skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would work out very badly. I lack the background or connections to obtain a bailout, and my bank would be too small to be "too big to fail."
Where did you read that? They say smokers take more breaks so they give non-smokers extra free time, they don’t give smokers less.

Smoking is a stupid habit. It’s going away and that is going to take a lot of force, extremely high prices and less and less room for smoking. You better get used to it because the future is non-smoking.
Huh? I know its par for the course to mock US obesity rates but this is becoming a world wide issue, even France blew by twenty percent and India has the second highest number of obese children in the world.
White America is quietly self-segregating
https://codepen.io/dredmorbius/pen/KpMqqB
This might make sense if the US had a territorial tax system, like much of the rest of the world. But the US rate applies to the global profits of US-based companies.

The mix of high rate and worldwide (non-territorial) taxation is why so many US companies end up being acquired by foreign companies. Then you don't have to pay US rates on your worldwide income.
Perhaps they meant it in the sense that the Higgs Boson particle is sometimes referenced as the “god” particle.

It works in the comparison that quantum computing often sensationalized by media.
Regarding NNT's point here, don't you have to be "less wrong" to pick that better strategy effectively?
I grew up (career wise) on CTOS systems with 286/386 processors that could address the full 16MB in protected mode without memory extenders or expanders that were available for DOS back in the day. Also premptive multi tasking. It was a great OS to learn on. more info - https://web.archive.org/web/20080828190425/http://www.byte.c...
Ask HN: Question about search engine feasability
So, many have noticed in recent years the bloated/intrusive/annoying drift of many pages on the web. One could put in browser features to block much of this, but then most web pages become unusable.

However, we don't need to use all of the web. There are more web pages out there than we can ever visit in our lifetimes, even if we restrict it to just those in our own language. What we need, is to be able to find usable web pages, that aren't bloated/buggy/intrusive/etc. For this, I wonder if the browser is not the tool that needs to change, but rather the search engine.

So, if one made a search engine that only displayed results whose total content was below some user-set limit, or that had some other configurable filter (no javascript, no cross-origin content, etc.), is there enough out there still to have a usable amount of content? I have the idea that there is a nice, text-based, non-intrusive, non-bloated web still out there, it's just buried under a pile of bloated crapware. If we had a search engine that could sift the wheat from the chaff, would there be enough wheat left to stay informed? (my apologies to gluten-intolerant readers for my wheat metaphor)

Thing is, I am not an expert in this field. But, perhaps on Hacker News there are people who have some experience at what it takes to build a search engine. Does this seem feasible? Especially let me know if this has already been tried and failed.
Good? I hate the asinine secondary market of "points". Just don't take the money in the first place and then we don't have to sort out how I can reclaim it somehow.
I used to fly quite a lot before and never really worried about it.

Now that I have a wife and live in Australia, I routinely have to take 14h flights to get back to Europe.

14 hours is a long time without touching the ground.

Lately, I have started developing a fear of flying.

I guess my problem is the lack of control. The thought to have to let somebody else be in charge of my life is a bit upsetting. No amount of rationalization can overcome my fear.

I have read the statistics and I still feel afraid.
I Have started experiencing mild panic attacks. My head starts spinning, I am sweating profusely, my palms and wet and my heart is raising and I am grabbing the armrest in a desperate attempt to not die. Even the slightest turbulences now upset me.

I think I need some help, maybe therapy or medication.

My next flight is in 6 months from now and I am already starting to be afraid of it.
Even just reading this thread made me feel uncomfortable.
Maybe they are.
What if Plato thought that (at least part of) the truth was that it was more beneficial for people to think and seek than to be told the pre-canned truth?

And what if was wrong about that? Or is it your assumption that Plato was right about everything, and so therefore he must be right about that particular idea?

As to Aristotle's specific empirical claims in the realm of biology, the great majority have been confirmed by modern science.
I put them all through ImageOptim, so not sure if those PNGs can compress anymore...

I agree on those complexity graphs since they're actually scanned from Sean Carroll's book and edited in Pixelmator - if I was better with graphics I could probably recreate them as SVG or in an editor and make it only a couple kb.

Same for the MinutePhysics screen grab, though I couldn't bring myself to attempt a poor recreation of their work and couldn't get rid of the weird pink gradient background which probably prevents better compression.

The Youtube cover images are still being pulled in from youtube - I debated downloading/compressing/hosting them myself, but figured I'd gain more from downloading them from the separate domain since I still think there is a default limit of connections the browser will open to a single domain at the same time.
Back in the early days, Ben & Jerry's had a policy limiting upper management salary to a (small) multiplier of the pay of line workers. They were subsequently "unable to hire qualified management" and removed that policy. It was a minor kerfluffle.
Since "colonia" originally denoted any Roman outpost established in conquered territory, you can't invoke the word as a singularly significant element of the city name.

