skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a general interest in psychology, that I suppose is rooted in my own psychological struggles. A long time ago I was hospitalized for severe PTSD with psychotic features. I'd been in a state of unmitigated terror for a couple of days, when I felt a surge of activity and a sensation of chilliness in my head. In an instant, I felt at peace, but my most basic drives had flipped 180 degrees. Destruction and violence were very good and rewarding. The person talking to you now was reduced to a small monitor process who was witnessing this in horror. That monitor process managed to find a nurse and communicate enough to get me into isolation for the night. It passed after 10 minutes, and nothing like that ever happened again. But I'll never forget what it was like. It made me ask the question: what if killers aren't consciously transgressing at all? What if they're oblivious, because their reward pathways are telling them their behavior is fine, maybe even important? But I've never been able to find any literature about this. Most articles about "the mind of the psychopath" seem to project a lot, as if they assume the subject is "like them, but they don't care about hurting people." I suppose that Sadistic Personality Disorder might be closer to what I'm talking about? Haven't found much of interest about that either though. Haven't found anything at all about the possibility that some people have a mindset so alien, that no healthy person could come close to understanding it, without an exceptionally astute metaphor.
Newsblur is indeed great. It is under active development, the developer is responsive to bug reports, the mobile apps are good (if not gorgeous), and there are some innovative features, such as the ability to train Newsblur to sort certain posts into a "focus" list.

Plus I consider the fact that it operates using a freemium model a great benefit as there are no ads, it is less likely to close shop out of the blue, and it is less likely to be selling user data to support itself.
"Crypto" is short for "cryptography" (or related words like "cryptographic").

Using "crypto" to abbreviate "cryptocurrency" causes a lot of confusion, as the "crypto" in "cryptocurrency" was already an abbreviation; "cryptocurrency" is short for "cryptographic currency."

People who know nothing about cryptography or even that cryptocurrency uses cryptography get confused if they are looking for information about cryptocurrencies and instead find more general purpose resources on cryptography (like https://crypto.stackexchange.com/ or https://www.reddit.com/r/crypto/).

I know that this is a losing battle, like getting people to stop using "wiki" as an abbreviation for Wikipedia (which is just one out of many wikis), but I figure that as long as we're talking about people not knowing much but investing in it anyhow, I really encourage everyone to stop using "crypto" as an abbreviation for "cryptocurrency."
I'd love to see that datasheet.

"To use the PLL (Planck-Locked Loop) as an oscillator source, use the 1-billion year galaxy tick as a source and set the PLLMUL register to divide by its maximum scaling factor of 1.855 * 10^52."
Can't resist to recommend my own BazQux Reader https://bazqux.com

It's a paid feed reader (so if you like to move between closing free readers every few years it's not for you).
I thought Tyson's COSMOS was really well done but doesn't hit its stride until the 4th episode or so. I loved it almost as much as Sagan's COSMOS. The only "problem" with it was that the original was so good, and such a first of its kind, it's virtually impossible to top. I think Tyson's version was as good as it could be.
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I live in San Jose and have 10-20 gallons of fresh water stored in large bottles for precisely this purpose. I'm amazed at how many people give me flak about that single preparation -- too few people in this area have lived through a proper natural disaster and are woefully ill prepared.
How are tags immutable? They can be deleted and added again to point at a different commit id.
In that case, could we just take strong Trademark protections without copyright and patents? I also like to be able to trust that the widget I'm buying is made by the company it says it is, and won't burn down my house, but that doesn't mean it should be impossible to copy the internals.
Very informative and exciting technology!
60 seconds is better than nothing. Similar to japan, that 60 seconds could mean stopping trains and anything else sensitive to the ground moving. Elevators could be stopped and people directed out. Gas and water shut off. Quite a bit more too, really.
NewsBlur is nice. (I'm a very happy paid user.) It's social features are close to what was lost when Google shutdown their Reader. (The biggest thing lacking is how big the community was in GReader's heyday, but that was a rare lightning in a bottle and not NewsBlur's fault.)

As a paid customer I know that I'm a customer of NewsBlur, they expect to keep my business, and Samuel Clay has been very good over the years about listening to customer and community feedback.
This is fine when the elements of automation aren't beyond the state of the art. However when you have startups like Spinvox et-al hoping that automated transcription will show up and save them (I mean transcription of variety of voice in variety of environments, using uncharacterized microphones and transcoded from mobile to core ect) or the current rash of chatbot liars and charlatans then real real damage gets done to real companies where execs believe the trendy w*nkers vs real people who understand technology. I've seen good engineers hounded out and scores of millions of pounds wasted because of "warp drive over powerpoint" and I've had enough. Not that I'm bitter or anything.
I'm nowhere near technically competent to develop something like SQLite in any language. Richard Hipp is a legend unto himself.

