skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IPCC does consider tundra, methane, feedback loops.

https://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/wg2/en/ch4s4-4...

Citations elided:

"Arctic and sub-Arctic ecosystems (particularly ombrotrophic bog communities, see Glossary) above permafrost were considered likely to be most vulnerable to climatic changes, since impacts may turn Arctic regions from a net carbon sink to a net source. Literature since the TAR suggests that changes in albedo and an increased release of methane from carbon stocks, whose magnitudes were previously substantially underestimated, will lead to positive radiative climate forcing throughout the Arctic region."
I agree, those look awesome. I have done some hand forging, so I do understand how much effort goes to make those axe heads. They also look stunning beautiful. Great craftmanship. Fiskars' axes on the other hand are pretty awesome in their own right. It's hard to compare handcrafted tools to Fiskars. I would prefer to use Gränsfors, although they are probably too good for me — do I have a right to use such a great tool?! On the other hand, I have little to complain about Fiskars. Thanks!
I'm not sure if this is supposed to be a joke, or...?
> Manholes covers are round because that is the shape that won’t fall in

It's worth mentioning that this oft-repeated canard doesn't have much evidence. Manhole covers come in a great many shapes, and this has always been true: the Romans made them square. There are plenty of shapes which won't fall in, such as any curve of constant width. Basically fake-Feynman is right: manhole covers are round because it is often convenient to make manholes round.
> When I found out I would be working on porting an old Python codebase to Node

"Out of the frying pan and into the fire" is not a programming direction I would recommend. (I don't think I've met a single Node developer who isn't bitching about it.)
Correlation, no mater how "strong" is not a causation. A causation must be proved experimentally. Statistical sampling does not constitute a valid experiment. Statistical inference is not an equivalent to a logical inference and they cannot be used interchangeably. Unproven statistical models are no better than astrological calculations or metaphysics.
I have seen at least one set of studies where yogis in a deep state of meditation are asked to focus their consciousness on an active particle detection experiment, and the results seem to indicate some anomalies directly correlated with the yogi's direction of focus. The scientist's name escapes me, and was someone who had an active libel campaign running on his Wikipedia page.
The only link I may imagine, classic mechanics is too deterministic to explain free will. Quantum mechanics, on the other side, has uncertainty as its fundamental principle.
Better article from the Atlantic in 2016: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/11/quantum-...
or simply "host" !
Yes, I still remember what a PITA it was to identify a motherboard that both supported ECC and allowed enabling it in the BIOS for my last AMD build (circa 2007). I still remember reading about boards that offered "ECC support", but had no way to enable it in the BIOS, change the scrubbing time, etc. And how relieved I was that whatever I wound up with did indeed have full ECC support.

Then again, buying Xeon boards with ECC support for desktop use has been "fun" as well, but for the opposite reason. I actually had to go with a USB sound card when I built my wife's e3 xeon setup.
> There’s no denying the fact that we are living in an age, where Big Data analytics seems to be the key to achieving unsurpassed success. Whether it’s a startup or an established business, data analytics happens to be a crucial necessity.

We're getting closer than ever to the world's first Turing-complete thinkpiece bot.
What a fun interview it would be to actually do this.

My favorite interview was for an architect position, where my two future peers took turns telling me horror stories about working there, to see if I would run away screaming. I got the job and only ran away screaming 18 months later.
It's very common that startups have such issues. You've got a bunch of younger inexperienced managers and an inexperienced HR department.

What I don't understand is, why don't investors compel such valuable startups to get experienced HR? Do they calculate that the lawsuits will cost less than outsourcing HR or otherwise getting adult supervision? Or are they just blind to it?
If you want to become dictator being President is a much better position to be in than Prime Minister.
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Maybe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirvana_fallacy is closest?
More Knives (http://morakniv.se/en/). They're super ergonomic, really hard wearing, and great steal. And best of all, they're about 1/4 the price of any equivalent blade.

Also, Mercator knives (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercator_K55K), I carry one every day, and use it most days. Good steel and shape, and super thin so they fit in any pocket.
I agree, and suspect many people (outside of the statisticians who have had the time and space to digest the philosophical underpinnings) who claim to love Bayesian methods do so because they have been told it's the right thing to love. There are a lot of hand-wavy explanations out there that tell you what each side believes, but I have yet to see something that truly ELI5s it.
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>forcing you to buy specialized hardware anyway.

