skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One more stupid design:

Deleting an email in a thread:

Find a small button.
Click.
Find "delete". It is in the middle of the list. This is just simply stupid.
Click.

BTW you should delete your email. IIRC after 6 month (?) the government doesn't need a warrant to access it.
Eh,both of these are technocratic efforts- they where many constitutions and market systems trialed and errored to get where we are today. Nothing of that dropped from the sky, as a law of nature.
It's probably true, the oil companies have enough money to pay for the astroturfing.
Find a way to extract enough energy from this reaction (it has to be at least slightly exothermic) to pay for it, and we're good.
Yup, this. There's almost always a way to represent the data that allows clearer interpretation.
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I would note that Home Depot was a proposed lease and not a sale, and people were most worried about awful traffic immediately next to the highway interchange (a Santana Row which went in around the same time wouldn't have been better),
but 'that was the rumor in 2003-4 when it traded hands' which I guess you didn't hear. I lived closer to caltrain.

Edit: If anyone would like a longer reading of the Home Depot kerfuffle-

https://www.mv-voice.com/morgue/2002/2002_02_22.hdtimeline.h...
Fake-news spreading organizations are not limited to just Facebook.
Online Bitcoin fraud operation
Dogme 95 Project 1: www.languagemodels.io
>I feel a little bit of scholarship would help avoid creating problems that have already been solved.

Anything particular, besides a vast generalization?
Fun fact: the retina and optic nerve are outgrowths of the developing brain, and commonly considered part of it. So technically a bare brain can see.
This happened before Java went open-source.

(This is why it's so uncomfortable to make a closed-source thing a centerpiece of your product, unless you already own it.)
A tool that can instantly produce HUD noise studies
They would inform us, in both cases.
>- "A coroutine is like a control construct"---a coroutine is a control construct. There is no "like".

Pedantic. A coroutine is a control construct in the same way an Exception is a control construct, or in the way a tomato or a cucumber is a fruit.

Adopting a particular naming depends on the categorization and the intention, not merely on the capabilities of a construct.

Even more so in a post, were the notion needs to be introduced to people who only associate the concept of a "control construct" to the more explicit and tamer constructs referred to as such, if and for loops, goto, etc.

>- "But coroutine is also like a variable"---a coroutine closes over an environment. I.e. it is a closure. This doesn't really have much to do with being "like a variable". Representing closures is well studied in programming language research and there are many techniques for handling it E.g. http://matt.might.net/articles/closure-conversion/*

The first part is just a formal definition, which doesn't negate the statement, and the latter part is just a generic reference to research on closures.

One could use the same kind of saying-nothing responses to all kinds of posts or papers.
It actually seems like several armies. It's like certain groups/companies try to control brand image by discouraging criticisms on this board. Sometimes I wonder if disallowing downvotes without a counterpoint would have an effect on that.
Re: networking

I don’t know how many networking apps (including hardware devices) I’ve seen over the years. They’re at best a novelty and more commonly unwelcome. I suspect the friction with just scribbling down an email, exchanging a business card, or later connecting on LinkedIn is superior to people using the tech to mass spam people.
Thank you for keeping spreading civilization among the barbarians ;)
The linked post is from 2014, and specifically mentions DCSS being "lower headroom". I expect a significant issue here is different use of "forgiving"; IIUC proponents of DCSS would tend to stress YASDs as being "unforgiving", but the focus of the linked article is more on flexibility in play style - forgiving somewhat-less-than-optimal play, forgiving outright recklessness, and occasionally killing you regardless of your behavior are all three somewhat different things.
> the government

Which country?
Just get one of those fancy metal attaché cases, attach a capacitive sensor to it with some sort of ground plane inside the case, and wire it to some logging microcontroller. Add a gyro chip to boot. Honestly the embedded gyro should be enough, the MEMS chips in phones are CRAZY sensitive, and would easily detect being shifted by a cm.
Could have sworn that applies to the articles hitting the front page as well...
You might also consider registering a vanity domain to go with your Fastmail (or other) subscription. It’ll allow you to keep your email address even if Fastmail gets evil / bad in the future.

