skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Out of curiosity, were there attempts/proposals for adopting the Orkhon script (or variant)? Wouldn't it be more natural/easier to use for a turkic language?
Link to Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Turkic_alphabet

Edit: spelling
Look at the map. There’s no way for them to “build a moat” or otherwise remove themselves from Russia’s sphere of interest and geopolitical influence. This switch will be undone by the very next Kazakh dictator once the current one (in office since 1990!) kicks the bucket.
There are apps that generate static websites.
Basically she is a woman with the testosterone levels of a man, and the IAAF think she should race with men or take drugs to lower her testosterone.

which just seems to make sport further away from reality than it already is.

Look at the past 40 years of the Tour de France - around half the winners have been disqualified for drug use. Are we really expected to believe the other half naturally could keep up with the cheats or just have not been caught yet?

One of the UKs top runners pushed himself so far his body collapsed a few hundred yards from the finish. I thought they were just fitter than me, but they ignored their bodies danger signals more than me.

Sport (especially endurance) at the top level is diverging from healthy and even every day experience into ... something else.

Something is broken somewhere.
Well sure, I was just talking in terms of land use.
are the `=>` actual hidden functions with own scope or are they syntactic sugar? If they are functions they wont have a name in stack traces and add overhead.
>What I wonder is, if genetics predicts IQ, and IQ predicts your occupation, then why not dispense with IQ and say that genetics predicts your occupation?

People tend not to understand weak or loose correlations, and they will assume that race, gender, ethnicity or other factors strongly predict IQ, and that, therefore, systems of prejudice built around those factors can be justified as an expression of the natural order.
A Disney themed minifig blind bag clearly marked as being for ages 5+ is something young kids want, regardless of any attempted AFOL targeting.
From: https://github.com/neutron37/susudoio/issues/1#issuecomment-...

I decided not to bother with sanitizing bash history and to remove the admin-pass argument "feature" entirely (See https://github.com/neutron37/susudoio/issues/9).

First of all, sanitizing bash history wouldn't be enough. The CLI password argument also leaks in other ways. For example, the listing of commands via `ps` would show the password for as long as the commend executes. It's also likely that the command would be logged to disk (or even to network!) depending on the system's configuration.

I made an effort at sanitizing bash history out of curiosity. Here's what I found. The session history is stored in the bash processes memory until the end of the session, during the shutdown sequence of the process it's flushed into ~/.bash_history. So, the only crazy, horrible way that I could think of to clear the _active_ session's history is to do the following:

1. Escalate to root within susudoio
1. Hijack the tty which spawned bash (which, in-turn, spawned susudoio)
1. Background susudoio
1. Selectively clear the bash history with `history -d $badline`
1. Foreground susudio
1. Return to normal execution

Ew. That's disgusting! Hijacking the TTY session of another user (even as root) is nasty. You have to things like change permissions on file-descriptors which should never have their permissions changed. Any reliable method for this will likely leverage tools which are meant for invasive debugging and/or penetration, so probably shouldn't be installed on your "secure" system Circumventing the in-built security of my OS in the name of security seems... pointless.

Won't fix!!!
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> This "kind of autonomous driving" is absolutely deadly, by definition. It's never going to work well.

Can you quantify this statement? All of the statistics suggest that it is in the same ballpark of safety as fully manual driving.

> I think it is cognitively harder to use autopilot and pay attention, than to simply drive safely.

Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but don't you think we should look at what the actual data says about autopilot safety (including for the various flavours of autopilot tech)?
Most people don't believe in idealism but the open source movement is living proof of it. This is a society that worships 'wealth creators' and is skeptical of altruism and has no way to understand or value their work.

Stallman, Torvalds and thousands of others have undeniably added immeasurable value to society and have directly and indirectly enabled thousands of startups and tons of jobs. Yet they are not thought of as 'wealth creators' and 'job creators' and its those who use their work for profit who get these self-congratulatory titles.

Stallman was particularly prescient but it does not look like the values that powered the generation that created and grew the open source movement will persist. Those who work for and defend the surveillance economy can hardly claim them.

The communities that were more open source focused have more of less died and a lot of that tech traffic spills here but HN itself is not focused on open source but how best to use it for profit - not that that is a bad thing. But now its a side effect of efforts to make money.
I tried once to learn just the alphabet (when I was planing a trip to Crimea > 10 years ago) because we have a lot of words similar to Polish ones so I thought how hard can it be. But I failed, maybe it was my to Cyrillic that was always considered an alphabet of the invaders.

In comparison I was able to learn Korean alphabet quite easily.
IQ is a weak measure of anything remotely important.

For one reason IQ tests are typically convergent in that they typically test a central way of doing things against a single most correct answer that often excludes creativity. A divergent test, however, examines creativity by looking for the quantity and diversity of answers to questions by a participant.

