skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm speaking of Germany, but I think it is similar in other European countries. We consider a pharmacy to solely be a place to get medicine from, which is not allowed to be sold in other kinds of stores. They are usually located in smaller buildings where there is not much space to sell anything else (at least nothing big; most have some non-medicine but body-related products taking little space).

The "pharmacies" that are actually middle-sized grocery stores with a medicine counter used to baffle me a lot for the first times I was in the US. It felt really weird to go there not needing any medicine, just to buy drinks or food.
It is, takes about a weekend with two people. But it is compensated by renter's protection, so almost every lease in the Netherlands is permanent, even if the owner sells the house. Typically, people stay in a rental for quite a while.
It's not an alternative to PDF. It's an alternative to Kindle's MOBI. PDF is intended for printing, and ePUB with its XHTML and CSS has nothing that makes printing easy.
So you'd be able to find the best UX sites by looking for the ones with the highest number of takedowns.
There is a huge difference between the intent and the potential.

You can also have a benevolent dictator. But if you avoid the dictator all together, you remove the incertainty.

With orher signals like the brexit, porn censorship, and cctv every where, this is very disturbing.

But the most important signal is how the population accepts it.

It smells like a disaster in the making.
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I'm not defending nor using Azure, but what you described happened to me two years ago on AWS. VM shut down due to hardware failure and I got an email requiring manual intervention from my side (starting the VM).
Or refer to the community guideline:

Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

Which can be found here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I think this is an interesting question in light of the latest Tesla update that allows an owner to limit the top speed of the car remotely. What prevents the manufacturer from limiting the speed, or any other aspect of the car, remotely at any time? And is this control a good thing or a bad thing?
If you can use 'clickers' aka "classroom response systems", then you can make the lecture lively by having it focused around questions, which importantly provide you with proper data on misconceptions in the students' minds. If the correction of such errors is key, making them visible will allow to you attack the most salient points: those errors widely shared. As a bonus, it provides the student with something to do, increasing their attention.
It's great that you are also giving the material in advance.
The biggest barrier for privacy is not a technical one. It's that most people don't care. We see outrages in a few intellectual or tech saavy niches, like hn, but the average joe has many, many, other priorities before this.
Equally legendary, often deadly, and also absolutely wouldn't even be considered if someone proposed it today.

And the Nürburgring has various safety features. The Mountain Circuit has basically nothing, just a road.
Chargebacks protect buyers from dishonest sellers?
That is also exactly it's strengh. Though epub3 now also allow to enforce paged content intended for comic books.
HomeworkApp: a server-sided application for pupils and students
"Hello world",
that is the first thing you see when starting a new android studio project.
Nearly one year ago I came up with an incredible idea. I wanted to create something for pupils and students that never lets them forget their tasks and homework.
From the layout to the colors, everything was designed with love!
I would be really grateful if you checked it out on Google Play! https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dtme.hausaufgaben
Well USA have had at least one foreign national extradited for having a webpage with links to what was later deemed to be unlicensed content.

So, such things are clearly on a par with terrorism or murder -- I'm sure they'll be arresting Google execs forthwith. /s
This is such a fantastic question, and I applaud you for improving your craft like this.

Hands-on material is the most unique thing that you can show them. Show them things that a textbook won't. Show them what it's like to tinker and experiment, poke and prod your way towards a solution.
>> criticism that is at once overheated, ill-informed and entirely justified

The article is pretty good, and relatively sensible - and I think there are occasionally attempts by accounting bodies to do the sensible thing and only recognise revenue when it actually arrives - but usually that means that the current profits would get restated for everyone and ... that would look bad.
I can appreciate how you feel, but the winner writes history. Out of curiosity, what was the name of the tech accelerator that you're referring to?
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In Austria we have a whole metro line which smells like vomit in the hot summer months - it's also the metro line which connects the most important tourist sites. So tourist get a very special smell of Vienna.

The reason is organic glue used in the 70ies during construction to harden the ground. So the smell is "baked in" the structure of the whole metrotunnel.

http://homepage.univie.ac.at/horst.prillinger/ubahn/deutsch/... (German)
Hello!
Ich checked it out on the Google Play Store. I really like the design. Modern and clean!
I am not sure about the Quick Fix thing in Cursive. Care to elaborate?
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Slay the Spire does a great job of fusing roguelike and deck building game
Please no--clickers classes generally suck and distract from subtlety and overarching insights. Lectures without them in my experience have been vastly better designed.
At any point in life, people spend their time in 25 places
> If building service to sparse areas is a concern, the government could step in to do it.

