skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In this context, we did get the sprintf output - it was the chat functionality of a video game and that's how I knew anything was amiss.
No, because really 'cryptocurrencies industry' is a misunderstanding.

Finance is something everybody uses. Blockchain/cryptocurrency gives you a whole next level of being able to do it.

And blockchain/cryptocurrency is about administrative efforts much more than it is about finance. Finance is just a very delicious application in a world that only gets hard for money.
> forgettable failures like Water World?

I don't think anyone who was around in the 90s will forget Waterworld, just not for the reasons the studio wanted!
Many times. For one building stuff is fun, running it often is not and while you are building it you get a much better picture of what it will take to run something once it is finished (aka: think before you leap).

Other reasons are that I realized something had already been done but much better even though my initial research didn't turn it up and finally because I could not get something to work at a level high enough to be exposed for public consumption.
Well sure, cars break after all, and many people will find they need to replace their car instead of living without one.

If I buy a washing machine for $600, and it breaks after 5 years, I can consider that machine to have cost me $120 a year, even if I never sell it.
What you're saying is definitely appropriate for finance. In general I find Kalman filters a little suspect where the underlying dynamics of the system can change over time, and when the physical process that gives rise to the dynamics isn't known.
> heapsort (84x slower) […] I can't find an obvious contender for the sorting.

Use the built-in sort instead of hand-rolling your own? The built-in sort is not a heapsort and though I don't know what it was before the 2.3 "timsort" implementation, the essay mentions Python 2.7 so I would assume it's not talking about the old built-in sort either.
A new, financed car is approaching $500/mo in payments, insurance, and petrol. The price of a well equipped Camry is over $30k. And dealers are turning to more exotic financing terms to keep people buying; 6 and 7 year financing is becoming more common just to keep the payments down.

Owning a car is becoming a major, but necessary, liability for those that don’t have mass transit.
Zuckerberg hearing with European Parliament will be live streamed
Dear SF Bubble, meet the rest of America.
'In a roundabout way Google are more like Pinterest than you think. Both utilising other people’s content.'

True, which makes me wonder why Google don't just add a bit of Pinterest-style functionality and then start applying search quality guidelines against Pinterest?

I know there are copyright issues but I expect Google would do a better job of linking to the original source - something Pinterest seem unable to do at all?
> - you want to integrate new members in your team faster. Python is easier to learn than lisp.

Heh, I listed Python in my resume and got this as my first job (after working at my local college) and I learned it on the job (I had used Python before, but nothing major yet) and I gotta say, not only is it easy to pick up if you know other languages, it's fun to experiment with if you do know other languages!

I have only played with Clojure and Racket the most on the other hand, I appreciate them and would love to learn more but I get more done with Python in shorter spans of time.
They should change the model to only sell the tickets at or after the listed start time of the movie. That way all the tickets sold are all profit since those tickets probably wouldn't have been sold anyway.
So many upvotes, just 1 comment?
This was crowdsourcing before it had a name.
The Exascale Computing Race Isn’t About Bragging Rights – Cray Blog
U-turn over Facebook chief's EU meeting
I wouldn’t make that assumption. Any content aware service will flag that content.
Raq's new 'Kingmaker?' Nationalist, anti-American cleric scores big
If you want a Linux shell there's Termux, you can use vim, compilers, python, etc.
Google Scholar is something like that, though there is no easy API that I'm aware of that would allow you to build applications on top of the index.
No. Ironically, this is opt-out, not opt-in.

That is, you (as recovery email holder) would need click the link ONLY if you want to unlink. The URL is in the footer of the email and it is easy to miss.
Mexico’s take on the Cornish pasty
Trains run over pedestrians when pedestrians trespass onto the track.
Not familiar with Realm
If that excites you how about this: Sending data into space with an omnidirectional antenna will sooner or later return the signal back to earth. That would be pretty long term storage and the access times would be horrible but it's an interesting idea. Hm, someone should do this with that scientific papers archive :)
Polysemy Embeddings, Semi Adversarial Networks, ULMFiT, Color Naming,
And in fact, during the dot-com bubble, contagion went even further because a lot of those startups were also buying all kinds of Sun servers, EMC disk arrays, Cisco networking gear and so forth.