Mainz was also part of Germania and is much further East.

The current extent of modern Köln is much wider than that of the Roman city of 20,000 people, so you'd have to dig in very specific places to find Roman artifacts.
Erm, that's a little abstract for me, but I guess you're saying that aesthetic judgements of programs aren't worth much from a theoretical perspective?

If so, I'd say,

- It didn't really seem like anyone in the comment thread was trying to make a "compelling" argument for anything -- we're just chatting here.

- If we were interested in that sort of thing, we might note that minimal program size is a good measure of language complexity/information, and that "algorithms from the book" and different models of computation that might make programs easier to write are both "objectively interesting" from an information-theoretic standpoint.

EDIT: oh wait, I get it, you weren't being constructive, you just came here to make fun of a religion nobody was talking about. Never mind.
nice to see demos in action without running random code - thanks. Demos are without a doubt the best way to show the maths can look cool.
Not only do I occasionally game, I also have a DSLR that generates quite the stream of photos and videos to edit. I also run a bunch of VMs (including one of Ubuntu, my favourite dev environment), and I use photoshop and illustrator for the occasional design thing.
1) Stalling is not falling vertically.

2) Airliners are designed as stable instrument platforms, so it's unlikely you've been in an airliner that stalled.
I'm not sure that 'copycat' is entirely fair. Google wasn't the first search engine, Facebook wasn't the first social network, Amazon wasn't the first online retailer. Flipkart or Taobao have some similarities to certain western retail platforms, but are profoundly different in many important ways.

WeChat might have had the advantage of the Great Firewall, but they have also built a genuinely innovative platform that is better suited to the Chinese market and in many respects much more sophisticated than any Western equivalent. No western company would have grasped the importance of hongbao or implemented it so skilfully. No western company could have anticipated the hugely positive reaction to WeChat Moments advertising and the remarkably high CPM.

I think there's a certain "not invented here" attitude prevalent in Silicon Valley. We do iteration, they do copycats. We build a better mousetrap, they make shitty knock-offs.
There are a lot of other philosophies that claim objective truth exists, such as materialism and Pragmatism.
I had no issue flying for years until I went to visit a friend near a smaller airport and had to take an Embraer E-120 commuter jet, which is usually configured for three-abreast seating in coach. The flight there was fine, but falling asleep on the return flight and waking up in the tiny aircraft somehow triggered a panic attack.

After several years, I still haven’t completely regained my former lack of flying anxiety, although avoiding smaller aircraft has helped. It’s not really even anxiety about flying itself, but about having another panic attack, and specifically anxiety about triggering it by falling asleep in-flight.
I’m a member of a few professional societies and while we do get revenue and sponsor scholarships, we also employ a bunch of people to promote and represent the society.

So it’s probably a wash if we lose the revenue, but don’t pay for the various people.

Largely, I think it’s tradition.
What are the largest contiguous privately owned parcels in the U.S.? And what is a good way to find private landowners using GIS in general?
This

observable.on("click", observerFunc);
// or observable.addEventListener(...);

is an executable statement. And this

class Widget : Element {

event click { … observer's code … }
}

is a declaration.

That executable statement needs to be called at some point of time. So the observable can be in two states - with and without that event handler.

While class declaration is an invariant (at least in Sciter) - as soon as element is in DOM it has that class and consistent set of event handlers in place. Such binding is done by, again, CSS declaration:

widget {
prototype: Widget url(path); // <widget> controller
display: block;
...
}

"I've done a fair bit of GUI stuff"

AFAIR VB6 and Delphi allow to declare event handlers without explicit/runtime binding - that's close as a concept to the above.
If you want to compare Hacker News to Reddit, you have to compare it to subreddits that share its interests, not mainstream Reddit.

In that regard, I think it's worth mentioning that a lot of the content here gets posted from Reddit, so there's probably a lot of crossover between HN and technical subreddits.

Also, bear in mind that Facebook has group pages, so it's not impossible that there are dedicated, domain oriented communities there as well.
If you need to be "arsed" to write a book and you can't be "arsed" to write a book, then, logically, you can't write a book.
> Even the iPhones have really only changed cosmetically since the 6S came out three years ago. This year’s model will be the first one since then that will actually be noticeably faster.

According to this link, the currently shipping iPhone is roughly 1.75x as fast as the 6S (Geekbench score of ~4200 vs. 2400):

https://browser.geekbench.com/ios-benchmarks
Getting 5 years out of a laptop isn’t particularly impressive, especially if your laptop can be upgraded. Perhaps it’s remarkable that a laptop that can’t be upgraded lasts that long, so congrats I guess.
In Usenet’s particular case it was its open, unmoderated nature that killed it - once it became 99% spam, warez and CP most ISPs dropped it.
hahaha my exact experience. 5 trips to the apple store and finally my 2017 13 inch pro is usable. I've had the battery, screen, and keyboard all replaced under warrantee. Easily the worst experience Ive had with an Apple product.
Dolphin Progress Report: July 2018
> How do you deal with the 10+ second cold start times for Lambda when using it in a VPC?