When I bought my domain, it was before Gmail was as ubiquitous as it is today. My email was hosted by a mom and pop ISP. Then I moved to Gmail and later to Fastmail.

Having my own domain is inexpensive, fun, and lets me maintain email portability over time. Namecheap is a good, easy registrar. I moved to them a while back and was impressed at their documentation and help during that domain transfer.
I’ve been here regularly for over 10 years and I disagree. There have always been some climate change deniers, just as there are everywhere online. But comments in general have not leaned that direction.
I've been to Kaua'i multiple times as I contract for a monastery there. It is a very wet place and I remember the first time I've been there and saw houses built on "high stilts", I remember thinking that was a smart solution for flooding on my own home country of Brazil where flooding happens annually.

Then, after about 14 years without ever hearing about flooding over there in Kaua'i, this news struck quite close to home. I lost contact with the monastery on that day and then someone there messaged me: "heavy rain, the network is down". I didn't imagine the rain was that heavy... Lucky for them, the monastery is on high ground and wasn't affected as much as shore properties. Can't fathom what those in Hanalei might be handling, heck, I wanted to move to Hanalei for many years.

Climate change is something that people in the US should take more seriously, I can't believe the amount of deniers in that country. It is very depressing to watch from afar as people deny science as if it was merely opinions. Kaua'i is one of the most amazing places I've ever been, somewhere I consider a home away from home. Can't believe that government will not take action to course correct their recent snafus related to the Paris accord. They recklessness will make beautiful places such as Kaua'i suffer.

noho palekana, my friends.
I think you can look at any single (weather) event and conclude that "extremes happen." They have been happening for a long long time. Attributing is, given the complexity of the system and our minuscule historic sample size, difficult. But also perhaps pointless, in an apples v oranges sense.

On the other hand, aggravated weather events become "climate." We zoom out. We see the arc. We see what looks like a delta. It's the arc and the delta that matter.

It certainly seems that climate is changing. But there are three camps, not two.

- Deniers - it ain't happening.

- Sympathizers - it's happening, but it's not man made.

- Believers - it's happening AND it's man made.

I think too often the Sympathizers get lumped with the deniers, and that wrongly clouds the discussion.
not sure if its warming or cooling but climate is definitely getting weirder
I've purchased his book and a few dehydrated starters.

Definitely recommend both.
The book is overly technically with various temperatures but was a soft read otherwise. I've been baking now for the past few months.

Still trying to get a very sour starter or loaf.
>I don't understand why people care. Either you like the painting or not. Why does it matter who painted it?

For one, because art has for ages (ever since the romantics for example) moved beyond a mere "I like the particular artifact", and into appreciation for the object as a part of a body of work, and of its role in the creator's biography and development of ideas and art.

It's not just about looking at pretty pictures anymore.
Is it so unbelievable that people could just disagree with you that you have to assume they’re espousing a fake or paid for position?

I consider myself a conservationist so I think outrageous and easily falsifiable claims like “this was caused by climate change and we can expect more of this” destroy the credibility of the people making the claims and the dangers of climate change in general.

The most famous was the 2000 article that claimed snowfall was a thing of the past which was finally deleted after years of mocking:

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2015/11/12/one-of-the-longest-ru...

There are so many more examples including Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth being released shortly after Katrina and being advertised with a hurricane coming from the smokestack of a factory saying we can expect hurricanes like that will be much more common going forward. Instead we had hardly any hurricanes make landfall for over a decade.

