skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Extra waypoint actions, better pathing and the propensity to form nicer circles around an opponent targeted by an attack command isn't what I'd call micro AI. Most of that choppy feeling you get after switching to classic is because of how tiles and stacking is handled in sc2 where units step on each other's toes and slowly ease away and tiles are much smaller.
A lot of is is that restaurants are largely built by wealthy people for their own social niche. They aren't designed to be profitable businesses, but more as a social device for their owners.

If you're wealthy in New York City, you will eventually be asked to fund a restaurant.
I can't get over the sleaziness of this site...
Yep, but it doesn't matter what it technically is, the underlying principle is the same. We'd have a more secure, more understandable, more open system that replaces the proprietary ones. I have my Chromebook which runs Linux and GNU software. I have my cell phone which runs Linux and I can rebuild whatever part I desire. I have my server which runs Linux.

A man can dream one day we'll have a phone with a baseband chip we can control, a RISC-V core we can program, no?
Dang I read the first paragraph of the article and immediately went searching for the real papers since I didn't expect any media outlet to include them at the bottom, but here they are for anyone who made the same mistake I did! https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.05024
https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.10378

Not a cosmologist but here's my go at the de Graff paper. (Let's get this out of the way, the title is click-bait and the paper/researchers makes no such claims as to anything near 50%. New Scientist is trolling for hits with the word "half" or the journalist is fundamentally misunderstanding the work.) In de Graff, et al, they claim 30% of "90% of the missing baryonic matter [that composes the ~25% of our total universe observable from within our light cone]" has been found in the CMB structured as filaments between galaxies. They claim there's effectively a planar network layered on top of Minkowski space composed this baryonic matter. The temperature was at this "Goldilocks" midrange no one had previously analyzed (ranging from 10^5-10^7K). This wasn't previously found because people were searching "only the lower and higher temperature end of the warm-hot baryons, leaving the majority of the baryons still unobserved(9)". [See "Warm-hot baryons comprise 5-10 percent of filaments in the cosmic web.", Nature, Eckert et al for more about baryons of this composition.]

Additionally, these baryons have 10x the density of what we observe (so this could potentially be evidence for the first stable baryonic matter composed of second generation quarks, or more likely the binding energies are different from our standard uud/udd nucleon quarks) permeating the universe, and where the roads in the network meet ("dark matter haloes"), you have embedded galaxies and galaxy clusters. They continue with their analytic methods of the CMASS data, and claim within the framework 30% of the total baryonic content (which, again, all analytical methods put this into no more than ~25%) is composed of this form of this matter. I skimmed their methods and it seemed to at least logically hold -- they are using the appropriate data (SDSS 12) and didn't cherry-pick their galaxy pairs (so, no p-hacking here!).
Desperation creates grasping feature creep.
No, this has nothing to do with dark matter. Dark matter has to be in galaxies because the reason we think it exists at all is because galaxies spin 'too fast', so there is more mass in them and therefore more gravity than can be accounted for. This article is talking about gas between galaxies.
Jan 2019 seems a bit aggressive. If they do manage to pull it off thought, even for a later date, I will be definitely placing an order as soon as possible.
There's nothing worng with liking girly stuff and being into STEM.

I'm a pretty "masculine" (for a lack of better expression) guy who likes a fair amount of girly stuff. My best friend is a girly girl who's in STEM and she's brilliant at her job.

If your girls want to be girly, there's nothing wrong with it! I don't understand the recent "trend" of people being against girly girls or or boyish boys. People will choose to be what best suits them. And if your girls decide they don't want to be girly at one point in their life, also great.
Agree it is completely absurd to allow formulas in a CSV file, let alone code.

I have never seen a way to disable a full recalculation when Excel opens a CSV file, which beyond the security implications is painful for people like me who keep their calculations on manual because I often have very heavy workbooks opened all the time.
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My friends and I have a saying: "boring makes money". That it's really hard to pull off the success of a Facebook, etc. but it's only moderately hard to do consulting and spin off some kind of related product as a service, or micro SAAS.

I'm curious what the "boring" food venture is?

- trucks?

- catering?

- middle brow family style Italian?

I'm aware of a couple of food businesses that rent kitchen space in the morning/evening from restaurants to make prepared paleo/keto meals that are then distributed through gyms/fitness centers (genius resource utilization).

There's also a really interesting little business in the Outer Banks that sells you a metal pot full of uncooked seafood that you then put on the stove for an hour and let steam at your beach house. It costs something like $100 and I'm pretty sure it's about 50% profit for them.

There's always room for cleverness.
Most of this is from NSA's historical website.[1]

[1] https://www.nsa.gov/about/cryptologic-heritage/historical-fi...
Yeah that is a lovely PR piece, and i watched nextdoor implement that "fix" wired was very generous with the breaking sacred design rule headline, the site wasn't exactly web 3.0 from the beginning and i think that was the point.

