skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is probably one of the weirdest sentiments I've read in my entire life. I use the public library constantly as the place I go for quiet work and just to hang out, read, or study. And just for fun, they have lots of great events there, you can rent out meeting space for local groups/clubs. I really can't imagine not seeing the value of such a resource.

First off, like the other person said, there are literally 3 scanned copies of this book you just referenced online.[1]

Everyone has already said a lot that needs to be said, but I feel the need to point out, that a big part of being a member in your local libraries 'community served' is participating, which you can do actively at most libraries. My library now has Haskell and Clojure books on the shelves, because I actively participate in the library process. You can do this also, the library you are referencing (if I guessed correctly) has an form where you can set suggest book purchases[2], at my local library unless you are asking for something really really weird they will buy reasonable library user requests. The libraries curation is a community effort, and it won't reflect your needs if you don't make them apparent.

Also, this local library in Iowa you were referencing and most local libraries have an interlibrary loan system for people just like you who need something they don't have there. I constantly use the service at my own local library to find anything I want and have it promptly sent right there to me. You could do this also for any books that you find rare or obscure that you need for a specific purpose. I've often used the service for books that are rare and prohibitively expensive. The Worldcat listings for the book you were looking for are numerous. Even shows the copy at the local historical society you mentioned.

Library workers often check catalogues like Worldcat to see if they have the only copy of something or if something isnt archived previously prior to them throwing it out, according to the listings there are 4 microfilm versions of your book, and several listed OCR scans similar to the archive.org scans I'll assume. It is really weird of you to assume that any library would toss out a book without checking their listing against the global database.

I hope that beats the horse til its quite dead enough to illustrate, that in the modern day there are very few books that can't be found if you understand the capabilities of our library infrastructure, and most of your other points are moot. I personally love it when the local library throws away great books, it gives me the opportunity to buy them, via a little store where they monetize their toss aways to fund the library instead of recycling them, maybe suggest this setup or a library book sale to your local library?

[1] https://archive.org/details/historyofjohnson00iowa
[2] https://www.icpl.org/suggest
Are you talking of the Tenerife disaster in 1977? Almost correct: http://aviationknowledge.wikidot.com/aviation:tenerife-commu...
While it is clearly true that cognitive bias causes you to interpret facts in different ways, the article is really not very good at arguing it.

By the author's argument, anyone who believed the nazis were coming to power would have been deemed 'in a mass hysteria bubble'. I mean the ideas that ACTUAL NAZIS could come to power is clearly crazy... but it happened.

His argument almost sounds like a form of denial; "if it sounds really bad, it can't be true!"
Jeremy here. Here to answer any questions or comments that you have.

But more importantly - I need to mention that Terence Parr did nearly all the work on this. He shared my passion for making something that anyone could read on any device to such an extent that he ended up creating a new tool for generating fast, mobile-friendly math-heavy texts: https://github.com/parrt/bookish . (We tried Katex, Mathjax, and pretty much everything else but nothing rendered everything properly).

I've never found anything that introduces the necessary matrix calculus for deep learning clearly, correctly, and accessibly - so I'm happy that this now exists.
> I think what you're asking is "this getHashCode function always returns a random number within a large range, but a hash table has a small set of positions, so isn't this more like a sparse array rather than a hash table?"

No, that was not really my question. FWIW, the same problem often exists for actual hash tables too: For example, the Java hashCode method returns a 32-bit number that needs to be mapped first too.

My question is whether a (non-deterministic) random "hash" function can still be called as such, and therefore the structure a hash table.
How is this an appropriate attitude to have? Not attacking you, but are you saying that NO scientist or "science guys" can try and influence politics right now just because there is someone in the office who, very obviously, doesn't understand science?

Edit: I believe if you want to change behavior, you model the behavior yourself. If you shut yourself out of the discussion, then so will others. You don't tell people how to fish, you show them how to fish. You don't tell people to learn science, you show them the science.
I think you can retroactively pay for COBRA, yeah?

