skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, but my main point here is we spend so much time focusing on what's odd about North Korea that we start to act like they're not humans. They aren't morons. I remember reading an interview with a North Korean defector and he was talking about how anyone who lives there learns to read between the lines of news stories. So like the example he used was, if all the sudden the newspaper started talking about heroic Iraqi rebels fighting the United States, you'd learn "Oh, so the United States has taken over Iraq," even though none of that context would necessarily have been presented to you.
One more reason to be sad about the demise of Pebble :'(
Here in Sitka, land is really expensive because most of the flat and easily buildable land has already been claimed and developed. That's contributing to the seriousness of the landslide threat.

There's an interesting project going on outside of Valdez. A couple people are setting up to do their tech work up here. They call themselves Geeks in the Woods [0]; I haven't followed their work other than keeping an eye on their instagram account [1].

I've often thought of trying to host a tech gathering up here at some point in the future. It's a great location for doing good tech focused work, and then disconnecting fully to regain perspective, then going back to your tech work. It's a great place for remote work, there's just very little networking with others in tech here.

As for a really specific answer to your question, Alaska is so varied that you have to ask about a specific part of the state. Any particular area you're interested in?

[0] https://www.geekwire.com/2017/drop-tune-seattle-mobile-analy...

[1] https://www.instagram.com/geeksinthewoods/
Disclaimer: am an historian and agree with the basic premise of OP. Without a doubt, it would be preferable to have been born in 100 CE as opposed to 800 CE, in most parts of Christian Western Europe. But I think he dismisses point #1 far too hastily. Go a little bit south of the Visigoths, and you have one of the world's largest libraries to date and a city to rival ancient Athens in size (Muslim Cordoba).

The point I try to make when I teach this stuff is not that there was no period of decline in Christian Western Europe after the fall of the Western empire. That's a given. But the culture of the Greeks and Romans also had a home in places like Morocco, Afghanistan and Egypt. Those places were doing great during the "Dark Ages" and were just as much the inheritors of the Classical world as, say, Germany and Ireland.

In other words: fixating on a Dark Age that only befell something like 1/4 of the zone of Greco-Roman influence gives a misleading impression because it imposes much more modern geographic boundaries. Many of those "lost" classical texts rediscovered in the Renaissance were still readily available in places like Isfahan and Shiraz. Likewise with population: I would wager that, taking a century-level view, the regions encompassed by Alexander's empire increased steadily in urbanization and GDP from his time to that of the Mongols.
The purpose of language is to communicate. If they use the wrong terms and communicate, it's not an issue. If they use the wrong terms and miscommunicate, that is an issue.

If they are miscommunicating, you can always ask them what they mean when they use the term, and say it's because you want to make sure you understand what they are saying, and you've heard the term used in a different context and want to make sure you and they are on the same page.
> Well no... You're suggesting we twist it in a different way and totally ignoring all the reasons those laws you don't like came to exist in the first place.

Desperately disingenuous -- I made it quite clear on each point that the problem is overbearing regulation (not the existence of it outright, but the magnitude). Obviously, there is a such thing as too much regulation or a regulation that doesn't make sense, which you may not fully accept, (I accept there is a such thing as too little, by the way), and the scale is currently very unbalanced on the side of oppressive overregulation in this market.

> Yes and how much of the drugs we create are the result of publically [sic] funded research at some point in that pipeline?

I don't know -- you are very set on this point, so feel free to provide some data (I'm sure you can find one that leans in your favor). But then, the further data of relevance would be how much private vs. public medical research ends up in production.

> Unplug from Mises.org man.

Ad hominem will get you nowhere, but when you make them, you should consider how they may apply to yourself (unplug from WaPo/Vox/etc.). We all struggle to have rational discussions that require us to entertain ideas that our oppose deeply ingrained preconceived notions, and I am no exception to that rule, although I try to be aware of it.

I'll leave you with some thoughts that will hopefully broaden your scope of the issue:

1. Well implemented universal healthcare can be great -- I think Singapore's system, which is universally regarded as one of the best, is very good because it incorporates market-like incentives (for example, everything has an out of pocket expense, no matter how trivial).

2. However, universal healthcare will not solve all of the other problems I described, which other countries' acclaimed universal healthcare systems do not have to deal with. One way or another, we need a fresh start with much of our medical law (especially medical patent length, FDA requirements, and occupational licensing), or we will just be the worst universal healthcare country.