The link is literally a MBO claiming support for ECC and from what I can tell it will be ~170$ - which is not really unreasonable.
That's an interesting command! (note: on FreeBSD, just "hosts", there's no "ahosts")

I usually use drill(1) (from unbound, which is part of base on FreeBSD), or dig(1) on Linux boxes that don't have unbound.

Also turns out that that replace command is also part of MySQL. LOL WTF MYSQL?!
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It might be helpful if there was some sort of statistic for comment threads. % of readers that read the comments vs % of readers that commented. It might be a valuable way to determine when comment threads are inhabited by vocal minorities.
SFML (2D game framework)
I want a better, deeper understanding for things that are built on math, like cryptography and physics. Math should help me understand topics I enjoy more.

Lately I feel like I'm hitting a brick wall with cryptography. For example, I know what algorithms are secure but I can't tell you why as I don't understand the math behind it. I took the Cryptography 101 course on Stanford which used discrete probability. I didn't get very far into the course.

It's possible some of this just comes from me trying to fix the feeling ashamed problem but it's just making me miserable. What I ought to do is stop beating myself up.
If you have a way to prevent things like this prior to their happening, I'm sure these newspapers (and many other industries) would love to hear it.

Until then, things like this will happen. Assuming all media is bad because of these incidents is silly.
> the wannabe dictator is the one being targeted by the deep state

Who is targeting the attack, and why it's finely targeted? It seems naive to postulate a single wannabe dictator when you can't know the details.

On that kind of fight there's always the risk that a shadier player wins.
Neutral vs. Opinionated Platforms
Stanford's NLP course is a good place to start learning about the theoretical knowledge: https://youtube.com/watch?v=nfoudtpBV68

Then it highly depends on the language; for instance tokenization (split sentence into words) is really easy in English, Spanish, etc compared to Japanese, Chinese, etc. So I would say a good starting point would be to try using a NLP parser for a similar language. What language is it? What kind of NLP analysis do you want to perform?
Bic Cristal Ballpoint pen. Blue.
Clickable video-essay on trolling and the complicity of content platforms
There is no principled reason you can't compute a p-value from a sample size of 1.
Why are search engines getting involved in censorship? I understand that they need to blank out certain sites as required by law, but omitting them entirely is a bad move. When I perform a search I want it to search the web, not the approved-web.
The Jonas peeler for peeling fruit and veg

https://www.amazon.com/Linden-Sweden-Jonas-Peeler-Original/d...
That does not create a jurisdiction to charge someone. Just a justification (in the eyes of US citizens) to kill them straight away.
Modern manhole covers are overwhelmingly round, and cast as not to fall into their own fitting, also cast. Not sure how a obscure counter example does anything other than disprove your point further. Source: worked IT for public civil engineer for a few years.
> people don't really care about FM radio on their cell phones.

Thanks for all that data! I loved my last phone with a radio.
Loved my early 2000s KLR 650. I'm hardly a mechanic, but I did my own top end and bottom end work on it (full engine teardowns), and it always started back up.

Motorcycles require quite a bit more maintenance than cars, and having one where I was comfortable fixing every part on it was awesome.
This is interesting, actually.

As the language is specified, it's not wrong to just ignore that add completely -- the variable isn't used inside the goroutine, and you're not guaranteed a goroutine will run at any particular time.

So, code executed right after that routine is spawned will be hitting the 'old' value anyway; hence Dvyukov's comments that this is arguably to spec, or within spec.

Think if you actually wrote this code; you'd have some weird behavior if the compiler did what you 'expect' - a couple outputs of low integers then some high ones as the goroutine gets scheduled in. So it's almost certainly just 'wrong' to write something like this, under most (all?) circumstances.

Because sync.Wait() isn't used, there's no guarantee the goroutine will execute at all before program halt.

That said, I bet there's some related more reasonable scenario where you could argue the compiler should at least do the adding. I'm not sure why atomic.Add* should get special treatment though, and it looks like the fix is to remove some escape-analysis type code, so I'm curious how this will get fixed.
Snap bets on hardware as Facebook threat looms
My mistake. I misread the phrase "many people that fly" as "many people who pilot planes".
Oh, nice. That way you get 1000W units. Not worth the additional $200 for me personally, but good to know – thanks.
If a new element is proposed I think it should be trialed as a custom element. And of course, once something is decided, we should have a polyfill to set the correct heading level (via aria-level) for older browsers.
Which is it's own problem. A Bayesian is often happy to look at any data that agrees with their own interpretation which is why it's not useful for papers.

