skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bookselling is not generally a high-margin business, and a decline in foot traffic due to parking, construction, etc. can make a huge difference - that's what happened to The Stars Our Destination, a SF bookstore in Chicago that closed more than a decade ago. Parking on the side streets became sticker-only and restricted to residents, which meant that it was difficult for people to get to "destination" stores. I know from personal experience that it was easy to waste a half hour or more just driving around the area looking for a parking space.
Maybe I'm not reading it right, but that arXiv paper about CoVE doesn't seem to be getting anywhere near commercially useful results.

For instance, the random result for ImDB in Table 2 is 88.4 and the best one is 92.1; that's really not a lot of lift. I could see TREC-6 and TREC-50 results being good enough to let off the leash, but I still have a hard time picturing this being useful in the real world.
I've worked on non-trivial UEFI stuff, and the main problem I had was achieving a state outside of the UEFI. IIRC I had problems EFI malloc'ing / free'ing memory, because some UEFI bioses require a double free, or something. It's about a year ago.

UEFI is a documented minefield, where the Specs are badly-followed when you hit actual implementations.
> When movies on cassette became practical, think of what it would have done to the Hollywood model if movies could be rented at the same time they hit theaters allowing people to see a movie for far cheaper than going to a theater?

> That’s what publishers did. They allowed a far less expensive version of their books to be available right away, undercutting the sale of hardcovers with the cheaper e-version

This is a fraught analogy and in a way shows the lack of forward thinking of lots of people in the book and publishing industry.

The problem is that from a customer perspective, an ebook == hardcover in nearly all ways. It has the same story, it is written by the same author, you can read it at home or on the bus. There's no difference. In fact, some might argue ebook > hardcover since it takes up no space and you can use a Kindle and all the features it has.

Watching a movie in a movie theater is about the experience of being with others with amazing sound and video quality as well as the actual movie. So movie theater > movie at home for most people.

Forward thinking would be the Steam way which Amazon has tried to do with ebooks: sell for less but make up for it with huge volume. Yet publishers often price ebooks higher or equal to physical copies.

It's sad to see this bookstore go and I wish I would have visited it since I live in Seattle. But this is a pretty poor analysis on the "changes in the over-all economy".
How is the 'effluent' not toxic?

("Effluent? That's Grandma!")
The only time I can think of where this is useful is when you are trying to be super defensive with possible exceptions being thrown.

Otherwise it seems a lot like you can just make the call at the end of scope yourself for the same line count and _much_ more readable code.

I guess if you have multiple return paths it's more tenable to use scoped dtors for this but it all really seems questionable to me -- I can't think of a single use-case where it'd be preferable to use something like this rather than a dedicated class.
You can pretty much just come to Switzerland and work if you are an EU citizen, so might as well be.

Zurich has probably the best ratio of earning potential to COL in the world (for the average person, not necessarily for software engineers). If you are cheap/thrifty you can even go do your shopping in a neighboring country, since Switzerland is so small.
I believe that law of the universe is called "opportunity cost".

Additionally, our education systems reward repeated success and high marks, not exploration and failure. Thus purely from a stats and analytic perspective, the winning strategy to navigate through such a system is safe specialisation: which again, will trend towards one dimensional students who don't experience or seek out or tolerate failure well. This they stick to what they know, do not push past the limit offered by their graded courses, and tend not to put themselves out there to tackle/expose their weaknesses or areas they view as oblique to their field/strengths.

Show me someone with few failures, and I will show you someone who has never pushed our challenged themselves successfully...
People hate change, but that's the only constant in life. I grew up in SoCal, in what was a sleepy area that combined Del Mar, Solana Beach, Encinitas and Leucadia. Surf towns, with some nice beach houses, some excitement during race season when the surf met the turf. My mom bought a house with the help of her parents, $70K for a crappy 3 bedroom right next to I-5. Went to high school out in the boonies, near Rancho Santa Fe where the rich folk lived on acreages. I went to UCSD which was sleepy as well, though situated next to La Jolla where all the rich people who wanted to be close to the ocean lived.

