skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Someone published a pdf of scans they found from an abandoned Russian numbers station. It mostly appears to be filled with procedural notes.

Really wish there was a follow up. https://amp.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/10rkhh/i_have_visited...
I think we can all agree that if the costs of high-speed transit were low enough to support hubs in every city city with spokes going to all nearby suburbs, all sorts of problems would be solved.
Well I think that ship has already sailed, Timsort is used in Java on Android and Python, so it's already seen massive adoption.
> Timsort is a sorting algorithm that is efficient for real-world data and not created in an academic laboratory.

It's always a bit sad to see academia as an ivory tower where researchers generate unusable knowledge. Academia is not only about finding theoretical pure solutions but often also about finding solutions to real-world problems. For instance, machine learning, logic design, networking algorithms, cryptography, all deeply depend on work done in academia (and not just “theoretical” work).
I have been on exactly the same journey!
People who take part in organized religion are probably have a more authoritarian personality.
Ajin: Demi Human Film Izle (2017) Tek Part HD
5 centimeters per second:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0983213/

Visually stunning,leaves me with profound thoughts of fate,missed opportunities and connections between humans.

Your name is similar as well: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5311514/?ref_=tt_rec_tt
Thanks. Now I look again fdroid says development version, it's play store where it's referred to as nightly.
The rich world needs cheaper housing. Fix that and the average family can allocate more resources to other things like health and education instead of diverting more resources to rent seekers.
Be aware that the conclusion is not rock solid:

So maybe the Maya children are more attentive in the origami/toy experiment — not because they have better attention spans — but because they are more motivated to pay attention. Their parents have somehow motivated them to pay attention even without being told.

They say maybe... I can think of other reasons why Maya children seem to be more interested in anything happening in a western lab, than western kids. I don’t know the details because I haven’t read the original paper, but reading the article I’m not sure this effect has been ruled out.
> this sort of thing ... gets shut down quickly today

That seems to confirm my belief that if that was the idea behind it, the attribute "dubious" is anachronistic, i.e. appearing to be so only when observed out of the context of that time, as if it would happen now.
Tex Yoda: https://www.massdrop.com/buy/tex-yoda

Also, the Ultimate Hacking Keyboard has a couple of addon modules for trackpoints and trackballs: https://ultimatehackingkeyboard.com/
Firefox is reasonably performant on iOS.
Why My 11-Year Old Stopped Coding Then Switched to Python
Who said Deep State? Are you using the terms actual usage? i.e. Unelected career bureaucrat? Or, are you using the colloquial definition meaning a conspiring group of unelected career bureaucrats attempting to resist change in the federal government?
Would you care to elaborate? Is there something specific you see in this project that caught your eye? One thing I noticed is the use of ligatures, which is becoming increasingly common as editors embrace Unicode more fully, but that's an editor/presentation feature, not something specific to the language. For example:

-> →
=> ⇒
>= ≥

I've seen an increasing number of people trying out Fira Code, which includes a nice set of such ligatures:

https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode
Ok, but in the Mayan method, the kids figure out for themselves what needs to be done, so you rarely have to do even step 1. The fact that you don't seem to have gotten that makes me think you didn't actually read the article.
The harmful social pressure to drink alcohol is no excuse to introduce new social pressures to consume other drugs. On the contrary, it serves as a good example of why that shouldn't be done.
I'm not sure. My bet is that it involves minimizing suffering and satisfying preferences.
GDB has all sorts of super powers but is there a GUI that works well with GDB?
I assume he means sort/gsort, from the coreutils.
If you are indenting too much, there is probably a better way of designing your code. (I mean that, i'm not trying to be rude)
What do you read instead?
You are right! Silly me.
> Says who?

I just did.

> China's great firewall will disagree with that statement

Not really. The firewall isn't really stopping anyone. The reason Chinese people are unconvinced about the west isn't because they don't know about it. It isn't North Korea. It is because China is providing their own narrative. They have their own culture, services, infrastructure and increasingly opportunities. Sure, part of that dampening other narratives. But they are ultimately succeeding because they are making progress themselves.