But, I tried working in Nim without GC and out turned out to be a bigger hassle than I expected it to be. GC was supposed to be ref counted and now they're doing memory regions? There is also a -gc:stack which I'm not sure if it works the way like in C++. Then there is the pointer free paradigm. Don't get me wrong, I'm very optimistic about Nim and would be great if it really replaces C. But I feel like it's doing too many things at once.

I personally feel like Nim dev team should stop adding new features every release and work on releasing a solid 1.0.
> Criminals can be put into prison only if they can be convicted.

Huh? A large percentage of those jailed in the USA have not been convicted of the crime for which they are charged. They are detained until trial because they cannot afford bail.
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At my workplace you wouldn't get anywhere within 60 seconds especially with everybody else rushing out at the same time.
It really depends on whether the intent to defraud was there or not. The SEC is probably not out to outlaw founders being true believers in their vision, even if their beliefs are often misguided. On the other hand, if there is solid proof that founders knew their vision had no hope of succeeding but presented it as though it did, that could and should be a problem.
1) no

2) Don't know (maybe extraction shortage but not absolute shortage)

3) Aluminium air "batteries", Lithium Ion Graphene battery, solid state, flow battery ...

4) not super green

5) yes

6) different technologies for different applications
Well, it matters in that Rust lets you eliminate this in the first place. Not all languages let you do this kind of thing. If you want to write Ruby, you have a VM, even if your program is `a = 5`.
Benford's law shows that leading digits of measured values are not evenly distributed, and tend to be smaller.
> Larry and Sergey weren't well connected when they started, either, afaik, as most PhD students aren't.

Doubt it. I don't think In-Q-Tel/CIA will write you a check because you just happen to have this shiny new search engine that may or may not change the world.
How often do you rotate the supply? I do the same.
I remember seeing one of her public appearances for the first time (when they were flying high and before there was any doubt), and she seemed incredibly fake to me.
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It still baffles me how this ever got started. How does a 19 year old sophomore dropout have sufficient expertise in microfluidics plus clinical testing to garner hundreds of millions in investment with pure vapor? Nevermind the learning curve of running the business and developing a real saleable product.
Are you sure that's good advice? It makes common sense but technically the advice is to stay indoors afaik
Yes, it's ridiculously backwards. But it's reality. Intuit, at various times, has tried to make the kinds of changes you guys are suggesting. And every time they've run smack into reality and had to backpedal. Reality is like that...you can try to deny, and fail, or accept it and adjust your thinking. It isn't a how Intuit thinks issue, it's the way their customers think after decades of getting comfortable using Intuit software.

Another example...Intuit has wanted to transition customers away from the desktop version of Quickbooks for many years now. If you think Quickbooks online has it's learning curve, just spend some time using the desktop product. It's a maze that takes years to learn to navigate and many of the "features" are horribly buggy from years of neglect. But pry it from their cold, dead hands Intuit cannot, so you can still buy new versions of Quickbooks Desktop.

That's why what you guys are saying is so ridiculous. You're denying a reality in a field you're not familiar with. You're saying something should be different because it's inefficient or other industries work differently. But you haven't done the user research. You don't have decades of experience dealing with the people who actually spend money on the software. You're in no position to critique the way that Intuit thinks.
I was talking to someone the other day who is working on predicting earthquakes by combining massive data sets with deep learning. They have a promising technique that looks like it can predict 24-72 hours in advance.

Having lived through Northridge in '94, I really hope he succeeds before it happens.
How can matter + electricity access immaterial mathematical objects?
The relevance of DriveNow's electric cars for Hamburg's charging infrastructure
That actually makes sense for things like utilities and trains systems. Power plants also probably could use that kind of warning.

I hope it won't rain during an earthquake or landslides may happen.
It usually does, hence why they are democratic.
Atomic clocks would get you far below the 1ms threshold. I'll rephrase to within 25ms, since that can be pretty acceptable and doable across the internet by just popping up NTP.

Without a synchronizing service, time can't be trusted to be accurate. Time should always (try) be absolute to a global time, and not individual clocks a devop manually put some numbers in for.
As was Northern Ireland during the troubles and they still deal today with a fair number of Kneecappings or 50/50's
> If you're not putting in that much effort to your C codebase, then you're not getting those results.

