skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I found this wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_McLaren

There is a detailed year by year description of her work and I can't see how she could have "defected to Russia" except one note "...she was a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain..."
I'm not aware of the GC progress. Generational with compacting young and mark-sweep old has been around since Smalltalk irrc. Was it making it concurrent?
Without some kind of active balance, it'll still tip to some degree. I wonder if there's much to be gained by tilting the 'keel' forwards to keep the mast vertical?
No, it's a matter of geography (or should I say locale). Raised in South Africa, we English speakers were taught to write "ten thousand and forty one-hundredths" as

10.000,40

which is exactly the opposite of the US based

10,000.40

So it's locale rather than language that determines this.
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Yeah... this is a concern.

I bought a Surface book this year, and it embarrassingly cost $4000. It's great, but I'm convinced that in two years I'll be having a stern conversation with Microsoft support about the Australian Consumer Law guarantee of acceptable quality.
Yes, that is directly from the LinkedIn dashboard for Uber [1] which has company employment data. I am assuming that they are dependent on people listing their employment as Uber for it to be correct. I believe you have to be a Premium user to get the data.

Where did you get the 2x to 3x data point? Also, does your data source show anything different on the other issues around slowing of hiring and additional churn this year at Uber?

It is possible that the top line # might be problematic because it requires self reporting, but there is still signal in the # of people that are self reporting joining and leaving.

[1] https://www.linkedin.com/company-beta/1815218/
I'll do anything if I can program in Lisp.
I think the claim is that whatever limits typing speed is not key travel distance, but rather maybe coordination in your brain or some other factor. Anecdotally I would get tired typing qwerty way faster than I do typing dvorak, though some of this is just the fact that my form is much better in dvorak.
Then maybe I'm missing something. I've set here: extensions.allow-non-mpc-extensions to true as per https://wiki.mozilla.org/Add-ons/ShimsNightly

But when I go to https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/vimperator/, It wont let me install and it says "This add-on is not compatible with your version of Firefox"

Edit: Disabling JS allowed me to download it. It's not working yet, but I haven't had time to troubleshoot.
Criticism: (buttering up first, as all good criticisms do: I give to the Give Directly UBI test through Effective Altruism Australia, basically because I read Doing good Better, and am very pro what you are all doing with 80,000 hours specifically).

I think the mistake of the article is that you assume people have a context for your asking these sorts of questions. I know it is tedious to start with the context every. time. but without some context, the articles end up preaching a little to the converted, or risk putting people offside. They are also impossible to share, which is a shame because I think the basic premise (do good better) is really easy to sell, and the methodology really helpful.

Maybe a prominent push of https://80000hours.org/career-guide/world-problems/#how-to-w... front and centre, 1st paragraph would help? Or perhaps a sentence or two aimed at someone for whom this article is their first exposure to your site/concepts?
The best thing for finding speakers is having a form on signup for the emails because I ask people for suggestions, and I've had hundreds.

For the crawling part, this might be interesting (I have a talk coming soon too)
http://findlectures.com/articles/2017/05/15/Building-a-Crawl...
Agenda for the August 8th Video Call of WebAssembly's Community Group
Not electromagnetic, but Shadow Robot Company (http://www.shadowrobot.com/) does stuff with pneumatic "muscles".
To my understanding, Tgres is really more of a "middleware" layer that collects metrics and performs aggregations on them that are stored back into Postgres (e.g., generates aggregate rates for evenly spaced time intervals a la RRDTool), rather than being a scalable time-series DB itself.

That's useful in many dashboard-based server monitoring applications, but time-series DB have many other applications (and can benefit from more complex queries even in monitoring).

