skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Folklore (including Jokes) is itself a branch of Anthropology.

Dawkins' work examining Memes as "simplest unit of an idea" within an "evolutionary context" initially seems like a throwback to the early 20th century practice of lets apply Darwin's natural selection to everything! And this was largely how social scientists interpreted it.

However, as a model within the study of Folklore, it is fun to trace what jokes and stories move between which communities, and how they mutate along the way. A minimal understanding of Social psychology adds a new depth to such "joke maps", and how they affect the popular mindset. Studies actually correlating large swaths of these to history are sorely missing.

Its too bad we dont really have Folklorists mapping memes across topic/region specific communities such as groups of subreddits or facebook groups/pages - this would be a goldmine to potentially redeem or actually refute Dawkins' ideas in a more concrete manner.

But this makes for several problems: reverse engineering the "joke" would make for one hell of a propaganda tool.
Safe is relative. If he almost got rear ended, it probably wasn't safe.

Of course, the other driver should have given ample distance himself and have been paying attention, but people often don't do that.

At the margin, I think it is safer to err on the side of running a yellow then stopping abrubtly. I have never seen someone run a yellow and think they were being unsafe (even when the yellow turned red), but have seen people stop on yellow in a way that seemed unsafe.
It's a documented bug that every system seeking to replace the original should have to reimplement, else other systems depending on it would break.
each ad network needs to track you separately. so most of those 60 cookies are not sending data to the news site, but rather to the ad network which bids to display the ad to you.
Outside of just mining your existing network, the first places I'd look would be AngelList and local tech networking events. Upwork could yield fruit too, but it can be a noisy place.

You'll generally be looking for people who are new to the industry and are just putting a toe in. More experienced entrepreneurs often have people in their network that can already help them through this phase.

Pursue smaller contracts than your ideal and expect them to grow into the relationships/opportunities you have in mind.
But the problem is, those whose ideas are on the wrong side of ethical will also often attack those on the right side, saying that their ideas are "wrong", and that those "wrong" ideas are a reflection of their "bad" character, and that therefore such people should be shunned.

Unless you've got an objective meter to say which side is the "good" and which is the "bad" (and which will be so 50 years from now), be very careful about allowing people to shut down the other side.
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How would a highway in the middle have destroyed it?

Why did the kids want to play on the streets instead of parks or something?
Precisely. You brought up cause (stubbing your toe). You're agreeing with me.
I do safe, illegal things too, so good point in mentioning this. I should have clarified that I was mostly talking about speed limits, tailgaiting etc.. I was just picking up the above poster's phrase. I don't think I could accurately sum up my driving style in a phrase, but that's probably the best short way to do it.
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Overambitiousness. Or more precisely, actually getting stuff finished because of overambitiousness.

I really need to remember the idea of a minimum viable product and not get sidetracked with 'wouldn't it be cool if' type features that slow everything down.
Either way, a key to preventing accidents is being predictable. The vast majority of drivers coast through yellow lights if they are reasonably close to the line. Breaking this predictability by abruptly halting at yellow (while reasonably close to the intersection) is going to be a risk multiplier - regardless of if you are "blameless" for doing so.
This makes sense, this correlates with what undreren said.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17868192
I've used DDG as my main search site for a few years now. Every once in a while when I don't find what I want, I try !g and lately I find that Google didn't find anything usefully better. So now using !g is more like a last resort before giving up rather than an expectation that it will really help.
Just be sure to remove the Twitter and Facebook apps ;)
They could be honking because there is something you don't see, like a little child about to run onto the road, a problem with your vehicle, et cetera. So stopping until you can figure out why they are honking really should be the correct response.

Should, but isn't, unfortunately.
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Check your fonts if those two look the same.
> After taking the drug, the patient lies on a futon amid candles and fresh flowers, listening to music. Two therapists — one female, one male — sit at the patient’s side as guides. That session lasts eight hours.

My version was "lounging around under the stairs in a mostly-abandoned hotel lobby late at night at a furry con, with two friends". It worked pretty well. Still probably took about eight hours.
The people who make these unreasonable regulations in the first place must know that they won't be complied with, which makes me wonder if their purpose was simply revenue generation all along.
I don't know. Why are EU companies paying attention to American laws, again?
"most likely" - the wording that you are trying to refute.

"logical proof" - your wording.

Your confusion stems from equating these two.
That's idealistic. In my country all the news sites, as well as the local commerce sites do it. Where should I get local news from?
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When I was younger, I used to get impatient but probably never or rarely angry.

