skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> How could they reasonably expect Nigeria to pay them back $76M?

Well three weeks ago Nigeria agreed to buy a dozen Super Tucano aircraft through a US FMS arrangement for $593 million.[0]

So why would Japan expect that they couldn't pay $76 million? The Nigerian Presidents's Boeing 737 is worth nearly that much, plus his pair each of Gulfsreams and Falcons...

[0] whereas the USAF paid about $30 million per airframe including similar spares and support services, and bare flyaway cost from the manufacturer is about $12 million each.
I think that's arena allocation and that's what compact regions do in haskell.
Go might be a better language to use as a shim executor than Javascript. Unless Lambda is doing something tricky to make NodeJS perform much better than normal when it comes to loading code
It seems to me that theoretically the effect is brutal. Practically, it’s negligible.

We pipe everyday, all day, and the world carries on, so that’s a pragmatic vote of confidence for pipes.

Are you trying to get me to write a “worse is better” essay that ends with “...and the existence and continued durability of shell scripts is proof enough that their place is not only justified, it’s vital!”, because it won’t work. Pipes are good. Shell scripts should be looked at suspiciously if they’re more than 20 lines long.

;)
So from a busi­ness point of view, it’s hard to make a case for Google in­dex­ing ev­ery­thing, no mat­ter how old and how ob­scure.

I don't get that line of thought, somehow people have starting defend lack of quality as something expected or reasonable.

The whole point of going to google is to find stuff, that includes "boring" old and obscure stuff that won't sell ads. But that is part of the deal, if google don't care about that why should I care about google?

While we are on the subject, I still miss being able add a + in front of a word to highlight its significance, this was removed in favor of google+ (you can still do it with quotes) but now when google+ has been irrelevant for the better part of a decade maybe it is time let us quickly emphasis words? Sigh.
https://onyxboox.com/

They are just like any other android tablets, but with eink display. There are no limits or restrictions, you can install reader program of your choice from Google App store.
I'm really curious what the oversubscription rates are, that to me was always the big question around cheap internet access. I have 100/100 FiOS, and I get that all day every day for less than $80.
Just had a look, turns out there was haha. Guess that's why then.
मंगलवार या शनिवार को कर ले बस ये एक काम, जिंदगी भर नहीं होगी किसी चीज़ की कमी
I've been trying to figure out how to disable that! Anyone have any ideas? Google search turned up no results, but after this thread I shouldn't be surprised.
> ...and even companies like AT&T won't even tell you which neighborhoods have the service...

Slightly off topic, but I always work around this by picking an address in the neighborhood and trying to sign up for service.
Which means the corpus is broken. But regular people rarely care about correct spelling, in my experience, and so I doubt corpus maintainers will care either...
A drop in the bucket. Insurance executive compensation is not the problem.
1. Early bitcoin users shoulder more risk than later users. They are rewarded for pushing the blockchain forward. You could argue disproportionately, but the rules are set in stone from the beginning.

3. There are other coins that do not require asics or have as high of energy cost.

5. What exactly is a government going to do? They could perhaps take control of the chain? The cost would be enormous. They could attempt to crack quantum, but some quantum-resistant variants are coming out.

An alternative view is that this is just the free market expressing itself through cryptocurrency - at a higher resolution than we've seen before.
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Huh? I just searched for "the furce awakens". And got:

Showing results for "the force awakens"
Search instead for "the furce awakens"

And hitting that got me the Zootopia stuff. So?
jstanley makes a very good point, especially considering that Bitcoin itself is a probabilistic good-enough solution to the Byzantine Generals Problem, rather than a perfect deterministic one. But you didn't even address jstanley's question, you just repeated the exact same talking points you posted higher up in this thread, hoping that readers can't tell the difference. That is not an honest debate, but propaganda.

The constant repetition of talking points without actually addressing the critiques of those talking points may fool the gullible, but the technologically savvy see it, and it costs you your credibility with them. You guys are like Marco Rubio [1] constantly repeating the same talking points regardless what critiques are thrown your way.

[1]:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4-OTvTrw1A
Would be great to see it on fdroid. As it is, I can't use it without google play.

I figured it was going to be closed up or slowly killed off after atlassian took over. Pleasantly surprised it's doing better.

https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/issues/1290
In 2013, the official in charge of the central bank claimed that $20 billion had disappeared from the state oil company. He provided over 300 pages of evidence to parliament to substantiate this claim, and yet he was blamed for the loss and fired.

