skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What do you mean, "lose mindshare"? Docker is one of the absolute best things to happen to ML. My work is largely algo integration - I take academics' ML code and bundle it for API consumption. Before this, I was a bench chemist, so I kind of have a thing for reproducing experiments.

The academic ML scene has a reproducibility crisis that makes other science reproducibility crises look like Phys 100 labs. These things depend on someone's conda env with versions pinned to nightly builds, inscrutable code written by a postdoc that has since left, datasets which have been mutated since the paper was published, on and on.

Docker gives me a fighting chance to actually get reproducible results without going stark raving mad.

Should these researchers have better software process to avoid this situation in the first place? Heck yes. But these are people doing things like `os.system("rm " + filepath)` and git committing entire models, they are just really green and most don't know any better yet and academia isn't really known for its mandatory Practical Software Engineering classes for CS majors.
That's interesting - have you got any more detail on that?
100% agree with U.
>What if the child matures and their parents die and there is no relatives to take care of them?

We have plenty of social structures to take care of them, and where there aren't we create them, but that is what should be done, and what we already do to orphans, sick people, etc. Why are people with DS different?

>But hey, the so called "free" Americans will know better. Sure.

I am European.
A vanity business card from 1988 that uses the phrase "tender embraces," which was intended to be self-deprecating as he has never been "conventionally attractive," is very, very, very weak evidence that predicates he's a "serial harasser" of women.
TBH Uber has led to dramatically better consumer outcomes. Without them operating in the market, and given the power the taxi lobby seems to have over local lawmakers, I am skeptical that any taxi-only scenario will be good for consumers.
Once the article got into the fact it's not a political or ideological issue, I got the entire angle. It probably should have gotten to that point sooner, but I get the idea of the article. The boat is simply stuck. That's it. Nothing more. In an era of micro aggressions, politically charged everything and extreme sensitivities, this is the first world event in a long time that is just simple without being loaded... the boat is stuck. It's stupid how refreshing and novel that is.
Electrocloud
And this is why most (all) sales in the US include both lender and buyer title insurance. So if some court case comes up, the bank / buyer are protected.

99.999% of sales nothing happens, and the title insurance company gets $800 for doing nothing.

Quit the good gig if you ask me.
Blockchain, obviously. /s
Well, yes. But there are ways to subdue, channel, and learn from that anger.
Very interesting way of framing it! Thanks!
I actually take the opposite view - that in spite of how big of a fuckup this is, and how much of an impact it has on global trade/shipping, the end impact to us will probably end up being relatively small.

Probably. Impacts wont be apparently for a while I guess.
Yup, the lines are starting to be drawn.

The NBA and player's relatively recent encroachment into the CCP's no-go zone was interesting to watch unfold - and clear that money and not ethics or values are driving the people in charge of many organizations.

Edit to add: the first organizations and people to take a stand against abuse are not cowards.
> There are only "title plans" held by HM Land Registry, that may or may not include information about who owns the wall and exactly what delineates the property line.

Yeah the UK has been introducing a land registry, but as of 2019, 15% of the land was still not registered. https://hmlandregistry.blog.gov.uk/2019/05/30/registering-la...

In continental europe, Napoleon can be attributed to many of the land registries, but England never got conquered by him :).
Hi all, I have been toying this very idea for consulting. Several people with niche experience can come together and from a global consulting co-op. I wonder what you think.
Clickbaity and utterly misleading title. I expected very different content, but I agree with the gist of the article, in that the boss must be highly competent at *his* job, know what he's talking about and stay grounded in reality.
The Screen Capture API isn't supported on mobile Chrome.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Screen_Capt...
Lots of things that we currently do were designed on the basis that power supply and demand were predictable and slowly-changing. Now we will see technologies evolve on the basis that unpredictable power supply is very cheap and predictable power supply can be quite expensive. That's fine.
5 in Perl, 17 in PHP.
Interesting. Also, many of us use fonts with ligatures, which render as a single character (for example: tt, ti, ff, Th, ffi)

Of course, we're taught to parse that as multiple discrete letters from an early age, so we don't get confused :)
Yours is AI simulacrum that makes no coherent point, unlike the original.
Yes, the parallel is a rhetorical device. I don't think being shirtless is equivalent to being homeless. But I do think it's a difference of degree rather than type, and hence similar reasoning can be applied.
Great House Set from the Whites Masks – Granada House Set
But these applications will appear.
Thank God we left the EU, else we would be in the EU debacle regarding vaccines. We are ahead of every member state in terms of vaccinated population. Don't take this as me supporting Boris but its definitely a good thing that we left and the fishing thing we be sorted at some point in the near future. Even if it isn't, the benefits outweigh the cons and we can now act as our own nation free of the EU's bloated bureaucracy.
Cold War II will hopefully be more of a culture war than a hot war.