At some point I decided that I really have no idea why any given person is driving slowly or seemingly over-cautiously or in whatever strange way. Maybe something is going wrong? Maybe out of their control?

I have since strived to be charitable and patient. I sometimes fail, but on the whole I find that I am much less stressed when driving now than when I was younger.

I just say, usually out loud to my little kids' extreme delight, "WTF ever, people be crazy."

I do still yell at people who are driving excessively fast to slow down. Also to my kids' delight. My preschooler says, "we should call the police," which makes me laugh everytime.

Except in Pittsburgh. I am always super super stressed when driving in and around Pittsburgh.

I also yell at cyclists who don't obey traffic laws (silently, in my head, at least).
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Who knew puffins had irish accents? Watch out for those seagulls!
I'm a bit confused, and I'd like to understand your position better. I can see why arrays, structs/tuples, or [tagged] unions are usually primitives – they sort of express different fundamental layouts of data in memory, so they need support from the runtime/compiler. In the case of Go, channels also make sense as a primitive – as I understand it, `select` requires scheduler support.

But higher level data structures like lists, sets, maps etc. are all implemented using those primitives under the hood. So, especially in a "systems language", I would sort of expect them to just be libraries in the stdlib, not language features[1]. But if you think otherwise (or see a gap in my reasoning) I'd love to hear why!

[1] Except maybe some syntactic sugar for list/dict/set literals.
How many transfers does that bus route have? I'd prefer being able to use a smartphone/etc than having to bike all that way.
“This is what makes the whole COM system really really stupid. It's like they don't want you to be able to work with it. They want to make it hard for you to access and share data, because code that were to do something wreckless like call fopen is code that could run on anyone's operating system, not just theirs.”

Well doh !

Bill Gates 1987: “OS/2 is the platform for the nineties”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmiwiUeEn4k
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FWIW Houston does salt roads infrequently in the wintertime. So they had to invest the capital and gain the skills to do so. They simply use less salt than Detroit each year.

Under current incentives, the positives of living in Houston certainly outweigh the negatives. Otherwise people would not live there. But were the externalities exposed and the costs shifted away from the taxpayers, then the population map would undoubtedly shift Northward.

Part of the problem is that most of Houston is near sea-level and flooding occurs where there is heavy rainfall, a random process. This problem exists for adjacent areas, out to San Antonio and Austin. Typical political response to flooding is to build a dam or holding reservoir, whereupon the next heavy rainfall occurs in an area above, below or away from the dam...build another dam/reservoir...rain falls somewhere else.... You get the idea.

Then there are hurricanes, their associated storm surge and flooding which simply overwhelm any dams/reservoirs.

The idiocy/malfunction of society vis-a-vis housing development and flood-prone regions is only one example of many such economic externalities:

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/article/Flood-Game...

What appeared to be a good idea intended to help a relatively small group of suffering people turns out to have been sponsored by a much smaller group of extremely greedy people (here, developers and insurance companies), all to the detriment of taxpayers (who weren't/aren't paying enough attention). Adam Smith's "invisible hand" once again spanks humanity's butt:

“People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.”

- Adam Smith.

My mantra is "Flooding is Nature's way of telling you to move." regardless of whether you're speaking of storm surge in Houston or flash flooding in Utah. I see no reason to live in a region encircled/protected by a dam or seawall

And once you start attempting to dam off the sea, taxpayers never cease paying for it. There's a proper myth and a term for that - Sisyphean - although the phrase "spitting into the wind" (and variants) comes to mind also. BTW did you know that Galveston was once the largest port city in Texas? It was wiped out by the 1900 hurricane (6,000-12,000 dead) although people continue to live there today:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galveston,_Texas

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_Galveston_hurricane
> He was literally the only person on earth who understood what he had built.

This is often not a good sign, i.e. if the code is so messy no one can understand it. But if it's so technically challenging only him can understand, then that's a great position to be in!

I guess the tldr of your story is to stay away from these big companies and to work directly for your clients?
Part of the problem here is exacerbated by all the flood insurance that effectively subsidizes building in flood plains. In addition to long term measures to mitigate climate change, we should have a tax on areas that are threatened by flooding and water levels rising so that we can reduce the immediate issues by incentivizing people to move away from them.
Don't we have a glimpse of (lack of) enforcement based on previous incarnations of laws like this? What about this time is special? And why are laws crafted without ample enforcement mechanisms? At the least that makes them toothless, at the most it gives a piece of legislation that can be pulled out and used only when someone wants a reason to punish a company.
You're trying to impress us with the maths. I already took all of the statistics, and differential equation classes twenty years ago. I get it. However, there are already countries experiencing negative population growth, and the trend is continuing in other Western countries.
I use Runbox. Interface is not as slick but service is excellent.
From a different perspective:

Important companies don't do data science with pen and paper.

