skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Absolutely. There's no way that Barnes & Noble (or any retailer) can compete with Amazon on selection or price. Where they can compete is on discovery.

Amazon is really great on converting high-intent customers, but terrible at discovery. (This is why it is beginning to open physical bookstores.) When was the last time you went to Amazon to "browse" for books? The physical retailers that can compete in this space will have a niche and a carefully curated selection of books to capture the type of people who want to relax and find a good book to read, rather than the people who already know what they want.
"rent seeking", in economics, is not limited to regulation. We would distinguish between those who earn money by creating new value - as the inventor makes some process more efficient, and so makes his living - and those who earn a living despite creating no value. The easiest example of this is the man who has inherited some plot of land, and rents out the plot to someone. He might earn a healthy living - but where has he created value? The strongest example of this is perhaps he who earns money by destroying value - say the window repairman who goes out at night and smashes windows - but this is not required to be classed as rent seeking.
And i wonder who owns equity in the vendors providing these solutions hehehe
How much of employee salary goes to rent on their apartments?
I don't see why any of those are mutually exclusive. Capability based operating systems provide least privilege security, experiments with capability-based UIs have shown they are quite intuitive and secure because they align user actions with explicit access grants, and they don't perform any worse than monolithic or microkernel operating systems.

The problems are really the flawed mental models people insist on bringing to these problems, despite decades of research showing these models are irreparably flawed.
I agree on the sodium. There are alternatives like Good Salt which taste good (not all of them do!), which cut sodium terrifically and can basically be cloned for bulk production.
Does Firefox reader view work on this site?

If it does try that.
Apparently her brain was exposed.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/suicide-survivor-becomes-younge...
I've been to libraries with cafes in them.

Alternatively, I've also been to urban libraries where cafes were within walking distance of the library. Less than a block even, closer than a bus stop.
Aren't the goals of t-digest a little bit different?

T-digest seeks to have a bounded size and an error proportional to q*(1-q), hence it gives up quantile accuracy in the middle of the distribution when under load. This algorithm seems to provide total bounded error without small but unbounded size.
Amazon also does not need to deal with shoplifting

They do, but they call it "package theft".
New Topic on Campus: Civil Discourse 101
Please don't do this sort of flamewar on HN. We've had to ask you this before.
Commercial spaces offer a much better experience than libraries.

Better hours. Cleaner. Near other amenities.
oxygen toxicity at sea level (1 atmosphere of pressure) would require a 140% oxygen mixture - it's only when you go to higher pressure environments (eg 10m underwater = 2 atm) that it becomes an issue (at 2atm, 70% oxygen is toxic; at 4atm, 35% oxygen is toxic, etc - regular air is 21% oxygen, which becomes toxic around 7atm aka 60m underwater)
Axios has good summary of what this is: https://www.axios.com/google-releases-political-ad-directory... - It mentions an API to access this information. I don't want to paste the Axios text because their entire article is pretty short, and I would feel bad about them not getting fair compensation for this kind of short, succinct journalism that I would like to see in the world.
In this instance, the popular understanding corresponds to the latest research better than realist theories like pilot-wave theory. Proponents of realist interpretations of QM have relied for decades on identifying possible classical channels of relativistic communication, or theorizing the existence of hidden variables.

The double slit experiment has been used in various forms to, over time, eliminate these channels. I'm not a physicist, but the language that they are using quite a few papers leads me to believe that these channels have been closed, and the realists are out of remaining options for maintaining realism.

For instance:

An experimental test of non-local realism, 2007

https://arxiv.org/abs/0704.2529

Wherein the authors show, using previously untested correlations between two entangled photons, that maintaining realist interpretations of quantum mechanics (such as pilot-wave theory) as a fundamental concept require the introduction of locality-defying 'action at a distance' actions.