Secondly, IQ is mostly not an earned quality. Intelligence is generally an inherited quality, but it can be modified by practicing a specific skill that is directly tested for in IQ tests. The ability to improve IQ by practicing a skill is a measure of behavior rather than intelligence.

A far more important quality is the behavior by which skills are learned. Qualities like persistence, determination, focus, criticality, objectivity, and so forth do more to influence perceptions of intelligence than there mere speed of learning, which is what intelligence actually is. That said measurements of speed of learning or raw information processing are weak indicators of potential to excel where those qualities are important.
Thanks for the insight, I appreciate, and I see your point. My main assumption here (backed with some data and articles) is that few customers leave reviews spontaneously because it requires some time and energy to find the location on internet... find the review section... leave a review... so in the end of day, it is usually the unhappy customers who leave reviews which is not always fair.
Seriously. Not all of your services have to be Node services either. If there is other computationally intensive work that needs to be done, it can always be handed off to a more performant process.
Simple and probably obvious to many but I was quite old until I learned this. Depending on who your parents are, many kids have no clue this is even possible, getting a job and a salary is the only thing they know (and I knew growing up) so it is important to tell your kids about this sort of thing, I've told my oldest already and he's 3.
This is a terrific little read, thanks!
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You have to pick the instance type beforehand. Back when I asked about this in the alpha, I was told changing the size of the instance flushes the cache on the basic instance and has some downtime. I can confirm this happens now that resizing is available.

For standard, it should be relatively seamless (no flush, minimal downtime), but I'm not gonna test right now. :-)
I got the latest macbook with touchbar. I honestly hate it. After typing for about 20 minutes this thing starts to hurt my fingers. The keyboard is too squished together. I never use the extra touchbar features, and if you use vim, the esc is on the touchbar which makes it feel weird. I'd avoid it imo.
A or not A = true
So to be or not to be can be represented by 'true'
Copyright infringement: every parent's worst nightmare.
Well written article with excellent points. "community" is another instance of using language to frame or spin an issue, with the consequent diluting of what a real community is.

"Community is the spoonful of sugar that makes the othering go down." was particularly evocative.
Games in which you follow suit are not generally gambling games.
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> No, switch is not like a special case of match.

Sure is. Or a degenerate one if you prefer.

> match is a reducible structured control-flow construct whose power comes from destructuring.

Match on sum types with no associated data and you have a switch.

> match is much, much more like an if-else chain than a switch.

Depends on what you're matching.
Customizing the stuff you said is largely a matter of preference. I rarely want to do the stuff you do, and that’s ok. Neither of us is wrong. Unless we try to say the other should switch OSes.

I just want a Unix-based laptop and I treat apple like a good community-run skin that has really good testing with a small set of hardware. That works for me.

In the rare case that I want to customize something or an developing for someone who wants customization, I’ll virtualization. I’ve been lucky enough (or maybe unfortunate since it’s fun) to not do anything related to hardware for a decade or so.
By definition I gotta work 8hrs, we have one hour off for lunch, so technically if I started at 11am I would be around til 8pm :(
> He's ambivalent at the moment - thinks it'll go up more but probably fall in the future.

He'll always be right with this assessment.
What about buying card packs in a digital card game like Hearthstone? Does that count as a loot box?
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> There is a tradeoff between freedom and community.

This largely depends on the conception of freedom in question. If freedom implies that individuals as a result of a the proliferation of human rights are able to live atomistic lives without much interaction with most anyone else than the state and their employers, then I agree. The last ~100 years is empirical evidence of this.

If, however, freedom implies that beyond a few obligations and non-intrusive rights (e.g. a right to free speech doesnt impose on anyone else, whereas a right to education or health care does), then freedom and community are correlated goods. We can see the evidence of this in the 19th century. Alexis de Tocqueville for instance wrote extensively about how in America, people organically formed their own communities in the absence of de jure social classes (beyond citizen and slave, which he found grotesque), and that this was a unique aspect of the relative freedom found in America at the time.

All of this is to say that the conception of freedom dictates the cohesion and veracity and quantity of organic communities. Or, perhaps stated another way, there is a trade-off between organic community and both inclusion and state intervention in private arrangements.
I bet it's somehow not on their radar. Because they have done this in the past. They shut down online poker in the US in 2011 by paying off a couple Senators to attach the ban into a Port Security act, which most legislators didn't want to not pass as they don't want to appear weak on security (also they probably didn't read the whole act).

