skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I totally agree with you — born and raised in the Amazon here —, but consider that a lot of people (even if indirectly) involved with logging are indigenous, to whom money makes little sense. Giving them back their land plus quality life would be a smarter move. Also, the ones doing the hardcore deforestation are farmers and livestock owners, so I bet we cannot match their financial incentives at the moment :-( on the other hand, most of the Atlantic rainforest is now gone but the land owners are usually families and small farmers and such so this idea would TOTALLY work to reforest it quickly (in fact there are a lot of people who already do that for free so an official help for them would be the last nail in the coffin of deforestation).
The Next Step in the Search for Aliens Is a Huge Telescope and a Ton of Math
Assuming that good relationships imply good aging, I'd like to know how do they work. How much would differ a long relationship from 2 middle relationships to 7 short relationships?

If there's already any study about it, please share it with me, I'd love to read it!
Either this is satire, or you've completely missed his point. There is little-to-no hand wavyness in the response; He flat out describes the article as pretentious, bloviating non-sense.
Thanks for the tip. Didn't think to check anywhere other than Github, just defaulted to standing up an Ubuntu server.
Is there anything similar for chrome/chromium? Would be interesting to compare them.
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That only works is BI is implemented as part of the tax system.
That was not a personal judgment, just a straight-forward factual assertion. (Unless you have spent a decade doing calculations on a counting board...?) Pretty well everyone, including myself, is speaking from a position of bias and ignorance when discussing Roman numerals and counting boards, because these are not pervasively used for basic calculation in our society. We should bear that in mind and try to get outside of our preconceptions before making off-hand judgments.

It’s very seldom that anyone in the Roman empire – or medieval Europe – would need bigger numbers than, say, one million, especially for writing final answers down. But at least one counting board we know about from 300 BCE probably had lines for 10 orders of magnitude, and it’s not like more couldn’t easily be added if necessary. http://www.akg-images.fr/archive/-2UMDHU23V18G.html

As for fractions: Roman fractions were mostly twelfths (think inches and ounces).

Roman numerals and counting boards are obviously not an ideal system for writing down very large or very precise numbers, as I said. I’m not here claiming that they are a better basis for society’s numeration than more strictly positional Hindu–Arabic numerals.

My point is that we shouldn’t be so hasty to dismiss them out of hand or exaggerate their flaws. They were a highly effective system for doing complex calculations: precisely estimating the positions of stars and planets centuries into the past/future, running a bureaucracy overlooking an empire of 60+ million people, building large-scale engineering projects, and so on.

When it comes to teaching, I can only go by my own anecdotal experience trying to teach young children about numbers, the writings of various elementary math teachers, and the fragmentary remnants of debates in medieval Europe. I don’t know of any modern peer-reviewed research about Roman or medieval European counting boards, sorry.

(There is lots of evidence that learning place value using Hindu–Arabic numerals is very difficult for children, compared to other concepts and skills, requiring several years of study before primary school students really figure it out.)

Seems like counting boards might make a partial comeback sometime though: https://vimeo.com/204368634
You can't drag a cursor down vertically and know what will happen, something I do surprisingly often because it is very powerful.

Line length guide lines makes sense for me as a visual indicator of what will wrap when I hit the max lines per file. They are also nice ways to gauge when you are nesting too deep or making overly complicated expressions.

Max line length allows you to do nice things with window management and diff tool layout and not spend forever moving around to see the text. I am a convert after thinking it didn't matter. Now it being 80 characters is arbitrary but so would almost any other number be.
Yes, USSR did that, but for the cost of exhausting their economy, bringing poverty to their people and dissolving eventually.

It's like comparing North Korea with Germany - NK can send rockets to space, while Germany can't. But can you say that NK is ahead of Germany in terms of inventions?
the latter: https://nacl.cr.yp.to/
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anyone providing value to the local economy

Nice to see that all the people who actually make the city function -- so that those high-paid "value providers" can live there and get work done there -- are completely written off in your analysis.
What's your wakeup time/bedtime/expected arrival time at work, if you mind me asking? Debating how much time I should budget in the mornings for this.
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I did this with a list of 10,000 cannabis strain names scraped from a seed database, have had results running on a twitter bot: https://twitter.com/high_learning_

my favorites so far: 'Grape Meth', 'Bitch Kush', 'Critical Burple', 'Space Hell'
Marsh Gibbon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsh_Gibbon
Calling the bay area a cultureless void - which it is - isn't a 'slur' and comparing this statement to an ethnic slur is absurd and warrants an apology.