And I was complaining about 500ms cold start times on Firebase Functions.

I think I'll stop complaining now.
i know there may be a link. just curious if there is a strong correlation among all countries.
I doubt it's cannibalizing many MacBook Pro sales, but it probably is cannibalizing MacBook and MacBook Air sales.
It doesn't. Not every word printed in the NYT is journalism, but it doesn't change the fact that they are one of the few websites that have any journalism at all.

If the NYT cut their paper down to just the style section, horoscopes, and other garbage, they would be just another Buzzfeed and are probably not equipped to compete.

On the other hand, Info Wars, Mother Jones and friends offer publications with basically no journalism at all. That's the space the NYT, WSJ, Miami Herland, Chicago Tribune, and so on fill. They do Pulitzer prize worthy reporting. If these papers become run-of-the-mill click farms, I'm sure silicon valley will run them out of business, as rage bait is not really their core competency.
Yes I know I have one and its quiet dated now. i was just teasing him because he conveniently ignored that.
On the other hand posting a dodgy opinion on facebook et al largely removes you from the social and physical consequences of saying things that are way outside of societal norms. When you're able to hide behind a screen the range of things you're willing to say increases as does your potential reach. I would argue it completely changes the context to which the ideas of free speech have been classically prescribed. Its worthy of discussion to question do the underlying ideals of free speech apply in this brave new world, or do we need to look at tweaking our ideals to fit the contexts in which we live. I don't have answers, nor would I ever suggest restricting free speech more, I'm just questioning does it make sense to apply it in this domain.
Like any of the USB A male to male cables that you can use to transfer files between to machines, or the USB A female to female adapters you can use with one of these cables to create an extension cable? If they’re banned, I wouldn’t expect them to be as widely sold.
It's meant to be the operator of the mail server, and is generally used for contacting the operator about problems with their mail setup. It's required to be available per RFC822.

https://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc822/

How much that works out in practice is inconsistent. Most sysadmins will set it up in my experience, but it's not out of the question that it wouldn't exist. Some domains will just set up a catchall and it'll be directed to someone anyway. It varies.
I think it's supposed to be $203.48: https://business.financialpost.com/investing/apple-needs-an-... (found via google search).
"But I mean a good marathon time, and getting a book accepted by a publisher, in which there is an advance and royalties (not self-publishing)."

That's too low a bar. If you don't make the New York Times list, you're not really writing a book, and if you're not winning the Boston marathon, you're not marathoning.

Or so some would say.
You can do “magic” with relatively easy things. For example, spend a weekend with https://forthsalon.appspot.com or processing.org and see where you can get to...
This would be a good reply, except you've failed to acknowledge arxiv's existence.

Is the value of journals over arxiv worth the price? (market says yes, but markets are sometimes wrong).
Wow!! Can you say it is absolutely worth it?
Nice work, author of blog post. 1) Recognize a stagnation in e-coin investment; 2) buy up some Coinbase; 3) Write a blog post how Coinbase will beat Bitcoin; 4) Profit.
> over the $90 billion they pay in swipe fees every year.

> Kroger's revenue was 122.7 billion USD in 2017

That makes little sense and makes me wonder why Kroger does not issue its own credit card. Credit cards are a rent-seeking racket that eat lots of profit. Everyone knows it but no one knows what to do about it.
Reminds me of an IBM technical bulletin I found, somehow, about 10 years ago. It advised that if you were moving from this z9 hardware configuration to that one, you would have 30 minutes of downtime. Implying that other changes required no downtime, which I inferred wasn't stated because it wasn't insanely awesome to mainframe guys, adding CPUs and RAM to a running system was just how things worked.

I was in college at the time and looked at job postings for mainframe programmers because I wanted to work on that. Never found one that required less than 5-10 years experience, not then and not when I've checked every couple years after that. Too bad; I quite liked the idea of working in an ecosystem that starts from "let's make this work every single time" instead of "let's make this work well enough to keep customer complaints to a dull roar".
Linux vs BSD (ie Mac OS X). Sorry about that. Also, you shouldn’t paste weird looking things from the internet in your console :P
Consider a motorcycle.
As someone who finished undergrad classes as a teenager. I totally failed to live up to my potential.
Microsoft’s Channel9 was named after this (United Channel 9), and had the same intention: to be an unvarnished look behind the scenes.

https://channel9.msdn.com/About
Bernie Sanders' Medicare-For-All Plan Will Cost $32 Trillion Over 10 Years
Contributed to Anarki.