I went back to visit with my fiance in 1998, and I-5 is now like 18 lanes at one merge, my old house is now worth $1.5m, and the sleepy little village I grew up in is now full of people making over $200k/year, or retirees who held on to their houses and have huge nest eggs if they can ever sell.

I had a buddy who was in the Navy, he bought a house in Encinitas, sold it when he retired, and moved to the Midwest. Bought a helluva house on an acreage, lives off his pension, and enjoys life without the stress of the West Coast.

Everything changes, and people hate it. But people will hate it when things don't change as well...
https://www.pge.com/en_US/safety/how-the-system-works/electr...

1. Go down to, "WHAT ARE THE FINDINGS OF THE AMERICAN PRE-APPRENTICE AND UTILITY WORKER STUDY?"

2. Read this, "“This study is a major new contribution and simultaneously provides evidence against an association with leukemia and for an association between magnetic fields and brain cancer. It does not, however, resolve the fundamental question of whether magnetic fields cause cancer."

3. PG&E will not just not say that it's all Safe. Why? Yes--probally over cautious lawyers. And it's still not settled completely yet?

4. Yes--this is focused on emf's, but if they aren't sure about the effects of magnetism--why assume they figured out the rest as fact?

5. I don't hold the phone to my head for extended periods. I'm o.k. with being called paranoid at this point.
> You call it "alt-left", I proudly call it "Antifa".

interesting line to put in your YC about
Emotions aren't supposed to make sense.

But how is chemical liquification more gentle?
"keto pseudoscience" is loaded phrasing for a mechanism that has been understood and uncontroversial for 200 years.

If you are unfamiliar... the core insight is that obesity is an endocrine disorder; your hormones — not your caloric intake nor the amount you exercise — is the primary reason you gain or lose fat.

Here is a short explanation as to why this is:

* [enzymes] whether you store fat or not is determined by enzymes — specifically hormone sensitive lipase (HSL) and lipoprotein lipase (LPL)

* [hormones] production and inhibition of those enzymes is controlled by your hormones — including insulin, adrenaline, cortisol, estrogen and others.

* [diet] the easiest way to control your insulin levels is to keep your blood sugar low; the easiest way to control blood sugar is to eliminate carbs from your diet.

As I mentioned above... this can be simplified as...

No carbs —> suppressed insulin —> maximum HSL production.

'limiting the caloric intake' -- as you suggest -- is a blind alley when discussing this mechanism. It is a necessary but not a sufficient condition to lose weight. Your body won't draw on your fat reserves if it doesn't have to. i.e. it will happily extract the energy it needs from your gut all day long, provided your gut is full. That means you are partially correct; if LPL is low and if you are in a deficit then the body will draw down on your reserves and you will lose weight. But the opposite isn't true. If LPL is high, irrespective of your deficit or your willpower, then you won't lose weight. Conversely 'eating too much' isn't a diabetes risk... provided your hormones are in order.

If you have any sources that contradict the endocrine hypothesis, I would be keen to see them.
Great read in links, thanks for sharing
Benchmarking Micrphone Arrays
How many calories were you eating pre and post diet?

2 sticks of butter is almost 1800 calories, that would be a weird diet with lots of hunger. There probably are a lot of sources of fat that work better than that.
Elon Musk’s Boring Company is digging a 10-mile tunnel in Maryland
Chicago and "El" train stops.
IoT Security Hardening: Reaper and Mirai Botnet
You might find someone who's using Pharo professionally, it's the most modern Smalltalk to my knowledge.

https://pharo.org/
> But a game like Pac-Man is intuitively understood by the average human because it’s fundamentally a “human” game - designed by humans, gives humans dopamine and other chemical hits in a way that we might even perceive as “fun”. Imagine a game that requires lots of computation and no human-friendly interface - a machine would obviously “learn” the rules a lot faster.

