skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the authors have major problems with understanding history. They claim:

I believe that the reason that it is described as the $1,000 costume is that it features metal supports, which were made from aluminum. During that time period, the process for refining aluminum was extremely expensive, and aluminum was more valuable than gold.

In reality, aluminum became cheap early in 20th century:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium#Electrolytic_product...

In 1939, massive amounts of aircraft were produced out of aluminum. It's like the authors mistake 1939 for 1839.

Since the authors demonstrate such gaping holes in knowledge that are trivial to check in Wikipedia, this is either complete baloney, or an elaborate prank.

In the latter case, the article is worth reading in search for more easter eggs like that.
Every oil/coal/whatever CEO and their family should be forced to live directly next to the refinery/plant/whatever.

It’s only fair.
Well it is google engineers words against random speculation, why sould they bother creating all that infrastructure for deleting stuff thoroughly. I take theirs.
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What about Joshua Brown?

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-12/tesla-pro...
The music blog era was one of the greatest achievements of blogrolls. Music media was entirely subverted in favor of a litany of independent artists and it would have never been possible if it weren’t for the ‘friends’ or blog roll section in the margins of the blog pages. This author has a great point.
We'd been hearing about this "robotization". At some point our team leader talked in depth with some prospects and brought back the good news -- hey, this is what we were trying to sell all along.

So now we're robot makers apparently.
k: I can't rank my coworkers.

d: you can't identify low (bottom 10%) performers?

k: I can tell if someone is struggling at one task, but can't rank people on everything they do

d: yes, everyone knows who the low performers are but the can't communicate that to management

k: no, I'm saying I can only rank on one metric. Few people do bad or good in all metrics

d: when did I say one metric?

The point is you didn't say one metric, but k is pointing out that people have a hard time judging their coworkers as a whole, because there's so many varied tasks going on.
A French Nuclear Attack Submarine 'Sunk' a U.S. Navy Aircraft Carrier
ditto.
That's why on WP, I feel more connected. I get various followers and I can search WP for blogs I'm interested in, but that leaves out everyone not on WP. :(
By the way, I enjoyed reading your posts. Keep on writing.
this is the future of money. amazing.
Wouldn't this be fixed by adding more "tires" then?
Loans can and should be used by individuals in two big ways:
1) spreading cash-flow over a long period (car loan)
2) investing in long-term gain (mortgage, education)

By saying you shouldn't ever take on debt, it's similar to saying no business should take on investment capital, and governments should not invest in emerging markets.

Determining how and where to take on liabilities, that is a more interesting discussion then simply saying debt is bad.
Winter sports face a double threat, from climate and demographic change
2 weeks + 10ish federal holidays is pretty standard for professional white collar office jobs. Works out to about 4 work weeks.
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"lost"
While I don’t think you deserved downvotes, as there was no “superior” attitude to your philosophy on loans, it’s just not realistic for a large variety of people (ther very vast majority).

How many people can buy a home, cash? Should everyone else be renters in perpetuity? All sorts of things people might miss out on, from pets, to country living etc, because they can’t lay down between $100,000 and $300,000+ to buy a home “without a loan”.

(I realize that there are a number of caveats to my statements, not everyone has to live in the most expensive part of the country, but not everyone can live in rural Iowa or Detroit, and not everyone has to have a pet, I’m just talking of how for very many people, the “no loans ever” attitude is not realistic).
Facebook's like that. It does all sorts of shit you probably don't want it to.

Try contacting them and tell them to delete your account. I have no idea if this will work but it might be worth a try and in future don't link your phone number to internet accounts unless you want bullshit like that.
I’d rather Musk give up owning a car company than give up working on the most plausible near-term route for humans to enter low earth orbit that doesn’t enrich the Putin cartel.
Oscilloscope animations with 100 lines of JavaScript and an audio jack
Python – Basics of Cryptography and API
Smarking (YC W15) Is Hiring a Product Leader in SF
No idea. Also, you may be using “disgraced” a little liberally here. Pretty sure Welsh is still held in extremely high regard in the business world.
Plus a lot of offices are closed over Christmas to New Years. Not most, but many.
Many eu countries have credit agencies though.
I wish I could say I agreed with you.