If you weren't dang it would seem like you're being deliberately argumentative. Instead I'll suggest you're being overzealous in this case.
NY State has a program called "480-A" that gives landowners a tax break for exercising proper stewardship of forest resources. To qualify you need not only to have the trees, but also document periodic maintenance like "TSI" (Timber Stand Improvement, where you're supposed to thin out some of the younger trees to give the remainder more space to grow), and harvesting of the large mature trees.

The thing about this program is that there's so much bureaucratic nonsense around it, with all kinds of reporting requirements and such, and that if you're not compliant they'll retroactively claw back 10 years worth of benefits if you mess up.

I've got 76 forested acres upstate that was enrolled in this program when I bought it. Despite the tax advantages I pulled the land out of the program as soon as I could. Between the hassle of the red tape, and the fear of the financial repercussions, I didn't want the risk. I still do the stuff they want you to do - it only makes sense, as it provides an income from harvesting the lumber - but my motivation is nothing to do with their program itself.

My point is that when government sets its bureaucracy on what might otherwise be a good idea, they can taint the benefit that it was supposed to carry, making it ineffective.
For 1: https://users.rust-lang.org/t/conflicting-lifetime/11887

Or any time you want to use thread and closure. I know I am joining the threads before the references go away but it's not possible to express that. There's scoped threadpools but sometimes it's at a higher level than scope.

2: Can't get the return value for close(). readdir doesn't return the offset. I ended up wrapping libc myself: https://github.com/kahing/catfs/blob/master/src/catfs/rlibc....

I guess wrt string, it's extra frustrating because on unix, OsStr is really CStr but I get former (from command line) and often need latter for interacting with libc. Also when you learn Rust you first learn about str and String even though in my case I actually want to avoid them. Admittedly that's probably rare. Having every type duplicated (a ref type and a storage type) also increases the complexity.
Yah, I'm really confused about why its OK to give the core to a professor to distribute to his students, but not ok, to just provide a click through to allow us folks not enrolled in a supported university to download it.

I'm sure I can dig around in the darker corners of the internet and find the code... So why not give it to me directly with a license to the effect, you can look at this all you want but you can't actually do anything with it...
This seems to just lump all of the pyramids at giza together.

The smaller pyramids can be dated because there are the remains of worker villages around each of them.. nothing similar exists for the great pyramid.
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Some very interesting thought experiments arise from this. Imagine these rare books are worth $5 million at auction.

$5 million can do a tremendous amount of good. It can feed a lot of people, educate a small village from birth to adulthood, save hundreds of lives from Malaria and other mosquito-born diseases, and pay for many other life-saving medical interventions.

Should the library sell the books and spend the money on the above items?

I know my analogy doesn't quite jive with the civilian-massacre-vs-book-thieving choice. But hopefully it shows just how immensely important libraries are. Had the Library at Alexandria not been destroyed, there's no telling how much earlier our civilization would have advanced to the relatively peaceful time we live in now.

I guess the difference between then and now is that we have the ability to digitize all these rare works. That should be one of the highest priorities for our civilization these days. Get them digitized and replicated. There's still the storage medium problems, but with enough replication, we can hopefully ensure the durability of all that information nonetheless.
I see good in churches. And I see bad.

But most importantly from my perspective I see the fundamental basis being at odds with what I understand to be reality.

I'm not saying churches don't fulfill an important function, they do. But the order of things changes and even though change can bring a period of chaos we generally don't go back, we go forward.

What we know as "churches" are not growing, they are dying. For whatever reason(s) and this trend probably isn't going to reverse. So for me the solution is to move on to something with equivalent functionality but with less dysfunctionality.
People in the valley, doing 2 hours commute, paying incredible fees for kids school, incredible rent : do everyone a favor and just leave this hell. This is more balsy than creating a startup, but also more disruptive. the only reason this situation exists is because people tolerate it, and perpetuate the vicious circle between companies going where people are, and people going where jobs are.
Personally, I would. What you wrote is very interesting, and interesting content can stand for itself. No need to clickbait things up.
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There are ways to achieve this though - using a martingale betting strategy where you take small, high risk bets and basically keep doubling up until you win or bust, you can achieve the same risk-reward profile on most high risk markets
> Unless you live on an RV or a boat it doesn’t make financial sense yet

If you're curious about what a system for an RV does look like, I work remotely full time in an RV and built my own system: https://therecklesschoice.com/2016/04/29/diy-rv-solar/

6.5 times the solar, 15 times the storage, 20 times the inverter (but mine is overkill for us honestly).
Ever been to Cuba? They're in deep poverty and some of their 'homes' are not better than cardboard boxes.

