skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am acquainted with a disproportionate number of Oxbridge grads, mainly through my old school, which has always targeted those universities for its boys.

While everyone is smart and pleasant, there is the constant reinforcement that Oxbridge grads seek each other out throughout their lives to almost exclusively hang out with each other. I mean, as towns they're not exactly next door, but in London there is the joint Oxford and Cambridge club on Pall Mall so they can carry on as they were. They're often hopelessly insular in this regard and I have never quite understood it. Why your university would provide such a strong identity for yourself all your life, I don't get.
Professional ethics is taken very seriously by practicing engineers. Not to mention that there are very serious liability consequences for falsifying this sort of thing, taking shortcuts is a good way to end up in prison.

In my Country (Australia) as an Engineer there are potentially very serious legal consequences if I certify something or sign off on work some other engineer has done (like the contractor you suggested in example) without doing appropriate due diligence.

In my workplace an industrial plant, for example before we adjust any safety factors there is at minimum a documented risk assessment process carried out. My work justifying the change will need to be reviewed and signed off by two other engineers.
Extending it to LQI is not difficult
HMS Core 5.3.0 Release News-Huawei Developers
When you stated 'virtually everyone', I assumed >90%. So no, 60% is not that. It is still a terrifyingly high percentage nonetheless.
What kind of stuff is being stolen?
You need to read the whole book start to finish, and be open to its subtle reverse brainwashing. Personally the main eye openers were:

• Nicotine is scientifically proven to be incredibly physically addictive.
• The way this physical addiction plays out is when you smoke a cigarette the effects wear off within half to 1 hr, and whether you are aware of it or not your brain starts begging for another hit. Side note: this explains how the tobacco industry settled on 20 / 25 cigarettes in a packet, ie 1 cigarette every 30 mins to 1 hr per day.
• The stress / anxiety you think smoking is helping with are actually the resultant cravings caused by the last cigarette you smoked. Thus when you smoke you are in a constant state of withdrawal, it is like you are quitting all day every day.
• You are not "quitting" or "giving up" anything, you are addict who is deciding to make a change and stop.

There is lots of other stuff in there, I don't think the above spoils it. Cumulatively the book gets you into the headspace of viewing the journey of stopping as a positive healing process, to the extent that you can actually enjoy the withdrawals and cravings. No joke, it is that eye opening and convincing.
Canon Successfully Develops the World’s First 1-Megapixel SPAD Sensor
I actually like those ~ files everywhere, because it makes for an easy and (almost) universal undo. But it does make a mess, and I understand why you might not want them. I would be surprised if you can't turn them off, though... and I'm even more surprised they came back after an update, I wonder if you set it in the system config and not a personal config, so it got overwritten when you updated; but possibly the config value changed names too. :(

That's very frustrating, and I hope nano treats you well.
> Bitcoin has more social benefit than any other technology.

This is highly subjective. What about plumbing, electricity, or antibiotics?

Rank ordering technologies by their social benefits has major methodological problems. First, you can't consider any one technology in isolation; they exist in a network. Second, the value of a technology is relative to alternatives.
The other uncomfortable possibility is that there will be no safe way to project force overseas in the face of overwhelming land based systems, and that the US will be limited to projecting force around where it has terrestrial assets and away from rival powers.
This is an absolutely ridiculous claim given the number of people I know who've had a first cigarette and not touched a second. Business Insider claims 76% of the population have smoked and 24% have become addicted, while 92% have consumed alcohol and 14% have become addicted[0]. That's nowhere near "almost everyone", it's 31%, and 15% for alcohol.

[0] https://www.businessinsider.com.au/most-addictive-substances...
> I had a starling Revelation today. People just don't read anymore, instead they buy a book so they can take some photos for Instagram and then shove it under a couch or something.

There's some selection bias here, because you wouldn't know about all the people who do read but don't post it to instagram.
Most of my work is in native apps. It's just a better experience. The browser is great for communication, and it really shines for text based communication, but in my experience that's the only place where it outshines native apps. And remember, it's not like native apps can't back things up to the cloud, so there is a false dichotomy that you have to do everything in a browser that you want backed up to a cloud. I have no problem working with IntelliJ products and then pushing to a remote repo. My Photos, Music, etc are backed up to iCloud but aren't viewed in a browser either, etc. Zoom is launched with a browser link, but it opens a native app. MS Office has a cloud drive and is even sold as a service but I use the native Excel and Word rather than in-browser versions. I just don't see this migration to browser delivery for the apps I've been using.
I was editing a Word Document in MS Word just this afternoon. It was very unresponsive after sentence selection.

I decided to convert it to ePub, and edit it in the Calibre ePub Editor.

Fast again. Responsive.

