skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My favorite reading on ice ages was the theory that the cycle all started when a tectonic plate rose in Panama and joined north and south America. This blocked the connection of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans which changed global circulation patterns. If that is true, then the way to prevent another glaciation is not to pump carbon into the atmosphere but the nuclear excavation of Panama :-)
This seems like it could be true for memories of facts, or something you can recite, like lyrics of a song.

However for other kinds of memories, such as remembering a situation or a picture, I have heard (I'd appreciate a reference) that the recall process of long-term memory is slightly destructive, and that the memory must be re-encoded into long-term memory. That suggests that recalling a memory repeatedly could accelerate it's deterioration.
The article starts off talking about the loneliness epidemic & extreme social isolation, so they're well aware of the negative impacts it may have as well.
Facebook adds video chats to Messenger Lite
I believe my potential is unlimited on a long enough timeline, but any practical concrete endeavors or decisions I undertake are bound to be flawed, more or less. For example, I believe I can write an OS. But if you ask me where I think that project would be in a year if I started today and did my best, I would say it would probably be in pretty terrible shape overall, with some parts I'm proud of. And I would keep on working at it.
Certainly possible, but now that the cat's out of the bag it may be possible to determine that such techniques were used depending on the specific case. If you had your computer worked on by Geek Squad and some time later find yourself sitting in court you may have valid reason to get a subpoena against any employee who touched your computer to find evidence of rewards from the government and try to prove parallel construction. Employees may think twice about engaging in such activities if they risk being called away to court.

The FBI generally doesn't stoop to techniques such as this however, that's more of a DEA thing (scummy bastards they are).
yes please! nico@mathpix.com
Dunno, but it wouldn't surprise me. The resemblence between tables and flexboxes is also quite funny. We took 20 years from declaring the structure of table-like markup in a table to declaring it in CSS with a flexbox.

Cool, but things like this have a marginal positive effect for developers, at the cost of having to learn yet another thing, and making it harder and harder to make a reasonable webpage.
We've updated the title from “Clocks in Europe are slowly deviating because of an energy war in the Balkans” to that of the article.
I'm seconding this. Use to love the boxed Betty Crocker brownies but have noticed in the last few years that they do not come out correctly anymore.
Homeschool Farm Unit Study-Science Curriculum
I've been designing PCBs for guitar amps and pedals for the last year or so and I highly recommend OSHPark for fabricating PCBs. It's not the cheapest, but the quality is great and it's still quite affordable. Mainly, though, it's the ease of use of their ordering system that makes me recommend it so highly.
Huh? There are still plenty of hunter gatherers around that don't hunt or gather shoulder to shoulder and neither do farmers or shepherds. Communal living did not mean spending all your time in company of others.
Butter handling is key in my own chocolate chip cookies, I've found. Let it soften too much, or overbeat the batter, and you'll end up with Frisbees. Ideally you want to cream the butter and sugars until just combined; they'll get more thoroughly mixed as you add flour and other ingredients.
My grandmother found some old family recipes from pre-independence India. I've never made any of them because they're sometimes denominated in units that no longer exist (a "viss" for example), and some of them are even measured in currency ("buy 10 rupees of x"). Maybe I could try and account for inflation and local prices 100? years ago but...I'm not optimistic.
>how the oscillator behaves in deep sleep mode.

horribly
Classic media-driven science reporting:

Headline today: "Study shows X causes cancer!"
Headline tomorrow: "Study shows X can prevent cancer!"
I wonder how many polygons make up a level of Wolfenstein in total - i.e. if you just asked a modern GPU to render every single wall in a level and relied on it to do the z-order sorting, culling, etc., what frame rate would you get?
I live in the Philippines and it seems like most products are Chinese made. Is China getting more benefit out of the US/China relationship than the US?
I would recommend the following websites for practice:

http://exercism.io/

http://rosalind.info/problems/locations/

https://projecteuler.net/

https://www.hackerrank.com/
On the first class of failure, sometimes people take it a bit too far. I've watched people stress about how they level off their 1/4 tsp because if it's too heaped, it will be too much, or if there is a divot, it will be too little. As a percent error, there really isn't a real difference. Just the differences in brands and batches of ingredients will cause more error in your recipes than a slight miss-measure.