It's primary audience appears to be "homeowners" (owners from 1-50 years they do not seem to care) who might want to sell their home or are interested in service for their home.

So two years later and I personally still see the almost identical "those people" posts across all of San Francisco. A valiant effort but without serious moderation it is meaningless.

At a certain point mods in the nextdoor community need to either ban people completely which would cuts away at their fantasy ethos or shadow ban people which basically is the same result.

good fences make great neighbors
Thanks. Your point to show the script is duly noted. It is actually a great idea. Let me incorporate the suggestion in upcoming updates.
Yes, through the "Import" feature. Excel will in that case allow you to choose what "type" each column in the CSV has (and will not parse text if given the "text" type). The problem is that a lot of users (myself included) will use muscle memory and double-click a CSV file in windows explorer rather than opening up Excel and initiating an import.
I'm curious how do you do documentation?
That sounds like they got swindled. They paid for an improvement to the rental property, how come the landlord didn't split that with them. It just seems unfair.

Landlord: I don't care if you do it or not.
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Friction, and really any kind of 'contact' between things is just electrons repelling. Some ideas for dark matter don't interact in any way other than gravity, so your idea is pretty mainstream on that, but there's basically no evidence that dark matter exists in some specific form, and in fact every experiment seems to constrain the possible forms it could have more and more. It's still possible it exists, but I would suspect that whatever the explanation is for the 'missing' matter will be pretty revolutionary.
> "I told myself what I'm sure every single novice restauranteur tells themselves: I'll be in the 1 percent that make it, by sheer will."

Sounds like every startup founder all over the world who builds a mobile or web app these days. Many just see the 1 in 999999 success stories and think that having an idea for an app is a licence to print money.

I would far rather see more stories like this, but from app founders. Not to discourage or dissuade anyone from trying at all, but merely to set the expectations at a realistic level.
> Well the problem is, if you don't use an ORM, you'll invent one yourself...only poorly

There is always a trade-off. The code you wrote, even if it is poorly re-implentation, you know it inside out, since you wrote it. The third party code, may be better, but people usually make a lot of implicit assumptions and end up not using it correctly, so you end up in situations like this.

For DB layer, I usually prefer custom code so I know exactly what is going on under the hood.
Thanks for the correction. I updated my post with a note pointing out that it's wrong.
> The latter requires a very special skill set

I'm going to argue against that idea.

1. The bar to become a teacher is quite low.

2. Most of the teachers I've met certainly didn't not have the necessary skills, but they, and the students endured.

Being an outstanding teacher required a very special skill set.
I'm guessing you just don't follow local restaurant news (Renard's opening got quite of coverage because it was in St. Jack's old space) or live in that neighborhood.

Portland's a pretty local place. I walk by where Renard used to be almost every day, and can tell you about every restaurant along all of Clinton Street (on that stretch, Burrasca is clearly the standout). But apart from a few very well-known places I've got no idea what's up on, say, Alberta.
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Nope. A journalist isn't obliged to respect an agreement they didn't accept. The user who sent them the screenshot may have done something unethical, though.
> I found the latter irritating to read -- roughly, many of the characters are "not in a great situation" when it comes to the role society has assigned them -- yet they are all accepting (perhaps that is too strong) or passive. No volition to change the status quo.

That is an incredibly useful and insightful anti-recommendation, thank you. That's consistently a property of stories that make me want to throw them away in disgust.
I think what will (should, perhaps?) ultimately happen -- and this is probably still years off -- is that we will stop using default routes on (most) hosts.

Publicly accessible servers and such will, of course, still have them, but things like, say, internal database servers or the PC belonging to Debbie in Payroll, won't.

Access to things outside of the "local network" (i.e., a company's entire network, not just the directly-connected subnet) will go through an intermediary (e.g., an HTTP(S) proxy) that performs per-connection authorization with a defauly deny.

It may end up looking a little differently than this -- a default deny on all outgoing IP traffic, for example, with only specific traffic permitted -- but I believe that, eventually, this is how we'll keep random hosts from being used to exfiltrate mass amounts of data.

TL;DR: Companies need to start filtering outgoing traffic and not letting any random host on the internal network connect out to any other random, arbitrary host in the world. This will be inconvenient and expensive (to manage), however, so we'll need a few more Equifax's before it begins to catch on.
I'd guess the catchier title has a lot to do with it as well.
I love how the already excellent software environment around SmartOS just keeps on evolving and expanding daily.

And Heinz, congratulations on sticking with illumos / SmartOS and taking a stand for what you believe in; I loved your talk from a few years ago.
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> When your telemetry is easy, open, and transparent, people will gladly opt-in when they think it's needed.

