skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hadn't heard of this before! Bandit problems, from Wikipedia[1]:
"[imagine] a gambler at a row of slot machines (sometimes known as "one-armed bandits"), who has to decide which machines to play, how many times to play each machine and in which order to play them, and whether to continue with the current machine or try a different machine."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-armed_bandit
I wonder if this holds lessons for farming in space? They're both rather closed environments, though the sea obviously provides extra water (and more). There won't be cloudy days in space!

For those worried about negative environmental effects of structures on the seafloor, people actually sink old ships to create artificial reefs:
https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/artificial-reef.html

Though if this was industrialized too much, I bet delivering a bunch of chemical fertilizers probably would create environmental problems.
The game itself is basically a thinly veiled scam anyway: "McDonald’s makes one piece from each set of properties extremely rare, so while thousands have three of the four railroads, the odds of pulling the Short Line Railroad—and winning a PT Cruiser—were 1 in 150 million."

Sure, it's all written down in the rules somewhere but it's an elaborate effort to disguise the actual odds of winning to get people to buy more cheeseburgers. You think you are 3 quarters of the way to a PT Cruiser when you are in fact barely more likely to get it that you were before you got the first three.
When should you listen to Jazz, Rock or Classical? Your choice. I don't know much about Thonny, but I hear good things about it.
Can you give a TL;DR? Which one do you prefer and why?
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Used original title per rules.
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This is great. It’s an excellent idea for Rosetta Stone(s) for different JS frameworks - all side by side with minimal but working code. This could be a start.
Would you please stop using HN for ideological battle? Especially in the form of unsubstantive rants. You do this a lot, and we eventually ban accounts that do it, regardless of which ideology they favor. That's in the guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

This is not because we're capitalist pigs, by the way. It's because such discussions quickly trample the kind of discussions this site exists for.
Anyone knows if I can find such an archive near Hesse, Germany?
Yet Another Package Manager :) Seriously - you're right, but people use curl | bash because it's super simple/fast and usually just works. Package managers can be an intimidating mess; even the choices we have in package managers confound things these days - did I install that with apt? snap? npm? pip? aw, crap that program I just installed with pip isn't working because I'd already installed a version with apt and some of it's configuration isn't compatible!!!

It's a mess. I really like snaps, but I hesitate for this reason - safer to default to apt on my ubuntu machine.

[edit] by safer I meant 'less likely for me to get confused and so screw up something', not meant as a security comment.
One should hesitate on general principle.

Paranoia is fun!
Showing a Craigslist scammer who's boss using Python
> Plus the lack of a pro level desktop machine (excepting the imac pro. all-in-one)

The lack of a pro-level machine... except for the pro-level machine that they do have.
According to whom? I subscribe to descriptive linguistics , and I will bet you a good sum of money that if you surveyed a representative subset of English speakers about “social media”, the single most common word in all the answers would be “friends”. Now, please don’t anyone take this personally: I appreciate the content, and I wish everyone here the very best , but I cannot with all the goodwill in the world call anyone here a friend.

It may be different for Reddit or Tumblr or whatever. But I don’t know anyone here by handle (aside from Nagle , Graham , Altman and McKenzie , but only because I know of them from the real world, and they don’t know me). There is no culture of identity at all. Signatures are actively discouraged. Etc etc , long story short: nothing social about this place. No friendships, no social structure , just discussions.

This is anathema to social media. Putting this on the list should be a felony ;)
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Actually, Jupyter is used in Mu: the Python3 REPL is an iPython notebook. ;-)

Mu is a code editor, Jupyter is more an unfolding of thought and code (i.e. they're different).