That’s not up to the west though, it’s up to whether the CCP invades Taiwan.
Good catch. He's been a journalist for a few years, but surely the most important year was spent at "Aspen Institute". Nobody can figure out whether it's a pro-war think tank or a PPP loan scam, but they get lots of money from dictatorial "Western allies" (i.e., MbS). It must have been there that he learned to write a whole article littered with "western operations" without once writing "Israel" or "8200".
electricity is less than 20% of any countrys energy needs and it doesent actually mean that 97% of the electricity consumption came from wind. So misleading and politicized.
Mozilla's long justification https://hacks.mozilla.org/2010/06/beyond-html5-database-apis...

More interesting commentary here https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/2202...
Soft vs. Hard Deletes – A Comparison
It's steam pyrolysis! The plastic recycling method of last resort.
Amazon has been systematically destroying local businesses preventing any alternatives. So low skill workers that used to work for smaller local stores involved in the community now have to work for the replacement. I would bet if there was an alternative people would prefer higher quality of life and pay over the scraps Amazon is willing to share.
I don't have a strong opinion on this, one way or the other. It's less verbose (which I like), and more familiar to those used to dynamic languages like python, matlab, etc. But this isn't my decision, I'm ok with either.
Pleasant writing style. If anyone is interested in this type of simplicity in noveks, read Naïve. Super by Erlend Loe.
It would be really amazing if one built an alphazero for AOE2, trained it on the ladder, and then entered it into hidden cup V without letting anyone in on the joke until the end.
The next step is to massively ramp up Power to X where excess electricity gets converted into more tangible products, such as ship/aircraft fuel, or put into storage.
it's in a new tab when you type something like "sinclair agent x music" into duck duck google
Maybe there’s more to ending this pandemic than a vaccine.
From the viewpoint of which country and under which definition of morality?
Oh ActiveX was definitely worse, I should know since I was using the internet plenty when it was prominent. My point is, though, that malicious actors still basically control the web. They may not be executing native code without any controls, but that doesn't mean that the modern web isn't still their playground.
n.b. for fellow readers: link is Wikipedia article called "United States involvement in regime change" - OP's implication every country involved is worse off for it is the usual surface-level analysis that's easy to make context-free, decades later, from the West - ex. I'm rather proud for the US being involved in regime change in most of these cases, and OP is too
I was in the same place as you but I broke my 16.04 and I was "forced" to upgrade.

Now I use Pop_OS with dash panel and it does the job. I use it on the bottom you can put it on the left side to imitate Unity. It's not the same but it's usable.

Now I can't recommend linux to anyone, though. I'm not going to explain everyone that they're going to install some extensions that may crash after an update if they want to be able to, let's say, see a bar with all your opened applications, which you can't do in Gnome.
Yeah exactly. That is the level of commitment needed to stay below 2 degrees of warming. The authors of that report worked backward from the goal of staying below 2 degrees and said, "what needs to happen in what timeframe to make that happen?" They found that if we started decades ago we wouldn't need a WWII-level of effort but since we waited so long we now have to move incredibly fast to electrify everything.

But the good news is that we can move that fast! We now know exactly what needs to happen (electrify everything) and in what timeframe (2035) to stay below 2 degrees and doing that will not only solve climate change but also create jobs, save us money, make us healthier, and improve our quality of life.
> So we are going to have to pay massive sums of money to wind producers to shut off production. And we are still going need masses of gas backup which is going to be used increasingly inefficiently to pick up the slack.

Ireland is a good example of this. One of the reasons that Ireland has not been able to increase wind farms is because they don't have the ability to export it rapidly. The last time the interconnect with GB was cut, they had to shut down a bunch of wind farms. There was big news a while ago about building a new interconnect to France which should allow for more wind farms in Ireland while relying on french "nuclear batteries"
To me it seems to be more of a volume data point rather than storage. So, it might only be terabytes of data, but for instance in ML algorithms, you could be running that data through the algorithm many times every two minutes. So by the end of the day, you've processed "petabytes" of data. This is just my interpretation of it. I could be wrong to.
Were the developers complicit in allow these exploits? That’s the bigger question. Are Apple and Microsoft intentionally leaving these things open?
I forsee periods of negative/cheap/free electricity becoming much more common. If your equipment is not used on average two days a week, the economics start to look a LOT more sensible even for more capital intensive, energy intensive applications.

At the moment pretty much every MWh generated is a substituted MWh not generated by gas and periods of negative pricing are still relatively rare.

Wind is so cheap though, that at some point, overproduction will become the norm rather than exceptional and being able to timeshift your usage could, unexpectedly, end up saving you more money than reducing your usage.

The counterintuitiveness of this and the fact that this is new territory is why I think that there's lots of profit potential.
"Play" sounds about right. I've enjoyed the exponential multiplier in prototyping+design speed I've gained as each new block was made.