3. This one is the interesting one, which I was talking about in my first comment: The U.S. is the world's major net exporter of medical technology. Foreign dignitaries from UHS countries come to America for their important surgeries. Most of the medical technology used in foreign countries with UHS's came from the US -- it's a confounding variable making them look better, and no one knows what happens to medical progress when we take it away. Public research could offset this, but let's be real: public research does not typically translate to product, especially when your healthcare market is not a real market where you can make money for your value.
It might be helpful to cite some examples of that confirmation bias, otherwise it does seem a bit like flailing at a strawman for the sake of pedantry.

Edit: Just downvotes... charming.
Agreed. I think there is a plan to connect to BART and MUNI trains via a tunnel that runs under Beale Street. But that's part of the "unlikely-in-our-lifetimes" 2nd phase.
> like the old <script runat...> in ASP

Good memories! I remember how neat I found that as a script-kid back in the pre-.NET, VBScript-based ASP 3.0 days some 17 years ago. (MS Personal Web Server for the Win! The QBasic of the early web age.) But there wasn't any code-sharing and it was always clearly server-code, not client-code. Let alone the fact that only IE could run VBScript on the client..
I finished that game a few years ago (was most definitely worth the 60 cents I paid for it).

From what I recall, to finish the final level I was relying for the most part on 'muscle memory' in relation to the familiar patterns. I would visually interpret what kind of pattern it was, my position relative to the pattern and then there seemed to be a conscious disconnect to the actions I performed to get through the pattern.

I think it's interesting because the actions I'm referring to weren't merely a sequence of button presses performed as fast as you could. There was a critical factor of very small differences in durations between actions and how long you execute actions for that seem (and I assume are) completely beyond my conscious abilities.
It looks like they've followed Google's design guidelines fairly closely. That might be the reason.
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You have to look at fingertip travel time, not keycap travel time, for a more complete picture.

Those cracker-thin chicklets that comprise the Apple Magic keyboard will only make you faster if you rest your fingertips on the caps.

That may not work so well in all games; it depends on the controls. If you rest a finger on a certain key, but a situation requires you to use that finger to react with a different (though near by) key, you're at a disadvantage compared to having the finger raised so that it can strike either key with equal speed.
You realize this video (or a version of it) is linked in the article itself, yeah?
Not all eight bit, but 32 bit was really more of a nineties thing.

The first 386 PC didn't come out until 1987, but hardly anyone had them until about 1990. The 68k was a hybrid 16/32 bit processor, and the IIgs didn't come out until 1987 and hardly anyone bought one.

If you were to go into someone's home or office in 1989 and see how many bits their computer had, it was overwhelmingly likely to have been 8 or 16.
True. Inserting anything that doesn't exist in the first place, like a plane, train, animal, or monster is incredibly jarring for even the most casual movie watcher. It's a bit sad that we can't create convincing things out of thin air using CGI in 2017.
Yes, it is the most congested part of the city and centralizing the transit hub will make it more congested. I'd rather take BART to Millbrae than fight through downtown to get to the Transit Center. That's insane.
Typo in the title ? I believe it's "Ikigai", not "Ikagi"
... which means you had a shitty tandem instructor . Shortly after a tandem pair leaves the door the instructor chucks a drogue which slows your terminal velocity to that of a single person and basically suspends the whole setup. Once that happens getting out the belly to earth position is basically impossible. The whole pulling back and description of your experience gives me an impression you were at a really sketchy drop zone.
> I immediately switched to skeptic mode when I saw no actuation points or normalization for travel distance. All this is showing is that to move further it takes longer.

I thought his explanation (that delay from the start of the motion) was a good one. Unless someone is starting with a key partially depressed/near the actuation point (which you certainly could do), the key travel time is going to be a part of the perceived delay. Seems fair to me, given that delay and perception are the point of the post.

Now, if you think that gamers are starting with partially-depressed keys and therefore will actually experience less of a keystroke delay, that would be a valid counterargument.

> Every step of the process has huge flaws and he doesn't even use a reasonable set of devices.

I don't think this is being portrayed as an especially accurate study; the author includes plenty of caveats.
I can confirm this. Consul is much easier to run in production without issues. Zookeeper is rather picky around disk responsiveness etc.

And the Consul API is rather nice.
Climate change data https://imgur.com/a/nUDmA

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eemian

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5f/All_pala...

The data is not fake. ps: weather is not political.

EDIT: If you find this post to be of interest to you, please upvote. There are many people which disagree with the information I posted without posting a retort. How can we function as a healthy society without the willingness to question what we are told. Must we have sacred cows?
We did, but due to some people having image issues about using a “gamer tool”, we were forced to switch back to the inferior Slack.
If she bought her own phone and pays the monthly fees she can do whatever she whants. If not, what imaginary phone are we talking about again?