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0497116/?ref_=fn_al_tt_0
Am I missing something or is it just an example from "What every computer scientist should know about floating point arithmetic"? There are some other nice ones there as well. And when any of this ceased being relevant?
> There's only one person known to have won

That is quite a modern concept. Back in ye olden times, people just played local versions of games, and won, and didn't announce their achievements to the world. I am sure there is a plethora of people who won and just didn't brag about it.
Question: Are you still young?

Up until my mid 30's I was a night owl. Over the last few years that's started to transition to more morning hours.
If you're 40 you should switch from consuming to producing.
Yes, I was forced to in my late 30s, and seems like it's just natural now in my late 40s.

Looking back, it would've been easier if I cut way back on the caffeine, stopped work way earlier (rather than working at 8pm), and just worked on converting slowly by slowly changing my habits. Alcohol also impacts my sleep. I also found my eating and exercise both had huge impacts on my sleep. All these things should've been obvious, but I only noticed after they had to change for other reasons.

I took a job in my mid 30s that required me to get up around 6am. It took my 2 years to adjust, it was brutal. Then I had kids, this ruined sleep for nearly a decade. Then, just as they started sleeping in, I wake up with the sun, no matter what. Luckily I seem to need less sleep now.
The EOMA68 project is putting together an interesting variant on this approach. Instead of taking your hard drive with you, they are building computers with a mainboard on a PCMCIA card, so you can eject your entire system from its housing and take it with you. A small SSD is included, so you could literally bring your entire environment with you if you don't mind being limited to 8GB.

https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68/micro-desktop
Be more optimistic, it’s easy to be negative. This is what I took from being a startup employee when I was an aspiring founder.

I went from a science undergrad (with some coding for simulations of experiments) to SWE at a startup where everyone knew each other. It was a very convivial and trusting atmosphere. Eventually I made charts for board meetings, and dug into the financial data. I was so surprised! So much churn, so few customers, so few sales, so much support and work per customer, all at a 3yo startup. I knew the last round of funding money was drying up, and I thought, man, this thing is gunna end. But money came through, many rounds more. At every time I talked with the cofounders and anyone like investors or board members at the company, wow, optimism.

My lesson was that I was too skeptical from the natural sciences. Businesses are about people, and people can be convinced, some immediately, some over time, or since there are a lot of people and a lot of money in the world, you might find more receptive people and money later. So it is about putting on the face and convincing whoever with confidence (if that is what you’re into).

So cheer up dude, you made it his far, you can keep going. I moved away from my company to my own hustle, but man, that company is a boomin. I won’t say if it’s profitable, but it’s a great place to work, everyone is happy, somehow investors still seem super happy, more people are being hired, and there is some customer testimony that is very positive.

I think there is a difference between a startup and a business, made possible by the swell of VCs, and this means you can chase your dream longer, as long as you find the right investors.
Don’t be silly. One can visualize the N-dimensional case and then it is just a matter of setting N=14.
The meteoric rise of Google is pretty much the definition of "the exception".
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The logical follow-up question would be; how does it compare to fzy? :) https://github.com/jhawthorn/fzy
The aging mind: neuroplasticity in response to cognitive training (2013)
> In 1950 he would have become a professor or gone to work for Bell Labs.

Why wouldn't he have started one of the numerous profitable companies of the 50s? It seems more likely that an entrepreneur would do that rather than work in another field.

> In 1998 he was able to start his own company and become a billionaire.

This appears to prove Stiglitz' point doesn't it? There was no deficit of innovation in the mid 20th century, all without massive economic inequality.
If we were to see these kinds of events occur more and more frequently (like, every year and a couple of times a year) then we would have evidence that specific changes had occurred in the climate.

The problem is that we don't really know the number is that means "frequently." In the US we had this Hawaii event; we had the Nor'easters[1] in what-10 days?; we had the strongest winter storm on record; we had the catastrophic Texas flooding (because of the Hurricane, but extra). In what-7 months or so?

