skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why? Stderr is meant to be a secondary "messy" output stream mainly for human consumption. The name is wrong. It should just be "output2". If the original poster on SO had correctly used stdout and ignored stderr, this would never have been a problem.
It would be cool if it has notion like "/" commands to inject codeblocks and other assets.

Nice project!
They are a legally recognised/defined artificial construct - which is quite important.
People are easily "surprised" these days
I really was clueless at the time and figured it would take at least $400-500 to get a decent starter bike. Thankfully I wound up coming across a used bicycle sale in Brooklyn shortly after and picked up an old Giant for $150. Have probably done a couple of thousand miles on it since!
Paserk: Platform Agnostic SERialized Keys
I seem to remember these birds standing on tables next to me at outdoor cafes the same as a cheeky pigeon would in other countries.
a number of q's:

1. isn't AZN available?

2. how many lockdowns have there been in Australia overall?

3. is there any criticism regarding closing the borders for so long considering you're now in a lockdown?
More pythonbell!
Then patent offices will generate adversarial AI review examiners. Together the AI trolls and AI examiners might for the first time produce true innovation out of the patent-giving process
The point is that the way people typically think of the problem leads to examples like mine, and this is why the concept is unintuitive. It doesn’t matter whether the model is correct—the whole point is that it is the incorrect model many people will have or start with.
> From my historic experience with both, the GIMP project always seemed actively hostile to UI change suggestions

We ask for rationalization of suggested changes. For some reason people think it's hostile.
More realistically, all of those warnings were actually quite right, and catastrophic global warming is well on its way, with almost all recent years being the hottest that we know of.

And about this Lomborg individual, I have no idea why anyone would listen to economists (people whose entire field is predicated on models which assume no major changes in the world) about what is necessary to combat catastrophic climate change - this what his think tank is all about.
In a sense... IE, the professor behind this is obviously making a clickbait-ey point. The article is just reporting on it.
I wrote this pre-pandemic, back in January of 2020. I was able to snag a bike at a used bike sale a few weeks after writing it. Congrats on your new bikes!
I don't think software is capable of wanting anything. As a FOSS user the less "seriousness" the better. Life is just more fun with jokes. I love that I can build "sudo" with an option to have it insult me when I get my password wrong. Who wants to live a serious life?
Ah yeah really good point, thanks.
M4 promised so much. There was CP/M-version too. But it was like Prolog, after one page of code you lost all control and comprehension. And enthusiasm.
Redoing the features and the home pages is on the todo list already :)
You didn't address the licencing issue.
1.5% of the genome sounds like a crazy big number. If that much of genome went the wrong way, we could be dragons.
‘Working Backwards’ to finally make remote work work
What kind of hyper-politicized, conspiracy-minded sociopath doesn't count "saving human lives from an easily preventable illness" as a reasonable argument? Get out there in the world and talk to some people who have lost loved ones in this pandemic and maybe they can reason with you.
Wait, is it just me or does either of these two more recent songs sound a lot like the first one of those Monkey Island songs?

ItaloBrothers - Stamp on the ground. 2009. https://youtu.be/cHcVU5cGUNE

Basshunter - DotA. 2008. https://youtu.be/qTsaS1Tm-Ic
That may be true but it often ruins StackOverflow as a repository of answers. There’s nothing worse than actually needing to do X only to find a StackOverflow page where 10 different answers give 10 different Ys.

Or when X needs to be done but instead all the comments hector the question with useless criticism.
Plenty of commercial software contain easter eggs as well.
Numbr – Notepad+calculator App for the Web
Country, city, company and level of seniority influence compensation a lot more than the area of CS/software development that you focus on.
After said trolls force the hand of the government to invest in a sufficient adversarial network.
Fake mail with infected attachment is still the usual way for ransomware if it isn't an inside job or a weakly protected service account from another compromised partner.