The idea that A cause cancer is ridiculous. Collect data, well the A group has 10x as much cancer, but that's ridiculous so I conclude there is no relationship between A and cancer.
I realized Uber was in pretty bad shape 2 years ago when the company i was at was trying to hire one of their VPs of Engineering. Not only did they have many VPs of Engineering, they had multiple VPs of Engineering in his specific discipline. It seemed like people were literally only there to get a title and a piece of the kingdom.

Which is funny because my experience at Uber was EXACTLY the same. 3 years ago one of the heads of their department emailed me and asked me to come in and give a talk to their managers as the team wasn't doing so well. After I did this, I asked the VP if they were hiring at my level (I was a director/senior manager at the time) and she said yes. When I came to interview it was clear that I was interviewing for the job of one of the people who were interviewing me. Everyone seemed to love me except for this person, who told me they don't hire managers and that I would have to report to him. He was very junior to me and seemed to only want to keep his title/piece of the kingdom. It was obvious I didn't want to be a part of that, so I declined the offer and not only was the person gone a few weeks later, they were gone from their next job a few months after that. There's some serious political stuff going on at Uber.
If you're looking for an AutoCAD alternative try Draftsight from Dassault Systemes. There is a free personal version, but even the paid version isn't that expensive and it works pretty well.
Hewlett-Packard products before they started making PC's.
Currently the ABI is very much the current code of each subsystem.

It's pretty much impossible to design an ABI that'll be future proof enough that it'd cover everything and yet would provide finetuned interfaces for each new gadget the kernel has to manage without significant loss of performance and/or functionality.
User personas: what are they and why use them?
I don't need an Internet argument to learn that tipping is uncommon outside the US. Nor do I care.

Your opinion is always welcome even if I disagree with it.

Enjoy your stay :-)
Is free will not understood? I haven't seen a human make a decision in 25 years that wasn't based exactly on their prime motivations.
Novice question. Why the temp folder is problematic? Some cursory google search shows up this http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/11606/what-are-t...

But generally what kind of attacks /tmp folder enables ?
Cosmic particles wreaking low-grade havoc on personal electronics
Reporters Hit Out at Trump Trashing of Media
Knowing Wright foundation tech, I can't upvote this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubble_trench_foundation
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$500 for a microwave??? What does it do, fly?

I have an old microwave with two buttons and it works great. Kids can use it too.
I was being sarcastic on a whim, fully aware that it would attract downvotes.
not everyone who speaks desires to be heard by everyone :)
Think of measurement as the application of constraints. The slits are a form of weak measurement. This produces a loose constraint on the state of the electron - within the bounds of that constraint there are still many possible states in which it can exist. Depending on the type of measuring device, the constraint applied can be very tight, up to the limits of the uncertainty principle.
That's mentioned in the github thread. Would it be, though, the first time changing an aria-whatever attribute would have a visual effect on the page (without specific css)?
Note that he can't be extradited for copyright infringement, but they allowing it for fraud, which makes no sense.
Yeah, this was my problem as well (if I'm understanding your point correctly).

I could only do very basic math because I got bored, or my retention rate was very low. I'd go through the excercises but it wouldn't stick in my brain.

Eventually I figured out I just couldn't handle theoretical, like on the paper, stuff. So I started making up scenarios where what I were trying to learn would actually be applicable and create small programs that illustrated it, and suddenly I started to actually remember the stuff.
It's somewhat ironic that they get horrified when you say you'd Google something and then the lateral thinking questions are normally the first five from the Google search 'lateral thinking puzzles'
Does anyone know why fasting seems to make chemotherapy apparently less harmful to your immune system?

"Multiple cycles of fasting abated the immunosuppression and mortality caused by chemotherapy and reversed age-dependent myeloid-bias in mice, in agreement with preliminary data on the protection of lymphocytes from chemotoxicity in fasting patients."