I know, I know, this may be a reason I do not have kids. They would throw me out on the first day...
There are newer ones that do 240hz, but they are TN.
I'm talking about connecting specific factors with specific outcomes.

When it's raining hard and I want to assess slide risk for my own sake, I look at a few factors: total rainfall over a short time period; average wind speeds and gusts; and how quickly the rivers are rising. I think I might have a sense of a signature of these three factors that predict a higher chance of slide activity.

I want to run a more careful analysis of those factors, and see if I can come up with an actionable signature for slide risk. Even if it works for just this town, it will be really helpful. But I know enough not to say much about that locally unless I have a concrete proposal.
The other thing to consider is how is latency perceived when actually TYPING in real life. My guess is that the difference between the shortest latency and the longest latency hardly matters for the purpose of a human putting words on a screen. There's so many other cognitive activities going on that I can't imagine someone would notice unless they're specifically looking for it and nothing else. Really, does anyone complain about this stuff? even world-class touch typists?

Of course there is some threshold of latency when it starts to become noticeable/disconcerting for some fraction of people and probably quite a lot more when half of all typists start to notice. Anyone can definitely feel this on terminals connected to very remote machines.

This is an interesting topic and am glad that Mr Luu is looking into it. The measurements described are absolutely a valuable first step towards understanding what latency really means for human factors in typing (first, what is the f-ing latency). I expect the folks at Logitech and other places have significant proprietary research on this stuff, but maybe not?
> Human-caused climate change is expected to cause steady changes in the average, almost invisible in short time periods

Really now? All this polar ice melting before our eyes is just a coincidental year-to-year fluctuation? You'd have expected this 200 years ago?
We had the exact same issue with RMQ (HA setup) on GCP (running on GKE) a few weeks ago. Tried contacting support about this, it's paid - no customer support for their own bugs.

The solution we came up so far is to disable automatic migrations. Not sure if that option actually does anything.
It's worth mentioning that even if Auto-Tune has pioneered the field and is now almost a mainstream househould name (much like Photoshop), nowadays all the cool kids are on Melodyne, which is frankly black magic : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FScFKuXXM0
> try to correlate it with slide events

Interesting idea, have you though about how you plan on making the correlation?

Two thoughts I just wanted to throw out there:

-As slopes fail, I think they tend to stabilize themselves, so it might be that only increasingly intense periods of rainfall would cause further slides.

-Slope stability depends on pore water pressure, which is more akin to ground water saturation, rather than rainfall. The two can probably be related, but its going to depend on the rainfall intensity minus the losses from permeability of the soil (together, they introduce time into the equation)
Suggest HN: Automatically Link from Duplicate Submission to Original
That way, people interested in the topic could join the discussion more easily. Presumably, if dupes can be detected automatically, it wouldn't be that much more complex to add a link.
It was a very cool winter last year here in lA
The entirety of the world's scientific community agrees on global warmings alarming impact...so if you're calling science a religion you're pretty much hopeless already..
dilemma

stable western country with huge amounts of empty land and too much sun makes it fantastic for solar.

but

an entire economy built on mines and the chinese have reduced their buying of iron so coal it is. and those mines have a lot of voting power.
How do you feel about the ethics of keeping animals as pets? Despite my ethical concerns, I have a cat as a roommate, but I generally think that pet ownership is unethical for precisely the reasons you discussed in the thread above.
That certainly would be news to the IPCC

https://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/wg1/en/spmsspm...

And innumerable scientists who are in the business of documenting the climate change they observe.

This sort of inflammatory, unsubstantiated nonsense doesn't belong here.
This great article and the other recent one from him started me down the path of thinking about an end-to-end optimized modern computer and operating environment.

If you _could_ (not saying it's easy or even necessarily practical at all) drop replace all of the slow stuff like high-latency keyboards, syscalls, CPU-GPU communication (i.e. effective HSA) and build some proof-of-concept operating environment (that was explicitly incompatible with existing stuff).. I think you could get a pretty fast computer. It would be fun to try.

Anyway is there a Cherry MX keyboard that has low travel and low latency overall?
Master list of SMB glitches makes a nice companion to this. Sorry in advance if it results in anyone staying up well past their bedtime ;)

https://www.mariowiki.com/List_of_Super_Mario_Bros._glitches
I don't know if this is a Canada thing or not. I too am worried that we (Canada) seem to have declared a war on self-employed people (latest tax plan defn doesn't make it any easier) and at the same time, some big names in retail have gone away (Sears, Target, a whole bunch of others). Where are all these unemployed people going into?
for god sake. don't try and pass off 4chan posts as data!
Show HN: Script to optimize your images
Makes me wonder about the latency of bt keyboards as well as my custom made keyboard controller.