In truth, it’s eminently unsurprising to me how little impact there has been.

Any time we see one of these “should be devastating” data breaches, people/ politicians shake their fist for about a week, but there’s little consequences. Sure, sometimes a company might be fined _five per cent_ of the _profit_ they made from the behavior that lead to the breach. Not sure that’s so much a slap on the wrist as a “tsk, tsk”.
Self-Normalizing Neural Networks Interview with Gunter Klambauer
VS 4 weeks plus holidays in many European counties.

No matter how you cut it, we absolutely suck at time off. And even when companies offer it people don’t take it because the culture discourages it.

He’s right to be smug about it. We need to change the culture here.
When Your MVP Product Idea Just Isn't Any Good
This is a function defined in the real numbers (that are not 0? positive?), but it's not a prime factorization. (Never mind a "unique canonical" factorization as the original title says.)

To define an extension of a well known function it's important that it preserve as much of the original properties as possible. This is an informal requirement, and one of the dark secrets of math is that the definitions are made up and are only a social construct. [1] But after a few years in math you get a good sense of what is a good extension and what is a bad extension. This is a bad extension.

One of the most important properties of the prime factorization is that it behaves good with multiplication. i.e. if

A = 2^x * 3^y * 5^z
B = 2^p * 3^q * 5^r

then

A * B = 2^(x+p) * 3^(y+q) * 5^(z+r)

and this extension doesn't have this property. For example:

2 = "2^1 ; 3^0 ; 5^0"
2.5 = "2^(1/2) ; 3^(1/2) ; 5^0"
2 * 2.5 = 5 = "2^0 ; 3^0 ; 5^1"
≠ "2^(1+1/2) ; 3^(1/2) ; 5^0"

---

It is useful to compare it with a good extension. (This is also not standard.) You can define a "prime factorization" of the rational numbers if you allow negative exponents, so the "prime factorization" is the difference between the numerator and the denominator. (this is good, even for the multiple ways to write a fraction)

2 = 2^1 * 3^0 * 5^0
2.5 = 2^(-1) * 3^0 * 5^1
2 * 2.5 = 5 = 2^0 * 3^0 * 5^1
≠ 2^(1-1) * 3^0 * 5^(0+1)

IIRC this is not a standard construction, but there are some similar construction like the p-adic order https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-adic_order

I think that this can even be extended to some irrational numbers like

sqrt(2) = 2^(1/2) * 3^0 * 5^0

but I should check the details. To extend this to all the (positive) real numbers I think it is necessary to use a
non numerable base, or something as nasty as that, but this would be far away from a unique and canonical definition.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_number#Notation
I went all in with 57 (the first 'Quantum' release) after having been a Chrome user for quite a while. I really haven't missed Chrome at all since I made the move, and in fact, am continually impressed by the little things in Firefox that I keep discovering. Not to mention the speed.

These changes look like they will eventually make things better, especially for extension developers and those of us who get to reap their benefits.

Keep up the good work, Mozilla.
If your profit is massive enough they may even roll back the chain and do a hard fork!
Is there a roadmap for weaning XEM off this centralized governance structure?
Exactly. We are not their customers. Employers and lenders are, no more, no less, simple as that.

Even “fraud protection” / “credit monitoring”, ostensibly the closest we come to being customers, is in many senses “protect you from our customers and our fuckups” (forgive the language).
The same headphones will pair with my phone every time without hickups - well, maybe a couple of times, but considering that I use them daily, the problem rate is negligible.

That phone is a (relatively) cheap Huawei phone running Android. I have no idea how far the Android kernel deviates from the regular Linux kernel, so maybe Huawei just put a real effort into writing good BT drivers (or the company that made the BT chip?).