Quantum erasure with causally disconnected choice, 2012

https://arxiv.org/abs/1206.6578

Wherein the authors, using an interferometric quantum eraser experiment, eliminate past and future communication channels by enforcing Einstein locality via a mechanism that I don't understand yet. They conclude that, "No naive realistic picture is compatible with our results because whether a quantum could be seen as showing particle- or wave-like behavior would depend on a causally disconnected choice. It is therefore suggestive to abandon such pictures altogether."

Experimental non-classicality of an indivisible quantum system, 2011

https://arxiv.org/abs/1106.4481

I understand even less of this one, looks like it has to do with performing the kinds of simultaneous measurements of various properties that one would expect to be able to, if realist interpretations were true. They conclude, "Not only is a single qutrit the simplest system in which such a contradiction is possible, but, even more importantly, the contradiction cannot result from entanglement, because such a system is indivisible, and it does not even allow the concept of entanglement between subsystems."

UPDATE:

Experimental loophole-free violation of a Bell inequality using entangled electron spins separated by 1.3 km 2015

https://arxiv.org/abs/1508.05949v1

"For more than 80 years, the counterintuitive predictions of quantum theory have stimulated debate about the nature of reality. ... In the past decades, numerous ingenious Bell inequality tests have been reported. However, because of experimental limitations, all experiments to date required additional assumptions to obtain a contradiction with local realism, resulting in loopholes. Here we report on a Bell experiment that is free of any such additional assumption and thus directly tests the principles underlying Bell's inequality. ... This result rules out large classes of local realist theories, and paves the way for implementing device-independent quantum-secure communication and randomness certification."

I'm not aware of any significant challenges to these studies.
Comparisons were done with CloudFlare on static site, it's been a very long time since the site was based on Laravel and PHP.

I had set Browser Cache Expiration to 1 month within my CloudFlare settings as was luckily screenshotted within a previous article: https://medium.com/@elliot_f/my-journey-into-web-speed-optim...

I'm fairly sure that I had some speed optimizations set within my Nginx server block. Unfortunately, I don't have the Nginx config file to hand anymore as I've (somewhat stupidly) deleted the snapshots without taking a backup.
AFAIK, the scanners are passive. They use an IR camera, and combine the image with a visual-light camera. It doesn't sound too invasive.
Libraries are public safe space. Get over it.
I see it as straightforward - bullshit results in contagious sociopathy.

Sensitivity means being more manipulatable, sociopaths manipulate to get what they want which leads to the dupes copying the antisocial behavior without a thought or even the benefits the originator gains. The only beneficial to actor behaviors likely arise from the sociopath's excuses being internalized. Look at snake oil salesmen for an example - pushing antivax lies to sell "essential oils" to get profit and spreading bullshit to cause others to make others sick avoiding imaginary risks.

Meanwhile a skeptic would refuse to go along with wrong just because "everyone is doing it" even if they are selfish for not wanting the needless risk or hassle.
Ok, well then don't be surprised when we don't use the library, and instead use a cleaner, better comercial space.
Good luck Mitra, I’m currently in the U.K. so can’t try it but one thing I’ve never seen done right is Indian food when it comes to takeaway/deliveries/orders, it’s never comes close to home cooked or restaurant quality so it’s a tall order for sure.
Seems like something that can be fixed with better funding, better staffing, and more locations.
I don't doubt there'll be another recession, I just believe this Act will make it deeper and slower to recover from.
The best for a quick reset is juggling (believe it or not!). Nothing beats physical exercise, either at the gym, cardio alone or team sports, to make up for hours of sitting and staring at a screen.
As a white American who loves Indian food. I don't associate 'Buttermilk' with Indian food at all.. I associate it with pancakes. I have a feeling I am not alone, and it could lead to some marketing confusion.
Michael Pollan on the Science and Sublimity of Psychedelics
No - at least not when you consider cost as a percentage of GDP.

https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/health-...