My point is, if you're not putting that much effort into your codebase -- whatever the language you're not getting those results. There is no language that makes developing and maintaining SQLLite easy or straightforward.
ESM modules in node: NPM edition
The Rust language knows nothing of dynamic allocation. You're speaking of the behavior of the standard library, which is trivial to drop. You're free to have whatever allocator semantics you want, including robustness on OOM.
Your last sentence is certainly a stretch, that the removal of remorse as a consideration means the removal of recidivism prediction, and the rigid use of policies represented by 3-strikes.
I'm very happy with Blogtrottr, which turns feeds into email. It has flexible delivery options, e.g. digests, plain text vs. HTML, and sort order. Best of all, receiving posts via email means I don't have to check yet another app.
Surgeons can stop cutting on someone during a surgery. An earthquake is bad timing if a scalpel is close to a major artery.
Link? Would love to keep up to date with a project like this as a means to protect myself
Its why dual audio is often missing and why undubs are illegal.
60s seems unreasonable. Earthquakes move at around 5km/s. 60s warning would be for someone 300km away, who is probably not at risk. You could get 2-10s warning to those nearer the epicenter, which is still enough warning to be valuable. Especially if machinery and self driving cars and such could be auto-safetied.
oh wow, I have that book. I also have "calculus in a new key" and a few others. Yes, I was an APL child.
Rick recently donated a $4 million apartment complex for homeless women and children. His article about the donation is a great read:

https://www.ricksteves.com/about-rick/trinity-place

"With the election of our president in 2016 and the rise of a new, greed-is-good ethic in our government, I want to be more constructive than just complaining about how our society is once again embracing "trickle-down" ethics, and our remarkable ability to ignore the need in our communities even as so much wealth is accumulated within the top one percent of our populace. I'm heartbroken at how good people, dedicating their lives to helping others (through social organizations and non-profits across our society), are bracing for a new forced austerity under our government of billionaires."
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A mount would require long term commitment to the system. Something Google would culturally have a problem with.
Yup! The most recent Node LTS includes wasm support without a flag, previous versions required you to include a flag.
Unless the labor pool of bookkeepers expands by 30% (increased usability) and prices fall by 30% or more due to increased competition.
Yup agree; the gap between "we're confident we can" and actually doing it is.... v.a.s.t....
or computation and/or memory space is limited! so trade-offs are needed
Depends how rickety your house is, and where it's located.
For some weird reason, after Google Reader shut down, I tried several RSS readers, including OldReader, the AOL one (I think) and Digg Reader.

As I used to visit Digg quite often (it's not the crowdsourcing site anymore, but an editorial-based one) because of its content, I stuck with it.

It started ok—what you would expect from a feed reader. It was clean, it updated quite often, it was good.

But three or so years ago, it started to look stale. No new features, and worse: the count read was wrong, and often it would mark your items as read. It was clunky and unreliable, late last year I moved to feedly and haven't look back.

The lesson here is that maybe there's no model for a free hosted RSS reader. Google found out, and then some others.

And that's not good for an open web.
Nope, you call into JS for that as well. Canvas, WebGL, whatever.
I don't think Tyson needs to be there. Tyson is an educator and that's how he labels himself. He's not a researcher/theorist like Hawking and Feynman.
Checked C: extension to C that adds static and dynamic checking
> I suppose the remaining cards could relatively easily be repurposed as RNG for nonce generation

I spent better part of a hour trying to google this to no avail. How do you convert random permutation of n items into random number <n! ? Intuitively it feels like it should be possible, if not even easy, but I can't figure it out.

edit: yay, finally found a lead: "rank of a permutation" and "lehmer code". So I guess it is doable, have to check how they would actually work in application
So at it's peak we had ~160k Americans in Iraq. At Afghanistan peak, we had ~100k.

Chicago has ~11 times as many Americans. I'll take my chances with Chicago.

It's actually shows how remarkably low we were on the casualty rate in the wars we had. Far cry from the civil war (~25% casualty rate).
Maybe cool it on the insults if your facts aren't right.

> What about the fact that Holmes actually lost money for investors and got no jail time. While martin lost no money but got 7 years of jail time.

A few things about this point.

1. Shkreli lost 100% of his original investors' money. He then lied to them all and told them that he doubled it. He then created fake financial statements that he used to raise new money, lying to new investors as well. He also embezzled his hedge fund's money to buy himself Picassos and Wu-Tang albums. After all of that, he undertook a very risky bet that paid off, at which time he paid back his original investors, again lying about what happened.

2. Holmes didn't "get no jail time" since the SEC can't arrest or convict people. They're a civil institution that can only apply civil remedies, like fines and management bans. The Department of Justice is also investigating Theranos and Holmes, it remains to be seen if they will issue criminal indictments. In any case, Holmes is cooperating and had agreed to settle.

3. Shkreli had the chance to settle, plead guilty, admit wrong-doing and avoid jail time. Instead he chose to have a jury trial, where 12 of his peers found him guilty of serious financial crimes that would result in 7 years in prison.
Sigh.. I for one will never understand why everyone is obsessed about titles.

Is doing front end not actual software development? What does that even mean?

Are you considered a real software engineer if you can write code in a certain language? ..
Or does it mean you are really good at O(1) problems?

I think we should all agree that software development is a team effort, it requires vast knowledge and skills that different individuals bring to the table.

Doing CSS adds just as much value as writing the backend API.

