skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just remember the day in 2009 [1] when Edmonton was literally the coldest place on Earth.

You're right that the winters have been getting better, but there's typically at least one week of below -40 weather, which is awful.

[1]: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:eWnhUWh...
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This seems like an overengineered problem for food. I don't get how all of the capital expense can be justified for the ever slimming margins of food production? Do they plan to scale it up? Others have mentioned pizza factories and wouldn't that be their competition? I don't get it.
I guess the subject is debians own programmes written in Python 2, not third party code that they packaged.
You're technically correct, but I don't think it's realistic to separate the payload format (plain unencrypted RFC 2822) from the various transfer protocols that have grown with and around it.

You mention HTTP, but do you think HTTPS have been as ubiquitous as it is now if people had to install a browser plugin in order to enable it? That sounds suspiciously similar to what South Korea has been trying with their infamous ActiveX plugins for their own national PKI. Nowadays they've moved away from ActiveX to actual browser plugins for Chrome/Firefox/etc, but nobody likes it as long as they have to install even a single plugin. "Compatibility with existing clients" really just means "compatibility with existing clients without any plugins". People don't like installing plugins.

Maybe a few years from now, every well-known email client from Outlook to Thunderbird to SquirrelMail will support an E2E encrypted email protocol (either a modified version of SMTP/POP/IMAP or a brand-new protocol) out of the box. Then, and only then, I think it might have a chance to become as successful as STARTTLS has been.
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> My favorite from David Deutsch, a main creator of the idea of quantum computing:

It's interesting, but this "I challenge you to answer a philosophical (not scientific) question in a way that I find acceptable" approach surely skirts uncomfortably close to dogmatically creationist arguments.

(For the record, my answer, which certainly wouldn't satisfy Deutsch, is: it works because the math proves it works; there's no more "how" about it than there is in "how does the computation 10^(250)*10^(250) = 10^(500) work?")
All computing machines harness the universe's innate ability for computation. Quantum computers just do it better.
Let's say you want to give this free internet to marginalized communities - remote pacific islands, for example. Maybe you could provide internet to the islanders for free, and get paid by multinational companies to do it, for the PR value. As far as the world is concerned, it'll be Tostitos or Jiffy Lube providing internet to Easter Island or wherever... but on the ground it'll actually be you.
Sleep, exercise, and good food are essential.

If you try to work on a complex algorithm with little sleep, you tend to throw a wrench into it.
I love using KeePass. I keep the database file at home and only use it remotely with a plugin to allow accessing it via SSH so that the file is never (permanently) stored on disk.

I like to think that this is even more secure than other methods since even if someone were to log keystrokes, they would need to know the SSH server details as well to actually gain access to the file.

It can also be used to store 2FA secrets and KeePass2Android lets you generate the TOTP pretty easily so you're not relying on an app such as Google Authenticator which (last time I used it) doesn't backup secrets, and app itself isn't password protected.
Good question. I like perch its quick and easy to build with, I moved from wordpress to perch last year and it has cut development time in half.

It's super flexible no need for dodgy third part plugins that's no longer maintained. Instead of plugins I just build everything I need custom with the tools perch provides, I end up with something thats perfect for the client and its a lot faster than trying to modify some third party plugin.

Clients are initially scared of perch, they want wordpress because thats what they are used to and "thats what every one else uses". Five minutes into their perch training their attitude is "This is great. Why does every one else use wordpress?".

Sure its not free like wordpress but its only £50 and its worth every penny, you will easily make that money back in development costs in a day.

https://grabaperch.com/
I've worked on the project where some XSD files defined fields with regex restrictions, also some rules over fields added other stricter regexps or negative regexps depending on some context in a format called Schematron. I had to generate XML files conforming to those XSD, so I used some tools around Z3 solver and Microsoft.Automata to generate those strings conforming to multiple regexps. It would convert the regexps to finite automaton and intersecting them, walking it from the starting state to a final one over a charset.

Links :

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/symboli...

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=523...

It now seems to be Open Source (MIT):

https://github.com/AutomataDotNet/Automata
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What you are describing as teams here would seem to me better served by forming a company and selling their services as a bespoke development house.

I'm not sure exactly how you bootstrap such a thing, but would love to know....
Pretty meaningless when, thanks to capitalism, all new cars will be electric long before that date arrives.
Uhm, just saying, you guys ever heard of toxoplasmosis?
> They really aren't, CPU performance is really irrelevant given the RPi's architectural weaknesses

Obviously "production loads" is an undefined term and as such we can discuss infinitely back and forth exactly how much these cheap ARM machines can actually handle.