There's definitely a need to measure well, but that third class of failure you mentioned is probably better to pay attention to. If you know your ingredients and operating conditions, you'll definitely fair better.

On the topic of measuring, I do wish more new recipe books went back to using weights. Baking with a scale is so much easier/faster/less clean up. It surprises me how many people I know who think it is too much work to use a scale until they see me do it and how little effort it really is.
>> Actually, what I’m saying is even stronger. I am saying that even if you have the edge, in the presence of the probability of ruin, you will be ruined. Even if you had the edge … If you play long enough.

> He wouldn't pass 1st year college math course with that one.

Seems pretty straightforward to me. Let's say you play a game with an edge where you win 2x your money 99% of the time. But if you lose once, you lose all your money (1% risk of ruin). If you play this game 70 times, you are very likely to end up ruined.

It’s a lot like smoking. One cigarette won’t kill you, but add up the probability cigarette after cigarette, pack after pack, year after year and the probability starts to skyrocket.
I see what you mean by paradox. It's definitely chaotic in that the system loops back on itself, but the main component of tectonics are (supposed to be) mantle cells due to heat difference between the core and the crust.[1] There are Euler poles (also confusingly named poles of rotation - but they're unrelated to the axis of rotation or the poles of the Earth) involved in plate tectonics, but for describing how they move relative to each other.[2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth%27s_internal_heat_budget

[2] https://www.usna.edu/Users/oceano/pguth/md_help/geology_cour...
Apple Employees Keep Walking into Windows at High-Tech New Headquarters
Click-bait. Important issue, but there's no grilling going on here.

> US Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) sent ES&S Chief Executive Tom Burt a letter
It goes beyond that. My father once tried to print some photographs through Wal-Mart. They refused to do so without a copyright waiver from the photographer--which was him. They looked at the images, decided they were "too professional", and proceeded to enforce the copyrights of the imaginary professional photographer.

Not only is this troubling from a law enforcement perspective, but it also provided him with a true story he could use to backhandedly brag about how great his photos are, and also an excuse to purchase expensive, top-of-the-line photo printers until the end of time. ~Thanks, Wal-Mart.~

There is good reason to avoid empowering busybodies to enforce laws on other people in public when they would have no standing to do so in a court. We simply can't trust random people to know the laws they purport to enforce, enforce them fairly and impartially, and preserve the rights of those they target for that enforcement. We can't even fully trust professional cops, judges, and lawyers with all that at once, which is why the legal system is set up to be adversarial.

If you witness a crime, you can certainly report it if you feel that's necessary, but paid informants and vigilante enforcers are a few steps too many down a very dark path.
If you ship your library/application to Windows, please use UTF-16 interfaces
What postmodernist books have you read?
Between Elizabeth Warren and Ron Wyden, whether you agree with their politics or not, I just love how they fiercely advocate for citizens and have a nuanced view on a lot of consumer and privacy friendly issues. Easily my two favorite senators, even more than ones from my own state (MD).
Well, the CPU is somewhat beyond my ken. You are right, of course - yet I think there would be another oscillator driving the clock generator as well. Turtles all the way down ;)
Your expectations were probably influenced by having been a subscriber to their DVD service, for which they _did_ have nearly every movie you could imagine. Their streaming service is only a subset of the movies they had (have) on DVD.
The processing is key; the prime example for me is peach jam, where if you just chop the fruit up, you end up with peach suspended in mostly-clear gel. If, on the other hand, you blend the peach mixture, you end up with a delicious consistency that's flavorful all the way through and easy to spread.
Huge collection of tutorials on TDD and BDD
Could you say more about how you expect this outcome would be harmful to people?
Businesses that don't pretend to be an official government service are fairly dissimilar from this case, but yes - I agree with the sentiment!
There are some valid cases for compensating whistleblowers in services fraud, for example, clinics that engage in scamming Medicaid.
For the past 2k to 4k years maybe. Before, it was very easy to spend time alone. Walk 10 minutes away from your tribe and bam - you're all alone.
The real challenge is to have all clocks within a building display the same time. Getting them powered and synchronized through the electric grid is a straightforward solution.
One of the trickier things about C++ for me (in terms of “getting lost”) when I first started was that there’s no standard C++ project structure. It varies based on the build system you use, whether what you’re building is just an API or something else, and personal preference. I recommend looking at some open source C++ projects like Tensorflow (Google), LevelDB (also Google), folly (Facebook), MongoDB, and Thrill (a Spark clone in C++, https://github.com/thrill/thrill). Also pick your own projects you’re interested in. Take a look at basic tutorials for build systems like make, CMake, and Bazel. Hopefully that’ll give you an idea of what a modern C++ project actually looks like, and will help you start your own.