Important data-science teams don't work on whiteboards.

Important studies aren't presented in notepad.

What counts is perception, the focus on image, and the courage to spend big to prove value.
There’s a strong gun culture in Australia as well, and as an Australian, and a gun owner, I am perfectly fine with not being able to have an assault rifle. Because no one else can either, and schools don’t get shot up
If you've ever used a tool similar to HP Operations Orchestration. It's pretty much a stripped down version of that.

Cons:

- It's not very stable. (It requires a lot of configuration to get it to do more than one process at a time)

- It's very easy to get the UI to fall over.

- It's very difficult to get tasks+jobs to stop running once they started. (You can delete/stop/cancel a job.. but under the covers it keeps running and your next iteration is going to wait.. if it ever does complete before you can go through the develop, test cycle again)

- It's written in Python: Expect to have issues with your environment. The latest version of Airflow doesn't work with 3.7.xish because the async word was made a keyword. There goes that method.

- There is no sharing (xcoms is frowned upon) of data from one process to another. This means that if you're trying to pull data from S3, you're going to have to hard code it to a predictable place. The next operation acts completely indepenently and runs that.

- The connections between tasks are superficial. They're just there to order it based on how you specified it. Also, it can be a bit difficult to debug when you have multiple layers and multiple depedency declarations where something is both a upstream and downstream of the same depedency.

- No optimization. It will not split up the work per task. You have to define that work manually. (See the next complaint)

- No Dynamic tasks or Dags. You cannot generate a new dag or task after the dag is initialized. That means that if you have to perform 1 000 000 000 000 API calls, you can't just break that up into 200 api calls per task and then max out your compacity in your workers.

- That example that they had of a dag of thousands of tasks. That's a bad practice. Timeouts on dags are going to be reached by the time that completes, and it'll try to restart on a schedule.
You can read (and see) more in the the App Store description without installing. We are pre-launch, so the focus has been on the app and platform rather than website & marketing material:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/blink-video-messenger/id1199...
Well, Microsoft kinda dropped the ball on that one by making it the default (although they later changed that).
> You see, back in 1994 Facebook hadn't yet invented the Internet

Made me laugh. We are in such a different era. If we look at our tools from back then, we would find them savage, and our past self looking at us would see tech that is indistinguishable from magic .. although predictable .. and bloated .. and filled with ads. ... Not much has really changed has it?
I disagree, if OP was following too closely the collision would have happened. Instead OP had to take evasive action to avoid collision because driver in front did something unexpected.

I look forward to the day that self-driving cards are mandatory. Driving is one of the most excruciating things I endure in daily life and only because of the huge number of people on the roads exhibiting random and completely irrational behavior. If there is absolutely no rational reason to stop your car in the midst of moving traffic, then why do it?
India has more than 600 recognized languages (22 official ones) and a highly stratified society in terms of the poverty/wealth continuum, education, opportunities, and ethnicities... pretty diverse I'd say. Have you ever been there?
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> By contrast, arithmetic is intentionally and exhaustively taught, yet most adults cannot perform it.

The adults that can perform it practice it regularly. Would those same children that can talk continue to know how to do it if they were exposed to it briefly and then never given the opportunity to do it again? The social aspect of talking (understanding context, etc) requires a lot of practice, and regular exercising of it (just like arithmetic..)
Is try and catch really useful?
Can you elaborate on how state laws make it impossible to enforce federal laws against Amazon?
> Honking to provoke someone into taking risks you don't have to incur the consequences of yourself is mild sociopathy.

I agree. The fact that the risk is theirs and that they are obviously not confident drivers is exactly why I don't honk. I neither want that on my conscience nor want to be secondary damage when they pull out at the wrong time and cars and debris go flying.
Diagrams for macOS will be released later this year

Draw.io has a macOS version right now. Works pretty good, especially for a free program. Though it's clearly a port and uses some non-standard interface conventions.
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nobody right wing at facebook supports discrimination/intolerance against other people. Nobody says there, on that page, KKK quotes or preaches nazism.