I also didn't mean to single out the Rpi3 as a universal performer, optimal for everything out there.

My point was that I'm seeing an increased amount of people who are happy with what these cheap boards can do, who 10 years ago would have been forced to buy a server of sorts to cover the same needs.

So now they don't buy servers. Instead they buy cheap, tiny and fan-less ARM-based machines and they're perfectly happy. They even think running ARM is cooler than running Intel, so it's something they brag about.

I'm absolutely not saying I'm going to replace my company's server-farm or my dev-computer with these anytime soon, but Intel cannot completely ignore the power-efficiency aspect either if they want to keep their dominance in the market.
Winter desert. It's bad.
Now should the emojis be added to the dictionary ?
Reuse code;
>> I don't get it.

$15 / hr minimum wage laws
I think we're just talking around each other here. Anyway, I've said all I have to say about this for now. People can take from it what they will.
Explain the double slit experiment to me. The single photon somehow calculates the interference pattern with photons that don't exist, in our world at least. If there's not parallel universes, how does a single atom calculate that interference pattern? Where do those calculations occur? All other theories say it happens by magic and give all sorts of complicated non-real obfuscations to explain it.
They don't here is what Bell said:

"There is a way to escape the inference of superluminal speeds and spooky action at a distance. But it involves absolute determinism in the universe, the complete absence of free will. Suppose the world is super-deterministic, with not just inanimate nature running on behind-the-scenes clockwork, but with our behavior, including our belief that we are free to choose to do one experiment rather than another, absolutely predetermined, including the ‘decision’ by the experimenter to carry out one set of measurements rather than another, the difficulty disappears. There is no need for a faster-than-light signal to tell particle A what measurement has been carried out on particle B, because the universe, including particle A, already ‘knows’ what that measurement, and its outcome, will be."
God(s) love(s) a try-er!
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I never understood why minimum wage labor was so expensive for fast food or pizza places, and that's pretty much what they're eliminating here.

Maybe the answer is that margins are so slim in the food business that any significant reduction in cost is bigger than it appears?
It is indeed machine-solvable; I wrote a solver for regexcrossword.com puzzles a while back (https://github.com/hermanschaaf/regex-crossword-solver). It was great fun, maybe even more than solving the puzzles by hand!
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don't remind me that people actually believe that you can infer the existence of a simulation only with data points that are created and controlled by it.
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Non-technical reasons why I like VueJS
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27" 144 Hz IPS GSync/FreeSync like the XF270HU or XB271HU is the place to aim for a general-purpose monitor right now ($400-600 depending on model and new/refurb). People inevitably are a bit dubious on them at first given the cost, then they try them and agree it's worth every penny.

Unless you want ultrawide that is - but there are some caveats there with game compatibility due to the aspect ratio.
There need to be strong penalties for abuse of law enforcement power. He has the power to destroy lives and families, apparently without any accountability. The way you hold people accountable for their actions is by threat of legal action against them.
>A CMS is much more than that.

Can you explain?
800,000 years of climate change, in 3 minutes
The overly simple answer is
Romans-->Byzantines-->Ottomans.

Rome is at one point divided into two empires, West and East.

West Empire collapse, but East Empire keeps going with its capital at Constantinople. East Empire becomes the Byzantine Empire now.

East Empire actually ALMOST reunites with the West,
and Justinian's top general, Belisarius, actually captures Rome in the mid 500's. He fails to hold the Italian peninsula for a variety of reasons, and Western Europe slips away.

The Turkish Empire then begins rising around the 1300's, one of many many trends driven by the Mongols and their invasions.

In the 1440s the Turkish Empire (the Ottomans basically), wipe out the kingdoms of Eastern Europe. Eastern Europe actually has a really rich history but unfortunately has had the thankless task of saving Europe over and over by being a "bullet sponge" for the powers on either side.

In 1453 the Ottomans capture Constantinople and begin their empire.

By the 1800s the empire falls into disrepair, and is now regarded as the "sick man of Europe". This is further compounded by choosing the wrong side in World War I. At the end of the war the Ottoman empire is dissolved by various treaties.

This leaves the remaining core of Turkey. Interestingly it also puts Iraq, Iran, and Palestine into the hands of the British, beginning a long road to the revolution in Iran, the various Israeli / Palestinian negotiations, and eventually, the war in Iraq.