HHKB JP with Hasu's controller
In the train station near where I used to live there were a couple of pigeons which learned to simply lie on their backs on those plastic deterrent spikes. They looked quite comfortable.
We have about a hundred or so years of high frequency data, and then we have high uncertainty, gap filled evidence of past temperatures in the form of core, tree, and fossil data and such.

And basbased on this tiny trend over the past century, we are extrapolating a trend which normally occurs over tens of millions of years. More so, we are using this spotty data to predict the evolution of a massive, poorly understood, highly chaotic system.

Modern climate science seems dogmatic because, in spite of the objectively poor data in comparison to the trend we are attempting to model, there is almost no healthy skeptical science.

I challenge you to find more than a handful of papers exploring potential benefits of climate change, or challenging the consensus, as you would expect in any other healthy science.

You likely won't, because the subject is a taboo. I searched as a college student some 5-7 years ago when I had access to journals and was astounded to find nothing.

Healthy science requires skepticism.
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I understand Amtrak used to come across the former Bay Bridge, but that was removed for car use... hence the ridiculous thing where you have to get off the train, take an Amtrak bus to Oakland, and then catch another train.
Traditional procedures that balance due process and expedient justice are the solution here. Anyone who faces abuse needs to speak up to either HR in a corporate setting or the police, if appropriate.
If it were true then yes (and data some cases tell us so). But memory has a tendency to be selective, anecdotes should not be trusted.
Actually QA applies from the beginning of the process while QC is the check.
Why aren't we ticketing / fining people who litter in this way? To all the hippocrite smoking environmentalists, I say F U.
In Colorado, opioid deaths fall following marijuana legalization
An XSLT pie chart generation implementation that can create an arbitrary number of wedges, each coloured with the same perceived brightness.

https://stackoverflow.com/a/25481023/59087
Do they spec the force in newtons? Without mass, g’s don’t really say much except as maybe a relative measure between things of the same mass.
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People have made AB input lag tolerance game here

https://forums.blurbusters.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=1134&sid...

Some people in that thread are tolerant to 10ms...
The phenomenon of climate evolves on a scale of millions of years. We simply do not have historic data with high enough frequency and accuracy to truely conclude that this is an unprecedented rise rate. Nor do we actually know if it is catastrophic. Some of the most bioproductive eras in the history of the earth had higher carbon concentrations and temperatures than we do now.

But any time you bring something like this up, you're slandered as a denier because of the taboo.

Edit: predictable down votes, illustrating my point. How do you expect to solve problems if you deliberately avoid certain questions?
Sure, in the PS2/gamecube era custom dynamically loaded code mechanisms were common.

But on modern consoles (360, PS3 and later) the OS bans games from loading/generating code. To load code they must call out to the OS, which loads it, checks the signatures and puts it in write protected memory.

It's this security mechanism which makes static recompilation viable for 360/PS3 games.
4chan may be the medium, but those charts were generated with some data. It's unfortunate the charts don't include their source; I'd love to see the underlying data/reports.
Not 200y ago. 100ky ago. Earth's temperature naturally oscillates and we are in a colder period.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5f/All_pala...
I'm talking about individuals making observations of weather in terms of "gee, it's sure been warmer around here lately." Notice the average temperature change in those diagrams: we're talking about less than a couple of degrees Celsius over two centuries. Observable globally by carefully taking tons of measurements and averaging, yes. But not observable by noticing that it's been warmer or wetter for a few years during a particular season.
It’s basically impossible to learn about Japanese culture by reading things in English. For some reason, Japan brings out the worst kinds of cynics and misanthropes, all of whom feel the need to dispel anything positive that’s said about the place. In my experience, many businesses in Japan go beyond customer service and provide what I would characterize as hospitality or the kind of consideration that could only be repaid with goodwill and familial loyalty. Not to say that they are infallible: I bought a knife from one of the oldest blacksmiths in Kyoto and he flat-out forgot my order until we bothered him a month later. Damn good knife, though.
It turns out, in an economic sense anyway, that paying people wages can be qualitatively worse than slavery.

To delve into the macabre, you can pay people less than the cost of maintaining a slave to do the same work, and those people are not a capital expenditure but an operational one, i.e. you don't take a loss if they happen to starve, get sick, or quit, you just hire someone else.
So net neutrality applies to their networks too right?
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