skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
you're missing my point: it's a throwaway greeting whenever it is used (between friends in russia or between strangers in the us) so there's nothing "grotesque" about it nor should there be anything confusing about it once you understand the purpose. it's simply a greeting and not actually a question. many times people in america don't actually even answer the question. completely equivalent to здраствуйте or добро пожаловать or whatever.
Is this appropriate as a Show HN?
I assume not everyone who wants to see how this works wants to actually (irrevocably) delete their account.
Sample bias.
On linux you can get nanosecond timestamps, and so could record them. This could be useful for capturing certain events. Is that what is meant? IIRC Windows XP didn't support resolving timestamps smaller than 8ms but we've moved beyond this.
This ranks upon the most socially responsible acts Facebook has performed.

Does anyone have a handle on the intention or anticipated benefits behind this move?
Does it delete shadow profiles as well or just information gleaned from the account itself?
Might as well add additional metadata in headers as well. Anything to make filtering easier.
I already deleted my Facebook account a month or so ago. I'd like to read the post to see if it's retroactive...but I can't read it without logging in to Facebook.

Sigh. Will Facebook ever learn?
> the other side of the road

That seems rather limiting. Here in Copenhagen, I don't know any GB/AU/NZ/etc people who can ride a bike but choose not to. I cycled from the airport to the city centre on my first day here...

It perhaps helps that I'm from SE England, so about once a year my dad would drive the car to (or through) France without a fuss.

Helsinki looks very green, I must plan a visit.
Did you use gcc or clang or...?

When I ran this locally I get:

0x7ffeee2a4808 0x7ffeee2a4810 0
0x7ffeee2a4808 0x7ffeee2a4810 0

With -O0 I get 1/1 instead of 0/0 so this appears to be a compiler optimization.
Dementia is essentially a phenotype rather than a specific pathophysiology. (I know someone who died of a non-Alzheimer's form of dementia, specifically vascular dementia). I don't know what the exact definition of Alzheimer's is, but I believe it's based primarily on the neurodegeneration of the cerebral cortex rather than the definitive presence of amyloid buildup.
It is a security reason. Imagine you have your computer not lock and someone goes on that page. At least, the person won't have his/her account deleted. It's all fine because it's not an operation that is done repeatedly.
Show HN is for something the author has built that they think the community will be interested in. I think this fits.
AFAIK they have, I wonder if they're also donating.

BTW I've switched from plain Ardour to MixBus a few months ago, and I'm not sure why but it produces much better results for me.
I’m surprised this username hadn’t been used before.

Given it’s 4 minutes old color me skeptical
Is OP the real Mark Zuckerberg?
I'm going to assume you mean the computational complexity of working with such an expressive representation. If so, then that is correct. historically, working such an expressive representation blows out computationally. But, we've resolved that issue with our graph engine. that is, its been shown that algorithms take time proportional to N-cubed where N is the number of graphs in the knowledge base. with our graph engine, we encode graph structures and ontology in a Cognitive Signature, and we can find closely matching signatures in log(N) time. the log-time algorithms scale to the size of the web.
Ardour is an NLE(Non-linear editing) Audacity is not. Also, Ardour's plugins act in realtime. Ardour is used for recording and mixing music, film, and other things. Audacity is mainly an audio editing program.
You want to delete someone's account without logging in?
Ben Darnell of Tornado and Mike Bayer (aka zzzeek) of SQLAlchemy.
Understand that a lot of retail employees in the US are under orders to say "How are you?" -- and they're risking a "write-up" if they don't.

So, if the employee seems to mean well, I try to smile slightly and say "good".
I mentioned Novell in my essay and how its revenue declined quickly after they moved away from NetWare, including Client Access Licenses.
Yea. In the US agencies like the SEC and FTC and legal concepts such as "securities" and "accredited investors" were created to prevent exactly what's happening with crypto- people getting scammed, or overhyped on something they don't understand.

Except apparently, we have to relearn this lesson in blood every time somebody makes something slightly different but mechanically equivalent to something that's burned us in the past.

You're right that it'd be hard to enforce a ban on buying/selling (although most people wouldn't do it simply because it's illegal, which would pop the bubble in and of itself).

But I think banning ads, issuing public warnings, and pervasively cracking down on the clear scam ICOs would help a lot, without really impinging on peoples' freedom to shoot themselves in the foot.

