skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The insane thing about the US is that they have some polices that are practically impossible but they will not change them because it would be politically tricky.

To both have a real country in Afganistan where a group of minorites, that don't get often get along, that make up 60% of the population supress the largest minority of 40% is totally insane in a country like Afganistan.

The Pashtun tribes have dominated the their region and beyond for a long time, and they are essentially a warrior culutre that will never give up. At least not with the level of violance the west is willing to employ.

The problem is that the local allies that the US uses in Afganistan also don't know the area they are fighting in and they don't know the language of the people they are fighting. This makes the 'local' support far less useful then theory says it should be.
I'm not certain of anything, but as for "OP's geologist friend" I would like to hear the comments of someone with the relevant domain knowledge on the long-term fate of all of these plastic particles.
Using Options in Kotlin. The repository for Option types is available in the gradle file of the project. Contributions and comments are welcome.
Cute example but what exactly does your handle_file_not_found() function do? Isn't it the caller further up the stack that knows best what to do? Assuming your example code is inside library_function_foo() and I'm a web server calling into library_function_foo() i know i should return http code 500 if "anything" throws an exception, if i reuse library_function_foo() in another command-line client project i might want it to print the error message to stdout instead.
Meh, I disagree, the design looks dated.
It all boils down to politics.

Flash bad, Flash compiled to wasm, good.
For the most part I really dislike FB, and have no meaningful relationships on it. But unfortunately many local restaurants, breweries, and biking/activity clubs post activities on FB which I would likely completely miss out on. Until there is a competitor which is able to provide this I'm stuck on FB for the foreseeable future. However my profile is pretty minimal, I haven't shared anything for several years, and I run an adblocker. I don't think this is much more of a privacy concern than not having one as you are still tracked.
These quotes from Girard are great, as is the mention of Frege below.

Typically, the objects related by equality can be thought to have the same meaning with respect to extension and different meanings with respect to intension. Further, the difference in intension reveals something of the computational content of the extensional object being referred to.

Further topics to explore: the BHK interpretation of intuitionistic proof and the univalence axiom in homotopy type theory. Both of these topics give one some insight on the relationship between the computational content of mathematical objects and how this content pertains to the question of whether two objects are “the same.”

Finally, I did skim the article itself and found it lacking. The author seems to be aware of the fact that there are surprising, highly non-trivial properties of the (seemingly trivial) notion of equality in mathematics. And also to be aware of the fact that the use of ‘=‘ in CS contexts isn’t some sort of abuse of notation. But there seems to be very little of interest here beyond some circumstantial verification of these two general (and well-known) facts about equality in the mathematical and computational contexts.
This kind of survey are bs, why do people even talk about them. No one care about the privacy issue and people will keep using Facebook.
I don't know if it's a popular opinion to hold but YC has always been a kingmaker from the start. Only when Dropbox filed an IPO and is now worth a bazzilion dollars in the public market most of the media has caught up to their work. To the entire team at YC keep going there are phenomenal startups to come :)
Nice project man!
Congrats. Tried the Ropsten Testnet and it works awesome
Just some minors design iccues that I believe you may fix in the near future.

Congrats!
No they are not real polymaths are incredibly rare and don't fit the mould that rote learning and getting a 4.0.

They only one close to a real polymath I know started a company when young sold it out for $$ at a young age then decided to get a Phd in music - after a bad accident whist in traction taught himself programming - oh and was also a session musician and played on top 10 hits
Just wait until this happens to something airborne, not via contaminated water.
Wouldn't that be a separate, socioeconomic analysis issue? The fact remains that as a whole, Americans are not getting better at reading. So the country still suffers regardless if specific classes of people managed to improve.
"Y Combinator CEO Michael Seibel." - It says below the image. Isn't he the CEO of the accelerator program and not whole of YC?
I don't understand the schism. For example, 11=1 gives the equivalence of two different programs. Whereas 33 mod 4 and 1 are equal in Z_4 ...

It bothered me a lot when I took logics lectures that equality wasn't treated as operator or even just anything within a theory (whereas turnstyle was described, at least).
That is an interesting and vexing problem and it's not clear to me how this applies. Could you post a link with more details?
Is the legacy only technical? I was speaking of something far broader than just the database they're using at the heart of something.