Looking at that chart, something happened in 2000 that caused our increase healthcare in cost as a percentage of GPD to accelerate.
This kind of fact isn’t really well suited for a jury to try. There should be some other mechanism for civil suits. 12 laypeople cannot be a good judge of whether the latest Intel CPU violates an AMD patent or whether this or that medical literature is more compelling. They will just ascertain the theatrical skill of expert witnesses.
Roadmap yes, but Linux support no.
https://wiki.debian.org/Sparc64
In what ways should they be compared?

This appears to be a means to run Sqlite in a server environment with multiple processes hitting it.

What you linked is just some Lua based extension that has little todo with Sqlite performance on certain types of infrastructure.
How the City of San Jose uses Agile to help non-technical teams
From kdb+ license agreement:

"1.4 Kdb+ Software Evaluations. End User shall not distribute or otherwise make available to any third party any report regarding the performance of the Kdb+ Software, Kdb+ Software benchmarks or any information from such a report unless End User receives the express, prior written consent of Kx to disseminate such report or information."
That's the second part of the original statement and he's not questioning that.
It’s much harder to capture the court system because it is so much more distributed than administrative regulators. Also judges are much less likely to retire in 4 years to work for the people they judged. Regulators routinely retire to work for those they regulated.

For example it’s the courts that are reining in Monsanto. Regulators didn’t care a whit about the harm they caused. Big tobacco is another example. the list goes on and on.
The Dirty Money episode on Tesla is going to be lit.
wow! thanks! that's beyond great! hats off to you kind Sir :)

also kudos :)
But Italy’s GDP per capita is way behind Northern Europe, which doesn’t have a debt problem. The Nordic countries have a combined GDP of about 1.5 trillion with about half of Italy’s population.
Thanks for your comment.

I also am guessing that the wall between the worlds of "create table" and "insert" is pretty ingrained in the SQL developers, so solutions where inserts actually create database objects isn't something they're interested in. This is why the documentation on "DDL Partitioning" is a long tutorial on what's ultimately a static scheme. Compare this to Cassandra where creating a new "table" per routing key is the obvious thing.

It does raise the question of whether "HyperTableDB" (for Postgres) would make its own coherent offering? (I don't mean to comment on your business strategy, this is an architectural/technical question about what hurdles there are.)
You did a great job of making the "love from mom" feeling come through on the website. I think that's what made us decide to subscribe.
That said, no North American city comes within an order of magnitude of the complexity of driving in Latin America.

You can forget about traffic rules, and you very often have to check the other driver´s body language to make split-second decisions, and play a game of "chicken" to cross a busy thoroughfare (inch through, then force yourself in front of an incoming car and expect him to stop). Giving way to other cars means you might be stuck in a traffic jam, so drivers can be incredibly aggressive - and I wouldn´t want to drive with an AI trained to try to battering ram their way around.

There are cities where I wouldn´t trust myself to drive (Lima, Peru is one I've experienced firsthand).

I'm hopeful for self-driving, but it's going to be very tough (and might take decades to adapt to the third world)
I’m working on validating Modular Neural nets with adaptive topology as an effective architecture for complex problems like disease diagnosis. I’m actually third on the www.pioneer.app leaderboard, with the username -_-
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17732912
Interesting. By the look of it Tesla will be the first company sued by the shorts and longs at the same time.

Disrupting the corporate law :P
I plan to write about that, but the short answer is that the 8087 computes transcendental functions using CORDIC. The chip contains constants atan(2^0), ..., atan(2^-15). It operates a bit at a time using these constants to compute tan and arctan. It doesn't natively support sine and cosine, but these can be computed from the tangent.

Likewise, the constants log2(1+2^(-2)), ..., log2(1+2^(-15)) are used for logarithm and exponentiation.

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

Edit: the constant ROM is the vertical stripe in the lower left in the die photo. You can see each bit in the ROM as a green or purple rectangle: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-7S_Q0bzu-7A/W3RDsZwprvI/A...
Regrettably I am evidently incapable of explaining this to you. Maybe someone else can manage.
The Conflict of Interest That Is Killing Recycling
I actually still enjoy reading after six years of a Ph.D. in English, which I think is a more unlikely feat than three years in law school.
I didn't said it wasn't supported, I said:

> My Asus Netbook no longer gets all the acceleration options that it used to have pre 16.04.