But the fact remains that with my phone and my tablet, Bluetooth pairing with the headphones works very well (= reliably). So while Bluetooth may suck in many ways I do not even begin to comprehend, in my case, I strongly suspect, the problem lies elsewhere.
Fish skin helped bears burned in the Thomas Fire get back on their feet
Actually, average salary worker with one year experience in America averages 11 days. With five years experience, 15 days. So it seems unlikely that only 10% give 20 days. Almost 20% of the US workforce is employed by Federal, state, and local governments, which tend to give a bit more vacation than industry, I believe.

Regardless, we’re talking about SV, so whether it’s an anomaly is irrelevant.

Source: https://www.thebalance.com/how-much-vacation-time-and-pay-do...
> Boeing said after the [Airbus] agreement “the announced deal has no impact or effect on the pending proceedings at all. Any duties finally levied against the C Series (which are now expected to be 300 per cent) will have to be paid on any imported C Series aeroplane or part, or it will not be permitted into the country.”"

https://www.ft.com/content/91968476-b41c-11e7-a398-73d59db9e...

Bombardier’s wing-making factory is in Northern Ireland so if the levy stood, that would have still affected the part prices?
There is a WebExtension for that, works on Windows & Mac:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/disable-ctrl-...
Facebook has a nearly unused feature where if you send it a text message, it posts it for you. When mobile phones that didn't have a web browser/facebook app were more common, this was how you did mobile status updates.

https://www.facebook.com/help/125384024209252?helpref=faq_co...
OK, but it seems likely that Tesla will have a second factory by 2021:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-07/tesla-pla...
1912 Electric Truck for Sale
Increasing the size of the risk pool, for a genuine pool, and a genuine insurance product, should reduce individual pool member costs.

Of course, that word genuine, in both contexts, is abused in US healthcare “insurance”, as I’ve discussed in numerous of my comments (and I work in the industry - it’s an absolute abuse of the definition).
It's in their style guide.
https://docs.racket-lang.org/style/Textual_Matters.html#%28p...

something% is a class.

something<%> is an interface
"Someone should really regulate this whole system, it's getting ridiculous."
It's actually a hologram - which is by definition a 3D image. I contend that my original title is appropriate. Holograms ARE volumetric displays. I can see why the researcher wouldn't want to call it that - claim you invented something better than science fiction = instant media coverage.

hol·o·gram
noun
A three-dimensional image formed by the interference of light beams from a laser or other coherent light source.
Depends if you get caught the press and politicians can be brutal especially if the economy needs a whipping boy. See the presidents club furore in the UK some "well respected" business men are no longer held in such high regard.
+ 2 weeks sick leave
+ x hours vacation/year of employment
I have wondered, and certainly not exclusively to Solus, if there’s any reason why some “package capture” couldn’t be built in to people compiling from source for distros where a package isn’t available.

Certainly there would have to be a bunch of checks and balances, not blind acceptance, capturing source code URLs, checksums and the like, potentially reproducible builds, but could be a way to ‘crowd source’ packages. Or is this a solution in search of a problem?
This was what I enjoyed about svbtle when it was first kicking off. They may not have realised that's what they had done, but they had created a great aggregate of quality bloggers.

Then they turned the public accounts on and the blog roll off and I can't even find the people I used to read when I try let alone have them in a handy list.

And RSS feeds. Also, get off my lawn!
I think it would be possible to slice the ladder exactly in half, down its length, right?

Each rung would go from a cylinder to a half-cylinder, but should still be rigidly connected to either side of the ladder all the same.
VM escape vulnerabilities patched in VirtualBox
In the world of software, Apple should be getting a D or F. Their recent security issues are perhaps the worst of any large corporation ever. When such gaping security issues exist, it's simply not reasonable to presume other areas of lesser importance are better maintained. Any person who has used OSX over the years is well aware of the drastic drop in quality and corresponding increase in issues. With such a limited amount of hardware there's no reason for their hardware issues.
Here's wondering how soon we'll see ActivityPub added, now that it's in the standards.[1]

[1] https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/
Yes, and smugness from Europeans is the way to do that.