For books I’d like to add to the current top comment (may go away) API Design for C++. It’s a great reference on exactly what it sounds like.
I used to work with people who didn't comment their commits at all. The company went belly up
Nah, that is how I remember it. ;-)

I haven't worked with mainframes since, but I found the fact they have their own words for things fascinating. Parallel evolution, so to speak. Like, what mainstream operating systems call a kernel is called a "nucleus" on z/OS, which IMHO is a much cooler name.
Being a loner and socializing seem to occur in proportion to your personality, which let's say has an inherent value across the spectrum. That value can shift depending upon your emotional, psychological, and physiological state. There are times when shifting along the spectrum either by conscious choice or social coercion (benevolent I hope) is very useful. I think your personality is constructed through the interaction of waves of perception and understanding of oneself generated by you and others who know you: this seems to make your personality whole because others can help you understand yourself either directly or indirectly through shared experiences. In addition to the usual self-analysis/introspection, others can act as a mirror or microscope to examine oneself.

Here is the conclusion of the article:

"Thus, if your personality tends toward unsociability, you shouldn’t feel the need to change. Of course, that comes with caveats. But as long as you have regular social contact, you are choosing solitude rather than being forced into it, you have at least a few good friends and your solitude is good for your well-being or productivity, there’s no point agonising over how to fit a square personality into a round hole."

There were articles and discussion yesterday and in the past about the dangers of loneliness which may be salient as social networking creates a paradox of socialization: I'm with all my friends (maybe even humanity), but physically I am alone.

> https://hn.algolia.com/?query=loneliness&sort=byPopularity&p...
As if I needed another reason not to shop as Best buy.
My confusion always comes when I try to think of it as a propagating wave.

If instead of a tandem bicycle, it is a very long rope that someone is moving up and down, then when I try to join some distance away there will seem to be a wave passing me. Even if I join in at the correct phase, I will also be generating a wave traveling back to the first 'generator' and interfering with the existing wave along the way. With the right distance and relative strength then we will produce a standing wave between us. Is there an apparent 'direction' to the wave of electric potential in a large grid?

Then there is the issue of triangular arrangements the sibling comment raised, when the radial distances and relative phases don't align.

Maybe my issue is always trying to think through physical analogues I can 'see'.
Inverse square, so you're in the vicinity of being correct: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverse-square_law
I solved that problem by refusing to buy cars where the gas tank is on the other side of the car from me.
They stopped innovating.

The A1000 was released in 1985, the same year as the NES was released in America. It was a huge leap in capabilities over it's contemporaries.

But their massive lead was slowly whittled away by technology improvements. In 1992 they released AGA, which was barely twice as good as the original A1000 chip-set, while the IBM PC had innovated all the way from 4 color CGA, though EGA to VGA/SVGA with CPUs which were fast enough to any 2d (and increasingly 3d) effects in software.