Nigeria is a country with a long and persistent history of corruption. It pays its legislators the highest salaries in the world, yet over 60% of Nigerians live in poverty. About 9 months ago, anti-corruption investigators found $43 million in cash in an apartment, which is a drop in the many-hundreds-of-billions that have been lost to corruption in the course of Nigerian history.
This is owned by Atlassian/Hipchat.
I'm aware of tools like Serverless. They help remove the lock-in in some situations. That doesn't mean there's no lock-in to speak of at all.
So say the government gives you 12k a year, and your taxes go up by 10k a year, wouldn't that still be beneficial to you?

Something like 30-40% of this program could be paid for by feeding in dollars existing programs, the lions share of the rest of it from the financial transactions tax (sucks if your business is high frequency trading), and a smaller portion from a VAT.
4 Effective Tools for Docker Monitoring
Please teach me. It's driving me crazy.
While that does happen sometimes, from where I've worked at it is more common to write in a garbage-less style (basically not allocating or pooling everything) since JIT time matters at startup, especially for certain classes of strategies.

Ive seen applications run and never GC after initial startup until they get bounced to update. Another problem with the big heap is that you still have tlab issues if you keep allocating.

There is a new-ish poc collector called the null collector that literally does nothing, not even instrumentation, i believe, of write barriers.

We always see idiomatic programs benched against each other but I'd really like to see high performance pure java against high performance pure go and others. Some of the low latency Java tricks we use I'm not sure if they can even be copied in other hll (not including c/c++).
Can you get decent upstream with that? Upstream always seemed to be where cable internet fell over for me. Hard to run backups over a 10mbps link.
I understood your comment perfectly well I believe. But this is our fundamental disagreement. If you can think back to even your middle school class, you would do far better than random at 'guessing' who was going to 'make it.' I didn't really realize how apparent this was until I taught for some time.

In school I felt I always worked hard, or was somehow more incentivized for the work than others. The harsh reality, apparent in hindsight, is that I was lazy and it came to me easily - as it does to many people. In teaching you one begins to quickly appreciate that inherent differences between children is absolutely night and day - and these differences emerge even as early as elementary.

These inherent differences are the giant elephant in the room that nobody wants to consider. In my opinion ignoring them and pretending that all we need to do is give more opportunity or money to some schools is doing us all great a disservice. A near majority of the kids in the classes I taught I could personally adopt and give them 24/7 attention and education at home and I suspect they would still fall well below the curve.

What is the solution? I have absolutely none. But at the same time I think that complete and open honesty and assessment is the first step to resolving any problem. When we start with false assumption as its more socially palatable, is it any wonder that we spend all of this money with absolutely nothing to show for it?
Yeah, I guess GraphQL is delivering JSON "objects". Nonetheless, developing for it is a completely different experience from any other ORM I've ever poked at (not saying it's better, just very different).
::nostalgic tears::
What plugins do you use with the Janus gateway?
Anyone know who that other user is in the first graph, who just surpassed Jon? They seem to be answering at a crazy consistent constant clip.
Crashplan, but I'll need to find a replacement as they are discontinuing the home edition
First off, I'm surprised that the taps don't just go dry after 87 liters; perhaps the tech isn't there.

Census data is inaccurate, and you have no concrete figures on the number of people per residence. Even if we had the tech (the new water meters we have are a step in the right direction, except when they break which is often and also maintained by quite a number of different contractors) you'd be hamstrung needing to ascertain correct figures per location. And then throw in all the apartment blocks in Cape Town, which all have a singular water main and meter, it becomes even harder (because do you punish all people in the block because one person is having a bath three times a day).

I hope you find a way to manage (rain, desalination, hopefully something comes online soon)

The local government has sadly mismanaged the situation terribly, for more than a decade. We're not going through a drought, we're experiencing a water shortage. The total population for the City of Cape Town (more than just Cape Town itself, it includes the surrounding areas) has been rapidly expanding over the last 15 years (more so in the last 5) due to semigration (people moving from other provinces, mainly Gauteng, due to the better quality of life in the Cape), and the underlying infrastructure has not been upgraded in step with the population growth. We have had warning since as early as 2007 (from official reports I'm aware of) that we needed to move forward with new water programs including desalination plants in order to accommodate for the growth.

We have a desalination company, GrahamTek [1], which had put forward tenders which could have brought in 450ML water a day within 18 months, but were largely ignored by the powers that be.