Well said. As a favour to the developers, I have always chosen to opt in for telemetry when it was asked upfront and in a transparent and guileless manner. One example is Firefox, where I opt in for its telemetry.

What I suspect I (and others) don't like is software that treats the user as if they're too dumb to decide for themselves and somehow too inconsequential to have full control over the software that they have bought. It gives off the impression that the software is more important than the user or their work/machine, which is why we see such a backlash. Stallman is right in this sense. You don't need to open source your software, but make the user your priority. Treat them well. And watch your software be praised far and wide. Conversely....
We don't know much about what it does do, only what it doesn't do. Scientists have deduced its existence by measuring the speed of the expansion of the universe and determining that the mass that we can see based on the rotation of galaxies, etc. can not account for the speed of the expansion. There should be way more mass out there than there is.

We also know that it doesn't seem to react with light otherwise it would block out the stars from other galaxies as well as the cosmic background radiation. It's difficult to tell how it reacts with ordinary matter because we can't see it, but the assumption is that, since its got such a large gravitational effect, it must not react much at all otherwise it would dominate everything visible since it's 90% of the matter in the known universe.

It's difficult to make sense of what this means, but all of the other theories that explain the rotation of galaxies and the expansion of the universe don't fit very well either.
(Not OP, but I feel like I've seen this phenomenon before.) In C, the natural idiom would be to read in a giant file line by line, doing something with each line and eventually doing something else based on some summary of everything read so far. Lots of dumb SQL code also does something like this, e.g. by generating some ginormous join and then whittling it down to something usable. Better SQL code filters before the join, and often uses indexes to do so.
It has the same <link rel="canonical"> meta tag, though, which points to the non-amp version of the url. Perhaps HN should look for that header and use that for the link.
As someone in the food industry, I can appreciate the hardships and frustrations shared by the author. I've worked for others in restaurants and other consumer-facing food businesses, and now my company is a wholesaler. Some of why my company is like that comes from what I learned in prior industry experiences, but much of it is merely a reflection of my preferences and strengths, both of which compel me toward direct relationships with customers (wholesaling) rather than the fleeting, complicated interactions that come in restaurants, bakeries, etc.

So I can appreciate the frustrations the author shared. Many of them remain a part of my life—the crazy hours, bureaucracy, expenses, etc. Many of them are the nature of the industry. It is, after all, a service industry, and that means service to others. That’s typically a trying environment in the US, with its individual-focused culture. So I’m sympathetic to much of what the author described.

But it certainly reads like someone who didn’t know what he was getting himself involved with doing. Sadly—not critically—I’d even say it sounds like he (at the time of writing) only understands the symptoms of how things happened, not the actual causes. Just one example: He mentions lease negotiations covering four months but then describes the place as being in shambles. That indicates thorough inspections weren’t performed. Many of the self-described problems in the piece follow this pattern, him seeing what went wrong instead of describing what should have been done differently.

Maybe in the intervening time since publication he (and his partners) have learned from this. Obviously, what they went through came with high costs, emotionally, physically, and economically. I can only hope they’ve ultimately benefited from going through this and it improves their chances of success in whatever else they do. It’s never pleasant to read about someone failing, but it’s always great to hear when people turn disappointment into a stepping stone to success.
It's maybe worth drawing a distinction between things like "species extinction" versus "civilization collapse" and "massive reduction in carrying capacity".

I think it is much easier to have one or both of the latter outcomes in the med term (the next few hundred years, say) without it necessarily ending in human extinction.
English is a Germanic language, with vocab borrowed from lots of other sources but mostly French, Spanish is a Romance language (with, especially in it's Latin American form) a bunch of vocabulary borrowed from Nahuatl and Quechua. They are extremely dissimilar grammatically, and though they have some overlap and similarities in vocabulary, it's nowhere close to making fluency with either making you even minimally functional (much less halfway native) in the other.
I bought a "real" HSM off of eBay (used, of course) a couple weeks ago but, unfortunately, it's apparently broken and so I need to return it. The price of these things is huuuuuge and that puts them out of reach to all but large companies. I think that Amazon is trying to solve that problem but, yeah, if I had that much to spend I would just buy a couple outright (they'd pay for themselves in a few months, compared to CloudHSM).
That sounds like they got swindled. They paid for an improvement to the rental property, how come the landlord didn't split that with them. It just seems unfair.

Eh, as a landlord myself, unless we agreed upfront to cover that improvement (usually by discounting on the rent), you're on your own. Renting to restaurants seems like a pain in the first place; considering their low expected lifetime, the property will have to be on the market again soon enough, losing money during the transition. Plus who knows if they won't go bankrupt with unpaid rent.