It’s also unfair to consider things like vacation time, parental leave, and universal healthcare (the prime topics for smug) without also considering economic growth rates, employment levels, and overall comp, particularly for white collar workers.

The story in America vs the EU isn’t one of their paradise vs our hellscape. It’s one of inequality. Life for the poor or middle class in America sucks compared to Europe. But if you’re lucky enough to be an employed white collar worker in America, you don’t have it much worse, if at all, than the average white collar European. Open to data proving otherwise.

For what it’s worth, I too want more vacation time, better parental leave, and universal healthcare in the US. But they come at a cost, and we shouldn’t pretend otherwise.
>Bigotry isn't really about words

Words matter.

Bigotry isn't just words, but words matter. A lot. Instead of dumping a ton of words defending bigotry, maybe just use a few well chosen ones to denounce it.
This all stems from the residents themselves. They vote against policing and for people who basically take the view that we should feel bad for the criminals because they have turned to a life of crime. There’s only a Rudy Giuliani between here and there but SF will never elect him or her.
My company has to force me to take the 4 weeks they give me, if it was allowed I would simply case it out for more money..
In Seattle Jack asked us to put our phones away; to connect with his media team later for free hi def. photos if we wanted them. Everyone was cool; made the show better.
All right, I'll cop to hyping the degree to which the erosion of 'literally' is recent! We humans totally love our hyperbole. (But the process is not so far along as for 'really' and 'incredible'.)
Current Macbooks are not so great, but there has never been a better time to get an iMac.

I don't know about Final Cut, but Logic has been getting constant and significant updates. Today we received 10.4 which included new plugins and features for free.

To be honest I'm starting to fall in love with the Mac again after a couple of years of frustration. Hopefully this is only the beginning.
This is a very interesting idea. In locations where serious radio astronomy is conducted, there are restrictions on radio emissions in a large area around the antenna. No wifi, no bluetooth, no cellphones, no anything.

An RF pollution map would be useful to see not only where a candidate spot to build a new radio antenna might be, but would also be interesting to see the areas around existing sites.
You could say that, as far as trolling is concerned, the NYT is a PRIME suspect. XD
Though I suspect that they don't do too much on regards to the copious amount of product coming from China. That said, maybe we need a global organisation to 'own' and be protective of The biohazard and nuclear icons. Though the religion/mythology approach might be more long lasting, but bootstrapping that is hard.
why.. If you want 4 weeks find a company that offers it. Many of them do. My company does and I would prefer they just pay me.
Now if only they could come up with something that means I don't have to wait for a page to load before regaining control with custom hotkeys / gestures.
Not sure what the downvote is for....

It's notable that projects like spark could have used Jython for its JVM/python interop, but chose py4j instead, consigning pyspark to some rather abysmal performance penalties under many conditions.
See, that’s the thing: nobody gives a crap who uses which bathroom at work. Really. Nobody argues about that. But arguing about policy or socialism or who is a real communist or not is not work-appropriate.
Iirc Australian Aboriginals have mythology about regions high in uranium, and tend to stay away from them. Unfortunately I don't have a source for this.
It's not quite clickbait as it is being less than accurate.
That’s PTO, which isn’t vacation.
Thanks for the link, I've been hunting around everywhere looking for a cross platform solution.

In a sibling comment I mentioned the fact that most languages compile to Javascript, the primary benefit being able to share code across client and server. So, if you've got a query DSL on the server that hooks into an SQL database you can use the same code on the client, hooking into an SQL database on the frontend.