[1] https://www.iol.co.za/weekend-argus/news/city-of-cape-towns-...
Show HN: BrowserTree, a browser automation tool based on Chromeless
That it is consistent does not mean it is equivalent. Humans are pretty poor at avoiding conflating their terms and categories into messes of confusion. This fiction that gold (or any other thing) possesses intrinsic value is one of best examples of such confusion in economics. Things have value because people decide they do—and as soon as they decide otherwise, that value steadily declines to zero, despite how many people ardently believed that value was intrinsic to the thing itself, as if it was one of the physical properties of the thing, an indivisible part of the object. This is nonsense.

Moreover, there is no logical fallacy here on my part. I was not refuting an argument that was not made—I was directly disputing the coherence of an economic adage the average person has been taught is actually rational and sensible when it was brought into the discussion.

Value is never intrinsic, but always created by economic actors—the logical fallacy is arguing otherwise.

Gold, like silver, various other precious metals, and a number of other things—like land, for example—have long histories of value. The historic value of gold among human societies can not be disputed. But that long history has not infused value as a physical property upon gold—or any other thing—itself.

My original statement was neither outrageous nor illogical. Bitcoin is in this case a rather perfect example that highlights exactly what I’m pointing out—the value of bitcoin is in no way intrinsic to bitcoin itself. Bitcoin possesses a number of properties which, analogous to similar properties in a physical object like gold, are found to have both use and exchange value among economic agents. But that value is not actually a core property of bitcoin anymore than value is a core property of gold. Agents identify properties in bitcoin and assign them value. This is always where value comes from—use values from the things one can do with the commodity, and exchange values from the things one can buy with the commodity.
FiOS in VA is $79.99 for two years (not a promotional price) for gig. Source: it's awesome.
one of them I eliminated by defining the rules in such a way that it wouldnt be an issue - the other requires keeping a rotting dead body hidden somewhere.

Part of what a GMI would need to overcome is ensuring that we have an accurate tracking program - a death should trigger an semi-automated removal from the rolls - as in you need to present yourself.

No system is foolproof, and even the best one in the world is going to have upwards of 2-3% fraud - that said the social security administration historically has been VERY good about tracking them down, and remarkably successful at clawing overpayments back.

In the end, by eliminating means testing you close down a ton of venues for fraud.
Sure. But not exactly. No more than you paid extra when the bus boy dropped a load of dishes and broke them.
In this case a mistake was made, and the business are the cost. It might have meant prices went up the following year, but I doubt it, as that wasn't really that much money.
Ads? What ads? I see no ads.
China Builds Worlds Biggest Air Purifier
I think it takes practice for sure, but in terms of necessary equipment and ingredients, it's the simplest. Any sugary water (fruit juice) is enough. And can be done in very small spaces, like in prison like I'd mentioned
What if it was an accidental poisoning? Maybe the embassy got a shipment of bad rum. Methanol poisoning would explain the white matter damage and disorientation.
'Staggering' trade in fake degrees revealed
I use Swift keyboard on Android, never had these kinds of issues, its predictions are remarkably good.
No, pruning in ethereum means not storing old states (=results of executing all blocks at height H), not removing old blocks. As of now the bare blockchain + the state takes only about 20+2GB. It takes more on a live node due to db space amplification (45-50GB in parity), but that can theoretically get very close to 1x with future updates.
>Another thing to note is that the multi-megaton weapons aren't in style anymore, due to improved targeting accuracy.

I think it was due to the opposite, actually. The development of Multiple Independent Re-entry Vehicles (MIRVs) made many small nuclear warheads more valuable than fewer large nuclear warheads.

If an ICBM is a shotgun, then kiloton-level MIRVs are like birdshot, which is seen as more valuable than megaton-level buckshot.
I agree with you, but you are using the wrong numbers.

Sure, only 23% of households have 4+ members, but they contain 44% of all Americans. Likewise, the 1.3% of households with 7+ members contain 6.2% of Americans.

And there are more people in households of 6+ members than in single-member households.

#people_in_household %_of_households %_of_people
1 28% 11%
2 34% 27%
3 15% 18%
4 13% 20%
5 6% 12%
6 2.2% 5.3%
7+ 1.3% 6.2%

Collapsed to your categories:

#people_in_household %_of_households %_of_people
1-3 77% 56%
4-6 21% 38%
7+ 1.3% 6.2%

(source: https://www.census.gov/data/tables/2016/demo/families/cps-20... where tables C1 and A1 give a total 2016 population of 318579k. Table H1 gives numbers of households with 1-6 members, which, by multiplication, hold 298913k people. The remaining 19666k people must be in 7+ member households. This matches table AVG1's 2.53 people/household and surprisingly implies that the 1.6M households with 7+ people contain 12 people on average.)
On iOS, one press of delete and what you originally typed will show as a suggestion.
https://stackoverflow.com/users/1144035/gordon-linoff
Why India wants to color-code its passports
I came here to ask the same thing!
Well now it does. Strangely, for Bing this thread is third on the list but does not show any of the searched for text in the text blurb like the other suggestions.
> Look at it this way. You’ve spent enough time getting where you are — don’t screw it up by wanting to go too fast. Spend more time on your work. Take pride in it. That’s the only way we can do truly great work.