Our theories of place and travel are slowly changing due to new technical capability. Some of the lag is due to old theories embedded in old technology. But I think a lot of it is embedded in habit, custom, protocol, and business model. And in plain old not knowing. I expect we'll thrash around for decades before a new consensus emerges.
It's not like you can smell it, but these things exist (from natural fission chain reactions, not progenitor civilizations!) and have been discovered: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_nuclear_fission_reacto...
Sounds like some one the neurodiversity spectrum but doesn't realise her limitations and make any attempt to learn coping strategies.
If it doesn't invent / learn novel things, how did it learn the one task that it does today? Where does the leap from nothing to knowledge of that one task come in?
Any hints on what one must see? I might go to Naples for a Sting concert in August and I'm trying to make a list of the most interesting sight-scenes?
Having spoken to a number of friends and people I haven’t met on the Facebook groups I was in (theme was all car enthusiasts) - not one of them cared. Their arguments were that Facebook knows everything about them anyway. My flatmate also gave he same opinion when I asked her. I can only assume that the general public just don’t care or feel that they have bigger things to worry about.
If you look at it in just the right scale: definitely.

The problem is to find the exact spot to look at. Even today, geo-exploration is mostly a joke: drill where experience tells us to. New hotness: Have AI do inference from formalized experience.

There could be a thousand former fort knoxes or NYCs and we, with our methods, only have a snowball's chance in hell to find any.
Great quote, but this is the same James Madison that requested a declaration of war against Great Britain in 1812.
> a global pandemic of XDR Typhoid

Well, it's not going to happen in developed countries; typhoid is spread by contaminated water, like sewers getting into water mains. There's a reason you've probably never heard of anyone getting typhoid, or cholera.

If it was TB though - that could be a legitimate global disaster for everyone. Hell, some countries curtailed air travel for SARS, and that was treatable!

edit: duh, flu is not a bacteria. Replaced with TB
A good friend of mine, his wife, his parents and their extended family all decided to (and did) delete their Facebook as a result of this furor. I deleted mine after a few months of first making it, and I’d say all told I know more than a dozen other people who either never had them, or deleted them. They’re not using Messenger or WhatsApp. Some use email chains, others are using Signal, and only two reverted to Facebook.

I guess we know different people? It’s probably one of the challenges when talking in terms of anecdotes.
With nuclino(http://nuclino.com). It's a real time, collaborative markdown wiki.
Well... Doesn't somebody have to work the brick pits?

I think the issue is that we haven't yet demonstrated that real, actual equal opportunity won't lead to entire graduating classes of engineers and scientists - we still have the situation where "well Billy had to move schools 13 times because his family kept getting evicted, so while he might have been smart it's the brick pits for him, just look at his grades."
If you're just looking for large numbers of test images in general, https://testimages.org/ has millions of them available for use, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
That is more-or-less the plot of more than one episode of Dr Who:

http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Dinosaurs_on_a_Spaceship_(TV_st...

http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Silurian
Would our roads would survive? Never before has humanity so dramatically changed the planet in such a fundamental way. Roads from older civilizations like the Romans and the Sumerians would probably erode, but our modern asphalt is pretty insane when you think about it.

If left on the surface for millions of years, yes they would fade to nothing. But in many locations, they'd get buried in layers of swamp and sediment. Even if they shifted around via plate tectonics, many of our modern highway junctions are quite massive. With 7 billion people and the insane amount of infrastructure on our planet, surely some of that would survive if a future civilization started digging a few hundred meters through bedrock.

How long before roads churned under the pressure of the earth into indistinguishable small pieces of rock? Would they be gone in less than a million years?

As a side note, this makes me think about all the world that goes into nuclear waste burial sites, and how we're currently trying to create warnings that may need to outlast our civilization by millions of years.
Founder who lived with bipolar for years started a company to tackle the stigma
There's a great little book called "Ice Age"[a], written by a Cambridge University astrophysicist and his wife, in which they discuss in lay language what would happen if this "underwater conveyor belt" in the Atlantic, which helps regulate global temperatures, were ever to stop or (gasp!) reverse: global weather patterns likely would drastically change and the planet would likely accelerate towards a glacial period.[b]

For example, if you look at a map of the world, you will notice that the UK is at roughly the same latitude as some of the northernmost parts of Canada but is much warmer. This is partly due to the warm waters brought by the Atlantic's "conveyor belt" to the waters surrounding the UK's coasts. If these warm waters stop flowing toward the UK, its weather would likely evolve to resemble that of northern Canada.

There are other complicated factors and feedback loops involved, but this example should give you an idea of how important this Atlantic current is to the stability of global climate.

[a] https://www.amazon.com/Ice-Age-John-Gribbin/dp/1511926422

[b] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glacial_period
Changed by actually changing it. Not by just ignoring or talking around the constiution while claiming it still operates.
Come to South Asia -- Bangladesh, India, Pakistan. Weak institutions and governments concerned solely with infighting mean that your IP is probably safe from marauding governments.

All your clothes are already made there, why not your electronics?
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I'd consider that a misconception. Everything that can be deprecated can be removed and replaced by a new edition. See the discussion here: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/82sxxf/epoch_vs_era_r...