Which holds true, because /dev/radeon no longer offers hardware video decoding support it once did unless I force enable it, and even then it usually leads to random X crashes when watching videos.

And then there is this,

"For one, AMD users can’t use applications that require OpenGL 4.3 or later without the fglrx/Catalyst drivers."

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2016/03/ubuntu-drops-amd-catalys...
Start a school for shitty programmers?
Musk's "funding secured" tweet was incredibly irresponsible. Subsequent elaborations by Musk himself showed he had what amounts to an initial expression of interest, at most.

His tweet seems like, at best, an impulsive, irresponsible action. At worst, it's an emotional attempt to fend off, possibly even directly harm his many critics and short-sellers.

This doesn't look good for him.
and pedos.
> quite an Orwellian redefinition of "sale"

but a definition that has cites to where they won in court with said argument, which I think does back them up on this one in any practical sense. Disputing this would require a win in court against said precedent, or a new law.
It's bizarre that bookstore consolidation, homogenization, and expansion happened just as text was converting to digital and becoming available via network.

B&N (1986) & Borders (1992)
UK, Birmingham, within a stone's throw of the Balti triangle...

Also East End foods and Natco as bulk cheap national brands for various pulses. The local (predominantly UK born Pakistani/Lahore oriented) shops stock Laziza prepared masalas for various meals (chana, chicken, fish &c) and the fearsome mixed pickles. I find the prepared masalas very salty.

25Kg sacks of rice and 10Kg sacks of attar as well :-)
On a logarithmic scale, mid-6-figures is 10^5.5 = $316228 . Maybe your brain prefers to deal with larger numbers in terms of orders of magnitude?
The only angle I've had issue using trackpoint with is if you're very high above the laptop, like if you're standing above it. At this angle, trackpad is better.

Protip: Lenovo makes different styles of nubs that you can buy. "Soft Rim" is easiest to use IMO ( amazing grip), followed by the "Classic Dome" (great grip but rubs off easily).
Structural engineering, or any other kind of real engineering (which includes every time of engineering except software "engineering") can also be reduced down to pure math. It's complicated math, and not everybody can comprehend it, but what engineers do boils down to lots and lots of equations. The only place this really applied in software is in efficiency calculations: is approach _x_ faster than approach _y_? In general this is considered a waste of time by most of the "stakeholders" (that is, the people who are signing the paychecks), at least until it's too late.
Your statement seems unfair. The people elected in democracies are not somehow uniquely benevolent and socially driven. They, at least in rolling with your worldview, once again will promote their own interests first. The election aspect changes very little. Our electorate is mostly poorly informed and easily manipulated. Try answering any question by asking 130 million people, of no qualification, after exposing them to months of emotionally charged misinformation, mud slinging, and FUD -- all carried out by the best manipulators money can buy. The answers you're going to get explain how we can have a 15% approval rating for the congress that we put into office.

That said even though democracy is quite an awful system, it's probably the least awful of the alternatives. We, the people, are very unlikely to meaningfully change anything in any given election - but that power is, at least technically, there. Whereas if you have an awful monarch/dictator/life serving republic/etc then your only option is a bit messier.
I'd also never seen it and find it very useful.
I'm no Cloudflare nor Cloudfront expert but these should be apples-to-apples comparisons and seeing that huge disparity in latency makes me think it's most likely a configuration issue, as all comparisons I've ever seen claim they perform roughly about the same: https://blog.latency.at/2017-09-06-cdn-comparison/

Specifically though we're talking about how long Cloudflare caches your content on their proxy/edge servers. Browser caching is irrelevant for this discussion, as speed tests of this nature should always be performed on a clean request.
Ant Financial, world's largest unicorn, is already using Ray in production
Debian and Ubuntu allow running Dropbear in initramfs to prompt for the FDE password
Didn't they just release the 8086?
I don't think the ultimate goal for many of these startups is to make a profit. I think most investors are expecting to be acquired by a tech giant at a huge premium.
Tweetbot loses timeline streaming, activity/stats tab over Twitter API change
Basically what this is saying is that spending a lot of money, time and work in general, to organize campus/school/other events where young developers/aspiring developers attend for FREE to learn about git and other stuff... is turning out to be good and beneficial for those who attended?