Tgres and Timescale are actually a bit complementary, and you might even be able to use Timescale as a better backend for Tgres.
A quote supporting the advantages of Dvorak:

>First, Dvorak is very good at keeping fingers on home row - 71% of keystrokes land there (compare this with 34% for QWERTY). This alone is worth the price of admission. Dvorak bottom row usage is very low at 9% (15% for QWERTY). Dvorak favours the right hand by 14% (QWERTY favours left by 15%). Dvorak has more uniform finger usage and makes greater use of the pinky (18% vs QWERTY's 10%).

http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/carpalx/?dvorak
Sorry, I firmly believe that nothing gets Erlang-style concurrency except Erlang. Other ecosystems may get something that mimics Erlang's concurrency, but the imitation is skin-deep.
I have one and like it a lot, but it doesn't work in my bag or at the coffee shop.
The subtleties of writing DTrace scripts
Glitch, from Fog Creek, seems to be modeled after Hypercard, somewhat. https://glitch.com/
> we were actually trying to make a difference in the world not sell software.

I mean, to be fair, I don't think selling software and trying to make a difference in the world are at odds with each other.
My argument isn't against throwing them off the Internet: it's against keeping them on things that don't develop the improvements in thinking or skill we want. I deal with the masses on a daily basis. Most of them don't gain serious skills by screwing around with the popular tech. It's a distraction preventing that. Most of them that did get skills did so by ignoring that in favor of putting time and work in. It was usually drudgery but sometimes a mix of that and fun. I see a small percentage of people on computers at the local library doing those things.
That wouldn't solve the problems I was after. But you can now do that using Karabiner Elements on Sierra with the latest build.
Difference being they won't necessarily be able to afford a new fancy electric vehicle. Just like there are people today driving old clunkers. Smoking is a choice, buying a new vehicle sometimes isn't.
www.zemneo.com

Wanted to solve the problem of information overload and product discovery , not making any money because I am not passionate about marketing. Do you think this is worth pursuing?
What does nuclear game theory say about probabilities as usage as more and more countries create their own arsenals?
Was not the fastest typer in the world a Dvorak user?

150 wpm for 50 min (37,500 key strokes) and attained a speed of 170 wpm using the Dvorak Simplified Keyboard (DSK) system. Her top speed was recorded at 212 wpm.

No. http://seanwrona.com/typing.php

50 minute typing in English - 174 wpm (870 cpm) - 1st all time (this unofficially breaks Barbara Blackburn's Guinness world record of 150 wpm (750 cpm) over 50 minutes, but is perhaps less impressive because she used a typewriter while I used a computer keyboard).

Caveat aside, his peak speed is over 250WPM.

If you look at typeracer.com's scores, there are plenty of typists in the 150+ range. I'd also consider myself a fast typist, averaging 150-160 for general English text and have peaked at ~240wpm in short bursts. I use QWERTY exclusively, but on an extremely low-force keyboard.
do they get paid okay?
Why not do a leave of absence thing? Am I the only one that's seen the cop shows 'Leave your badge and take some time to cooloff, Riggs'.
>Keep an eye on your logs, test everything again and again.

This is the takeaway quote from this for me.
Also likely drivers list they work at Uber
Send robots with a genome database so that they can regenerate and raise humans at the end phase of the trip. Or just cut out the humans altogether and let the machines be our legacy.
It's more like a lottery ticket where a VC can come in and say sorry you now have 0.001 lottery tickets and if you hit a jackpot, I get the first $50M of it before we split the rest of the pot.
> The older I get, and the longer I see the very same arguments over and over again over decades, the more I am coming around to the idea that a massive portion of the human population possibly can't even see reality. Maybe I am one of them!

All we can do is dedicate ourselves to following the evidence where we can and avoiding judgement when possible.
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Speedr - Free Android app that calculates how much time (or how little time) you save speeding in your car.

https://jakehilborn.github.io/speedr/
I do think this is one big reason. Waves of people getting to act on the world. Also I'd add another factor, society feeds on drive, and younger people are hungry by default, so new projects will benefit from having them. I can see that in all new real estate work in Paris; it's all very very weird design (too sophisticated, too shiney, discontinuous, unintegrated) that I'm pretty won't age well at all. But that's how new buildings were done.. people needed the "escape valve" of youth to let the energy flow somehow.
Why do you usually advertise the write performance? Let's say that I have "100+ billion rows (the number in your landing page)", how much time it takes to run a simple GROUP BY query?