"Mass produced" -- no mass-production plans yet, however... will be ordering and assembling at least a small-batch of boards for early-testers/adopters. Stay tuned through the website if you want to get on the list, depending on your use-case and experimental willingness.
A free nocode app for data exploration
From what I understand this counter-terrorism operation consisted in a well-crafted website that delivered malware to visitors by leveraging some undisclosed 0-days.

The obvious question is: if some malware is on a public website, who guarantees that only the "bad guys" will be targeted?

If you don't disclose the 0-days, who guarantees that your own citizens won't be targeted by the same kind of exploits on the very same vulnerable devices?

If you purposely keep a backdoor open in a device, who guarantees that the "bad guys" won't find that backdoor and use it themselves?

Although I usually disagree with Google's decisions a lot, this time I can't see much wrongdoing in their action.

Counter-cyber-terrorism is a double-edged sword, because it's about placing landmines and waiting for a bad guy to step on them. But nobody guarantees that only the bad guys will step on them. So it's probably time to end this "but we can do it because we're the good guys" rhetoric: it's very easy to get burned when you play with fire.
I had to build chat functionality into my own project. All I support is text and image/webm uploads. No, emojis. No edits, no quoting, no direct messaging. I wish there was a standard for this with implementations in every programming language. The only thing that I want to build myself is the UI.
If you're paying someone $20 to get out of parallel parking in your driving test; that's a bribe.

If you're paying someone $20 to pass your driving test after you performed a perfect parallel parking maneuver but they baselessly claimed you were "too far from the curb"; that's a facilitation payment.
> Don't tell me, tell the business people financing everything we build. By and large, they don't care, it's reflected in incentives and it's reflected in what we build.

Another common scapegoat for developers who write bad software. I just wish we had a little more integrity as an industry, especially since so many of us insist on calling themselves "engineers".
I like those, wish we had more of them. And to think we had VRML in the 90s.

Your inverse mouse dragging is counterintuitive and feels wrong though
I love it.

lukev 8 months ago [–]

> This is either something written by GPT-3, or the human equivalent. Zero substantive content, pure regurgitation.

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jackkinsella 8 months ago [–]

> Maybe you're new here, but your comment punches below the belt and isn't acceptable in a community like this.

> If you disagree, be civil and give reasons rather than throw insults.
Should my boss answer like that, I would be very offended, since I'm a fairly senior developer who doesn't want to manage people and thinks he knows where he's going. If he said that referred to the HR intern, well, he could be right (still offensive, but sometimes right) :)
> Is there a scientific (or even psedo-scientific) proof that they work for both parties?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-fulfilling_prophecy
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He mentioned in the comments that those two have specific positions for routing purposes.
Negative energy prices shouldn't really be a crisis, but what you're saying is, the way the whole grid works is changing due to the way that renewable energy is variable whereas traditional energy generation is constant. So this is just about "Change", and Change is awkard in the short term but can be handled in the medium term. Maybe we need new types of fossil power station that can be turned on and off faster. Maybe we need more intra-grid trading. Maybe we need more storage, or maybe we need more 'useful' things that use a lot of electricity that can be turned on to use the excess (seawater desalination, etc). The contracts with the wind producers will also need to change over time, obviously.

The problem here is not negative electricity prices - those are the opposite of a problem. The problem is the grid needs to re-adapt.
I tried downloading and signing up for the driver app on iOS. The quality of the apps are very very low. There are some grammar mistakes in the labels that makes me think the app is made by non English speakers. The phone number placeholder was specially weird. It was using a phone number from Iran in the placeholder!

I hope this works out but as all of us in the software industry know, making good software is time consuming and expensive. I'm not sure with low ride volume and not VC money they can afford building a good iPhone app.
same thing happened to my family many years ago. I don't think there's any way around it. there's a reason why they set up on the road to the airport. they know it's easily worth $100 to americans not to miss their flight.
LOL at England still being a Christian country. I think the citizens might take issue with your assertion.
It's the UK - nothing is that simple.

HM Land Registry is for England and Wales, Scotland has its own land registry (indeed a completely separate legal system) and NI does its own thing as well.
What I mostly miss from browsers is page numbering support. As far as I remember there is a standard but only a few commercial tools actually support it.
Even that list is not exhaustive as it excludes indirect involvement. For example it mentions Operation Condor in Latin America but excludes other countries affected by it (e.g. there is no mention of the US involvement in Argentina’s Dirty War of the 76: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_War)
I am not a manager, so I am merely speculating here, but I suspect measuring productivity is important in determining which employees are of most value to the company (who is pulling their weight, so to speak), particularly for example in the cases of raises/promotions or redundancies. Also, different people will have different skills and preferences, so if a team member shows a particular aptitude for a set of tasks and is generally more productive at doing those, it may be better to give more tasks of that style to that team member to boost productivity.
Let me introduce you to my lead...
Storage heaters, more efficient refrigerators, smart washers that turn on when electricity is cheap.