Being ring wing doesn't mean you're intolerant:

- no general free healthcare, only private for people that work

- lower taxes for everyone

- no gender or racial quotas in hiring or entry at university (against positive discrimination)

- no free trade agreements with other countries

- no aid to poorer countries

- close the boders to immigrants

- no refugees

How is any of this discriminating or intolerant? I see it as a different opinion. And I am a liberal, immigrant myself and don't agree with those political statements
Maybe? I guess it depends on how you define social media. It sure has elements of social media, with its up and down voting, and the karma scorecard. People here don’t tend to know each other though and there is no following, re-tweeting, or even lazy image sharing, so I don’t know, is HN social media?
About 6 years ago we adopted Scala for our server side language, and for the past 4 years we have been migrating old code that was CPU/memory hungry to go and getting very good results.
All new code, if it's going to be cpu/memory intense, we write it in Go.

For non C/C++ developers, Go is much easier to work with and get performance benefits that before would only be possible by porting to C, or you end up not writing idiomatic Scala, which defeats the purpose of using Scala (imho)
Are you agreeing that it's a useless major, but objecting because it feels derogatory towards women?
>There is clearly a huge leap in rational intelligence when you go from other animals to humans

Citation needed. Monkeys/apes even fight wars between tribes. All differences between humans and other animals seem to be purely quantitative. I'm sure the difference between your average cat and the smartest species of non-human monkeys/apes are greater than the difference between the smartest species of non-human monkeys/apes and your average human.
GDPR doesn’t help anyone, so let’s pass more half baked regulations!

Let’s just ban companies from using the internet! That will stop internet advertising for good. Thank God smart politicians like me care so much.
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Hi, author here. It is indeed a niche thing. But there are some use cases:

* Sandbox for code you don't fully trust (e.g. download the bytecode from a web server)

* Mods for small hobby game engines

* There are many virtual machines, but not many are so small, with strong typing and no garbage collector

* Learn about virtual machines in general, but directly have a C compiler available for the virtual machine

* Sandbox for embedded applications, e.g. plug-ins for IoT applications on microcontrollers (bounded CPU time, bounded memory area, restrict access to peripheral devices)

* There is also a historical value: learn about the Quake III engine
I’ve never understood how the parts of the country most affected by sea level rise have been so vociferously against it being real.

When the BP spill happened and they had all the local mayors and politicians crying about the damage to their coast, I couldn’t understand why no one had the cajones to ask them why they cared so much about their coast being damaged now, when they were completely fine with it being gone and under water in a few decades.
Microsoft Network was the first online service my family subscribed to in fall 1995. I recall our problem being that you had to dial in to different phone numbers for the walled garden and for the web. And we only had local phone numbers for the walled garden. So while the UI was pretty sweet, there wasn't much there and I recall being angry that I couldn't use Internet Explorer and access espnet.sportszone.com without dialing long distance. When we switched to AOL in 96 they had far more stuff and it was easier to get on the web.
Reminds me of the stones in Japan warning not to build homes below them.

https://www.amusingplanet.com/2015/03/ancient-tsunami-warnin...
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FWIW, I can’t speak for Miami but I do know that the costs for flood insurance are high enough in coastal areas that some people skip it entirely.
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Use the Clever Dripper to make really strong coffee. Once you have kids you come to appreciate strong coffee.

My local library lets me borrow audio books for free on an app, I use this for learning new things on my commute. If they do not have an audio book I want, I buy it outright on audible rather than paying for the subscription every month.

If you have a vegetable or flower garden, and deer eat everything, you can use something called bobbex deer repellent. Or you can also make a similar mix yourself using garlic, onion, and putrefied eggs

If you have any fobs on your key ring that have broken, you can get a steel clip and some 30 minute epoxy and repair them.

If your tools are scattered all over the place, you can buy relatively cheap durable toolboxes now that can keep everything together. It is far cheaper than having to buy a tool again because you can't find it.

Make it a habit to keep your keys in the same place, put up a set of hooks it you have to. This will save you much trouble.
I've been told by a physicist friend of mine that one of the big problems is the amount of data produced by LHC sensor arrays. While the LHC is running, 600,000,000 particle collisions happen every second. Every collision produces particles that decay in complex ways into more particles, and so on.

I forgot the numbers, but they have severals layers of filtering between sensors and long-term storage. First there are FPGA-based real-time filters, next to the sensors, which throw away most of the data as "noise." Then there are local CPUs which throw away most of the remaining data, again classified as "noise" or uninteresting. Finally, what remains (30,000 TB/year) is stored long-term to be later analyzed by physicists.

All levels of filtering and analysis, from the FPGA to the physicist's algorithms, make use of the Standard Model itself and the rest of known physics to figure out what's "interesting" and what's "noise."

One big problem is thus: how can we find new things if we are only looking for what we already know? Hence the need for machine learning and automatic pattern discovery.