The benchmark repo doesn't actually include the performance comparison between Timescale and Postgres: https://github.com/timescale/benchmark-postgres#benchmark-qu...

This blog post (https://blog.timescale.com/timescaledb-vs-6a696248104e) has some query benchmarks and the main benefit it that the hypertable will partition the data smoothly and if we query the table by filtering with timestamp column, it will be fast since Timescale uses partitioning as an indexing method.
hypercard via gopher would be a heck of a thing. :p
Yes, if you hold down J and Semicolon and then hit the a button on a macbook pro you will notice it isn't picked up. It is a hardware limitation on most keyboards. See "n key rollover" in google for more details.
Or join the rest of the civilised world and just have it made legal without hiding behind a popular vote.
Powerful and ignored: the history of the electric drill in Australia
Hacker News seems to have interesting collective beliefs such as that it's easier to go to Mars than to turn off the lights when no one is in the room.
Launching huge telescopes (and possibly assemble them) into space...?
The link is broken. The article is here: http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/State-appeals-court-te...
When I was 14 years old, I demoed my HyperCard-based game for none other than Bill Gates. My recollection is that he seemed genuinely interested in how I built it, and he knew more than I expected about Macs and HyperCard.
http://www.proggyfonts.net/

I didn't create any of the fonts. When I discovered the original .com domain had been lost to squatters, I decided to grab the .net domain and go about hunting down and re-hosting as much of the original content as possible.

The original site was later restored at a different domain (linked in the sidebar).
That's nice. One of my goals was to make it easy to remember the key locations so I ended up with <{[(/\)]}> all on one row.
I dabble a bit:
Http://playerpart.com - for Shakespeare play reading groups, helps distribute parts on a play fairly and with as few adjacent speaking parts as possible. Still in development!

https://ranktracker.squib.co.nz - a tool to track an in game characters stats for a very old game called Clan Lord from Delta Tao. In development.

I seem to end up working on stuff with a very limited user base!
> If you’re spending real money, you should have an account team. Talk to them if such a problem happens

The colloquialism for "real money", at least to me, is "a substantial sum". If that's what you intended, wouldn't it make sense that you wouldn't have an account team if the only time you spent real money was by accident?
Isn't "no HyperCard for Windows" another likely reason?

WindowScript was a popular XCMD that would let you open multiple windows with native controls (which is how many stacks added color support long before HyperCard did).
I just did some back-of-the-envelope math.

The biggest ping time I see is just under 4 seconds. With milliseconds, that translates into a 7-digit string if you pretend the first 4 digits are the integer part and the last 3 are the fraction. The caveat is that you must store "42.32" as "0042.032", someone more advanced may be able to suggest a better system. The maximum 22-bit value is 4194304, which is a tad small. 23 bits is 8388608 - and I suspect you'd consider an 8388 millisecond ping time a bug. :D

64-bit time is a fad just because it's easier to do multiples of 8 than bitpack. However, if you use 33-bit time, you can count up to 8589934592, which is the year 2242.

I see you have 250 servers. Using a single int will only get you up to 255. Ouch. But using two bytes gives you space for 64000 servers you'll never use. Wat do?

Well, if you're okay with calculating the avg and mdev in realtime, that's (23*2)+33 (min+max+date), which works out to 79 bytes. So you could prefix _9_ bytes for the server ID, which gives you 512 servers.

So that's 9+23+23+33=88 bytes per ID.

At 88 bytes per ID, one year's worth of records for 250 servers is 192720000, or 183MB per year.