If this was prime location for restaurants, the grease trap would already be there. As it isn't, chances are the next tenant won't even be a restaurant.

I wouldn't contribute either, frankly.
I don't see how doing it in person would change the logic. Aren't we saying that anything you do in public has no expectation of privacy? So some neighbor might be pointing a laser mic at your garden fence conversation from a window 80 meters away but hey, it's a public conversation!

That's how I feel when people say "oh there's no expectation of privacy cause you can just sign up with a fake name on a gift card."
The npm community has a longstanding habit of depending on dynamic version numbers, eg "^1.2.3". Until the recent advent of package-lock.json, normal builds would pull in "whatever was latest"; any compromised upstream dependency would automatically propagate downstream as fast as their CI systems run. Also, builds are pretty much irreproducible.

The maven world, by contrast, is habituated to fixed version numbers for dependencies. A fake release might affect folks downstream that explicitly choose the upgrade, but it won't be automatic.

package-lock.json helps solve the technical problem, but the JS community still has a cultural problem because JS packages are typically fine-grained, released frequently, and upgraded without much thought.
All of which adds up to a huge claim from a pre-print paper.
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I've generally interpreted it in two different ways, neither of which is this accepted version (though I would not contest that the title must've originated as described in this article).

First, as in reference to gardening, where a blade may be run along a stem to remove undesired branches or buds. [MINOR SPOILER[?]]This especially fits with the "tree" motif that features through the second film.[/SPOILER]

Secondly, as a roundabout reference to Ockham's Razor, in that Blade Runners have a responsibility to make sure that the "official explanation" (most likely to be believed) for something is the "simplest possible" explanation for something - i.e., they cover up what is a complex situation for the public by eliminating the source of moral or ethical complexity (specifically, by "retiring" replicants).
It's a comment about something they saw in the install script. Since the code is right there in the repo, that would be the actual source to see if it does indeed send telemetry. Perhaps someone can do that to settle this definitely.
People who are that vulnerable to words shouldn't be given the power to ban. What's 'civil' to you is utterly rude to many Asian cultures.
This also needs to use Go, Rust, and Haskell at a minimum.
How is that opposite? The ideas aren't mutually exclusive
After vegas why do we still treat the us as a civilised country
Portland has an amazing number of unique, non-chain restaurants.
While I agree that this is a problem (i.e., one of suspect measurement), I don't think that it's the major problem. Tests that measure stuff that a not insignificant portion of the test taking population consider either irrelevant or (worse) antithetical to their lives are going to yield wonky results. The administrators claim to be measuring school or teacher effectiveness, while I would suggest that they are basically measuring SES.

Said another way, if you give tests that ask people about stuff that neither they nor most of the people they know care about, you shouldn't be surprised by bad and/or inconsistent results.
It started in 2016 but it's not over. There are comments from a few minutes ago, maybe because of this HN thread, and tales of things that went wrong recently. Example: a failed HIPAA inspection.

I'd take the year away, not to make people think it's not relevant anymore.
> Your smartphone sends back way more data if you're that concerned.

That's not true. My iPhone asked me if I want to share iPhone / iCloud analytics and I said no. This wasn't an opt-out, but an explicit question. I remember my Google Nexus asking me about it as well, including for Google's Keyboard. I said no and again no opt-out happened.

And in fact it would be illegal to collect user telemetry in the EU without the user's explicit consent ;-)
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While good advice in general, I'm not sure this applies in the Portland restaurant market. Renard was pretty boring - good French food, but the same food you've eaten at a dozen other French restaurants - and that, for me, was its problem. So many more interesting places to go!

The cautious thing to do in the Portland restaurant market, as far as I can tell, is to do periodic pop-ups or a food cart and try to build up your repeat clientele to the point where you can justify a brick and mortar location of your own.
> not being religious because its illogical even if being religious makes you feel/act better.

It's not exactly a choice. I for the life of me just can't start believing one or another unfounded story, because there's no basis to choose which story to believe. Even taking into account prevalent beliefs of the society as a basis, I can't imagine what kind of mental stunt I need to perform to promote probability of the hypothesis to one. Deep brain stimulation could probably work, but it's too risky.
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AFAIK If you have them in your contacts and they haven't blocked you, you can access both those data points. If they have disabled last seen, you can still get the the 'online' and 'typing' status.
Maybe an hastly judgment, but the guy doesn't seem to like food. Why open a restaurant in a first place? Specifically "renard" (fox in french) is not a good name for food.
"Most apps are opt-out though, the checkboxes are already checked and a message shown."

IMO, this is the key problem. I have no issue with optional telemetry, but there should be a bright line here: all telemetry should be opt-in. If necessary, by law. It should not become standard practice for applications to send data without explicit consent.
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