The nuclear option would be to rule that cryptocurrencies have no legal standing- that you can't enforce a contract around them. This would cause a swift collapse of backstabbing within the market, and the government would only be clarifying what's already true for the overwhelming majority of ICOs- they don't entitle you to anything.
If pressed to actually provide reasoning, I'd expect something like "This service was drastically underpriced and would not have been viable long-term. The merger has afforded us greater market vision and economies of scale, and consumers are immediately benefiting by the fact that this increase is substantially smaller than it would otherwise have been, saving them millions."
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There is about a 0% chance that this is actually Marky Z.

It'd be pretty interesting if it is though.
I think I would group Arch with [Debian, Slackware, Void] rather than with Gentoo (if we're restricted to those two groups).
My parents love talking about how bad monopolies are. They are well aware and it’s useless because they keep voting for the same people.
> Except, for the old BMT lines[0], the clocks are just... not actually accurate!

I can't say I agree. I've been a daily commuter on the ACE, 1, and NQR/BD trains since the introduction of the clocks and found them all to be wonderfully accurate.
This is not a link to an article. This is a link to the page which contains the button to delete your account. Here's the text from that page:

If you do not think you will use Facebook again and would like your account deleted, we can take care of this for you. Keep in mind that you will not be able to reactivate your account or retrieve any of the content or information you have added.

If you would still like your account deleted, click "Delete My Account".
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Double precision floating point numbers are the most common in scientific computing. Sometimes software will mix in single precision for more speed. The molecular dynamics package GROMACS can use mixed single/double precision, for example:

http://manual.gromacs.org/documentation/2016/install-guide/i...
Except the gp was specifically talking about strangers, and your link points out that this Russian phrase is overfamiliar for strangers. That is the whole point! From the gp (I usually don't care how some stranger feels, why should I?)

It’s a whole other issue if your friend says it, but that isn’t what he was talking about.
It’s not a post. It’s a link to the account deletion screen on Facebook.
I'd like to see the details without logging in, yes.
I'm from the UK, and I feel exactly the same way, so it's definitely not a non-English language thing - more of a US thing.

The inappropriate use and overuse of phrases such as "how are you doin' today?", "y'all have a great day!" etc are things that really get on my nerves when I'm in the US or deal with US customers. Why ask how I am. If you don't care? Why tell me to have a great day if you don't care?!

It's just all so infuriatingly fake!
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Considering they won't give you any real data they have on you via the 'download your data' function they've had for a while; I highly doubt it.

Seems more like a PR move than anything to me.
At this point, I think it's fair to say that GHC is the Haskell compiler.
How do you lend the same cash to two people? Don’t people take loans to spend the money?
Screenshot for those complaining they need a facebook account to see the feature https://imgur.com/a/15BzvRl

The help link goes to https://www.facebook.com/help/224562897555674
What about those of us who deleted our facebook account, say, in 2016? Will that data be deleted?
Hypothesis: Facebook is seeing a huge increase in temporary account deactivations (my friends call it a Facebook fast...), and this is intended to mitigate that by making the act of account deactivation more intimidating.
> The night before the launch, Ebeling and four other engineers had tried to stop the launch. Their managers and NASA overruled them. That night, he told his wife, "It's going to blow up."

This sent chills down my spine... the world just shouldn't be like this.
The data in the article you linked shows that there has been a continued increase in the amount of human waste, used needles, and encampments. Even the primary positive figure they cite, a drop in population of 8,640 in 2004 to 7,499 in 2017, is not a substantial improvement. Given the impression that many residents have that things have gotten worse, some of it may be accounted for by factors mentioned in the article (i.e. the perception of increase by people who are simply in areas that the homeless have been displaced to), but I'm also inclined to believe that housing the chronically homeless to reduce the official population count might not actually have too much of an impact. For example, what if the entirety of those 7,500 were given a permanent residence, so that the homeless population drops to 0? I'm not so sure it would be easy to distinguish between the severely mentally ill or drug addicted individual who was technically homeless vs technically not. I suspect that much of the day to day activity would remain unchanged.
For a "Show HN" I'd have expected a blog post/detailed status update/something explaining what changed.
An odd claim. I would expect that we are still digesting during sleep. Especially since most folks used to nap mid day. (Eating is a fair claim.)
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As an immigrant, that was one of the cultural adjustment that I had to do in the US. In my home country in SE Asia, people usually ask "Have you eaten (have you had a meal)?" as a greeting. It's easier to answer with "No, I haven't." or "Yes, I just had lunch" for example.