You can enroll after an event and it'll be as though you had insurance the whole time. You'll have to pay for the retroactive coverage, but it's a pretty smooth way (assuming nothing happens) to avoid paying for COBRA while still technically "having coverage".

Though I think there's a time-limit on it.
Reckoning the Spectre and Meltdown Performance Hit for HPC
Europe’s hidden milk lake threatens fragile market
Dodging regulation, in that many exchanges don’t touch money but tether instead.
People really don't seem to consider the flight as part of the vacation.
Circumventing know-your-customer laws.
Meet Ely and forget waiting lines
Tether is supposedly pegged to USD. Traders use it to store assets while avoiding crypto price volatility without having to deal with fiat currency.
“The views expressed are those of the author(s) and are not necessarily those of Scientific American.”

That’s kind of ironic. The author’s claim that Bill Nye claims to speak for the entire scientific community (really?!?) and yet it seems they imply they speak for the entire scientific community. Under whose authority?

There are so many issues here. Firstly, what do they want? It seems they say if you are a scientist you can’t advise Trump or his team. Sure, Trump is a troglodyte and his science congressman is very much anti-science, but you can’t advise him or attend the U.S. government’s State of the Union?

Secondly, they called him a combatitive and nerdy white guy. Apparently that means he can’t promote science because by his very existence he promotes an outdated stereotype of scientists. All-righty then.

Thirdly, they mention him debating Ken Ham. Apparently, this was the sole reason Ham could make a Creationist museum. What utter hog-wash. Sure, the museum is an oddity, but America allows and even often rejoices in its oddballs. That’s because it celebrates diversity - the very thing they are upset about in the Trump Whitehouse. And it’s not at all apparent to me that Bill Nye made Ham get enough funds for his museum - sure it may have helped but Ken Ham would almost certainly have gotten those funds anyway, eventually. And what was Nye’s alternative? Not debate him? Then Ham could claim that his argument is so strong that scientists like Ham are afraid of debating him!

This article, frankly, is bullshit. I agree with their concerns over Trump’s deliberate degradation of science in America. But dragging Bill Nye into this is absurd, and completely counter-productive.
I have to agree, and it’s hard to imagine the SEC turning down a bunch of easy wins. The SEC is has internal politics just like any large group.
How is this related? USDT is effectively a centralized currency. Bitfinex has always been shady. Are you saying that exchanges that accept USDT will get hit hard by this?
Hello ,

I wrote a report about the development of Ely, a French start-up (without VC funding) made to remove physical waiting lines.

I present in this article the product development part of the project only (interface captures are in French, sorry for that).

I hope you will find it interesting!
>Tether has yet to verify that it holds $2.3 billion in reserve

This will be interesting to see. I wonder how long until we'll know.

I saw an interesting data analysis here on HN a while back showing a correlation, and hypothesizing a causation between the rise of Tether and the price of BTC.
Riftcat releases VRidge v2.0
In this context, an 'identity hash function' means that it's a 'hash function for an identity value'. It doesn't mean 'a hash function that is an identity function'. It's confusing!
What do you think about the index notation physicists use for tensor calculus?
I tend to jump to the "Conclusions" section of the document first, and this is what it says:

"Our results show complicated associations between sleep
and mortality, with increased risk in short and long sleep."

So it seems nothing is really proved or discovered. Does anyone else have a different read on this study?
The early days of European internet was similarly metered.

Very few nations had anything like the US system of local calls being free.

Only with the advent of DSL etc did flat fee net connections become "common".
Only associating with people whose views are in complete alignment with your own is a good way to become lonely, angry, and ineffective.

Ironically, it’s exactly what the current White House does.

edit: I’ve been rate limited (I have no idea why!), but I was going to reply that I didn’t think this was a good thing.
Firing people is not the only answer to errors. It depends on the intent of the person. If the person was neglectful or that it is proven that the person was being irreparably incompetent/lacking judgement, then sure.