> Not if you safeguard your secrets

How are you going to safeguard your secrets when, not only is it increasingly hard, but the utility of information is often also only as great as the amount of people knowing about it? A significant part of the industry (in the west) is foreigners to begin with.

> plus their own crashing economy will stop the catching up part

People have been saying that for years. Maybe it will happen. But there is also nothing saying half of the western technology industry won't go down with a recession and subsequent housing market crash in San Francisco, Stockholm, London etc.
I'd hope people using it wouldn't have chosen it unless they had measured performance -- doubly so if the switched to it from something else.

On the other hand, common third-party benchmarks may not be useful for measuring these sorts of improvements, which take advantage of common input distribution biases. "Real world workloads" is really too much of a simplification -- people sort all shapes and sizes of data.

When JS engines started getting fast(er), every engine made their own preferred benchmark because they said existing ones didn't adequately show the real-world gains their engines were providing.

We shouldn't be reflexively cynical about that. If they have made good-faith measurements, it is likely that old benchmarks were "unrepresentstive" in some way. Again, "real world benchmarking" is hard, and that applies just as much to yesterday's benchmarks as today's.
Oh right, nice. They sound incredible.
Native Floridan here. Close but untrue. Highest point is 345 feet ASL[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugarloaf_Mountain_(Florida)
Tesla hits Model 3 manufacturing milestone, hours after deadline
Anecdote: in Belgium, everything changed after the Marc Dutroux case. Teenage girl friends of mine who worked summer jobs as youth camp workers told me they were anxious to bear children in arms or being seen too close to them. Same reasoning with letting children walking alone to school.
I'm aware of the fact that you don't use floating point math for finance -- for exactly the reason you described -- but the academic in me wonders if you could formally specify a high-enough degree of precision -- and all the corner cases -- to allow FP math for even just a subset of transactions. This would (in theory) allow to programmers to bypass the Decimal classes in your favorite OO language (or GMP if you're a C fan).

Again, purely an academic inquiry :-)
That means they are managing cash flows and taking high margin orders first, not running out of demand.

Further, I expect the number of people who can put down 1k and wait with no new car for a long time is but a small fraction of those who can buy without those substantial barriers.
Heh, that's almost exactly the privacy policy for my hobby website.
Did Satoshi Nakamoto Write This Book Excerpt?
I spent a day or two recently figuring out how to get the vim-airline (aka powerline) icons to work properly, going through pretty much every single font/theme option on Windows (even in the DOS prompt) and Linux. I added a dummies guide [0] to the Wiki.

For a Windows console user - it's worth noting that since they got 24-bit colours working in the console the work is now on-going to get the colours properly working in terminal Vim [1].

[0]: https://github.com/vim-airline/vim-airline/wiki/Dummies-Guid...

[1]: https://github.com/vim/vim/pull/2060
The second paragraph of the article starts "What is the flattest state?
Florida is the obvious answer, since its highest point is only 105m. above sea level, ..."

I grew up in Miami, at about 22ft elevation. The highest point in Miami-Dade is about twice that height above sea level.
> Nowhere have I said that if you see an error message you don't know how to program.

> making it approachable and stooping to the lowest common denominator.

> We agree errors are useful even if we disagree that Clojure's errors are bad.

I would assume that you disagree with the article then, in which case I can't make any other point to emphasize that
According to your derivation, the net force grows linearly with capacitor area. Alas, the external field of a plate capacitor with infinite area is exactly 0. You can look up the correct way to do a multipole expansion in any introductory EM textbook, or google up nice a exposition like [1].

What really matters here is that with the force on the charge falling off as a power of distance, even if you integrate force * displacement from the screen out to infinity (which you shouldn't do in a plasma, because [2]), you get a finite contribution which can be made arbitrarily small relative to the work done inside the capacitor, where the force is constant, simply by increasing the size of the capacitor.