My aim is to complement and amplify the amazing work that Jupyter are doing and suggest people look into using Jupyter "proper", in the "Moving on from Mu" tutorial page (https://codewith.mu/en/tutorials/1.0/moving-on).
That's exactly what I thought until I saw the proposed timeline mechanism for exploring session history. That feature looks very useful.
are you saying women somehow need to choose to think logically and are illogical by default or what? cos your comments makes very little sense.
You don't need such a powerful device if you're learning from scratch. It will be more of an impediment because of its high complexity and low count of easy to access breakout pins for experimenting.
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Selective reading. Full sentence is “I do use Siri on Apple devices. She’s not the smartest but I do have a fragile trust in Apple that their stance on Privacy is more than just marketing.”....author does say he has fragile trus.
Neither do I, or anyone I know of. Pizza meant "pie" originally, at least until 1700, but that meaning has long gone. If the american translation is old enough it did have a point
The upside: only one service to maintain (PostgreSQL) instead of two (PostgreSQL + ElasticSearch) and not having to synchronize PostgreSQL and ElasticSearch (which is more difficult than it sounds).

The downside: ranking can be slow when your keywords match a large number of documents (have a look at github.com/postgrespro/rum for a solution), and faceting is more difficult to implement than in ElasticSearch
FWIW, I use vim to code Mu. :-)

In a similar way to another respondent, I use vim because my first computer at university had it (well, Vi) and it's always there.
>The meaning of catastrophe is not "only extinction level counts". That would be meaningless, obviously humanity is still here.

It's being used here to mean total ruin, the word can be used other ways but I've been fairly clear with what I mean by it. That said, I would probably consider something like the bronze age collapse a catastrophe in addition to extinction events.

I'm not trying to say that those events weren't completely tragic or that they didn't lead to changes. And I'm only saying WWI had little impact compared to a catastrophe.

Pinker is not a historian, he is a scientist. I'm not claiming he's perfect, more that much of this criticism is ignoring the context provided.

The age of the enlightenment is a long period with many ideas. Enlightenment values are a relatively distinct thing, mostly empiricism and classic liberalism.
> the fact that data can be copied perfectly, as many times as you want

Tangentially, this makes me wonder: While microfilm can't be copied perfectly, isn't it true that the source quality (e.g. the crispness of the print) is vastly lower than the resolution of the medium itself? Which seems like it would imply that the "lossy" transformation might in some sense still lossless, at least for a while - like converting a high bitrate mp3 recording of a radio broadcast into a lower bitrate one. Or perhaps the kinds of loss are different. I'm sure I'm confusing a lot of ideas and butchering some terms here.
The difference is that back in “the days” (which sadly I am too young to have experienced), the information you were giving away usually stayed with who asked for it.

I personally wouldn’t mind giving some personal information away to a corner shop if it would allow them to serve me better (as in have more relevant products for me - even though technically they’d be making more money off me because I would be shopping there more frequently).

I do however mind giving out personal information when I know it’s gonna be leaked to thousands of shitty companies including Facebook and Equifax and be offered to the highest bidder, including those with nefarious motives.
My aunt worked for Simon Marketing for many years. She was a designer. My cousin was pictured on a fry box once. All of their drinking glasses were McDonald's promos, much like a software developer's swag t-shirt collection. They had these Mickey Mouse glasses I loved but that had a habit of shattering into a million pieces under the slightest thermal shock or bump. She had a full collection of the 101 Dalmatians Happy Meals toys. We were all sure that'd be worth a lot of money some day. Looks like it's worth 50-100 USD on ebay now.

She lost her job, since this racket destroyed Simon Marketing.
In a similar vein, what will happen to our species given the availability of cesarean sectiond?
With robotic advances to deal the higher labor intensity of diverse crop farming, I think it could be cost competitive in the near future. The question I think is: Who will be behind funding and developing? I think it would take a "Tesla" type commitment to complete.
Could you imagine if software engineers DID do rigorous engineering practices?