An example would be the talk about removing the ability to declare reference bindings with `ref` and `ref mut` and always inherit whatever the source mode was.

Edit: There is also talk about changing the prelude, so I would assume the standard library is also fair game.
FYI - I am Daniel's co-founder, if you have any questions on Campfire or whatev's.
As a vegan, screw all of you.

More seriously, I think it takes a lot to move society. Historians say that while people will give different reasons for wide rebellions, the reasons are always scarce resources becoming absent. Ie it might actually take an outbreak killing hundreds of millions to get global change.
Sounds like you may have a dust allergy. I have both pollen and dust allergies which was brought to light by my friend's father in law who is an allergist. His freebie advice was during the change of seasons to pick whatever allergy meds are on sale and take a course of them. This is prevented the cycle of hayfever --> more severe infection I was getting twice a year. I rarely get sick anymore.
Hey guys, this wasn't supposed to be on the front page. We (Manish, Zach, Kaya, and Lucas) are at the YC hackathon taking place right now. We're building an app that is like MoviePass for different publications. I posted this link here because FB, Google, etc bypass WSJ paywalls but HN doesn't (which we need for our demo).
Short terms shocks have reactions. Many of these things were already going in the right direction. 100 years of freedom (or no WW) between 1914 and now would probebly have been better for these groups.
> It’s quite disappointing, as the literature we read actually holds some cultural value.

For me, the biggest problem is that most instructors never really mentioned this. Instead, we ended up having 50 minute discussions about why the wallpaper was yellow, or how brave and sophisticated the protagonist was for drowning herself (I hated "The Awakening.") My experience is my own, but the majority of my classmates didn't care about the reading for this very reason (and this was also at a high-performing school). If high school English literature is still being taught anything like the way it was taught to me, it should be no surprise that American students avoid the subject like the plague.
cough Fairchild cough Intel - and the other fairchildren
The modern idea of a scientist is almost purely an enlightenment-era concept, and only represents one revision towards a better understanding of the world out of many throughout human history.

I think your distinction is pretty arbitrary; in what way does a mathematician not attempt to reason about the world in a systematic fashion and according to empiricism and logic? The only real difference over time has been in our ability to determine valid logic, our rigor in what empirical evidence we'll accept, and our sophistication in how we systematically go about this process. Early philosophers were attempting each of these things to various degrees, they just weren't as good as we are now at them. Really defining the "first scientist" is like defining the "first mammal"; the category is fuzzy and doesn't really mean anything at that level of granularity.
Yah, as I wrote my comment I realized that it made sense that there would be churn. I am not a geologist though. It is a fascinating notion. It makes me think of Mote Cook's Numenera http://numenera.com
The problem is that "the information they share" and "the information Facebook collects" are two very different things. During the recent hearings, Zuckerberg kept stressing the fact that users "choose what they share", while conveniently dodging addressing the fact that Facebook collects much more than that.
Last Weeks Statistics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbM2F-cfN0A
There are tons of small fossils. There’s a 50M year old fish in my son's room that’s about an inch long.

Granted the coral fossil in the living room is many small animals, but it’s not a big object.
nvALT. (http://brettterpstra.com/projects/nvalt/)

I've tried fancier things like Bear, Evernote, and Workflowy, but keep coming back to the simplicity of nvALT. Evernote is for recipes. Bear is for avoiding rich text editors. Workflowy is for logging research notes.

nvALT is for everything else + kitchen sink.
It's definitely an asteroid.

What we can't know is if someone aimed it there.
I have not checked, but it would seem likely I still have some rights to know what they know about me, does anyone know their current legal obligation to fulfil my right to be forgotten ?
Maybe WE are the waste.... Former civilization created organic automatons for amusement. The civilization is long gone, but their relics continue on to this day in the form of 'life'.
Wow, I didn't know this story, thanks!
One should note that this would have happened >10 years ago if we hadn't gotten the lucky stroke of the century. After 40 years of zero active antibiotic discoveries we found a few new types. Currently, they work.

The previous types lasted 60 years. The new set lasted ~6 years, or 10 years if you count until we found diseases resistant to both the new and all old types. They're resistant, so the antibiotics still help, but they only slow it down, they don't actually cure anymore. We probably have months until they're fully immune all types.

The issue is that bacteria regularly exchange genes outside of their particular species, so given historical data we have ~2 years time before there are outbreaks of every known disease which fully ignore all types of antibiotics.

This means that (assuming it is verified, and if it isn't, some other outbreak will be verified soon) at this point it is utterly too late for any attempt at restricting antibiotics (which governments are only doing to save money anyway, which is why it is only restricted for human patients and not or very little for agriculture. Besides, it doesn't matter unless every government does it). Worse: at this point restricting antibiotics is counterproductive: we should immediately switch to a different regimen, to maximize the remaining utility. When a patient gets infected with an unknown disease, and there's even slight reasons to suspect resistant strains, they should immediately get a cocktail. A high dose of the 5 known general antibiotics. Especially children.