[1] http://student.ndhu.edu.tw/~d9914102/Teaching/EM/Paper/data/...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric-field_screening
I suspect it depend on what purpose you are using the keyboard, and to a much larger degree to the amount of experience one has with one type of keyboard.

To make a analogy, a professional car racer is likely to have a strong opinion on the sound of the car engine, the behavior of the car and how much pressure is needed to turn the wheel. What would happen if you put a race driver in a car with noise cancellation so they can't hear anything, change the turning strength of the wheel so you need a fraction of the strength, and removed any "tactile feel" from the car (increased suspensions and so on). I would suspect that in the short time their racing ability would drastically drop, and possible long term. Hearing and feel are very core senses and gives ques to muscle memory, and it make some sense that cutting them off would likely harm performance in a competitive environment.

Personally I know that when I go and type on a membrane keyboard I tend to type with more mistakes, hammering the keys way too hard and have to look down more often at my hands. I suspect that 90% of that is down to muscle memory, but I am yet to be convinced that it is 100%.
I've never been past step 3 with my kids. A stern request will often invoke tears, but is usually effective. If not, I'll modify the environment, either by removing the thing that's the focus of the problem or by removing the child to another location. When my oldest was very young she used to unfurl the toilet paper in all the bathrooms, so we kept it on a shelf she couldn't reach. When she started potty training we put it back and the unfurling started happening again. Someone would always stop her pretty quickly, but it was frustrating having to be constantly vigilant. I understand how satisfying it must be to watch the paper fly off the roll at speed and pile up on the floor and after all, you only live once, so one day I made a deal with her: I'd let her unfurl an entire brand new roll all the way down to the cardboard and then we'd never do it again. After that the rolls lived happily ever after on their dispensers.

I'm also hyper conscious about the media they consume. The girl began consistently saying please and thank you after watching The Busy World of Richard Scarry and we never prompted her or even explicitly taught her those words.
Love this. This is a perfect win, win situation. Dogs are the best.
We talk about robots, drones, and AI but sometimes the best answer is right in front of us in the natural world.
I saw a drone video inside the tent, it looks mostly like service bays inside like you'd find at a small local car place that uses hand jacks. A mix of lift + non lift bays is common in any factory at the end of the line.

That fits with my analysis from a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17397505
Not necessarily a comedian, here's an existential absurdist comic along these lines that I read nearly 40 years ago you might enjoy: http://forbiddenplanet.blog/2014/nemo-nemo-nemo/ I remember visiting an art gallery of the original art for "Spice Of Death" around the same time period.
Ah yes, I forgot that running a company doing rocket science with ~5000 employees (as of late 2015) clearly proves no abilities in management or people skills whatsoever.
No. They timed DELIVERY. There are many reports of them holding assembled complete cars and sending stock to Canada.

Among other reports: https://electrek.co/2018/05/25/tesl-model-3-massive-shipment...
Is the implementation at the end of the article complete? I don't see anything that looks like the "galloping" behavior described just prior.
You can't. GP is completely misrepresenting everything about this situation: not a tent, not canvas, not scrap. Musk's tweet about scrap in a tent was very clearly a joke.
OpenShot 2.4.2 Released
Versions of GNU. Although it's rare to see this term being used in this context these days, "GNU" was invented as a name of an operating system.
Even when coding,splitting the IDE screen helps read the same code file better (each split screen showing a segment of the code). People split terminal screens using tmux and the like as well.

I think there is a solid argument for not consuming the entire column count of a screen,not sure if that's 80 though.
That's what has been reported, that they slowed or re-routed deliveries not production. https://electrek.co/2018/05/25/tesl-model-3-massive-shipment...
The employment rate covers point 1 and 3: it is simply the number of people in work divided by the working age population.