Likely, though, this is an error that is more reflexion of a problem in the UI and/or drill process, and investing resources in making sure these are improved would be a better way to prevent further mistakes.
This is good news for quality cryptocurrency organizations. Bitfinex has problems, so does Tether and it's good to see bad actors in the crypto world getting weeded out, called out and put down.
Layman’s Guide to Performance Tuning
This is just part of my code. Can someone help?
I need it to post into the database but its not working. everything else is working fine escept for that.

"<select style='width:58%' id= 'selections' name='selections[]' class='selections' multiple='multiple'></select>
<input id='clearselections' type='button' value='Clear All Selections' onclick=	'clearvalues()'>

<?php
$mysqli = new mysqli('localhost', 'USERNAME', 'PASSWORD', 'DATA_BASE');
$stmt = $mysqli->prepare( 'INSERT INTO Entries (wp_usermeta) VALUES ('wp_usermeta'.'meta_key');
$stmt->bind_param( 's', $POST['selections']);
$stmt->execute();
$mysqli->close();
?>

<script type='text/javascript'>
function clearvalues() {
$('select#selections option').remove();
}
</script>

<script src='/public_html/wp-content/plugins/pmpro-customizations/bower_components/jquery/dist/jquery.min.js'></script>
<script src='/public_html/wp-content/plugins/pmpro-customizations/bower_components/select2/dist/js/select2.min.js'></script>

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Yeah, the projects I'm pricing out are usually 200-1400/hrs. I can totally see that rate for smaller projects. I imagine utilization rates are a lot harder to keep high with work that granular.
it's based in Hong Kong. Hope they don't comply.
Why We Should Not Return to Monolithic Repositories
That's a myth. Most airplane crashes are survivable, they just don't garner any media attention. In most cases, the planes don't just nosedive into the ground, they veer off the runway or crash into obstacles while on the ground.

https://www.ntsb.gov/news/press-releases/Pages/NTSB_releases...

It is very much conceivable that a better harness would improve the survival rates and lower injuries further.
Creating fake USD to inflate the value of various crypto currencies.
The latter, as estimated from the former.
Truth. Most of the time, you just get the factory reset code if you think there is something borked in the OBCs. That or just replace the computers entirely. Alldata is the HN of techs (kinda):

http://www.alldata.com/alldata-repair

Protip for home mechanics, get one of these: https://www.amazon.com/Reader-Diagnostic-Check-Engine-Light/...
From what I've read, a lot of that is due to the prices set by the RUC:

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

https://www.aafp.org/news/practice-professional-issues/20120...

Good for the doctors though, at least they're smart enough to bargain in their own interest.
In Europe, trading like-kind assets isn't a taxable event, so a lot of people take gains and move them into USDT.

edit: At least that's what I remember seeing last, laws may have changed.
> Are you saying that exchanges that accept USDT will get hit hard by this?

If they sold a single USDT to an American, possibly. At the very least, they may be liable for American USDT investors’ losses plus fines.

Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer. This is not legal nor securities-related advice. Do not buy or sell anything based on my Internet comments.
Tesla soliciting supplier quotes for Model Y crossover, production March 1, 2020
Yes! AriseBank blatantly lies in the first statement about FDIC-insured accounts. Here is another quote from the "correction":

> This entity is totally separate from AriseBank and will operate separately from AriseBank. AriseBank will never offer FDIC-insured accounts to our users, as this is not possible with a decentralized software.
If USDT goes to zero, every exchange that trades it becomes immediately insolvent.
Ponzi schemes also only harm those who inflict it on themselves.
yes, when people try to cash out their USDT to real USD the exchanges are going to collapse like house of cards because appearently the fake USDT is not 1:1 backed to real USD.

Note: only exchanges supporting USDT (tehter) is going to get hit hard, other exchanges such as BitStamp will probably see a downtrend but not going to crash
C'mon, say the "This is good for Bitcoin!" thing.
I'm not confident enough to say that most think they do.