I really hope these kinds of things start to increase in popularity, but I think it needs more government intervention for it to happen.
> The OOP that dominates today originates with Simula and is part of another OO tradition.

Simula (and early Smalltalk) were an inspiration for Hewitt's Actor model, which directly influenced both Scheme and Erlang. They all have Simula as a fairly influential ancestor.

I'd place the origin of the OO that dominates today with C++ and continuing through Java and C#.
Why do people prefer UTF-8 coordinates? While for storage I think we should use UTF-8, when working with strings live it’s just so much easier to use UTF-16 because it’s predictable: 1 unit for the basic plane and 2 for everything else (the multi-character emoji and modifier stuff aside). I am probably biased because I mostly use and think about DOMStrings which are always UTF-16 but I’m not sure why people who use languages which are more flexible about string representations than JavaScript would not also appreciate this kind of regularity.
It's important that you can recover from this condition.

For example, I'm working on an NVR project. It has a SQLite database that should be placed on your SSD-based root filesystem and puts video frames on spinning disks. It's essentially a specialized DBMS. You should never touch its data except though its interface.

If you misconfigure it, it will fill the spinning disks and stall. No surprise there. The logical thing for the admin to do is stop it, go into the config tool, reduce the retention, and restart. (Eventually I'd like to be able to reconfigure a running system but for now this is fine.)

But...in an earlier version, this wouldn't work. It updates a small metadata file in each video dir on startup to help catch accidents like starting with an older version of the db than the dir or vice versa. It used to do this by writing a new metadata file and then renaming into place. This procedure would fail and you couldn't delete anything. Ugh.

I fixed it through a(nother) variation of preallocation. Now the metadata files are a fixed 512 bytes. I just overwrite them directly, assuming the filesystem/block/hardware layers offer atomic writes this size. I'm not sure this assumption is entirely true (you really can't find an authoritative list of filesystem guarantees, unfortunately), but it's more true then assuming disks never fill.

It might also not start if your root filesystem is full because it expects to be able to run SQLite transactions, which might grow the database or WAL. I'm not as concerned about this. The SQLite db is normally relatively small and you should have other options for freeing space on the root filesystem. Certainly you could keep a delete-me file around as the author does.
Bringing the inf. online will take time and needs government backing.

I have my issues with this Tory decade but in this small area they've absolutely smashed it out the park.
Explore How Facebook Hacker Hacks to Prevent Facebook Hack
The magazine doesn't, but advertisers are interested in using this as yet another way of fingerprinting you: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~anupamd/paper/NDSS2016.pdf [PDF warning]
Blokdots, Now Also on Windows
I don't go looking for it, and usually I don't proselytize about it. I just like learning in general, and unfortunately that includes understanding the many problems that exist in the world. Mad? No, not really. Depressed, maybe, in an impersonal kind of way. I don't know how you can avoid that, if you understand the way the world works.
Canadian oil workers who make $120k fresh out of high school with no education are never going to be satisfied with training for their new $70k clean energy jobs. The problem is good jobs, not just jobs. How bad does climate change have to be before the lost wages and income decline is worth it? That’s the real question that nobody ever wants to talk about.
LWN had a good story on this too:
+ [WireGuard bounces off FreeBSD—for now (LWN.net)](https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/850098/3daef578513bff15/)
Specifically: the various Five Eyes nations can share intelligence to the point where if the Americans can't access information on an American without a warrant, they can just ask the Brits to do it, and vice versa.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/20/us-uk-secret-d...
Assume the lever is steel.

The speed of sound in steel is approx. 10,000 ft/s.

The distance from Suez to Beijing is approx. 25,000,000 feet.

The time for a force to be applied in Beijing and a reaction in Suez would be ~2,500 seconds - or 1.7 days.
Yeah heat pumps are the answer to places like Scotland. As a bonus you get air conditioning.

They do have some problems with extreme cold (not really an issue in Scotland or most of Europe for that matter) but even in such a case should still be used together with plain resistance heating. But that kind of cold has very few people living there anyway (think -30c or colder)
UI/UX Design Explained
>No, the issue is it doesn't have high availability features: failover, snapshots, concurrent backups, etc. (Edit: oops, comment pointed out it does have concurrent backups.)

Actually, I think it's network access that is the issue. SQLite isn't really designed to have 4-5 network connected apps using it as a shared data store. In most shared hosting setups, database is treated as a network service, so you can have 200 different sites leveraging the same db server... and sometimes the db server isn't on the same hardware as the http server.
When was the last time "We the people" changed the Constitution in a technical way that left no room for interpretation by SCOTUS?