The hopeful part here is that a mass weeding out of these companies with no business models at this point would obviously have an impact on those getting free movie tickets and taxi rides today, as well as the relatively modest number of people working for those companies and their associated suppliers. But, at least on the surface, it's not clear how many people outside of the mostly Silicon Valley startup scene would even notice if the bubble popped.
Just a reminder that a guy was locked out of his Amazon services, plus $140,000 of cash and inventory from his shipping business, because he changed the name of the profile on his Kindle Fire to "baba". He was stuck in autoreply hell and wasn't able to get resolution until he made a huge stink on social media as is happening here.

https://www.reddit.com/r/amazon/comments/5gvgdl/using_a_amaz...
What are your sources please?
Because they don't consider the total costs and $300 a month is "affordable" or whatever.
https://github.com/necolas/react-native-web
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After thousands of pre-orders, 3D audio headphones startup Ossic disappears
What’s Worse: Unwanted Mutations or Unwanted Humans?
Google reviews have orders of magnitute higher counts compared to yelp throughout Europe and likely elsewhere outside the US.
Skype, Interrupted
I've switched from scheduled noise to scheduled light and it works very well. I'm in the process of building a bigger version with DMX controlled stage lights so I can actually feel the warmth of the simulated sun :-)

Edit: Obviously if the light wasn't effective there will be an acoustic signal at some point. Wouldn't want to get sunburn.
It's more like, "Work or Else". The homeless are the example for those who don't have a better motivation.
This analysis looks amazing. We’re currently a two car household with one of the vehicles being a little older and slowly starting to lose some reliability. Before rideshares it would be pretty important to go out and find a newer, more reliable vehicle so I could ensure I make it to work. This winter after the car sat for a few weeks it wouldn’t start. Rather than spend 30 min messing with it and being late for work I simply hopped in an Uber. When this vehicle does meet its eventual demise I will likely advocate for becoming a single car household.

The biggest hurdle ridesharing has in replacing vehicle ownership though is the one off scenarios where having a vehicle is just so valuable in terms of time and cost. We’re in the middle of remodeling our bathroom. We did plenty of planning and sorted out all of the materials and tools we would need and made a giant list. I went to Home Depot and bought just about everything in one trip and loaded it in a truck and drove it home.

As the project has progressed though, there are constantly times where I find I need a tool, or need a different fitting for the plumbing, etc. I just hop in the car and head over to Home Depot quick and grab it. Uber would cost me about $15 round trip for each one of those visits. I haven’t gathered the receipts yet to track how many visits I’ve made but I imagine it would add up pretty considerably. This is just one example. As an expecting father I can only imagine how much of a nightmare loading a car seat in an Uber would be.

I love having the option of a ride share, and I think its fantastic for the opportunity it provides those who many not have access to a car for various reasons. However, I’m not sure ridesharing will ever reach the point of being able to completely replace car ownership for the average American household. I’m confident we’ll hang on to at least one vehicle for the forseable future.
> 150k of loans to an engineer is a sound investment for the investor.

Not really even that. Try to get an un-secured loan for 150k and see how happy the bankers would be without government backing to hand it to you and what the rates would be. You need a heck of an income to support such a loan, or mortgage-like duration. Even for 10 years, at 6% - which is very good for an unsecured loan, that's what secondary secured loans charge now, if you're lucky - it's $1660/month. On top of your other expenses, like mortgage or rent. And 10 years is a long time, what if the debtor changes her mind or something happens to her? Now add to that the fact that it's not even know if the debtor is going to actually finish the degree...
"You are holding your paycheck wrong"
Re-reading the story, it seems to me they had a manual solution, linking personally made Google email accounts to serve as a corporate email (rather than using GSuite), which is probably why all the accounts were seen by
the automated banning system as all owned by the reddit OP.

If they actually got GSuite they might have had a semblance of support. Still a crap response from Google as usual.
Semicolon also appears in other places in erlang (like guards) where it similarly means “choice”. It’s a consistent use of the symbol throughout.
The Year on the Net (1996)
Vim can be compiled as different versions, the bigger the version the more
features it will have. I know that its described in Vims manual but I can't
find it right now. Tiny versions don't include some useful features like
visual mode and tabs. My guess is that vim.tiny is made to be a drop-in
replacement for the old vi.
Not just enterprise.

Mainstream uses for .NET are windows desktop software (WPF & XAML are the best GUI toolkits for the platform), videogames (Unity3D is quite popular), cross platform mobile development (Xamarin).

Now when .NET Core supports ARM Linux, it also works well for some embedded applications, but I don’t know whether somewhere except me does that.
We use indexeddb, which is generally okay, but you're right, the DB size can vary across browsers (I think some limit to 10mb, and others to half the HDD). For our use case, it was good enough. Our strategy is to try and cache things offline, but if indexeddb fails to store the data, we attempt to fetch from the server. As the saying goes, cache invalidation is hard, but that's true regardless of the platform.
Books to Help You Breakthrough
Wow. Well this just keeps getting better.

No wonder Google don't want to discuss their suspension practices - just another form of '(in)security through obscurity'.