This even happened in the past with wired phone service in some rural parts of Northern California. It worked just fine, with anecdotally better service and prices than the monopolies (AT&T or GTE).
Working with 189MB JSON document
Meanwhile the multitudes reiterate the “crypto is dead” mantra until next year.
It depends on the kitchen size and your expectations. Your price range describes kitchens that we would never buy for a rental apartment, but only for a self-owned one or a house you bought. The more typical kitchens in rental apartments cost between 1000-6000€, and take one or two days to build up (for a professional, although a lot of people do large parts of the work themselves or have talented friends do it, so it takes a little longer but is cheaper).

Many times people also bring their old appliances from their old kitchens with them, so they only need to buy the cabinets and stuff.

It still is one of the big pain points in moving: what happens with the old kitchen, and where do I get a new one from?
Reddit folks are worried, for example: https://www.reddit.com/r/PFSENSE/comments/7398pa/absolutely_...

Btw, OPNsense is using BSD 2-Clause "Simplified" license. The "permissive", non-copyleft one, same as FreeBSD uses, not psSense's Apache 2.0.
Understanding GPU context rolls
> Its either Youtube, Streams or Netflix now from here on in

What makes you think the medium has stopped developing? It's quite likely that something else will be invented that will be superior to any of those, and that will make you wonder why you ever put up with them.
It’s actually fire safety code in Finland that doors have to open outwards. It should be easier to evacuate the building in case of a panic.

You might still find old buildings where this is not true and they probably just predate the regulation.
The backlash he experienced might be due to the style in which he introduces his interesting work.

While not quite obvious, he could be seen as adverserial by labelling hierachical structured proofs as "proofs of the 21st century" and the ones other mathematicians use as "17th century proofs".

Promoting them as a thorough way to write proofs with additional advantage for the reader to adjust the level of detail of the explanation to their respective level of knowledge might have been a way to get people involved. He's even asking for feedback [1], unfortunately only to denigrate the adressed people in the next sentence [2].

It reminds a bit of Ignaz Semmelweis who managed to do good by reducing mortality of women in childbed by requiring desinfection before examinations but failed to spread the idea by being adverserial to his colleagues [3].

[1] "I am sure my way of writing proofs can be improved, and I encourage mathematicians to improve it", How to Write a 21st Century Proof, p. 5

[2] "They will not do it by remaining stuck in the 17th century.", How to Write a 21st Century Proof, p. 5

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignaz_Semmelweis
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There's firebird which can be used as embedded sql db. It supports foreign keys. No idea about type safety though.
i don't think you can discuss only one direction (theory > practise). i went back to academia after several years working in the industry. i would conclude practical experience allows you to gain a deeper understanding of theoretical knowledge, also if it comes to teaching. As one can present better and more real world use cases. if you consider statistics, machine learning, etc this is absolutely the case. learning just formulas etc without real use cases is mostly a waste of time for a student. only with good examples this goes to long term memory and deep understanding...
I did not claim that cannabis doesn't have the ability to cause harm, nor would I. My point is only that drug abuse should be taken as a symptom of a deeper cause.
I'd settle for "It's your choice".
A place for companies to showcase their case studies and boost sales
Call me old school, but I actually prefer weekly release. Even for stuff that's already fully released I find watching it at a set pace is a more pleasant / affecting experience.
> Probably that high-energy physics isn't going to produce much new for a while

The discoveries of particle physics are not where the bulk of technology spin off comes from. Most of the particles that are generated don't last long, and are hard to generate. Most of the particles that have been discovered have had limited utility. If the particles aren't naturally generated (like in muon imaging detection) there isn't too much use for them.

So, you get things like muon tomography of the pyramids

https://www.nature.com/news/cosmic-ray-particles-reveal-secr...

But you don't generate the muons yourself. Similarly, understanding cosmic rays in the atmosphere requires you to have some understanding of the various decay products, but unless you're trying to do something really sensitive, you may not care.

University College London's put out a document talking about the technological benefits of high energy physics research

http://www.hep.ucl.ac.uk/~markl/pp2020/KnowledgeExchangeDocu...

And they basically break it down to "Accelerator Science and Technology", "Detector Research and Development", "Impact of Electronics and Readout Developed for Particle Physics", "Computing, Software and Analysis Techniques", and "Special Skills and Competencies". In short, nothing really to do with the actual discoveries themselves; it's the process of building tools to explore the high energy regimes that is useful to technology. Arguably, the same can be said about the theoretical side.

An (overly pragmatic) argument is: "If you can't detect any deviations from the Standard Model, then the Standard Model is sufficient for all forseeable technological applications."

And there's plenty of things to measure and discover within the Standard Model. It's not all about discovering new fundamental particles. There's actually producing hypothetical particles as well that are predicted by the standard model but have never been made. Like Glueballs for example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glueball

(Which, as the wikipedia article points out, has no actual applications :) )
I'd replace the whole thing with Slack :)
You bring up an important distinction. I'd like to coin a term: externality arbitrage.