But if we're talking about creating AGI and the concerns that go with that (full automation, self-directed goals in the real world, etc), then the question is whether DL is enough on it's own to get there.

As such, comparing AlphaGo to humans on a variety of tasks like Atari Games or Go is kind of the point. And Google's goal is turn it into a product, which means doing tasks humans currently do.
Knowledge is semantic in nature and thus computers cannot, strictly speaking, know anything.

And a group of biological neurons can?
I think this is the study on rats sanguy is referring to:

https://ntp.niehs.nih.gov/results/areas/cellphones/

The American Cancer Society called it a "paradigm shift" in our understanding of the effects of non-ionizing radiation, FWIW.
Wtf, tell something which we don’t know about.
"[Damon] Runyon died in New York City from throat cancer in late 1946, at age 66. His body was cremated, and his ashes were illegally scattered from a DC-3 airplane over Broadway in Manhattan by Captain Eddie Rickenbacker on December 18, 1946."

I heard it was a B-17, but Wikipedia says that.
The genes have no information about the world, just information on how to form a nervous system.
Plenty of contracting roles paying £500-600/day in London, a few even up to £800 (and 'Head of'/CTO level consulting gigs hovering around £1k/day although very rare as most of those positions are perm).

I know some rather mediocre developers on £550 day rates.

For perm positions, such roles aren't too uncommon for senior/lead level devs in finance, tech consultancy (doing SAP/Salesforce work at some place like Accenture, etc) or the top tech firms - though you'll want to avoid the underpaying Shoreditch start-ups.

Does mean living in London though, where a £100k salary still barely gets you a mortgage for a 3 bed semi. Plus, £100k will soon be worth about €27 but right now it's about 1:1.
And the sovereignty of the government comes from the social contract. When a big part of the citizens feel that they are not represented by the government, the social contract is broken.

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

The Spaniards seem to love Rajoy, as they give him the majority in every election. Rajoy's party, "Partido Popular", is voted by less than 8% of the Catalans.

So, the question is, why the Catalans need to be governed by a political party, that not only rules against them, but that does not represent Catalan society?

There are more than 2 million people that do not accept the government of Madrid. How will Madrid rule over all this people without transforming Spain to a full-blown dictatorship again?
Fred Saberhagen wrote a short story (Without a Thought) in which this little "computer" played a role. Published in 1963; I always wondered where the idea came from.
You usually shouldn't use unique_ptr for C api stuff unless you really only need to free it.

Typically though there are custom delete/free API calls you need to make, and to use them with unique_ptr you have to pass that function pointer in as the second argument to the unique_ptr constructor.

At the very least you should have a C++ function that gives you the unique_ptr back that does the right thing; but at that point you almost might as well just make a class and give it member functions to map the C calls.
Why There Aren't More Googles (2008)
In a Distracted World, Solitude Is a Competitive Advantage
> So what makes you feel you deserve to earn more than 99.93% of the world's population?

Looks like you hit a nerve (perhaps a somewhat guilty one) with some users.

But I was wondering similar - why does the OP feel the need to earn this much money? I suspect psychological rather than financial insecurity, given that they're already likely to be a relatively high earner.
Working remotely for a Silicon Valley company seems the easiest way.
good read. Reaper botnet still processing through devices so what happens when you patch?
startup tarpit is a juicy phrase.
the situation is certainly more polite these days, but is organized crime really not involved anymore?
>3. If you're attending an expensive private university, networking is effectively what you're buying. Exploit ruthlessly.