If the hearsay is correct then this appears to be a hole the size of a galaxy!
Nanoparticles derived from tea leaves destroy lung cancer cells
Cytolog online
5 Unbelievable Lies About Time Management
The track was already there. $50mm/mi is just new stations, trains, and signaling.
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GIMP 2.10.2 Released with HEIF Image Format Support – Phoronix
I’ve noticed that many of my friends simply accept that leasing for $200-400/mo in perpetuity is simply easier than dealing with a car that begins to become unreliable. Humans are weird in that spending $1,500 on car repairs one time in 24 months just seems way more jarring than spending $300/mo but spending $0 on repairs.
> only if it is not too late. 'Don't be evil' was removed from the code of conduct's preface in 2018.

That is technically true but leaves the wrong impression. The code of conduct got reworded, leaving "Don't be evil" in a single prominent mention at the very end.

"Removed" is only accurate for the preface; for the whole document, "deemphasized" is more correct (and that's only because many people don't read to the end where they'd now be left with "don't be evil" visible after doing so).
Would have to be something exotic like quantum computers.
One thing I don't understand here why somebody needs to switch to Python and forget other languages? Sometimes I too hack something fast with Python, but still write lots of Rust and Clojure. Then if I need Python, it is very easy to just write some and get things done.
Depends how it's run. Look at crossrail, on time, on budget[0]

Sadly those that pay for crossrail are the workers who pay marginal tax rates of 45%, 55%, even higher than 70% in some cases, on the money their employer spends on them.

Those that benefit are the non-workers, who pay very little in tax (unearned income is taxed far less than earned income), and benfit from £5.5b increase in land value [1] from their monopolization of a common asset.

[0] https://www.civilserviceworld.com/articles/feature/crossrail...
[1] http://www.crossrail.co.uk/news/articles/crossrail-predicted...
Car maintenance requires the most expensive thing of all, time. Plus tools, plus experience. Once you take apart something on your car, if you can't get it back together, you're out of luck.

You also have to be physically strong and able to get to lug nuts and other rusted connections loose. I highly doubt most women can take tires off and lift them and put them back on, especially for SUV.

I think oil and air filter changes can be done by most though, especially if they get a fumoto valve. I would hesitate to recommend brake jobs for most people though.
There is nothing long term about these contracts. Movie studios can change the deal at any time and theaters have almost zero leverage.
If you don't buy BMW M3, then Uber won't save you 700/month. Figures look viable only because Vehicle expenses were $11,783 per year. ~The 2008 BMW M3 was depreciating in resale value $8,333 per year. ~
Big tech products are mostly useless
It not exactly new that Google has zero customer support and not the first (and for sure not the last) horror story about automatic bans on Google services. If anyone treats Google accounts in any way as permanent or reliable - "this" may happen to you too. It may even happen will no fault at all from your side - e.g. someone would have a linked youtube account and bigcorp will take it down for a copyright on a white noise video and then whole linked account structure will crumple down like house of cards. Or any of the thousands alternative reasons.
>Zagat had enormous grade inflation.

Yes, but so does pretty much every rating system of this type. Most 3-star items on Amazon aren't very good. [1]

Back when they used a 30 point system, I found that anything above 21 or so on Zagat was almost always pretty decent. Yelp seems to be around 4-star+ with less consistency.

[1] https://xkcd.com/1098/
If it prompts you to set it, it means your browser is Already logged in in some tab (Auth cookie set). That is Bad idea.

Login only when necessary and Always use private browser windows and tabs, it kills all sorts of cookies/storages.
I've been doing that for years. Unfortunately, there's a fly in the ointment that seems to have been triggered by moving to a different virtual host on the same provider. AT&T has my new IP address on its own private RBL for some reason, even though a multi-RBL check at mail-abuse.org shows zero hits. SPF+DKIM apparently isn't good enough for them.

I have no problems sending mail to people on Comcast, Yahoo, GMail, or anywhere else - just AT&T domains.

I don't send out large volumes of email, nobody else is abusing my server, and attempts to resolve this go nowhere.
Ask HN: Which distributed database solutions would you suggest?
Hi guys,

One of my project, started in 2013 has grown beyond the point of self-healing. It was cool active-active sync on the webapp (behind HAProxy) and one high-spec'd DB Server (both web servers would connect to this db server). Current DB size is ~145GB (Based on backup, actual size might be more) and its postgresql (upgraded to 10).

Now the problem is that the database has grown beyond the point of ease. The constant need to start services, stop long executing queries (easily takes upwards of 20s for simple search). Higher ups have asked to look for Distributed solutions ( I am strongly against NOSQL while management is strongly against paid solution but they might give in after I tinker with some sort of trails / open source versions). I am looking for guidance from you guys as are you using any distributed database in production (with the library available in php for connecting and stuff obviously).

I have tried installing cassandra (after which I am strongly against NOSQL) and citusDB which has some very serious limitations on the community edition (their open source offering) and also in general. Some more searching results in Postgres BDR, Cockroach DB, TimescaleDB (but this doesnt partition on NON-TIME columns).