Nothing great mind you, not even good, but it's my first practical experience working with a Lisp.

[0]https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki
So for carriers you are essentially proposing the status quo. At any given time only about ⅓ are actually deployed. The others are docked for refit, or doing training close to bases. If they're going to deploy at all the costs are about the same regardless of where they operate. And to maintain proficiency they have to constantly practice operating in all over the world. These are not skills that can be picked up in just a few months. A carrier is not even remotely like a floating base; it's an order of magnitude more complex.

I am all for fighting fewer wars. But until that actually happens our carrier forces are over stretched.
Sort of. I have done a lot of nonfiction writing and reporting, including stuff for newspapers and magazines and so on. So I know the general ability to write at a reasonably high level is there. So I know a book is "in me" in a general sense.

But to write a book would still require a lot of practice and trial and error and a serious committment. Which is likely where many others trip up as well.
I dn't knw what yu're talking abut. My Macbk Pr keybard is wrking fine.
I enjoy your prose. :)
In all honesty--you're right about there being bigger problems.

But let me put it this way, I still reduce, reuse, and recycle even though I know that one unconscientous suburban family will essentially dwarf my lifelong efforts in a year of their average living.

I know that those efforts are futile for the end goal of environmental conservation. That doesn't mean that I'm going to stop doing them. Being dedicated to acting in accordance with an understanding of first principles is not a bad thing, even if those actions are relatively impotent or ineffectual in and of themselves in the current moment.

As far as changing out power sources to nominally sustainable forms, yes, I would still find issue with people wasting those resources, just as I would find issue with people running air conditioners with the windows open.

As far as compassion and unintended consequences, everyone might be here for a reason and maybe trashing the planet is part of that plan, but equally so I might be here to speak against trashing the planet as a part of said reason and said plan.

It boils down again to if you need to find a reason to justify minimizing unnecessary energy usage, we're not going to see eye to eye and I doubt any argument will sway either of us towards the other's camp. Chalk it up to different contexts.
No, a Texas section APS meeting presentation about some fun academic exercise is simply some fun academic exercise for a Texas section APS meeting. If you're not familiar with these things, well this is a profession, it takes more than googling stuff.

This is exactly what I was talking about, you consider that your atom has energy levels and then you plug in classical EM fields, sometimes that's good enough to get somewhere. But it can never be classical because there's no way to have energy levels in a classical atom.

Just take one positive charge and one negative charge (let's call electron to this one), then use Maxwell equations (you need the Liénard–Wiechert potentials) and try to calculate the energy of the electron, now it has a trajectory and everything. It's not for the faint-hearted (you have to learn classical electrodynamics first -whose consistency problem BTW has only been solved recently, or at least that's what Rohrlich thinks about it-). You won't get discrete energy levels, you won't even get a stable atom. Precisely this was the starting point of QM: Bohr coming up with a quantization rule for angular momentum and magical orbits where the accelerated classical electron does not radiate. Check "old quantum theory".

These problems were solved almost a century ago, the thing is people don't study enough or apparently have forgotten about them. They simply consider the QM postulates and then wonder why all that happened. Well, don't start the house by the roof, study what you should know already, the answers are there.
Make sure you check out the floppy version from ~3 years ago. Fits in “old” tweets (ie 140 chars): https://www.quaxio.com/bootloader_retro_game_tweet/
Pyramid scheme incubator
My actual complaint was that the service began to improve dramatically in brooklyn (including outside of the northside) with the introduction of green cabs, but then once Uber/Lyft arrived, it went downhill again. Maybe I should have clarified that when I say downhill, I mean to a point that was worse than I have ever known. So I don't really think it matters where my experience is from. It was bad 8 years ago, it got a lot better, then it got a lot worse, if you didn't sign up for Uber.

Its not complicated.

And yeah, the reason its hard to find cabs further out is because its too spread out. Areas further out than specific high traffic areas converging on the bridges into manhattan have and will always be a different story for cabs, yellow or green. Its ridiculously large and spread out, with very few active and high traffic avenues in between. It would be like a tree falling in the forest for a cab to be cruising 60th and 16th ave at 11pm on a thursday.

You definitely were seeing green cabs ON Flatbush (down by 9th) though, which was an improvement.

Uber/Lyft didnt solve that problem either, they just provided an app for the black cabs that were already there, a whole phone call away. Black cars never had surge pricing before Uber either, wonder what poor people think about that.
That, and also needs beyond the initial creation: Adding new types of content, modifying things without having to start from scratch, being easy to diff for change reviews and for merge-conflict resolution, supporting search engine crawlers, deep links, permanent links, interacting well with the back button. And that's without getting into the cases in which you have content that updates in real time, user content, the need to support offline mode, or any of the things that blur the website / application line.