Consider global warming as an example. Almost no one I know who believes global warming to be a dire threat changes anything about their lifestyle in response. When I ask them about this they might say something about how it's really hard, people like Elon Musk will solve it, etc. Basically, it's not their responsibility. They often seem to want to get off this line of conversation as quickly as possible. And it's not that hard to do something. Eating less meat is easy. I commute by bike for other reasons already and I don't think doing this regularly would be a major problem for a large fraction of people in the US.

To continue on the global warming example, you will have people who will drive a hybrid or electric car today "for the environment", though these options are not carbon neutral at the moment (perhaps electric will be in the future). No major change to their lifestyle has been made. I can see how this is mostly about signaling, as many people do believe such things will make a difference right now, though I'm skeptical.
Sure, I get that. What I'm asking is if there were any technical challenges (even to this date) in mobile computing that necessitated a 64-bit mobile chip.
More Signs of Containers on Chrome OS
One does not preclude the other. In European countries with a national health service you can still buy private coverage.

Incidentally, a one-size fits most plan works great for alot of people.
I don't follow this stuff, but Twin Galaxies deserves zero respect after this.

To be considered a reputable organization and not even question scores like this is laughable. And there were multiple this absurd.
"Like-kind" is quite a stretch when considering something pegged to USD.
This is really great, thanks.
We've run quite a number of randomised controlled trials on self-help books. They work.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22215865
Summary for newbs:

Bitfinex is a crypto exchange kinda based in Hong Kong and kind of based in Taiwan (this seems to change depending on convenience.) Taiwan recently started becoming more rigorous about monitoring international USD wires, and lots of Bitfinex users had their money stranded in Taiwan. Bitfinex stopped supporting US customers because of these difficulties (AFAIK most customers did eventually get their money out though)

Tether is a company/product that is a cryptocurrency that (aspirationally) has a value of exactly 1 USD. The Tether company and Bitfinex are (supposedly) two unrelated companies that nevertheless have mostly the same people employed as principals. Because crypto daytraders need easy ways to quickly pull their money in/out of crypto exposure, the Tether currency has been a massive hit as a way to convert into pseudo-dollars. Because of this, people have bought billions of these "tethers" from the company, but no one has a good handle on where these billions of dollars are safeguarded, if at all.
> Are you saying that exchanges that accept USDT will get hit hard by this?

Not necessarily but the market shakes from a major exchange going bust can definitely hit other exchanges as well (a classic bank run), and even if there won't be a bank run other exchanges, especially any with ANY ties to ANY US institution or customer (which basically every exchange has!), will be expecting their own "audits"...
I believe this requires the attacker to have access to the ASR neural net's weights, so Mozilla's seems like the only popular framework that's vulnerable right now (not that I'm opposed to them keeping things open).
Agreed, nor has he retracted or corrected any previous stance he has ever taken on climate change simply because he's going.
Regions around Toronto will switch depending on the weather.
I’m. It sure that I agree. There has been so much blatant scamming and corruption in the cryptouspace that it’s almost certainly in need of some regulatory fire and brimstone. It’s also, however self-inflicted, exploded into the popular consciousness. The SEC would probably also prefer, as prosecutors do, nearly certain victory. The nature of blockchains makes them exceptionally strong evidence, and paper trails.

In particular the state can’t really afford to let money laundering on this scale continue.
He isn't just doing business with the government, talking with policy-makers, or showing up to make sure his side is represented. He's attending a formal event as the official guest of a partisan politician. They aren't there to talk or work or negotiate. They're there to appear. And Bill Nye has offered his appearance, his own personal halo, to an enemy of science and an enemy of many decent values that scientists hold dear.