Best defense is working backups with regular snapshots. Patient data would still be exposed and I think the only way to mitigate this is collecting the lowest amount of data possible.

Ideally patient data is encrypted in a way that the patient himself would need to provide the password to access the information as just-in-time decryption.
Why does pizza taste metallic to me when I eat it on a boat?
Meanwhile Israel is one of the top 5 most vaccinated countries in the world and the US has a travel warning against them.

Isn’t Iceland also extremely well vaccinated and they started another lockdown?
I read the entire article as I was interested in that aspect too. Misleading title.
To answer your questions, one need only look through the lens of incentives. What are people motivated to do?

> If we are really on the brink of an existential crisis then why haven’t we been panic-building nuclear plants for decades? ... nuclear has been widely panned amongst the environmental cadres for decades.

Making nuclear power into a bogeyman was the fossil fuel industries' first and most wildly successful astroturfing campaign. Co-opting the nascent environmentalist movement in the 1950s was a stroke of genius.

The incentives for fossil fuel miners are, I hope, obvious here.

The incentives for politicians are about keeping their jobs. Say things to stay visible in the media; do what your donors want. Those people in the future? They won't vote for me next election.

So yes, you are right in that politicians are saying things for political gain. Scientists and engineers make really bad politicians though; they tend to say what they believe to be true.

For politicians you could add incredulity, inertia, and distraction as well if you wish.

Incredulity: they lack the skills to evaluate what scientists say, so they rely on heuristics: the climate is stable. Inertia: meetings and more meetings. Distraction: there are always more visible and understandable "crises" (really, bike-shedding) that serve equally well or better.

And narcissism too: no-one honours people who prevented crises; they remember the hero of the hour. (See: the widespread belief that Y2K was a big hoax, rather than there being a day of gratitude that the world's financial systems didn't seize up for 18 months.)

My expected scenario is this: panic after a few really large weather events in the 2030s (say, 10 million or more dead in a prolonged heatwave, or a bunch of them, and/or simultaneous crop failure--down 40% or more--in 3 of the 5 major grain-growing regions of the world, twice in five years, and/or really serious flooding in major urban areas).

I expect to see the beginnings of serious government action in the 2040s. If I'm still alive.
The spiritual industry has been taken over by what I call the Positivity Mafia-- always be happy, cheerful, never face your problems.

The problem is compounded by the Law of Attraction Gang, who claim that *any* negative thought will attract untold misery.

And so you have a bunch of people sharing spiritual memes on Facebook with nothing original to say
"At its peak at the end of the 19th century, the U.S. ice trade employed an estimated 90,000 people. By this time, Norway had become a major competitor, exporting a million tons (910 million kg) of ice a year. And during the California gold rush, ice began to be ordered from the then Russian-controlled Alaska to keep up with demand."
Australia is a wealthy, well connected country. Is there a good explainer somewhere of why it's so far behind on the vaccine roll out? Looking at Canada, which I'd naively place in a similar category, and they're over 80%.
It certainly does in EU countries. The political will is there. Maybe even too much of it sometimes, meaning that politicians expect antitrust regulators to object to market activity that regulators pretty clearly don‘t consider an issue.
I use "ESC-c" a lot. It calls fzf and fd, you type a part of your directory name, hit enter, and it cd's to that directory.

export FZF_ALT_C_COMMAND='fd --type directory'

That's in my .zshenv.

It's incredibly useful if you have multi-layered project directories. Like ~/Projects/Terraform/Cool_Project - you'd hit esc-c, type cool, hit enter and you're in the place you wanted to be.
Interesting question, considering that they're "wet" electrons in a dynamic environment, I'd say the effect would be not so much different from applying a magnetic field to any other solution with dissolved unpaired electrons. So: fun for doing electron spin resonance studies, nothing spectacular otherwise.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron_paramagnetic_resona...
Speaking in this case isn't simply speaking words out loud intelligibly, but the entire process of thinking and communicating ideas in a foreign language. There is almost always a gap in your knowledge with regards to what you can understand being said and what you can actually say which is why I say it is harder, even if you can say everything that you can say fluently.
> "I want X. I think alternative solutions like Y won't work because..."