Well, that's fantastic - plugging the holes of the education system is a very honorable thing. Congrats to GitHub for coming up with this marketing initiative that is somewhat altruistic and not just marketing, okay it's definitely a lot of marketing too!
That's what "open in new tab" solves.
As a non-Indian who enjoys Indian food, I'd be interested in this. However, if you want to market to non-Indians I'd suggest putting the dish description outside of the "Details" dropdown and up where the more general description is. Or start with the "Details" section expanded. Or rename "Details" to something else that lets you know that is where the more detailed description of the flavors is.
It's like the lesswrong folks; step one was accepting that there are too many flaws to fix everything, and then step two was to do our best anyways.
Well I don't think in their case it had much to do with democracy. But a better example might be a country like India or Japan even, where they have a ton of bureaucracy in place that makes it super hard to make any headway when trying to form a company. A lot of these were well-intentioned regulations that people would've voted in support of, but then this ends up stopping the average joe from starting a lemonade stand. An example of this in America is the requirements to become a hairdresser in New Jersey, where you have to go through hundreds of hours of training in things like chemical products when all you want to do is braid hair.
TED speakers explore how we rely on networks and the power to shape them
I find it interesting that it's translated to Swedish but is only about the US. Are they using Google translate behind the scenes perhaps?
It may be a bit out-of-date, but BerkeleyDB provides a SQLite front-end that supports page-level locking -- and thus has better TPS when multiple threads are writing. It's basically SQLite with the btree ripped out and replaced with BerkeleyDB. More information here [0].

[0] http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/database-technolo...
I had an Indian flatmate in London, who sent home pictures of the food he was "cooking". In reality, it was microwaved ready-meals from Sainsbury's. He was satisfied enough, although he was only 18-19 and might have had different priorities.

How would you rate the quality of these?

Regarding take-aways, Indian food has a history of being a fairly cheap option in the UK. (Everyone's drunk? Let's grab a curry!) I'd be slightly put-off a restaurant that said it offered take-away. There's a similar problem with Cantonese food, and burgers.
Valve knows the threat of S-mode and Microsoft's desire to creates its own walled garden with its own 30% tax on all software.
It violates the EULA, but that's not necessarily the same as being illegal.
> Real time doesn't mean fast, it just means deterministic.

Strictly speaking, "hard realtime" means strictly bounded latency. Full determinism is overkill.
So we're relying in Valve's ability to count to 3.

We are doomed.
Putting disagreements of what does and does not belong there aside there are also sunk costs of sorts - if everything works sufficiently learning a new way puts you at a disadvantage unless the new way really is sufficently appreciably better for the application so you stick with what you know. Not doing so ironically itself leads to faddish behavior and falling behind due to tripping on hidden pitfalls.
That's a false dilemma.

The actual choice is whether to have limited hardware choices or hardware that crashes regularly. Put that way, it is obvious to me that limited hardware is the right answer.

Why? Because what I care about is having a system that works well for me. Limited choices are fine as long as I can determine in advance whether the system that I'm considering will work. (I usually can.) So now my choice boils down to, "Do I want to be able to buy a reliable system, or be forced to put up with a buggy one?"

Put that way, who wants to be forced to put up with bugs?
All those cases where pressing back repeatedly doesn't actually go back? They're broken. We may not be able to define 'broken' perfectly, nor catch every case, but we can definitely spot the worst!

Unless you mash the back button really quickly ...<sigh>