If you want to consider this part of the long game of Bill Nye using his power in Washington, fine. What does this accomplish? It tells Republicans that they can buy anything from him if they offer him TV exposure. Don't you think if he cared a little bit less about his own celebrity he could have maybe done something good with it?
Quantitative easing for cryptocurrency markets.
There is a great place for this type of question: http://www.stackoverflow.com

Have fun and if you are new at Stackoverflow, read how to ask question before asking, or you will be grilled... Just saying.
You're right, but it is still not easy.

I started charing on a per week and per month basis, which was good because I stopped getting bothered with tiny projects.

Also I could choose how much hours per week I was willing to work, as long as the clients are happy they don't care if it took me 40 hours that week or 20. This also increased my effective per hour payment and my work life ballance.

It is also important to sell yourself with a higher value proposition. If you say "I'm a freelancing front-end dev who does JavaScript" they won't pay you as good as when you say "I'm a mobile consultant, who designs and implements apps", even if you do basically the same thing, people suddendly realize that you are a specialist and not some code monkey...
Well, Bitfinex and Tether is how legacy exchanges operate. Bitfinex is completely centralized and issues Tether (a stable coin) as a feature to enable traders to do "cash out" from the volatility of crypto when they feel like.

Going forward though there will be dexes and decentralized stable coins (such as Basecoin). Those would be extremely difficult to track down and have strong incentive structures to maintain their value.
So, how does this work legally? Bitfinex isn't a U.S. based company and doesn't work with U.S. citizens. The article says where it's based is unknown. Does the CFTC have the authority to subpoena them? Is it because they're claiming Tether is USD pegged, so they gain authority because of their use of the dollar?

Honestly just a curious question. (I'm not looking for snarky answers to the effect of "world police".)
How has foreclosure been? Hard to get new loans? Hope you bounce back.
The part people miss is that relationships rarely expand at random. They're local and koinophilia (liking alike) plays a huge role.

Even if J. Random put all their training into building and managing relationships it would likely not amount to anything of note. (They will have fewer resources and be excluded from some social circles.)

There are many necessary components of huge success.
It's one thing to distance yourself from someone because you don't agree with them about supply side economics and another to distance yourself from someone because they demonize certain people and cultures.

There is s guy I consider a friend who couldn't be more opposite than I am. In a lot of ways he is a stereotypical Trump #MAGA guy and I'm definitely on the other end of the spectrum. He's retired ex-military, mid western, and my family is more stereotypical one of the NPR listening "cultural elites".

But, on the issues that would make me separate myself from him - if he were always making racist statements - he's definitely not that. He is White, married to a deaf Vietnamese lady who he loves dearly. Attends a predominately Black church and would give anyone the shirt off of his back.
Seconded. Aside from some nicely crafted sentences I found this review only offered a surface-level critique of a book on literary theory, snide summations of said book, and a forced element of personal reflection on reading in the context of our current zeitgeist. Excellent writing. Poor criticism. The author's critical position is also very transparent and does not seem very nuanced (reader-centric, drawing on and abiding by much of the wealth of work in reader-response criticism without qualifying any of their major tenets). I tend to formalism myself, so I am always harder to sway toward these arguments that desire to transform literature into a privileged instrument of self-definition and morality--you cannot deny that literature has roots in those realms, but those dynamics have shifted, which judging by the cursory glance we're given at the work in this review, was precisely Marx's point.
How Google more than 700,000 apps that violated the #GooglePlay policies
Similar neural responses predict friendship
They save people from serious injury much more frequently than that. Extreme turbulence that can smash you against the ceiling happens not infrequently.
a little correction. Tether and Bitfinex were exposed in Panama Papers as sister companies. They are not two unrelated as they say they are. Even more reason to stay away from Bitfinex and USDT
any other suggestions? just came from stackoverflow.com
How do you enable this ribbon-like interface?
You're skipping a key bit here; billions of Tethers magically appeared on the market in the last month and were used to buy BTC in suspiciously regular fashion, in 100 million USDT amounts, and with no clear evidence that it was actually purchased by anyone using real USD.