Commodore really needed to get AAA out the door by 91 to hold onto their lead.

Doom was probably the final nail in the coffin, you simply couldn't implement it on the Amiga chipset due to it's planar graphics.
The economist behind the study admits this is wrong and has adj the figure to $8.55 from $3.37. Here is the response he posted.

https://twitter.com/StephenZoepf/status/970754550968676352/p...

He also admits to using "donated" labor from students. $0 is even less than $3.37 ;)
Everything in moderation. When I worked from home for 5 years (in a company with the same distributed ethos as Basecamp 10 years back) it was easy to become extremely socially isolated if I wanted to. And it happened a couple of times over that span, but recognizing the balance of good mental health spun that back into a balanced state. (To be sure, my wife was immensely helpful about recognizing it and forcing me out the door more.)

I've been working in offices again for the past, I don't know, 7-8 years now which initially gave me some whiplash as an introvert finding himself working in a position where extroversion tends to rule the day. Nowadays, however, I have a little electronics workshop in my basement where I can scurry off to and think with clarity all to myself after the day is done. It's rejuvenating and gives me a stronger sense of worth and balance in my overall mental health.
Same. Especially since the article concerns itself with how others perceive you. WRT to others' perspective, I'm sure I've been a complete asshole, and the sweetest guy ever. I've been an early riser, and a 3rd-shift worker, and both were preferable and natural at different times of life. I've been very overconfident, and very under-confident; extremely introverted, and the life of the party; far too cautious, and far too risk-seeking.

I do however believe there is a deep core, that has not changed one bit since my earliest memories. Those aspects would have little to do with however I may appear, socially.
Currency isn't an investment.
>>Perl is actually thriving and it's never been better to be a Perl programmer :p

Don't know about that. But only yesterday afternoon I spent like 2 hours writing a Perl script to heavy lift some Unix file work, Which I factored would take a week at-least to do in any other language.

Perl is still largely a very useful language without any replacements. So are awk and sed.

Web development world seems to have moved on to something else now.
Using new words for existing concepts shows a lack of interest to delve deep into the existing state-of-the-art. Anti-fragile is another example. Why not call it sturdy, robust, solid. Dude, English's been around long enough to have words for that concept!

Taleb's merits are more literally than substantial. He's - and I hesitate to say this - somewhat of a charlatan. He targets an audience that considers itself smart, casts experts outside as idiots or malicious hucksters (but not his readers of course, who, with his help, see through the ruse), uses a few TedX-ie rethorics to present a supposed alternative revolutionary idea (like using big words, or using unexpected multi-disciplinary comparisons), and all done with supreme confidence.

As long as he's selling books and talks, it's fine and fun, but I would never ask him to look after my laptop when going to the bathroom in Starbucks.
Accepting lower profit != accepting negative net profit and is far more sustainable for mankind than dogmatically seeking maximum profits.
Actaully, after having read the legend at the left of the image, it is clear that many lower-power lines are left out, so it is possible, even likely, that Białystok has a connection to the rest of the country.
As someone who writes with Latex, thanks for pointing out this problem, I hadn't considered it.
If you weren't, you generally were working. A lot of that was accomplished with others too.

All I'm saying is, that the things introverts take for granted today, like the ability to opt out of social hierarchy, was not available to most people throughout history.
I'm curious how ChatOps practitioners handle this.
I'm thinking it might be a good idea to run a Boot & Nuke on any used computer or used hard disk you get. Who knows what the previous owner put there?
I've been working full time on trying to help solve one of the problems in academia (access to research), and although I was superficially aware of most of the problems in academia, once you start to dive into one you will learn a lot about the others as well, as they're somewhat intertwined. And really, the scope and breadth of the problems is astonishing.