Listing all of the things you don't want to do would not only take up more words and effort than the question about what you do want to do, but is hopeless. Somebody who doesn't know the answer to your question but still wants to comment will find something that you were unaware you didn't want to do.

It's better just to answer questions directly, and then when somebody uses that solution and it doesn't get them closer to the solution to their real problem, they'll ask a better question.
All you have to know is that people on the right are very angry at perceived liberals and in attack mode driven by revenge, grievance and resentment fostered by media owned by Murdoch. There's no room for discussion, only attack, and I won't be abused.
The Birth of Unix with Brian Kernighan (2020)
Not the OP but I believe that AZ is available but only for the over 60s.
That reads to me as if the framers of the Constitution were in favor of patents* (limited time exclusive rights) as being supportive of progress in science and technology.

Are you arguing otherwise? (I can’t tell exactly what you’re referring to as “parent”.)

* (and copyright, but patents are the subject here)
Does that mean you consider yourself toxic, too... Or perhaps that he actually isn't?

(Genuinely asking, haven't looked at him yet. Just seems to stand to reason.)
This is most often the cause for ransomware and it mostly is just an executable. Exploits in PDF/Word/image viewer are quite rare.
Now give that AI a ethereum smart contract company and make it CEO of said company :D
Just because the network is virtual and in a data center you don't own doesn't mean standard networking principals go out the window, you still have to setup the network as you see fit.

Maybe folks are just annoyed at the complexity and want something more plug and play which is understandable. The default vpc usually is fine enough for most everyone out of the box.
There's no blunder. That's how The Simpsons handles ageless characters on a show that's almost old enough to run for president.
The maintainer of VLC is French. We have a culture of parody and making fun of everything.

This costs lives - people in France are killed because they made fun of the imaginary friend of some people. This is horrible and, unfortunately, we as a society start to give up. Teachers are told to be sensitive and not show pictures of gods, tomorrow this will be creationism and homeopathy and we will end up as another US.

I get offended all the time, but people are free to express their minds without fear. Even if they are obviously wrong because they do not agree with me (whom in contrast is always right and they do not get it).

Blackmail, master git branch, blacklists - all these changes are simply idiotic and the people who are proud of having changed that (and removing a hat on an IDE) probably do not realize that everyone officially tells them that we are proud of not offending them anymore, and when the micros are off they are called negros, twags and whatever word is painful to them. This is really sad.

They are the first ones to lose here, by having invisible walls built around.

I have a very good friend (a woman) who left a great company because she joined when the "diversity" program was live. She was told by her male colleagues that it used to be who you know, who you sleep with and now if you are a good match for diversity. She was brilliant but could not stand that and left for a smaller and more normal company.

All these forced ratio and PC is really against the ones it tries to help or make comfortable or not offend. And to be clear - having been on the receiver side of such campaigns (a minority), it took some time to build trust wit the ones who were not part of the minority. I also felt how it is to be a mnority as a kid - and it was horrible.

But PC is not the way to fix that.

I used somewhere else the analogy of catholics in France. They are being made fun of, they react (or not) but it ends here. This is the reason why they are integrated to French culture, and protected by this culture. The village I live in has a yearly mass outside of the church. As a complete atheist I find this great because this is a tradition and I like to see the folklore (whihc is faith for the ones who attend the mass). OTOH catholics do not try anymore to actively get in your bed to check what you do there, or try to push some god into our school books. And we like them.
That looks really useful, thank you. Plus when you use it, you can chant "GRON. GRON" like you're an Orc about to attack Minas Tirith!
The thing is, at least in my experience, until you work for someone (and especially alone) you have no feel for what constraints are. Especially in programming today.. we have almost infinite compute power and storage (unless you develop something very very demanding) so it's so easy to go wild.