Although an individual might be able to extract value, as you point out, the scale would be small.

A business, especially a VC-funded one, is much more likely to be able to scale this on a massive level, across many markets.
Incremental Reading[1] is a related tactic that coverts reading material into facts preserved via space repetition software.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incremental_reading
HTML is fine. The problem is when JS is necessary to even navigate. Printing doesn't work well on those. They also tend to not work well on flaky internet connections (4G hotspot) because they load slides lazily or something. So, if it's not too much trouble, please provide PDF as an option for slides.
Seems like a pretty good use case for cryptocurrency.
CJB2 from DjVuLibre has lossless mode and it's enabled by default.
I'll be forever annoyed at him for the incorrect answer here: http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1260/how-does-one-s...

(And yes, I emailed him but got no reply.)

The simple answer is yes, air pressure can push even something limp like spaghetti. And yes, if you increase the pressure the limp spaghetti will be forced in.

Think of a limp bag of water. If you push on the end it just buckles. But if you squeeze everywhere but one, water will come out of that spot.

But despite that, it's a great resource!

Anyone else remember imponderables (the books)?
Smart Kobold is non-euclidean, and a compelling play. Fidel is worth a look also.
>LessWrong might be "fringe" to the general public, but is quite mainstream to people who are actually concerned about the topic of rationality

No it isn't. It's not cited within any of the philosophical literature on rationality.

I missed that you were focusing on 'reasonable' in contrast to 'rational', though. Indeed, 'rational' is generally preferred in a philosophical context.
And I'd replace Slack with this thing. To each their own :).
SpankChain is a very sensible layer on top of Ethereum, allowing workers to bring their reputation and fanbase with them across services and avoid lock-in. This is exactly the kind of thing that makes sense to build on top of Ethereum.
Open Source Documentary on Net Neutrality (2007)
So all streamed content is illegal in EU? YouTube, Netflix, ...?

How is a user supposed to know, for all anyone visiting a website knows it's licensed.

Anything on Netflix might be unlicensed, I have no way to tell, same with any random site. If I can find it, that means a large media corp can, so surely one must assume if they didn't get it taken down (sites are blocked and taken down all the time, blocked at ISP level) then it must be OK with the large rights holders.

And of course we know that even stuff from MPAA can be copyright infringing. There's no way for users to establish if something is properly licensed because license are secret.
Weed was cool until The Man started wanting me to smoke it.
By the largest number of brands, sure (everything except Kindle?)

But certainly not by the largest number of devices. Kindle dwarfs everything.
Was it porn or cryptos?
I'll agree with you and the OP.

I think what the OP is trying to say here is that for example netflix just mass produces shows with the same people over and over again dropping the quality of its shows.
I'd say netflix has some good shows to watch, but the way its going and the way its producing shows I'd say most of netflix shows are garbage with only a few of them being nice to watch.
It may even be bumpier than the current standard for German public roads, which are generally of exceedingly high quality.

Most people know about the unrestricted sections of the autobahn, and it is certainly fun to flog a rental Opel Corsa with a 1.0L 3-cylinder engine to 160kph, while being overtaken like you were standing still by various Porsches and big BMW/Mercedes/Audis.

But the real fun is that the general speed limit is 100kph (62mph) off the autobahn and outside of towns, even for relatively small and curvy roads. Couple this with the generally very high standard of German roads, and you can have a hell of a lot of fun within the speed limit.

I'm in southern Germany at the moment, visiting my girlfriend's family. The winding roads in the Schwarzwald area are absolutely amazing to drive, even in the little Corsa we're renting. You have to really flog it in second gear to get any speed going uphill, but it is so damn rewarding. And you notice so many other people doing the same, in all kinds of cars and on motorbikes.

I know it's a bit of a cliché, but driving enjoyment really is part of the German mentality.
Or you know, Google could have emailed them, told them exactly that and waited for a response before pulling the plug on the servers.

While you make sense from Google's PoV, it doesn't from the customer's PoV. As google is a big corp, it's IMHO better to side with the customer here, as next time it might be you who's getting screwed over by Google/other corp.
Did they measure the effect of the regulation?
FYI, the timing in this comment is out. I actually submitted this post and made this comment yesterday, about 24 hours before it is suggesting. Apparently the post was put in the "second-chance pool" by HN and resubmitted. So, the deadline has passed now.

That said, it's still worth knowing about Rebble. Once their services go live, you will apparently just be able to click a link on your phone, and the Pebble app will be re-configured to talk to the Rebble servers.
Maybe part of an inside joke?
> Some people are apparently able to discern difference between high-street chains

Yes, I'm one of those people. Or at least I can tell McDonald's/non-McDonald's. I also can smell them from quite a long way away.