This is not a particularly fancy approach, and is likely inefficient in many ways. But it's definitely doable, both for long-term (full-resolution/granularity) archival and realtime querying. You could make a superfast server in Go that accepted simple queries and handled the on-disk format. You could export the Go server over the Web directly (Go is pretty concurrent, but requires 8K per goroutine, which adds if you have eg 10ks of connections...) or use a simple/low-level protocol from your existing Web framework.
danso has an extreme axe to grind.

slatestarcodex is the only person looking at the actual data rationally.
Few thing spook executives more than having to answer anonymous questions in front of the whole company!
Let’s set up a kickstarter?
Bug(?): "Svalbard and Jan Mayen" is not a country. Svalbard is a Norwegian archipelago, and Jan Mayen is a Norwegian volcanic island, so they usually just list under Norway. And they don't use the same flag as Andorra.

Same goes for "Åland Islands" which are part of Sweden, and they certainly don't require a Visa from a UK citizenship.
Also, I'm pretty sure Faroe Islands, Guernsey, Isle of Man and Jersey don't require a Visa from a UK citizen.
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" but we will probably see what the USSC has to say about it."

Actually, we will probably not. They almost certainly will not take the case. This is a matter of state constitutional law, and well settled law at that. The big problem for Khosla is: It's been that way since 1976, and the supreme court has not, in that time period, said there was anything wrong with the provision.

This is part of the California constitution:

"No individual, partnership, or corporation, claiming or possessing the frontage of tidal lands of a harbor, bay, inlet, estuary, or other navigable water in this State, shall be permitted to exclude the right of way to such water whenever it is required for any public purpose, nor to destroy or obstruct free navigation of such water; and the Legislature shall enact such laws as will give the most liberal construction to this provision so that access to the navigable water of this State shall always be attainable for the people thereof." - California Constitution, Article X, section 4

At worst, they will be forced to pay market rate.
They will then argue over market rate.
Khosla may be a billionaire, but bureaucracy generally doesn't care.
I dream instead about spending a little more on science, and nothing at all on war.
Wow... I never knew about this.

This is a direct correlation between Google's "damage control" strategy and Marxism.
Elon Musk gave assistant 2-week test when she asked for raise, and she failed
My project is a bit of a spiritual successor to HyperCard: https://github.com/hyperfiddle/hypercrud.browser
Both of the modifier keys (Snap and Pop) work just like Shift and Control. You hold them down to get the other layer. On mac keyboards you can't count on more than 2 keys pressed at the same time so a Shift + Snap + A might (or might not work). I had a few failed attempts at combo modifiers before I decided they wouldn't be reliable enough (at least not on my mac pro).
Whats interesting is just the idea that you should sanitize ALL inputs, no matter how unlikely it is that the input could be malicious.
This is true, but these laws are definitely constitutional under the california constitution.
See Article X, section 4, which specifically authorizes them.
Potioneer: The VR Gardening Simulator

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I'll just add my little "me too!": my first experience programming was when I got the chance to play with hypercard in middle school, and I created an interactive periodic table of the elements in it. Nothing fancy, just click to get details on an element. From there I went on to the New Mexico Supercomputer challenge in high school (good memories), and then on to an undergraduate degree in CS. Still coding science oriented software decades later.
> Yes even most people in Pakistan/India have access to those, plus broadband internet. Yes I've been there.

Indian here, lot of people in metro cities dont have clean water. Most middle class and rich people use water filter to clean the water in their house. Forget the villages.
United. Also, AA hates their customers so no surprise. You should try it with Delta a little birdie told me they take those numbers very seriously.
Author seems to be into fantasy sports and must have a lot of group threads on that topic.
Please don't troll.

I was asking how the parent commenter could afford private school and still save a significant amount.

By the way most people on a visa have to pay for private school (as it should be - but my point is it's often not a luxury).
The testable prediction I am making here is that people will exert social force quite similar to the mini-shamings applied to smokers. Your point is that smokers and ICE drivers have different reasons to be those things, and they may color how things play out, but the mini-shamings will continue to exist both because not all ICE drivers do so without a choice, and not all mini-shamers will care one way or another about the underlying facts.