And USSR never managed to turn to US greatest opponent, despite killing millions trying.
> In this article we present a mathematical data model for the most common noSQL databases—namely, key/value relationships—and demonstrate that this data model is the mathematical dual of SQL's relational data model of foreign-/primary-key relationships. Following established mathematical nomenclature, we refer to the dual of SQL as coSQL. We also show how a single generalization of the relational algebra over sets—namely, monads and monad comprehensions—forms the basis of a common query language for both SQL and noSQL. Despite common wisdom, SQL and coSQL are not diabolically opposed, but instead deeply connected via beautiful mathematical theory.

I'm such a nerd, this makes me happy.
Hasn't that school been running for over 1400 years?
Well, they are all required by law to support import/export of a CCDA, and Duke's EHR does. The problem is that it's poorly supported in the workflow, and may require using something like a HIE.

Also, Fitbit data is medically useless beyond establishing that you do or don't exercise.
If the robot's owner gets an extra $50k income from this, we're actually getting more in tax because their marginal income is higher.
his position now is just "co-founder".
https://www.dropbox.com/about
Portland and LA are way cleaner, even at their dirtiest.
What's that puppy's wind loading in an 80mph gust?
> teachers make 100k+

You're way off. The median annual Teacher Elementary School salary in San Francisco, CA is $69,389, as of June 28, 2017.[1]

Cities also need a large number of service industry workers that make even less than this.

[1] http://www1.salary.com/CA/San-Francisco/Teacher-Elementary-S...
A contemporary scientist (hard science, say physics) who belives in god is a fraud.
One cannot from 9 to 5 think scientifically and then in the afternoon just push this aside and state that god is behind everything anyway. This is pure hypocrisy, fraud and betrayal of science.

What was "god" yesterday is science today.

Science and religion have exactly zero common points, they function in fundamentally different ways. One way is to invent our of the blue some kind of superior entity (because why not), the other is to take the risk to say "this is how it works, and this is how you can prove it does not".

I have a PhD in physics and attended a fair share of "discussions between physicists and priests" - complete loss of time. Our world works on science, if someone does not agree I purpose to move back to middle age comfort, propelled by religion and not science. This until winter comes, when suddenly electricity is no longer the effect of the wrath of Zeus but something explained by science.
I <3 you Firefox. I'm so sad that nobody uses you.
Fun stuff. I've built several systems just like this one for camping, they let you keep things like iPads or laptops charged and they aren't noisy like running a generator.

Something that my wife discovered was that an igloo "lunchmate" cooler was perfect to hold the battery and charge controller. Makes it easy to carry. I recommend using Anderson Powerpole connectors (https://powerwerx.com/anderson-power-powerpole-sb-connectors) to make it easy to set up and tear down. I typically use one pair of colors for the connections to the battery, and another pair of colors for the panel to charge controller.
This is pretty key and why HIEs exist. They're a hackish solution though. Some sort of national data exchange would be useful.
At least you still get people complaining about you. It means they care for your soul.

Try using a tab-size of 3 spaces.
>Doing so in threat of imprisonment is also despicable.

I think there's a difference between saying "If you don't undergo sterilization we'll imprison you." and saying "You're already being sent to prison, but if you undergo sterilization you don't have to go for as long." The latter is reasonably comparable to saying "Hi, I'll give you $X if you get a vasectomy."

>a loose correlation with a broad class of conditions

Anything but.