My only lone "pro" gig (and from scratch) I gained a knowledge about what is critical to make your project coast smoothly and how nothing else matters at all. You want clear / small / predictable changes toward a goal that can make you feel finished and solid rapidly. Unlike the neverending projects reboot with grandiose attempts at pure abstractions, that I used to do.
APL-family languages don't use the term "broadcast". They may support leading axis agreement (https://aplwiki.com/wiki/Leading_axis_agreement).
Onboarding for contributors is very high on my TODO list :)

https://www.dropbox.com/s/tll8m18gyh1o1is/gimp-contributor-o...

I'd appreciate actionable feedback on that plan.
As a european(Belgian) I can only anecdotally tell you: no, it doesn't. They're the same instrument of collusion with the employer to keep wages down for the many in exchange for benefits of the upper few while also serving as the counterweight that keeps both the incompetent and the malicious firmly fixed in place. To put it in current days' terms: they're a major source of toxicity.
Ah, the joy of cherry-picked analogies. Let's replace the musket with an AK-47, how does it look now?

Yes, M4 is a macro processor. A pretty decent one that is well-known and will not surprise you with incompatible changes or newly introduced bugs. Nobody suggested using it for more.
Sure, and that's exactly what the rich corporations want. They'd rather see people fighting each other over gendered pronouns than threatening to burn the factory down due to rampant exploitation of workers.
Many companies actually have guys like this, but they work in internal IT and are chronically understaffed. Security isn't on the mind of people when they complain about a misbehaving printer.
By birds, do you mean the flying animals or what British men refer to girls when they go out?
Spoilsports.
Seems like a dumb thing for your friend to do for you when that photo will be part of a permanent database.
this looks nice and clean. Generally, the problem with these services is that they can easily be used for malicious purposes -- fronts for data exfiltration, scamming etc., so there will be some cost attached to responding to various queries and takedown requests

https://mediasonar.com/2019/07/11/pastebins-data-breach/
They actually opened a Red Hat support case to get the Easter egg removed.
The title of this submission was changed, originally it did claim that this was the EU's position, which is why I posted that quote.
Sure, it's not really mysterious. I don't use Microsoft or Apple OSes (I use Linux right now, but I'm transitioning to BSD because I'm not comfortable with the direction Linux is going)

I don't use Google services.

I don't use cloud services or social media. Instead, I run my own servers to provide services that cover the same needs.

I use a custom Android ROM, but ultimately will cease using a smartphone altogether and go back to a feature phone.

As with all things security and privacy related, my approach is an imperfect tradeoff, of course.
How are Perl and Python remotely "mostly the same"? Python has crippled lambdas, ugly dunders, indentation for structure and no built-in regex support.
Please make a Nix derivation so we don't have to think about those horrible installation instructions.
So you disregard the Nature study because being peer reviewed does not imply quality, you disregard the non-peer-reviewed studies because they aren’t peer reviewed and therefore are low quality, and you cite an article about how ‘scientists are baffled’ at data showing lockdown might not have had an effect despite your assertion that there ample scientific studies showing that lockdowns have no effect already and that it is already ‘proven beyond doubt’.

> This has no more validity than an HN post linking to a bunch of blogs. They were probably forced to rely on such papers to try and get their desired result.

How is this different to you linking to a news article with about the same level of analysis as a blog post, that specifically says no conclusions can be drawn from the reported observations. One that you have also clearly selected to support your own desired result.
Yeah, the Dari course was notoriously bad quality and rife with controversy with some of the highest failure rates in the entire Presidio at the time. Not sure if anything's changed at this point?
I think a bike is one of those items that you have to try out before you buy it, so I would not buy it online and I also would not go to Google to research it (at least initially).

When I was in the market for a new bike a few years ago, I looked at Yelp to find the 5-6 bicycle shops with the best rating in my city. Then I went to each shop and told them what I wanted from my bike and my budget.

