build the project, test would test it etc. but everything else was a complete free for all.

What Maven did was standardize a lot. The test goal (goal being maven speak for make targets) is always called test. All build output always goes to the `target` folder. maven always expects your test files nicely out of the way of regular source files and they never end up in the resulting package etc. The package(s) always end up in the target folder too. Most if not all of these things can actually be changed but it's work to do it and you can easily see it being reconfigured vs. build tools like Make or Ant, which are much more general purpose like shell scripts.

I could make the same assertions about maven btw. as you do about Make. Once you know maven, you can build anything you like with it and it takes care of all of the same things. In a previous life we actually regularly packaged non-java projects with maven, since that was the hammer we had and understood.
What damage to democracy do you expect from the Capitol incident? I think they'll put a few more guards up, and that's it.

Or they use it as an excuse for more totalitarian control, but then the Capitol events were not really to blame for it.
perception of neglected or under-resourced project from too many open issues. I don't like it and its not correlated but thats the realty.
Can you expand on why you believe that (and why you don't find the counterarguments convincing)?

In particular, why isn't this concern addressed by the government negotiating a more favorable contract than the standard terms of service?

(Alternatively, why can the government not address the problem with legal means? In the US, the Defense Production Act can compel private companies to accept and perform government contracts.)
I took a technical writing course in engineering school and much later a legal writing course in law school.

After LS when I started writing stuff that mattered, I studied Bryan Garner's Lawprose work. At one law firm they invited him in to give a class. I really learned a lot from his books.

One thing I hold on to closely is to respect the time of your reader. (Especially busy people like judges.)
> Some members of the mob were actively looking to kill the people who were 2nd and 3rd in line for the presidency. Let's not pretend that there was zero danger to democracy.

Do you realize that numerous times throughout history people have successfully killed the actual president and it didn't end democracy?

What these people did was a serious crime and it should absolutely be prosecuted to the full extent of the law, but no it was never going to destroy the country or end democracy. This is hyperbole people are using to grab and consolidate power.

Democracy is not a single person that can be killed and taken over. It's all of us acting in concert to uphold those values. It doesn't end by this person or that person being killed, it ends by all of us collectively agreeing to give up the values that make it work. That's the real threat here.
> I'm not excited about going back to horses

Frankly, given the average driver, I think reducing max speed and adding another set of eyes & brain to the mix would be a pretty good thing :)
Here are some reasons that may talk you down:

* The world, and the US has always gone through periods of chaos. This is not the first time we've seen violence and strife, with assassinated presidents and students mowed down by bullets. What's happening now is not worse than what happened before and somehow we still kept free speech intact.

* While certain speech is hateful, painful, and even somewhat dangerous, stifling it only increases pressure and isolation among those being censored. They become more extreme. Furthermore, they are made to seem dangerous simply by the fact that we are censoring them rather than letting them be. The ACLU used to defend KKK marches, and we derided them for the idiots that they are, but still let them march. Furthermore, there's no way to engage in and work through the mental mistakes these people are making if we don't even let them talk. Lastly, they get a persecution complex and don't trust anything the "other side" says. It makes things worse.

* One of the main reasons these people are getting violent is because they are suffering, in poverty, without jobs, and recognize that something is seriously wrong society. They falsely attribute it to race or communism or some other thing, rather than the greedy corporate oligarchy that only gives the common man scraps. The elite would rather resort to censorship than to actually address the problems that cause these people to be unsatisfied and vulnerable to fascistic propaganda. Free speech is not dangerous in an equitable society.

* similarly to the last point, who will decide what speech is ok and what speech is not? The public? That would be mob mentality without standard. The government? Most politician are greedy and self serving. Corporations like facebook? They are beholden to the dollar. No one can be trusted to fairly choose what is not ok to say.
This paper generally does not say what you are implying.