It would be mayhem! Projects would just NEVER FINISH.
Please don't take HN threads in the direction of ideological battle. It destroys what this site is for, and the guidelines ask you not to: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
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Right, because only us law applies to companies doing business internationally...
Obviously PR people aren't going to start calling it what it is, but we should. "Ads" should be referred to as "trackers"; real "ad blockers" (without whitelists (those should be called "extortion rings")) should be called "tracking blockers"; "ad networks" should be called "tracking networks"; etc. Then maybe eventually the average user will understand that when a site asks to "please disable ad blocking", that's just PR speak for "enable tracking". "Advertisement" just sounds annoying, but harmless.

Also, if we ever see an actual "advertisement" on the internet, we should celebrate it, I've noticed maybe 2 in the past 10 years.
Why do women change their surname at all? In regard to children, using both parents surnames, in whatever order, seems to be fair to everybody.

Please note I’m not advocating for Portuguese or Spanish naming customs per se. I’d like to hear what other HN readers think about this particular option.
Every season you would see classified ads (or, later on, Craigslist ads) with people that had Park Place and were willing to share the jackpot if they had Boardwalk...as if there were only 1 of each piece being printed.

In reality there were millions of Park Places tickets in circulation.
I concur. Made some music with a buddy and his ARP 2600, tweaking the knobs. Suddenly we both started dancing, ecstatically. Then the pitch started to drift downwards, detroying the vibe for me. He worked the machine and told me it is the same as before, but it did not feel as great as before at all.
Nope, I'm projecting from my own personal experience of having to combine everything I've ever read, learned, listened to, and thought with logic. And I'm female, oh no!

Huzzah!

Keep insulting -> make my perspective stronger.
The RoccBox has interested me before, but I can't seem to connect the "you need higher temperatures for Neapolitan pizzas" claim with RoccBox's "[t]o achieve an authentic Neapolitan pizza, a 90 second cook in a stone floored, 500°C pizza oven is required. RoccBox is just that."

You're saying it goes much higher than 500 degrees, though? Their site seems to say 500 degrees is its limit, but maybe they mean the stone floor itself.
My guess why Apple kill OpenGL besides being old tech, is to reduce one more stack to support with their port of macOS to ARM. So in 2-3 years time we likely see a version of desktop iOS or macOS ARM.
It’s too bad, Metal has gotten very good. Blizzard ported the Mac versions of their games over to Metal a couple years ago and has been riding up against the edge of what’s possible with Metal. As of the latest WoW update, Metal performance is ridiculously good — barely distinguishable from DX12 under Windows on the same hardware. It’s amazing, I’ve never seen any game run this well under macOS.

This may have been achievable with OpenGL, but I have doubts. Should Apple have waited for Vulkan to be finished up before making their choice of modern graphics API in iOS + macOS? Maybe, but if they had, their Vulkan implementation wouldn’t have been as mature as Metal is now and the existence of MoltenVK renders the whole thing moot anyway.

Which makes me wonder, why not consider porting Alias to Vulkan? I’m not sure that OpenGL has much of a future on any platform, now that most everything will be written for DX12, Vulkan, or Metal. At best, frozen-in-time support for it will remain in Windows and Linux for a few more years, but I don’t see it being developed any further... didn’t Apple just jump ahead to OpenGL’s inevitable conclusion?
Yes, SIDS is more common in boys.
"While checking into a flight from AMS headed to USA, I was told as a prerequisite to getting my boarding pass I needed to talk to an agent from the US Department of the State. He asked me many detailed questions about my travels and said I was considered a person of interest. He stressed that they may in the future not allow me to enter the USA (I'm a citizen of USA)."

I recently flew from Zurich home to San Francisco and prior to boarding the plane in Zurich I was interviewed by a state department employee. She was very nice and at no time indicated that I was special or "of interest", etc.

She did, however, drill pretty deeply into where I had been and what I was doing.

I have traveled to Switzerland relatively frequently over the past ten years and this was the first time I had seen this.
Please don't be rude on HN, even when someone is insensitive to journalists.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The research presented in the article seems to be going against this intuition: the effect is only apparent when it's a physically dominating male; not necessarily physically attractive.