TL;DR: Basically you can trace the fall of the Roman empire in the 500's to ISIS today somewhat simply.
Stating the “Obvious”
I agree with you. I think the need for philosophical justification stems from our desire to reconcile quantum computing with our classical computing/physics models. But just because we desire such a thing doesn't mean there exists a reasonable one.

What I think the truth really is, is that we don't encounter quantum superpositions in an obvious way in our day to day lives. So it's inherently "weird" for us, especially since it seems to violate our notion of object permanence. But that doesn't mean it's wrong, it just means that one of our evolved instincts isn't applicable on a quantum scale.
Unfortunately that requires a system that they would want to use, which is detrimental to what makes those OS favourable to us.
If they suss it out for one place, they can roll it out to many places. So yes scaling up is the whole idea.

Pizza factories make pizzas in batches, like 2000 times pizza Y. And they get frozen, no need for an oven.

Here you need to make X, Y and Z pizza for this order. Then just an X. Then 2 Y's and a Z. All need to be made from scratch and end up hot in a pizzabox. So quite different from the factory.
Newton's Philosophy (2014)
I am part of a startup with founding team of 12 previous coworkers. One of our selling points during the seed round was that we're starting off with an aligned team. It was really attractive to some investors.

In principle the same should go for hiring, but in practice I think it's game theoretically more complicated. I've hired swaths of cohered tech teams before, but it was one by one, to allow for more individualized assessment and negotiation.
I made a list as I worked, to avoid repeating classes of errors. I found this list decades later. Last entry:

Forgot to eat. Got sick.
You didn't defend Deutsch's erroneous assumption that atoms are responsible for physical interactions in computation. Even in quantum computing atoms are not responsible for any computation––especially if you have a system like DWave which uses magnetically induced currents.

"The natural computational abilities of reality itself"

Additionally you continue to insist that computation is a real physical thing. Are you claiming that nature is aware of the states we assign it to perform computation?

The way computation works is that we map various physical states with our own semantic abstractions. I can change the computation for addition into one for subtraction without any physical change to the system. So there is no harnessing of "the natural computational abilities of reality itself". We merely observe natural behavior and semantically map it (which is what engineering is).
Wow.. was it a RF remote or IR? I don't think I've seen that one in our bug database.
Author here, if there is interest, I'd be happy to answer any questions :)
Interestingly enough, I have the same type of camera (a Mamiya RZ67) and use the same type of film (Fuji Velvia 50) that were used to take this.
The Toscanini Wars
Labor is the largest cost for a restaurant.
At least around me, the small Pizzerias don't have much turnover. It's the same two or three guys running the place year in and out (but that's in the Hudson Valley/NYC area).

I guess this would be attractive to Dominos or Pizza Hut.
How did you solve backreferences with that approach?
I agree, there's not much in it. If you're not using proper salts there is a small advantage which is that it's usually possible to work out the settings for a site even if your sync file is lost since they will tell you the allowed characters and remembering a version number for the sites where you've changed it is not too hard especially since I show the corresponding emoji every time you log in.

I also prefer it to involving a third party service which is the other way password managers often work.
I've seen others link Joel Spolsky's method before. In short, you divide ownership equally within "tiers". The founders split the company equally between them. For the first group of employees, a new chunk of shares are created and divided equally, even if they don't join exactly at the same time. The next group of employees divides up the same number of shares (but there are probably more employees in that group, so they end up with less individually than the early employees). And so on. This creates a sense of fairness while still rewarding founders and early employees more for the risk they're taking. (link here: http://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-allocate-ownership-fai...).
I am unworthy: https://jsfiddle.net/0a3dmjqt/

Sorry but I'm not willing to make 40 edits to write a function that adds numbers.

Edit: Variation using the "fp" version of the library: https://jsfiddle.net/0a3dmjqt/2/
Agree here, this is exactly what a good consulting shop should be doing and offering.
The busy beaver of 1.6x10^8 can produce an awful lot of stuff.
Interesting read, but frustrating at times. It felt inconsistent in its level of explanation - not sure why I need it spelled out to me that 40 x 25 is 1000, but the reader is presumed to know C64 assembly.
That was AFAIK WannaCry
Yeah, that would have been more interesting.

This is technically a meow generator generator.
> I think we're just talking around each other here.

No, we aren't talking around each other at all, but I can understand why you might feel uncomfortable discussing your motivations so by all means let's stop.
Same here, I built and oversee 3 WordPress online stores that together do more than $1m/month during peak season (summer).