This process went very well. Not only am I supremely satisfied with my purchase, even after a couple of years, but I also found a new great bicycle shop that I go to for repairs and upgrades and stuff.
In addition to that I find it confusing that the term kernel is often implicitly defined as kernel := linux kernel, although there are many other kernels where `git bisect run` is useful.
What use do you have for running the “man” command with no arguments?
> This electrical 'fluid' is an excellent reflector of light waves

Thanks, though I'm actually wondering about a deeper question: why is this so? Why do loose plasma-like electrons make metals reflective (or, roughly equivalently, how does adding extra electrons make a non-metal like water more reflective)?

To continue on this topic, the 'bands' I referred to are clusters of energy levels corresponding to the orbitals of the atoms. (I found this neat explanation: https://chem.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Inorganic_Chemistry/... ). Apparently, metallic reflectivity comes down to the fact that metals have overlapping "valence" and "conduction" bands. This allows electrons in the lower "valence" band to be excited to the higher "conduction" band and then fall back down and emit photons - which is reflection.

Therefore, in the case of water with extra electrons, the additional electrons may be causing the valence and conduction bands to come closer together - maybe by filling up the valence band and bringing the top of the band closer to the conduction band?

Just wanted to speculate on the chemistry of this discovery a bit, I've always found the science interesting.
While I agree with you about the incorrect search being used, I disagree that bike review results will give anything more useful. Many "reviews" are also collections of affiliate links, disguised as a review.
I have indeed! I've used Faust quite a bit over the past few years, and it was very much an inspiration for Elementary. In general I wanted a tool that meant I could think and work on my dsp in the same way that I think and work on my UI, and with the same language even.
I am sorry for spamming this comment, but I wanted to share it with all the fzf users because I found it so game-changing:

I use "ESC-c" a lot. It calls fzf and fd, you type a part of your directory name, hit enter, and it cd's to that directory.

export FZF_ALT_C_COMMAND='fd --type directory'

That's in my .zshenv.

It's incredibly useful if you have multi-layered project directories. Like ~/Projects/Terraform/Cool_Project - you'd hit esc-c, type cool, hit enter and you're in the place you wanted to be.
This can be done also without listing AI as the inventor. What was stopping them yesterday from generating random patents and is not stopping them today with this?
What does the automatic test EVEN DO?
Well, I don't have much choice! Without passion for it, I would have no career. I couldn't keep doing this if it were just about the money.
There's also an even worse thing here. If you search for a product under shopping on google, something that is somewhat known like a certain TV model, and you'll see most SHOPPING results are from websites that actually don't sell anything, but rather will have a "product page" where either the buy button is disabled or redirects to amazon. They typically have much lower prices, or just low enough so you'll click.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.
> to solve our problems

What exactly are your problems?

(Asking for a friend.)
Take a look at the Swiss hospital stats. Many countries don't provide hospitalization stats regularly, keep them secret, or corrupt them in various ways, for example in the UK there was a blowup just a few days ago because it turned out over half of all COVID hospitalizations appeared to be catching COVID in the hospital itself meaning those stats were giving an inflated impression of hospital load. These numbers were leaked despite their importance to understanding the severity of the epidemic. But the Swiss stats are open and public.

https://www.covid19.admin.ch/en/hosp-capacity/total

As you can see, it never got above ~80% utilization, even though Switzerland's second wave peaked many weeks before restrictions were re-imposed. The Swiss system is well funded, but it's not an alien planet. If they can do it any developed country can. Also remember that lots of places built emergency hospitals. They were invariably never used.

Or look at Swedish data.

https://www.folkhalsomyndigheten.se/contentassets/4b4dd8c7e1...

Sweden started the pandemic with the lowest ICU capacity in the EU yet their age adjusted mortality only reached the same level as in 2012 - not even a "once in a decade" level problem.

https://softwaredevelopmentperestroika.wordpress.com/2021/01...