> Note that physical dominance isn’t the same as physical attractiveness. While many high-status product categories have certainly embraced the latter for ages, it’s the tallness and muscularity what truly matters for the Abercrombie & Fitch effect to take place.
Come on, this is basic database normalization. Men can have multiple wives, but it makes no sense for women to have multiple husbands. So men taking a woman's last name doesn't work.
> It's not like printed photos can't be burned, scratched, lost, discolor, soak, stained and many other things besides...

Not that I disagree with you, but this is an interesting point. I've heard archivists argue that with simpler analog storage, the curve for corrupt bits vs interpretability is smoothish, but with digital storage it's often a step function where it's like "whoops, a few bits flipped, can't read at all anymore"
Your article has a place in our reading list ;)
https://refresh.study/reading-list
Even better, kill the cancer at the source by attacking ad network’s servers.

I’m actually wondering, would the record-breaking DDoS attacks we had a year ago thanks to the Mirai botnet be enough to take down Shitbook if all the attack traffic was directed at them? What if instead of pure bandwidth-exhaustion, this capacity was used to flood them with ad clicks or fake page views to poison their spying with fake data?
Would you please stop using HN for ideological battle? This is not what the site is for, and destroys what it is for, so we eventually have to ban accounts that do it. Ditto for posting rants in general.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I like mine a lot and it was a lot easier to move to a new place then the fire-brick oven I had planned for several years ago. It limits pizza size to about 14 inches but since they cook insanely fast it is easy to do personal pizzas for everyone instead of bigger pizzas to be shared. No real smoky taste at all, the wood pellets are a short step up from compressed cardboard and seem to provide nothing besides heat.

Downside is that it only does pizzas. No chance to do pizzas one night and then use residual heat for bread the next day, etc. If you have the means and space I highly recommend a real clay/brick beehive oven, but once you do pizza in a high heat oven you are never going to go back to trying to crank up the temp in a conventional kitchen oven.
> analists

Hmm!
> It's probably different from person to person, but the internet doesn't make me feel small. It makes me feel almost limitless because there's an incredibly massive wealth of information and communication that's accessible to me, just like everyone else.

Have you ever tried to change something to see a wave of yourself wash over everything?

You can call that narcissism, or confidence.

Yes, we are all connected to a wealth of information. But you are also a part of what makes it what it is. Don't forget that.
Interesting, but I assume those machines are dead?
Mu is an accident.

I was one of the volunteers who contributed to the BBC micro:bit project under the auspices of the Python Software Foundation. I actually wrote the browser based editor and, like a conscientious developer, tested it on teachers. The feedback was pretty resounding: while the browser is convenient the limitations of not being able to connect to the MicroPython REPL, having to download a hex file, copy it to the device and wait in order to run your code was also a stumbling block.

It was a rainy Sunday afternoon and I asked myself, "how hard can it be to write a simple editor that was a native application so I could connect to the REPL and automate the flashing of the device?"

Fast forward a bit and Mu appeared, teachers used it with the micro:bit and started asking for it to be a "generic" editor for Python (not just micro:bit). The Raspberry Pi foundation's education team also wanted a generic Python editor based on the feedback they'd received from teachers and learners and so they supported me to make the editor modal (i.e. there's now Python3, PyGame, Adafruit and micro:bit modes) with a visual debugger for Python 3 mode.

So, be careful what you hack on a Sunday afternoon... I certainly wasn't expecting this to happen. ;-)
Great lead! That could definitely be the problem.
From the couple of pictures, the "dominant" men were a little taller than average, and fairly well muscled.

I wonder what would happen if you went even more extreme, such as staffing the store with men who look like, both physically and in dress, as if they just stepped out of a "Tom of Finland" drawing?