I think you might be confusing cyclical and structural unemployment with your first point. I think it is valid to talk about the two numbers separately as they deal with pretty different problems (labour market liquidity/efficiency versus skills shortages).

The employment rate is at an all time high in many countries.

As for point 2: employment in the black economy is usually not included in official employment figures; people who want to work more hours are classed as underemployed although data on this is not as comprehensive as for the other measures.

I do not think the definition of employment has changed much in the last decade. Do you have a source?
Arsenic in museums is huge mess. Really common before 1960-70 to treat things with arsenic to kill pests.
I used to study architecture, and about ten years ago (after drinking too much) decided to visit an architecturally famous but rough estate at night. (It was Robin Hood Gardens.) I walked around and the place was, most significantly, empty. I got hailed aggressively by some guys but a fast walk was enough to get out of there without being confronted.

There is danger, all right, but I think you would probably agree that it's not the obvious, conspicuous risks that lead to violent crime. It's the places that don't seem dangerous where it happens, because those are the places where victims are present and not focusing on their safety.
Cool paper. Having lived all over the US I’d say the paper matches my mind-map of which states “feel” flattest, and yeah I definitely have noticed how flat Florida is and don’t perceive Kansas to be the flattest place - but I’ve spent a lot of time in the eastern half of the state where it’s moderately hilly.

It’s fascinating that the paper is pointing out the negative stereotypes around flatness and implying these harm states that are perceived to be flat. I’d be interested to see that unpacked a bit more.
Wasn't that myth debunked since it essentially happened to only a bunch of guys in NY ?
You know, it is really interesting watching the Musk haters over the years.

The more he succeeds in doing what he promised (albeit usually behind schedule), the more they hate him, and the more convinced they become that his present projects will all turn out to be complete failures.

It almost makes you think they have some ulterior motive, like they work for the fossil fuel industry, of one of the other rocket launch companies, or a major auto manufacturer, or maybe they bet their life savings on Tesla stock crashing.

Any Musk haters out their want to respond? And if you do, be sure to tell us about your past predictions, and if they turned out right or wrong.
Yp, 42.5 cement was used for concrete and 3 hours later the forms were removed. It was around 30celcius outside and that helped but still, you can walk on that thing hour later
This is a case when the value and the complexity of the tools exceed, by far, those of the product.
Yes, gdb --tui ;-)
It probably refers to working equipment they replaced on the main production lines because they wanted something smaller/faster/shinier, but hadn't yet thrown out.
52 * 4750 * 35,000 = $8.6B in revenue.

You're quibbling over a rounding error.
Both are true, depending on the individual. One one end you'll find people who insist on thinking for themselves no matter their environment. On the other end of the scale you'll find people who never think, even when placed in an environment that encourages them to think. In the middle, were probably most people exist, you find the impressionable people. People who would think for themselves if the environment was conducive for it, but stop thinking for themselves when given the right encouragement. They drink coca cola because they see advertisements for it everywhere, but if those advertisements were banned they might choose to drink something else instead.

That's the way I see it anyway; one big gradient. I don't believe the world is so black or white that the entire population exists on one extreme or the other.
I listed "Deep State" as an example of a group that conspiracy theorists often blame for manipulative government activity. I would be thoroughly unsurprised if there were 10 common definitions of the term that were all ill-posed. Fortunately, the precise definition of "Deep State" has nothing whatsoever to do with my argument, so elaboration on the point is completely unnecessary.
Exactly. The Bentley thing would be just a badge, in fact now there is very little of their SUV being 'made in England', it is done in some Skoda factory somewhere.

But how much of a Tesla is Tesla? Don't large parts come from suppliers, e.g. all the seats from Lear corp? Or did they re-engineer those too?

I think the Ford F150 truck is the benchmark, in the U.S. there are 3000-4000 made a week. The price starts around the price of the Model 3 and then goes up and up with options.