My requirement is:

* to have a distributed database solution in place which is horizontally scalable.

* Easy to add nodes, remove nodes without any downtime (sure I can accomodate some write-locks for setup)
* Have the ability to tweat replication factor. Ideally I would love to have replication = number of nodes i.e. each node has complete database. So that when there are simple queries, it doesnt have to do distributed queries (which make system slow) and when the query is a bit complex, it does distributed since data is available in each node.

* Best case: Some GIS based plugin / extension on the solution would be icing on the cake.

* SQL compatible, so that least of the application rewrite is required.

Please help ..
Everytime an Amiga post comes up I get such a wave of nostalgia :o)
I think that's a bit uncharitable. There's a far more rational reason which is that many people don't have all the money to pay upfront and finance makes it manageable and predictable.

In terms of lease options, if all the maintenance / repairs are covered then, again, it kinda makes sense, right? You're effectively paying a bit more each month, but you know what you're in for and there's no chance of a massive unknown catastrophic failure breaking the bank.

It's all well and good saying that car maintenance isn't scary, but as the owner of car that's started smoking — it's not much fun taking it to 5 mechanics, all of whom haven't managed to diagnose the issue.

It's the same reason people have insurance.
Linux 4.17-rc6 Kernel Released as Another “Fairly Calm” Release – Phoronix
Introduction to Patent Thinking
BASIC, surely? (-:
The same Amazon who have had publicity for shutting down your entire account, along with associated services, if you have the "wrong" profile of returns?

Sure I know some will abuse returns policies, just as some buy an outfit in the high street, go out, and return it after the weekend. With the amount of defective by design, counterfeit and plain iffy product in Amazon's co-mingled marketplace inventory I expect there's been false positives just by being unlucky in product choices.
(2000) Sadly there is no date at all in the article.
Ask HN: How do I stop my neighbour flying their drone over my house?
My neighbour must have recently purchased a drone, and they fly over my garden and house relatively regularly.

It is difficult to find exactly which neighbour it is that has the drone, as I live in a relatively built up area. The drone is a DJI phantom, and has a camera attached.

Should I leave a sign in big litters on my lawn saying "please do not fly your drone here"

Or do I contact the police?
Just 1.1% of Elsevier items are cited on Wikipedia: https://mobile.twitter.com/rmounce/status/994923093901676545

(Data here: https://github.com/rossmounce/DOIs-in-Wikipedias/blob/master... )
You get an upvote for the sheer audacity of this project. Hope you make good progress, good luck.
Not necessarily. It could be NeoVIM. (-:
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I don't think we agree on definitions of terms here. For me type erasure means that the programmer cannot access a runtime representation of a type. A "runtime representation" is what I mean by "reified", as from the programming language theory perspective types only exist at compile time (and it is values that exist at runtime).

Type erasure, as I use the term, is compatible with type specific optimisation. For example, the MLton compiler for Standard ML supports monomorphisation of polymorphic code, which in turn allows unboxing: http://mlton.org/Monomorphise The compiler is free to use whatever representation it likes, which includes a reified representation for use in, say, dynamic linking, so long as it doesn't break the language semantics (by exposing this to the programmer, for instance).
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This is true, but the some of the same factors that facilitate WFH can also facilitate those companies locating their offices in suburbs or in large towns/small cities.
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People are questioning the current publishing systems and trying to promote alternative means of publication. Unfortunately, it's not so simple as being able to blame a single actor: https://medium.com/flockademic/the-vicious-cycle-of-scholarl...
The state bill to fund and build a HSR has passed in senate and referendum multiple times. And each time the governor has vetoed it.
Impression is still right.

While your clarification is technically correct :D, I was talking about the Trend of moving it to less prominent places over time.
They recently started to notify the other email, they wouldn't stop emailing me to verify on my new recovery email after I added it in.
At 50k ft this sounds great. On the other hand, is the $10 fare sustainable? At what point will, fare reflect cost? Will, in time, taxpayers - local and national - be called upon to subsidize and/or bail this effort out?

I hope it work. But I can't help being a bit cynical.

p.s. I hope this train floats because it won't be long before Miami is treading (climate change) water.
I wouldn't state "voluntary" too strongly: https://medium.com/flockademic/the-ridiculous-number-that-ca...

Sure, I can offer you the choice between death or a slap in the face, but if you'd choose the slap in the face, I wouldn't say you voluntarily asked for the slap in the face...
Goodbye Green Lock on Web Addresses
Regular Sci-Hub allows you to search: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci-Hub
I'm still surprised there's no better alternatives to Nextcloud out there yet.
It's just five 3.5'' HDDs (12TB ones), which would amount to about $2,000 or a little more.
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Yes it is a special case of Bayesian inference under the assumptions that the system is linear and that the priors and likelihoods are Gaussian.