Here is a good analogy. For an aircraft to function, pilots, aircraft mechanists, aerospace engineers all come together.
Does that mean one is doing "plumbing"?

Certainly not, they all add value.
As far as I've read, it only failed because of a whistleblower. Overall, she was able to waste quite a few resources, as well as steal taxpayer money, without any real consequences (so far). I would bet she's probably better off having done what she did than if she had followed the rules.
https://github.com/glimmerjs/glimmer-vm/pull/752
> But why it matters at all? Penalty should be proportional to the deed, not to the person's finances.

I would argue the opposite, why do you think this is the case?
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> America in general

"America in stereotype" is more accurate.

Your Netherlands comment is also hyperbole. Here's an article about a kid who was shot and killed on an Amsterdam playground a few weeks ago. Two other people were wounded by what in America would be called an "active shooter." But that only happens in America, right?

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/910572/Amsterdam-shooti...
This might be of help to those who are thinking of a cost effective way to quickly store water for immediate emergencies: https://www.amazon.com/WaterBOB-Emergency-Drinking-Storage-G...
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> But, I was told, they'd done UX tests with experienced users who had strong reactions to making UI interactions like that consistent.

Had they strong reactions to those being consistent (and thus easier to learn), or did they have strong reactions to those being different from what they were used to?
For homeowners and building operators, there is a safety valve you can install that will shut off the gas line when it detects earthquake-like shaking. This reduces the risk of a fire or explosion in the aftermath of an earthquake.

Also, remember that emergency kits include perishable items. Keep an eye on those, and remember to rotate your supplies.
your stated difference being that one occured before, while the other after, an antitrust lawsuit?
It absolutely is not useless. You're the one confused. I never claimed it's a synchronization construct, or that it magically makes your code thread-safe.

No amount of fences or mutexes is going to help you if threads are operating on their own version of a variable that got cached in a register, or optimised away. You need to understand volatile to write correct multi-threaded code.

That StackOverflow answer is bogus, along with all the other comments. It's just a rant that, albeit correct, is barely related to the question asked, and it's a clear example why you shouldn't treat StackOverflow as more than an unreliable help forum. The guy asked about whether you should make variables shared inside of a critical section volatile. The answer is "yes, to prevent threads from working on stale data".
It's not ideal, but maybe it's OK inasmuch as I use a local RSS reader (feedbro) perfectly happily. It works, it's not beholden to another company, and its feature set will remain the same as long as I choose not to upgrade it.
> the galactic synchrotron

"The plane of the Milky Way is dominated by diffuse radio emission with a brightness temperature of thousands of Kelvin at low radio frequencies (Zheng et al. 2016). This emission originates from relativistic electrons interacting with the Galactic magnetic field."

https://uhra.herts.ac.uk/bitstream/handle/2299/17665/stw2959...
I really wish they provided details on why they had to go to the legal team in the first place and on what grounds they were rejected. Among other things, I would imagine the developers would not be liable for end-users violating the EULA, so it's kind of head scratching why they would interact with bethesda at all.
That wasn't a statement of opinion.
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As someone learning Keras right now, why are you wanting too switch?
Did he pick another cohort as a control? How did he find a cohort of brain scans to use a a control which are not at this point now equally suspect?
If you can get out easily I don't see a reason to stay indoors. Maybe stay away from trees though.
Every couple of months.
I think that's a very good analogy.
That is the exact sequence of events. I'll miss onenote, which was one of the reasons for buying the surface, but I currently miss not feeling like it is my laptop even more
Wood-framed single story homes are some of the most seismically safe (by virtue of flexibility) structures.

Unreinforced masonry structures, tilt-up concrete buildings, and the like are far more dangerous. California has a lot of legacy tilt-up concrete structures in industrial and commercial zones.

Residences are probably more vulnerable to the resultant gas leak fires than the quake itself.
For a time, I ran a small private email list to discuss research related to brain wiring through the lens of the personal experiences of youth who were not neurotypical. This included my two sons. The list was set up to serve the emotional, social and psychological needs of my oldest son. I think he was about 15 or 16 at the time. When he lost interest, the list died and I ultimately disbanded it.

You might find it helpful to look into brain research rather than psychological research. A lot of psychological research is really poorly done. But brain research has a lot of interesting tidbits based on some very solid experiments.

You might also look for historical case files about individuals, plus read biographies and fiction with an eye towards getting insight into individuals and how they experience the world.

Yes, people who are not neurotypical simply operate differently, so differently that a lot of what is written on the subject is biased to the point of uselessness.

You might find the writings of Temple Grandin of interest. You might find it useful to join online parent support groups and lurk. You might get good book recommendations out of that, plus useful anecdotal information.

Best.
This talk is really interesting too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jib2AmRb_rk big industry projects (like the airline mentioned) probably contribute