>some of which have a genetic component

Most of which.
Isn't this basically the philosophy that gave birth to the US war on drugs? Blame-and-punish is not necessarily a better policy than prevention and mitigation.
If you leave parks open at night you have to provide quite a bit extra policing. Otherwise they get taken over by hookers and junkies, and normal people won't go there. That kind of policing is the first thing that gets cut when cities run out of money, at least in my area, so they close the parks at night.
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My salary is not even paid by the government, yet it already arrives into my account after discounting taxes.
Biggest problem with communism is that ALL communist countries decided to eradicate millions of 'enemies of the state'. See USSR, China, Cambodia.
Would you please stop? What you posted was obviously a swipe. That sort of contentless putdown leads to flamewars that destroy this community. There was a nasty spat about a different region last night. It's all generic, and you just can't post like that here.
On stock Android 5 I can long-hold any notification which will display info about the app, then click info button and check disable notifications for this app. Isn't this default?
Ouch. That's older than first stable release :)
Do you want a human face in person to deal give you permission to use your own money (from 9 to 5 with an hour for lunch) or do you just want to be able to use your own money electronically without having to hand it over to someone first?
I'm also very impressed with FF's performance on Linux in recent versions. I bumped up the RAM allocated for multiprocess but I never really have more than 20 tabs open. Startup and rendering seems much quicker, and the add-ons seem more open.
Unfortunately, if parks were mostly paid by the people using them, we would have no parks. Most people won't pay to use a park, and would instead just no go. Additionally, it's often extremely difficult to force people to pay to use your park. It's different with national parks which people travel to for the sole purpose of going to the park, but local parks, lakes, etc will have a much more difficult time making people pay for it.
how do you get round the sterility cleaning requirements I the UK all the pc's I see the doctors and ward staff using have special wipe clean keyboards etc>
Damn, that's some inside advice. Let me try it out and I'll post a follow-up! Thanks so much!!
Unfortunately it isn't a 16% return because he can't sell that system for what he paid. If you buy a stock at $300 and sell it for $348, that's a 16% return. But for him, he probably would have trouble selling all of that for $100 (the battery will be worthless in about 2 years given how far it is being discharged and very few people buy these things on craigslist for anywhere near what they cost). If he can sell it in 6.5 for $100 he has now made $400 in 6.5 years, a 4.5% annual return.
This. I'm loving Anki more and more for cert studying.
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I read The Idea Factory, about Bell Labs, and they had a few sections on Shannon. Honestly, from what I read, it sounds like the guy didn't want to work, or have a job. And the Fates were kind, and dropped him into a situation where not only was he able to make that a reality, but he was able to provide several meaningful contributions to the fields of programming and information theory while doing so. He was able to not have to "work", and get to be part of some pretty amazing stuff.
I really like the defaults that ubuntu gnome currently has. If I could make one request, it would be to include gdebi in the default install. I've found it much more convenient for adding .deb packages than software center.
Another downside in gRPC is that (de)serialization can be relatively slow. One of my pet projects is a tagging server that takes a list of tags and returns a list of objects that match, retrieved from RocksDB. I tested gRPC (proto and FlatBuffers) and Cap'n'Proto. For all of them, the process looked like:

Insert: Object comes in (built in RPC system for both), object is assigned ID (which is added before serialization), object is written to RocksDB, object is serialized and indexed.

Query: List of strings come in, strings are looked up in tag index, intersection of results is done, objects are retrieved from RocksDB, objects are deserialized, objects are added to list, objects are returned to client.

FlatBuffers was unfortunately a no-go since it doesn't permit modification of fields that haven't yet been set and it didn't have a sane way of making a copy (which would also be slow).

Protocol Buffers worked but the pure Python driver is incredibly slow and the C++ driver for Python was non-default and marked "experimental". I eventually adapted to it but it was still quite slow even on the server side. From memory a response with C++ client and server took ~9ms, 4-5ms of which were spent on serialization/deserialization.

Cap'n'Proto eventually won for me. The Python driver is unstable and memory usage soars like an eagle until Linux shoots it down with an OOM but the server was much faster. Typical response times were closer to 3ms, most of which was spent in RocksDB or the actual index lookup. A downside though was that Cap'n'Proto has its own built in and odd library for async stuff and doesn't really support threading.
We should really go back to that
Asking for references, but providing none of your own?

Saying stuff like:

Herodotus is by far not the only source of information we have about the Old Kingdom

and

We see exactly such a progression in the first four or so pyramids.

You're not only not providing references, you're not even supporting your argument at all..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_the_stone
Alright, that is an argument I give right.

Still, I see the work putted as an art, not only the result.

What I mean is that tools that allow re-generation without someone putting he heart into it would not result in art.

Dropping 200 pics and having a new one is no art.

If you iterate your self on how these mechanics goes on and create something with it with control and skill then that looks more like it.

But then, if you drop out an algorithm that does that, handle it to users,

would their results be art ?

Tools and way are more important than result. How you use them and how you create something original from it is the art process.

I guess it really depends on how you use this.
Pass/gopass really needs a good browser integration add-on. I have not found one that doesn't have some minor bug or issue.
The Soviet Union did not exist at the time of the ban described in this article.
Alas, if only tabs realized columns could occur in locations other than 8 or 4 space tab stops.

http://nickgravgaard.com/elastic-tabstops/
>do you mean like the MS ergonomic keyboard split-but-one-piece, or actually two separate pieces?

The MS ergo keyboard isn't wide enough for me but I'm not against a one-piece design. I just recently switched to a Kinesis Advantage2 (split-but-one-piece) at home but I have a straight two-piece keyboard at work. The width I keep the two-piece at is a bit wider than the Advantage but it's not enough to bother me.

>If the latter, what do you like about them?

The main issue for me is that I'm 6'6" and have broad shoulders. Normal keyboard layouts cause me to roll my shoulders dramatically so I can get my hands on the home keys. This caused some shoulder pain issues in the past when I had code-heavy weeks. Split configuration seems to have fixed that completely.