I will convert it back to .DOC when I finish.
For one thing, first-person accounts, which are notoriously inaccurate to begin with, don’t provide enough information for an empirical investigation. Scientists can’t accurately gauge distances or velocity from a pilot’s testimony: “It looked close” or “It was moving really fast” is too vague. What a scientist needs are precise measurements from multiple viewpoints provided by devices that register various wavelengths (visual, infrared, radar). That kind of data might tell us if an object’s motion required engines or materials that we Earthlings don’t possess.

It's true that first-person accounts are sometimes inaccurate, but in the Nimitz case, we have, I believe, eight pilots in total who actually saw the object. The first incursion by David Fravor and his co-pilot Alex Dietrich and a second plane; and the second incursion - by other pilots which I don't know the names of - on which there's brief footage of the object[0]. Not only there's first-person accounts there's also devices which registered these objects. Nimitz caught these objects, in fact, they not only caught several of them, the incursions were made in order to check out what was going on.

I wish these "devices can be faulty," (knowing that people actually looked at the object in loco) "people can be bad first-person accounts" memes actually died once and for all in this particular case. It feels like people don't actually go out and do their due diligence. I feel people either aren't listening or paying attention. I'm okay with being skeptical - and I am one! - but lets be reasonable here. Lets listen to what people said, what the devices actually read, what the footage actually shows and what the story actually tells. Lets not just dismiss for the sake of it. Sometimes saying "hey I don't know what that is" is probably the most reasonable conclusion.

And no I'm not saying it's aliens, I'm just saying we don't know what those are. However, I do, like most people, know what those aren't.

I recommend watching:

The Nimitz Encounters (2019)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-e9NoKp8EnE

Joe Rogan Experience #1361 - Cmdr. David Fravor & Jeremy Corbell (2019)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eco2s3-0zsQ

David Fravor: UFOs, Aliens, Fighter Jets, and Aerospace Engineering (2020)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aB8zcAttP1E

Navy pilots recall “unsettling” 2004 UAP sighting (two weeks ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygB4EZ7ggig

There's certainly more out there, this isn't an exhaustive list.

[0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWLZgnmRDs4
Setting the Record Straight on Indian Point
They must have gone downhill then. They had a reputation early of being quality kits with quality components.
Yes, but it would be worse for everyone involved
This is an example where you don't need a UUID as the key (since you could have another field that stores this "secret" value), but it makes it very convenient if you do use UUID as primary key by default because you get that "secret" value for free (no need to create another column and index). In my projects I use it by default for all models. It comes in handy. Another use case is needing to know the primary key before inserting into the database (at either the front end or the backend, but typically the backend).
I'll definitely become a heavy Nyxt user.

First, I want to programmatically control what I see on some websites. For example, facebook, linkedIn, or more websites are too distracting, so I'd like to directly fetch some information from them with my signed-in accounts.

Second, I am a Common Lisp lover.
Wow, the Portuguese pronunciation, intonation and lipsync are incredibly accurate, 10x more so than the English voice. I wonder if that's true for other latin-ish languages and if that means those languages are easier to learn.
I think the point is moot, since even if you thought it was a tracker, there isn't much reason to believe that you are required to act any differently.
Mozilla did NOT spend the money on Firefox. You did hear how they fired their core engineers recently, didn't you?
All excellent points, and I think you should DM me on twitter to chat about this more. (I hope you will!)

DCT is on my radar. But there are several serious limitations that I think are overlooked. For example, convolution is no longer a simple component-wise multiplication. This seems, to me, a big deal.

Complex numbers are tricky to model, but I think most people have given up too easily, or haven't been creative enough in how they're modeling them. Some of my (outdated) ideas: https://gist.github.com/shawwn/c6865fccafac5066e1c7bab672781...

In other words, you're probably right, but I'm focused solely on FFTs on the (very low) chance that people have overlooked something that will work well.
Why do API companies have low churn rates?
Nothing bad about storing a lot of stuff in the database, as long as it runs on my computer. :)
what tv series was this?
Just spitballing here: what if we selectively notified users of updates when they'll be affected? So, when I'm using my spreadsheet program, and I go to sort the rows, a little note pops up informing me that there's a bug in sorting non-ascii characters that was fixed recently and would I like to update my word processor now or continue anyway?

I'm imagining some automated tooling where changelogs are tied to specific git commits, and when you go down a code path that has a changelog entry tied to it in this way, it pops up the dialog. The program downloads the changelogs in the background (if the user chooses), but doesn't pop up a notification unless it's relevant to the user.
I have meant to try if VMWare's vctl is any better regarding detecting file changes
> I don't buy the idea that literary criticism accomplished anything except act as gate keepers that ensured only the right voices were celebrated.