But when I moved to the states for college, I was perplexed as to how to answer "How're ya?" or "What's up?". :D I learned to answer that question with a standard, "I'm good. Thank you". But even nowadays, I sometimes venture to answer it honestly like, "I'm okay. [insert some really honest reason why I'm just okay]" or "I'm busy, but it's all good".

This is just a small example of adjustment that I made as I try to settle in my new home.
As an American who spent a year as a visiting researcher inside Russia's Foreign Ministry, I can confirm that these differences in decorum are very real.

They are common knowledge in Russian society, and Russian diplomats are trained to take them into account when emulating Western social graces.

Broadly speaking, in my experience Russians conceive of smiling as something precious, to be shared with friends or family, not wasted on strangers crossing your path. However, if you have occasion to interact with someone (e.g., asking for directions), they may smile, particularly if something about the conversation generates a feeling of closeness. I got a lot of smiles and handshakes in Moscow from strangers when they found out I was studying at MGIMO, since they (incorrectly) assumed it meant I'd snubbed Harvard or Yale.
I don't get the delete facebook movement. You can still use facebook without giving them all your data. Just.. don't give them your data!
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You still have to enter your password to confirm deletion of your account, so there would be no security risk in displaying that info page.
A link to an FAQ explaining how internal data is wiped would probably be better than linking to the actual page to delete your Facebook. Right now, it's like being taken to the edge of a cliff to be told that there's a landing trampoline on the other side.
> Noted that https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Mark-Zuckerberg is real

I'm skeptical that account is controlled by Mark Zuckerberg and will remain skeptical until I see a good verification proof.
I think you missed the point I was making which is that you still have to know that you're proving the right thing.

It's entirely possible to have a but in the proof itself, at which point your program is going to incorrect.

Reading and understanding the Idris proof is actually more work than understanding the untyped Python version, therefore it's actually harder to say whether it's correct or not in a semantic sense.
I sure hope they are donating. That would be fantastic for the future of the project.

The better results are probably due to Harrison's EQ and console bus emulation.
Right and I don’t want to discount that. The scale they’ve achieved and the team that delivered it are incredible but presumably the people who want it to be open source won’t need any of that.

They’ll be running it on a raspberry pi, not hosting the Rails or NodeJS repo.
I'm a US person. While going through aggressive cancer treatment and concomitant depression, I was encouraged by my caregivers to smile as much as possible to elevate my mood. They even encouraged me practice smiling while alone. N=1, but this did seem to help. It seemed to lower my stress when around other people, and I noticed that they would be smiling more too (although this may just be because I was finally noticing something that was going on around me.)

Otherwise I have "resting porg face".
We tried. Such regulations are being destroyed:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/02/us/politics/payday-lender...
In the general case, avoiding a problem is better than solving a problem. No code is better than no code.
Very astute. Some folks here at Kyndi used to work with Minsky. One of our favorite quotes is: "what magical trick makes us intelligence? The trick is that there is no trick. The power of intelligence stems form our vast diversity, not from any single, perfect principle." What we see now in AI/ML is not diversity, but rather attempts at the single perfect principle. We don't believe that is the path forward. Rather, you need to figure out how to tightly couple different approaches (e.g., symbolic and statistical learning approaches) to form a more powerful, flexible, and explainable model of AI.
Hey, UK person here. Every time I visit the US or deal with customers from the US, I'm bombarded with fake well-wishing, accompanied by equally fake grins. You've given me some glimmer of hope that it's not quite everyone in the US who is like that!
Fyi, I have no idea if your regimen (or any) of curcumin is good for you or not but amyloid beta may be protective in some way:

>"Mice with excess beta-amyloid survived longer than the controls and had less bacteria in their brains. Mice lacking beta-amyloid (from the genetic removal of APP) died more often from infection."

https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/alzheim...
Fossil SCM has Integrated Bug Tracking, Wiki, and Technotes. It's not git but is distributed. It's used for sqlite project.
Illegal's an overstatement (ie it's not criminal), but it could certainly have generated a shareholder lawsuit.
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More that it was unfunded. A large part of that is likely that it is difficult to fund a method nobody else is investigating. Specifically, to heavily fund it.
Did you mean SaaS? Or is this about some other web thing?
That's what happens when you only have two choices to vote for.
> I don't get the delete facebook movement. You can still use facebook without giving them all your data. Just.. don't give them your data!

That's not true, they get all kinds of data from other sources, including stuff from your friends that they may not have even realized they shared (such as your phone number when FB slurped their phone's contacts list).
As of 2013, at least, the Intel chips were pretty good. Not top-of-the-line by any stretch, but 1/2 to 2/3 as fast as the discrete chip in my Macbook: http://archagon.net/blog/2013/12/19/late-2013-15-macbook-pro...