My favorite quote.
> Jon Skeet's SO reputation is only as modest as it is because of integer overflow

From

https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9134/jon-skeet-fact...

I like his answer about Chinese time zones

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6841333/why-is-subtracti...
Looks to be #2: Gordon Linoff (https://stackoverflow.com/users/1144035/gordon-linoff) as he is at 41k answers.
Try the linked project. That has hot reloading working out of the box.
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A. Nigeria GDP is ~$500B US, sovereign debt is $67B, for debt/GDP ratio of 13%. Nigeria can afford to repay this loan.

B. If we fail to eradicate polio, it will be back again someday. The rich world should pay for this with all urgency. Kudos to the Gates.

https://atlas.media.mit.edu/en/profile/country/nga/

https://dmo.gov.ng/
You are correct, and the name Raiden is a reference to the Mortal Kombat character who shoots lightning from his fingertips.

µRaiden (two-party transfers only, no routing) is already live on Ethereum mainnet: https://raiden.network/micro.html
CNNs learn surface statistical regularities, not high-level abstract concepts
Java APIs ARE C APIs, for obvious reasons. There doesn't have to be any difference in security.

It is quite normal and traditional though, for C/C++ developers to work with what they call statically built binaries. They're a bit bigger (may God provide mercy, and huge amounts of free diskspace to those fools that enable debug), but the odds of them working flawless on a given device are much higher.
Yeah you know, it's funny, the last time I worked on question-answering code, we were trying really hard to find algorithms that could improve a particular metric (F-score, a synthetic agglomeration of precision and recall) ... I don't remember hearing very many conversations at all about whether we were measuring the right thing.

Given a query like [site:tbray.org "rock n roll animal"], and knowing that the 1 relevant document we actually want is the review at https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2006/03/13/Rock-n-Ro... , I think we can say that

* if Google search returns 4 results for the query, not including the review: precision is 0/4, recall is 0/1 (so p=0, r=0)

* if Google search returns 5 results for that query, including the review: precision is 1/5, recall is 1/1 (so p=0.2, r=1)

But while I _kind of_ understand how we can use these measures to assess the outcome of a single query, I'm really not sure I understand what meaningful ways are available to aggregate those metrics. Suppose we're going to get 1M queries in the next hour. Do we prefer an algorithm which has the highest mean F-score per query? highest median F-score per question? or which has the highest 1st percentile F-score per question (99% of queries get the best possible outcomes?)

If there is published literature on how search quality is measured I'd love to see it. Would be especially interesting to see real-time data -- e.g. what is the impact of 1 data shard outage on overall user-experienced quality according to some metric?
Oh yeah, we could use Go directly now can't we.

Still really hoping we get direct Rust support at some point though.
“Society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.”

I agree objectivity is difficult if nigh impossible to achieve.

But I'd argue ~80% of the way there is good enough to leave an impact- take your pick of discoveries across the sciences.
The answers given by the model mentioned at bottom don't even make any sense. I wonder if ML will even be useful at harnessing and redistributing knowledge.
Ah, so that's sort of like what I've always heard about using bird feeders -- that the birds will get dependant on it, and if you stop filling them, a lot of birds will die off.
FBI and other sweeps have repeatedly turned up nothing localized, so whatever is transmitting is likely not in the building(s) unless they are passive-reflectors. The general public probably have no idea just how advanced directed energy weapons are these days, which is what I am guessing this is, but I think they might be much longer range than people thing. Of course it's all speculation.
Only 2 things can back currency: hard assets/commodities, and a guarantor (like a government). Right now Bitcoin is more like a security as all its worth is speculative and based on trading, it's not backed by anything tangible.
I imagine that people who work at Google would like to have a good search engine that works well for software engineers while at work and not one optimized for selling ads. Is there such a thing internally? I remember when exact quotes of error messages from software would usually return something helpful. Now almost never. Can I pay for that please.