This is how I got into my job. It's never too late. Bring yourself out and talk to people.
They can by virtue of being embodied. It's the body interacting with an environment that provides semantics. For humans, a lot of that is cultural. Computers only have knowledge to the extent that we deem those patterns of 0s and 1s to be information.
already infected it wouldnt matter right?
Yeah, put it in some months ago, when the term "alt-left" started popping up here, I believe it was a pretty flameful thread about the limits of free speech and what's acceptable to do against Nazis...
CheckPoint's analysing Reaper's attack vectors as source code is still not publicized. With some variants of Mirai - reboot can disinfected, however, since Reaper is exploit based, it's highly likely it will be infected regardless.
I'm sure it's very sad for fans of this bookstore, but the part about e-books being partly responsible seems off, since the share of book sales which are e-books plateaued in about 2012 and has even started to slump: https://www.extremetech.com/electronics/248719-e-reader-sale...
What about concrete? US interstates can go decades with high truck traffic if they are concrete.
Nice to see how strong Iot devices are... not too surprised really
Yes, that's true abstractly. However, A, those sorts of references are much less common in web pages than in physical descriptions (at least in my estimation) (though they're very common in APIs), and B, those repointable references are not the same as a search - I want to uniquely refer to the current value of this pointer, while allowing the publisher to relink as appropriate.

The article reads as universal URL design advice, but I'd argue the points only really apply to APIs.
I'm surprised this doesn't seem to mention cost, aside from A's lead to scholarships.

Many community colleges offer guaranteed admission to state schools so long as a GPA is maintained. It can save the student tens of thousands in fees.
I've heard that and brought that up to a doctor friend of mine at the time, and they told me that they would rather give the prescription if it won't harm the person, because it's likely the patient will go to a questionable doctor / online pharmacy and the risk might be less just to comply.
Yeah, that’s what I had seen before, but I really want to avoid WiFi. (Where I live the spectrum is quite congested, and reliability of WiFi is low)
> I reward those who try harder with recommendations, references, professional contacts and encouragement.

...and everyone knows that recommendations from writing professors are what helps you land the jobs that make the big $$$.
Another option would be a sandboxing system like xdg-app. AFAIK, there's already a xdg-app release of LibreOffice, and an experimental xdg-app build of Firefox.

And, of course, there's always the paranoid option of "run the browser within a virtual machine", so an attacker would have to break the browser, then get local root within the VM, and finally find an exploit for the VM, before getting to your files.
So seems like he was more than that with saying congress would vote to have them secede.

I don't think the US would send troops of course but they wouldn't just let California secede either. As far as I know precedent says it's illegal to secede in the first place.
There is a substantial issue with this pattern for things like files -- the operating system imposes a max limit on the number of file descriptors you can have open.

Defer gives no guarantees about when that thing is going to run -- just that it is after the function returns. Because of this, you can get erratic behavior if you open and defer closing a lot; essentially openFile just stops working at some point.

This can happen with any limited resource and isn't theoretical; I had a friend who ran into this in long running process with a lot of IO.
Too bad I won't be getting a response from you.
I have hundreds of non-fiction ebooks. It works just fine most of the time. Non-fiction doesn't mean "programming books". The vast majority of non-fiction is plain text with no graphics, maps, or special content whatsoever.
350k GoodReads Book reviews dataset
Bethesda, Maryland. It was very sleepy before it became a metro stop. In the last 30 years it had a crap ton of development mostly centered around the metro.

Actually... Can you name a few places in a metro area that didn't experience such a boom after a transit stop was introduced? In the bay area even? I feel like I have only ever seen examples of it being good for retail, restaurants, home values.
What you are saying makes total sense and seems reasonable but the reality is the books don't need the sharp action and don't really care about having a perfectly even balance. They will make more money just letting squares fire away at 1.9 or -110 odds and print money. Someone above said it perfectly, having the balanced action via sharp players will reduce variance but will eat into profits, and the books have the capital required to ride out any variance (entire seasons where squares win at a higher than expected rate for example).

edit: the books (at least the ones that open with respected lines, not the ones that copy the big books' lines) DO want sharp action when they are trying to set the right line. They will have a private group of handicappers that get to take shots at the new lines before they are publicly listed for smaller bet sizes, then they open the lines publicly for very small bet sizes. By the time the full bet limits are allowed and the square punter is picking a game 30 minutes before it begins, the books have no more fears.

on the topic of this paper, the arb'ing or picking off "off" lines is kind of a crowded space and opportunities don't last for long. I wouldn't get into it with high expectations of profit.

edit 2: source: i've been heavily involved in the industry on the betting / modeling side for years in the past.
I'd really like to see some citations for your statement that patients with advanced cancer pain "can't wait to get off" of their opiods "if the pain improves."