Go back to 1959 then. You had serious literary critics. You also had the New York Times bestseller list. How much overlap was there? I can't be sure, since that was a bit before my time, but I strongly suspect that the answer is "not much". The public didn't pay much attention to the highbrow critics back then, either.

What the highbrow critics did was gatekeep what the highbrow people read. Or perhaps what they admitted to read, or claimed that they read. The general public may have read the highbrow reviews - aspirational high-brow-ism was more of a thing in that day than it is now, I suspect - but I doubt it swayed the public's actual buying and reading habits all that much.
Okay, that was a weird read for me. The dissonance element is that the author seems to have transitioned away from using a computer and forgot to change their equipment. Let me explain what I mean by that.

I would speculate that the majority of "computer users" today, are simply "logged in users at terminal equipment"[1] as they say. Their terminal, which is typically a web browser (or a thinly skinned web browser "light" client), is connected to an application on the actual computer somewhere very far away. FWIW this is a very 70's and 80's vibe where you could access your application from any terminal that was connected to the computer hosting it after going through an authentication process. If you had a fancy "mult-page" termainal that could run several virtual terminal sessions then you could have "tabs" open to multiple applications. Today we have really really fancy terminals, they can have 50, 100, even 200 different sessions going on at once.

And with the author I agree, if your terminal is actually a computer that happens to be running a terminal application so that you can get to the things you really use to do your job or what not, then the metaphor is uses for organizing itself as a computer is outdated. For Apple fans iOS is that terminal of choice, Chrome "OS" is that for Google apps. There isn't a Microsoft version of this yet that I'm aware of.

In my opinion, tt is this "terminal-ness" of the usage that is most single handedly responsible for the absolute stagnation in perceptible performance improvements. No matter how fast your local machine runs, it can't make the network or the remote system any faster so your user experience is the same. Not true for locally hosted applications like games of course (not something terminals were able host locally.)

All of that is a long way to say "You want to design a better iOS/ChromeOS then go for it."

[1] This is the origin of the term "lusers" or logged in users.
That sounds really overkill for simply wanting an identifier that doesn't change, isn't guessable, and doesn't reveal how many rows there are
This just happened (well, from 2019 to about a week ago the arrests were made).
> There is nothing wrong with that.

The wrong part is that this is not disclosed anywhere discoverable. While they toned down how blatant their claims were, as the article shows, their banners still create the impression that they're struggling to just barely stay alive, not building an endowment.

I've looked into Wikimedia's finances before and completely missed the endowment.

Take a look at https://wikimediafoundation.org/about/annualreport/2020-annu... - I see no mention of money going from Wikimedia to the Endowment. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/f/f7/Wikim... mentions it in passing among other examples of their project work.
Not the same reactor, but this high speed video gives a great perspective inside a fusion reactor.

https://youtu.be/IhHsOwLdCu4
All policy decisions aside… At an individual level (in the US), it’s prudent because over the last 50 years homes have been shown to keep their value and beat inflation. For many people it’s a rare chance to accumulate wealth, especially if there is a bubble forming in their market. Therefore, they have an interest in whether their neighbors make decisions that lower their home value.
Considering the people who installed the malicious device was the police, I think it's questionable logic.

For many people, the police are an actively antagonistic threat, not protectors of safety. In this very case, they used legal threats against her. Why would she trust them with her safety?
> Why isn't this the norm on desktop - ad supported but free software? Why aren't there ad networks for desktop apps like there are for mobile apps and web content?

My guess is because the desktop model doesn't assume live internet access. My understanding of ad networks is that they involve a live bidding process against interested parties at the moment you load the page. This allows integration of live geo data, what you just searched, what you just looked at previously, etc. And you don't need to reconcile what was served if an app goes offline then rejoins for charging the advertising account.
Unfortunately that's not always feasible. I use Cura a 3D printing slicer (takes a 3D model, generates instructions for your printer), and it's one of the best at what it does (slicing). The UX is horrible though and is clearly 'designed by programmers' with little thought into how people will actually use it. And every time I upgrade there's a 50/50 chance it'll forget all my settings (there's lots of things you need to tweak and customise specific to your printer) and I'll need to start from scratch. Dealing with these issues is easier that switching to different software and learning it from scratch.
That's a facile comparison. Novels written by people who aren't millionaires isn't "replacing literature with social media" any more than teaching the classics is replacing literature with religion. More creatives having more opportunity to reach an audience is a good thing. People being able to read what makes them happy is a good thing.
In this specific example. It is Bose that keep their pricing. And it is likely Bose and Amazon have deals that are not of the same percentage as other sellers. Just like Apple and Amazon's deal.
My work uses SiL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safety_integrity_level

But I think this is more an electrical engineering thing (for control systems and interlocks and such) not sure how applicable it is to general software.
So your solution to organizing files... is more files? How would multiple files use the same "tag" under that scheme, without duplicating it everywhere?