My theory would be that when in a fasting state the body is less likely to utilise the chemotherapeutic compounds in fasting tissues while the cancer instead steadily grows and consumes these drugs? I'm entirely guessing of course; maybe this could be triggered without fasting somehow.
Arstechnica writeup of a Google study:
https://arstechnica.com/business/2009/10/dram-study-turns-as...
Part of the problem is that bayesian vs frequentist is one of those things like MWI vs copenhagen or the oxford comma: a certain group of people read a thing and decide having a stance on X makes them part of an in-group. They then flaunt that opinion despite never actually being a statistician/quantum physicist/grammarian or ever actually running up against situation where either option matters in their real life.
I think you might be in an alternate reality if you think series land rovers were manufactured by BL. Even if Rover and BL were merged, Rovers were built by Rover. I've owned a few, currently have 2 of them so not sure who you are trying to convince.
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I take it you don't believe in your own free will?
Have you tried just creating problems that applying the mathematics you're trying to learn would solve?
OK - but here's a genuine problem that came up the other day in my work (reconciling two datasets - we have various many-to-one mappings of ids that we then want to reconcile against each other). I think it's quite a neat computer science/algorithm challenge, so here goes:

Write a function which takes as input a list of sets, many of which are not disjoint, but will output a list of sets where all of the non-disjoint ones have been merged back together again. So the output is a list of sets which are all disjoint from each other because any intersecting sets have been merged together.

e.g. given the input:

[(1,2,3), (2,4,8), (10,11,12)]

it will report back:

[(1,2,3,4,8), (10,11,12)]

because (1,2,3) and (2,4,8) are not disjoint, but the (10,11,12) set is.

Whereas given the input:

[(1,2,3), (2,4,8), (10,11,12), (8,10)]

it would report back a single set:

[(1,2,3,4,8,10,11,12)]

because now all of the sets are connected - the 8 and the 10 now connect everything else together.

I came up with an algorithm which is acceptable for the dataset we currently have - but I've no idea what time complexity it is (for our real dataset it was able to do it in "one pass" - but in principal it could be worse than that). I don't know how I would implement a distributed version if the list of sets was too big to fit in memory, etc. etc.

And I haven't found a good solution on Google (but I'm not even sure what to Google).
It doesn't work like that.

"Slippery slope" is, by itself, a mechanism. It means exactly what you're describing in your last paragraph, except it does not require someone explicitly planning the progression.

"Spreading out the implementation..." does not improve the argument because it's just restating the definition of "slippery slope". The statement that Netflix has some "evil master plan" is an assertion without proof and doesn't add anything to the argument, either.
I'm quite a big fan of it ACX myself and use it as my daily alarm clock. However, my one gripe with it is that with the major update (ages ago now), they removed the option to set an alarm with no snooze option.
Drafting, sketching, doodling can make one excited about paper marking tools.

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Suggestions for web-based resources for teaching HTML to middle-school students?
Right. It just wasn't clear from the article. But I'm assuming it's without food.
Yep, every car with a sunroof has leaked, Peugeot leaked, Volvo leaked too. Just move to a country where snow covers your car for 5 months of the year.
> How do you feel about overtime pay?

We provide industry-leading compensation, but no one pays for overtime so neither do we.
Yeah that self control bit is the hardest part. Kudos for being able to go 36 hours.
"A choice between one realistic achievable possibility and another unrealistic solution that could in some way be better" is the definition on Wikipedia. Sounds pretty much spot-on.
That's no more meaningful than saying "I haven't seen a particle behave in 25 years that wasn't based exactly on the laws of physics"
The Vietnam war was started with a (to the government known) lie:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Tonkin_incident
I was pretty surprised to find this had nothing to do with Instagram.
> date > /tmp/test_at.log will be executed at 9.26 PM on the same day

well that's not guaranteed on all systems :D On FreeBSD:

> at is implemented through the cron(8) daemon by calling atrun(8) every five minutes
With SECDED ECC, in the event that two bits are flipped, the system can detect this and halt.
Canvas LMS. Coming from blackboard, Canvas is a god-send.
I'm not saying that the six-year-old Leaf is the answer to all vehicular needs, I'm saying that for people who need to fly to visit their parents, or have a range-extending hybrid as a second family car, or who just don't drive much beyond their commute, then EVs with sub 100 mile ranges still meet 95% or more of their daily driving needs without needing to recharge and there are many happy owners of such cars already.

The demographic that it serves successfully is growing every year, as more cities ban or fine cars with emissions, as battery prices drop, as people get less scared of the new, as people experience and like the peppy driving feel of an EV, as more models are produced by more manufacturers and more niches are filled and as charging networks expand.

I think we can all look back and see amazing progress from cars like the EV1 and how many assumptions have been shattered in the last decade or so. It just amuses me that as this kind of progress happens, then there will always be something to complain about (and the complaints will often be geniune and factual) that just a short time ago would have seemed like science fiction. Like the comedian that talks about his seat-neighbour complaining that the airplane wi-fi is slow.