WordPress has the ability for pages as well as posts (along with versioning of those items). User account management with permissions. Custom fields. What exactly does "true CMS" mean?

And I'd argue the easiest-to-use admin area out there, or so my clients lead me to believe.
Great list. Only thing I'd add is lean towards clever and often simple architecture when modelling a solution, it often will beat clever programming..
Ah the circular river. Very rare but useful to extract energy from.
Apocalypse JavaScript - Simple JavaScript framework built for traditional websites
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https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/octotree/bkhaagjah...

Check out Octotree if you're using Chrome. No file sizes still, but I've found that when you just want to quickly explore some potential new source this beats having to clone the repo first.
I love the fact that you can have unit tests for your regexes on regex101.
I'm sure he will appreciate that. He's sysadmin at a Dutch IPSP and this is his side project.
> Every high tech product follows a law that it gets 20% cheaper when volumes of production double

Where to read more about this law?
Flashback time!

I got a chuckle about your dad still running his C128 for financials. Their was a local optometrist here who ran his entire practice on Tandy Color Computers, networked together in a multi-tasking environment running OS9. Each and every part of it was custom written by the doctor. I think he retired a few years back, but I know it was still running his home brewed system then.
This is Awesome!, thanks for sharing it!.
Unfortunately I can't make it work with any of my csv's,

UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8'
And going forward the issue could also become on-the-job performance, where it could potentially come up where one team member underperformed. In a large consulting company environment the solution is easy (remove and replace), but with this kind of model it can be more complex.
No it doesn't. Uranium is super cheap as a proportion of production costs; it can be bought on the market no problem. Additionally, breeders mean you need even less. With breeders burning otherwise-useless waste, France could probably not have to buy any more uranium for hundreds of years.
Nobody tell this person about comic books, they might explode.
At the Stern school, first term part time MBA students were told to go to the streets and observe pizza places (so many in the city). Come back and build a business plan.

Wasn't long before students saw how much there was to be made on a slice and that cheese is the most expensive part of the pie.

Personally, perhaps because of the population of Italian heritage near me, I simply avoid pizza places that seem like a business, not a life vocation.
We are constrained by electricity production and the cost of materials needed to make batteries.
Electric cars ain't happening anytime soon.
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Thank you, that is awful. I love it.
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I lived and worked downtown in the late 90s/early 00s, and going back recently, I have to say that it is a lot better than it used to be. There is an incredible amount of investment in the core, and the whole ice district area on 104th ave is pretty remarkable, including the new museum, hockey arena, and Stantec tower—which will be 68-stories high, quite surprisingly, the tallest tower in Canada outside of Toronto. The city has also invested in light rail expansion, and just installed a new bike grid in the downtown core. Things feel very different than they used to.
Best i can tell, most of the middleware/plumbing devs do not have Ubuntu in mind, they have Fedora in mind. This because Fedora is basically the dev edition of RHEL, and RH is one of the biggest employers of plumbing devs in the Linux ecosystem.
>Maybe the answer is that margins are so slim in the food business that any significant reduction in cost is bigger than it appears?

Seems so. We've got people saying labor is the biggest cost for a restaurant or pizzeria, but that necessitates asking: holy shit, how can the value-add of a fresh, hot pizza over its unprepared ingredients be so low that it's worth cutting wages to below $8/hour by robotizing the work? If pizza really takes that much value as input, why does it have so little value as output?
There you go: https://regexcrossword.com/
I use https://www.debuggex.com/ a lot when it's a complex expression. The visualization really helps.
I'm sure I did mean to imply that it was an artificial construct, yes. Gender expression and identity are more continuous than people tend to believe.

For the interested, this seems like a pretty good overview of gender identity (primarily from a developmental perspective, of course):

http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/appsych/opus/issues/2011/spring/ge...

If the gender data is somehow critical to the data then it's worth being accurate. If not, why even ask?
I hate this kind of thing so much!

We already have a mechanism for detecting if the user is busy or not, which activates the screen saver and power management.

If you really need to get my attention, a little flashing icon in the corner (while not preferred) is still much better than stealing my focus.
I can't picture developing WP themes without WP_Query class. Does that ever pose a problem for you?
Bohmian mechanics seems like a better explanation than "there are infinite universes out there"
Web Hub and a Simple UI, 0.8 Released
Some thoughts on PostCSS – making a mini-plugin while at it
The Knowledge Argument Against Physicalism