Still, I'd want as much power as humanly possible for gaming on the go. 15-20 extra frames per second matters a lot.
Copenhagen in the summer is about 75° F and fairly low humidity. Ok for a comfortable cycle to work. Many midwest American cities reach mid 90's temp and high humidity. If you cycle to work you'll need a shower when you get there, assuming you don't get heatstroke on the way.

Cycling is not viable transportation in many areas, and you can't cherry pick a place like Copenhagen and use that to support a claim that it works everywhere.

Where I live, the weather is amenable to cycling maybe 4 months out of the year, and it's far faster to drive than cycle in any case.
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That's cool. I wonder why Git hasn't copied the implementation.
I'm quite curious what niche of scientific computing you've dealt with that gave you that impression.
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When I was living in the valley I took the bus from Menlo Park to Cupertino. It took me 2 hours! By cars that's 25 minutes.
"How are you?" is not at all a throw-away greeting among genuine friends in the US, at least not among those who think about what they're saying.
Whitepaper download sales funnel material. Nothing useful here.
Seriously?

AT&T just spent $85bln and someone believes the prices will be lower?!
Would you also think that this book is interesting for people with a normal sleep pattern?
FYI your .../english/ page is in english but once you click Job Openings and the individual jobs, they're all in dutch. Unless I'm missing something.
Error analysis can tell you whether the roundoff error would grow exponentially with time steps for the algorithm you use. If you avoid this kind of conditions in scientific computing, then double precision floating point number would work perfectly fine.

And by the way, scientific computing is a diverse discipline, or a federation of disciplines. Say, there may be little overlap between the algorithms, tools, and environments that a physicist uses for scientific computing and those used by a bioinformatician. So I don't think it is universally true in scientific computing that arbitrary precision is preferable to double precision.
That's a great idea. A lot of work has gone into this so I think it would be a very good fit for that. Though you're walked through the process I probably should add more documentation.
The value of any function-as-a-service is the ecosystem within which it sits. Pretty much all of them are the same: upload your code, we will run it.

The value comes from 1) What can trigger that code to run and 2) What services that code can interact with.

And on those two points, AWS still wins hands down. They have by far the most possible triggers for Lambda, and they have by far the most services that Lambda can interact with.

It's cool that Cloudflare built something faster, but unless you're running in a vacuum, speed is the least of your concerns.
75% of women survived the Titanic, compared with 19% of men. (http://www.icyousee.org/titanic.html)

At the massacre of Katyn, an estimated ~22,000 men and exactly 1 woman were executed by the Soviets.

The West has undeniably patriarchal elements of its history. But trying to spin this into a narrative of pervasive misogyny ignores the very real value that society places on the well-being of women. Even in your own example, the men angrily avenge the treatment of the women by outsiders.
Whatever the details, they were diagnosing people and giving them "Alzheimers drugs" until they saw lack of amyloid-beta. To me it sounds like the "definitive evidence" is "telltale amyloid deposits":

“If someone had a putative diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease, they might be on an Alzheimer’s drug like Aricept or Namenda,” said James Hendrix, the Alzheimer Association’s director of global science initiatives who co-presented the findings. “What if they had a PET scan and it showed that they didn’t have amyloid in their brain? Their physician would take them off that drug and look for something else.”

For decades, diagnosing Alzheimer’s has been a guessing game, based on looking at a person’s symptoms rather than testing for definitive evidence of the brain disorder. A firm diagnosis was not possible until an autopsy was performed.

Now, a spinal tap or PET scan can detect the telltale amyloid deposits, and researchers are trying to develop a simple blood test that would do so. PET imaging can quantify the amount of amyloid and also show where it is in a person’s brain."
Short-sightedness linked to longer time spent in education
You most definitely can separate the fashionable, and status-seeking aspects out from urban culture.

I live in Canada. The traditional cuisine is bland, and fresh produce grows only a few months of the year. I see my love of sushi as a product of globalization and urbanization as much as is my ability to get decent fruit from the grocery store in the heart of winter. Sure I could have a root cellar and eat potatoes and beef all winter, but sushi is delicious.

It cannot be just status. High demand and low supply has a tendency to price the best cultural products in high status territory.
If "SUSE" the company can own some "IPs/assets" why can't another entity buy/acquire "SUSE the company" and own everything that SuSE owns?