Anyway, it's just an idea. I guess I'm bored. Cheers!
Don't think so. I really enjoyed my time there and I still hang out there a lot but it's pretty important to me to be doing "library things" and I couldn't do that and devote the time to modding that the job deserved.
Are you monitoring your temps?
https://www.accc.gov.au/consumers/consumer-rights-guarantees...

How is this enforced? If you have a file a lawsuit, the costs/time/effort might not be worth it.
...and also it would be cited by creationists as proof that they're right.
Chromium for Android is an amazing open source browser.
I made getChromium so that everyone can run Chromium for Android.
https://github.com/andDevW/getChromium/blob/master/README.md
I was arguing against simply throwing kids off of public computers willy nilly. I was not advocating actively promoting the pursuit of such activities. There is a difference.
Write performance is a much simpler metric than query performance, which is HIGHLY dependent on the actual query being performed. Plus, in many time-series settings, you actually need to support high-write rates, which vanilla RDBMS tables can't support.

On the query side, we find that most queries to a time-series DB actually include a time predicate, LIMIT clause, etc. It's pretty rare that you do a full table scan over the 100B rows. (And for these types of broad scans, performance depends on # disks and use of query parallelization.)

Not sure I understand the comment about the benchmark repo doesn't include the performance comparison? That repo is meant to accompany a blog post, which discusses the results (https://blog.timescale.com/timescaledb-vs-6a696248104e), while the repo allows you to replicate our results.
Whataboutism. We shouldn't be held back to the lowest-common-denominator.
> their bank transfer charges are proportional to amount transferred instead of standard flat fee.

I don't think that is true. From everything I've seen they only charge a nominal fee of 15 cents to do an ACH transfer.
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Link? Google doesn't turn up too much except an old bug report. I switch haphazardly between terminator (sitting at my desk) and tmux (sshing in); I'd love to unify it.
Wouldn't an API gateway typically limit requests per IP/end user?

I guess it could limit global request rate. But the idea of unbounded elastic services behind a global rate limiter is just funny to me. Like a Ferrari with a 50mph limiter.
Unlike more common smaller stars, such as the red dwarf stars Proxima Centauri and Trappist-1, they are not so faint that planets would be tidally locked, showing the same side to the star at all times.

In such planets, the most habitable zone is around an equator like region where the light and dark regions kind of merge to produce a reddish sunset like hue all through the day. I think one of the planets that Kepler discovered is like that. Life would evolve to absorb these light wavelengths. So for instance plants would all look black. Nova has a great episode on these exoplanets. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HZsFMqqGJo&t=793s
Technically, hydropneumatic suspension[1]. Very expensive when it breaks (speaking from personal experience...)

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydropneumatic_suspension
I'm confused why so many people bring up the idea that it's unconstitutional. Right of way, access, easement, and eminent domain are all established government exceptions to strict private property rights. Hell, after the mockery that police can enter your front yard without a warrant if you don't have some kind of fence, and the government has the right to force you to sell your land so they can sell it to commercial interests, do we really think they're going to find beach access laws unconstitutional?
No, I mean ground based telescope tech and space based tech. Both have different limits and advantages.
I'm betting either Snap or Twitter will be acquired, once their price is low enough (maybe soon). They aren't just going to fizzle out as they both have substantial number of users. I don't own either, but my guess is that their stock will see a big bump similar to the outcome of LinkedIn's acquisition by Microsoft. This is just a war of attrition.
It is of course possible I'm massively mis-estimating the potential userbase.

That is largely irrelevant. Do you have a marketing plan? Because "build it and they will come" tends to work poorly.

If you have no marketing plan, your concerns about a sudden influx of 1M users is likely seriously exaggerated.