We all know it won't be done. Firstly, governments move slowly, and never admit mistakes or failure (although you have to appreciate just how slow: outpaced by evolution. I mean ... seriously ?). Admitting failure will be the bigger problem no doubt.

Secondly, it is slightly expensive. It will save many lives, maximize the remaining utility and prevent outbreaks, but it will be somewhat more expensive.

Result will, inevitably, be that in 2 years, half a dozen (common) diseases will require extremely expensive "long-tail" medicines. In a decade, every disease will require it. We need to get started on developing hundreds, and then thousands of individual medications, requiring much more money for medical research than is currently being spent.

And we all know we won't do that. First victim will be sex. Why ? Because when a disease gets called "sexually transmitted" that mostly means only sexually transmitted (the only more restrictive form is blood-transmitted. Only gets transmitted from mother to child or through blood transfusions). Sex will transmit pretty much every disease known with only a few exceptions. When we have 5 common incurable diseases, sex with many partners becomes Russian roulette. When we have 50 ...
I found Slack rather poor in explaining what they are doing. This text is basically their entire landing page.

"When your team needs to kick off a project, hire a new employee, deploy some code, review a sales contract, finalize next year's budget, measure an A/B test, plan your next office opening, and more, Slack has you covered."

Do they offer A/B testing? HR tools? Code deployment? Who would have guessed it is chat.

Their /features page does a better job: "It simplifies communication. Slack brings all your team's communication together, giving everyone a shared workspace where conversations are organized and accessible."
This wall of text is a bunch of personal anecdotes that don't support your conclusion.

Europe, generally, is more egalitarian. Most of the countries operate on social democracies. Many countries have free health care. I would also like to point out countries in the EU are different. They're not like states in the US, they're very different.

The US has people without access to water. Huge trailer parks. Much higher rates of homelessness. Worse income equality. Smaller social welfare programs.

Whatever your personal experience of walking into a bank is, it doesn't matter and it doesn't make you right.

It's also a bit silly to point at a bank, which are notorious in all countries.

The software salary thing is very odd thing to point at too, the US has a disproportionate amount of the internet companies which is heavily inflating your software salaries due to demand.
I use Quiver (http://happenapps.com)

Latex, markdown, code cells with full syntax highlighting for dozens of languages. File format is JSON based so an entire work notebook can be thrown in version control and shared between a team.
> The current state of duopolistic airlines technology suppliers means that there may not be sufficient motiviation to evolve the capabilities of the old systems.

So then what is the motivation to change this now? This seems like simple economics to me.
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His argument is that people with low scores were not tested before. They dropped out before being tested.

If it is true, it is not separate issue.
It could hit South/Central America, And Mexico, chunks of Eastern Europe, China, it could devastate India, and while the US and Western Europe might not suffer much directly, that would still be a global pandemic. Even if you dont care about people with bad plumbing, you’d still care about the economic impacts. All told, this is bad news, and kind of like finding all of the canaries dead in the mine

Incidentally while I agree that another pandemic, lethal,influenza strain would be terrible, it’s a totally different and unrelated issue. Influenza is a virus, so antibiotic resistance isn’t a factor. It is true that some agricultural practices do contribute to mutations and spread of influenza, but ironically not the ones most associated with abuse of antibiotics.
I've used Simplenote (https://simplenote.com/) for years. Can recommend.
I'm asking "what is the result" ?

As for current market cap, IMHO it means less than you think. See also: bubble, pyramid scheme, ponzi scheme.
influenza is a virus, it has nothing to do with antibiotics
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Thanks Trump
Great post, but lofty.

Here is an example of a relatable situtational system thinking in the very small:

https://medium.freecodecamp.org/how-to-organize-your-thought...

I havent read much on the theories, but part of my write was also inspired by two books and hence why I am responding to help others. Pragmatic Thinking and Learning by Andy Hunt and The Fifth Discipline by Peter Senge helped me with this type of thinking.

A few things key concepts. Organization of related systems and their interaction patterns. But a key, that you are also apart of the system as you interact.

For instance, the causal link of bringing sweet smelling dry erase markers. You could shift the whole system of interview rating based on memory of smell on that sweet expo choco mint as you erase your complex mistakes away.

Or they could think that you're just crazy.
Maybe I'm cynical here but any technology that allows safer overbooking will be used to squeeze more bookings on a plane again increasing the risk of upset passengers and PR disasters. Markets lead to exploring boundaries and the boundary to overbooking is the willingness of the company to suffer the consequences. That willingness is cultural and will not be changed by technology.