Personally, my hunch is that the root cause for most of them is a somewhat misguided focus on "excellence" combined with it being practically impossible to measure researcher performance with a reasonable amount of effort. Then again, the problems are so intertwined and have so many different actors, that finding the root cause is really hard, so who knows whether I'm correct.
I totally agree with your summary, but to be fair to Taleb "absorbent barrier" is a real term from the study of Markov Chains. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markov_chain#Absorbing_states)
It's not just about planting fake evidence. It's primarily about being incentivised to lower the bar.

The customer in the article had a non-pornographic image of a naked child. Where they just baby photos? The article doesn't say. The judge threw out the case as a non-issue.

But the guy's career as a doctor is over. His life is devastated.

Would the Best Buy employee have reported the innocent image if there wasn't the chance of compensation? Depends on what the image actually was, of course.

The bottom line is that paying people to report crimes in certain situations inevitably results in many more false alarms, which can be irreversibly damaging to the accused.

I find it hard to believe computer techs encountering real child open need to be incentivised to report it.
Should a beginner follow SICP method to learn CS?
I am 33yrs/young. Not sure i am telling you my age, figure never too old for anything.

I have recently started learning CS - not necessarily programming. I am hearing a lot about SICP, but it seems like a dying method to teach CS as i can't find any courses that teach this way. There are people who lament over its death.

Should i abandon this method of learning CS?
what is the optimal method of learning CS that maximizes depth of understanding?
Economist behind Uber study admits error, adjusts numbers
This is what I wondered, is network topology carefully arranged to avoid triangular connections, or 'loops' where a generator could interfere (indirectly) with itself?
Honestly, the best way to see the advantages of the toolset is to complete the "Get started" section of flutter.io.

I develop iOS, Android, Web and Mac apps, and I was honestly blown away by the quality of the intelliJ and VSCode plugins available for Flutter. In fact, they've kinda ruined me for other language SDKs now.

Granted, the lack of material, demos and discussions makes it difficult to tackle some problems, but that seems to be changing these days. It's hard NOT to enjoy coding in Flutter, though, and I think that end up being its biggest strength.
Ok, thanks for the correction. I thought I had overlooked some new development in the WAN-over-power :)
Broadcom Pledges 5G Investment to Win Approval of Qualcomm Deal
> If the USA's power grid is about 4,000,000 meters wide

BTW North America actually has eight transnational (USA/Canada) interconnection authorities or "regions" in which power distribution is managed; it's not a unitary entity.
adjusts for the increase in worldwide internet use as well as bandwidth

Why? The fact that it was physically hard to pirate movies in 1997 is part of why people didn't do it.

Through YouTube

iTunes Music predates YouTube being a viable music platform. I'm talking about filesharing.

Music-ripping tools were ubiquitous at the time

I'm talking about pre-CD-drive.
Second io streams, someone should have ripped them out with their roots a long time ago. The really good stuff in the standard library came from Stepanov. C++ feels a lot like Windows to me, sacrificing everything in the name of backwards compatibility only goes so far before the whole mess comes tumbling down.
3DNes VR – 3D Nes Virtual Reality Emulator by Geod
My category of clickbait includes almost every single "Why X may be Y" headline
> How about aluminum:

> https://www.wsj.com/article_email/chinese-billionaire-linked...

What about aluminum? What is your question, and how is your link related to it?
>You explicitly consent to them...

it's a stretch to call signing a multi page document that you don't have time to read "explicit consent".
JavaScript has been reinventing the wheel for 5-10 years. In another 10 years we may get back to where we were before the Web.
Sure, I'm absolutely not argueing for Stalinism, just using it as a mental prop to think about textiles. In any case, clothes would not be a reason for Stalinism even if they were great.

The point that I was trying to get at is that it is fairly easy to make/get clothes. Most of the retail price, and most of the competitive dynamics between operators are related to things outside the basics: materials, manufacturing and logistics. These are shockingly cheap in 2018.

You're point on food quality is interesting, an example where open markets have produced excellent volume and variety, but often poor quality, especially in the previous generation.

Belarus?
Today’s Metros Are Too Rigid and Inefficient