My Dad's a great poker player and his secondary source of income vanished overnight. He still complains about it.

https://medium.com/@bostonirishblog/the-simple-science-behin...
Realistically, we share enough of an origin, destination, and schedule for the differences to be irrelevant. Most of us go to work at the same time, to the same areas, then go back to the same residential areas. That's exactly why rush-hour congestion happens. If it wasn't like this, cars would indeed be a good solution.

I live in a city with very good public transport. My average tram trip is about 20 minutes, and there is usually one that goes directly to where I want to go. I live within a hundred meters of a tram stop - and this is far from unusual. I also live within a mile of a rail station, and there is a bus stop within a hundred meters.

As I see it, there are two intertwined problems:
1. American cities are built around the car. Homes are distributed across vast areas, in the form of suburbs.
2. Many cities have very bad public transport options. This makes cars more viable, despite the inherent inefficiency of what is essentially a road-train with a hundred drivers.

If you experience transport in the context of a society built around the car, then sure, a car is going to seem viable. Vast amounts of capital has gone into the system that makes it viable. Living and working patterns are all built around it. It doesn't change the fact that fundamentally, physically, a car takes more money to build, run, takes up more space to carry fewer people, requires more infrastructure - and, even given a network of roads vastly more comprehensive than any train or tram system ever designed, works very badly.

Suburbs are also horrible from an efficiency perspective.
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Because I think that the work being done on the genetic basis of IQ is good science and because I don't think that there are substantial genetic IQ differences I believe that research will serve to provide evidence against racism.

Intelligence is pretty much always better unlike stuff like height or agreeableness. It's governed by a huge number of genes in complex ways. Humans went through a genetic choke-point not too long ago and we're very genetically homogeneous compared to most species. There are some important genetic racial difference but they all seem to be simple stuff involving single proteins, melanin production levels being a prime example.
Yes. Although it still might not be as good due to TCP's slow start.
I moved to SF 6 months ago.

Compared to my previous city (Paris), transportation in SF is shockingly poor.

That was actually a big surprise to me. It is so much easier to plan a city built recently compared to old Europe where you have a mess of old tiny roads you can't get rid of.

So I would have expected my SF commute to be easier than my Parisian one was.

However, Paris has a great subway infrastructure (and public transportation in general) that SF sorely lack.

Everything is centered around a car-first infrastructure which has failed to scale in order to accommodate the current traffic.

I don't want to own a car and even less to commute with one.

I have done it for a couple of years, that's x minutes every day where I can't do much and have to stay focused on the road.

Subway/walking commute on the contrary are often pleasant and let me listen to podcasts and read articles (pocket is great for this).

In the end, I bought a boosted board, it is a great commute shortener.

The biggest downside is that it is pretty hard to maneuver a longboard on the very poor SF streets. Some are in great shape, but most of them around SOMA are pretty bad when you use a skate.

It would be easier if my skate had bigger wheels, like scooters have.

It looks like a great alternative, I would love to see more of these on US streets.

PS.: I think it would be hard to share the sidewalk though. Unless it is very large, like on the embarcadero, there it is not an issue.

The problem with sharing the sidewalk is that the usual eskate/scooter speed is way too fast to share the sidewalk. Sooner or later somebody will exit a building just as you pass by and you are both going to get hurt.

We either need extra large sidewalks with a space reserved to small vehicles; or streets with protected bike lanes.

Streets without a bike lane are also pretty dangerous on this kind of vehicle. I am always on my guard : if I fall, I fall in the middle of the traffic.

Also, bike lanes are poorly engineered for scooter and especially skates. They have tiny wheels compared to bikes.
So you have to avoid potholes, manholes, and all kind of obstacles. Even the paint of the bike lane is an obstacle; it is often very slippery.

Some better civil engineering is needed here.
I think the whole point of the nursery's design is that you can create and destroy them during the life of your program, and that destroying them forms a barrier where the owner of the nursery waits for its children to finish. Having a nursery with a static lifetime in Rust would therefore be pointless, as it would live until the end of the program.
Cinema projectionist is the classic one (from the film Fight Club!)
The problem is an undisclosed conflict of interest, not blogging under an assumed name.

If a blog about, say, coffee was run by this company under the name "Drew Cloud," nobody would care.
I'm way smarter at night. I wrote my dissertation between the hours of 10pm and 4am. Thus far, I have been unable to find an employer willing to tap into that.
Sunlight has significant blue light. (This makes sense, considering that our sensitivity to blue light evolved in order to sync to the day/night cycle).

But what about moonlight? Surely our intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells (the cells that handle the sensing for syncing) and the syncing mechanism using them evolved back when our early hominid ancestors lived and slept outdoors.

Does the Moon do a poor job of reflecting the blue components of sunlight?

Or did our ancestors have bad sleep during those times of month when the Moon was up in the early evening?