Once I spotted one while driving in a city in Spain, it was almost 1 km away but we found it by circling around it by smell. This was before smartphones, GPS and such, and before generalized air-conditioning in cars (which happened in Europe fairly recently) and pollen filters.

Indeed today when driving in a car I don't smell anything, and it's disturbing. One of the pleasures (not often discussed) of riding a motorcycle through the country is experience all the different smells of the outside world. (Of course you can always drive a car with open windows but it feels weird and if you're not alone in the car inevitably other passengers will complain).
What if ET is an AI?
Ask HN: Which supplements do you take?
Most of us are programmers or business geek. Some hardly get anytime to have a diet packed in all nutrients. So what are you doing?
It's probably best for civility's sake if he didn't. Would it really add much to the discussion if he did? I think it should suffice to say that the range of netflix content is far narrower than the ideological range of the general population.
We will queue for anything. However we won’t generally complain openly if someone jumps the line... just mutter under our breath.
Shouldn't that be job of a consumer protection body ?
Banks should not be in operating in law enforcement domain / be deciding what's right or wrong.

My understanding is most chargebacks are for fraudulent transactions, which were not authorized by the card owner.
kdb+ has a variant of SQL which is an evolution (not a revolution). The advances basically fall into three categories:

1. Shortcuts, such as "foreign key chasing" - i.e., if "a" int table x is a reference to field b in table y then "a.c" is "select c from x inner join y on (x.a=y.b)"; If you have a star schema, it cuts down queries and errors by 90% (and makes life simple for the optimizer). Of course, you can chase through as many tables as you wish in an expression, making item tables look a lot more like records.

2. Embracing order; The relational model has no ordering among tuples; SQL mostly pretends that's the case, but the order does emerge through "ORDER BY / TOP" and "ROWID" but not very usefully so. kdb+ embraces order and makes e.g. "first record that ..." very simple and intuitive (and also easier for the optimizer).

3. Embracing time series (not independent from embracing order) - when you have e.g. records with a "from .. to" validity range, it becomes exceedingly simple, as does "all records that are different from the previous one on this field".
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Honestly, the snarky comment was because I was exasperated by gizmo686's nitpick. He made a point that isn't very interesting, and moreover didn't contradict what I said, though it was phrased in a way that looked like it did.

I hate that kind of manipulation, and it got to me.

> and moreover is at odds with how mathematics actually works

Ah now there's something interesting. How exactly was it at odds with maths? I never said anything about how a theorem was true, or provable. Just proven. If you could tell me how that was at odds with how maths works, I'd most probably learn something.
Sadly there are not good enough DjVu readers. I use iOS 11.4
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Well that's more of a manual work than anything else, not optimal in term of speed.
Trying to keep following mailing lists diagonally, keep contact with other people in the niche.
It eventually leads me to some other new site, mailing lists, blogs, videos. Then i use a bunch of scripts to maintain a todo list, and i'm processing (keep & index/drop) them when the time comes, and it loops.

TBH, i mostly do all of that just because i don't want to be stuck deeper in the Google web, but that's more of a philisophical issue. I could easily live without all the DDG stuff, but not (yet) without all the Google stuff.
I agree. I mostly stay away from the Netflix-made show, as it takes 13 episodes to discover there really was no plot to the show.
Disallow: /
For everyone saying the prisoner can just expect to be hanged every day and thus never be surprised.... Why do you say that? What reason, on Monday, does he have to believe that he would be executed on Monday and not the other days? He can say the words, but I'm not convinced he would be convinced.
Historically, there was always a limit to how big a paper could be to make it into a journal. Papers that aren't meant to make it into a journal are often way bigger.
> they can exercise that monopoly to transfer funds from the more profitable routes to the less/not profitable routes.

As pointed out in a different sub-thread, using monopoly power to effect this transfer can be detrimental to consumers.

The more traditional wealth transfer power of governments is taxation, which seems like a more straightforward method.
Not really, actually we understand pretty well electromagnetism, electrodynamics, plasma physics and numerical methods for those. We can simulate these things, so there's no need to reinvent the wheel going full Faraday at the 21st century. A few trained physicists on Earth would do, yet people get so excited wilfully ignoring all this.
Cleaning the data, choosing the right ML algorithm, selecting the features, tuning the parameters, etc. ML also involves a lot of human time thinking to the problem.
It won't be long before we're seeing "This bud's for you."[0]

0) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-13/budweiser...
They don't. See article 11: "If the purposes for which a controller processes personal data do not or do no longer require the identification of a data subject by the controller, the controller shall not be obliged to maintain, acquire or process additional information in order to identify the data subject for the sole purpose of complying with this Regulation."