All of the IndexedDb wrappers I've seen do essentially their own thing; in Lovefield's case, "The difference is that Lovefield does not accept raw SQL statements; instead, it has a builder-pattern API to build queries", which means it's effectively a client-side only solution if pure SQL is the output target of your query DSL.
Only $600!!?????, fanboy here
I don't understand why hyperlocal news hasn't succeeded yet, after 8 years of it being talked about. I'm VERY interested in what's happening in my neighborhood, if my neighbor's house was vandalised, or there was a violent dispute or something else. Same thing happened in some other city? Less interested. Some other country? Not interested.
Is it not sufficient to blow up the access tunnels, such that any civilisation capable of digging it up will can be presumed to have the technology to detect radioactivity? This presumes a stable geology and no asteroid impacts.
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I feel like this is the ultimate fate of every exchange that holds coins.
Boeing is headquartered in Chicago.
Most email on the Internet is delivered all the way from the original sender to the end recipient in seconds. Many user experiences require this, such as password reset interactions or email address verification upon new account creation.

When email isn't nearly instantaneous, it's definitely upsetting to users and a violation of the norm. Email is only not instantaneous in well-managed systems when one of the parties is experiencing an operational problem of some kind.

There are exceptions to this, such as large scale marketing systems that deliberately send at a slow rate to avoid overwhelming recipients. Once deciding to actually send a message, though -- if not rate-limited by the receiver -- messages tend to arrive in the inbox in moments.

Email isn't that complicated of a protocol, when you get down to the mechanics of email delivery. Loading a web page is orders of magnitude more complicated than sending an email; there's no reason why sending an email would need to take longer.
How I wish there was a session manager for 57+. The Session Manager plugin was great but I'm not aware of any alternatives and Firefox doesn't seem to support a library of multiple past sessions to pick from.
There are some links and info in this article which are good starting points: "8 Things We Learned about Blockchain During our Hackathon" https://arctouch.com/2018/01/blockchain-hackathon/
Developer’s Guide to Being a Better Leader – Cultivate a Sense of Hope
The Cost of Doing Data Science on Laptops (2017)
i don't have to move my hand any further than i would to press ctrl/alt
“But if you’re lucky enough to be an employed white collar worker in America, you don’t have it much worse, if at all, than the average white collar European.”

America? Fuck yeah?!?!
It's only convention. You could create your own and name them as you want. More info in http://docs.racket-lang.org/style/Textual_Matters.html#%28pa...

Only the things that start with # are special, because it may invoke some special part of the reader. There are too many of them. A few as examples:

#o11 ;(octal) ==> 9
#e11 ;(exact) ==> 11
#i11 ;(inexact)==> 11.0
I was curious if anyone has done the real life equivalent of this. According to thrillistthe great bank heist (from a single bank) in history was like 70M. [1]

Funny how an over a magnitude more money just goes missing.

[1]

https://www.thrillist.com/culture/most-successful-bank-robbe...
Yes, but he clearly is held in high regard. So there may have been some dust up about that years ago, but no one really remembers or cares. I can’t even find any reference to it, so you may be thinking of someone else.
With gmail you can at least request that they unblock you, and they will do that. With live.com and icloud.com you have to spend inordinate amounts of time bouncing between useless support people before you get anywhere. gmail in general seems to have the best spam filter (lowest false positives and negatives).
I wish they would stop tinkering, and go on a immediate software diet.

I was very happy with my devices in 2008.

Yes--I was younger, and had more money, but I liked the web better, my devices, and my software. "My software"--oops! And most of my devices I don't really own.
The Double Edged Swords: Trump's Immigration Proposal
Ownlife is doubleplusungood.
Walmart Makes a Late Entry into the E-Book Market
I like the site! Good writing, thoughts, and the illustrations are wonderful!
The IMAX movie Fighter Pilot: Operation Red Flag was pretty cool if people want to see more about this training exercise. The level of coordination to pull this whole thing off is staggering.

I wonder what sorts of things they need to account for in this day and age of drones, digital warfare, etc.
> I literally cannot use Snapchat and Tinder at the same time

FWIW, I've had trouble with this in the past on an Android.

It seems both Snapchat and Tinder are terribly inefficient and highly problematic.

I'm willing to give Apple this one, those two apps are mainly at fault here.
GDPR has what is called extra-territorial applicability.
Or maybe your meetings aren’t as amazing as you think they are.

Banning phones and laptops means that everyone in the meeting is either invested in it or motivated not to get invited to the next one.