Tags are very powerful if used properly. They describe sets by definition and allow quick filtering with intersections and other set operations. If the filtering is a bit smarter it can support boolean operators, or use tag distance and order as a meaningful data point so that e.g. "discussion board" doesn't return the same results as "discussion snow board".

They're a more flexible way to organize data than hierarchical directories. Hierarchy can easily be expressed with tags (use any character as separator, e.g. "os.linux"), but files and directories are not nearly as expressive enough for all the use cases tags can be used for.
No, it could require that, but it doesn't.

That's what I'm saying. If the rules don't say what happens if everyone passes, assuming that no one gets the property is a very reasonable assumption. Assuming that we're requiring people to make $1 bids, or that the landing player has a "penalty," is an unreasonable assumption if the rules don't say that explicitly.
Access to the Internet in Canada, 2020
I'd like to be able to enable email notifications for just payment link payments. Currently only option is all successful payments.

Link page: "Get an email after every successful payment by managing your settings."

Settings page: "Successful payments. Receive a notification for every successful payment."
Pretty meaningless without data on the input power, isn't it?
Dev should look just like production if you are doing it right, and you are correct dev was basically an afterthought in Docker.

If you run this in a screen session it will auto rebuild as you make changes, which is the closest I've been able to come to containerizing my development style:
https://gist.github.com/mikedamm/53dc6a78b976eeac88893427424...
US employers value reliability, communication, discipline and willingness to accomodate US time zones.

You may say that lower rate developers will give them lower quality of above. Which is true.
A Canadian study gave $7,500 to homeless people
> [Bitcoin] and saves the environment by not incentivizing overconsuming.

First, Bitcoin's tremendous energy usage is a major negative for the environment.

Second, please explain the connection you see between Bitcoin and "not incentivizing overconsuming".
The way Linux puts the package manager front-and-center is pretty cool, but in my experience it doesn't result in a very up-to-date system. You might have a version of OpenOffice that is years out of date. Oh, you want the latest version? You need to update your Ubuntu 16.04 first, it'll say!

I'm a programmer and still this makes no sense to me. Windows and Mac somehow let me use the latest OpenOffice even if I haven't updated my OS in forever.
Are good headphones really expensive, or just trendy ones?
I don't smoke, but my roommate does. After living in the same house for a couple of years, now, I think I understand the social aspect of why people start. A cigarette break is the perfect amount of time to sit down and have a little chat, and provides a reason to stop once it's done, too. Meet on the deck, catch up on each other's day, see you later, back to work. That kind of thing.
Or the Bodo League massacre - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodo_League_massacre

Which then reminds me of how neglected the Indonesian mass killings of Communists, trade unionists, and minority groups in 1965-66 is in the west - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesian_mass_killings_of_19...
I wonder why the US doesn’t produce a bunch of WW2 style carriers with light aircraft or helicopters. I’m aware the US has several helicopter carriers, but I would imagine we could build dozens of the things for the price of a nuclear carrier. Obviously they wouldn’t stand up to a near peer competitor but they could be useful for small scale conflicts with far less advanced militaries, which seems to be the pattern lately.

Update: It looks like there are such things, called “amphibious assault ships”. Apparently there are 7 of this type https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasp-class_amphibious_assaul... and 2 of a more recent type https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/America-class_amphibious_ass.... It seems they’re about the same length and overall size as a WW2 carrier.

So that’s interesting. So there are 11 large nuclear powered carriers and 9 of these smaller type. That’s already kind of a lot.
"You wouldn't start building a house when it's uncertain that you have enough money to be able to complete the project."

Sorry for the completely OT reply, but this triggered me because it is exactly how banks in Thailand do lending to build a house. Once all the details and total cost are known, the bank lends about half of the needed amount and then checks on your progress. If you didn't get about half the house built they don't fund the remainder.
Nintendo Sues ROM Site into Oblivion
Predicate Logic for Programmers
I think Taler is the closest heir of Chaum's DigiCash around today.
To elaborate, quoting Forbes, JetBrains has some links back to Russia. Shafirov is Russian, as are its three cofounders: Sergey Dmitriev, Eugene Belyaev and Valentin Kipiatkov. Three of its six research and development centers are also based in Russia, alongside its bases in Germany, the Netherlands, the U.S. and the Czech Republic.
I have no particular expertise with modern databases and it has been decades since I did any work as a DBA.

However, I cannot imagine creating table entries without a datestamp. No matter what else you are doing, or what you index by, I would want YYYY-MM-DD_HH-MM-SS in every row.

Maybe I'm just weird that way ...