Or is the reflected light from the Moon dim enough that the blue component does not reach some minimum threshold to activate the retinal ganglion cells?

Or did they simply find a place to sleep behind a tree or rock or something on the side opposite the Moon?
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Any direct links to learn more about Mobile Eye's roadmap for the curious?
> Trouble in Teslaville, or is this just regular valley bed-hopping?

A bit of both I'd say. From what I've been following, Tesla's autopilot efforts have been a particularly rocky road, comparable with the Model 3 ramp-up troubles.
More or less was going to comment along similar lines. I'm probably the radical opposite (Northern, unemployed, mediocre education) of a stereotype of its readers, but the FT is probably my preferred newspaper source these days because it's (relatively) the most sober UK publication, if you take in to account its institutional worldview. The exception to that is the overly-hysterical - at times, apocalyptic - stance on Brexit, although that may speak to its London-centricity and serving conservative corporate cultures where "don't scare the horses" is a preference for the political jurisdictions they do business in.

I have noticed an element of virtue signaling creeping in lately, though. Hopefully not a sign that they're about to go full 'The Economist' on its readers, which would be a disappointment.

You mention copies of the FT piled up on colleagues' trays - do you see many copies of City AM? Are there many readers and can you infer much of anything about them?
> Audio is much easier to stream though.

This isn't even remotely true. The brain will happily interpolate all kinds of visual information that is missing which allows you to drop frames with abandon as long as you display an older frame instead of a 'blank space'.

Audio isn't nearly as forgiving and even a relatively modest jitter or number of lost packets will result in an un-intelligible stream of audio.

I've spent many years of my life pumping video and audio across the net, even when that wasn't yet considered normal (or even an intended purpose of the net), and I've rarely heard complaints about video quality. But audio delivery requires top notch connectivity, low latency and sufficient throughput if you intend to hold a conversation with someone that does not result in irritation. Video is far more forgiving.
Every time I buy a MacBook, O check around. But interestingly, there is no 500 euro laptop from hp or Lenovo with similar hardware. Usually falls apart around the trackpad. And this isn’t counting the absolute horrible customer service I’ve had with hp and Lenovo.
> The sad part is ofcourse the one about companies not being interested in drugs for rare diseases, even more when they're not needed frequently. I really hope we can find a solution to that.

As that'll not happen all by itself because there's less money in that, pharmaceutical companies should be legally required to spend a certain amount of their research budget on rare diseases.

A nice follow-up read regarding one-shot cures:
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/04/curing-disease-n...
The UK and Ireland had cards representing Premiership soccer players. You would buy a book in which to collect the cards and the goal was to fill in every player on every team in the league.

The cards were sold in packs of ten or something, and kids used to trade them with each other in the playground.
I’d be surprised if it were fruitful. GPUs are basically a few dozen relatively slow cores, with very wide SIMD widths (and also some amount of fixed fn hardware, but that’s not super important here). This isn’t at all what you want for any GC algorithms that I know of.

That’s ignoring the overhead for copying data between CPU and GPU which I’m unsure you can completely remove even if they share memory.
First, calling anything idiotic is not going make you gain much credibility here. It's not facebook, we expect you to come up with argument, not name calling.

Secondly, you make a lot of assumptions on which you base you reasoning. What if the changes are not that progressive ? What is there is a tipping point ?

Then you also assume thzt we couldn't have done overwise, that our lifestyle and how we achieved it was not only inevitable but the only way it is worth it.

Your part about self starving is espacially revealling of a narrow view deeply rooted, not only in materialism, but also in rejection of the idea anything else would be good for the human specie.

Now i do appreciate the confort of our modern life, but ignoring the price of it, denying the usefulness or even the possibilities of alternatives and promoting the statu quo is very limiting.
> Don't worry if you wake up in the night for a while

This is very good advice. I'm sure it varies from person to person, but anecdotally it seems to be completely natural to have a mid-sleep period of wakefulness (for a bathroom trip if nothing else).

If you start worrying that it will lower the overall quality of your sleep, it definitely will. But if you just go with it, lie still, at most read a book, you will get sleepy again in short order and continue your rest. In fact, personally I (paradoxically) seem to feel more rested on the nights that I had a more noticeable/awake mid-sleep hiatus (and without spending extra time asleep).

YMMV, of course; the point is not to let a completely benign occurrence turn into tossing and turning and watching the clock because you're anxious about getting enough sleep.
The standard tier is supposed to persist data (and it did, during maintenance events - it was an alpha, so yeah - there was no data loss), but not sure what they use as the logs are not yet available.
If you grew up true middle income or poor in the US it is extremely hard to value equity as an adult. Then, if you manage join a company that offers equity, it can be a mental struggle to buy your options even though you have plenty of cash on hand.