My guess is that if the gap between the salesman and the customer is much more than what the customer believes they realistically can achieve, the salesman will not be as effective as one who is more similar to the customer.
Isn't the AVX warmup latency a novel mechanism not docuemnted in existing literature and therefore not mitigated? They also point out that lfence is not a total solution to preventing speculative access (and it isn't being adopted anyway since the performance cost is high).
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Awesome feedback and many thanks for taking the time to point these things out. The article has started to gain a lot of traction over the past few days and the last thing I want is for there to be parts of the code that are not following best practice (as a result of my relative inexperience with React).
did the same for a take-home coding assignment. once i did one, it was pretty trivial to convert it over to the other. you can check out here:

https://github.com/tmm-archive/front-end-code-test
Given that these batteries would be used mostly in stationary applications, where space is less of a problem, the only question is how much extra power would the heaters and/or coolers need, and how much waste heat the charge/discharge releases (some of the waste heat could be used instead of the heaters, but would put more demand on the cooling system). Unless the amount of waste heat is too high, it doesn't sound like too much of problem to me; given proper insulation, most of the heat would come from the battery itself.
To be fair, the shell itself can tell you the wall clock time. I have fish doing that for me on Terminal.app.
Most languages solve this issue.
800°F is 427°C.
the biggest issue with postgres search is the inability to use TF-IDF or BM25 (the current default and state of the art on elasticsearch). The current ranking system is not very relevant.

Anyone who is familiar with PG internals - is there something in the internal data structure that prevents a BM25 or TF-IDF style rank generation ?

The work on RUM seems to have stagnated (and TF-IDF was a todo anyhow here) https://github.com/postgrespro/rum

I have a theory that if they incorporate these algorithms, it makes postgres potent enough that a lot of people may choose not to use elasticsearch/lucene.
It probably is, was just trying to think of the equivalent for a place like NYC where apartment balconies are less common than they are in CA. OTOH I am pretty sure I have seen a small weber or two on fire escapes on occasion.
“I bought more/cleaner/flatter bricks, including 1 granite tile ($5.50) and 2 slate tiles ($1.60 ea) to try in lieu of expensive ($20-40) pizza stones.”

Oh no, that granite is going to—

“granite cracked after 1st use. slates were still ok.”

Yup. Still, solid results for a home oven setup.
I think you're trying to say something, but I'm getting lost in the details. Can you elaborate more on what you mean by source quality / crispness of the print / resolution of the medium itself? What items are you comparing? Please be specific.
Ah, yes. The Cluetrain Manifesto. Certainly a product of its time.
I think this would be a truly powerful tool if the promises were only able to be removed/declared complete by someone else, who would partner with you as a kind of integrity escrow agent. You keep my future self honest to my present self, I do the same for you. Then generalize to groups with a big graph of stake holder crosslinks if you want to get enterprise-ey with it.
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Yes, which is why the first part of my sentence starts with “If I wasn’t in a hurry to get onto a flight”. I specifically pointed out that in other circumstances that would’ve been my course of action.
Sleep apnea is one of the biggest unsolved problems in medicine. It effects 1 in 4 people and there's no good solution for it. I think this is an area where technology (and not drugs or surgery) can make a big difference.
Well I guess if you did a good job as the IT support person then users may like it because you spent time taking the garbage out (no candy crush, cortana, forced reboots, etc) via Group Policies and ponying up for a license that actually allows to disable all that shit.

This doesn’t mean it should be considered normal - in fact putting up with this shit sets a precedent that this kind of behaviour from OS developers is deemed acceptable.

This also doesn’t mention the other relatively minor issues (which macOS nevertheless gets right) like 3 different visual styles for context menus (on the taskbar, window title bar and an item on your desktop), the mess with two different way to configure the machine (Settings app and Control Panel), etc.
That's a great way to put it... I think I might steal that if you don't mind... ;-)

"Python is a language that helps make code readable, Mu is an editor to help make code writable."

love it
> Men can have multiple wives, but it makes no sense for women to have multiple husbands.

Sorry for being dense, but is this sarcasm?