[1] One of those Nor'easters brought enormous damage not because it was so strong, but because there was simultaneously an enormous storm in the ocean-2000 miles across or so, that was going to pound our coast with waves anyway, piling on.
> email experience

Email, at this point, is infrastructure. There is no need for an "experience" with it.
That – hit too close to home.
Can't the weight be calculated to see if additional components were added between mock-up and production output?

I know weight is how you double check other manufacturing
> Inbox is not optimized for iPhone X.

This has led me to think Inbox is on its way out. Lack of updates is the classic Google move prior to killing a product.
I have not. I've been working for 20 years and I still need the weekends to catch up on sleep. I'll try to get to bed on time (10p) but sometimes (at least once a week) I just can't sleep, or dread work, or whatever. I'll be tired all day, then when it comes time to go to sleep again, I'll be wide awake.
For those of us in the north, worth considering: an inch of rain is something like a foot of snow, before it gets packed down by further snow. That, for me, puts into perspective just how insane 50 inches of rain is.
When dealing with floating point, every conversion and computation leads to 'wrong answers', that are only in close proximity to the correct answer.

This paper discusses a great deal the sources of error, and how the IEEE standard does things. https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19957-01/806-3568/ncg_goldberg.h...

Using integers instead bypasses this source of error. The only caveat that I keep attenion to is that you have to be able to expand the size of the space to prevent decimals from being used (think of multiplying by 100 when dealing with cash). And if you do deal with floats, do the math you have to and then drop back into ints, or save them and send them off.
I have, and I also have done a lot of shift work too and easily switched regimes many times.

The trick is very simple - if you want to wake up and have breakfast in 6 am, your last meal must be 14 hours before that - which is 4 pm on the previous date. No snacks, no dinner not anything like this. You will be hungry but you will find yourself falling asleep at about 10 pm. If you don't stay in front of a screen you can go to sleep easily. You will then wake up at 6 am - fresh, but hungry. Its important to have a quick breakfast or you will fall asleep again. Try to keep this eating/sleeping schedule, you can relax it a bit (i.e. have dinner at 6) after the first week.

People are of course different, so while 14 hours work for me, some people do it with 12 or 16 hours, but the idea is the same.

This tip/lifehack also works for jetlag: https://hbr.org/2009/05/a-fast-solution-to-jet-lag
Listen to whb07. Through hike something like the Appalachian Trail. ;-)
Also what genius decided that left menu will slide on mouse hover when there is hamburger icon for that.
The consequences are usually an illusion.
Nah, just a failed attempt at humor.

I mean, trying to impersonate TSB as a way to attract attention from intelligence agencies is insane on the face of it.

The article was great; no qualms with it whatsoever.
Strictly speaking, New Zealand was the last Pacific Island chain to be inhabited.
Have a child, you'll change.
How much more expensive would it be to build chips in your own country? I would think that early in the lifetime of a new CPU/GPU, the manufacturing cost is a small portion of the cost.
On the one hand, I'm tempted to agree. The whole reason we call it climate change instead of global warming is that, whole temperatures may rise at a global level, that doesn't necessarily manifest as a mean temperature increase in a plurality of locations. But it is theorized to add kinetic energy to the weather system resulting in more powerful weather phenomena.

On the other hand, we sure need to be careful in the way we observe trends. The human mind is suited to observe patterns even where they may not exist. Combine that with increasing distribution of news coverage, and the insatiable consumer appetite for bizarre news stories, and it would be surprising if weather didn't seem to be getting weirder over the years.
That's no surprising. I already developed a game for Facebook a few years ago and was amazing how many information about the user and his friends was possible to collect. There were simple no restriction.

I try to imagine games like Farmville that were played by millions of people, how many information they collected.

Nowadays, Facebook has Graph API. You need to specify exactly what information about the user you want. And depending on the information, Facebook needs to review in advance.
One problem is that Graal is still on Java 8 (nearly two versions behind of latest stable) because it is marked as LTS.
I think that's a bad decision for a bleeding edge piece of technology anyway - a lot of of the components that Graal needs are batteries-included in later Java releases.