This is comparing abusive homes to marginal foster care children, which means children that were repeat care kids, meaning that the failure was not in foster care, but in the decision to reunify and then have them return to care. The success rates for children that are not intervened early or that are reunified are terrible, and research like this edge case for a PHD are the exact things that get kids reunified that should not be.
You are on point. For common diseases there are guidelines manually created and periodically updated by 40 doctors. Doctors should just use the last updated protocol for easy decisions.

Even though for headache this is the recommended first line medication:

Ibuprofen 400 mg, ASA 1000 mg, naproxen sodium 500–550 mg, acetaminophen 1000 mg

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4541429/#!po=0....
"attempt to install a different regime"

How can anybody believe such nonsense? Sorry, but simply taking over the capitol doesn't automatically make you the ruler of a new regime. It's not a video game were you get made king when you conquer the target zone.
Constitutionally he can’t do that though, since it requires his term to end at noon on January 20th. If there was a deadlock on certification Trump would still leave office, and we’d probably have an emergency constitutional convention to pass a amendment to fix this bug.
Since when was it not? It died for much the same reasons as Myspace, not for lack of censorship.

And Slashdot has a moderation system that hides that stuff.
I understand. However, what I'm saying is that even if that capability exists, in practice it doesn't matter, as it is something that we will never act on becauae we've already been taken over.

That outage example shows that people will immediately act to restore, preserve and expand the system, never destroy it.
Kings used to coin money, hand it out to the army and then collect taxes from the entire population that was paid in the same coin.

The Fed creates dollars, hands it out to bankers and then the US gov't collects taxes from the entire population in the same dollars.

Same strategy, different masters.
I've installed a Hackintosh on my machine (only High Sierra because I have a Pascal Nvidia GPU and Nvidia and Apple are still throwing a tantrum) and it's working quite painless.

The old style of installing a Hackintosh (configuring clover and some random binaries based on forum threads) never worked for me, but Dortania's OpenCore Install Guide [1] worked great out of the box.

If your GPU works on macOS (so recent-ish AMD or old Nvidia), I definitely recommend giving it a try. You're missing out on a few performance optimisations and stuff like iMessage and Facetime don't work, but it's definitely good enough to just run and debug builds, possibly even with hardware acceleration inside the necessary emulators (not VMs).

If you want to go the VM route, you'll probably run into trouble because Apple's OS assumes that the processor is made by Intel (not strange, because all of their x64 processors are bought from Intel). There's a few patches you can download and install to make the OS boot on macOS though, and with those the VM should work in VirtualBox, VMWare, KVM, this snap, and that Docker image running qemu that someone posted at some point. Details about what to patches you may need can be found somewhere in [1], as well as a list of limitations. For example, running virtual machines on an AMD Hackintosh is practically impossible.

If you want to get the bare basics working in a virtual machine, running through the opencore install guide inside the VM will most definitely work, though the GUI will be slow as molasses because of the lack of GPU acceleration. That's still fine for running a build task over something like SSH though. There's options!

[1]: https://dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Install-Guide/
The New York Times ran a similar piece today explaining "why the vaccine news is better than you may think."

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/18/briefing/donald-trump-par...
He really seems like character pulled straight from Far Cry game.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiN3rq6kqKI http://www.whoismcafee.com/the-travel-guide/
Apparently, studies show that IQ and several forms of addiction are positively correlated, [1].

[1] https://vertavahealth.com/blog/correlation-intelligence-addi...
"would happily kill any of them without a second thought"

Bullshit
I tip better when paying with cash.
The Phoebus Cartel
I'm not sure exactly where the line should be drawn, but there seems to be a spectrum ranging from "private property" on one side and "utility" on the other. Where property owners can decide what their property is used for, and utilities are "common carriers".

In this spectrum, Twitter seems more towards private property, while AWS seems more.like a utility.

The law hasn't caught up to addressing the changes of the last decade in this respect, but I think we're about to see it happen, either legislatively or in the courts.
You can write her personally and tell her she imagined all that https://lailabrice.wordpress.com/
> If stealing a laptop is "insurrection"

Stealing a laptop from a federal government facility while attempting to overturn an election's results and possibly assassinate elected officials, is an "insurrection".
What Will Replace the Desk?