"Advanced cancer pain" and "pain improves" [to a level where withdrawal seems like a good idea] seem like things that rarely go together. I could see people getting off of oxycontin to go onto stronger painkillers in hospice, but that feels like a very different thing to me.
Nothing. I barely ever bring my laptop (and thus charging cables) anywhere. And yet I've had several failures.
Yes, a new equilibrium would arise. And many species would likely go extinct. We can't protect the species that the dingo drove into extinction because they went extinct thousands of years ago... We can protect the ones that the rabbit is driving into extinction.... That's where we draw the line....

It's not arbitrary...
Mirocana: complex predicting system based on deep-learning neural nets
Nonsense, most capital cities in the EU have contracting rates at €500+ per day.
> Books, videos, and websites are a poor substitute to having someone who knows sit down and explain stuff to you.

I beg to differ. I wish college was just me in my room for three months and then a final. No hw, nothing.
Yeah, the racist element is certainly seeing something that is not there. Drawing the line at invasive species or "naturalized" species is almost entirely biological...
I agree that math/cs can be effectively self-studied by a lot of people, but it takes a lot longer than a weekend.
Oroville Dam: Cost to repair spillways nearly doubles in price to $500M
This essentially shows the top urls posted each week (since it's a weekly refresh cadence pulling from the 'top monthly' in reddit, which refreshes daily).
It's fun to see this. I investigated these on my own as an undergrad, but I called them solid primes. Originally I wrote a visual basic program (it was a long time ago) to find all the solid primes in base ten, which obviously involved writing a big num implementation. It ran for three days, only half solved the problem and then ran out of memory. Recoding it in Mathematica took 6 lines, ran in 20 minutes and found all of them.

Plotting the distribution gives a nice curve which you can model quite well with the prime number theorem. From memory it looks like x^2*e^-x. Then plotting in different bases is also interesting.
6 watts absorbed per kg of body mass would be somewhere in the range of 500 watts for a human being, so, yes, very high -- that's around 5x the amount of energy normally produced as body heat. I would think that would be enough to produce severe stress just from the thermal effects.
...aaaaaand learning things takes a back seat to credentialism in the whole article. We should go to college because it is the most cost effective way of learning things, not because our profs bestow favors on the front row.
Footnotes, weirdly, always seem to be a problem. Also, paging back to find a poorly remembered reference is hard.
The macro will break with templates though. Just name it an be explicit
Why don't you look up the hundreds of studies on effects of athermal non-ionizing radiation on _biological_ process and then use your limited imagination to consider the human dangers.
Pure concrete leads to significant shifts between the plates over the years, leading to the well-known bump every time you pass between plates. This obviously affects the bus’s suspension, and passengers, negatively.

Concrete with asphalt on top of it has the issue of the asphalt having to be replaced frequently.

I’m not sure if US interstates with concrete are different, but these were the only options discussed here in Germany.
Yes, I got hit by this on two separate machines in June or so, they'll break into one, steal all the SSH keys and look through your history looking for more machines to break into. It sucks ass. I suspect that my breakin was because of an outdated Wordpress installation I kept around.

This malware is super thorough and super obnoxious. Keep your machines up-to-date.
That’s actually the ideal situation for a mass transit system. It ensures that passengers aren’t largely going in one direction in the morning, and in the opposite in the evening.
We have to live in the real world, where credentials matter. It's rational to take that into consideration when making decisions about our education.
I tend to think good quality butter, especially grassfed & unpasteurised, is very healthy in moderate amounts (great vitamin K2 source).