And most importantly, there's this - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16919776 ( Java SE 8 business users must buy a licence from Jan 2019 to receive updates)
True also that.
> I wonder to what extent it is possible to slow the damage. For instance, if you're bleeding, you may be able to slow it - but if you don't stop it completely, eventually you will bleed to death.

Yes, exactly. Well, the simplistic model is that you have a rate of damage (RD) and rate of repair/replacement (RP), and if RD > RP, the system will eventually fall apart. "Repair" consists of both your body's endogeneous repair or replacement processes and exogeneous things we might do.

Most researchers focus on RD, because it seems easier for us to do things about that. Calorie restriction probably mostly affects RD instead of RP, for example. In high theory, one could stop aging purely by lowering RD enough so that it is below the body's endogeneous RR.

But in reality, it is easier for the body to detect and repair some kinds of damage than others. It is quite hard for the body to detect DNA mutation in a cell before it starts actively causing aberrant behavior in a cell, although such mechanisms exist.

> I think it is ridiculous to believe that in a universe where galaxies die, human beings can keep going like the Duracell bunny for as long as we like

Well, at THAT timescale, we are talking about problems of physics and thermodynamics, not biology. But if you consider that in some sense life on Earth has proceeded in an unbroken chain for ~4B years, you can see that it is possible to go quite far by decreasing local entropy at the expense, of course, of global entropy. I do not see how physics prevents human lifespan of at least 10K years, but the technical problems are immense, and I do not predict major success within our lifetimes.
In Friesland, The Netherlands, farmers used to built a "terp" to keep their home safe from floodings. The first terps were built around 500 BC.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terp
I would say that from my memory, HN has a far above average number of climate change deniers who post regularly. It frequently distracts and drowns otherwise useful and productive conversation on the topic. It is hard to quantify of course, I'd be interested in doing a study of that some day.

HN is the most environment-hostile and climate change denying community I have regularly participated in, and I say this as a personal experience.
Don't like the design one bit, too much wasted space, and overall huge elements. And I find the additional features unnecessary.

I just want an as simple as possible list of emails. Basically the compact view in current gmail, sorted by unread - not by some automatic folders or anything similar.

If I have to do something at a specific time I'll create a calendar entry. If it's a newsletter that I don't care about I'll unsubscribe. Email for me should be a list of messages, nothing more, nothing less.

Same goes for other goole services, such as google play music. Everything is super large and with a ton of padding, and you can't see more than a few songs in a list because the elements are so huge.
This is exactly what I said would happen when Google started making all of us use HTTPS.
I did a similar library for Python (~3yrs ago).

blog: http://blog.amjith.com/fuzzyfinder-in-10-lines-of-python

library: https://github.com/amjith/fuzzyfinder

I haven't done any benchmarking to check the performance. Feedback welcome.
Noted, thank you.
I just switched to being a morning person for the past few weeks. It was driven largely by a temporary shift in my work schedule and I'm pretty certain I will revert back to crashing at 4am eventually. Not because the morning schedule negatively impacts the quality or quantity of my sleep or anything, but because when I don't have a bunch of morning meetings, my sleep/wake cycles naturally start drifting 30 minutes to an hour forward each day until it settles on sleeping from 4am to noon.
Cunt. Fuck off.
Suppose we have two hypotheses:

1) The likelihood of extreme rain events hasn't changed over the last hundred years. This recent extreme rain event was just a four sigma event. Such outliers sometimes happen.

2) The likelihood of extreme rain events has shifted over the past hundred years. Here's a plausible mechanism (omitted). The recent rain event was only a two sigma event.

We may not have enough data yet to definitively select one hypothesis and reject the other, but which is more likely?
What is "this"?
It probably depends on what domain youre using.
This is phenomenal to hear (import process ease). Can’t wait for them to support multiple labels.