Plus you get a lot of truck for that compared to a car, and due to the Chicken Tax there are incentives to buy the things.

Recently there was a fire in a supplier plant that affected the F150, with JIT they had to close the lines. But then they shipped the dies to England and restarted making the vital parts so production is back on. Really Musk should not be making promises if even the mighty Ford F150 truck can be brought to a production halt due to one fire in one supplier factory.

That story is quite interesting and right now there is a 747 flying those parts back from England to make sure Ford can keep on getting their $40 billion in revenue from selling that truck.

https://eu.freep.com/story/money/cars/2018/05/16/ford-launch...

I would be intrigued to know the numbers of vehicles per employee for the F150. Note how there is zero export potential for the F150 for a multitude of reasons whereas the Tesla products are definitely hot in international markets.
Because when one side of the table has access to information (especially such detailed and important data such as this) it shifts the negotiating advantage strongly in favor of the companies.
The only possible way that the billions of people in the Third World will ever have anything approaching a "good life" is by massive economic growth.
You were quite right that in the way Mozilla are using this, it's suited to speech to text, but running it locally is actually a reasonable way to record a single speaker set of data for use in TTS training.

That's exactly what I've been doing recently, and using it with https://github.com/r9y9/deepvoice3_pytorch/blob/master/READM... is providing reasonably good results - it definitely has my intonation (if somewhat crossed with a Dalek!!)
It's very hard to compare a hunter gatherer / traditional village society to the modern urban & educated society and have meaningful takeaways.

The crux of the matter is the requirement for responsibility. Rather than have this goofy teenagehood that runs from 13-25, forcing the matter of responsibility at an earlier age and accepting the failures is a critical difference.

Protecting children and ensuring they are not morally damaged runs exactly counter this reality. There's a good deal of cognitive dissonance and parental self-delusion going on here as well.

I have generally grown to have a dislike of child labor laws that prohibit or limit working after 14. It's doing a great disservice to the young adults who could be doing something constructive in character.

Same goes for chores: children should be doing a full set of chores in household rota as soon as they are physically able. Vacuuming, dishes, pet litter, etc.
The VS debugger can freeze threads too. Neither gdb nor VS can help AFAIK if the user doesn't want to freeze the other threads.
So when they do maintain this rate for the next few weeks, is that still within an inch of fraud?
I'm more interested in seeing how a bucket as big as 'english' turns out when you put all accents from around the world together. It would be another interesting project to separate them. I home they're at least saving the browser locale or GeoIP info to help categorize it.
Don't really like this measure of flatness. Measuring how flat a 90-m cell(square meters or 90m on a side not given in the abstract) is from the SRTM data set and then averaging this value over all the state's cells. Nevada, a state full of mountains(see US topo map[1]), is ranked #9 due to (I would guess) the presence of many flat dry lake beds (lakes with water are removed from the study for some reason not well stated). No wonder our intuition is wrong if the measurement used to calculate the value bad.

[1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/50/Uspainte...
> > > They timed production to maximize federal tax credits for US consumers.

This is what is confusing me: if the credits are timed to domestic sales (so international sales don’t affect the timing of the tax credit phase out) what does this have to do with production?
>I see Teslas everywhere now.

Meaning you live in one of 4 coastal cities. Teslas are exceedingly rare everywhere but the wealthiest cities.
I'm a slow trader -- a few trades a year. I like, or at least don't mind, HFT.

It certainly doesn't hurt liquidity. There is, in principle, always someone who wants to trade with me, and the increased volume may make price-discovery a little more accurate.

When I place a limit order, I don't mind at all if someone has managed to front-run my order and sell it to me at the price I set. I got the thing I wanted to buy at the price I wanted to pay.

HFT is only troublesome if you play with fire -- market orders. The price you see may not be the price you get with a market order, as the market can do irrational things or front-run you. That risk is blunted entirely by limit orders. Your order might not fill, but when it does fill, it will only fill at or better than the price you asked.